A frequently voiced charge by interpreters of the faxless no credit check payday advance trade concerns the annual lending rate usually imposed on a short term payday advance which can swell up to incredible amounts of money. In case you need more info about a no fax payday advance go here.

As you probably know, the APR or annual percentage rate can be described as a widely accepted metrics to determine the entire amount of interest a borrowing customer would be required to pay tallied for one full year. APR gives us an acknowledged tool for gauging which medium leads to a higher / lower overall expense to the asking client, accommodating accidental charges that might apply.As such, APR is acknowledged to be a decidedly helpful instrument for financial investments traversing a time span of at least twelve months .But, when dealing with 2 week payday loans the lending rates are hardly suited.

Rather, you should liken a payday advance to jumping a taxi to get home from the airport. To all probability it will cost 40 dollars to get home in this manner. Now admittedly 40 dollars constitutes some serious money to have to pay for getting home nevertheless people are doing it since it’s a sensible thing to do and addresses a deficiency. Now everybody knows that we could also rent a car for the whole day for only 40 dollars and drive an unlimited number of miles.

Alright, let’s just assume we do that– namely, rent a car and drive four hundred miles during this day we’ve hired it. Now proponents of APR would most likely say that you will have to annualize this quote to rack up a true correlation. Really? Let’s take the taxi ride fee (= $2 per mile times 400 miles) resulting in: $800. The annualized counterpart of the rental car arrangement against that taxi ride gives us $40 : $800. Of course, there’s no doubt that car hire of ours was decidedly not our best option, regardless of how much more expensive the annual interest rate was in this particular case.

It’s exactly the same with fast cash advance loans. Let’s not forget that short term payday loans are limited to two weeks, not annual loans. The extravagant annual interest rate doesn’t make any sense as this particular class of loan doesn’t apply to one year. The interest charged will actually be just about 15%-25% for the entire loan. That fast cash advance payday loan is a costive option you shouldn’t adopt sans appraising all available alternate options.

“Submit to 10,000 Search Engines” or “Submit to over 200,000 Search Engines”. This kind of ads should attract customers. It looks great to submit to so many search engines. Submission software is offered that helps to submit hundreds of websites to hundreds of search engines during several hours. What is a realistic, possible result of all these nice tools? The achieved link popularity is near Zero, but the mail box is filled by the autoresponders from the mass of FFA (Free for all) search engines.



Which Search Engines count?



Only a few of the many search engines really count! 99,9 % of all those who go on-line to find something use one of the 18 top search engines. Scrub The Web provides this information in it’s member area. Yahoo, MSN Search and Google are the top three search engines according to Alexa Ranking. Alta Vista and AllTheWeb – also famous search engines - belong to Yahoo and are supplied by Yahoo.



If Link Popularity of a website is measured by the services that provide this information, only the Link Popularity of a website at Google, MSN, Yahoo, AllTheWeb, Alta Vista or Hot Bot is displayed. This shows that only a few search engines really count for Link Popularity. It is not necessary to submit to thousands of search engines, but to the few important search engines in the right way.



Manual work instead of automated submissions



Yahoo search demands that a submitter of websites has to be logged in a Yahoo email address before the submission can start. Submitting to MSN is only possible after typing of a code that is presented in a window. Google says that it is not necessary to submit a site to their search engines. Their spiders crawl the web and can find the websites. Google offers anyway an Add URL page and does not penalize repeated submissions. It seems that Google Sitemaps is a recommendable tool for webmasters to improve the chance that websites get indexed.



Submissions to directories



Submissions to directories result in good quality links to the website. The Open Directory Project is the most important of all directories. It is very difficult to get a site listed in this Number 1 directory. Repeated submissions are necessary. Google favours websites that are listed in The Open Directory Project. The Yahoo Directory comes next but it is expensive. The websites of vilesilencer and trendmetrix list hundreds of good directories. A lot of them are free and of high quality. They are spidered by the major search engines. This high quality links are not only good for boosting the Link Popularity, but of the Google PageRank.



Quality counts



The conclusion is that only the quality of the links counts that can be gained from search engines and directories to the website. Submissions to thousands of search engines are a loss of time and resources. Most of the work has to be done manually. Good results can be achieved, but it is a question of time, rather in months than in a days.

