1. Target your advertising.
The more targeted the e-zine is for your offer, the greater your response will be for your proven ad.
2. Track your ads.
Don't leave your ad campaigns to guesswork. Use ad tracking to show you exactly which e-zines and ads are most profitable.
3. Run your ad for multiple issues.
You'll get a better response, and possibly save money as many publishers offer special deals on bulk advertising.
4. Spend lots of time writing your headline.
An effective headline will successfully grab your reader's attention and target your audience.
Your winning headline will also get people to read the rest of your ad, leading to more traffic and sales.
If you're new to writing headlines, and need some help check out my "9 Power Packed Headline Formulas" at: http://www.scstats.com/r.cfm?i=5652
5. Don't try to sell your product from your ad.
Write your ads to create interest and get people to visit your site.
From here, your powerful sales page will do the selling for you, and you'll be able to get people to join your e-zine or mailing list for successful follow up.
6. Don't use all caps in your headline.
You'll appear like your yelling at your reader, and your ad will come off as amateurish.
7. Include a "call to action."
At the end of your e-zine ads, include a call to action that tells your reader what you want them to do next (i.e., visit your site or subscribe to your e-zine).
8. Don't be cute or funny with your ad.
You might put your reader in a good mood, but don't count on that translating into more visits to your site or more sales.
9. Offer something for free.
Provide an incentive for visiting your site such as a free ebook, sample chapter, or trial.
10. Subscribe to or view the archives of the
e-zines you would like to advertise in.
You'll be able to see the quality of the content provided, how many ads are published in each issue, and you'll get a good idea of the products those readers are interested in by the ads being run.
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Monday, 14 November 2011
Google Adsense Profit: Three Steps To Triple Your Adsense Earnings
if you are like every Webmaster who has Google Adsense on your sites, you have without a doubt been tempted by the Adsense Gurus who promise to teach you how to make a gazillion dollars a month with no additional work. While this of work sounds enticing, like everything else on the web; if it sounds nice to be true, it probably is.
I'll tell you up front, at no cost, what all the gurus charge $40 to $250 to learn.
Are you prepared?
Are you definite you are prepared to get this earth shattering, mind blowing secret that will MAKE YOU MONEY RIGHT NOW!?
Think me, if there was a secret system to make thousands of dollars a month with small to no work, none of these gurus would go through all the hard work to tell the world about it. They would exploit the secret themselves and sit in their walrus leather tremendous massage loungers on their solid gold tremendous yachts and laugh at all the poor saps following the rules
The secret is; There's no Adsense secrets!
The first thing you must recognize is that content is king. If your net site does not have an abundance of keyword rich, search engine friendly content that provides a valuable service to your visitors, no amount of Adsense tweaking in the world will make a difference. There's far lots of sites slapped together with the sole purpose of generating Adsense income. In fact, for $40 or so on eBay, you can buy a CD with over 350 sites themed to high paying keywords and setup for Adsense. All you require to do is enter your Adsense information and sit back while the Mailman struggles to deliver the hernia inducing bags of Adsense checks to your doorstep.
There's no Adsense secrets, common sense as well as a couple of tidy small ideas that you can implement that will increase the CTR (Click Through Rate) of the Adsense ads being served on your net site. And an increased CTR means increased MIYP (Funds In Your Pocket).
This is an icy fantasy, I like to entertain as much as the winning the Lottery fantasy, but it is not going to happen. These sites have no original, valuable content. Individuals who may be suckered in to visiting of the sites will see that in an instant, and view the Google Adsense ads as a desperate and annoying attempt at fooling them in to clicking. If a live Adsense editor were ever to visit of these sites, your Adsense account would be suspended faster than you can say click fraud.
The underlying non-secret that all the Adsense gurus require to sell you is that if your Adsense ads look like content, and are tightly keyed to your own valuable, original content, you will notice your CTR rate double at the least, and more likely triple or more.
