Category: Webmaster

From experience of hosting an arcade, I know that you should have plenty of web hosting space along with a lot of bandwidth. People will go around a lot of pages in your arcade looking for good games to play and each time a page is loaded, bandwidth is used. If you run out of bandwidth at the middle of the month, you won’t have a host for half of the month and that can take away activity and visitors and have a big drop in income and dedicated visitors to your site and that’s something you don’t want.
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PPC Stands for Pay Per Click and there are a few programs out there that will help you get visitors where you pay per click to your site. Google Adwords happen to be the most famous and best one in my opinion. Yahoo Search Marketing is the second most well known one followed by MSN AdCenter. I have so far tried out Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing and used about the same amount of money. I will tell you that Google brought in a lot more targetted traffic than yahoo.
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If you have a website and you get a lot of emails to your admin (@) yoursite.com email address then you should know what I am talking about. If you are using CPANEL and its webmail system, I have to tell you that this is a bad idea because of how unorganized this is. They have Horde mail and Squirrel mail and neither are organized so you can use the email forwarding feature of the cpanel webmail and forward all the mail to an email address that can help you organize it.
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I have owned Gamers Forum for quite a while to know how some people just make a fool of their site and just give it a bad name just by going to other forums and spamming the name. Posts like “visit this site” or “go here” and that seems to be their only post. It is pretty annoying to all forum owners.

If you plan to do anything like this, Don’t!!! Just do it the smart way. Follow forum rules. Get used to the forum members. Discuss something with them. And then IF they allow advertisements, you can go ahead and advertise. Always give a brief description because just a link will flag you as a spammer in most forums. Also those guys with the MP3 and other stupid links, they get banned all over the place, their site name just gets a horrible reputation in more and more forums because of their stupidity. Don’t be like them, play it smart and play it fair.

Some people have more than one website to manage and they do a pretty well job managing them all at the same time. I happen to be one with more than one site of course. I have over a dozen websites. Yes a dozen. I don’t really get to update all of them at the same time. Out of about 6 blogs I update or try to update about 3 of them daily. The others I get to when I have the chance.

Managing several sites takes skills and shows just how well you can manage your time. If you can do it well enough you can manage a dozen sites unlike me which I can actually update about 6 or 7 a day at maximum. My full effort goes into my forum of course. So always think about which site matters to you mose and which you want to give most of your attention to. And use the rest of your time and spread it to your smaller sites. It always works out, trust me.

I’ve actually told a few friends that manage websites to have their own email with their domain as the site url. Some listen and some don’t. Why should you have an email that tells everyone that you are the adminstrator of that site? Well first it seems a lot more professional than having just a yahoo or gmail account. And second people will know that the email address is linked to the site. Nobody wants to give away information to someone if they aren’t sure who they are giving it to.

If you have a domain just go to your web host control panel or domain control panel and set up an admin email. You can always set it to forward all the mail to your other email account whether its yahoo, gmail, or anything else. You have to know what your visitors questions are and then you can help them all out.

YaBB is a forum content management software (CMS) that is pretty secure and easy to use. My gaming forum used to be a YaBB forum but before I tell you about that you have to know what it stands for. YaBB stands for Yet Another Bulletin Board and it is correct, there are litterally over a 100 different types of forum softwares out there and YaBB is yet another one.

YaBB uses the Perl computer language so it makes it much harder for hackers to hack. It is harder to code that php so it is less vulnerable to attacks. And its admin control panel is one of the easiest I have used so far. I have used it for my forum for about 5 months before switching to SMF also known as Simple Machines Forum. It is pretty safe but comes with a bad side of having not very attractive themes or skins. It has some pretty professional looking ones but those aren’t as good as SMF or phpBB skins. The modifications are also available but very scarce since Perl isn’t the easiest language out there. But if you want to try it out, you can always go ahead and see what I am talking about.

People always argue that Google is the alltime best search engine in the world. Well I am not here to argue with that but I am here to talk about another huge search engine people tend to overlook for some reason. People don’t think that Yahoo! Search Engine is really that good but have you ever compared the search results of both Google and Yahoo? Yahoo seems to return more results and sometimes, the more results can mean that you found what you were looking for. Google tends to narrow down the search results on just a few sites.

Yahoo’s search results are good because the yahoo bots are more lively and they tend to Index a lot more pages from a site. By index I mean they enter it into the search engine so when you search a certain keyword, that site has a chance of coming up for that keyword. I have seen that with more than a few sites because yahoo returns about 3 or 4 times more backlink results than google ever has for me. Just a little tip for the next time you search.

Web designing is something not everyone can do. It is extremely difficult and it takes a lot of time thus, requires a whole lot of patience. I have tried it myself but due to lack of time, I had to stop for a bit but I will eventually get back into it. Well one site that has caught my attention is called Web Design Ideas that can be found at WbDesignIdeas.com. They provide new and inovative tips for all old web designers and anyone starting out.

Web Design Ideas is updated about two to four times a day so there really is no need to worry about losing information or a gap in information. You probably will have more to read than you actually have time to read. They provide information on headers, footers, background, in content design, and much more. Well I have checked their header section and since I am not that great of a header creator for sites, I have found out some of the great effects a site can have. Now I have gotten some new ideas that I can use for my already made sites and some new to come ones in the future.

If you need new ideas for web designing or even if you are just starting out, you can check them out and see if they spark some new ideas for you. So good luck in the quest for learning something new.

Well I have been webmastering around for a while now and I have been stumbling upon a lot of things. I have learned a hell of a lot in the past few years about webmastering than when I first started out with a free host on tripod and just put images up. Well for one thing, I’ve found that if you combine your site with Google Adsense and if you have steady traffic, you can earn a lot. My arcade has been getting a few hundred hits a day and it makes a few dollars a day. I won’t tell you how much since that’s not what the post is about.

Even a few hundred visitors a day can equal to a lot of money for you if you know good keywords and know where to place your ads. You can have a PR6 site and make no money at all if you don’t know how to bring in people to visit your site and if your ads are completely out of site. So this is just a simple tip, if you have a lot of traffic, and if you use google adsense on your site, move the ad placements around and use different channels for each ad so you know where they are and then see what makes you more money.