Published Articles Directory of GNC Web Creations






Published Articles Directory

GNC Web Creations


To make it possible for our website visitors to navigate through our pages easily, we have divided our published articles directory into categories. This will also allow for expansion as our site grows and we continue to add more articles.


Computer Related Articles - Tips and Techniques

  • Computer Virus & Hacker Threats Should You React

    We've all had it happen, that moment of panic when you wonder if your computer has a virus. If your system is set up properly and you back up files on a regular basis, there is no reason to panic.

  • Computer Tech Tips on Basic Zone Alarm Configurations

    You won't have to do a lot of research on firewalls to discover that Zone Alarm, comes highly recommended. Unfortunately though, there simple are not a lot of tips on effective Zone Alarm configurations.

     

  • Create Shortcut On Your Desktop

    When you have a file or a website that you visit extremely often, sometimes it is easier to create a shortcut on your desktop rather than always looking for it.
     

  • DNS Tutorial by Scott Meyer

    This is a tutorial to explain DNS, what it does, and how it relates to your website. For purposes of the tutorial, we shall assume that the user is a home user connected to a ISP with dial-up, cable, DSL, etc.
     

  • How to Organize Email

    Each of us has different preferences and email programs that we find the most effective. Most of these programs have various methods of customizing them in a manner that will keep things more organized. Learn how to organize email now and it will save countless hours of frustration later.
     

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Marketing Tutorials - Web Marketing Tutorials

  • Accepting Credit Card Payments Online

    Frequently we are asked for suggestions on a simple way for a new business to be able to begin accepting credit card payments online.
     

  • Affiliate Marketing - Affiliate Internet Marketing Tips

    For an affiliate internet marketing program to be effective, various marketing strategies need to be considered. If you actually want to make some decent money, it is not enough to simply throw a banner ad several places on your site. You need to be actively involved in promoting the product.

     

  • Benefits of Using the Title Attribute

    Since title attributes are designed to be used specifically as a benefit to our visitors, how can it have anything to do with successful website marketing? See, I don't see excellent sales techniques as a way to convince my visitors to place an order, but rather as a means of helping them convince themselves...
     

  • Business Email Guidelines

    Could your email practices be sabotaging your efforts at building trust and confidence in your online business? Your approach to email correspondence can be vital to developing credibility in your business.

     

  • Choosing a Shopping Cart

    You now have a web site and have decided in order to sell your products you need a shopping cart. Before you begin to shop for a cart there a few things you need to know and some decisions to make before you purchase, lease or install a cart on your site.

     

  • How to Write Headlines That Work

    If you truly want to learn how to write headlines that will stand out and literally grab the attention of your readers, you must start with the basics.
     

  • Internet Marketing Success

    SEO is a tool to use to increase the performance of your website. For some sites that might be purchases. For others it might be promoting a cause, raising public awareness of some issue. High rankings are not the ultimate goal; high rankings are one technique to get to the ultimate goal.

     

  • Internet Business Marketing Tip - Expanding Your Business

    Expanding Your Business - Entrepreneurs with a specialty niche have founded many very successful businesses that they place their entire focus on. They do not try to be an expert at everything, but they do ONE thing and do it well.
     

  • Outstanding Customer Service Tips

    If you are in business and want to sell something and you want to have happy, repeat customers you will have to adopt outstanding customer service skills.

     

  • Strategies to Improve Writing Style - Writing-Strategies

    You don't have to spend more than a few minutes in a marketing forum, to discover that everyone seems to be looking for the magical writing strategies that will solve their internet marketing challenges.

     

  • Website Content Development

    Many online business owners have been disappointed to discover that increasing traffic to their website does not automatically increase sales. You have to invest your time into learning website content development.
     

  • Website Credibility - Instilling Credibility in Your Website

    When you are trying to get an Internet business off the ground, portraying a high level of professionalism, is vital to the credibility of your website.

  • Web Writing - Why Web Writing is Different

    Writing Effective Web Based Marketing Copy - The foundation of effective copywriting can be summed up in one sentence: Know your audience.

  • Web Content Writing

    Writing Effective Web Based Marketing Copy - Effective web content writers know something that journalists have known for decades-most readers aren't going to finish the article.

  • Marketing Copy - Writing Effective Marketing Copy

    Six Simple Rules - These six simple techniques will help achieve our two core goals of delivering key information and keeping customers reading.

 

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Motivational Articles

  • A New Perspective

    As I neared the scene of the accident I began recognizing fragments of our truck strewn about the highway. For just a moment time stood still as an overwhelming fear crept into my heart. Dear God, where is my family?

  • Dear God I Wonder If She Knows

    Seventeen years ago, you blessed me with the most valued gift of all, my first born child. You told me she was really just a loan, that you needed someone to nurture, comfort, and guide her - to be her mom.

 

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Running A Small Business

  • Frugal Money Saving Tips

    I asked a group of small business owners to share some of their favorite frugal money saving tips. The number of responses was almost overwhelming but with tips this good, I wasn't willing to leave even a single one out.

     

  • Time Management Tips

    I asked a group of small business owners to share their time management tips with us. The results have been phenomenal. I learned that perhaps the key is not in how much time we have, but how we choose to use that time.

 

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Search Engine Optimization Articles

  • Analyze Web Stats

    If you continually make changes before you analyze web stats, you will not be able to effectively track what is and isn’t working for you.

     

  • Blogging For Business

    Blogging for business purposes has become an extremely effective SEO technique and often helps with building your online business. Careful research and planning before setting up a blog, will provide the maximum benefits.

     

  • Content SEO - Does Content Play a Role in SEO?

