Sometimes you have pages on your website that you don’t want the search engines to see – maybe they’re not optimized yet, or maybe they’re not quite relevant to your site’s theme. In other cases, you want to get rid of some annoying search robot that’s cluttering up your logs. Whatever your reason is for wanting to keep the spiders under control, the best way to do so, by far, is to use a “robots.txt” file on your website. Robots.txt is a simple text file that you upload to the root directory of your website. Spiders read this file first, and process it, before they crawl your site. The simplest robots.txt file possible is this:
Can your Powerpoint Presentation rival TV Advertising?
Do you ever wonder why some PowerPoint Presentations are so much better than others? Why do some have amazing powers of persuasion while others simply bore you to death? TV commercials use these techniques to hold and fascinate their viewers. You can too, if you follow these tried and proven techniques.
Your Business Plan: a Guide to Success
As a professional business writer, I am often privy to valuable information regarding my client’s business performance. Noticing a common thread running through their strategies, I recently asked some pointed questions of three successful business owners. Each suggested that a strong business plan was their first and most important tool as they prepared for their venture. With that in mind, I probed further for specifics and received the following responses.
Demystifying Value Added
Walk around the offices of corporate America today and you will hear whispers of the cost cutting and employee layoff villains. Where can we turn to, what force will combat these scourges? In the same hushed breath, people often answer with a focus on value added.
Is Your Website Making Money?
Websites are a waste of money and time. Well most of them are. Most people go online for just one reason: Get Information. Yet, what do you see at most websites?
11 Affiliate Tips
I have compiled a list of 11 affiliate tips which I think will help you with marketing your web site and affiliate programs.
Building Link Popularity: New Tips from the SEO Pros
At first pass, your organization’s contingency planning and testing seems time-consuming and non-value added.
Finding Keywords That Drive Traffic to Your Site
As the Web continues to grow, users are looking online for information, goods and services in greater numbers than ever before. It’s important to optimize your site for search engines as research says anywhere from 50 to 85 percent of users find Web pages through search engines.
Creating Your Own Website
A lot of thought and care needs to go into your Website before you actually begin construction. First you must decide on a name for it.
Rocketing Your eBay Profits
You Will Make $1000 a Month in 3 Months if: