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These articles were published in the Cozahost newsletter and can be worth a great deal of money in time saved and business gained.

Spam

Seems like you volunteered to receive spam?
If you follow these golden rules, chances are you can stay spam-free; but you need to make sure that your friends and contacts also follow these rules otherwise they may inadvertently give your email address to spammers.  We also cover software you can use to cut down on the amount of spam you receive and how you can fight back.

How ISPs can help to block spam before it reaches your inbox
ISPs can (and do) play a large role in limiting the amount of spam received by their clients - but keeping the junk out is a more difficult task than most people know.  We explain what spammers do to avoid detection and how we succeed in blocking 99% of incoming spam.

Web site design and internet marketing

Common mistakes in web design
Your web site is in many cases the first impression a potential customer gets about your business.  You have about 30 seconds to make that impression count.  Unfortunately all the good intentions in the world will not make your web site effective (at selling and persuading) if it is badly designed. We discuss the most common errors in this article.

Web site optimization with doorway pages
Almost 400 million people use the internet daily. Almost 90% of them use search engines - such as Google for instance - to find what they are looking for. The search engine offers you an indexed list of a couple of thousand possibilities - or even a few million in some cases - to choose from. To have your website on top of that list of references can be quite something! Just to be in the top 10 positions is an enormous achievement and can be extremely profitable.  In this article we give you some practical tips on how to achieve a good ranking.

Email auto responders
Perhaps an idea of email auto responders a few years back could have made you a million bucks, but today, if you don’t use similar technology, it might cost you a million bucks in lost opportunities.  Read this article to see how you can use this powerfully simple technology to turbo charge your web site and business.

Interview with a 19 year old web entrepreneur
Meet 19-year-old Jermaine Griggs - a college student who earned $200,000 from his HearandPlay.com web site last year.  We thought we should share this interview with you because he didn't start with any kind of special knowledge or a whole lot of money. In fact, he grew up in a rough neighborhood where his life could have easily gone wrong. The most interesting thing is that he is not a computer wizard - but a piano teacher.  Find out how he did it in this article.

Internet

So you want an internet connection?
For the un-initiated modems, ISDN and ADSL can be daunting. In this article we explain the differences between modem connections, ISDN and ADSL and the role Telkom plays in all this for South African internet users.  No technical jargon.  Save to read. :-)

"eCommerce" - an introduction to the term
The term is so vague and misused, you it is bound to start a lively and entertaining conversation, so – to help you win the inevitable arguments, wagers, debates, and fist fights lets have a look at what this “ecommerce” thing is and how it works.

What is in a (internet domain) name?
Domain names drive the internet - without them the net will be to complicated to use.  We explore how domain names work, why we need them and how it applies to you.

How search engines and their spiders work
Understanding how search engines work, and how they use spiders will help you to optimize your own web site to bring in many more potential cleints - it will also help you to understand why it can be either very difficult or very easy to find the information you are looking for on the internet.

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