CAVSI - Technical Questions & Answers

A blog is a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”

Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently. Blogs are quick and easy to set up....

Visitor traffic is one of the most important factors that determine the success of a website on the Internet. However, something more important than attracting visitors is to retain them on the website. By keeping your visitors on the site for longer times, you can increase the number of page views as well your chances of them performing a desired action. Often you may notice that though your website gets a huge number of visitors, they tend to leave abruptly. This may be because there is something on your website that they don’t like. By knowing the reason why visitors leave your website, you can seek to make adjustments and thus improve the website. Here are some common reasons why people exit websites.

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Favicon is the little picture you see on the left side of the browser’s address bar, next to the word http://

For example, if you view a site through Internet Explorer, you see an e superimposed over a blank white paper sheet. The icon also shows up when you press CTRL+D to save the link in your Favorites folder. The icon is shown anywhere you store the link, whether on the Desktop or some other place....

Google Site Links are popular sub-pages of the website under a domain. They are listed as a help so that you can browse parts of a website’s most popular pages. To get them you must rank number one for a search term in Google. For example, Hoover Web Design has them because we rank number 1 for the search term “hoover web design”. Try entering your website’s name to see if you have any site links.

Unfortunately, you can’t control which pages get listed under Site Links. Google automatically chooses Site Links, and they change from time to time. If you do manage to get them it’s great! Having more links to your website is always great....

The popularity of pay-per-click advertising shows no sign of falling, but it’s a lot more expensive than it used to be. There was a time when you could keep your listing at the number one slot for cents – now you have to shell out dollars. It’s a question of supply and demand. More and more people furiously bid for the coveted number one position.

But just suppose for a moment that you could get targeted traffic without jumping into the “bidding wars”. I tried to break free recently when I was promoting a new e-book....

A Privacy Policy can be defined as the policy under which a company or organization operating a website handles the personal information collected about visitors to the site. For most of us consumers, privacy involves protecting our integrity and our right to disclose or not our personal information to third parties, without letting anybody bother us with unsolicited communications if we do not want to be contacted.

It’s important to tell your users up front what types of information you might collect about them. By posting a privacy policy on your website and either assuring your visitors that you will not collect their information, or allowing them to opt-out, you improve the credibility of your website immensely. Follow these simple steps to write a privacy policy for your website....