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Permanent URLs are an important part of SEO. With permanent URLs, you can convert your file type in the future and it won’t affect the ranking and traffic of your pages.
The premise of Permanent URLs is that if you change an about.html page to an about.php page, all those backlinks you have generated through your [...]

As my SEO Basics: Understanding PageRank post explains, links are very important. Basic link building for new websites that have little history is simple. Article submission, RSS feeds, Directory Submission, and viral link building tactics are standard practice. Although there are various unscrupulous ways to build links, as time goes on, Google will eventually crack [...]

Article Marketing is a form of advertising that requires written content and nothing else. It’s free unless you wish to take free options and is an effective way for new website to get their name out there. Note that you don’t actually market products using this method. Instead you are marketing your website and building [...]

Spiderman loves to swing around cities. But his brethren actually travel through websites! Spiders, also known as web bots, web robots or web crawlers, are what various search engines use to index your pages, which helps determine your website’s importance and relevance to search terms. However, as important as these programmed entities are, many people design websites that spiders can’t read.

PageRank is Google’s term for how important a site is. Although not the only factor in how your website ranks in the search engines, it is one of the major factors. As many people know, PageRank is determined by the number of links pointed at a website. However, there are a lot of subtleties and [...]

Most people learn HTML when they first learn to create websites. Either that or they use free software in the form of CMS (Content Management System) or a web template. For those creating static HTML pages, there comes a point where managing the site gets progressively harder and harder as there is more content on [...]

Adobe is offering discounts off their retail price. Adobe software is known for being the leader in image editing and web design software (Photoshop and Dreamweaver) but it is also notoriously known for being expensive.

Adobe Photoshop: Both Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended are $150 off.
Adobe Acrobat: You get free shipping with [...]

Images tend to spice up your websites and add vibrancy to them. In Layouts, images create buttons, highlight important features, create nice category headers, serve as logos, and generate traffic. In this first article about Image Usage, I’ll focus on Image usage to generate traffic.
Building Traffic with Images: Photo Traffic

Gimmick Images inserted in your content [...]

Although there are many things that should not be included into websites for the sake of the best user-end experience, there are several commonly recurring annoying design problems amateurs make.
1. Embedded Sound Files
-Have you ever gone to a site, and then some random songs start playing and your hand flashes over to the mute button [...]