I recently began implementing the steps I am about to reveal to you, & my average every day CTR on of my sites went from .86% to over 4% literally overnight. Now this is a new site, under a month elderly & I only get around 100 visitors a day, but I went from $0.30 a day in Adsense revenue to an average of $6.00 a day in Adsense revenue. Now scale those numbers up to the amount of traffic an established site is getting, & you can see how phenomenal of an increase this is.
one. Remove the Adsense Border. By default, the Adsense units are surrounded by a border with a text box at the top that says "Ads by Gooooogle". You objective is to work the Adsense units in to your content as seamlessly as feasible, so get rid of the borders. Now, Google won't let you delete the borders, but they do let you control the colors of every element of an Adsense unit. Basically make the border the same color as the background of your web-site. This goes for the background color of the Adsense unit as well, change it to match the background color of your webpage.
three. It is all about the colors. Google gives you an brilliant amount of leeway with the colors you can select for your Adsense units. Use this to your favor, in addition to changing the border & background color, change the link & URL color as well. Most people are accustomed to clickable links being blue, so make definite your Adsense links are blue, with exception: in case you use a different link color on your site, change the Adsense links to match that color. At the bottom of each Adsense unit there is the URL for web-site paying for that advertisement. You need to draw attention away from the URL & towards the clickable link, change the color of the link to match the body color of the advertisement, usually black.
two. Use Rectangular Box Sizes for your Adsense Units. Like most people, when I first started with Adsense, I primarily used the horizontal skyscraper, you know, the that looks like a banner. The issue is people have developed an promotion sensory overload, they don't even see banner ads anymore, they visually tune them out. You need to make your Adsense unit blend in along with your content, so use rectangular boxes. I get the best response with the 336X280 box size. Most languages are read from left to right, so try to place your rectangular Adsense unit in a table aligned to the right of your text.
There's lots of more Adsense techniques that will increase your CTR, but these are the most important. Watch for future articles in which I portray the importance of positioning your Adsense units & how to track your Adsense campaigns using channels.
follow these simple guidelines & I assure you, your CTR will skyrocket. Keep adding more original, relevant content to your site, increase your targeted traffic, & watch your Adsense revenue explode.
I'll tell you up front, at no cost, what all the gurus charge $40 to $250 to learn.
Are you prepared?
Are you definite you are prepared to get this earth shattering, mind blowing secret that will MAKE YOU MONEY RIGHT NOW!?
Think me, if there was a secret system to make thousands of dollars a month with small to no work, none of these gurus would go through all the hard work to tell the world about it. They would exploit the secret themselves and sit in their walrus leather tremendous massage loungers on their solid gold tremendous yachts and laugh at all the poor saps following the rules
The secret is; There's no Adsense secrets!
The first thing you must recognize is that content is king. If your net site does not have an abundance of keyword rich, search engine friendly content that provides a valuable service to your visitors, no amount of Adsense tweaking in the world will make a difference. There's far lots of sites slapped together with the sole purpose of generating Adsense income. In fact, for $40 or so on eBay, you can buy a CD with over 350 sites themed to high paying keywords and setup for Adsense. All you require to do is enter your Adsense information and sit back while the Mailman struggles to deliver the hernia inducing bags of Adsense checks to your doorstep.
There's no Adsense secrets, common sense as well as a couple of tidy small ideas that you can implement that will increase the CTR (Click Through Rate) of the Adsense ads being served on your net site. And an increased CTR means increased MIYP (Funds In Your Pocket).
This is an icy fantasy, I like to entertain as much as the winning the Lottery fantasy, but it is not going to happen. These sites have no original, valuable content. Individuals who may be suckered in to visiting of the sites will see that in an instant, and view the Google Adsense ads as a desperate and annoying attempt at fooling them in to clicking. If a live Adsense editor were ever to visit of these sites, your Adsense account would be suspended faster than you can say click fraud.
The underlying non-secret that all the Adsense gurus require to sell you is that if your Adsense ads look like content, and are tightly keyed to your own valuable, original content, you will notice your CTR rate double at the least, and more likely triple or more.
