The world wide network known as the Internet, is gradually becoming more and more similar to the physical space inhabited by human beings. Surely, you know (or knew some day) one or two ‘nerds’ who long ago settled in the Internetland, and now find there everything to serve their needs. They work and earn their living in the Internetland, find their newspapers, books, magazines, movies, and music, have fun, visit e-shops, and pay for everything with e-money. They occasionally leave their hermitage, for a short time, to appease their hunger and to find more confirmations that ‘Offlinia’ is pretty lifeless.

Starting off on the right foot with any new business is not just important, it’s imperative. This is especially true on the Internet, where first impressions are made in a matter of seconds, and can make or break the potential for success.

1. Generate Targeted Traffic from Online Discussion Forums.

Online discussion forums provide an excellent way to promote your website without paying any money. Nowadays, you don’t even have to lurk around before you begin to post. Just browse the messages and you can start posting. There are basically three different ways to participate.

When writing content for the World Wide Web, a lot of authors wonder if they should have their pages translated into languages such as French or Spanish in order to widen their audience and to give their sites a more international appearance. It is sensible of web designers to consider this question, but one thing few native English speakers ever consider is: Should I write in British English (BE) or American English (AE)?

With Search Engine Optimisation and Marketing set to be one of the hottest sectors in the Internet Marketing industry in the year 2004 it is wise to assess the playing field cautiously.

Link popularity, i.e. the number of sites which are linking to your site, is an increasingly important factor as far as search engine placement is concerned. Other things remaining the same, more the number of links to your site, higher will be its ranking.

We all know that the search engines can’t “see” or “read” the graphics on our pages. We also know that we need to provide text on a page, so the spiders will have something to crawl and index.

Are you getting too much spam? We all are, but if you’re a webmaster the word spam takes on a whole new meaning.

It’s not uncommon for the luckiest of email users to receive a dozen or so spam messages each day, while those of us who aren’t so fortunate receive hundreds.

Small business webmasters often believe search engine optimization is a complex and mysterious art that they must struggle to understand and master. It couldn’t be further from the truth. SEO is basic and simple – TEXT.

3rd Question:

2nd Question:

Dear Robin,

Dear Robin,

Q:After reading the latest WebProNews Article about Search-Engines dropping sites, I felt I had to ask a few more questions.

I hope you are able to help.

FRAMES – My web-site uses frames as it is quicker to load pages with the header and TOC (Table of Contents) static on screen rather than load them up again every time somebody clicks a link to another page. Is this a problem with search engine optimisation and does it lead to SE’s ranking you lower in the listings.