Lil Waldner is a business economist. She is experienced in project management and marketing. She has worked as editor of newspapers and she has written booklets and essays with economic and public issues. Visit her web site: AGM International Home Business

There are many factors that determine how much muscle a person
can ultimately build. Training intensity, nutrition,
supplementation and rest; these are just a few of the many
variables that will contribute to your overall muscle-building
“bottom line”. Another major factor in this giant equation is
your body’s natural levels of the anabolic hormone testosterone.

Quite simply, testosterone is the most important muscle-building
hormone in your body and is one of the limiting factors that
determines how much muscle a person can build. Here is just a
small handful of the many amazing benefits that increased
testosterone levels will provide you with:

- Increased muscle size and strength. - Decreased body fat
levels. - Increased sex drive and sexual endurance. - Improved
mood. - Decreased levels of “bad” cholesterol.

Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Well it is, and I’m going to
show you exactly how to achieve all of these benefits step by
step. Before I do that, let’s cover some basic biology so that
we’re all on the same page here. Here are the general steps that
the body goes through in order to produce this incredible
hormone:

First, the brain releases a substance called Luteinizing
Hormone, or “LH” for short. LH basically “tells” the body to
start producing testosterone. Once this occurs, the adrenal
glands release DHEA into the bloodstream. LH and DHEA then
travel together to the testes where testosterone production
begins. Testosterone can now be released into the bloodstream to
perform its magic.

So, without further ado, here are some basic methods you can
implement in order to naturally raise your body’s levels of
testosterone and take advantage of all of its amazing benefits.

1) Use compound exercises as the cornerstone of your workouts.
I’m talking about the basic, bread-and-butter lifts such as
squats, deadlifts, bench presses, rows, chin-ups, dips, lunges
and military presses. This will place your muscles under the
greatest amount of stress in the gym and will force your body to
increase testosterone production.

2) Always train with 100% effort and intensity. If you want to
see real muscle gains, you must be willing to push yourself to
the limit in the gym. Again, greater muscular stress in the gym
translates to higher testosterone output.

3) Train your legs equally as hard as your upper body. As you
may already be aware, intense leg training can actually
stimulate growth in your chest, back and arms. This is due in
part to the increase in testosterone that leg training induces.

4) Increase your EFA consumption. Essential Fatty Acids from
sources such as peanuts, avocadoes, fish and healthy oils like
flax seed, olive and canola are a great way to naturally boost
testosterone levels.

5) Reduce your intake of soy. Soy protein raises the body’s
levels of estrogen (the main female hormone) and this has a
direct negative effect on testosterone levels.

6) Limit your consumption of alcohol. Alcohol has been shown to
have quite a dramatic effect on testosterone levels, so try to
limit your “binge drinking” nights and keep your alcohol
consumption in moderation.

7) Increase your dietary intake of cruciferous vegetables.
Broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, turnips, cabbage and brussel
sprouts have all been shown to dramatically reduce estrogen
levels, thereby raising testosterone.
Lower your daily stress levels. Being overly stressed
stimulates the release of “cortisol”, a highly catabolic hormone
that will cause your testosterone levels to plummet.

9) Increase your sexual activity. Sexual stimulation causes the
body to increase the production of oxytocin which increases
endorphin production (the “feel-good” chemical), and this also
raises testosterone.

10) Make sure to get adequate sleep every night. A lack of sleep
contributes to cortisol production, and this will lower your
testosterone levels.

So there you have it, 10 basic, easy-to-follow guidelines for
increasing your testosterone levels naturally.

Start implementing these techniques on a consistent basis and
get ready for some dramatic muscle size and strength gains!

Alexa traffic ranking is being used by many webmasters and web advertisement services to measure the success of websites and has been a topic on many forums and blogs. Most talked about topic is on how to improve your traffic ranking and how accurate the ranking is.

In a nutshell, Alexa rating shows number of page views and number of users particular website receives. According to Alexa, the traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users. However, Alexa only works on Windows systems using Internet Explorer.

So what if your website is really popular by non - Alexa Toolbar and non-Windows users? There are many scripts out there that will generate fake hits to your website, and some users of such scripts reported dramatic improvements in their Alexa ratings. But if the traffic is only tracked through the Toolbar users how can a fake hits script improve your ranking? They shouldn’t and they can’t.

