This will provide search-engine spiders a path to follow and will ultimately result in your web pages getting fully indexed.

You can learn more about sitemaps here: http://SiteMapSoftware.com

Note that most, but not all servers have SSI's enabled. Please check with your web host to find out whether SSI is enabled in your server.

How to Easily Create a Navigation Menu Using SSI? ------------------------------------------------- Step 1# - Create a HTML navigation menu file

This is navigation menu file that will be inserted into your HTML pages and is also your HTML navigation menu template.

A simple horizontal text HTML navigation menu can look like this:

Home | Products | Pricing | About Us | Contact Us

(You'll need to hyperlink each of above text to make these navigation links clickable by using your favorite HTML editor e.g. FrontPage or Dreamweaver)

You need to save this file with a .shtml extension once this file has been created e.g. topnavi.shtml

Step 2# - Insert navigation menu file into HTML file

Open up HTML file (e.g. products.html) and place cursor on location where you wish to insert navigation menu.

Click here to view SSI directive: http://BizSuccessOnline.com/SSI_CodeSnippet

And copy and paste above SSI directive at cursor.

(Be sure to replace "your_navigation_filename.shtml" with name of your navigation menu file)

Note: You CANNOT use absolute path with an SSI directive: e.g. do not use http://yourdomain.com opnavi.shtml

And finally, save HTML file with a .shtml extension e.g. products.shtml

Step 3# - Upload files onto your server

The last step is to upload newly created .shtml files onto your web server and check to make sure pages display properly.

And if you view HTML source code of your HTML file on a live internet connection, you'll notice that SSI directive would have been replaced by actual HTML navigation menu code.

Maintaining your navigation menu is now a simple matter of changing contents on navigation file.

That's all there is to it!

Give it a go!

4. Stay Focused On Prospects' Problems. Your prospects want to satisfy their needs and, more importantly, avoid incurring a loss or pain. Lead with copy about their concerns. Let them know that you understand their aspirations as well as their worries and problems they want to solve.

5. Write Your Copy To Support Prospects' Decision Making. To demonstrate that you know and understand your prospects' problems, be specific. Avoid general phrases like "save time and money", which apply to hundreds of services. Give detailed examples of problems your prospects experience and how you solve them.

6. Tell People What To Do. If you want people to read a key article first, then sign up for your newsletter, and then contact you, tell them so. List steps you want them to take at top of page and then use your page design to support this sequence of actions.

7. Make It Easy For Prospects To Contact You And To Buy. Include a contact or order form on your homepage and make your email and phone number easy to find.

Change design and copy on your site to help visitors take steps to become clients. You'll be pleasantly surprised at difference in your response rate and your business growth.

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