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1. Randy Lockhart Said,

   Registering Domains
   Get a domain of your own. Don’t have your site buried in some subdirectory of someone elses domain name.

   Get a second-level domain (e.g. yourdomain.com), not mydomain.theirdomain.com

   Don’t use other people’s trademarks in domain names. You don’t want to be sued and forced to give the domain away. Even a similar name may be enough for the competitor to successfully sue you.

   If you use a free webspace provider, make sure your pages don’t get cluttered with advertisements. It has been our experience to pay for something that is ad-free.

   Root Directory
   Keep your HTML files near the root directory http://www.yourdomain.com/ of your domains directory rather than burying the htm, or html pages in folders.
   Don’t change names of files and directories once they’re established. Not everybody will make big efforts to find a page once it has moved.
   Give your files and directories names that contain full keywords which are relevant with regard to that page, and most important is to do the same throughout all your pages.

   One thing I feel the need to stress over and over again to clients is DO NOT name your pages using Capital letters, and do not leave spaces between the name of the page ie: do not name a page like this, /my gallery.html name it properly like, /mygallery.html or /my-gallery.html

   Why is this important you ask? Well for example if you go to the web browser right now and type in your web address like http://www.yourdomain.com ( replace yourdomain with your own domain name of course) the website will come up. but if you coded any part of the link improperly in your page links and coded it like this http://www.yourdomain.com / this link will be broken and visitors will not be able to get to the site. Thats because you put a space between the .com and the /. This causes the link to be broken. Here is a goog example ie: go to http://www.google.ca and the site will load , now right after the .ca just hit your spacebar and hit enter again.. now the site won’t work because you have added a space at the end of the link and now it looks like http://www.google.ca%20/ and the page you get reads as follows:
   This page cannot be displayed Other options to try:
   Click the Refresh button, or try again later.
   If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.

   If you have spent alot of time surfing the internet and have come across pages in the browser bar that look like this http://www.yourdomain/my gallery.html it will look like this in the address bar http://www.yourdomain/my%20gallery.html. This means this link is broken.

   %20 is a space… so the code you and other people are using to either, link, or name a page or image has a space between the words and you need to correct this mistake. Is there any harm in having this %20. ??

   Yes, this causes your link to be broken. Check to make sure it’s not something you’ve accidently done when coding your pages, or while typing a link in the address bar. Its very important that you correct the problem before putting your website live or even submitting it to the search engines..

   %20 represents that there is a space in between the 2 words in a link, or an image that is not named properly, and you need to close the gap by either joining the 2 words together as one word or by using a – (dash) between the 2 words to avoid the %20. The same thing goes for images, do not name images with Capitals and do not leave spaces between the name of the image. Close The Gap, or Close your Website….

   It is important when designing a website that you keep those simple things in mind and maintain the same image and page naming throughout your website.

   All in all, if you don’t understand the basics of webdesign, don’t be afraid to ask for some help. Most webdesigners are more than willing to share tips and quick fixes with you. I personally go out of my way to assist people wanting to learn to build a website.

   More tips coming soon….

   Posted on July 26th, 2008 at 3:12 am

2. Randy Lockhart Said,

   Would you like to know “the secret” to getting more traffic, retaining new visitors and turning them into regular readers?

   Allow me to first discuss the Why and What.

   We all know the importance of keywords and how they are used within
   the content of a webpage in order for us to rank well in Google search results.
   And a higher ranking simply means more traffic. But integrating keywords is just a small part of SEO you need to do for each and every page!

   That is the “well known” and most ignored secret!

   People tend to forget that search engines do not read pages in same way as humans do. Sometimes they need just a bit more help to understand what you have on your page and providing that help goes a long way!

   Image descriptions. Do you know that simply changing your image file name to include your targeted keywords and also use “alt” description with same keywords gives a huge boost to your page content relevance!

   URL alt description is another one of the well-known and ignored aspects of on-page search engine optimization that you can do. Just one extra second of your time helps big “G” to understand what that link is and for you to rank better!

   And those are just 2 tips among many more we will provide to our readers.

   Creating content fully optimized for Search Engines. Please make sure to pay attention to the “alt” definitions used for images and links. They play a very important role in how and where your website is ranked.

   Posted on August 9th, 2008 at 7:17 am

3. Randy Lockhart Said,

   Are you in need of a great antivirus program? Personally I would not recommend alot of the antivirus programs available whether for free or paid for, simply because there is too much competition with different software venders.

   Personally I have been using avast! antivirus

   avast! antivirus v4.8 represents a multi-award winning solution to virus protection, with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software built in for added security. It is available free for non-commercial, home use and with its fast, automatic updates avast! antivirus is already being used by more than 50 million users worldwide to provide continuous protection against all forms of malicious software (malware)

   I have been using this antivirus software for several years now and this is one I will recommend simply because I know it works and it is also free

   Try it our for yourself if you don’t already have an antivirus software already set up on your home PC. If you do have one, you will need to uninstall it prior to installing Avast because some serous conflicts can cause some undesirable things to happen to your computer if you try to run 2 antivirus programs at the same time.

   Check it out for yourself here . http://www.avast.com/

   Posted on August 9th, 2008 at 7:36 am

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