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As webmasters, we all know the importance of content based sites. We also know how difficult it could be to present, manage and add new content to our site. This is the reason that CMS systems inludinng blogging systems have become widely popular. But blogging and portal software’s cannot be used to ideally represent all types of data. For example a set of website URL’s can be represented by a directory script rather than the Wordpress software. Similarly you can start your own glossary site using the glossary script rather than Joomla or Nucleus. Read the rest of this entry »

Elegant Directory is a general web directory on the lines of Yahoo! or DMOZ. This means that categories are widely distributed in niches and everything from pins to planes is covered as part of some category. So you have multiple categories like Blogs, Home, Regional, Science, Sports etc. We gave these examples so that you get an idea of the variety of categories and obviously the listings within. There are webmasters who do not prefer general web directories precisely for this reason - that they do not target a niche. But designed, maintained and marketed properly, even general web directories can be successful. Read the rest of this entry »

This article goes into some of the more advanced areas of domaining such as,  Nameserver Registration and and hosting, IE Reseller Hosting/Shared Hosting.

Now that you’ve registered your domain name you’re going to want to get hosting for it, you can’t have a site if you don’t have a host. There are a few things you should be careful of though when it comes to host hunting try to keep to these guidelines if you can. Read the rest of this entry »

Somehow having a directory at every nook and corner have reduced their importance and effectiveness. Our faith in them as an effective advertising platform has also gone down. Now we feel that for a directory to survive, it has go beyond a ready made script and be ‘out of the box’. Regular readers of our blog know we say this continuously and also know that whenever we find sites that do things differently, we showcase them. Today we looked at a directory, the HighStuffs business directory, which we feel deserves a mention. Read the rest of this entry »

We came across an interesting article on the link building blog regarding the five common mistakes webmasters do while SEO’ing. The remarkable part of this post was that probably 8 out of 10 webmasters commit these blunders and the ‘don’ts’ themselves are not that unreasonable.

The blog post mainly deals with five points on how not to build links. They are ‘not using the same anchor text’, ‘not having all links to the same page’, ‘not growing too fast’, ‘not linking your own sites too much’, ‘not trading links in public forums’. Read the rest of this entry »

As we keep harping repeatedly, we again look at the same issue of ‘doing something different’ in this article too. It does not matter in which area of your online business you are trying to be different - all areas are important. Be it SEO’ing or designing or monetizing different ideas give rise to industry standards. When others start to imitate you and follow you, you definitely profit more than earlier! Today we look at web template sites and see how they are trying to evolve to provide more value to users. As usual, for an example we look at Elegant Templates to make your points clear. Read the rest of this entry »

Internet has given the power of information to all its users. The growth of blogs with the bloggers own opinions and their sharing of knowledge is proof of this. Authors sharing stories not published before, researchers making their papers available online, sportsmen putting their personal information online are all changes that have been brought about by this thirst for information. But the need for more well organised information has also simultaneously gone up. Users no longer want to sift through pages of content before they get what they are looking for. They want it literally at the push of a button. This is where it becomes important to provide user defined information in a dynamic way. Read the rest of this entry »

Search engine optimisation or SEO services, in short, have somehow always been associated with underhand techniques. That probably had more to do with black hat SEO practitioners who like all others in their own fields ensured that the entire industry had a bad and notorious name. There have been umpteen stories of how websites had been banned after their SEO specialist created doorway pages and added the site to link farms in order to get it to the front page of Google. SEO-ers have been again known to commit number one rankings to customers and get away with their hard earned money without fulfilling their promise. But as with all other industries, things are changing - and changing for the better.  Companies are now ensuring that they are more transparent with their dealings with customers. In fact search engine optimisation companies like VisualScope have gone one step ahead and shown the results of their work online. Read the rest of this entry »

There is an ancient saying that even honey taken in large quantities is poison. What this means is that however good something could be, if done at inappropriate levels can be harmful. Probably directories have met that fate. Even a couple of years earlier, the number of directories were fewer and were of a much higher quality. This was a win-win situation for all. Users found useful information and links to websites via these directories while webmasters made good profit from these. And then the gold rush started. Suddenly you had every person on the internet having a directory of his own. This resulted in quality taking a backseat. And directories, for a lot of people, have started dying a slow death. Not that there are not enough good directories around which still provide value for their users. Read the rest of this entry »

Monetizing a website is always exciting - not only because it brings in the moolah. That is there but it somehow tells yourself that you have been successful. We, at myContentWebsite.com want to know the different ways you monetize your website. What are the innovations you have introduced to do better? Paid blogging, selling links, affiliate marketing etc are all effective but the real successful ones are the ones who innovate. We are sure a number of you are doing just that. Share your thoughts with us. If we like them we will discuss about them on our blog.

Post on your own blog about this topic and let us know the URL as a comment on this post. Alternatively link to this post from your blog post about how you monetize your website and we will find out about it.