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The World Wide Web is an amazing thing; with just a computer and an internet connection, you have access to millions of websites and all of the information and entertainment they have to offer. Unlike resources in the real world, these sites never close and can be visited any time of day or night, any time of the year. Websites are available at all times because these sites are hosted on web servers; computers which are designed to stay up and running and connected to the net at all times. Since your home computer isnt really made for the job, you’ll need to purchase web hosting services to get your site up and running.

There are many different types of web hosting service plans to choose from; while there are free hosting companies, these are not recommended (they tend to be relatively unreliable and are notorious for disappearing overnight). Instead of these free services, you should use commercially available web hosting services ” most of these services offer low cost web hosting services aimed at beginners, but there are plenty of more advanced options such as dedicated server hosting.

As far as most of the essentials go, dedicated web hosting works like shared web hosting. However, there is one big difference between the two; a dedicated server holds just one website. Is dedicated hosting the right choice for your website? In order to determine if this is for you, read the following items. If all of these are true, then a dedicated server is the right option for your site.

You’re Looking For High Security For Your Site

Protecting your website calls for using strong passwords to protect your database and using the latest, most secure versions of applications on your site. However, you could use all of the best protective measures and still suffer from the effects of attacks against another website on the same server as your own if you use a shared hosting plan. With a dedicated server, your site is the only one on the server; so if your site is safe, it’s going to be well protected.

You Want The Highest Performance For Your Site’s Visitors

With a good server, a lot of traffic to a single site won’t make all that much difference to its performance. However, when there are many websites on a single server and all of them see a lot of traffic, every site hosted on that server will experience slowdowns. When it comes to the basics (like just loading up a page), this may not be too noticeable. However, if your site features a lot of audio or video content, it will load very slowly and this will be an irritant to your visitors. Using a dedicated server means that all of its resources are reserved for your site, so even when you experience heavy traffic you won’t see these slowdowns.

You Want To Have Total Control Over Your Server

Even shared web hosting lets you control what you upload to your site, the applications you use and the privileges for these applications and content. There is more to web hosting than this though; if you need to change VPS settings and set root privileges to allow several different people to manage your site, then you’ll want to use a dedicated server. Especially if your website is for business, then you’ll have an easier time running your website using a dedicated server.

If not all of them are true, stick with shared web hosting until all three conditions are met so you can enjoy maximum savings. Shared web hosting is for webmasters that want to get started in building their websites. Eventually, the site will grow to the extent that a dedicated server is needed for it to grow more.

In this edition of OK to Make Money Online, we need to get your site properly indexed. No one, not even Google, will guarantee you will get indexed. Because there are many unknown factors that are part of Google’s internal algorithms, we will follow best practices. Don’t worry you will most likely be indexed.

So, look at the best practices outlined so far:

1) You have a proper blog setup and active using either Blogger account or a domain name hosting WordPress or Joomla.

2) Make sure your long tail keywords are in your title and first paragraphs.

3) You have an “About” page that includes your long tail keyword and a back link to your site.

4) Using Google’s Privacy Page example, you have modified it and posted the page.

5) Check that your site is verified and contains a Sitemap link in Google.

6) You have posted at least two 300-word articles on your site.

7) Ten tags per article with one keyword included as a tag. Makes no sense.
You have multiple categories, if you blog software supports them.

9) You have installed your Technorati link and claimed your site.

In order for someone to find you, we need to tell Google you are here and ready to receive traffic. This is where indexing comes in, so let us get started.

We set up your Adsense account in our previous article, “Make Money – Adsense,” so log in to the account we created. Start by selecting the “Resources” tab near the top. On this page, select the “Webmaster guidelines” under the Reference heading. You will now be taken to the “Webmasters/Site owners Help” page, under the heading “When your site is ready,” you will see a hyperlink to addurl.html. Click the addurl.html hyperlink.

This will take you to Google’s “Add your URL to Google” page. Enter your URL name, add a comment and add your keyword, it can’t hurt. Enter the verification name displayed in squiggly letters and press the Add URL button.

Google will display a confirmation message to notify you that you did everything correctly. Now be patient and wait for the GoogleBot to crawl your new site. Meanwhile, get started writing and posting your next article.

On the next OK to Make Money online we will take a look at SEO for your blog or website.

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With so many companies these days relying on the internet as an electronic storefront for selling their wares, web page design has become a fast-growing occupation. However, there is still a lot of argument as to the best approach to designing a web page; with those having a background in graphic arts opting for a website that has visually appeal and those with a more technical background preferring web page design to incorporate elements that are appealing to internet search engines. These two approaches will often be at odds regarding the site’s structure, but the common goal is surely to drive more traffic to the website in question.

These two different angles, if combined, can very often deliver the best of both worlds and not only help visitors to the site find the information they are looking for, but also make it easy for users to find the site. Design-oriented web developers may be forced to rely on advertising, such as Google Adwords, to bring visitors to their site. Developers who are more technically aware may not create sites with a strong visual appeal. However, they may end up attracting more search engine traffic.

Regardless of the approach, the important aspects of a website will always be the same: content, usability and design are the three most important elements to web page design and pages that are strong in all these three areas have a better chance of attracting an audience and being successful.

While some attractive websites may have an initial aesthetic appeal, if they are laden down with graphics, audio, Flash or video files, they may be slow to load. This can frustrate potential visitors and can lead to less traffic than would otherwise be the case. Each page in a website should take just a few seconds to download.

Content is also immensely important. Both search engines and humans are attracted to good content. If your site has original content which is not available elsewhere on the web, it stands to reason it will get visitors. If users visit a site and it does not contain the information they want, they will simply leave in search of better information.

