Tag: Habit

The Purpose of PageRank?

Posted on Jul.17, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

I am sure the first thought provoking question that popped into your head would be: what exactly is PageRank? Well PageRank can be summed up as how vital Google considers a particular webpage. Pagerank is a value from 0-10, zero being the least significant and ten of which few obtain being the most note-worthy. PageRank is often abbreviated as PR and Google determines this PR bye evaluating how many websites link to yours, even though many of these links are [...]


Cisco Certification: Five Things To Do DURING Your CCNA Exam

Posted on Jun.29, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments

There are plenty of articles out there about how to prepare for the CCNA exam. However, there are also things you can do to increase your chances of success on exam day during the most important part of the entire process — the time that you’re actually taking the test. I’ve taken many a certification exam over the years, and helped many others prep for theirs. Here are the five things you must do on exam day to maximize your [...]


Google Page Rank Is Dead – Part II

Posted on May.26, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

In part I – Google Page Rank Is Dead – Or Ist It? http://web-marketing.smartads.info/2004/august-11.html
I discussed how Google’s Page Ranking System has become obsolete, but at the same time, many business savvy entrepreneurs still give it credit and could possibly discredit or credit your website accordingly to it’s rank.
“Let’s really go in depth to take our 1st steps towards leaving Google’s page ranking behind!”
If you’re like 1000’s of people online, you’ve been following page ranking so close for so long, it [...]


The 7 Habits of a Successful Web-Marketing Plan

Posted on May.17, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

What is web-marketing? Why does your business need it?
The best web site and the best web-marketing strategy will not reap the highest possible results, if they are not tightly integrated. Not only do you need a well-designed web site with relevant content and user-friendly navigation, but your site needs to be found by your target audience (prospect customers).
A well-thought web marketing strategy drives traffic to your site through search engines, and other methods. Search engine strategy helps in getting the [...]


Build Web Pages from the Top Left Corner Down

Posted on Apr.07, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

There are two important reasons to build your website from the top left hand corner down.
The first one is that this is the way people (at least in the western world) read pages. They tend to begin at the top and read towards the bottom. And they tend to look at the left column before they look at the right. This is why your web pages should contain the most important headlines and descriptive information near the top.
Some designers fall [...]


Never leave home without your business cards

Posted on Mar.25, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

A bell ringing makes people know that an establishment is open.
Or makes them stare and try to find out where that came from.
Your business cards are your bells. In this case, it is YOU who
is being represented and being marketed by these cards. You
cannot go about carrying and taking resumes along with you. But
you can have dozens of business cards with you and nobody would
notice. Never leave home without your business cards. There is
no telling who you might meet as [...]


Creating Tableless Sites – Why and Some Basics

Posted on Feb.01, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Lets begin with the benefits of a tableless layout. These are only in the order that I feel they should go in, some things are more important to other people, so rank them as you will.
Forces You To Write Well-Formed Code
You cannot have a properly made tableless layout, and use improper and non-standard code. Well, let me correct that – you can (technically you can do it) but it defeats the whole purpose. When you are creating a tableless design, [...]


Steps to Solving the Spyware Threat

Posted on Jan.09, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Spyware has become a prominent factor in using the internet. To keep your computer free from spyware and working well as well as to protect your private information it is necessary to install one or more spyware tools. Spyware can and will strike a computer system as soon as possible which means users must immediately install anti-spyware software upon connecting a computer to the internet. Some forms of spyware work fairly silent and do not have many [...]


Make a Habit of Analyzing Other Sites for Form, Function, and Design

Posted on Jan.04, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

The need of the hour is to analyze successful websites so as to obtain clues on designing and marketing your own site. Since this is a business that is growing in leaps and bounds, it is necessary to learn the good aspects to ensure you adapt all good aspects of the craft. While this industry is still in its infancy, the prospects are very good and this appears to be a business that is here to stay.
Aspects to [...]


Procrastinate, but Not Now!

Posted on Dec.20, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I
know that I should stop it. In fact, I will — tomorrow!
–Gloria Pitzer
I’ve been putting off writing this article because it seemed too
hard to write about something I seem to have no control over.
I’m actually writing it 5 days before deadline and don’t really
understand why it has me concerned. If it were easy, it would be
done though, and I wouldn’t be thinking about it now.
The things I’ve done instead [...]