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Advertise on A Great Portal. Paid Inclusion Targeted Traffic Listing lots of Targeted Searchable Keywords and Static Page links. Sponsored searchable links: Specific links relating to the subject matter of the site. Your details will be displayed and users will be able to search on Keywords in the Title, icons, description, specialties, extra keywords, contact details and URL you provide. We will provide you with Lots of Searchable Keywords plus Static Page links. Individually targeted for Employment, Business, Science and Technology, Computing both hardware and software Entertainment or Sport.

Notes: There are NO EASY  WAYS OF MAKING QUICK MONEY on the INTERNET! It can take a lot of dedication, tenacity, and time just to make a living.

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All information on these pages are for guidance only. We also reserve the right to change or modify the information at any time. ( Search engines are constantly changing their policy's ).

How big is the Internet? Estimates vary, this could depends on what is actually being counted. Are they counting domain names, hosted web sites, or the numbers of individual web pages, etc...

Domain names or/and hosted web sites come and go so the actual numbers are in a constant state of flux.

It's huge:-

Using the numbers below you could estimate the odds of any site being found. These odds depend on your site content and the Keyword, Keyword Phrases people searching on at any particular time. Other search engines have different numbers of web sites and people using that search engine. Some search engines feed their results into other search engines.

I've heard of CD-ROM's with a claimed 32,085,746 DOMAINS, 32 Million web site addresses, (24,388,464 .com, 4,726,112 .net,  2,964,927 .org and  6,243 .edu). Their are a lot more available web site extensions than shown here for example .biz and .info. Top web sites. Domains Top Address. Find or sell domain names. Want to sell a Domain Name? Want to make money from a unused domain name you own?  Only pay on a sale. Need to find a domain name for your business? Search now! View Ex-Domain Name, Domain Name URL's, Dynamic URL's, Sub Directory, File Names and Redirection,

There are so many domain names required that the DNS, (Domain Name Server – which is used to map names to IP addresses and vice versa) has/is been changed from 4 digits, (IPv4) with 4.3 billion theoretical addresses available out of the maximum, to 6 digits (IPv6) which will have approximately 340 billion, billion, billion, billion (34x10³⁸) addresses available. For more details read the information about the IPv6 The New Internet protocol

"Google state they are Searching 8,058,044,651, (more than 8 billion), web pages, (this has doubled from 4,285,199,774 in January 2004). Google also state receives more than our with 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to Google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second. Other search engines will have different numbers. So you could estimate the odds of any site being found. These odds depend on your site content and the Keywords/Phrases people searching on at any particular time. Other search engines have different numbers of web sites and people using that search engine. Some search engines feed their results into other search engines.

Other study say that Google started out with an index size of around 24 million web pages in 1996. By August of 2000, Google had managed to quadruple their index size to approximately one billion web pages. In September of 2003, Google's front-page boasted an index of 3.3 billion web pages.  Others, however, revealed that the actual number of web pages Google had indexed during that time was already more than five billion web pages.

When Multiple Index Based Information Retrieval System it is said that capability to index an extremely large number of documents, on the order of a hundred billion or more.

Yahoo disclosed, approx August 2005, that its index now includes 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images and more than 50 million audio and video files - over 20 billion items.

There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them. Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million,"Bloggers, small businesses, and simplicity have combined to create the dramatic growth of sites, much of it just in the past two years.". Ref: Netcraft.

The Indexable Web is more than 11.5 billion pages There are billion of pages in various systems search engines haven't grabbed. Search Engine Watch says some estimate over 500 billion pages.

One thing that can be stated is that the Internet is a vast place.  Internet, (the number of web sites), size=Huge, enormous, gigantic, massive, etc.

As the number of web sites increases the chances of any particular web site being found will could decrease.

The Internet is global network linking information together on numerous subjects both in text and multimedia format. If your web site has content that is useful then users, (and search engines), will eventually find and use your web site.

The internet is sometimes known as the "Information Superhighway" because it may be thought of as being a very large number of interconnecting highways on which information travels. 

