Saturday, January 5, 2008

The Truth About Robots - Robot Travel
There is one thing you have learned about robots, it is that there is
absolutely no pattern to them. Most robots are stupid and wander randomly.
For example, 50% of robot hits to my sites ask for the robots.txt page and
then go away never asking for anything else. Then they come back a week
later, ask for the same thing and then go away, again. This happens over
and over again for months. You will never never figure it out. What are
they doing? If they wanted to see if the Web site was really a Web site,
they could just Ping it. This would be much faster and much more efficient.
They seldom visit another page and if they do, they ask for one other page
every visit or so. Some come in and issue rapid-fire requests for every
page in the Web site. How rude! You have to quit worrying so much about
robots. It takes 6 months before they request enough pages to do you any
good. We really quit thinking about them a long time ago. Build a lot of
pages correctly, and, if you have reciprocal links to them, the robots will
find them someday.
Try this: Go to AltaVista and type into the search box "link:YourSite.com"
(Leave off the www). This will list the reciprocal links to your Web site.
Try link:crownjewels.com and you get 136 links to it. Think about this now:
The robots say to themselves, "Here is a site that must be popular or why
would so many Web sites SIMILAR to it have it's link on their pages?" Remember
that only SIMILAR sites with SIMILAR THEMES would probably have a link to
your site. They give more importance to this than you submitting your link
to them. Wouldn't you?
Go to heavily trafficked sites matching your Web site's Themes and use AltaVista
to find out how many reciprocal links they have. This will prove to you
we are right.
Search engines are nothing more than a measure of reciprocal links to your
site. The problem is, you are constantly having to fight for your positioning
in the search query listings. Forget about that. Leave the fighting to people
who are able to spend 24 hours a day trying to trick everybody. Quit trying
to compete with the large organizations pouring millions into their marketing.
Completely forget about Search Engines after submitting to them and go after
the reciprocal links. The Search Engines will then believe you are a heavily
visited site because you will be. You will now be getting the traffic you
so richly deserve.
Search engine visitors to your site, are oftentimes not qualified visitors.
Too many visitors pop into your home page for 2 seconds and then leave.
You know how it is. We all do it when we are using the search engines. Either
it wasn't the information we were looking for, or they had this huge graphic
on this stupid portal page, which just took forever to load. These visitors
shouldn't even count, but they get counted as 12-18 hits in your server
logs. Hits are requests to the server. One page request can incur a lot
of hits: requests to the page itself plus the graphics, each count as a
hit.
Reciprocal links bring in qualified visitors. These are visitors who were
already on a Web site which had matching Themes to yours. They already have
a good idea of what type of site you are. They will come into your site
and actually stay awhile. These visitors should count as double credit,
they are so good.
We know which type of visitor we would rather have.
How do you get people to WANT to put your link on their Web sites? Why would
a similar site put a link to your site on theirs? Simple, you have similar
Themes. You are similar, but not competition.
There is one very important lesson to be learned from this crazy robot behavior.
You need to make the navigation in your Web site so easy that a visitor
can find any page within 2 clicks of your home page. One way of doing this
is installing hidden DotLinks. Dotlinks are little periods that are linked
to other pages which are not really noticeable on your page if you put it
as a period. Although they are not easily seen by the human eye, they are
a link that a robot can follow in your Web site. When you do this, robots
can find your pages faster and more easily.
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Where should I host my web site for the best Internet marketing results?
As a company based in Canada and working with clients in the UK, US and Canada, we are asked this question all of the time. The reason we are able to work with clients all over the world is the World Wide Web and its ability to allow anybody, anywhere to view what we do.
With this in mind you would expect our answer to be: host with whoever gives you the best value for money. In fact, this is not the answer. Google and the other major search engines all have country based versions of their search engines and will normally offer their visitors the ability to see results delivered for sites just in that country. The question is, ‘How do they decide where the results are coming from?’
This is a 2 phase process, which in many cases can be totally inaccurate.
1). If your domain name has one of the many country specific extensions, they conclude that your site must be related to that country, and where it is hosted is totally irrelevant. What we mean by this is a .co.uk domain could be hosted in Canada but will still show up as a UK result.
2). If your domain name has one of the generic domain extensions, .com .net .org .edu, the location of your site is based on where you host your site. So if the IP address that it returns shows as a Canadian location, your site is regarded as Canadian.
In both of these cases it is easy to see that your site can turn up in the wrong results. If you have a generic based domain, your host should be in the country where you want your business to be found. If your site is geographically based, that would be the place to host it. If you are offering services to a worldwide market, the US would be as good as any as they offer a huge share of the Internet traffic. Once you decide the country, look at the services that you need and go with a host that provides them, and always try and take a look at other sites that they host for speed comparisons, etc. You don’t want to lose your visitors because your host delivers your site at a snails pace.

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Making Money On The Internet Is No Easy Task
There are many so called experts on the internet that claim that making money on the internet is every bit as easy as wiping your butt after using the bathroom. And they of course will give the "inside secrets", for a price. In my experience many such offers are a scam, and the information that you receive for your money is full of more fluff than crème filled donut from your local supermarket. In most cases you can get information that's just as good by searching article directories.
Don't let anyone fool you, making money on the internet is exactly like making money in any form of business. Remember the Internet is just a way to do business. Just like the telephone or direct mail are ways of doing business. Contrary to popular belief, making money in any form of business is a process and not at all an easy task.
The task can become easy and fun in time, but it's not going to start out that way. There are many things that you must learn in order to make money on the Internet, or anywhere else for that matter. It's kind of like riding a bike. Did you jump on a bicycle the first time you ever saw one and ride off? No you had to fall down and keep trying in order to learn how to ride a bike. Making money on the internet, or anywhere else, uses the same principle.
The bottom line is that making money on the internet simply isn't a simple and easy task, and anyone that tells you that this is the case has their best interest in mind, not yours. You can make money on the Internet, just realize that it takes time and effort, and it's not going to happen overnight. The best weapon that you have at your disposal is educating yourself. Good luck and remember what Henry David Thoreau said, "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." Your internet venture should be done because you love it, not for the money.