Sill, those scripts are very popular and are sold anywhere between $10.00 and $200. I am almost done writing a PHP script that uses proxies to generate fake hits and you will find it on bewebmaster.com for free very soon. But if you really want to improve Alexa Traffic Ranking install Alexa Toolbar on your work, school, home or any other computer you use to visit your website and soon you will start seeing increases in ranking.

And if you use Mozilla Browser such as FireFox, try SearchStatus extension. It shows Alexa rating, Google page rank and more SEO info. But unlike traditional toolbar the SearchStatus toolbar is displayed at the bottom of your browser.

I installed both on my machine and soon the little red arrow indicating decline in the “page ranking per view” for BeWebmaster.com turned green pointing up.

See more articles like this on BeWebmaster.com

Higher taxes on top of a high LTV can destroy your cash flow.

Over the past couple of years, I have been concerned that rising property tax rates will eventually threaten the livelihood of rental property owners.

As if to partially confirm this, I have recently been contacted by two different investors who are victims of property tax hikes that took them from a positive to a negative cash flow.

In both cases we are talking about a doubling of the property tax bill in one single year.

I personally experienced a near tripling of taxes on a rental property. My per month cost for taxes went from an initial estimate of $54.17 at the time of purchase to $125 per month the following year.

The fact is no single entity on the face of the earth can affect your real estate investments the way that government can. Governments can add a significant cost of doing business via rising tax rates.

It can change the rules in the middle of the game, force you to pay up or else, and only government, (especially local government), has the power to affect every single property owner in a given city, or county. Even bankruptcy won’t rescue you from the clutches of the tax man.

The general rule of thumb for residential property investing is that you should never exceed 80% financing on your income property. You should plan for higher taxes and keep your LTV at a reasonable level. While there are 90% and even 95% loans out there for investors, it can be dangerous to take out such loans as the risk of negative cash flow is much higher.

Most investors and even home owners, should be very cautious about refinancing residential properties to pull additional cash out. A higher loan amount, combined with a large tax assessment could put you in the red overnight.

If your strategy is to buy and hold, be very cautious about exceeding an 80% Loan To Value. Over-financing can cost you a whole years profits to compensate for a two month vacancy.

If your rent rates have to be artificially high in order to cover loan payments and taxes, you may not be able to find a suitable tenant. Few investors can handle the financial strain of vacancies and negative cash flow for long periods of time.

The issues facing our cities and counties in the 21st century are complex and appear to be beyond the knowledge and expertise of most local politicians. We must find new ways to manage the costs of government services in order to insure a supply of affordable housing in the years to come. Increasing property taxes has traditionally been a local governments answer to every budgeting need. If this continues, it could put investors in many cities out of business, and ruin the small investor’s ability to provide affordable housing.

For now, keeping lots of equity in your properties is the only real way you have to protect yourself from negative cash flow caused by rising property taxes. While it is exciting to think about taking tens of thousands of dollars out of your properties to use for “tax free income”, smart investors are very conservative here, and prefer to keep lots of equity for a rainy day.

Donna Robinson is a real estate investor, author, and consultant located in Atlanta Georgia. You may read more of her articles on her website at http://www.RealEstateInvestorHelp.com or you may contact her by email at drobinson@reihelp.com or call 404 542-9903.

Be conscious, aware, and alert. Pay attention. Remember when you were in elementary school and the teacher used to say pay attention now, this is important? Well, this is important. Wake up! What does it take to wake up an adult? Many people go through life on automatic, doing life as it comes along. What kind of things occurs that is considered a wake up call? The death of a loved one, a miracle, a near death experience, the birth of a child, a divorce, a marriage, a spiritual experience, a great accomplishment, a serious illness, an award, losing a job, winning the lottery, which of these would wake you up?

It seems like a joke to think of people living their lives asleep, but is it? How many of you miss out on a good part of your own life because you are not present? What does that mean? Present is a word that is highly overused and has become a buzzword for enlightenment junkies. So let’s look at what it really means. When am I present?

