Get help, advice and information on all your Business issues. http://advice-and.info/Business/website.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:35:27 GMT en There are lots of different websites you can choose for your home business. But here is where you are faced with quite a choice of different types of websites. There are many websites around which are designed for Home Business. You pay your money and you get a pre-designed website. Many of these types you can change certain features on but there might be limitations as to what you are allowed to do. They can cost you a monthly cost as they include hosting plus customer support. You could be selling or promoting products you dont know anything about or that you have no interest in. The biggest problem with these sites is that only some people reach huge monthly incomes with them. The other problem is if you have no knowledge then you will be looking for ways to improve your site but not being able to. Many people find they dont have any visitors to their site regardless of what they do. They put a budget on PPC and yet the visitors dont arrive and they are out of pocket rather than earning money. It isnt the fact that these websites are bad or that there are too many of them around, the biggest problem is people dont listen or understand that they will need to do a certain amount of work for the sites to be effective. Buying a website might be a good idea if you have no idea what you are doing but until that site is indexed by the search engines then you will not see any traffic as people wont know you exist. Also if there are a thousand websites which are identical people will be attracted to yours if it is different enough to catch their imagination. If you do decide to buy a website you would be better off buying a website that you can use as a starting point for your business and add to it to see it growing. These are often capped to a smaller number of people and each month new sites are added to your arsenal. You could be looking at using a template and then adding your own articles as well as relevant products so that you can get income from them. You could also buy your own domai http://advice-and.info/Business/90409_Starting_A_Home_Business_-_Buying_A_Website.html Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:28:00 GMT The process of "blog and ping" or "tag and ping" is used to bring internet traffic to a website or blogsite. The process is fairly simple and effective with several valuable benefits and very few disadvantages. Pinging Defined In simple terms, a ping is a way to electronically verify the presence of a particular location on the internet and to get that location's attention. A ping is a basic program that checks the validity of an internet IP address and that the address can accept a request. An acronym was invented to give validity to the word "ping;" Packet Inter-Network Groper. The Process A ping is most often used when a person updates the entries on a weblog or blog. A blog is designed to be a very active website where new information, ideas, and discussions are regularly posted. Static websites are less frequently updated and not usually pinged. Blogs are designed to be easily updated, sometimes several times daily. Blogs frequently feature new products that the author has created or feature reviews of products that the author promotes through an affiliate relationship. Since the author will receive compensation through the sale of the product it is important to the author that the search engines are alerted to the fact that a new blog page has been added and is immediately available to the internet. Not all blog posts are written to promote a product or to create a sale. Often an article is written solely to offer good information to the reader or to provide interesting entertainment. In these cases as well, the author will want the new article to be quickly indexed by the search engines so that internet traffic will find its way to the article. To receive the desired publicity the author needs to send a ping to a large number of servers. The easiest way to accomplish that task is to use a pinging service that will ping multiple ping servers. The many blogging platforms that are commonly used provide an automatic notification to a pinging service for the author. Advantages http://advice-and.info/Business/88981_Pinging_Services_And_Build_Links_To_Your_Website.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:21:04 GMT For the purpose of this article, I am going to go over what backlinks are and why they are important. Additionally, I will share a few methods with you in order to get backlinks to your site. A backlink, in actual fact, provides a path to your site. If you think of it this way, search engines provide links to your site which you can click on when viewing the search results, backlinks are the same, the only difference being that these links are pointing from another website. So one may say, based on this, that the more backlinks you have the better. This would seem rational, however, this is not totally true. If links are coming back to your site from poor quality sites and sites that are specifically set up to point links to various other sites, then these links will not be as productive. The reason for this, again, is pretty logical. First, we want links to our site so that people will visit it. If your links are posted on what are called link farms, then these are just artificial sites set up by webmasters and as a result, you will not get any real human traffic. Second, search engines use