PC Doctor+ Guide 20 Making Money From Your Web Site (Part 1)

Written by Steve Latimer


How to Make Money from Your Website Before we start let's just make clearrepparttar terms of reference here. There are many ways to run an on-line business onrepparttar 107738 Internet either to expandrepparttar 107739 reach of an already existing business or an Internet only business. In short, that's not what this guide is about. This guide is aimed at people who have an interesting personal web sites - and I have seen many. Oftenrepparttar 107740 most interesting websites are those created by people who have particular interests or hobbies. So how is it possible to make money from a personal web site? A web site that is popular and has lots of visitors has an important asset – people’s attention. Advertising companies put a lot of effort and money into grabbing people's attention in order to show them advertisements. Actually, computer systems and particularly Internet browsing are perfect forrepparttar 107741 job. Let's make a comparison with commercial TV. Whenrepparttar 107742 TV break comes on anyone watching has several options; only one of which is to sit and watchrepparttar 107743 ads. They could instead takerepparttar 107744 opportunity to make a cup of tea or visitrepparttar 107745 loo.

It's not quiterepparttar 107746 same with a PC. Here we have a person (dare we call them consumers?) sat staring at a monitor from a few inches away - how's that for paying attention! So now that you've realised that visitors are an asset we have to think about it a bit more. We'll deal withrepparttar 107747 advertisements themselves in part 2. Step 1 It's not rocket science to realise that any effort to make extra income from a website through advertisements is dependant onrepparttar 107748 number of visitorsrepparttar 107749 site receives. There are a number of things that need to be in place to bring this about. Good Content Frequently Updated Content Site Optimisation Search Engine Submission 1. Good Content There are literally billions of pages onrepparttar 107750 World Wide Web and you are competing against every one of them; but do not despair. The Internet is alsorepparttar 107751 greatest example of quantity over quality - even cable TV can't compare! That said; if you have a site that contains plenty of good content that other people will be interested in then you are already well uprepparttar 107752 list. A small web site containing good information on a specific subject has every chance of attracting visitors. 2. Updating Your Site So now that you have produced a fascinating web site that attracts visitors. The next step is to make sure that they come back! The best way to achieve this is to keeprepparttar 107753 web site up to date with ever changing content. A visitor who returns to see exactlyrepparttar 107754 same information he saw on a previous visit will soon get bored – he’s not learning anything new. 3. Site Optimisation Site optimisation is a subject in its own right. I mention it here simply to stress its importance. You need to readrepparttar 107755 PC Doctor+ Guide 11 in order to coverrepparttar 107756 subject properly.

PC Doctor+ Guide 4 Reducing Spam

Written by Steve Latimer


Get Some Protection: Part 4 Spam SPAM . . SPAM . . SPAM . . Yes it really was named afterrepparttar famous Monty Python sketch featuringrepparttar 107737 intrepid Erikrepparttar 107738 Viking. What Is Spam? Unsolicited e-mail. Over 60% of all e-mails are now unsolicited sales messages - and it's growing. Junk mail isrepparttar 107739 scourge ofrepparttar 107740 Internet. While it's a real shame that something as useful as e-mail should be contaminated by this claptrap there are serious implications to it's phenomenal growth. EU businesses spend £1.5 billion a year trying to counter it and now Governments are looking at ways legislate against it.

In 2004,repparttar 107741 UK Government brought in legislation to discouragerepparttar 107742 spammers butrepparttar 107743 penalties are derisory compared to those introduced by other countries. This has hadrepparttar 107744 unfortunate effect of makingrepparttar 107745 UK a prime target for international spammers. It is estimated that byrepparttar 107746 end of 2005, 80% of all UKJ e-mails will be spam.

There are no ways to avoid it completely that we know of but you can take steps to minimise it. Common Sense Tips to Reduce SPAM Never visit web sites advertised by Spam mail

If you do, never, NEVER buy anything

Do not reply torepparttar 107747 e-mail or click an unsubscribe link - doing so merely confirms that your e-mail address is active and thatrepparttar 107748 message has been read.

Delete Spam messages immediately

If certain domains are particularly bothering you report them to your ISP

Don't register for free services - especially those that don't allow you to opt out of third party and/or related products and services - they'll forward your address on to other Spammers.

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