Re: 5 Important Rules to rember when building your website

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. Because after all you only get one chance to make a first impression and if you lose a potential customer because of an uninviting or hard to navigate page then they are gone and will likely never be back. So here are seven important rules to observe to make sure your website performs at it's optimum

1) Content is King don't use splash pages

Splash pages are often the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They often have serene inviting images and other times it's where they start promoting their products at you. Words like "welcome" or "click here to enter" are often displayed on these pages to try and give the website a bricks and mortar feel. In fact, they are just another page on your website which is offering NO VALUE to your potential customers and so gives them a decision, to click ENTER or BACK. Many people out their will click back and they're gone forever.

Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front, always over deliver with the content on your front page so as to entice your customers to come in and look around.

2) Give first, sell later

People online today are getting more and more internet savvy and they understand about clickable banners, affiliate links and the like. So DO NOT try selling on your front page and do not load your page up with promotions or you will just put people off. Apart from the fact that you reduce the space to provide good valuable content you will give the impression that you view your customers as walking credit cards and nobody likes this.

Instead, provide more valueable content than ads on your site make sure that all your links are relevant to your content, so that your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) K.I.S.S keep- it-simple-stupid

Make sure your site is simple an easy to navigate. If your website looks confusing or is hard to navigate people will simply leave. we have many of the older generation coming online now as well as millions of others who can surf the web but are not computer literate.

So this means if your site looks hard all these people will leave and find a site that is easier to navigate.

4) Remember most of your customers don't know they want to buy

When the internet was launched it was billed as "the information web" and was supposed to give people access to FREE information. OK so we've come along a bit but many many people out their only ever intend to get free information from the net. So can we convert these people into customers? of course. All you need to do is "GIVE THEM FREE INFORMATION" because after all that's what they are after. If you over deliver on GOOD free information you will build a relationship with your customers and they will trust you more than someone who is just sell, sell, sell.

They may not buy from immediately but when they are ready to part with their hard earned cash they will remember you.

5) Personalise your site

When you build your website let your customers know who you are. Post a picture of yourself and a short bio, let people know what part of the world your from and what you want to achieve from your website. You could have a feedback or comment section to make people feel like they are a part of your website, and also if they post a comment they are more likely to come back to your site to check other comments and responses.

So let people know who you are so that they can build a relationship with you and your website.

In Closing

So when building your website treat your customers like you would want to be treated. Over deliver on good free content. Don't go the hard sell or you will alienate people. k.i.s.s make sure your grandmother could navigate your website, and let your customers know who you are and that their is a real person behind your website.

And most important of all HAVE FUN

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Re: How can I make money online?

I know a few people that do well with adwords and stuff, but those same people spend countless hours building web sites and tweaking them to drive traffic. They have dozens of sites and things. I think everyone has to do what works for them. I find that kind of thing tedious and boring.

I belong to a few communities, where they let you put those kind of ad codes on your pages, and so I did set some up long long time ago, just as a test. I get quite a lot of people to my pages, however, last time I logged into google to see how that was going, I had a "pool" of money there for them to pay me amounting to a whopping $12, I think they don't even send your money till you get to $100 or so.

I just MIGHT see a check from that mabye before I kick the bucket if I stick around another 10 years or so. I can't complain I didn't do any more then learn to set up the ads on a few sites and I don't spend a lot of time sending traffic there.

I personally have build a good income online over the years, but I'm the one they say does NOT exist. I'm a full time network marketer. Everyone has to find what works for them and I LOVE this industry. Not everyone does.

What is it YOU like to do? What do you enjoy? Find something you love and then make it work for you.

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Have You Been Downsized Or Looking For Ways to Make Money Working From Home?

Starting a home-based business can be an intimidating yet captivating way of making money. The strong desire to posses a piece of the American dream is usually greater to people who has what it requires to excel. Although some people may not have the right shape of mind to succeed in a complex working environment, many have the patience needed to excel in an entrepreneurship. Numerous CEOs, managers' e.t.c as well as those victims of company downsizing are turning online to make money.

The perception towards internet business entrepreneurs has changed. Back then this people do asked "When are you going to get a real job?" Today they asked "How do I get to be like you?"

Job security has become the order of the day. The ordinary employees and CEO's as well know that job security means you can be laid off at any time to give way to cost cutting. Corporations have turn to outsourcing these jobs often to individual working from home for a lower cost for them.

However report shows that over sixty percent of professionals working from home are men. But this has also created an avenue for mommies to be with their kids while working at home.

