Webmasters know your audience – Keyword phrases

Posted by on May 30, 2008 in Ask Steve | 2 comments There was a time when listing your web site in a search engine meant simply placing every word you could think of in your meta keyword and then submitting your web site to alta vista or other such sites with as many keywords as you could. It seemed like everyone had the words sex and money in their keywords. And to some extent this worked as well as it could. Each word was seperated by a comma...
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Pop-ups – how annoying are they

Posted by on Apr 16, 2008 in Ask Steve | 0 comments The “pop-up” is perhaps one of the smartest, and most annoying, features ever created for the internet. A pop-up allows another webpage to open up The problem is that some smart person figured out that they could make the new page pop-up without asking you and could basically show you anything they wanted. EEK!! Don’t let that worry you though there are settings on your computer as well...
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When I search Google what are those things to the right — Introducing AdSense

Posted by on Apr 7, 2008 in Ask Steve | 1 comment When you search Google for any word often you will see two columns of information. These listing come from two seperate places. The main results which make up the left hand column are the results that Google has found from the stored information on the words you are searching. The right hand column are ads that have been purchased. Google does require these ads to still be relevant to the...
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When I search Google what are those things to the right — Introducing AdSense

Posted by on Apr 7, 2008 in Ask Steve | 1 comment When you search Google for any word often you will see two columns of information. These listing come from two seperate places. The main results which make up the left hand column are the results that Google has found from the stored information on the words you are searching. The right hand column are ads that have been purchased. Google does require these ads to still be relevant to the...
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What is a Wiki

Posted by on Mar 16, 2008 in Ask Steve | 1 comment If you have done many searches lately you have probably seen some results from many of the different Wiki’s. The most prominent of these is probably Wikipedia. Listed as an online dictionary, Wikipedia CAN be a great source for informaton, but that reccommendation comes with a caution. A Wiki is a collaberative collection of information, normally open to all to post. Though many of these...
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Getting information to the net, blogging through time, keeping information current

Posted by on Mar 9, 2008 in Ask Steve | 0 comments Some of you may be wondering about the dates on some of these posts. Some of them predate blog technology so why are they dated that way? Over the last 15 or more years I have been answering internet and computer technology questions. Wherever possible I have copy and pasted the question and the response from the email or it came from. Many of these questions I get almost every day. As best...
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WE Make Money Blogging – YOU can TOO!

Posted by on Feb 24, 2008 in Ask Steve | 3 comments Our internet company is more then 12 years old now. This years expansion is already record-breaking and the year has just begun. Here comes our network of blogs and we want YOU as part of our team!   If you have ever been interested in blogging but didn’t know where to start or you want a web company of your own we can help.  We have all the knowledge, domains, software, sales,...
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Attention bloggers and writers – the call goes out

Posted by on Feb 23, 2008 in Ask Steve | 0 comments As some of you may have seen on our about us page we have decided to come out of the shadows and build our own blog network.  Over the last several decades our sales and marketing techniques, both on and off of the internet, have been used by many other companies and have caused monumental results.  Growth in sales and as an overall company.  now it is out turn! We are stepping out into the...
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Microsoft merger with Yahoo

Posted by on Feb 7, 2008 in Ask Steve | 1 comment In the new today Microsoft is again making an offer to Yahoo.  This 44.6 BILLION dollar merger offer which was announced on the 2nd of February would be a monumental combination.  Today there is even talks that Microsoft may up their offer to make the deal even more irressitable to Yahoo. What would a merget like this mean to the internet.  Google has dominated the search engine market for the...
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How does internet security work?

Posted by on Jan 26, 2008 in Ask Steve | 3 comments Some times when you click on a link you will get go to a “secure” page. Secure pages are special web pages designed for the secure transfer of sensitive information like for example your credit card information when you buy something online. You can always double check to see if you are on a secure page by look at the lock symbol in the bottom corner That image means that you are on a site...
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Form versus function or layout and design versus content

Posted by on Jan 4, 2008 in Ask Steve | 1 comment So often I find myself repeating the phrase “form follows function”  I cant even tell you anymore who told me that first, but I live by it every day.  I have seen some incredible website that were amazingly designed.  The sad part of that is that in almost every case the web sites that are the most hideous are the ones that make the most money.  All the research teaches you about...
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How about a little applause for Google

Posted by on Dec 7, 2007 in Ask Steve | 1 comment I was just thinking that all too often we take some of the things we use the most for granted. This made me think about search engines. I have been asked many times which search engine in best and though it has changed over the years at this point I would resoundingly say – GOOGLEGoogle does a really good job of trying to present with web sites that are truly about what you are looking...
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