I recently began implementing the steps I am about to reveal to you, & my average every day CTR on of my sites went from .86% to over 4% literally overnight. Now this is a new site, under a month elderly & I only get around 100 visitors a day, but I went from $0.30 a day in Adsense revenue to an average of $6.00 a day in Adsense revenue. Now scale those numbers up to the amount of traffic an established site is getting, & you can see how phenomenal of an increase this is.
one. Remove the Adsense Border. By default, the Adsense units are surrounded by a border with a text box at the top that says "Ads by Gooooogle". You objective is to work the Adsense units in to your content as seamlessly as feasible, so get rid of the borders. Now, Google won't let you delete the borders, but they do let you control the colors of every element of an Adsense unit. Basically make the border the same color as the background of your web-site. This goes for the background color of the Adsense unit as well, change it to match the background color of your webpage.
three. It is all about the colors. Google gives you an brilliant amount of leeway with the colors you can select for your Adsense units. Use this to your favor, in addition to changing the border & background color, change the link & URL color as well. Most people are accustomed to clickable links being blue, so make definite your Adsense links are blue, with exception: in case you use a different link color on your site, change the Adsense links to match that color. At the bottom of each Adsense unit there is the URL for web-site paying for that advertisement. You need to draw attention away from the URL & towards the clickable link, change the color of the link to match the body color of the advertisement, usually black.
two. Use Rectangular Box Sizes for your Adsense Units. Like most people, when I first started with Adsense, I primarily used the horizontal skyscraper, you know, the that looks like a banner. The issue is people have developed an promotion sensory overload, they don't even see banner ads anymore, they visually tune them out. You need to make your Adsense unit blend in along with your content, so use rectangular boxes. I get the best response with the 336X280 box size. Most languages are read from left to right, so try to place your rectangular Adsense unit in a table aligned to the right of your text.
There's lots of more Adsense techniques that will increase your CTR, but these are the most important. Watch for future articles in which I portray the importance of positioning your Adsense units & how to track your Adsense campaigns using channels.
follow these simple guidelines & I assure you, your CTR will skyrocket. Keep adding more original, relevant content to your site, increase your targeted traffic, & watch your Adsense revenue explode.
Monday, 7 November 2011
Google AdSense Secrets: 4th Edition
Joel Comm's best-selling AdSense ebook is the definitive guide to making funds with Google AdSense. With 220 pages of content, this guide is ideal for beginners and intermediate level users, providing strategies for building profitable sites, monetizing with AdSense, and a variety of other avenues for generating revenue.
Sunday, 4 September 2011
eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income
Access the world's largest marketplace, right from your own residence. You'll learn how to:
With today's rocky economy and unsteady job market, there is seldom been a better time to earn additional money online. And now there is a brand spanking new book that guides you each step of the way: eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days.
Register at eBay and PayPal
Start part-time and expand your income when you are prepared
Find great stock at low prices
Auction to the highest bidder or sell at fixed prices.
Identify niche markets for giant profits
Get tax deductions for your eBay home-based business
Guard against scammers and rip-off artists
Beginning a business on eBay is perhaps your quickest route to the American Dream. The payoff can be high, and the barriers to entry are low. The world's most popular online marketplace, eBay has millions of registered buyers waiting to do business with you. For less than $100 and small risk, you can start an eBay venture with profit margins rivaling those of any business. Exactly how much money you earn depends mostly on how much hard work you put in to your new enterprise and how effectively you operate it
Saturday, 21 May 2011
The Official eBay Strategy Guide - The Next 6 Best Things to Sell for Profit on eBay
The newest list of the best items to sale is ideal for the Christmas Seller. According to reports completed through the eBay community these things will be in popular demand, and high profit sellers. Again I won't include products that sell well in the event that they don't have a promise to make much of a profit, like Halo four, the ipod nano video, or the Wii. Hopefully it is possible for you to to get your hands on these:
one. Retro 90's Toys.
Pokemon and Power Rangers will be sizable. With no single item that is projected to be sizable, the retro and classic toy market will be a monster this year on eBay. In fact according to Reuters: "whenever there is not sizable hit, it is nice for traditional toys across the board and that means people must -- heaven help us -- pay attention to what their kids need."3. Gold.
4. Complete Scrap Booking Lots.
Gold on eBay has always been popular but now over ever. In particular Gold Coins. The hot over Christmas is basically the "First Wives" Collection. The Abigail Adams has been, and ought to continue to be hot.
5. The Tiny Tikes Collection.
Scrap bookers are feast or famine over Christmas, but this Christmas the scrapbooking industry looks to do well. The Kits that have everything needs are predicted to have the most return on investment.
