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Articles are very wonderful traffic weapon for an average internet marketer. Even if you have not done any selling or buying on the internet now, there is the possibility that you may decide to do it in the nearest future.

Article submission is one of the surest ways of bringing considerable traffic to your websites. I will be describing the steps you can take to submit your articles on the internet. I will be using goarticles website as an example. Most of the article submission sites have a lot of things in common and your knowledge of this site can really help when you do it on other sites.

Please enjoy it.

STEPS

1. Go to the Home Page of goarticles . I will be clicking on “Submit articles” button.

2.  If you are a new member and I want to assume you are a new member. Click on the “New Member” button.

3.  You are now ready to insert your contact information in the fields shown and then click “Add Me”. You will receive instant information in your e-mail box where you will be required to click on a confirmation link to confirm your registration. So you must check your e-mail address now. You can also check your “Bulk folder” box to see whether the e-mail arrived in this folder if you did not see it immediately in your inbox. Upon clicking the confirmation link, you will receive another e-mail confirming your registration and your login details will be in this e-mail. Your login details are usually the information you supplied earlier on when you filled the registration form.

4.  You are now ready to submit your articles free of charge. You can go to the home page and enter your login details or you go directly to the goarticles login page and Click on “Add New Article” button .

 5. You can now enter the title of your article in the “Title” field above and also the “Author Name” and so on. The “Author Bio” field should contain information about you and your business. For example, you can have this type of information in this field “Sesan Oguntade teaches success principles at “your website”.  You can obtain Free E-books on Success at his website”. The “Article” field should contain your article. I expect you to have typed your article earlier on and you just copy and paste in this box. You are expected to select the category where you want your article to be published. You only need to click the drop down arrow button to select. You must also select the sub category this same way. You can then either preview your article by clicking the “Preview” button or click “Add Article” button to submit or you click “Cancel” if you don’t want the article published any longer.

6. You can submit as many articles as you wish.

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A blog is an online diary where anybody can share his or views on any issue with the rest of the world.

Blogging is the in thing now. Lots of people are putting up their own Blogs and sharing their knowledge with the whole world. With this tutorial, you can also begin to do this. You can also be ready to help other people to put up their own Blogs too charging a fee.

In this article i will be teaching you simple ways you can put up your own blog without having to pay anyone!

I want to believe that you have your domain nd hosting package ready. If you dont one already, youshould endeavor to get one. There are many registrars and hosting company around now. 

• You are to log in into your cpanel using your login in details ie your username and your password (these must have been given to you by your hosting company). In your cpanel, you should locate script  “Fantastico De Luxe”. I advise you check whether your hosting company have it installed as part of the hosting package before you pay.  When you locate this, click on it.

 • You are to click on “Wordpress”. This is the software that will just allow you to install the wordpress blog very easily.

 • You are to click on “New Installation” to install a new wordpress blog.

 • You are now going to install the wordpress blog in 3 steps: You are to fill in the required information in the various fields. The “Install on domain” field should have your domain name (this should contain your own domain name). In the “Install in directory” field, you are to leave it blank if you want your blog to be visible on the server at the root directory www.yourdomain.com. If you want it visible on the server on a different directory ( “sellebooks”) e.g. www.yourdomain.com/sellebooks, you are to type “sellebooks” in this field. Enter a username and password – they should be names that you can always remember easily to enter the admin area whenever you want to update your blog. You can change the admin e-mail and the site name to the ones of your choice. The site name can also remain your domain name. This is displayed in the header of your blog. In the “Description” field, you are to type the description of your blog. This is displayed under the site name on your site. Click “Install Wordpress”

 •  If you  have filled “sellebooks” as the directory you want to install into so that our blog can be visible at www.yourdomin.com/sellebooks. Al the information you have entered  will be displayed after you have clicked “Install Wordpress”.  You are to click “Finish Installation” if you are satisfied with the information you have entered.

 •   You can access your blog at www.yourdomain.com/nameofyourdirectory  or simply www.yourdomain.com  if you installed in the root directory.