When I am fully in my body at full attention to what I am doing at that very moment. Noting of course, that moment to moment my presence changes depending on who is coming and going in my life. I had a spiritual teacher once who used to tell me to practice staying present while I was driving the car. I don’t know about you but my mind goes elsewhere the minute I get that seatbelt hooked and turn the ignition key. You know that commercial where the guy is testing the cell phone and keeps saying “Can you hear me now?” That to me is a great example of being present. It’s like constantly saying to yourself “Am I here now?”

In a conversation, are you thinking about your response? If you are, you’re in the future. Are you thinking about what you forgot to say or your tone of voice when you responded to the last statement? If you are, you’re in the past. So what does it take to be present? I think it takes giving up thinking about being anything. I think it means being.

That sounds very mysterious, but in the realm of living, what does it mean? I have coached many people in crisis to deal with their situation by being present. The only time one has to be in fear is if your life is in danger from something specific. Most fear and anxiety exists primarily in our brains. When someone dies, we immediately go to what will life be like without this person. Is that present? Not at all. Present in that situation is I am here breathing and seeing and hearing and experiencing grief. I am not in danger. I am not threatened. I am healthy and well and in my body. Yes, I may miss this person, even now, but most of the anxiety comes from the projections about what will life be like in the future or remembering all the great times of the past.

I once climbed a 60 ft high telephone pole and jumped off of it to a trapeze and I am very afraid of heights. How did I do it? I knew that I could step from one piton to another, it was only looking up or down that would cause me fear. So I reminded myself each step of the way that I was only stepping up one step at a time and I only paid attention to the part of the pole that I could see in front of me. What happened? I climbed to the top one step at a time and when I got near the top I let go of the pole and walked up those pitons like I was walking up a short flight of stairs. It was a physical experience of staying present, which has stayed with me for many years.

So what about awakeness in terms of relationship? Are things happening in your relationship that you ignore? Do you get intuitive flashes that your partner is putting his/her attention elsewhere? Do you ignore slights or subtle insinuations? Are you assuming that everything is okay because you don’t fight, argue, or disagree? Perhaps you don’t communicate enough to create dissension. Does your partner really hear what you are saying and is what you are saying what you really mean? Are you the husband who tunes out his wife’s nagging? And is she nagging because you don’t really listen to what she says in the first place? Are you the whiney wife who wants attention and complains about what a joke it is to have your husband get anything done?

Relationships are an entity unto themselves. Ideally wives and husbands listen to each other exclusive of outside interference. A time to decompress and unwind after work is optimal. What a fantasy it would be to have a little decompression chamber that you step into as you leave your work and it stores and detoxifies all of your work stress until you return the next day, leaving each of you free to be yourself with your partner.

What does it take to be awake and in relationship? A good start would be a real understanding of each other’s personality, knowledge of each other’s stress strategy, love strategy, and relationship strategy. The primary thing necessary to be awake in your relationship is a solid sense that no matter what, this person that you are in relationship with is ALWAYS on your side. Does that mean you can never disagree? Not at all. It does however, mean that you believe in that person and he/she believes in you. That you have an awakeness about each other that doesn’t allow you to buy into each other’s stories. That you can agree to disagree and still love each other. That your relationship is free of hidden agenda, secrets, and mistrust. There is a basic commitment to support each other and be honest and that you tell each other the truth even if you are the one who will be vulnerable in this particular situation. It is the ability to be wrong in this person’s eyes and still be right by virtue of being wrong and admitting to it.

I like to think that I am one of those human beings who has made the choices necessary to stay present in my own life. I wasn’t always that way, but through a series of courses, enlightening experiences and tragic circumstances, I have managed to shake myself into a heightened state of awakeness a good part of the time. Presence is a mantra. I preach it. I live it. I honor it as the most useful tool in a crisis. Presence is awakeness. Embrace it. It will give you life.

One more thing! If you combine presence with passion you will rise out

The essence of passion is love. Passion is what drives us and gets us up in the morning. My life purpose is to live a passionate life of spiritual connection, creative abundance, playful exploration and pure honesty. When I live my life from this, it flows. I have successes. I have money. I have fun. In relationship, passion is a prime ingredient. Although sexual passion is vital, passion for living is what I am referring to here. Loving what you do. Being excited about getting up in the morning because you have something to do that turns you on. Someone you can’t wait to see. Work you can’t wait to begin. Somewhere you have never been before that you are about to explore. Dragging yourself to a job that holds no energy for you is mediocrity and just doesn’t cut it. In your life and particularly your relationships, settling for less than what you want is a sell out. It is possible to have a relationship that isn’t just about logistics, money, work and kids. So many people settle for longevity or security when they are in long-term relationships. It’s easier to stay in a mediocre relationship and settle for financial security than it is to confront the issues and risk having nothing. I’m not suggesting you quit, I’m suggesting you take action. Delve into your relationship. Find the gaps, the baggage, the ruts and the time bombs and start removing them. Get some help if you need it. Hire a coach. Get a strategy, don’t just watch it disintegrate. It is my belief that you have to be willing to risk losing whatever you think you have in order to get what you want, but isn’t it worth any price to have joy and passion and love and trust and true spiritual connection in your life?

In order to get what you want you have to know exactly what you want.
Design your life. Design your relationships. Think big. Do you think that anyone who has ever won an Olympic gold medal accomplished that without ever having decided to do it? I think the decision part is the hard part. Once a decision has been made and you have a clear outcome in your vision, all you have to do is put one foot in front of the other and take care of the business that shows up. The rest is up to God and the universe.

So, if you want a relationship, decide to have one. Design the person you want to meet and go out and do what’s in front of you. Decide if you want to get married. If you want to revive your relationship, decide to have it different. Then go do it. Passionately attack life and take risks, what’s the worst that can happen?

Relationship coaching is life coaching. Life becomes extraordinary when we discover that being absolutely committed to taking care of ourselves leads to abundance in every aspect of our lives.

Susan Sheppard
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There are hundreds of thousands of websites on the Internet that
are missing out on big money. With the emergence of the new
Chitika eMiniMalls advertising company, these websites could be
bringing in hundreds of dollars a day, and they don’t even know
it.

For years people have built websites around their passions,
whether is was Mustang Cobras or food processors. These websites
existed solely because the person that created them had a
passion for that subject.

With the introduction of Chitika, these websites now have an
opportunity to finally cash in from all of the selfless hard
work that has been put into them. If they’ve been around a
while, they most likely have a decent amount of backlinks and
indexed pages, which equates to more traffic.

Publishers shouldn’t waste any longer registering at Chitika
eMiniMalls (chitika.com). While waiting for approval, these
publishers should visit publisher forums and learn as much as
possible about ad placement, colors and how to select their
products.

Of course, if their website is all about coffee cups, they’d be
best off selecting items that relate to coffee cups! But they
should also be willing to think outside of the box a little.
Items such as coffee grinders, decorative spoons and even coffee
makers could be potential money makers.

Once they are approved, they should waste no time getting their
ads onto their sites. If they’ve used a good blogging program or
other CMS-type program, getting the ads to replicate throughout
all the currently existing pages shouldn’t be too much of a
hassle.

If you’ve been publishing a website for a few years about a
product or subject that you’re passionate about, but you aren’t
making anything off of it, it’s time for you to check out
Chitika!

How many visitors to your site *ever* return?

Not as many as you would like, I bet! It is a lot easier and less time-consuming to promote your site to people who have *already* visited. So how do you do that? Well, you could:

- Ask people to bookmark your site;

- Get people to make your site their homepage (your site had better be good!);

- Make your site the next Yahoo! or Napster or Hotmail (ideal, but not too easy); or…

- Publish an ezine or newsletter!

Yes, publish a newsletter (and get people to subscribe)!

Writing a newsletter is the BEST WAY to stay in touch with site visitors and existing customers. At the *very least* you can remind them about your website on a regular basis. But, even better, you get a chance to develop trust between your visitors and yourself. And on the faceless Internet, trust is everything!