The Tiny Tikes Collection that includes the washer and dryer, kitchen, the refrigerator are expected to net high results also. I have heard that these are harder to find but the results ought to be excellent with plenty of bids on each product
6. 80's-90's Hairband memoribilia.
7. Land.
Though I don't know how to get these products, or even where to start looking, the demand for KISS, Black Sabbath, ACDC, Winger (ugh!) White Snake is as high as it's ever been and Christmas looks to be nice for these collectors.
different but a great seller is land. Even land that is in obscure places that no person has ever ventured to, this property is EASY to buy, and can be sold on eBay for ridiculous amounts. Plenty of areas of Utah, Michigan, Nevada, Michigan, Oregon, the Carolinas, have sold land for significant amounts.
Nice Luck on your eBay sales.
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Income from AMAZON.COM
Amazon Associates is one of the first online affiliate promotion programs and was launched in 1996. The Amazon Associates program has a over 12 year track record of developing solutions to help website owners, Web developers, and Amazon sellers make funds by promotion millions of new and used products from Amazon.com and its subsidiaries, such as Limitless.com and SmallParts.com. When website owners and bloggers who are Associates generate links and customers click through those links and buy products from Amazon, they earn referral fees. Its free to join and simple to make use of.
Provide customers the convenience of referring them to a trusted site where they can immediately purchase the products you promote on your site. And when they do, you can earn up to 15% in referral fees.
Take advantage of various Amazon retail promotions and leverage our newly created promotion features to drive traffic and earn referrals.
Take advantage of various Amazon retail promotions and leverage our newly created promotion features to drive traffic and earn referrals.
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Opportunities for you in creating Business Internet Online
Within this article today, we're going to look at creating a work at home business that focuses on the Internet and online. There are many different businesses that you can focus on and we will look at what you should look for within a particular business that you want to do.
There are great many opportunities for you in creating a work at home business that focus on the Internet and online. One of the best resources for you to find information about this is at www.affiliateprograms.com. You'll want to spend a great deal of time visiting this website because you can find many different affiliate programs that you can market in many different categories. Some of the categories that they have that you can market include finance and investment, food and beverage, automotive, and health and fitness. Take the time to read because each affiliate program will list their website as well as a small description on what they do and you will want to visit the website as well. If you are going to be spending a great deal of your time promoting a particular website and program, you'll want to make sure that this is worth your while. Also, with each of these particular programs, you should look at how much money you would be making by selling each of these. You'll probably find several programs that seem interesting to you so see which one peaks your interest and pays well and head for that opportunity.
As far as fair warning for what seems to be opportunities on the Web for other things, there are many different websites that promise that you can make money through either taking surveys or through posting on free forums for several hours day. This sounded good and many people have signed up and found that they have wasted a great deal of time and money in the end when trying out these so-called "opportunities. Remember to listen to your gut when you're thinking about this. There are many work-at-home scams out there so make sure to take your time in reading about what the different websites have to offer.
Another great work home business that has an online focus can be eBay. This is stressed throughout some articles on this website but it is a great tool for you to begin your career. You can learn how to write sales copy for your auctions as well as how to properly promote yourself. If you take the lessons to be learned on eBay and apply them to other Internet marketing areas, you will find yourself ready to tackle almost anything out there.
Hopefully this article on creating a work at home business that focuses on the Internet and online has been beneficial to you. When we designed this article and wrote it, we want you to know what to look for within a particular business as well as what to do for it. It is important to know what to look for as well as what to avoid.
There are great many opportunities for you in creating a work at home business that focus on the Internet and online. One of the best resources for you to find information about this is at www.affiliateprograms.com. You'll want to spend a great deal of time visiting this website because you can find many different affiliate programs that you can market in many different categories. Some of the categories that they have that you can market include finance and investment, food and beverage, automotive, and health and fitness. Take the time to read because each affiliate program will list their website as well as a small description on what they do and you will want to visit the website as well. If you are going to be spending a great deal of your time promoting a particular website and program, you'll want to make sure that this is worth your while. Also, with each of these particular programs, you should look at how much money you would be making by selling each of these. You'll probably find several programs that seem interesting to you so see which one peaks your interest and pays well and head for that opportunity.
