How to get more design work
In order to get a nice lot of work coming in you must first put the hours in and get the skills to be a decent designer. Once you are there then you need to practice your skills until perfected. Now you are ready to go after jobs, here are some tips to keep to [...]
November 30, 2007Software can check on your ISP
A not for profit company the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a smart piece of software which will show people exactly what is going on with the traffic problems if you are getting any that is.
The purpose is for website owners to be able to see where the traffic, or more to the point if [...]
Freelancers learn from mistakes
As freelancers we have all made mistakes, and we either learn by those or by what other freelancers tell us of there experiences, after all if we do not take any notice of these then being in business is going to be a short career.
So what do other freelancers advise?
1) Can you show [...]
November 21, 2007Google still number one for webmasters
Despite all of the ups and downs with Google, the most famous search engine in the world is still the number one choice for webmasters; they build, and market their websites with Google in mind, while disregarding the rest of the search engines.
The simple question to ask is why? And the answer is as equally [...]
What is great content?
There is a path to follow that will make your website show up in a great place on the search engines results for your desired keywords etc, but in order to get there, it is necessary to make the site conform to certain parameters in order to tick all of the search engine boxes, but [...]
November 12, 2007Googles games means advertising heaven
Webmasters of games and other related sites may find that Google will have some great advertising opportunities soon with the purchase of the ad firm Adspace who place in game adverts; this is a serious advertising opportunity as the ads can be placed to appeal to certain groups of people depending on what the game [...]
November 9, 2007Traffic from search engines
The very first thing that needs to be done is submit your site to the search engines. Sure you can wait for the site to be spidered, but why wait, time is money and you are in business. You can add you site to any search engine that you want, but make sure that it [...]
November 7, 2007Free webmaster tool
Having a counter on the website is a very useful tool, it lets the other users know how busy the site is, and there is no pulling of punches when the exact number of visitors is there for all to see.
But these tools do tend to cost money, but not always, this is a tool [...]
Domain names made easy
Looking for suitable domain names can be a nightmare, you know how it is, you think of a really appropriate name and then check to if it is available and no of course not they never are, but with this tool there is a large field in which you just type your chosen names and [...]
October 25, 2007Petition to bring back TV Links
Zero Paid are launching a petition to save TV Links the site that was closed down by the UK Police. The 26 year old webmaster was arrested, but later released with no charge why? Well it would seem that the site contained no pirated material or anything like it, all it had was links to [...]
October 24, 2007The Google Watchdog returns
A good resource for webmasters has returned with some more information that will inform and educate on the latest developments that are in the pipeline or that may already happened at Google HQ without many people knowing about it.
Its always a great idea to have the heads up on Google, as this can have an [...]
Google helps manage site links
A site is what appears on a search, you may have seen them. They offer the searcher to go directly to a certain page on your site. But sometimes this is not what you want, because you need your visitors to look through your site, not go directly to one page and then disappear.
Well you [...]
How many Subscribers in a Feed?
This has become a hot topic, you would only need to read the comments to the posting on Google System to how there are those for Google and those against, which is how it should be. However in this case it’s about finding out how many subscribers there are on certain website feeds. This is [...]
October 15, 2007Webmaster Assists in Suicides
There is a huge rise in the type of site offering suicide advice and assistance, these are mainly located in countries that have either no or are neutral to the world’s laws and law enforcement agencies. This makes monitoring these practices almost impossible as the people behind these “Businesses” can literally close up and start [...]
October 10, 2007Every Webmaster needs a blog
Whether it is company or personal blog, the dated postings with links can have a great impact on search engine results, simply because of the constantly updated content and links.
Some people and businesses feel that blogs are ruining the internet and the search process. But they are probably people who do not understand how blogs [...]
Parasiteware can damage your wealth
When a visitor clicks on one of your affiliate links, you expect to be paid when the commission has been earned, but if the visitor has a form of parasiteware on their computer, then it is possible they you will not be paid!
This software will overwrite the information in the cookie giving the parasite the [...]
Webmasters going green
As if running a website was not hard enough, it seems that there is a growing pressure on webmasters and site owners to go green too.
A while ago it was just getting a site to work properly and look appealing was enough, and then along came SEO and so on. But even more challenging is [...]
Social networks to keep an eye on
Virtually everyone on the net has heard of Digg, Technorati, Del.icio.us, and Furl, but these are full to the brim with pages and members, but what if you could get in on the ground floor of the next Digg? Now that would be something worth looking into. So what are these sites?
Zimbio
SpicyPage
Bumpzee
Genwi [...]
A great resource for webmasters
There are many places on the net that offer free tools etc, but Free For Your Site is slightly different as it is a spin off from the Free Download a Day Site, so there will be plenty of users already on the new site.
What a webmaster can expect is plenty of resources that will [...]
Webmasters get RSS stats from Google
There’s another reason for using Googles webmaster central service, because it has emerged that there is the facility that will allows users to find out exactly how many people are subscribed to their RSS feeds.
This information can be very useful indeed, because being able to see how the subscriber list is growing or in some [...]