A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly. Blogs are quick and easy to set up.

A web site on the other hand is the official address and location of a web-based business. A website is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed relative to a common Uniform Resource Locator (URL), often consisting of only the domain name, or the IP address, and the root path (‘/’) in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network....

Visitor traffic is one of the most important factors that determine the success of a website on the Internet. However, something more important that attracting visitors is to retain them on the website. By keeping your visitors on the site for longer times, you can increase the number of page views as well your chances of them performing a desired action. Often you may notice that though your website gets a huge number of visitors, they tend to leave abruptly. This may be because there is something on your website that they don’t like. By knowing the reason why visitors leave your website, you can seek to make adjustments and thus improve the website. Here are some common reasons why people exit websites.

Poor Accessibility...

In the internet customers are left on their own, there is no sales person or manager who would tell them about the goods or services. Customers cannot take goods and study them carefully. But how then do they make decision? There are only two answers:

A) customer is already acquainted with the product, he/she likes it and wants to buy it;
B) customer liked the information about the product and decided to buy it....

It is the little thing you see on your Location bar (History/Address bar) when you visit a web site, on the left of http://. For example, if you view a site through Internet Explorer, you see an e superimposed over a blank white paper sheet. The icon also shows up when you press CTRL+D to save the link in your Favorites folder. I think the icon is showed anywhere you store the link, whether on the Desktop or some other place.

But some web masters prefer to have their own icon. Apart from being an ego issue, it makes the web site memorable, and more prominent in the list of hundreds of Favorite links (gosh! do you ever visit them?!), or repulsive if you make an ugly icon....

Google Site Links are popular sub-pages of web site under a domain. They are listed as a help so that you can browse parts of a websites most popular pages. To get them you have to rank number one for a search term in Google. For example Hoover Web Design has them because we rank number 1 for the search term “hoover web design”. Try entering your websites name to see if you have any site links.

Unfortunately, you can’t control which pages get listed under Site Links. Google automatically chooses Site Links and they change from time to time. If you do manage to get them it’s great! Having more links to your website is always great....

If you learn how other people make money online, I mean really study how it’s done and ask a lot of questions, there is no reason in the world you cannot make money on the internet as well.

How do people make money with websites? There are literally tens of thousands of things people make money on from the net. From hard goods of all kinds (anything that can be shipped, including cars and boats!) to information and memberships....