Understand And Analyze Web Traffic

For all online business’ and web masters, it has become crucial to understand and analyze web traffic. Their survival might depend on this! With thousands of sites mushrooming everyday, it is a hard fight out there. The only way one can maintain an edge over others is through proper and expert analysis of where the customers come from, what they want and what the competitors are doing. So what really is web traffic analysis? It is the processing of statistical data to understand search engine... Read more »

What’s Wrong with Reciprocal Linking?

Plain and simple; a lot! Reciprocal linking has been so abused by webmasters and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts (term used loosely when it comes to reciprocal linking) that the larger search engines have begun the process of disregarding reciprocal links as irrelevant. Does that mean you will be penalized for having some? No, you won’t be penalized (unless they lead to ‘bad neighborhoods’) but you will also not gain anything from having them either. What has brought this... Read more »

The Rewards of Writing Articles

Do you enjoy writng articles about various themes or topics and enjoy the challenge of trying to be the best in a very competitive industry. Building websites and trying to make them perform better that masses of websites numbering in the millions can be a great learning experience if it fits into your nature. Success in Tomswebsites has come in varying degrees but through the years he has learned a great deal about search engine optimization and has run the gamut for various come and go methods... Read more »

Secret Confessions of A Webmaster

Sitting here working on a new website, it occurred to me that there have been several progressions in my website publishing skills and several changes to the quality of those websites. The amusing thing that I pondered was the fact that at each stage I was so proud of my accomplishment and thought I had achieved success. The stages I went through all came back to mind. My first effort was with one of the new and cool online website tools, possibly Geocities or Yahoo. I think I tried them both. I... Read more »

Designing Websites for iPhone Viewing

How would your website look on a hand held device? Is it easy to navigate? Is the most important information readily available to your visitors? Is your website “mobile Web” ready? Ten years ago most small business owners didn’t have a website and probably didn’t see the need for one. Now, a business without a website is considered second rate at best. A website is a necessity for doing business in the 21st century. Also a necessity in the 21st century is a website that can... Read more »

The Google Analytics Beta: Improving Profits through Web Site Analytics

Web site analytics, for those who might not be familiar with the term, is the tracking of various performance metrics for a given web site. The metrics themselves can range from the simple (and relatively useless) count of “hits”, i.e. requests for a given resource such as a single web page, image file, etc., to the measure of far more complex interactions. These complicated interactions can be totally arbitrary; for example, you might want to know the number of orders from visitors who... Read more »

Search Engines Can’t Be Controlled

Search engines are one of those things in life that can’t be controlled. Life is full of things that can’t be controlled. We can’t control who we’re related to, or whether or not the sun will shine and we certainly can’t control how other people on the road drive. A search engines’survival depends on the quality of their searches. They’re not about to try and make you happy even if you think you deserve it if mking you happy affects the quality of their results.... Read more »

When You Build A Business Website, It Must Be Your Personality In The Form Of A Web Site

All great things are natural and simple. So must be the idea of the website. 1. Why a web site is in the business? To make money is not a reason. The reason must be something linked with entrepreneurs know how or with the business opportunity in the market or both. But, as you see, these reasons are too general reasons to build a business website. 2. How to create an internet business idea and the execution, that nobody can copy? Let us play with an idea, that a website is a human being, a... Read more »

Do You Need An HTML Form?

If you have an internet business, adding a simple HTML form to your website, such as a feedback form or a contact form, can be a tough task. For those who are new to programming, creating a simple form for your website can be difficult. If you do not have a contact form and you need to immediately provide a way for your visitors to contact you, then you should simply post your email address on your Contact page. However, if you want to create a sophisticated online form to collect information from... Read more »

The Best Free Online Resources For Webmasters

There are literally thousands, if not millions, of free online resources for webmasters available on the internet. I would like to share some of the most useful of these with you today. All of these resources are available at no cost, although some may require registration. The first, and possibly most useful resource, is Site Meter available through sitemeter.com. Site Meter is essentially an extremely advanced website counter and statistics tracker which allows you as a webmaster to not only... Read more »