Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Advertise to a Targeted Market ::

www.n-georgia.com came online in 1998. It features Georgia outdoor recreation and receives up to 3 million hits per month. It has over 200 pages of fun and inexpensive things to do in Georgia.

Georgia businesses that advertise in www.n-georgia.com are receiving high rates of return. The average ad click-through rates vary between 4.78% - 9.42%! Over 14,000 ads were clicked on during October 2004!

Advertising opportunities include: coupons, banner ads, web page packages and websites. E-commerce is featured as well.

Starting in 2005, there will be monthly giveaways including free egg

sculptures, massages and annual state park passes. This will bring even more visitors to the website.

If you are in a Georgia tourism, hospitality or recreation industry, your business will advertise successfully in www.n-georgia.com. These are the "target markets" visitors look for in the website.

For more information, please call 770-965-5166 and ask for Sandy.

About the Author

Sandra Earon specializes in graphic design, web development and Internet marketing. In 1998, she created a website for Georgia recreation - www.n-georgia.com. It is #1 in Google, Yahoo, MSN and more for "Georgia Outdoor Recreation."

Monday, May 12, 2008

Seo Friendly URL's --Seo Tips

To turn SEF support ON:
1. You must run Apache
2. You must have mod_rewrite enabled
3. Your server must allow .htaccess override
4. Set $mosConfig_sef= “1″ in configuration.php (if you cannot do it in the global config for any reason. If your file is UNWRITABLE you will need to change the file permissions of the file.
5. Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess
You will notice that sections/content/items have nice URLs like:http://www.site.com/content/view/5/2/and components have URLs like:http://www.site.com/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,3/
Search Engine Friendly URLS (SEF) Troubleshooting:
1. Check you run Apache
o To check this go to administration > System > System Info.
o Server type should be listed next to Web Server. SEF will not run on IIS.
2. You must have mod_rewrite enabled
o To check this go to administration > System > System Info. Click on PHP Information tab. Scroll down until you find Loaded Modules row. mod_rewrite should be listed here. If it’s not loaded ask your web host to activate mod_rewrite.
3. Your server must allow .htaccess override
o To check this delete everything from your .htaccess file and write a simple command here, for example:
o Code: “Redirect /google.html http://www.google.com”
o Now point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/google.htmIf it redirects you to Google.com then you are OK.
4. Set $mosConfig_sef= “1″ in configuration.php
o You can also activate SEF under Site > Global Configuration.
5. Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess
o Remember! This can be done with a FTP program. Note the dot in the beginning! Also note that you can’t do this on windows, you must rename it directly on server.
Note that SEF is turned OFF by default.
Double check you renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess and that you turned SEF on in configuration.php.