•  Just like I mentioned earlier on, you can go to this page www.yourdomani.com/nameofyourdirectory/wp-admin  if you named a directory during installation or www.yourdoamin.com/wp-admin if you installed in the root directory. This is the address you will be using to access the admin area of your blog. You will now enter the username and password you filled in during installation and click “Log In”

• After loggin in you will see your blog “Dashboard”. You are going to post your very first message. Click “Write a New Post”.

• This where you will type your message. In the “Title” field, type the title of your message. I expect you to have pre-typed your post in Notepad, you just copy and paste in the “Post” body. The draft is saved automatically. You can then click “Publish” (on the right). A message is shown to show that your post has been saved.

•  You can preview the post by clicking “Visit Site”

• Let me show you how you can create a new page (e.g. “About Us” page) on your blog: In your dashboard, click “Write a New Page”

• The page above is displayed (it looks so much like the page that showed up when you were posting a message). Type the title of your page in the “Title” field and contents of your page in the “Page” field below the “Title field and click “Publish”

 • Now I want to delete the “Hello World!” Page that came by default when I created my blog. I will go to “Manage All Pages”. 

• When you get to the “Manage Pages”, check the box beside the page title you intend to delete and then click “Delete”.

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Are you tired of paying so much to get a sales page designed for your online sales? Dont get yourself stressed up again as I will be teaching you simple steps you can follow to design your sales pages yourself.
Steps

1. Create a new folder on your desktop and name it “My Project”. On an empty space on your desktop, right click and then scroll down to “New” and then click “Folder”. A new folder appears. Name it “My Project”

2. Launch Microsoft Front Page if you have it installed on your system. If you don’t have it, you need to get it installed before you can continue with this tutorial.

3.  Launch a new web page. Go to “File”, “New” and then click on “Page or Web”
 
4.  Click the “Create a new normal page” symbol to create a new blank web page. I will advise you to save your web page immediately in your “My Project” folder on your desktop.
 
5. Go to “File”, “Save As”

 6. Scroll down to your “My Project” folder and click on it and then name your file. It is mandatory you name your first web page “index.html” or if you have your home page uploaded already, you can name this “salespage.html”.

7. You should now change the title of your web page by clicking on the “Change title” tab in the “Save As” dialog box. “Click Ok” when you have done this. This title appears in the browser window and is visible to visitors when they visit your site.

 8. You can then click “Save” when you are through with these steps.

 9. You are going to set the page properties of your web page. You are going to change the background color. Right click on an empty white space and click “Page Properties”. A dialog box appears.

 10.  Click on the “Background” tab
 
11. Click on the drop down arrow button on the “Background” field and choose any color of your choice. NB: You are free to explore this box as you can change a lot of things about your web page with this box. Click “OK” when you are through.

12. The background color of the page changes.

 13.  You are now going to insert a table into your sales page. Go to “Table”, “Insert” and then click on “Table”
 
14.  The “Insert Table” dialog box appears and you are to define what you want for your table in the various fields. You can use 1 for both the “Rows” and “Column” fields If you want your table to have one row and one column. You can have the alignment as “Center”  If you want it in the center of your page. You shpould also define border size, cell padding and spacing respectively and also the width of my table (most times I have left all of these at default).  Click OK when you are through.

15.  Now you can make the backgroundof your table to have a white background so that contents of your sales page can be visible when you import them there. Right click in the table and click on “Table Properties”.

16.  You should now change the background color by clicking the drop down arrow on the “Background color” field  and select color white. Click OK.

17.  The table background turns white.

18.  I expect you to have typed and formatted your sales page contents in Microsoft word and you can just copy and paste directly into your table on your sales page (place the insertion point in the table and just copy and paste your contents into your table from word environment).

19. Let me show you how you can do simple formatting of your texts in Microsoft Word environment. Type your text, highlight them, make them bold (press Ctrl B). If you want it italicized (press Ctrl I) and then click the “Font Size” drop down arrow and select a size of your choice.

20.  With the texts still highlighted, you should now pick the font color by clicking on the “font color” drop down arrow and select a color of your choice.