algorithms to determine the relevance of any given site. As part of the algorithm, they measure how many links are pointing to your site. This is why, in the past, webmasters got together to create link farms so as to artificially increase the number of links to their site. Search engines quickly figured this out and immediately started to discount these links. Additionally, as mentioned, if you have links pointing from another site to your site that does not relate to your content, then these links are not as powerful. With that said, backlinks are very important if they are positioned in the right places. Your links do not have to be exactly relevant; for example, a site on garden tools could have a link pointing back to your site on lawn care. The more backlinks you have the better, simply because it gives your site more opportunities to receive traffic. Additionally, search engines like backlinks http://advice-and.info/Business/87938_Getting_Backlinks_Can_Explode_Your_Home_Business_Website.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:35:22 GMT March 17, 2008 BeyondDropship.com, a trademark of JewelrySprite.com, offers a new form of franchise for the internet world. Sure it is not legally a franchise but it has all components that a franchise offers without the legal hassle while still providing all of the services says BeyondDropship.com CEO Rey Tamayo. BeyondDropship.com offers more than most websites, and with its jewelry turnkey website operation it acts like a franchise without being legally binding as a franchise. It is a new type of business known as an Internet Franchise, which provides the operators franchisees with maximum flexibility, branding, and moneymaking options as a real franchise would. Like Burger King, McDonalds, and KFC selling their products to their franchisees; BeyondDropship.com offers a site loaded with jewelry (which the operator can choose to sell or they can sell completely different products) and free drop shipping services so that all the buyer of the business opportunity has to do is market their websi te and take the orders. Aside from some customer support that the buyer may need to do when there are questions with the orders, JewelrySprite.com, the parent company and the one selling the silver jewelry, takes care of all of the post order issues. Because Jewelrysprite.com uses blind dropshipping, the end consumer will never be contacted and will have no knowledge that another site is even involved in the ordering process. Two main differences from a traditional franchise is that the franchisees do not have a common brand and have build their own brand but the traditional supports that a franchiser offers are there without the legal implications. The other major difference is the opportunity is free to get started as the website is free, it just cost for hostingleasing fee as any franchise charges these fees on a regular basis. http://advice-and.info/Business/85591_New_Jewelry_Turnkey_Website_Redefines_The_Term__Franchise.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:19:14 GMT A new source of chemical materials for foreign companies Chemical materials are needed by a lot of companies, while the production of it is restricted strictly in western countries, especially in developed countries, because many citizens complain that chemical materials produced by those chemical plants cause environmental problems. In this case, getting chemical materials becomes a difficult problem for some companies. Is your company one of them? Luckily, Made in China can provide you a new and convenient source, and offer the best services accompanying these products. http://advice-and.info/Business/84668_The_Best_B2b_Website_For_You_To_Find_Chemical_Materials.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:19:07 GMT Maintenance of your website is an absolute necessity to keep it fresh for visitors. Maintaining your website means updating with fresh contents, keeping it free from errors and maintaining a high position in search engines. Once your site is online, you will need some to keep it updated. Sometimes it is a simple change, like changing a date, or adding a new section or some other modifications.Web maintenance services by a third party can substantially reduce your costs by eliminating the need to hire full time web design professionals or programmers. http://advice-and.info/Business/84531_Website_Maintenance_Vendors-a_Checklist.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:10:09 GMT Design is one of the aspects several people feel passionate about, whether it is home design or website design; the combination of colors and the mixture of designs and elements can make a figure become a true piece of art and things get even better if this form of art is useful in one way or another. Today we will be talking about clocks but not just any type of clocks, these are clocks which are embeddable in your website. Why a Website Clock? http://advice-and.info/Business/83753_Clocks_For_The_Wall_And_Now_For_Your_Website.html Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:55:00 GMT Made in China provides you with the best platform for chemical materials trade, through which you can contact with and get the information of thousands of buyers and suppliers. All of these will bring you the upmost benefits not only on profits, but also on the companys reputation. A new source of chemical materials for foreign companies http://advice-and.info/Business/83722_The_Best_B2b_Website_For_You_To_Find_Chemical_Materials.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:31:16 GMT