Dot Com Note

Getting free inbound links for your site is one of the oldest method to drive web traffic. The importance of inbound links is time less. However, the number does not matter. It is the quality. Quality inbound links are the staple of search engine for ranking a site.

What are things you should not do to obtain quality links? Say no to any automated or manual link exchange program. They are useless; they don’t benefit you and sometimes the search engines may even penalize your site for such links. Stop asking for link exchange from other sites where your links are placed in a link farm on a page along with hundreds of other links.

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The number one strategy is to write articles with your resource box attached. Your resource box should mention your expertise in the subject and only one link to your site’s home page. If you have already started frowning on the idea of writing articles to promote your site, you are not alone. Most probably, you already know that writing article for site promotion is not a new strategy and it has been going for the past few years.

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How do I make money online? That is the question everybody’s mind when they hear great potential for making money online using the new found medium called the web.  If you are already prowling the web to get more information about making money online, you have undoubtedly come across product launches, audio and video streaming, teleseminars, and joint ventures, etc.

The gurus that are selling these products and services are making money hand over fist. In all fairness, these products and services are genuine and valuable to the folks who buy them.

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But there is another side of the story. There are thousands of people on the web making thousands of dollars a month without spending a lot of money. They do not fly to every seminar in the country just to make contacts.

They rarely do joint ventures, because frankly, no one knows who they are. They literally sit in front of their computers in their underwear, work hard, and wait for the money to roll in.

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As a web professional, one must have a good understanding of copyrights, patents, and trademarks. I basic question in many web designers’ mind is, “how do I do copyright registration of my design? You may also be thinking about patenting your ideas and wondering what is patent pending. You may have just coined a great word and thinking about trademarking it.

A copyright is the expression of an idea. You cannot copyright the idea itself. However, ideas can be patented and I will talk about patents later.

Let’s consider the example of a story: a poor man who found lots of cash on his way back to his home from his work. He decided to keep the cash to improve his financial situation. But he could not sleep at night because he was haunted by strange voices that told him to find the owner and return the cash. This idea cannot be protected. Anybody can write a short story based on the idea. What is protected is how the author expresses the idea in the form of texts, illustrations, drawings, photographs, etc.

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