21.  Make sure you save your sales page.

Congratulations, this is your sales page.

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Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet
marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site
depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your
website goals. If you don’t know what you want your site to
accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish
anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and
monitoring your website, all your site will be is an online
announcement that you are in business.

If you expect your site to stimulate some form of action,
whether it is visitors filling out a form so a
representative can contact them, or purchasing a product,
there are steps you can take to insure that your website is
functioning at peak efficiency. One of the first indicators
of how well your site is working for you is finding out the
number of visitors in a given period of time. A good
baseline measurement is a month in which you haven’t been
doing any unusual offline promotional activities.

However, just because hoards of people have passed through
your gates does not mean your site is successful. Usually,
you want those visitors to actually do something there. It
is equally important to monitor the number of visitors to
your site who made a purchase. This figure is called the
site conversion rate, and it is an essential element of the
efficacy of your website.

To find the site conversion rate, take the number of
visitors per month and figure out the percentage of them
that actually performed the action your site is set up for.
For example, if you had 2,000 hits to your site, but only
25 of them purchased your product, your site conversion
rate equals 1.25%. To get this figure, take your number of
visitors and divide that figure by the number of visitors
who made a purchase. Then divide that result by 100 (25 ?00 X 100).

If your website is set-up to get visitors to fill out a
form, make sure to then figure out what the difference is
between your site conversion rate and your sales conversion
rate. This is because not everyone who fills out your form
will actually become your customer. However, whether your
site is set-up to sell a service or product, or to get the
visitor to fill out a form, the site conversion rate will
measure the success or failure of your website whenever you
make changes to the site.

You may find that you need to implement some additional
marketing strategies if you find that traffic to your site
is extremely low. There are several effective methods to
improve the flow of traffic to your website, particularly
launching a search engine optimization campaign. This
campaign is targeted at increasing your position in search
engine results so that consumers can find your pages faster
and easier. You can either research the steps you need to
take to improve your search engine rankings, or employ a
search engine optimization company to do the work for you.
In either case, after your have improved your search engine
positions, make sure you keep on top of them by regular
monitoring and adjusting of your efforts to maintain high
positions.

Another factor to examine is how easy it is for a visitor
to your website to accomplish the action the site is set-up
for. For example, if your goal is for the visitor to fill
out a form, is this form easily accessible, or does the
visitor have to go through four levels to get to it? If
it’s too difficult to get to, the customer may just throw
in the towel and move on to another site. Make sure your
buttons are highly visible, and the path to your form or
ordering page quickly accessible.

Finally, have a professional evaluate the copy on your
website. The goal is, of course, to get your visitor to
make a purchase or fill out your form. Website copy must be
specifically geared to your online campaign and not just a
cut and paste job from your company brochure. The right
copy can make the difference between profit and loss in
your online campaign.

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A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2) Start a web log (blog)

Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5) Update frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

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When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they’re not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it — volume or muting controls would work fine.

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You are welcome to another web design article

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. Hence, you can keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods: (They are web design secrets that successful webmasters have used to great effect).

 1) You shuold carry out surveys

Polls and surveys are one of the  forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results. You dont post polls or surveys on computer memory on a site that is designed for online dating.

2) You must update your site frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over two years, so keep your site updated with fresh contents! I have done this for my websites and this has made sense to visitors to my site. Search engines will also love you for this. You can write fresh contents yourself or you contact ghost writers or simply visit article directories to pick up contents. You must however include article owner’s bio box information if you publish articles from article directories.

3) You should hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize. Just give something of value for the winner of the games or puzzle.

4) Start a web log (blog)

You can also keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website. So put fresh contents regularly on your blog to keep your visitors.

5) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every  day.

6) Answer their questions promptly

You should also ensure you give prompt reply to every quetsion sent to you by visitors to your site. This shows you care about them and this way they will always come back to your site.

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You are welcome to another web design article for today. Have you enjoyed the previous web design articles? I want to read your comments.

I am about to teach some of the website design secrets of successful websites on the internet.

No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to reach the content of your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally.

1. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text.

2. Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want on your site. If you have thousands of articles on your site and a certain visitor wants to find one single article from that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to enable visitors to do that without hassle. Be it an SQL-driven database search engine or just a glossary or index of articles that you have, providing such a feature will make sure your visitors can use your site with ease.

3. Ensure that your site loads fast if you do not want to lose visitors. Most internet users will leave a website if it doesn’t load completely within 15 seconds, so make sure the crème de la crème of your website is delivered to the visitors as soon as possible to retain their attention.

4. You can do without graphics if it is not very important for you to include them. If you must however have them, you should ensure you dont have so many on a single page (most especially your home page). You can place a simple graphics link on the home page that will link to some other graphics on other pages.

5. Last of all, test each and every link on your site before it goes online. There is nothing more effective in tarnishing your professional image than broken links, so be very careful about that.  You may refer to the article “The relevance of sitemap to your site” to learn how you can use sitemaps to detect broken links on your website.

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Welcome to another web design article and how have i enlightened you with my previous web design articles? All i have shared so far and that i will be sharing in the nearest future will be great website design secrets.

Website templates are very affordable and they save you a lot of effort and time when you want to create a new layout for your website. However, a lot of people make mistakes in the process of choosing and using a web template and end up with something that was unlike the image they had in mind. Here are some guidelines to help you avoid those mistakes.

1. The first obvious mistake you should be aware of is using a template that is very popular. If many people use the same template, your website will not appear unique at all and your credibility as a solid, different website will be tarnished. In other words, you will appear generic just like your next-door neighbours. So you should ensure you look for unique website templates so that you can put a unique website. You may have to set aside certain amount of money for unique templates as the free webdesign templates on the internet may not really give you the opportunity to have a unique website since most webmasters will using these free web design templates. You can even pay so that your very own unique templates can be designed for you.

2. The whole point of using a web template is to save time and effort. You just change the title and appropriate details and you’re done. The biggest mistake one makes is to customize the template beyond recognisation. While that may be good in the sense that you’re creating a unique graphic, you’re defying the very purpose of using a web template — saving time and effort.

However, on the opposite side, if a template you purchase is suitable but some changes must be made to suit your site’s theme, then you will have to take some time to make the changes. For example, you can find a very nice template that suits your hobby site except the original designer has put an image of stamps in the header. You can find images of garden plants and spades to replace the stamps for your gardening hobby site. However, do only make the necessary changes and don’t redesign the whole template.

3. In some circumstances, some people simply make the wrong choice of templates. This is a very subjective issue but you have to be careful in selecting templates to suit your audience. Do not choose templates just because they are pretty, choose them because they serve your purpose.

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You are welcome to another web design article for today. Have you enjoyed the previous web design articles? I want to read your comments.

People always want to follow the latest thing, be it in fashion, sports, that kind of thing. Websites have become a necessity to almost everyone. Companies, businesses, individuals, even young adults have created personal websites with their respective purposes, be it for profit, or for entertainment.

What one must consider, however, before creating a website, are the factors in which must be put to thought before doing so, such as the cost, maintenance, use, web host and so forth.

Firstly, associating with the cost, we must always try to find an affordable host, not spending too much, nor too little. A cheap host does not exactly symbolize a credible reliability rating, but we must always look for value for money deals. Also, regarding the efficiency and server/web host reliability, there are many cases of web hosts not providing the service they had assured other people, some had even shut down and were nowhere to be seen. Keep this note in mind, as if you would like a long-lasting website, this would be the first thing to look for.

Next, would hiring a professional be affordable? Is it the best option? For simple websites, we could always pick up the coding, or even use programs, as it is relatively simple. However, when it comes to more complex coding, and when you want it to do a tad more than just providing information, hiring help in doing so would be the best way. Not only in terms of design, but security is also a key factor in assuring a quality website. If the website also acts as a portal for businesses, security would definitely be the issue here.

So, having considered the things to do before building a website, do we actually NEED one? If creating one would boost sales or promote positive implications to oneself, then by all means, go ahead and do what’s best. Yet again, planning is the key to success, in everything we do.

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