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This is not a journal of our personal lives and insignificant ramblings about the weather and so on. This is like an article library. Informative articles are posted regularly, on matters regarding internet marketing. You will find a wealth of information among these articles, so take a look around.

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Theres More To Domain Names Than You Think

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, March 17, 2011, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
It is a fact, that your domain name forms an integral part of your whole internet identity, so it stands to reason, that this should be carefully selected. Here are a few tips on how to be selective.

The first point, is to keep your name short and to the point. Although it is quite legal, to have a domain name, of up to 63 characters, this is impractical, as it becomes very difficult for people to remember and allows for too many typing errors. Rather try to make it as simple as possible and e...
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How To Create A Sitemap

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
A sitemap of a website or a blog is similar to the table of contents of a book.  A sitemap is very important because it guides web surfers to the particular part of the website that they are interest in.

Like an index or a menu, they can save time wasted following various links and get right to the correct section they are looking for.

Sitemaps are also very important to search engines. Their robots and spiders scan the website pages every few days, looking for changes and new content. Rather...
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Search Engines – What They Are And How They Work

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
The main purpose of search engines is the indexing of thousands and millions of web pages. Once you look for a word or a phrase, the search engine scans automatically the entire database, where it has the stored all indexed pages and it returns to you, a list containing the most relevant results for that search. 

The only criteria the number of pages found and their relevance depend on, are the capabilities of the used search engine.

Search engines first appeared in the early 90’s when Alan ...
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How To Get Backlinks and Extra Traffic To Your Site

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, July 19, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
How To Get Backlinks and Extra Traffic To Your Site

If you're like me, you want as much traffic to your site, with the least amount of time and monetary investment. And I'm sure, just like me, you find Free Search Engine traffic very attractive, don't you? I know I do!

But, we both know that search engine traffic isn't easy to obtain. Not a great deal of it anyway. It requires heavy search engine optimization (SEO) and the number one, most important aspect of SEO, the most crucial factor, is of...
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Search Engine Optimization And SEO Tools

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, January 4, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
Search Engine Optimization consists of two types, Organic and Mechanical. Organic SEO depends on manual or natural ways of optimizing a website and takes more time, resulting in longer lasting results. Mechanical SEO uses software, or seo tools to optimize a website. It takes less time, but the results have a shorter shelf life.

SEO tools are numerous. They are available for keyword verification checking and suggestions, link popularity checks, meta tag optimization, search saturation checking...
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Search Engines And SEO

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, November 6, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
The main purpose of search engines is the indexing of thousands and millions of web pages. Once you look for a word or a phrase, the search engine scans automatically the entire database, where it has the stored all indexed pages and it returns to you, a list containing the most relevant results for that search. 

The only criteria the number of pages found and their relevance depend on, are the capabilities of the used search engine.

Search engines first appeared in the early 90’s when Alan ...
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How To Evaluate Your Website Performance

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 29, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

Setting up a website is usually the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success, or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals.

If you don't know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything at all. Without goals to guide you, in developing and monitoring your website, all your website will be, is an online announcement that you are in business.

If you expect your site to stimulat...
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Crucial SEO Factors

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 22, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

Several of my subscribers have contacted me with questions on search engine optimisation. This does seem a rather grey area, so I asked Ryan Simpson, an expert in the field, for some advice. This is the article he sent me.

There's no shortage on advice regarding what people should do to improve a web site's position in the search engine listings. It is easy to become confused when you consume all the information that is available, because some folks agree with others while some totally disagre...
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Google Adsense Is An Easy Way Of Earning Extra Money On Your Blog Or Website

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
For a while now, Google Adsense has dominated forums, discussions and newsletters, all over the Internet. There are many stories of fabulous riches to be made and millions already made by those who are just working from home. It seems that Google Adsense has already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered the easiest way to make extra money online.

The key to success with Adsense is the placing of ads on webpages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords....
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Why You Need a Domain Name

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, September 24, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

A domain name is the name used for the site or the sites, which has to be bought by the user, to enable him to create his own existence in the world of internet. Registering a domain name is very important, since it plays a vital role in popularizing the site, thus ranking high in search engine.

Actually, all computers connected to the internet, have their own distinguishing identity, say, a sequence of letters, which is known to be the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the particular site. ...


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Make Money With Articles And Small Niche Websites

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 18, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

Choosing a good niche subject to base your website around, is one of the most important aspects of making money from your articles. This will give you a foundation to build from and you can target one general audience, with a pack of keywords that they are most likely to be searching for. You should take each one of these keywords and use it for the basis of one article on each page.

This way, even though you are targeting one specific subject, you will be sure to interest a wide variety of ...


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An Introduction To Auto Responders

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, September 17, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

If you've reached the point of exhaustion, trying to keep up with answering the mountain of emails, that threatens to bury you alive, every single day, you're ready to learn about auto responders. The bad news is that people expect prompt replies, to their email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual twenty-four hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming emails, while they're eating up your revenue, you have a problem.

The good news is an a...


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About Me


Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering all fellow marketers particularly Southern Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. Derek writes informative articles on Internet marketing, South African online business, making money online, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, motivation, and other general topics. Sally loves gardening and writes the occasional asrticle on a host of gardening topics. Clinton Robson, their son, is a qualified Personal Trainer and writes articles on fitness, body building, weight loss, supplements, cross training etc. Check the BlogRoll for their other sites.

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