For those of you interested in building your own online business you might be interested in a new product I've come across that provides case studies of real people that have created successful online business that make a minimum of $100,000 a year.
Each month it focuses on two businesses and through intense 'question and answer' interviews dissect each business, exposing all the tools, tips and strategies they used to start, build and grow their companies to their current level of success.
It's completely free to try as there's a trial subscription available.
Here's the link if you're interested in finding out more. The page looks a bit naff but the content is good:
Most website owners are aware of the usefulness of sitemaps in promoting their content to search engines. However, it has been frustrating up until now having to register them with each search engine and continually ping them when changes are made.
Well, I found out great news the other day that Yahoo has decided to start supporting the sitemap.org XML sitemap format rather than their own text format making site maintenance much easier. This means that you only need to produce one sitemap to let both Google and Yahoo know about updates to the content on your site.
Also, they are now supporting the new Sitemap location in the robots.txt file. This new tag allows search engines to auto discover where you have located your sitemap rather than making you submit them to each engine in turn.
To take advantage of this feature just add the following line to your robots.txt file:
Sitemap:
The should be the complete URL to the sitemap, such as http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.
It doesn't matter where in the file you put it, and if you are using a sitemap index for multiple sitemaps you can just put the location of that rather than individual listings for each file.
Setting up a website takes a lot of time and energy, which I seem to be lacking! I'm still holding down a full time job, as I can not afford to give it up at the moment. I have joined up with a friend to work on my site, but just finding the time to do it is hard.
Everyday tasks have to be put off until the weekend or evening, as I don't have time in the day, but all I really want to do is work on my new company. I have started using priority lists and have put together a time plan too, which is helping. I guess all entrepreneurs have to go through the tough stuff to get to get results.
At the end of the day, I want to do this and to make my company a success, so if I have to cut back on my sleep and work harder I will!
I love going on holiday. Not just for the obvious reasons of relaxing and having fun, but because it gives a chance to reflect, step back and think about new plans, business ideas and thoughts.
I had another idea for a new online company whilst away and thought that you’d find it useful if I shared my experience of building it with you. Encompassing everything that Cyberneur is about, I’m going to use all areas to build and grow my new site.
I’ll keep a blog to illustrate what is involved in building a site and let you know of any good/bad experiences I have along the way. For those of you considering launching your own website, I'm hoping you'll find this useful. My new site will be quite simple, but will provide a platform for expansion in the future. I'll tell you more over the coming days....
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One of the benefits of running a website as opposed to a more "fixed" bricks and mortar company is the fact tha you can run your business from anywhere in the world.
I am currently vacationing in Turkey, at the wonderful Kempinski Hotel in Barbaros Bay. My wife and I had specifically checked that the hotel had WiFi, so that we could manage our online companies whilst away.
Unfortunately, nature had other plans! We arrived to find forest fires were raging right next to our hotel and no one was allowed access in or out. Obviously there was no telling when we would be able to get in so we were provided with alternative accomodation but without easy access to the internet.
Fortunately we were able to check into the hotel the next day but came across another problem. Because Cyberneur is relatively new the site DNS entry hadn't propagated to the server in Turkey so we still couldn't access the site. I noticed that I had set the server up on a shared rather than dedicated IP address and so took the decision to change it (which while affecting users for a short period of time as it made it's way around the world's servers would be better for the long term) Anyway, 24 hours later and we're back up and running.
So, I guess the best laid plans don't always mean things will turn out the way you expect, sometimes life has other ideas :-)
Inside a white-brick house nestled in Houston's leafy Montrose neighborhood, a gray handheld video display sits on the living room coffee table. But this is no ordinary remote control. Called the Insight and made by Tendril, a Boulder startup, the...
