Now Which Tracking Method Should You Choose ?

First of all, to be able to decide about this question, you need to know one important thing about search engines : They don't index dynamic pages. This means that pages which are created by using perl (cgi), php or asp are not indexed properly.

Most of times there is database that delivers results of some search requests. You can recognize dynamic pages by question mark and by a repeating of search terms in URL or often links contain several dozens of numbers and letters.

Examples would be :

http://www.domain.net/search.pl?Terms=business%20opportunities or http://www.domain.net/search.asp?chdr84j3339s042kfmdjhwww

The point is, of course there are many great tracking programs and web sites out there but using them in your article resource box doesn't give you a direct link back to your web site. Search engine spiders will not follow them through a cgi-script back to your site and will not even index pages that look like dynamic pages .

To make last statement clear : Links to your main site but with a question mark won't improve your link popularity, either. So, one of my favourite methods for tracking results has become obsolete : http://www.website.com/?campaignname won't help me. But this is something I just recently discovered......

You Are Missing A Great Chance Of Increased Exposure

This means, you are missing a great chance to get more exposure at seach engines as you cannot increase your link popularity . Many ezine publishers have an archive of their past issues at their web site and this would mean even further exposure at their web site directly AND indirectly by increased link popularity.

As a result, if you consider writing articles as a promotion me- thod for your Internet business, use your real domain name in your resource box and you will benefit from much better search engine rankings in long run....

Every second site you are surfing to uses an entry pop-up and an exit pop-up. If you don't close new pop-ups immediately, you have your complete windows taskbar flooded with new windows.

You either have to close them all one by one if you surf with multiple startpage programs at a time or you'll have to use your windows taskmanager to shut off your browser .

In each case, you have to react , because if you don't, your computer could crash or freeze.... ( At least, this is what I experienced from my personal surf-sessions .)

Pop-Ups = A marketer's dream ?

We have to ask ourselves why are these pop-ups used by so many reputable marketers. There's just one reason for this: They work ! Even though they are hated by most people, they do their job....

You have to look at it from a marketer's point of view. Even if he has just a response rate of 3% , he has made 3% more money, more subscribers or whatever.

And it doesn't cost a single penny ! That's 3% more sales, more advertising revenue etc. So would you give that up if you were standing in his shoes ? As a websurfer I don't like pop-ups very much myself, but because of results I get , I use them at my own sites as well....