Demand for electronic books, or e-books, has created one of the fastest growing Internet consumer market segments.Research conducted recently by the Gartner Group revealed that one in 300 books read in the USA, and one in 450 books in Europe, are read in the digital format. This is a 38% increase on...

Unfortunately most `ready-made` business sites don`t seem to be very user or customer friendly and are extremely expensive for what is being offered. Most of these programmes have only one way to make you money, you send the traffic and they close the sale!? However, one `pre-fab`affiliate marketing...

If you find that your site visitors have developed a high level of resistance to clicking through your affiliate links, you`re not alone. What is it that makes affiliate links suspicious to people? They`re certainly not meant to be offensive. I believe that it`s the same kind of thing that automat...

I tried out Microsoft`s new search engine (beta version) the other day. They have been working on it quite secretly now for almost a year. It has been rumored to be a Google killer once in full public release. They say its accuracy and ability to return relevant results will far surpass any other se...

Every day, new people make their first online purchase. It could be a physical product that will be shipped, a download, a service, a membership, or any number of things that are for sale online. Some of the purchases are small, and don?t appear to be risky on the surface: a 7 dollar membership, or ...

If you thought your taxes went towards funding important government services, you are dead wrong! A new understanding of the world banking system reveals the very nasty purposes of taxation, which is to gift the banks a monopoly on the creation of new interest-bearing debt. Once government has stol...

First of all, the Google directory is really just the open directory project (ODP: url here) with a few adjustments. While listings on DMOZ.org are arranged within their category according to simple alphabetic order, listings in the Google Directory are based upon PageRank [link]. Thus, sites with h...

Your Website visitor reports are a goldmine of information.  If you don`t review these on a regular basis, you can`t fully evaluate the return on your Web investment.  And, you could miss critical clues as to how user-friendly your site is, how effectively your message reaches your visitors, and wha...

When you are involved in RSS everyday you get to see the fantastic opportunities RSS can bring to the web and how it can contribute to bettering the browsers experience and the webmasters bottom line. Unfortunately there is a dark side of RSS use. It continues to amaze me how some webmasters alway...

Everybody wants quick profits. The phenomenon is more prevalent on the net as compared to offline business. The situation is only worsened by those ever coming awe inspiring success stories where previously ?a nobody? made millions overnight. While these stories may invigorate the desire to be rich ...

You may have received an email about how the US Postal Service is trying to push through a bill that would allow them to charge 5 cents per email. I can understand why people would think that it`s true. The Postal Service had nothing to do with the email being sent and they aren`t going to giv...

The largest cost and concern of an internet business is customer acquisition; traffic. Both quantity and quality of traffic directly determines the succes of an internet business. By the fundamental nature of traffic to an online business,one cannot afford to waste it. So how does traffic wastag...