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Saturday, 01 May 2010 11:42

Setting up a Successful Website

1. Choose a Niche - Today, anyone can have a website and sell merchandise or services on the internet. The choices are endless and only limited by your imagination. If you are already in a business and don’t currently have a website, then it’s simply a matter of deciding what name to chose. If you are thinking about setting up your first website and aren’t sure what niche to chose, you might consider a favorite hobby. I’ve always liked to collect & repair antique radios, so I setup a website called http://RadioExchange.net The fastest way to achieve success and a high ranking on the internet is to build a website around a theme and niche which does not have a large amount of competition. For instance, if you were to start a web hosting website, it would be an uphill battle because there are thousands and thousands of hosting websites already on the internet fighting to get in the top 10 or 20 listings in the major search engines like Yahoo, MSN and Google. The more competition, the more costly and time consuming it is to get your website seen. An alternative is to research untapped markets or there’s a…
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 11:38

Optimising for your website for Google

Search engine optimization is the process of choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a website, and ensuring that the website places well when those keyword phrases are part of a Web search. ON-PAGE OPTIMIZATION FACTORS: The Major Factors Are: Meta Tags, Header Tags, Text-body tag and Alt image tags: 1- META TAGS: Meta Tags are code in your HTML that is invisible to the visitors of your web site but are read by some web spiders and search engines. Meta tags used by a large percentage of the top search engines as one of the main guidelines on how they will index your site The Main Meta Tags are: • Title Tag • Description Tag • Keyword Tag Targeting the right keywords: Do keyword research- it is very important in building traffic To do your keyword research visit this website <a href='http://fasthosting.com.au'>http://fasthosting.com.au</a> Select a short list of 3 to 4 keywords Title tag: The page title should include ONLY your main keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the title, the more weight Google will give to each of the keywords and the higher you will rank. The title is the most important piece of information search…
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 11:36

How to build an E-Commerce site yourself

To build an ecommerce web site yourself is really not such a difficult task when using the right kind of tools. You will want to build an ecommerce website using the latest technologies such as a user-friendly shopping cart, integrations with top auction sites as well as a payment gateway. Although the web site design is important, correct usage of the ecommerce marketing tools will result in many business transactions. Here are some points to consider when getting down to building an ecommerce website. a) Its design should facilitate easy buying of goods and services b) Your products or services should be of value to the customers c) Offer personal attention to all customers d) Offer discounts and e-mail promotions to them so that they keep returning to your site The design of your web site should mirror your business and what you want to market. The website is your interface with your customers and through it you must be able to convince them to buy your product. At the same time it should not be aggressive towards sales and scare off the visitors. When you build an ecommerce website you need to use as many keywords (the words through…
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 11:33

Every business needs a website

There are many sites on the internet (about 50 million active sites and over 100 million active Hostnames). However, many of these sites don’t serve their intended purpose, or in other words, haven’t reached their full potential. For a business that isn’t an internet based business that could still survive without the internet or computers, what is the purpose of a website you may ask? Other than selling something online, there are still a number of good reasons for having a website: To alleviate menial tasks, to market yourself inexpensively or merely to provide basic and freely available information about your business. There are really two types of websites, either selling something online or providing online information. These two categories can be expanded to a great extent, covering types of online products or services and various categories of information, e.g. brochure ware type information, blogs, forums, educational, etc. But for the purpose of this article I have contained it to just the two – therefore, as a visitor to a website, you either pay money for something or you get information that is publicly available. I will be focusing on the second type of website, i.e. where someone has information…
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 11:27

Choosing a Domain

Your domain name choice can be critical to your business yet many do not know how to choose a domain name. If you want a successful business you will need it to be accessible from the internet. To achieve that you will need a website, and hence a domain name. The domain name is the name by which your site is known, such as mysite.com and the number of domains registered on the internet has increased from about 10 million in the year 2000 to over 50 million now. There are a few approaches that can be taken to choosing a domain name, and each can be appropriate according to the circumstances. It is not always a good thing to name your website after your product, especially if you are trying to get it established in the market place. For example, if you invented an ionic hydrogenator that no one had ever heard of, the domain ionichydrogenators.com would not be one that many people would search for, and neither would the keyword ionic hydrogenator. It is important that the name you give to your website will have the possibility of being found by somebody searching for an answer to their…
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Saturday, 19 September 2009 15:52

Ecommerce Integration In Seam Framework

The JBoss Seam framework provides a flexible and powerful platform for developing web applications based on J2EE. Seam integrates different technologies like AJAX, Java Server Faces (JSF), Java Persistence(JPA), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Hibernate etc. It removes the need for any manual plumbing of these technologies required to build J2EE web applications. Further, with JSF emerging as a standard for the presentation layer in J2EE the developers can leverage this with the server side strength of EJB3 technology. Preference for annotations over xml decreases the development time and improves the team's productivity. They key advantages of seam include : Integrate JSF with EJB 3.0 Integrated AJAX Business process as a first class construct Declarative state management Bijection Workspace management and multi-window browsing Prefer annotations to XML Easy Integration testing In this article we look at integrating eWAY's e-commerce gateway with a seam application.However, the same methodology can be used with any e-commerce gateway working on a similar concept like eWAY. eWAY offers various modes of linking to their gateway. This article uses the Shared Payment Solution. The shared payment solution takes away the credit card validation and related security concerns from the merchant's site to eWAY itself. The merchant site…
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