Technically speaking the The World Wide Web, (The Web) is just part of the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is actually something that is available over the Internet, just like email and many other Internet services.

Tim Berners-Lee is sometimes known as the farther of the Internet. He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server in 1990. More about Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy Berners-Lee KBE, FRS, FREng. Biogoraphy

Notes: On most search engines Paid for listings distort these odds and the chances of sites being found. Therefore; a good listing of any web site does not indicate a link to a good web site.

Notes: search engines sometimes change the rules about which web sites they list and how they are listed. Different search engines may use different methodologies for listing web sites, one method may work well with one engine but not so well with another. Even Paid listing rules have been known to change with very little warning.

Think about your audience; that is who you need to view your web site. Some search engine may make a charge to list your site in other countries, this may sound good but is your site in that countries language, are you able to accept payment from there and can you deliver, (if so are there extra charges or laws to consider). Ask yourself why pay for traffic from abroad when you don't plan to make any sales there. Who is your target audience? Younger age group or more mature? Male or Female, Lower economic status or higher. Are you targeting a particular profession?

Ask yourself who you think is going to be more likely to subscribe to your ezine, download your trial software, purchase your product...? Someone who has read a short description of your site and decides to click to your site out of their own curiosity and interest? OR someone who is forced to view your site automatically? The answer must surely be someone who has read a short description of your site and decides to click to your site out of their own curiosity and interest? This is one of the main reasons that some of the advertising methods below are not recommended.

Hosted by a free service.  These may receive a lower rank than web sites which have there own URL, web site name.  Some search engines may use the URL to help find that web site and a good web site name would be easier for people to remember. For example the URL name for "Compare Bargains" http://www.comparebargains.com  is about comparing bargains, discounts and finding the best prices. The URL name in this case gives the user and some search engines an idea of the content of the web site before the user even accesses the web site.

Compare Bargains. Discounts and special offers. Compare Bargains Domain Name for Sale, URL, for Sale. http://www.comparebargains.com A domain name to make money from.

Sites under construction. Just a blank page is not recommended but most sites are changing, adding more links improving information all the time. Some search engines improve ranking to web sites which improve their content. Also users are more likely to use the web site again, (returning visitors), or recommend the site to friends if the site provides useful information and content. 

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Remember they are two basic ways to view search engines:-

1. As a user looking to find information that is relevant to their search quick and easy.
2. As a web site promoter, also looking for the above, but also looking for a good return on any investment.

Advice: Don't expect instant results. Possibly offer discounts for people who have used the web site so that you are able to gauge the success of any campaign. Internet users are hoping for some form of saving and a discount would help encourage them in making a purchase. Use the Internet to advertise. Your competition is using the internet to improve their Brand Image so you need to do likewise. Do some Market Research before paying for larger amounts of advertising. Check your Traffic log files to find out if the method you chose is providing the levels of unique visitors and returning customers you expect to obtain. Give a method time to generate Traffic. Submission Tips; submit to FFA sites re-submit at least every day. Once a week for Classified Ad sites and Message Boards and submit to Search Engines once a month.

Remember that it is People that you really want to visit your web site. Using any method of Internet Advertising should aim to achieve this object. This may result in web page design and SEO, search engines optimization not always being the best for being listed with search engines. Having a good listing is necessary for your web site being found but a top paid for listing may not be the best option for you.

While Clicks are important these are not everything involved in longer-term strategies. People seeing your messages, (not clicking just seeing), is more likely to produce results in the longer term. Look how many times you see an advertisement on the television, you do not usually go out and buy that product there and then but the Brand Name is in your mind for when you do come to buy that type of product.

Your Traffic and rankings should not be the major aim it your web site. Traffic does not put food on the table. Traffic may very well cost you more in bandwidth and other maintenance charges.

You should not try to trick or fool a search engines in the hope of gaining more visitors. This could work for short periods but you risk them refusing to list your web site in the longer term.

The more established a domain, the better. Domains names which are purchase for more than one year are better. It is better to register a domain name, URL for a number of years, say 5 to 10 years.

Search Engines are trying to get more and more accurate results for the keywords searched on. This means that items such as web site content,  meta tags and images, etc, should be only be related to that web sites page. You should avoid any irrelevant words etc...

Remember that conversion rates are just as important as the levels of visitors you receive. Of cause you need to receive visitors before any conversion can take place.

(Why are there are more than one way of advertising listed using a similar method? For example in Blogging more than one method of submission is listed. You may wonder why this is done.. It is done because generally one method may get your web site listed with different search engines than the other and also to provide you with some choice).

Note that paid for links will generally be less effective for Organic Search Engine Optimization.

Remember there is an extremely large number of web sites and therefore it could be like trying to found a needle in a haystacks, (using the magnet of a search engines your Keyword, Keyword Phrases and Content to help get your web site discovered.

Submission to Major search engines, Submission to Directory Pages, Submission to Smaller search engines could also help your site increase Diversity and therefore places where your web site can be found by users of the Internet.

lease note:  While every effort is made to provided accurate, positive and valuable advice that should increase your web site visitors within the time and income allowed  our advice is purely educational in nature.  We do not advice or suggest you actually use any methods shown in any manor and they are for educational illustration purposes only.  Past performance is no guarantee of future performance and you may not get back the amount money, time or effort you use. Methods advised could have a negative impact on levels of web site visitors, conversion rates and return on investment you make.  Any method that may provide positive results in the short term may have a negative impact in the longer term.  Traffic, visitors' sales may go up or down. You should constantly test and seek advice from other sources. Any method used could have a negative impact or any other method.  Search Engine constantly change their algorithms and this cannot be allowed for in the future.

Notes: There are NO EASY  WAYS OF MAKING QUICK MONEY on the INTERNET! It can take a lot of dedication, tenacity, and time just to make a living.

Earnings Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to present information as accurately as possible. Any claims made of actual earnings or examples of actual results can not and will not be verified. Any testimonials and examples used may be based on exceptional circumstances and results, these  don’t apply to the average person and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results. Each individual’s success depends on his or her background, dedication, desire and motivation. As with any business, there is an inherent risk of loss of capital and there is no guarantee that you will earn any money.

There could be a Catch 22 in that without the visitors you are unlikely to generate any sales and without sales you are unlikely to be able to advertise and increase visitors that could bring you more sales.

Some web site owner may have throw away web sites which they don't care about. One week traffic is enough after which then they make another site... Each site brings some visits, they don't care if the site or even themselves get banned, they move Countrys if needed to avoid issues for them. Rip people off jobs. These sites are likely to use heavy Copywriting methods methods playing on your Hope and Dreams and use the Absolutely Ultimate Method so be careful, it's your cash they are after in one way or another.

Generally Carry out Split Testing to test the effectiveness of advertisements.

Note: Do NOT use Black Hat Methods view White Hat. Black Hat

Avoid Error 404 Pages and other errors.

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Use any methods with extreme Caution. Some of these techniques and methods may cause your site to be banned from Search Engine listings.

All information is to be used as a guide only and may not improve any business on-line or off-line.

Be careful about Hope and Dreams, Absolutely Ultimate Method and remember the difference between Unique Visitors vs Hits

Jim Boykin Internet marketing specialist Blog May also provide some useful information.

SEO Dictionary A list of search engine optimization and marketing industry related keywords with their definitions.

Submission to Major search engines is a must because getting listed by these is especially valuable.

Submission to Directory Pages is a must because getting listed by these is especially valuable.

Yahoo Knowledge. Yahoo Information, Google Knowledge. Google Information and MSN Knowledge. MSN Information.

A good Domain Names. URL's, Uniform Resource Locator should help you archive a good Organic Search Engine Optimization SERP, Search Engine Results Page

Read any disclaimers very carefully. GUARANTEED OFFERS may not mean a lot if all they state is that you have not fulfilled "all" the obligations of any system being sold.

Be careful you are not caught up in Hope and Dreams which could cost you a lot of income for little in return.

Web Master Law. Legal issues for Web Masters

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