Newbie Boot Camp

How to Add a Button to Your Sidebar

Dec 30th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Featured Articles, Html and Design, Newbie Boot Camp

Sidebar buttons are a quick and easy way to affiliate with, promote, or endorse a company or website you believe it.

How you add a button to your sidebar depends in large part on the type of site you have.  For example if you have a WordPress blog then it’s going to be a different process than if you have a HTML site.



Advertising 101

Dec 20th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Advertising Basics, Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp

Advertising is the lifeblood of a business. The right advertising can make a business have a steady stream of clients and helps it to succeed. The wrong advertising can cause a business to go under from a lack of profits.



How to Get Started in Earning Money through Affiliate Marketing

Dec 17th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Affiliate Marketing, Newbie Boot Camp

Affiliate marketing offers earning opportunities, making it as one of the fastest growing industry in the World Wide Web today. It produces billions of dollars worth of income yearly.  That is why many people are getting involved in it.



What is Affiliate Marketing?

Dec 17th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Affiliate Marketing, Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp

Affiliate marketing basically means selling other people’s products for a commission online.  Affiliate marketing is similar to offline sales where sales people earn a commission for selling a product; the difference is that all selling is conducted online.



Top Techniques of Successful Affiliate Marketers

Dec 16th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Affiliate Marketing, Newbie Boot Camp

The typical percentage behind affiliate marketing is that:

20 percent of affiliates produce 80 percent of all income; while

80 percent of affiliates generate 20 percent of all income.

Ironic but true.

You would almost certainly want to be one of those 20 percent that is earning the 80 percent of the total earnings. Who wouldn’t?



Benefits of Being an Affiliate Marketer

Dec 8th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Affiliate Marketing, Newbie Boot Camp

Affiliate marketing has become one of the most effective ways to advertise online. It is also one of the easiest ways for anyone with a website to make a profit online. Affiliate Marketing is an agreement between a merchant and a website owner.



5 Things You Must Have to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

Dec 5th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Affiliate Marketing, Newbie Boot Camp

The idea of being mere passengers on a ship meant to sail to the farthest points does not appeal to people who like to put their destiny into their own hands.  They have the desire of maneuvering the ships themselves, of being able to be the ones to take it anywhere they want to.



How To Install SEO for Firefox, Flock and how to use it

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp, SEO

SEO for Firefox is a Firefox extension developed and provided by SEOBook.com.  It provides useful marketing data which makes it easy to see what your competition is up to.  This of course is a great tool for developing SEO strategy and tactics to improve your page ranking with both Google and Yahoo search engines.



5 Ways to Keep Visitors Coming Back

Dec 2nd, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:



Who Is Your Audience?

Nov 18th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Understanding the type of people who visit your site is a very important task because you can use that information to enhance your site to suit them. As a result, you will gain more loyal returning visitors that come back again and again for more.



Find a Guru in Your Niche

Nov 17th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp

We all could use someone to mentor us with business.  Plenty of mistakes could have been avoided with a little help.  If you are looking to niche your business into a particular specialty, find a guru to guide you along.



3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

Nov 17th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Affiliate Marketing, Newbie Boot Camp

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.



Good, Basic Web Design Tips

Nov 11th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Html and Design, Newbie Boot Camp

Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.



Check for Domain Likeness

Nov 8th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Any website owner knows how precious his domain name is.  It provides a way for visitors to get to the site, and in the case of a business domain, it contributes to the company’s brand.  That’s why we’re so careful to protect our domain names.  We choose them carefully, mark the renewal dates on our calendars, and check to see who is linking to us.



The Importance of a Sitemap

Nov 6th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp, SEO

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.



5 Important Rules in Website Design

Nov 6th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Html and Design, Newbie Boot Camp

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages



Should I Buy a .org Domain Name?

Oct 31st, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

One of the original top-level domains, .org is most commonly associated with non-profit organizations.  But did you know that anyone can register a .org domain name?



Incoming Links Help With Advertising

Oct 7th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp

There is a lot involved in creating a successful website.  You have to set up your content management system if you’re using one, come up with an attractive layout, have graphics done, and fill it with content.  If it’s an ecommerce site, you’ll need to set up a shopping cart and add pictures and product descriptions.  Once that’s all done, you’re ready to get visitors coming in.



Should I Buy a .net Domain Name?

Oct 5th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Domain names are hot commodities in today’s world.  Virtual real estate can be obtained very inexpensively if you can get a good name straight from the registrar, and it is often sold for mind-boggling prices.  But at this stage of the game, it’s next to impossible to get a good .com name without paying a small fortune.



Nothing seems to work - an emergency guide

Oct 5th, 2008 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

I wanted to write something today for everyone who might have been in this business for a few months but are finding it tough. I’d hate to think that anyone was out there pulling their hair out in frustration and wondering why nothing they tried was working out for them. I’ve been in that position myself a lot of times (before there were places to seek help, like this site) so I’d like to offer a few suggestions if you’re there now.