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Biz Bits Ezine ISSN 1467-8020
Edited & Published by Azam Corry
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In this issue:
1. Intro - Some Goodies For You
2. Cash From Content - Google's Adsense and CBPlugin
3. The Formula Of A Self-Made Millionaire - SeLFTech
4. Feature Article:
"Why You Need Custom Error Pages And How To Make Them Pay"
By Azam Corry
5. Free Tools at NowSell.com
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Hi,
How are you?
I hope you and your family are well and business is good.
I've a new article for you today, but before that, there's a few
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In the other, Yanik reveals 7 powerfull yet simple psychological
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If you use email at all in your marketing then you'll find this
lot particularly useful.
Right then, that's all from me for now. Hope you enjoy the
article. It was too long to run in one go, so I had to split it
up. I'll send you part 2 in the next issue. It covers some good
strategies you can use right away, so look out for it.
All the best,
Azam
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Cash From Content
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There are two new, powerful services you can now use to quickly
and easily add relevant, revenue-generating advertising to your
web pages.
The beauty of both is that you just paste a bit of code into the
HTML of your page and then forget about it. Both systems update
the ads they show automatically!
Google's AdSense program -
This displays Google's AdWords PPC text ads on your pages. You
simply paste an identical bit of code on every page where you
want the ads to appear, and Google's technology matches the ads
to the subject matter of each individual page.
The system works quite well, and you have have a choice of 2 code
snippets for different layouts. You can either have the ad block
displayed horizontally, consuming the same amout of space as a
standard 468x60 banner and showing up to 2 ads; or vertically
down the page in a 120x600 skyscraper format showing up to 4 ads.
You get a share of the fee Google charges the advertiser for each
clickthrough, although Google won't tell you exactly how much -
you just have to "suck it and see" (you're not even allowed to
disclose your results). Although you're not likely to earn that
much on each click, the rates seem quite generous, and if you
have a lot of pages, it can soon start to add up.
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The CBPlugin -
By pasting the supplied code into your HTML you can automatically
display ads on your pages for products from the Clickbank
marketplace, or from Internet marketers Terry Dean, Armand Morin
and James Martell.
You can have it show a random rotating group of the current top
3-5 best selling products in 4 categories complete with a graphic
image of the product and short paragraph of sales copy, or you
can display a list of up to 5 text links.
In either format you can also make your own custom selections.
You can customize the text, HTML and look of the ads, and a nice
touch is that your Clickbank affiliate ID is encrypted and
encoded into every link, so you are protected from commission
theft.
I must say I like this. It has to be the easiest way there is to
keep your site up to date with the latest "hot" items. Just
set-it-and-forget-it, and let the commissions take care of
themselves!
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Feature Article:
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"Why You Need Custom Error Pages And How To Make Them Pay"
By Azam Corry
Just about every website has a broken link here or there that no
longer connects to the page specified in the URL.
These broken links loose you visitors and cost you money.
Often what happens is you delete or move a page, and then forget
to update some of the other pages on your site that link to it,
or other sites such as search engines still display links to the
old URL.
When a surfer clicks on one of these links, the server runs off
to grab the page as usual, but on finding nothing there sends a
"page not found" server error 404 to the Web browser.
|Why The Standard Solution Sucks|
A server's standard error page is plain ugly. But worse than that
it leaves the surfer stranded at a dead-end. Their only options
are to hit the back button, or close the window.
You've just lost a potential customer!
But it doesn't have to be that way ...
|Creating Custom Error Pages|
Many web hosts now offer the option of creating your own custom
error pages for this and other common server errors through a
simple online control panel. If your host provides this
function, take advantage of it right away.
All it involves is selecting another page of your own design that
the server will look for when there is an error, instead of
displaying its standard error page.
We'll go into the details of what you might want to put on this
page later.
For now, just log-in to your website's online file manager and
make a copy of your site index file, saving it as "404.html" in
the same directory (or copy the file on your PC and then upload
it).
In your control panel options, look for "error pages" and choose
404.html as the file to be displayed whenever a requested page
cannot be found. (You could just select your existing index.html
as the error page, but I suggest you make a new page - you'll see
why later).
Now every time a page isn't found, instead of seeing the
unhelpful error page, the surfer will automatically be sent to
this copy of your homepage.
|Making A Custom Error Page Manually|
If you don't have a control panel, you can set-up your error page
manually. First of all, make a copy of your website homepage on
your PC and save it as "404.html".
Next you need to create or edit a special file named ".htaccess"
stored in your site's root directory.
Log-in to your server via FTP and check if there is already a
.htaccess file in your root directory (where all your web pages
and folders are, e.g., "www" or "html_docs").
You may need to adjust the settings of your FTP software so that
it shows you hidden files on the server (i.e., those that begin
with a period, "."), so you don't accidentally overwrite an
existing .htaccess file, deleting its contents.
Beware: overwriting an existing .htaccess file could make your
website inaccessible! Although seldom the case, your host may
have put some critical information inside.
Likewise, if there is already a .htaccess file there, do NOT
delete it. Download it to your PC, make a back-up copy, and then
open it in a plain text editor (like Notepad). Add the following
command on a new line below whatever else is in the file and then
save it:
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
This tells the server to show "404.html" as its error page (what
the control panel does is automatically add this line to the file
for you).
If there isn't already a .htaccess there, create a new plain text
file on your PC and paste the above into it. Save the file as
"htaccess" (or ".htaccess" if your PC displays file names that
start with a period).
FTP both this file and the 404.html page you just saved to your
website root. If you upload the file as "htaccess" you will need
to use your FTP software to rename it as ".htaccess" on the
server.
Now you have created your custom error page, test it by typing an
URL to a page on your site with a mistake in it. You should be
instantly redirected to your new 404.html page.
If you get a server error, it means you've made a mistake in your
.htaccess file. Revert to your backup copy and then check to make
sure you've not added any characters or spaces that shouldn't be
there.
Once you have this working, you can use the same method to create
custom pages for other server error messages. These are the most
common, with the relevant .htaccess commands in brackets:
400 Bad Request (ErrorDocument 400 /400.html)
401 Authorization Required (ErrorDocument 401 /401.html)
403 Forbidden (ErrorDocument 403 /403.html)
404 Not Found (ErrorDocument 404 /404.html)
405 Method Not Allowed (ErrorDocument 405 /405.html)
In part two of this article, we'll look at different content you
can use on your custom error pages to get much more from them.
There's a ton of great stuff covered, so don't miss it.
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