About Testimonials and Customer Focused Sites
June 30, 2008
Think about it, when you browse any web site, you are basically trying to see what’s in it for you, whether it be information, news, products or services. All you want is to find, read or collect information that will ultimately do something for you.
If you run a web site, your web pages need to have a lot of content that is of interest to your visitors. Have you just found an exciting product or affiliate program to promote? Before you set up a sales page, write down all the benefits the product offers your users, then design your own page around those benefits.
Invest the time it takes to figure out how you can best approach your visitors so they see value in what you are offering.
There is a difference between features and benefits:
Roses are red. (Feature)
My wife gets ‘happy’ when I give her roses. (Benefit)
Want to make more sales? Give your visitors more than you take. Shower them with useful items such as articles, updated e-books, free memberships and services related to the theme of your web site.
CHMOD - Undertanding File Permissions on a Unix-Based Server
June 29, 2008
The basic command for changing file permissions in unix based operating systems is the ‘chmod’ command. This command is executed with a set of parameters after it. With most FTP clients, you can simply select the filename you want to change the permissions of, right click, and choose the chmod command.
There are three main groups of permissions when dealing with the chmod command. The three groups are yourself or owner, your unix group, and everyone else. A typical chmod command would look like this - ‘chmod 755′ This allows you to add, remove or rename files as well as read or edit a file. It also specifies that your unix group and everyone else can only read and edit the file in question. They can’t add, delete, or rename the file.
How the numbers in the chmod command work
Increase Online Sales: 10 Extraordinary Strategies To Generate More Profits
June 28, 2008
Do you want to generate more profits from your online promotion?
If yes, then do what internet marketing experts do to increase online sales:
1. Attend trade shows and seminars that are related to your specific industry. Pass out business cards or brochures about your business.
2. Swap articles with other e-zines publishers. You could get your articles published more often if in exchange you publish their articles.
3. Ask people to link to your site’s content. Some people may not want to link to your home page but might want to link to your content.
4. Convert your web site into an ebook. You could offer your ebook as a free bonus for your product or another business’ product.
5. Create ebooks for other web sites or businesses. You could create them for no charge in exchange for an ad or mention of your web site inside.
6. Team-up with eight to ten other sites to promote the same web site. Just include everyone’s products on the web site you are all promoting.
7. Give free e-mail consultations to your customers. When you e-mail them back your advice include a small ad for a back end product your selling.
Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Troubleshooting Route Summarization
June 28, 2008
Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Troubleshooting Route Summarization
by: Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
As you earn your CCNA and CCNP certification, you’re going to have to get comfortable with manually summarizing routes. This isn’t just another reason to learn binary math (although it’s a good one!), but summarizing routes is a true real-world skill that can help your network operate more efficiently. So the question isn’t just how to summarize routes, it’s why.
When you summarize routes in RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, or OSPF, you’re replacing a series of routes with a summary route and mask. With RIP, IGRP, and EIGRP, this actually lessens the size of the routing update packet itself - multiple routes are replaced with the summary route. For instance, the routes 8.0.0.0/8, 9.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, and 11.0.0.0/8 can be summarized as 8.0.0.0 252.0.0.0. Only the summary address will be found in the update packet, making it concise yet complete.
Summarizing routes can also make the routing table smaller, yet still allow for complete IP connectivity when done correctly. Using the above example, the four more-specific routes will be replaced by a single summary route. Since the entire routing table is parsed before the routing process is complete, keeping the routing table as small as possible does help speed the routing process as a whole.
How To Make Your Website More Successful? (Part I)
June 27, 2008
Building a website and getting it online is easy. Driving visitors to it is the more difficult part. Most people are not patient enough when it comes to build up traffic. They expect thousands of visitors a week after they go live with their website. But that is not how it works. We share some secrets of how to make your website more successful.
A) Provide content: Search engines love content. As more content you can provide as better off you are. Don’t put all the content on one page. Build many pages with content. The reason for this is that every page gets spidered separately by Google and other search engines. Each page of yours in their index is an additional chance that your link gets mentioned in somebody else search results. Quality content is more valuable to search engines as they want to provide real information to visitors. Search engines do not want to refer to link farms or redirects. If they can refer a customer directly to the most valuable content the better for the search engine. Search engines live of providing good results.
Google: The Ultimate Web Writer?s Style Guide
June 26, 2008
Indulge me for a moment.
