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Site Maps: Let Search Engines Find Your Pages

With 40 million websites in existence, and more than 3 billion web pages indexed by Google at the time of this writing (July 2003), it’s no wonder that more and more people are relying on search engines to find their way through the unruly world that the web has become.

Web Services Road Map: Web Services Architecture

The major goals of the Web services architecture are interoperability, reliability, security, manageability, scalability and extensibility and integration with the Web.

Site Map and Meta Tag Questions

Hello Ross, Here are my questions:

1. What are the differences between a typical site map page and a crawler page?

2. Is there any wisdom in having the meta tag with key words only on the Home page of a twenty page site?

Site Maps Must be Developed to Reflect the Needs of Users

Often, the sense of lostness inside a website is because the Internet involves a non-linear network of links.

Business Modelling: Know Your Model, Grow Your Profits
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Put three business people in a room and ask then the question “What is a business model?” and you will get at least four replies – none of which may be correct!

The usual picture that comes to the minds of business people, consultants and analysts when they hear the term “business model” is what might be called a “financial class” of business model, for example:

Targeting using a Mind Map

When trying to find your target audience for your product or service, use a technique called mind-mapping. It will help you think outside the box.

The Goal Map

You have the ability to attain whatever you seek; within you is every potential you can imagine. Always aim higher than you believe you can reach.

How To Mind Map Your Business

If you’re doing business on the Web, sooner or later you’ll probably begin to feel like a juggler trying to keep ten balls flying through the air at the same time. There are just too many elements in yourbusiness plan to keep them all going at once.

The solution?

For many people the solution would be to make a list of all the key elements in their business plan. But lists are linear and the Mind doesn’t think in a linear fashion. The Mind thinks in terms of associations, hierarchy, image, color, form, and pattern. So to organize your ideas and generate new ideas, a Map is much more effective than a list. In fact, at the back of your Mind, you probably already have a vaguely-defined map of your online business. A Mind Map is simply a way of putting that structure down on paper.