As far as fair warning for what seems to be opportunities on the Web for other things, there are many different websites that promise that you can make money through either taking surveys or through posting on free forums for several hours day. This sounded good and many people have signed up and found that they have wasted a great deal of time and money in the end when trying out these so-called "opportunities. Remember to listen to your gut when you're thinking about this. There are many work-at-home scams out there so make sure to take your time in reading about what the different websites have to offer.
Another great work home business that has an online focus can be eBay. This is stressed throughout some articles on this website but it is a great tool for you to begin your career. You can learn how to write sales copy for your auctions as well as how to properly promote yourself. If you take the lessons to be learned on eBay and apply them to other Internet marketing areas, you will find yourself ready to tackle almost anything out there.
Hopefully this article on creating a work at home business that focuses on the Internet and online has been beneficial to you. When we designed this article and wrote it, we want you to know what to look for within a particular business as well as what to do for it. It is important to know what to look for as well as what to avoid.
Sunday, 20 February 2011
The right formula when you go about creating online businesses.
There is a right formula when you go about creating online businesses and this article will look at what you need to do to make sure that creating online businesses is a success for you.
The first thing that you must remember when creating online businesses is that you must develop a formula. If you want to different websites, you will want them to be run using similar systems or web hosts so that the work you do on one to improve overall performance could translate to similar improvements on other websites. This will help you create efficiencies and save time in the process. The key is to make sure that you have online business systems in place as well as a certain routine that you go around doing things. This may seem vague but it comes down to two things: how efficient you are with your time and how much time you have to spend on each venture. Having software such as Outlook to manage your time will be very beneficial towards you.
There are many different ways to help keep your business running smoothly for within this paragraph, we will look at some software that can help you manage your advertising in a very organized and smooth manner. A good piece of software that you can use is called Niche Portal Builder. This software can be used to help you develop web pages as well to newsletters and what you must do is simply give the software your domain name, keywords you want to use, what your e-mail is, your Adsense ID, and a few other details. Another piece of software that you can use is called Blog Solution. This software can help you build blogs which is important if you have many different blogging websites that you post to each day. By doing this they can post automatically to these blogs soon afterward without having to sign in to each account. You are even able to change the language because of their automatic language translation. These are two examples of different pieces of software that can help you out. Many successful Internet developers are able to maintain several websites by using software to create efficiencies between their different websites.
Hopefully this article on creating online businesses will help you when developing several websites. There are many different types of online businesses but many of them come down to the same sort of broad categories: selling on eBay, retail websites, services websites, and business-to-business websites. You can work within different categories easily but make sure to take what you learn from each different category and apply its in your other ventures.
Creating online businesses requires time and dedication on your part but you must make sure that the time you are spending is well invested. When you are dealing with multiple businesses, you must be as efficient as possible to make sure that each business is well-tended. If you spend a large amount of your time on one venture and that doesn't pay off as planned, this can hurt the other ventures due to neglect and the lesser amount of time you are spending on them.
The first thing that you must remember when creating online businesses is that you must develop a formula. If you want to different websites, you will want them to be run using similar systems or web hosts so that the work you do on one to improve overall performance could translate to similar improvements on other websites. This will help you create efficiencies and save time in the process. The key is to make sure that you have online business systems in place as well as a certain routine that you go around doing things. This may seem vague but it comes down to two things: how efficient you are with your time and how much time you have to spend on each venture. Having software such as Outlook to manage your time will be very beneficial towards you.
There are many different ways to help keep your business running smoothly for within this paragraph, we will look at some software that can help you manage your advertising in a very organized and smooth manner. A good piece of software that you can use is called Niche Portal Builder. This software can be used to help you develop web pages as well to newsletters and what you must do is simply give the software your domain name, keywords you want to use, what your e-mail is, your Adsense ID, and a few other details. Another piece of software that you can use is called Blog Solution. This software can help you build blogs which is important if you have many different blogging websites that you post to each day. By doing this they can post automatically to these blogs soon afterward without having to sign in to each account. You are even able to change the language because of their automatic language translation. These are two examples of different pieces of software that can help you out. Many successful Internet developers are able to maintain several websites by using software to create efficiencies between their different websites.