Forget that Google is a search engine. Just for a moment, imagine it is a style guide. A very different kind of style guide.
Instead of this particular style guide being written as a static book by an expert or two, it is written by studying the searching and browsing habits of hundreds of millions of web users.
Get the idea? Not a search engine. A style guide. A constantly evolving style guide that works from its insights into how people use and read web sites.
A style guide that puts the visitor first, puts their needs ahead of the academic opinions of experts.
A style guide that automatically rewards sites that serve their readers the best.
If we study Google not as a search engine, but as a style guide, what does it tell us about how we should write our web pages?
>> 1. Make the subject of each page absolutely clear.
As visitors arrive at your site, regardless of the entry page, the first question in their minds is, "Am I in the right place? Will I find what I want here? Can I achieve what I want to achieve here?"
Having A User Friendly Website
June 25, 2008
Let’s look at what your user wants to see at your website.
1. No Flash
For many who visit your website time is money for you and for them. The last thing people need to see is a slow loading flash front page. Unless your flash page is very unique and interesting enough that it will hold their attention I suggest you loose it. For people on dialup, and yes there are many around the world, a flash page is a download nightmare for them.
2. Page Load Time
There is nothing worse than going to a website and waiting more than 15 seconds for that page to load. Many of your visitors don’t have the time to wait for a web page to load and nor should they. Timewise, many people will go on to something else if your page is slow to load. Ten years ago 15 seconds and more might have been acceptable but in this day and age of high speed internet this is highly unacceptable. Check this free site for help with load time for your website. Dcotor HTML http://www.doctor-html.com
3. Graphics
Linux Terminal Control Sequences
June 24, 2008
Linux Terminal Control Sequences
by: Sitecritic .Net
Linux terminals share alot in common with their primitive ancestors such as vt100 like consoles. These early devices is capable of sending sequences that signaled events outside of the normal flow of typed characters, such as escape, tab, linefeed…etc. Linux uses CTRL key to send out these out of band signals.
This article summarises many of the commonly used control sequences that are used in all Linux terminals.
CTRL-C
This is the most commonly used sequence. In the bash shell, CTRL-C will terminate any currently running process and return you to the bash prompt. For example, if you accidentally run a command that does not stop, use CTRL-C to cancel the command.
CTRL-D
Many Unix commands read their input directly from the keyboard. An example is the WC command. WC counts the number of lines, words and characters that a user types in from the keyboard. So if you tpye WC at the command prompt, the command will wait for your input till you use CTRL-D to signal the end of transmission.
CTRL-Z
4 Simple Tips for Targeted Traffic
June 23, 2008
Here are 4 of the most easiest and simplest things to implement into a site for a very generous boost in traffic. These can all be implemented within a very short time. Of course depending on the Search Engine you most likely will have to wait for them to spider your site, but when they do,… the Targeted Traffic will come. Ok,… — Tip 1 — It’s a good idea to insert a link to a sitemap into your index page at the bottom, if this is the page you paid for inclusion with. Why? This is so, when the search engine spiders crawl your site they will ALSO spider your sitemap thus indexing ALL of your other webpages via the sitemap. Thus, indexing your whole site into the search engine(s). And having each page in the engines is very good and beneficial for ya, thus giving you more coverage with your site. — Tip 2 — Try to restrict your website to a minimal number of directories as possible. Why? Search engines like to see a URL or web address of like:
http://www.yoursite.com/page.html
NOT one that looks like
Sales Marketing: 10 Blockbuster, High Octane Strategies To Explode Your Website Sales And Profits
June 23, 2008
Do you want to ignite sales at your website?
Do you want to make 50 times more money at your website?
Do you want to succeed in internet marketing and create great wealth?
If yes, then read, master and use the sales marketing, insiders’ tricks of the trade revealed below:
1. Add a free interactive game to your web site. You could hire someone to create it. The game should be related to the theme of your web site.
2. Train your employees as a team instead of just individuals. Everyone must do their job in order for the others do theirs.
3. Make people feel like it’s their idea to buy, they will be less hesitant. Tell them in your ad “You’re making a smart decision for buying our product”.
4. Promote yourself as well as your products. Write articles, ebooks, reports, etc. When you endorse products, people will think your statement is credible.
5. Show your prospects a group of testimonials that stand up for your product. People are more likely to agree with a group than have a different opinion.
