Yargon

Almost all websites have an “end-page”. For example; “an order” or “a subscription to a newsletter” are considered as an end-page.
On these pages visitors will leave your website more often, than on other pages. Of course this is quite reasonable. There will be a moment visitors will leave your website anyway.
Only, to my opinion it […]

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Whether you have an ecommerce site, a company website, an online tool or even a weblog, usability is very important. Website usability is decisive for your success. When the usability is bad, new visitors will leave immediately; this means a high bounce rate and your visitors will never return. When your usability is good, visitors […]

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When you are surfing on the internet you‘ll see RSS feeds everywhere. For those who don’t know what it is, I’ll give you the definition in Wikipedia:
An RSS document, which is called a “feed,” “web feed,” or “channel,” contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes […]

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I see a lot of sites which use Google Adsense. Of course you can earn some money with Adsense, but I think it is not always smart.
In general, there are two categories of websites:

Content sites, websites with specific information, weblogs, news sites etc.
Ecommerce sites, websites where you can buy products or services online.

To my opinion […]

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Lots of people are blogging and the majority use Google Adsense to earn a few dollars or euros. When you are one of these bloggers you probably have one question: “What can I do to maximize my Adsense income?”
Do you recognize yourself? In that case especially for you, I have 8 tips to increase your Adsense […]

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Nowadays […]

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When I was looking for some old Yahoo screenshots for a presentation I came up with the idea of presenting the major three search engines on a timeline with screenshots…
The result of this (useless) idea you can find below (click an image to see a bigger one, thanks to the Wayback machine):

Google
Yahoo
MSN

1996

1997

 
 
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When you own a website you probably have some pages which aren’t on your server anymore but are still indexed by the search engines. When visitors stumble onto such a page they will see a 404 error page as you can see in the image below:

If you don’t know what a 404 error page is […]

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Getting your webpage on the front page of Digg is always nice. Most of the time (always) it will lead to more visitors. There are even cases where the webserver crashed due the (temporarily) increase of traffic.
But getting to the front page of Digg isn’t that easy. There are several articles and websites explaining how […]

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This weekend I added 15 online marketing tools to this blog. You can find them on our online marketing tools page in the navigation at the top of this blog.
Most of the tools are great for you search engine optimization. For example, with the Keyword Density Checker you can check your keyword density. (Just a […]

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