Hopefully this article on creating online businesses will help you when developing several websites. There are many different types of online businesses but many of them come down to the same sort of broad categories: selling on eBay, retail websites, services websites, and business-to-business websites. You can work within different categories easily but make sure to take what you learn from each different category and apply its in your other ventures.
Creating online businesses requires time and dedication on your part but you must make sure that the time you are spending is well invested. When you are dealing with multiple businesses, you must be as efficient as possible to make sure that each business is well-tended. If you spend a large amount of your time on one venture and that doesn't pay off as planned, this can hurt the other ventures due to neglect and the lesser amount of time you are spending on them.
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Creating Best Online Business
There are many different ways to make money on the Internet but this article today will focus on one particular idea, creating the best online business. There are as many ways to make money on the Internet as possible but there aren't a great deal of tried and true methods that can work for different people.
The method that we will focus on today is creating a website in a small but profitable niche. What all businesses come down to is finding and maintaining a strong and solid customer base that can constantly make them money. This is true no matter what type of business this is, Internet or retail. The only way that a company makes money is by attracting a solid base of customers and then building off of that. If you are able to build a solid base of highly responsive customers, you will have the opportunity to print your own money.
The first key in creating the best online business is to help you identify a niche that you can work in. this can be a bit tricky but you must make sure that it has a few characteristics. First, you will want the subject to be something that you are interested in hopefully. To truly create a website that people will want to keep visiting, you will have to have a great deal of information and different ways to keep them interested. You will probably need to be researching these topics quite a bit so a strong interest within the field will help you. Secondly, visit www.findhotniches.com. This website can help you generate ideas on what different areas are underserved. The author of this website, James Jackson, gives you niches plus keywords so that you know what to build your website around.
That was great information but here is the rest quickly. You want your website to be built around those keywords so that Internet searches bring up your website among the first page of search results. By doing this, you can start gaining traffic to your website. By constantly writing articles, you can develop a repeat client base which you can begin selling to. Once you are done developing the website, you need some sort of product to sell. This is not necessarily something that you have to come up with. If you go to Clickbank.com, you will find many different products that you can probably sell within your particular niche. You will get a share of the profits and the system is automated so that you just have to guide your clients over to that particular website and everything else is taken care of for you.
If you decide and look into developing a newsletter then you can promote a product at the end of the newsletter, which could bring you in a great deal of money. This is where you can make some good money. Hopefully this article on creating the best online business will help you out. If you want to succeed, try this idea but keep testing as it takes great time and effort to become a strong and profitable website.
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The method that we will focus on today is creating a website in a small but profitable niche. What all businesses come down to is finding and maintaining a strong and solid customer base that can constantly make them money. This is true no matter what type of business this is, Internet or retail. The only way that a company makes money is by attracting a solid base of customers and then building off of that. If you are able to build a solid base of highly responsive customers, you will have the opportunity to print your own money.
The first key in creating the best online business is to help you identify a niche that you can work in. this can be a bit tricky but you must make sure that it has a few characteristics. First, you will want the subject to be something that you are interested in hopefully. To truly create a website that people will want to keep visiting, you will have to have a great deal of information and different ways to keep them interested. You will probably need to be researching these topics quite a bit so a strong interest within the field will help you. Secondly, visit www.findhotniches.com. This website can help you generate ideas on what different areas are underserved. The author of this website, James Jackson, gives you niches plus keywords so that you know what to build your website around.
That was great information but here is the rest quickly. You want your website to be built around those keywords so that Internet searches bring up your website among the first page of search results. By doing this, you can start gaining traffic to your website. By constantly writing articles, you can develop a repeat client base which you can begin selling to. Once you are done developing the website, you need some sort of product to sell. This is not necessarily something that you have to come up with. If you go to Clickbank.com, you will find many different products that you can probably sell within your particular niche. You will get a share of the profits and the system is automated so that you just have to guide your clients over to that particular website and everything else is taken care of for you.
If you decide and look into developing a newsletter then you can promote a product at the end of the newsletter, which could bring you in a great deal of money. This is where you can make some good money. Hopefully this article on creating the best online business will help you out. If you want to succeed, try this idea but keep testing as it takes great time and effort to become a strong and profitable website.
