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I will look into this. Thanks for your great contribution anwiii Thanks for the compliment nummell. It inspires me to keep on improving the tool.

You can say that again. I hope I haven't lost a few of my loyal traffic in the process I'm sure it would. You see jlhaslip, I wasn't even aware of this recommendation. Now it's the last thing I will forget! Oh, and thanks for confirming my observation When I wrote that, I figured it should work but I hadn't tested it.

A few minutes ago I was looking at site management tools section in my Control Panel. The tool "Index Manager" caught my eye. If I used it, then I wouldn't need to create placeholder pages in my folders with no index pages What I had forgotten is that I already had an .htaccess file in my site. Needless to say, enabling this option took down my whole site instantly and displayed an "Internal Server Error" message. How stupid of me! Upon inspection of my .htaccess file, I noticed that the tool had added the relevent command in the same line with my last command (and not leaving any space between my last word and it's first!) causing the commands to clash.So if you are thinking of using any of these tools and you suspect that it may alter your .htaccess file I suggest you get the relevent code first and place it yourself in the .htaccess file, or remove all your code and place it after the tool has written to it or you may consider leaving some blank lines after your last line of code.Having said that, I hope you won't make the same stupid mistake I just did

Notepad++ is a great piece of software. It's the only one I use since I the bulk of my sites are PHP codes. It does include a WYSIWYG editor but I don't use it at all. I focus more on functionality than on design. I'm a programmer not a designer. I'm not very creative :XD:

I guess you guys are talking about BruteHost :XD: I share the same sentiments with you. I've also hosted a mock site with Byethost. At first I wasn't worried by their stone age control panel since they promised NO ads, PHP and a database. But then I found out I couldn't sent emails from my website since they disabled the PHP mail() function, and NO SMTP either! I just abandoned the site but sometimes when I check it out, I see some ads, sometimes I don't. These guys just don't stick to the service they promise.I have also tried a handful other free host, some are OK but most suck. ONLY Xisto rocks!

Starting an online business is not rocket science, but it's very easy to fail if you are not careful either. Below I will try to outline some of the steps you can to increase your chances of success. Decide what you want to do. it is very important that you do someting you enjoy doing. I suggest evaluating your interests first. Carry out keyword research. Register a domain. Create your web site. Market it.

Great tips you have there CJ :XD: You will also need to research your market. Use research tools like Keyword Enchanter. I think you mean AdWords there. There is a trade off here. If you use pay per <- snipped -> on your site like AdSense, you risk losing some of your customers to your competitors. You are actually advertising competing products on your site this way. Besides, these ads also do not look professional. I suggest displaying AdSense ONLY on content pages or pages that you are not offering any of your products for sale. Yes FreeHostia is a good host BUT NOT for business websites. FreeHostia does not give you access to SMTP or the PHP mail() function. What this means is that you can NOT sent emails from your website or from your domain hosted on FH either This is bad for business as you would want to communicate with your customers now and then. The best free hosting package I know is right here at Xisto

Great Article. I agree that open source is more secure. That is a fact. A good pointer is MS Windows vs Linux. The later is open source and it is known to be more secure than the former. I think this is mainly because of the fact that open source is more flexible in that anyone can apply a patch for security holes found in open source.

Great tutorial Saint Michael. You really are a saint I like that zombie kicking signature too Great work man!

A member of my keyword research forum recently asked me "the best practical uses of keyword research tools". If you would like to know my answer to this question, then read on... In short, the best uses of keyword research tools is finding the best words: to get search engine traffic, to persuade people to act, to increase return on pay per click investment, and to analyze the demand and supply of a particular product/market These "best words" are the words that potential users expect to find on a web page. These are the keywords. The more popular a keyword is with potential clients, and the less popular it is with webmasters the better. Getting search engine traffic (search engine optimization) When searching for information on the Internet, surfers (your potential clients, visitors, customers - whichever way you like to call them) use words to locate it using search engines. Search engines look for these words in the text of a web page, its indexable code and/ or in the links pointing to it. These are the words that are important to website owners and hence are known as keywords. Knowing these keywords and optimizing your web pages accordingly, helps website owners to attract a lot of traffic through search engines. Keyword research tools help you to identify these and any extra keywords that you may not have thought of by yourself. Not only that, a good keyword research tool should also be able to show you the competition for that keyword. A good example is Keyword Enchanter. Persuading people to act (Copywriting) Every web page is created for a purpose (I think ). Some pages are created to persuade people to buy certain products or services, some to give away things for free etc. To get people to do what you want, you need to demonstrate you can fulfill their needs. So how do you demonstrate this? We use words! Use keyword research tools to find keywords that your potential customers are trying to use to find information that fulfill their needs. Then use those exact words to persuade them! Increasing return on pay per click investment Pay per click advertising This is probably the second most popular use of keyword research tools. After search engine optimization, that is. Keyword bidding or keyword advertising across pay per click networks like Google AdWords is a popular form of advertising. It requires one to research keywords carefully if they are to maximize their return on investment. The more competitors bidding on a certain keyword, the higher the cost per click that keyword is likely to incur for you as an advertiser. In order to minimize costs, one would have to look for keywords that have less competition but enough demand to get the desired traffic. Hence we use keyword research tools to find keyword search terms that can minimize our cost per click and yet get us as many click throughs as possible. Pay per click publishing Publishers, on the other hand, use keyword research tools to find keywords that give them the highest earnings per click and as many click through rates as possible. Analyzing the demand and supply of a particular product/market Any serious marketer would tell you that it is very important to assess demand and supply before you dive into any market. When marketing offline there are various techniques one can use to gather this data. This is also true for Internet marketing. Keyword research is one of the tools one can use for gathering this data online. Assessing the number of searches done on search engines for a particular keyword can help us estimate the demand for a particular product or market. Though keyword research tools are NOT the only source of this information, they should not be ignored when carrying out this important research. So, as you can see, keyword research tools are not only there to help you increase your search engine traffic, but also to carry out other important market research. It is also important to note that some keyword research tools are specific to certain research types.

Yes. There are a number of ways to redirect a website. I especially like a 301 redirect since it's search engine friendly. However, it all depends on what you want to accomplish.

A lot of browers now have tabbed browsing. Even Internet Explorer 7. Mozilla appeals to me because it's faster and it can even go much faster with a little tweaking However, I use both IE and Mozilla quite often since I need to test web pages I create in different browsers. The pop up blocker option can easily be disabled. So if the other features appeal to you, don't let that put you off. You are right, that's autocomplete for you Here is what you need to do to clear your autocomplete history: In your IE menu, click on Tools, Click on Internet Options, Click on Content, Click on AutoComplete If it's only previous searches from the toolbar you are worried about, you can simply clear history from the toolbar. Average users can also benefit from things like autocomplete, address finder etc Yeah, that's why you have to scan every software application you download from the Internet before installing it

Happy birthday Xisto! Wish you many more years to come

I also have both Yahoo and Hotmail accounts. Yes both are great, but I prefer Yahoo's email search engine.