It’s makeover time at GaryHarvey.net

This blog is being repurposed. To what it should have been from the very beginning.

A bit about me.
And my sites.
And what I’m doing online.
And why.
And things I’m learning along the way.

Hey, I’m always learning – it’s one of the joys of being online. I dont have to punch a time clock and I can afford the time to indulge any side interest that should grab my focus.

Okay, that can be a problem. Because the internet is such an interesting place. So much to see… which really means so many distractions… which makes it terribly difficult to maintain a single focus. But on the other hand, that also adds to the fun of the game.

Right now, I want to work some more on fixing up the blog. So I’ll talk to you again later. (more…)

A majority of those who visit a new website have no intention of purchasing anything. Most of the time, those who visit new sites are surfing the Internet for information, and happen to stumble crossways your website. There are a few impulse buyers out there though, buyers that will buy from your site on the first visit. Although most visitors will leave without buying anything, you?ll find yourself wondering why your visitor counter keeps increasing and your income aren?t improving.

To get the most from your sales and capitalize on visitors who happen to visit your site without making a purchase, you?ll need a way to follow up with your visitors several times. An email list is one way to do it, as you can show your product to the same market as many times as you like.

To successfully manage an email subscriber list, you?ll need something known as an autoresponder. An autoresponder is a great quality to your website, as it can handle virtually any email you receive. You can think of these tools as salesmen who never get sick and are always there to answer emails 24 hours a day ? 7 days a week. They will also follow up with your clients when you instruct them to do so, continuing to add information to your database as well. (more…)

There are literally thousands of home based internet businesses that have been started over the past few years, with many being hugely successful, while others failing miserably. The question that many people are trying to figure out is how do you know when a business like this operated over the Internet will be successful.

Starting home based Internet businesses is risky and calls for a different approach. Many investors will test the waters so to speak, with trials and will complete their research on the Internet to determine how much competition there is, what services or products are being offered and evaluate whether they can be successful in their chosen area.

In this article let’s consider why and Internet home business is not hard to do regardless of your current experience level.First of all the words Home Internet Business are kind of misleading. The reason I say that is you can actually operate an Internet Business anywhere in the world that you have connection to the Internet. (more…)

It is no secret. The more links you can obtain, the higher your site will rank in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Not all website owners, however, are aware of how many ways there are to obtain links.

These ten activities frequently produce excellent results.

1. Submit your site to directories. There are well over 1,000. Some require a reciprocal link or payment, but most are free. (more…)

Are you one of the many people who wake up and dread the daily drive to work? One of the thousands of people who dream of the day when they are not a slave to the alarm clock?

It’s tax time and everyone is feeling the pain. There is a widely unknown source of write-offs for any every day person. Having a home business allows anyone to take the write-offs that the Corporate Giants get.

Thousands imagine of what it would be like to own their very own successful business, financial Independence, and with that comes personal freedom, but few think of the sacrifices that have to be made in order to make the dream a reality, don`t let that be you.

You do not have to pay for office or business space; just pay your rent along with your other bills. And you can get all of the tax write-offs those corporate giants get with your home business. (more…)

Search Engines

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are really just data bases. When you do a Google Search you are not searching the “world wide web” you are searching Google’s data base. There are two ways to get in to these databases. One is to submit your site to the different search engines. In about 6 to 9 weeks the search engine will index your site. They have software that comes to your site and index every page and adds it to the database. They come into your main web URL and follow the links to all the pages of your site. They capture key elements from the code on your page to the content. These are then stored in the data base. When someone puts a keyword in the search box the “algorithms” determine the best page or links to the best pages for your search.

The other way to get added to the search engines data base is to have the search engine software find you through a link to your site from another web site back to yours. The software, called “spiders” will periodically comeback and re crawl your site to see if you have updated it.

One important thing to know is that each page on your site is indexed individually and each page stands on its own. The ranking are based upon the combination of correct meta tags, relevant content to the keyword they are trying to get rankings for and link popularity. Mostly one way links back to their site from relevant sites. (more…)