=> VISIT THIS WEBSITE

Visit Brian Alt’s Email Publishing Digest (EPDigest). This easy- to-use site has it all when it comes to email publishing. It covers the important topics like list design, list management, list promotion. It discusses the pros and cons of text versus HTML newsletters (and shows you how to do both). And it covers community building, newsletter advertising, and even where to get (and offer) free content,

Brian, the author of several ebooks including The Insider Guide to Power Ezine Promotion, is a regular contributor to another great website http://www.ezine-tips.com , so he knows his stuff.

http://www.epdigest.com

=> OR VISIT THESE LINKS

http://www.topica.com

http://groups.yahoo.com

http://www.domeus.co.uk

http://www.roving.com

http://www.listbuilder.com

http://www.sparklist.com

=> THEN PROMOTE! PROMOTE! PROMOTE!

As with your website, you need to promote your newsletter, and get people to sign-up. By all means start with your friends and family, and then try these legitimate methods (please don’t send unsolicited mail - SPAM wastes everyone’s time!):

* You MUST promote your newsletter on your own site

- Put the newsletter sign-up form at the top left or top right of as many of your pages as possible. Offer an incentive to sign-up, sell the benefits of your newsletter (first notice of the next sale, for instance, or chance to win something)

- Use pop-up windows to encourage sign-ups. A little bit controversial, but pop-ups *do* increase subscriber sign- ups! Find a script here: http://javascript.internet.com/

* You CAN announce your newsletter to the world

- Join various newsletter announcement mailing lists, follow their announcement rules, and announce, announce, announce (There are loads of these lists at http://www.topica.com .)

- Visit the following websites

http://www.ezinelocater.com http://www.marketers-edge.com/article-writers-strategy.htm

http://www.ezinesearch.com/search-it/ezine/ http://ezinesplus.com
http://bestezines.com/submit/

Okay, okay! Your newsletter may be too humble for all this promotion, but at the very least make it easy to sign-up on your website. Oh! One other way of promoting your newsletter:

* Make your newsletter a great read!

Add your personality; publish on the same date; stick to a similar format; re-read and re-read to remove mistakes; encourage feedback; have clear objectives and *meet them*; and enjoy yourself. But if nothing else, just keep it short!

=> EVEN DO IT YOURSELF!

Writing a newsletter is a bit difficult not to do yourself, I admit. What I mean is that there are many Perl/CGI scripts that allow you to run a newsletter, including subscribe and unsubscribe functions, from your own site. Probably the best free resource to do this would be Subscribe Me Lite by CGI Script Center. And you can always do a search at CGI Resources.

http://www.cgiscriptcenter.com - Subscribe Me Lite http://www.cgi-resources.com

=> READ MORE…

You can find out more about email publishing from the following excellent resources.

http://www.ezine-universe.com http://www.ezineuniversity.com

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Writing a newsletter on a regular basis is a great way to keep people returning to your website. There are many tools and resources that show you how. And there are many sites that will publish your newsletter for free (you can even find free content, for goodness sake). Publish a newsletter and get to know your site visitors - and then let them get to know you!

Steve Nash is editor of the popular monthly newsletter called Promote! Promote! Promote! To subscribe, simply visit http://www.HowIPromoteMyWebsite.com . To get more website promotion ideas take his free 7-day e-mail course, called Website Promotion That Works! Sign-up here! mailto:promotion_that_works@getresponse.com

One of the most well known brands on the market are Dell
laptops. Of course, this comes from a lot of advertising. But
their quality goes a long way in explaining why they are so big
in the IT world.

Let’s take for example the new Dell Inspiron 6000. This is a
high powered notebook that features the so-called Sonoma chipset
which happens to be the latest Intel processor. Now, this
chipset is strictly for mobile computers, so it is specifically
designed to make sure your laptop works as optimally as
possible. This involves the best in battery power life, the
fastest graphics for gaming and multimedia, and wireless
connectivity.

As far as wireless technology goes, these Dell laptops pack the
latest technology. For example, they offer the optional
Bluetooth for you business users out there. Of course then there
is the standard 10/100 ethernet card and Wi-Fi access, so you
can use your card in wireless hotpsots at home, in your local
coffee shop ar at work.

Here are a few other accessories that round out the connectivity
of these computers. It has an IEEE 1394 port, a Firewire port,
an S-Video port and four USB ports. Now, if that’s not enough,
the Inspiron 6000 also has a slot for Secure Digital Memory
cards.

Now, no matter how many digital cameras, music players, personal
digital assistants (PDA’s), or cell phones you have, your Dell
Inspiron 6000 notebook will have enough access for all of them.

