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Free PDF Download Available

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:31:15 +0000

I have prepared a PDF that includes the information in the new WebSite Basics section of the main site. I am offering this as a FREE DOWNLOAD for those who might be interested.

The PDF contains the content of the articles in the Basics section. If you are interested in owning a website but do not have much experience there may be information that would be of value for you. If you download the PDF you may also wish to share it with your friends. While it would be nice to send them a link to the download page, you could attach a copy of the PDF to an email and send it to them.

This is the first PDF that I have produced. I downloaded the Open Office productivity suite and installed it on my computer. Open Office is an open source productivity suite that includes functions similar to Microsoft Office. It has the added functionality of exporting to PDF. This process proved to be painless and so the PDF was born. If you would like to download your copy visit the Before You Buy a Website main site today.

Thanks, and enjoy your download. Feel free to comment either here in the blog or through the comment section on the main site. Tell me if the PDF helped in any way.

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I’m Baaack with More Article-Exchange Observations

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:47:16 +0000

The link problem was not quite as bad as I first thought. I had a typo in my link that I posted with the article. The first link is still broken, but I uploaded a page with the typo file name, so the second link in the article does work. The article is still at the end of the list and does not show in the list of recent articles. There are supposedly over 200 instances of this article directory but few of the articles that I checked (I did only check a few) have been read more than a few times. Many on my page show 0 or 1 for the number of views. I suspect that those showing a 1 show it because the author viewed his own article one time.

I also paid a bit of attention to the links in the footer box. These all appear to direct to pages put up by the directory owner. YouTube had pulled a couple of the videos and at least one other link is broken. This is an interesting concept. The major benefit, if there is a major benefit for anyone, seems to be to the owner of the directory. I am not so sure that I approve, but I will observe for a while more before I pass a final judgment. I did do a search and did not turn up complaints on the subject, but perhaps I did not dig deep enough.

Article-Exchange Update

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:05:24 +0000

I posted an article to my article-exchange directory last evening. This was an article that I wrote to promote my site Gemstone Jewelry Now.

There is minimal instruction on the site as to posting procedures, just the various input boxes for title, description, article body, and resource box. I screwed up on the format for the resource box and ended up with no working links. It appears that the software does recognize an URL in the standard format and that you can use html to put in anchor text, but I will need to try again to be sure. There was also no space between the end of the article and the beginning of the resource box info. I will try adding a couple of spaces at the end of the article next time.

My major complaint with the directory software is that it dumped the article at the end of the category. I should go back and check to see if that is still the case, possibly the owner of the database can check an article off and it will move to the top of the list. Another thought that I had was that the broken links may have flagged the article and sent it to the end of the line. If this is really the way that the software works there is not much hope of a direct click to a site from the article even though it appears many times. Users are not likely to make it to the end of the category unless they know that the freshest content is at the end. This is the reverse of the way that every other article directory that I have seen works. The pages may still get indexed and the links count, but I would expect no direct traffic.

This may be a good thing for the directory owner as his articles may appear on page one for any category, but for those others adding content promotion would be the only way that I would expect the article to be viewed. The owner of the directory does give instructions on how to list the articles on RSS feeds (something other article sites do automatically).

I do need to go to my installation and make some further observations. At this point the jury is still out on the utility of these article directories. They have not been in place long enough to see if they produce any traffic either directly to the site or due to articles posted to the directory. I will have another update when I have some more thoughts on this topic.

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The World SoapBox Article Directory

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:59:15 +0000

I ran across a free script for an article directory and installed on my site, The World SoapBox. I will be watching the results as I have some questions about how this script operates.

The database for the script resides on a remote server. The script calls for the content over the Internet. I do have some news feeds and they do get indexed, so maybe the articles will be indexed as part of the site. The pages of this and all WordPress blogs are called from a local database and the pages are built by the script at the time when there is a request, but they get indexed. I am hoping that these articles get indexed as content on my site.

There are several things that I will be keeping my eye on. I will try to post a report when I have enough information to draw some conclusions.

Check out the World SoapBox Article Directory and tell me what you think.

Keyword Luv and a Do Follow Plug-in Installed

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:13:49 +0000

I have just finished installing a Do Follow plug-in and the KeywordLuv plug-in on this blog. I do have comments set to manual approval for all posts, so a comment will not appear until I do approve it. I am pleased that you checked out the blog and I invite you to leave a quality comment that expresses your opinion on the material in the blog or on the main site. I have also installed these plug-ins on my blog on my Selling on Your Website site.

Thanks!

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Affiliate Network Thoughts

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:55:50 +0000

I have now joined three of the major affiliate networks. I plan, in the near future, to put up a page that gives my impression of each of them. I may figure how to put up a three column comparison page, but if not in the three column format there will still be a comparison page. I suspect that I can build a table in my html editor and copy and paste it into the post box without too much problem.

I had joined Commission Junction several months ago, but did not do anything with them until recently. I then found LinkShare and PepperJam. The three networks provide basically the same service and many of the advertisers are signed up with more than one of the networks. The site navigation is a bit different on each of the sites as well as the programs and services offered. It takes a while to get familiar with the sites. The pages that I plan will discuss navigation on the sites and the programs that each offers. These pages should be a valuable resource for those starting out with the various networks.

The WordPress software that I am using makes it easy to edit an existing page. This means that I can put the page up and then expand the page easily at a later date. I will also make a blog post announcing the pages and when I amplify a page I will also announce the edit, so subscribe to my RSS feed so that you can be informed when these pages and updates are available.