While the original Million Dollar Homepage focused on the idea of selling pixels, TagsPage is more of a Web 2.0 experiment with textual tags. It gives webmasters (and bloggers) a chance to promote their website (or blog) with their favorite keyword (tag). It’s a great for SEO since you get a high-quality backlink on your particular term. It also serves as a directory for random surfers to browse through. At $5 a character their prices are cheaper than the original Million Dollar Page, and their approach, we’d say, very worthwhile. And if you’re too cheap a little skeptical about this you can test the waters by posting your tag on their free pages.

Via Elliott Back.

Earlier this week I received an email from a company that claimed they could guarantee me a number one ranking on Google for a mere £1,200, then a few days later I receive yet another email from another company offering me a guaranteed search engine optimisation package (whatever that means, in English!).  Neither of these companies got the reply they expected and for good reason to. 

No one can guarantee you a #1 ranking on Google.  

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimizer and in the internet industry we have what are called SEOs (Search Engine Optimisation experts).  These are the individuals and organisations that provide a range of services and resources to allow website owners to improve their site architecture, content (copy) and so on.  Unfortunately there are also a handful of rogue SEOs who whether knowingly or unintentionally are causing massive damage to the  SEO industry and their client sites.  Some tactics used by these rogue SEOs can get you banned from major search engines such as Google.  So please be careful. 

For more information and some simple guidelines visit:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html 

iWEBTOOL is a FREE online internet tools resource. Some of the tools include gems like Backlink Checker that informs you who is linking to your site and gives you their page rank, Keyword Suggestion which displays the ten most popular keywords matching your suggested word or phrase and the Link Popularity Checker that finds out how many times you are listed on the three main search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN Search.

The Google Rank Predictor is my favourite tool, but don’t take the results seriously as this is a just-for-fun tool. I also liked the Website Speed Test for testing the load time of your sites and the Spider View for seeing your web pages the way Spider Bots view them.

iWEBTOOL.com , FREE Online Internet Tools for Webmaster.

Iichii yaa yaa readers!!!! In this installment I will talk about how to understand your web statistics to increase revenue to your blog. In my safari hunt in the internet jungle, I came upon a word I’ve seen many times but didn’t understand what it meant. That word is Webtrends. I found out it is an advanced log analyzer. A more precise definition is:

WebTrends is specifically designed for mid-sized organizations featuring revolutionary visualization capabilities that transform historically complex reports into easy-to-interpret analysis and new Dashboard and Excel integration technologies that seamlessly build web analytics into your daily workflow. From the most granular examination of campaigns and merchandising performance, to the most complete navigation, conversion and search engine marketing analysis, WebTrends provides mid-sized companies comprehensive insight for easier decisions, smarter marketing and optimum results.

Now you don’t have to run out and purchase this expensive software for your blog, but some tips I’ve seen on how to use the data it provides will enable you readers out there to understand your own web analytical software no matter how minimal the features. The good thing is, you can use Google’s free Web Analytics to play with the information I have provided to you! As provided by Extremelee’s blog post *Numa Numa Dances* *Ahem* This website has in-depth knowledge on how to use what are called “Key Metrics”:

Key Metrics are usually a ratio of something measuring an action to visits and visitors of a website. An example is finding a ratio of which visitors to your blog stayed 20 minutes or more, and which categories of your blog did they view the most? This can help in determining the type of category content to focus on, and maybe focus your entire blog to it to generate ample amounts of revenue. In addition it can help on which type of ads to display. For instance if you have a cooking blog, and most of your visitors stayed 20 minutes or more to read recipes on quick breakfasts, it would be important to focus ads on say toaster ovens, a brand of egg or something of that nature.

To read more on this exciting new realm of analyzing your site data and increasing revenue, please visit “Using Webtrends” over at Jimnovo! Blog on!!

We live in a time of instantaneous communication where people are demanding replies to their online correspondence within hours or even minutes, and they don’t want to be hanging on for a reply much longer than a day in most cases. Failure to keep up with the demands of your visitors will send them looking for quicker correspondence elsewhere, most likely straight to your competitors.