This computer also has a big brain! You can choose from either a
1.30 GHz Intel Celeron processor or the 1.60 GHz Pentium
processor. As far as hard drives go, they also come in a
selection of ranges from 30 GB to 80 GB. You can also pack the
computer with optical drives like a DVD double layer burner or a
writeable CD/DVD combo.

What does this mean for the layperson? All these numbers and
abbreviations mean only one thing, no matter what you need your
computer for, there are Dell laptops out there that are perfect
for the task.

I have had nothing but Dell computers in my office as well as my
home and I will continue to buy them and recommend them. Not
just because they are excellently made computers, but because
Dell stands behind their products in price as well as service.

Just to give you an example of the Dell Service, I purchased a
Dell Desktop last year for my office, one of many. This one
computer did develop a problem with the DVD drive. I could read
DVD’s but I couldn’t burn one. I called support they responded
very quickly and while I was on the phone with them the
technician had me run some tests. The DVD unit was found to be
defective. The technician offered to send me a new unit by next
day air or have a technician come to my office. I chose the
latter, and the technician showed up within 24 hours replaced
the unit and had me up running. Now for me I couldn’t have asked
for better or faster service.

The secret of a web site’s success is just traffic.. and all you
have to do is to attract as many new visitors as possible. Right?

Wrong!

A site cannot become truly popular unless it appeals the new
users so much, that they decide to come back again and again,
this is what I call return traffic

I’m sure you have favorite places in the web where you stop by
every now and then to get the information and entertainment. We
all have, and we are part of their return traffic. So one of
your important goals as a webmaster is to make your site such a
place, that you start receiving return traffic.

If you succeed in building your return traffic so, you can be
sure that your advertising revenues will be higher, and more
products you will sell.

WHY IS RETURN TRAFFIC IMPORTANT?

Everybody in business knows that it takes more than one contact
to make a sale. The more times people are exposed to your
message, the more they tend to believe in it.

If you sell banner advertising space, the more visitors you
have, the more contacts you can sell

A visitor that isn’t ready for you offer today, might be ready
for it the next time he comes., or when the time is right.

Those who regularly visit the same site (return traffic), often
mention it to their friends, family and colleagues. And when
people tell about you to their acquaintances, they start a
traffic virus, because they will spread the word to their own
acquaintances and so on. (word-of-mouth is the primary source of
traffic for many larger sites). And most probably they too will
become part of your return traffic.

HOW CAN YOU CREATE RETURN TRAFFIC

The first one is obvious: Have a great site! Fill it with high
quality content! If you aren’t 100% sure on how to do it, you
can read: Make Yor Site Sell! http://myss.sitesell.com/ RB.html
is the best book you can read about how to create return traffic
to your site

Update it continuously to retain the interest of your visitors.
Add unique, fresh content every now and then or at the very
least improve the content you already offer to temptate return
traffic. (do it once or twice a month).

Add a “What’s new” page or somehow inform your return traffic
about your recent developments.

Remind people to bookmark your site. Remembering Internet
addresses is difficult, being bookmarked ensures that you won’t
be losing return traffic

Start a newsletter. Even if people bookmarks your site, they are
unlikely to ever return once they leave. Editing a newsletter
takes a lot of work, but gives large rewards in return. If you
can subscribe and send and e-mail with your newsletter to your
visitors, they won’t forget you, and you won’t be acused of
spamming.

Give something valuable for free, this is a sure-fire way to get
some return traffic, specially if every month you offer
something different.

Open a discussion forum. A well-maintained, busy discussion
forum can become a huge success and a huge source of return
traffic. You will have to stop by every now and then to remove
offensive content, answer questions and make sure that
everything is going all right. But be carefull, your site must
be very popular, when you start your forum. If your site doesn’t
get enough traffic, the forum won’t be frequented by many users
and there will be very few new messages and very few return
traffic.

If you want return traffic, make your address easy to remember.
What’s easier to remember?
http://members.fortunecity.com/bestcountrymusic/ or
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for a few dollars a month. If you value your site at all, go
professional, get your own domain, it looks more serious and
reliable, and it’s easier to remember for return traffic.

Written by Dr. Roberto A. Bonomi