When planning and designing your website, a useful exercise is to try to place yourself in your visitors’ shoes. What are they looking for? How much of it can you offer them? How can you make your version of it more attractive than what’s on offer from your competitors?

A business without a web presence is a business that is under achieving. The internet is more than just an arena to seek information. It doesn’t matter if your business is base offline, a website will create a web presence for your business that is unparalleled.

There are many companies currently enjoying large amounts of sales from marketing online. The internet is responsible for the majority of business brought in for some offline businesses. The ability for consumers to complete sales from the comforts of their home is increasing sales for many companies.

A good website creation gives your potential customers the ability to preview your product before making a purchase. Your website content delivers your sales pitch without you being present. It is like having a salesman that works 24/7 without without pay. That same salesman can speak with thousands at one time.

The best designed websites will promote your business online to everyone from your point of view. A good website will also highlight the reasons a customer should choose you over your competitors. You can also announce sales and build a newsletter mailing list of your loyal customers.

The internet is also a good way to find new innovative ways to market your company. Browsing other websites can give you new ideas on how to promote by spying on other similar businesses. The knowledge gained from sizing up your competition will help in tweaking your own promotions.

A web presence can be just as lucrative for a offline business as well. Some business owners with a successful store front company may not feel the need for a website; They are missing out on potential customers. The fastest way people people find businesses is through the search engines, so if your business is not listed, you will lose that customer.

All businesses are created for the same reasons, whether the business is online or offline, the objective is to make money. A business back by a website opens its doors to the world which can help in creating more revenues.

The vastness of the internet provides an arena that cannot be ignored when it comes to marketing your business. The ability to market to millions worldwide is a reality that can easily be achieve by creating a website presence on the internet.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a technology closely related to XML which is used to transform XML data. XML file are used to set out the ground-rules for a given body of data and to describe the data itself. XSL allows us to take the original XML data and convert it into information which can be displayed in a web browser window or opened with a text editor. XSL can also be used to create an XML file which is a modified version of an original XML file.

When displaying elements in a browser window, the XSL elements which enable looping through an XML tree and decision-making really come into their own. One of the key methods used in XSL for looping through XML elements is the “For-each” element. This uses the “select” attribute to specify which element is to be targeted in the loop. The “For-each” element has both an opening and a closing tag and any lines of code placed between the opening and closing tags will be repeated each time the element specified in the “select” attribute is encountered in the XML file.

For example, let’s say we have an input XML file containing a list of companies and the addresses of their websites. Let’s also say that the element which we will be targeting in the XSL “For-each” statement is called “company” and that, for each company element, we have a “name”, “telephone” and “website” element. Before beginning our “For-each” loop, we could output the opening tag of an HTML “ul” element (an unordered or bulleted list).

Inside the “For-each” loop, we could then output an HTML “li” element and, between the opening and closing “li” tags, output the contents of the “name” and “telephone” elements from the XML file. The data in the “website” could then be used to convert the “name” into a clickable link.

As for the appearance of the data in the resulting HTML output, this would be controlled by a linked CSS file. CSS can be used to format the output in any way we like, so our bulleted list can take on pretty much any appearance we desire.

Having content available on your website can help you steadily and consistently build traffic. Content increases your chances of free traffic from search engines, it also provides consistent value to a visitor which means theyre more likely to visit often. More website traffic and loyal website visitors can, in short, mean more sales.

Content management systems or CMS not only save you tons of time, they simplify the process of creating content and automate your site submissions to the search engines thus improving your website traffic and ultimately your profits. Because content is essential to the success of any online business, many entrepreneurs turn to a CMS.

What is a Content Management System?

A content management system is defined quite simply as a system used to manage the content of a Web site. It displays the content, creates linking and provides a uniform design for the site.

CMS Functions

1. It enables the user to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. This means you dont need to know any programming language to use your website.

2. Secondly, CMS handles the delivery of your content to your website. Once youve made any updates to the content on your site, your CMS takes care of delivering it to your site ” no need for a third party webmaster to handle the job.

CMS User Benefits

There are innumerable benefits to using CMS. Consider the possibilities of a system which makes writing, uploading, and storing all of your content, potentially thousands of articles simple ” no HTML required.

- CMS also makes it easy for website owners to have multiple authors contributing content. Content providers can be given limited permissions to prevent them from editing content which they are not authorized to change and make it possible for them to write, upload and manage their own content.

Create professionally designed pages. CMS offers a function called WYSIWYG, which stands for What You See is What You Get. This is a web page editor that allows for copy and paste formatting and it works quite well for those who dont have the time nor the inclination to learn HTML. You can format your content as you see fit including bold formatting, varying fonts, and embedded text links.

Unlimited access. CMS is a web based system which means you can access your content from any computer with an internet connection.

Better SEO. Consistent and relevant content boosts search engine rankings. As your rankings improve so too will your website traffic and ultimately your profits. When the content management process is this simple, SEO rankings are sure to improve

- User friendly and secure. Most CMS providers have very user friendly interfaces and offer built in security functions. This makes it easy for users to control who is able to see what content and when. Content can be secured with passwords, which makes a CMS a great system for businesses which offer products or information on a limited basis.

This can be helpful if you want to distribute a report on a limited basis to a few subscribers. Simply email them the URL and provide the access password.

A good content management system makes being an internet entrepreneur a much simpler and more profitable experience. Not all CMS systems are created equal. If youre looking to utilize a content management system into your business website, make sure youre getting a user friendly, secure product which offers good customer support and all the features you need to continue growing your business.