    Web pages resembling either magazine ads or brochures, with limited content, are often ineffective, both for SEO and for marketing as well. Creating quality content has become even more essential than ever.


  • Create Robots.txt File - Robots Text File

    Creating a robots.txt file will not improve your search engine positioning, but it does provide robots with information concerning which files you will not allow to be crawled and indexed in the search engines.


  • Create Site Map - Anchor Text

    Remember that your site map isn't created just for search engines. Organize your site map into categories. Follow the structure of a table of contents that you'd find in the front of a book and you'll make it much easier for your visitors to find what they are looking for!
     

  • The Dangers of SEO Forums

    When I first started studying SEO, I figured ANYONE in these groups knew more than I did. They ALL sounded like experts to me. Without a good understanding of search engine optimization it can be darn near impossible to decide if the information you are reading is reliable or even ethical.


  • Effective Search Engine Optimization - Effective SEO

    When it comes to effective search engine optimization, think about it as if you were the contractor for a high rise building. You cannot build the 5th floor before you have built the 1st floor. Before you can even consider building the 1st floor, you must have a solid foundation.


  • Ethical Search Engine Optimization - Ethical SEO

    If you have spent any time at all researching search engine optimization, you are already aware of the ethical vs. unethical SEO techniques debate. No matter which direction you turn, EVERYONE seems to have a different opinion.
     

  • Improve Link Popularity - Improve Targeted Link Popularity

    If you want your site to do well in the search engine results, you have to focus on various methods to improve link popularity. I cannot stress this enough. For everything I am teaching you to be effective, you must have as many incoming links to your site as possible.

     

  • Increase Targeted Website Traffic

    The easiest way to increase targeted website traffic is to focus each of the pages of your website on a specific niche in the market.
     

  • Increase Website Traffic Free

    Exchanging links with other websites is a good way to increase traffic to your website, but often the results are just not what we expected. Many site owners do not know the simple techniques needed to increase website traffic free.

     

  • Linking Strategies - Website Linking Strategies

    Part of building a successful online business, involves developing a solid approach to your website linking strategies.

  • Importance of Incoming Links to SEO Strategy

    If you want your site to succeed in the search engines, a major part of your SEO strategy must focus on the importance of incoming links. The process of submitting your site to the search engines can take several weeks.


  • Web Page Titles - Choosing Effective Web Page Titles

    Choosing effective web page titles, for every page on your site is the first step in building a successful online business.
     

  • 301 Redirect - 301 Permanent Redirect by Brian V. Bonini

    meta http-equiv="refresh"... is highly frowned on by search engines and is commonly used by spammers. As such, THIS SHOULD BE AVOIDED. A 301 Redirect as it is commonly referred to will allow you to make these changes without compromising your hard earned SEO results.

 

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Web Design Articles

  • Color Concepts in Web Design

    Without any thought on our part, we associate color with feeling. Some colors may bring feelings of peace and security while others may make us feel anxious and uncomfortable.
     

  • Common Web Page Mistakes

    When I designed my first website, I was so proud of it. I had spent many long nights over a period of months designing it. All of my friends and family told me how professional it was, and how very impressed they were. I swear I went to my site several times a day just to look at it.


  • FrontPage Includes - FrontPage Includes Tutorial

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  • FrontPage Picture Properties

    Certainly the quickest route is to be able to work rapidly from code view, but not all FP users are quite ready for that step yet. This very basic FrontPage picture properties tutorial is written with those users in mind.

     

  • FrontPage 2003 Training

    I lost so much valuable time using the trial and error method of learning that I decided to begin writing a series of basic FrontPage 2003 training tutorials.

     

  • CSS FrontPage Tutorial

    This CSS FrontPage tutorial was written to teach you how to use external CSS with Microsoft FrontPage. This will help make it possible for you to make global style changes to your website all from a single file.

     

  • Heading Tag - Default Appearance

    www.gnc-web-creations.com/heading-tag.htm

     

  • How To Organize a Website

    If you have spent time at all trying to figure out how to organize a website, you already know how frustrating it can be.

  • Visual Appeal In Website Design

    Actual site "content" continues to be essential to the success of a website. More often than not though, visual appeal is the determining factor whether or not a client or customer will remain on a site long enough to actually see the product or service the business is providing.
     

  • Step by Step WordPress Installation

    Although the WordPress installation is much easier than most people realize, you will save yourself a lot of frustration if you take some time to prepare first.

     

  • Creating SEO Friendly WordPress URLs

    By default, WordPress uses dynamic web URLs that may hinder some of your search engine optimization efforts. This challenge can be easily overcome by creating SEO friendly WordPress URLs.

     

  • Configure WordPress Categories

    It is really much easier to configure WordPress categories than you might expect. You can always add more categories as you need them.
     

  • Setting WordPress Preferences

    With the admin control panel, setting your WordPress preferences is a simple matter. We are going to cover a few of the basic settings.

     

  • Installing WordPress Themes

    Installing WordPress themes is so simple that it will take you longer to choose the theme you would like to use, than it will take you to install it.

     

  • Creating SEO Friendly Titles in WordPress

    The WordPress default setting creates titles which begin with the title of your blog, followed by the title of the post. You can overcome this challenge by following this step by step tutorial for creating SEO friendly titles in WordPress that will reverse the order of your page titles.

     

  • Disable the Default Nofollow Attribute in WordPress

    I would have liked to have seen this as an option in the admin panel, allowing bloggers to make their own decision. Thankfully a plugin exists, making it a simple matter to disable the default nofollow attribute in WordPress.

 

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