The majority of the well-to-do entrepreneurs whether home-based and not, did not derive their innovative business concept from some divine inspiration. They search, research and toiled hard to formulate and develop their million-dollar business by asking individuals ahead of them and staying up to date for the next opportunity that comes their way. When Sam Walton, the founder/CEO of Wal-Mart, sent his managers abroad on a business trip, he often told them to never cease searching for new ideas to bring home with. Those ideas sometimes would be worth much more than what he spent for their trip and has end up been the bedrock on which his business empire was built.

John Benjamin is the owner of Profitable Home Business. Learn more on How to Start an Internet Business.

Re: How to get Backlinks?

Hello, Averagejenny.

I took a quick look to the links in the signature. Do you mind if I make a small suggestion?

I know you did much startegies by pulling on the traffic, but their sites have a lot of ads. There are two disadvantages to this:

(1) People can look at your blog and see all the ads and click away. It may seem very hard, you try to advertise.

(2) The blogs do not have much content, i.e., words. Google Web crawlers/spiders have a time very, very difficult to find out how this index, as well as classify this. What you see is image. And unless the images have tags on them, key words, no can do a lot with him.

My recommendation would be that your blog posts are words more and less ads or push ads down lower. Google bots crawl from top to bottom, from left to right. If everyone sees advertisements and images for the top half of your site, you can move the following site.

or...

A (not a salespitch) review of each site you're promoting: what makes that offers, when is the payment, what is the cost to join, how well people have made money with him, something interesting that makes that particular single site compared to others as a benefit, etc..

When you have more content from the word, especially with keywords - use no more 3-5% of words per post - then google will have an easier time crawling and indexing of your site.

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Working From Home - Managing Your Time

When working from home it can seem very difficult to manage your time. There can be countless distractions, things that just get in the way. Many of these are seemingly unavoidable. In fact, it is because you are at home that these little things are getting in the way.

So how do you manage your time when working at home? Well, the first thing you have to realise is that if you are not organised to quite a high level then your time will just become more chaotic.

Making the decision to run a home business means taking it seriously. And having the commitment to organise your time properly is vital if you are going to get anything done.

You see, when you worked in a nine-to-five you were paid for sitting around doing nothing, at times anyway. At home, with a home business to run, you have to be accountable for your time.

So take a look at the following pointers and see if you can use them when managing time when working at home:

1. Whatever you do, when you are working, turn off the email, instant messaging, television, whatever. You do not need these distractions, and they will kill your time.

2. If you have children, schedule them. Pick a time every day when you totally devote yourself to them. And stick to it. They will appreciate your commitment without distraction, and you will de-stress.

3. Keep your desk tidy. If you can't deal with something in two minutes, file it. Simple as that.

4. Tidy your email inbox. The same principle applies. If two minutes won't do it, then make a folder called 'to do' and do it later.

5. Do not, under any circumstances, work in your pyjamas.

6. Chunk your work time up into two hour slots, and then take a break. If that is too difficult, make it half an hour. But make that half an hour count.

7. Finally, let everyone you know who is incredibly pleased that you are at home (friend, family) know that you are working at home. They should understand what that means.

Working from home is liberating. But it is work. Remember that, and make it seem like a work day, and then you will enjoy it, rather than begin to resent it.

Sahail Ashraf is a freelance writer.

Blog: http://www.clearlycontent.blogspot.com

Website: [http://www.clearlycontent.co.uk]

Re: Other sites like odesk that you know?

w3bmaster wrote:GAF (getafreelancer) is the best it has fees but not a strict payment like odesk ...

Well, no offense but, GAF, according to me is not that perfect resource and even you cannot mention your name or company profile there and if you bid for some project then, price they provide are not well suites the requirement but, comparatively Odesk is worth to have good projects and you can negotiate on prices. There are many sites that are good to be explore like, Elance, which is the best to get some long terms and good projects as, they have started the rating system too and as far as payment policy concerns then, then their is a fee charge for every type of payment system in case of Odesk but, in Elance you have to become a premium member so that, the fee will be low to charge Also, you can have a look to GAC (Get a Coder) and Scriptlance.

Thanks

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Re: Hello to Everyone :)

Hello there:)

My name is Martha and i work from home and i love it. I am an internet marketer and my goal is to help as many people as i can to do the same.
There are some great income programs out there and everybody should know about them.
Those who promise you that you will become a millionaire in a week or in a month do not trust them at all.
It needs time to be educated but YES, you can earn a good income , you can make thousands every month after some time. Just focus on what you are doing , love it and money will come.
My goal is to teach and train people from the beginning how to become good internet marketers and how to start earning money without spending big amounts of money.
Soon i ll be updating my website with all these info.
Friendly,
Martha

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Re: how to add facebook "like" button?

Did you create your Like button here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/

If so, then you just need to paste the code you were given onto the page where you want the button to appear.

Let me know if that doesn't answer your question

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