Archive for the ‘Getting Started’ Category
Making money with your website using affiliate programs
At this point in the game, you did all the hard work that is involved in starting up your own website. Now that you added some advertisements on your page, your hard work will pay off and you can just sit back and wait for the big pay day. I know that’s what I thought [...]
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How to add Google AdSense to your website
Like they have with pretty much everything else, Google also cornered the market on internet advertising. They are an advertising network that will place rotating ads that are targeted according to the information on your pages. Make sure you actually have a website with content before signing up with AdSense, because they will not accept [...]
Google AdSense step-by-step set up instructions
If you have created an account with Google AdSense, this article will walk you through the process of setting up and configuring your ads. For those of you who are new to this, you can find more information about starting your own site and making money with your site in the following articles: Starting Your [...]
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Other creative ways to promote your website
Let me restate that it is very important to do what you can to improve your search engine listings. But there are many other ways of drawing traffic to your site that are sometimes overlooked. Let’s take a look at those options. 1. Advertising If you are willing to spend a little money, advertising on [...]
Checking your website with multiple browsers on a single computer
In case you were not aware, your web page will appear slightly different in the different web browsers. There are a lot of browsers out there, including several versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera, among others. There are also different platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Since the multiple versions of certain browsers can’t [...]
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How to validate your web page
Although not an absolute necessity, validating your web pages is a good habit to get into to help ensure your web pages function properly in all web browsers and search engines. What does validating your web page mean? You validate a web page by using a program to check that your HTML and CSS code [...]
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Important web design considerations
1. Don’t focus too much on appearance From what I have found, most people focus too much on the appearance of their website. But, believe it or not, appearance isn’t the most important thing to look at when you are planning and creating your site. I definitely don’t want you to think that appearance is [...]
Making your website search engine friendly
Many people wonder why they can’t find their web pages even when they search for the items that appear on their page. Most of the time, that is because they created a site that is not search engine friendly. This article identifies the things you need to do in order to create a website that [...]
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List of HTML, CSS, and link validators
This page will provide you with a list and comments for the following validators: HTML validators – they check your HTML code for errors CSS validators – they check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for errors Browser compatibility checkers – they check your page to see if it is compatible with various browsers Broken link checkers [...]
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How to improve your Google search engine ranking
Google’s page ranking system Google is the top search engine, so it makes sense to do what you can to understand how they rank websites and follow their rules. Google ranks a page according to the number and quality of links leading to that page. For example, if your page has 100 quality links leading [...]
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