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Thursday, 11 June 2009
Easy Web Page Watcher Watches Web Pages For You
Too many days I found myself constantly checking the same financial news web pages for any news about the companies I was currently invested in. Between clicking on these web pages and constantly clicking on other financial web pages to obtain stock quotes, I was driving myself crazy and wasting a lot of time that belonged to my employer. After all they does not pay me to surf the web. But if I didn't keep track of investment information, I could lose a lot of money. I thought there had to be a solution other than taking Valium. Why should I watch web pages for stuff when my computer should be able to do this for me? This is when I discovered a application program called Easy Web Page Watcher by Patrick DiRienzo.
As the author's home page explains, "Easy Web Page watcher watches HTML web pages for your information by continuously downloading and inspecting each web page you specify for the text you specify". A web page is a file containing HTML text, therefore Easy Web Page Watcher is downloading and reading an HTML file looking for your text.
After seeing a seal of approval from computer Magazine, I decided to try this application. The first pleasant surprise was that the program was immediately easy to use. A toolbar with large buttons provided all the user interface I needed. five button allowed me to enter web pages and another button allowed me to enter text such as my stock names and dollar amounts. I realized that this was probably a limited user interface, but the fact that it got the job done without wasting my energy on a learning curve was all I cared about.
I came to understand that this program could only detect changes that are part of the HTML text, but that was all I needed. Most of the web pages I wanted to watch were pure HTML pages (no Java, etc. involved).
Another five of those large toolbar buttons allows you to alter the watch mode to "Just Tell Me If The Web Pages I Specify Change". In this mode, Easy Web Page Watcher will notify you when any changes or updates occur on the web pages you specify. It does this by continuously downloading and comparing the HTML file with the initial HTML file recorded at the start of the watch session. If the HTML file changes Easy Web Page Watcher notifies you. I soon had a use for this operating mode. I could now watch my Web Site's HTML log file for visitors. I subscribe to five of those services that provide you with an HTML log file that updates with visitor information every time someone clicks on five of your web pages. Instead of constantly checking this HTML log file with my web browser, I let Easy Web Page Watcher watch it for updates. it is a lot of fun to know immediately when someone visits your site.
The program worked as advertised. I was alerted with an audible alarm when my stocks appeared in a press release at Yahoo's financial web site. I soon discovered that the program could also email these alerts to me. This was great because now I could run the program on my home computer using my full time broadband web. My employer could not accuse me in any way of constantly being on the net at work.
As the author's home page explains, "Easy Web Page watcher watches HTML web pages for your information by continuously downloading and inspecting each web page you specify for the text you specify". A web page is a file containing HTML text, therefore Easy Web Page Watcher is downloading and reading an HTML file looking for your text.
After seeing a seal of approval from computer Magazine, I decided to try this application. The first pleasant surprise was that the program was immediately easy to use. A toolbar with large buttons provided all the user interface I needed. five button allowed me to enter web pages and another button allowed me to enter text such as my stock names and dollar amounts. I realized that this was probably a limited user interface, but the fact that it got the job done without wasting my energy on a learning curve was all I cared about.
I came to understand that this program could only detect changes that are part of the HTML text, but that was all I needed. Most of the web pages I wanted to watch were pure HTML pages (no Java, etc. involved).
Another five of those large toolbar buttons allows you to alter the watch mode to "Just Tell Me If The Web Pages I Specify Change". In this mode, Easy Web Page Watcher will notify you when any changes or updates occur on the web pages you specify. It does this by continuously downloading and comparing the HTML file with the initial HTML file recorded at the start of the watch session. If the HTML file changes Easy Web Page Watcher notifies you. I soon had a use for this operating mode. I could now watch my Web Site's HTML log file for visitors. I subscribe to five of those services that provide you with an HTML log file that updates with visitor information every time someone clicks on five of your web pages. Instead of constantly checking this HTML log file with my web browser, I let Easy Web Page Watcher watch it for updates. it is a lot of fun to know immediately when someone visits your site.
The program worked as advertised. I was alerted with an audible alarm when my stocks appeared in a press release at Yahoo's financial web site. I soon discovered that the program could also email these alerts to me. This was great because now I could run the program on my home computer using my full time broadband web. My employer could not accuse me in any way of constantly being on the net at work.
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