Help Center Live is a very powerful communications tool for your web site, which includes Live Help, Support Tickets (an osTicket module) and unlimited FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). You can use this free product to communicate with your visitors through the use of a real-time live help system (messenger style chat), canned messages, support tickets and unlimited FAQ topics. You can also monitor their footsteps throughout your site during their visit and initiate chat sessions, collect visitor information (referring url, number of visits, ip address etc), auto-assign tickets and transfer chat sessions to other Live Help operators.

This product can be downloaded ‘FREE’ from www.helpcenterlive.com, you can also try their online demo.

It also comes as part of the pre-installed scripts on our hosting package. Why not give the Help Center Live a go here, just click the live help link, top left, and drop us a note, or if a support representative is online have a chat. We don’t mind and you wont be bothering us

One important aspect of running a site is to know your visitors. If you know your users, you can find out what they’re looking for, and how they came to your site. You should check your logs regularly to track any changes in the behavior of the people who visit your site, and also to see which areas of the world they’re from. This can help in many ways.

For example, if you write about hockey and focus on Canadian hockey, you may find that most of the people come to your site by typing the word “hockey” in search engines, and that they’re from France. You can then start writing about hockey in France also, to cater to those people too if you wish and thus convert them into loyal readers.

One such tool for mapping out your users visually through their geographic location is gVisit. Gvisit [not owned by Google, by the way] uses Google Maps to plot a diagram of the last 10 people who visited your site, and which part of the world they probably came from. You can then zoom down to their probable exact location, down to their street map and name. The general information of their geographic location [such as their continent] will help you a lot in knowing what types of users your site is attracting.

Users of WordPress who are considering signing up with Chitika’s eMiniMalls and existing eMiniMall clients may be interested in reading about the Chitika eMiniMalls Wordpress Plugin by X74.org:

The plugin is very straightforward. Put it in your wp-content/plugins directory, then go to your Plugins configuration page and click Activate. Once you activate the plugin, you will see a new button on your Quicktags toolbar. The new button is eMiniMall. Click it to insert the eMiniMall tag.

We haven’t got the plugin running on this site ourselves because our eMiniMall code was already in place before this review. But if you’ve got the plugin installed, or are about to give it a go and would like to give your feedback then use the comments link below.

The Uniform Server (aka UniServer or MiniServer) is a free opensource all-in-one fully powered webserver that comes with Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl as standard. Either use it for production or as a live server, perfect for both developers and webmasters alike. Portable enough to store on your USB keypen (20megs in total) and is easy enough to start, simply double click the start.bat file in the UniServer directory and you’re ready to go. (Note: To get the control panel displayed in the screenshot above, you will need to download and install the UniTray plugin from their site.)

The Uniform Server was first developed by Taras Slobodskyy as an application for his clients, but later on, moved to becoming this free and open source project. It’s the perfect system for both beginner webmasters and experienced developers, a fully powered webserver you can take with you on a USB Stick or even your camera’s flash drive. The perfect sales presentation tool. It’s the new world WAMP Package.

This wasn’t as easy to setup as XAMPP. However this does seem more stable than XAMPP and by that I mean I’ve tested it myself. So just remember to read the user manual, download the right plugins, follow the on-screen instructions carefully and you’ll be up and running within 10-20 minutes.

How would you like a new way to make money with your blog or website? Sure, AdSense is great, but what if you can have something alongside that can help you earn more revenue from your traffic?

Introducing Chitika eMiniMalls, a fine way to help your visitors find the products they want while making a little something on the side.

Chitika eMiniMalls is a contextual advertising system, so it may interfere with AdSense Terms of Service. Fortunately you can switch-off the contextual abilities by targeting (and rotating) specific products. This enables you to stay compliant with Google and allows you to run eMiniMalls with AdSense.

If you’re already a member you could simply add the following lines in your eMiniMalls code:

ch_non_contextual = 1;
var ch_queries = new Array('laptop', 'ipod');
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];

Please note that you may (should) change the queries to your own corresponding products. You can enter full product names if you want, like “Canon Powershot S2 IS”. One way to find out about what products to showcase is to search Amazon.

I hope this little review would help you build a better blogging experience with an extra treat in mind.

Source: Quick Online Tips

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