Basic Internet Skills Category Archive

Want to learn some basic internet skills to make surfing the net easier and safer? We have a collection on basic internet skills posts below which include how to use different browsers, email, Google services and Yahoo! services.

Basic Internet Skills Subcategories

The Basic Internet Skills category archive of posts has been further divided into the following subcategories:

How to Set Up a Google Analytics Account

Setting up a Google Analytics account is not too difficult. You can expand on the basic instructions provided in this tutorial by setting up reports, goals and linking it to your Adwords account.

Google Analytics is a great supplement to your web log reports available on your web hosting account or if you don’t have web log stats available with your hosting account.

Improve Internal Linking Using Google Webmaster Tools

Internal link building is one of the easiest search engine optimization tasks you can do yourself. Learn how to use Google Webmaster Tools to find pages on your site that need some internal link loving.

Create a Gravatar

Improve your world wide prescence by learning what a Gravatar is, how to create a Gravatar and how to use a Gravatar.

Create a Google Profile

Created a Google profile yet? Learn how with our create a Google profile tutorial.

Site Ownership Verification Yahoo! Site Explorer

Yahoo! Site Explorer gives you detailed information about your website or blog once registered and site ownership has been verified.

To verify ownership of your sites at Yahoo! you need to log into your Yahoo! account first. If you do not have a Yahoo! Id yet, see Create Yahoo! ID Account first to sign up.

Create Yahoo! ID Account

Yahoo! has a bunch of services available. You need a Yahoo! id to use them. Learn how to sign up for a Yahoo! id.

Verify Site Ownership Google Webmaster Tools

To start using Google Webmaster Tools you first have to add your site to your Webmaster Tools account then verify site ownership. We will be covering the two easier ways to verify site ownership for the average website/blog owner. Verifying ownership for Google Webmaster Tools seems to be a problem for some people. Not sure [...]

Yahoo! Site Explorer Overview

If you like to collect statistics about your website or blog you may want to add Yahoo!’s Site Explorer to your source of statistics. Like Google’s Webmaster Tools, this is a web based service. i.e. you have to login to see the information collected.

Yahoo! Site Explorer does provide some information (that anyone can see) without site ownership verification but to get all the information Yahoo! has you have to register your site and verify ownership.

Google Webmaster Tools Overview

Google Webmaster Tools provides website and blog owners with a free set of statistics about their site. You might consider using Google Webmaster Tools if your web hosting does not provide a very good statistics program or want to supplement your web hosting stats program with additional information. All that is required to get started is a Google Account and going through the verification process.

What is a FTP Client?

Learn what a FTP client is, how you can use FTP to upload and download files and content to your website or blog, how FTP clients work and how to set up your FTP client software.