Tuesday, May 20, 2014
How to Make a Google
1. Plan your website. Before making your Google-friendly website, you need to plan it out. Just like a business needs a business plan, a website needs a website plan. What will you make your website about? What website host will you use and how much time and money will you invest in your website? You need to make sure that you write your website plan and details down. Research as much as possible before starting your Google-friendly website.
2. Find a website niche. This is a very important part of making a Google-friendly website. Finding a website niche means that you need a website topic that will help drive traffic to your website. Find a topic that isn't too competitive and that people online are searching for. Your website will need to have a lot of new original content, though, to fit into a niche.
3. Find your website host. After your website niche is decided and you have plenty of website development knowledge, you can find your website host. Many online web hosting companies offer free websites and hosting. Research website host details and ask questions. How much space will you have on your website? Do they provide website templates? What are the hosting fees and guidelines?
4. Buy your custom domain name. A custom domain name is the name of your website that doesn't include your hosting name in it. Custom domain names are recommended for a Google-friendly website. Google indexes and ranks custom domain names faster and better than regular free domain names.
5. Write a lot of website content. Websites that have a lot of useful content are usually Google-friendly websites because Google search engine searches informational websites. Include as much information as possible in your website and build many pages to it. The more web pages that are built, the more pages there will be in Google search results, which means more website visitors will be directed to your site.
6. Learn search engine optimization, or SEO, and apply it to your website. SEO is very important if you want Google to index -- list and rank your website -- in the search engine results. Pick good keywords, meta tags and page descriptions if your website host allows you to.
7. Make sure your website has good navigation. Your visitors should be able to get around your website without having to search around to find the available web pages. A website navigation bar is recommended for a Google-friendly website. Google likes websites that provide easy navigation to their website visitors.
WordPress Feed Vs. FeedBurner
Feed Creation
Generally, WordPress is superior to FeedBurner for feed creation because WordPress creates all of the feeds that you could possibly need for your website automatically. By simply creating a link, you can give your readers a way to subscribe to feeds for all of your content, or selected tags, categories and authors. However, FeedBurner is not particularly complicated to use: you create a FeedBurner feed by navigating to FeedBurner.com and entering the address of your website's RSS feed in the field on the bottom of the page.
Advertising
If you have a Google AdSense account, you can add advertisements to a FeedBurner feed much more easily than you could with a WordPress RSS feed, simply by clicking 'My Ads' and 'Feeds' on your AdSense account page. AdSense automatically detects the FeedBurner feeds that you have not added advertisements to yet, and offers to add them. Adding AdSense to your feed gives you an opportunity to earn revenue from the feed even when readers do not click through to your website.
Familiarity
All FeedBurner feeds use the same interface, and Google has its own feed reader that subscribers can use to read updates. Although Google's feed reader is also compatible with the feeds that WordPress generates automatically, a reader who has only ever used FeedBurner and Google's feed reader may not know that. Readers who are already familiar with Google's products might be more likely to subscribe to a FeedBurner feed than to a WordPress feed.
Statistics
WordPress does not give you the ability to track the usage of your feeds, so you have no way of knowing how many people are reading your feeds or whether readers act on them. FeedBurner has an extensive array of analytics available that allow you to see at any time how many subscribers you have, how often subscribers click through to your website and where your subscribers come from. These statistics allow you to see how successful your feed is in attracting and keeping readers.
Monday, May 19, 2014
How to Add My Own Template to Freewebs
1. Navigate to Webs.com and log in to your account using your username and password.
2. Click on the tab titled 'My Account' at the top of the Webs landing page.
3. Click on 'Advanced Settings' and choose 'Downgrade my Account to HTML only Mode.' This is necessary in order to make your template, which is coded in HTML, compatible with the site. You can upgrade your account to its previous settings at any time via the same route.
4. Click 'Save' on the 'Advanced Settings' page. Return to the Webs home page.
5. Click 'Pick a Free Template from Freewebs.' In the top, right-hand corner there is a search box with the words 'Search All Templates' embedded. Underneath the box, click on the button that says 'Click here if you want to upload or build your own.'
6. On the newly opened page, select 'Build and Edit' from the top left. A window titled 'Site Manager' will open. From here click on 'Upload Tools.'
7. Click 'Upload Website Template' and use the 'Browse' option to find the template on your computer. Click 'Upload' to add the template.
How to Restore a Deleted Ad Account
1. Never appeal immediately. Spend some time considering the best approach.
2. Read through the cancellation e-mail from the advertising network carefully and be clear about the reason for cancellation.
3. Study the advertising network's program policies and terms and conditions thoroughly and identify where your website or blog may have breached them.
4. Correct all problems with your website before appealing. If in doubt, err on the side of caution.
5. Write your appeal. This must clearly demonstrate your understanding of how and where you breached policies and detail the action taken to correct the problems.
6. Provide supporting information such as server logs if you are appealing against cancellation due to invalid clicks. The advertising network will need to be sure that you have identified the source of the clicks and have taken action to prevent them from happening again.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
How to Monetize a Web Domain
1. Create web content, a product or service that will attract visitors to the website. You can't monetize a website without visitors. A website should have at least 200 visitors a day to monetize it successfully.
2. Sell a product or service on the website. You'll profit from the sales of the product or service. Place a shopping cart and automatic forms of payment via Paypal or credit cards on the site.
3. Join affiliate programs, and feature affiliate ads on the website. For every click or purchase, a percentage of income is generated from the website. Choose affiliate programs that will attract or serve visitors on the website. Amazon Associates and Commission Junction are examples of popular affiliate programs.
4. Place Google AdSense on the website and generate income from every click and purchase. Choose from several different ad formats and placements to generate optimal results. Check the daily statistics to determine which ad type, ad word and ad placement produces the best results.
5. Create new products, new content or something exciting to keep website visitors returning again and again. For example, host a contest or a giveaway, link to other related websites, add a personal story or do a review of something helpful to visitors.
6. Include relevent keywords in the website copy to increase search engine traffic and drive visitors to the website. Hire someone well-versed in search engine optimization to increase traffic. Invest time in social networking sites, and share the website address with others.
How to Remove Hijack Google Ads
Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2010
1. Download Spyware Doctor with Antivirus (see Resources). Click on the installation link and follow the onscreen instructions to install the program.
2. Open Spyware Doctor with Antivirus and select 'Smart Update.' Make sure 'OnGuard' is activated. If it is not, click the 'Activate' button. On the System Status screen, make sure 'Computer Immunization' is On. If it is turned off, click the 'On' button.
3. Click 'Start Scan' on the left and the System Scan window will open. Click the 'Full scan' button under Scan Type and click the 'Scan Now' button. If viruses are found on your computer, click the 'Fix Checked' button to remove the infected files.
STOPZilla
4. Download STOPZilla (see Resources). Click on the installation link and follow the on-screen instructions to install the program on your computer.
5. Open STOPZilla and click 'Check for Updates' in the bottom-right corner. If there are any updates available, it will automatically download them. If there are no updates, you will get a message 'no updates available.'
6. Click 'Scan for Spyware' on the left side. Choose 'Full Scan' at the top, and then click the 'Scan' button at the bottom of the window. STOPZilla will automatically remove any spyware found on your computer. This scan will take approximately 30 minutes. When the scan is completed, a list of the spyware found and removed from your system will be displayed.
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
7. Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (see Resources). Close all open programs on your computer. Click on the installation link and follow the on-screen instructions to install the program onto your computer. Make sure the 'Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware' and 'Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware' are checked, and click 'Finish.' Open Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware through the Start menu or by clicking the icon on your desktop.
8. Click 'OK' on the message that states Malwarebytes needs to update before you run a scan. The main program will open when it finishes updating. You will see a message that the database was successfully updated. The download will take approximately five minutes to complete.
9. Click the 'Scanner' tab and select 'Perform full scan.' Click the 'Scan' button. The scan will take approximately two hours. When it is finished scanning, a display window will open with a message that says the scan completed successfully.
10. Click 'Show Results,' and a screen will open that displays the malware found on your system. Make sure that all boxes are checked. Click the 'Remove selected' button, and it will remove the malware. When it finishes, it will open a log. You can review this and then close the window. Close Malwarebytes by clicking on the red 'X' in the top-right corner.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
How to Copy Paste Google Code to a Website
1. Set up an account with Google Analytics to obtain your individual UA number. You must have a Gmail address to do so.
2. Visit code.google.com to locate the tracking HTML code. Type 'tracking code' into the search box at the top of the page.
3. Click on the first link in the results titled 'Google Analytics Tracking Code.'
4. Click 'Getting Started' underneath the 'How to Start' heading. This takes you to the HTML page.
5. Highlight the code located in the box near the middle of the page. Right click on the page and click on 'Copy.' You can also hit CTRL-C on your keyboard.
6. Open a second window that contains your webpage's editing page where the HTML code is stored.
7. Place the cursor near the end of your webpage's HTML code, but before the
tag. Hit CTRL-V or right click at the cursor and click on 'Paste.' The code will paste into your webpage.
8. Change the 'UA-XXXX-X' in the code to reflect your individual UA number obtained in Step 1. If you fail to do this, your page will not link to your Google Analytics account and you will not see your tracking results.
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