With billions upon billions of people on the Earth and an estimated fifty seven million square miles of land, who would have thought that it would be possible to interact with virtually every single person from the comfort of your home or office. No, I'm not talking about talking to them over the phone or writing to them by mail but being able to interact with them via the Internet. Now more than ever, more and more people own computers with Internet connections and are surfing the web.

With billions of Internet users jumping from site to site, there will be those that will stumble upon your website. The question is, do you know anything about those website visitors? Are you getting detailed reports about your web visitors? If not, then as a webmaster you need to seek out the proper website visitor tracking software.

One that will be able to tell you everything about your visitors, like what they're doing when they visit your site or how long they are staying on your website? What links are they clicking? All these questions and more need to be answered. So if you are going to use a visitor tracking software, you might as well use the best. Provided by the advertising behemoth Google incorporated, Google Analytics is just the tool to use.

Google is a multi-billion dollar company that has resources to craft an excellent website visitor tracking software for all webmaster everywhere. This versatile services has an array of features including fast implementation, geo-targeting, customizable dashboards and more. The best part about Google Analytics is that its free. Any and every webmaster can afford the service. So if you are looking for a website visitor tracking software, I highly recommend Google Analytics.

If you are wondering why it is important to keep track of your website visitors, here are few reasons why. First, if you know important information like what your top exit pages are, then you can optimize those pages to preserve your traffic. Secondly, if you have ads on your website, you can use the site overlay feature to see what links your visitors tend to click on the most and reposition those links and place ads there to increase your ad revenue exponentially.

You see, Google Analytics can provide you with tons of valuable information. Information which can increase the productivity and effectiveness of your website. But I must say that there may be some what of a learning curve to the service. You may need to visit the Google help center or watch high quality training videos from programs like GlyticVideos. Once you've gotten a great understanding of Google Analytics, then you can fully utilize and get the most out of the service.

Did you know that your css code could be slowing down your website? Did you also know that there is a free solution out there that can help you optimize or reformat your css code for speed and readability? This article is going to explain the benefits of optimizing your css code and the reasons why all web designers should be doing it. First we need to take into account the 2 reasons why you would want to reformat your css: readability and optimization.

Readability

Having nicely formatted css that easily readable is very helpful when you are developing a site. Most of us (me included) can get pretty sloppy when in a hurry to develop code, and a formatter can really help out to make it more readable.

On development teams where both Macs and PCs are used, sometimes line breaks are not read correctly across platforms and your css can end up all on one line. A formatter can help get your code looking pretty again.

Optimization

The opposite of readability is optimization. One problem with CSS is that it can get pretty file-size heavy when designing with it - especially on complex layouts. Optimizing your CSS will strip out all unnecessary characters and leave your CSS lean and mean.

Optimizing css is great to do once you've finished your site and don't plan to work on the design very much anymore.

The css formatter is a great tool because it can do both! You can format for readability while you are designing, optimize when you go live, and reformat it for readability if you ever need to work on it again. It's really a 'win win' thing to do.

There are many ways to monetize websites for multiple income streams. And this article is just about that. Read on to discover 3 most popular ways to monetize websites made available to you for free.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is the most popular among all webmasters since it is the easiest monetization plan available online. All you have to do is just add the AdSense code in your web pages to let Google decides what the best possible ad for that particular page is. By the end of the month, you will be paid according to how many clicks you got and how much the advertisers are willing to pay for each click.

The only downside is its earnings potential can be so low since it is at the end of the advertising value chain. But what you can do is continue building more contents (at least 150 web pages) based on your keyword research, optimize each page for specific keywords and market it to the whole wide world. By doing so, you can get maximum SEO benefits and make your visitors keep on coming (and eventually, keep on clicking to your AdSense ads)

Affiliate Program

By joining affiliate programs or through some sort of affiliate networks, you can have the opportunity to sell others' products and earn commissions for each sale. It is just like helping others to sell their products and get paid for your marketing effort. And the major benefits of selling affiliate products are:

• No product development: The owner had created the product
• No sales copywriting: The sales pages are already written
• No merchant account: You don't need to process the order
• No customer service: The merchant deal with any customer problem, not you.

So basically, you are leveraging on others' product to make money online. However, be careful and curious if the affiliate networks are charging you money since most of them appear to be kind of get-rich-quick scam. Nevertheless, you can start with established affiliate network such as Clickbank and LinkShare.

Sponsored Links

Sponsored links are sites that pay for placement in web space, which in this case can be in one (or all) of your web pages. The advertisers are willing to pay for such placement mainly to attract traffic from your website visitors. Depending on the number of visitors, you can charge them a once-off payment or recurring monthly fee. Either ways, you can monetize your website the easily.

In fact, this can be great income sources if your website enjoys high Page Rank (PR) of 3 and above. However, be very careful not to be penalized by Google. If you do, your website can be dropped from Google index since they hate webmasters who sell text links in their website for PR trade. What you can do is to keep your text link ads relevant to your website theme as much as possible so that Google do not find it too obvious.

Therefore, choose a website builder that can cater all of the monetization plans. After all, you don't want to limit your earnings potential due to software inflexibility, do you? After using SiteBuildIt for few years, I found that it has the capability to monetize website seamlessly.