* Write Articles - Article writing is becoming more popular these days. That is because it generates a passive flow of traffic to your business website that continues on for a long time. This allows you to sign up new team members and customers from the writing you have done in the past. Basically, you write Read the rest of this entry »
If you are thinking about using email marketing for your business then have a read of the ‘Webmaster’s Desk’ blog. There is a very useful post on it called, ‘Email Marketing: Three Top Tips’. It has been written by someone with experience and there is a lot of wisdom in it.
It is really important that your emails are not automatically deleted by people because they think it is spam. This post will give you some very good tips to stop this happening!
Email marketing can actually be a really good way of finding new customers; you just have to make sure that you get it right.
There are a lot of people who make some really nice things in their spare time. Just about everyone has at least one friend or relative who enjoys making jewellery, greetings cards or something else.
For anyone that has got an interest in arts or crafts this is a great post. Why not use your skills to make yourself some extra money? People love to buy things that are handmade; there is so much stuff in shops that is just Read the rest of this entry »
I had to send a email out today and I got a bit of perverse pleasure from writting it, basically we are in the situation where we are trying to convince a possible client to leave a big boy and become our client. Which enabel me in a very polit way to rip apart another SEO link building activity. Which mean I have the fantasic chance to write this lovely email:
I have search on yahoo for links to ###### that has been found in the last 3 months. It has returned 61 good results. Which I have then gone through manually, these are my findings.
Out of the 61 links 47 of them will not be counted in google for these reason (20 not Cached, 2 no live links, 3 the link had been removed, 8 were no followed, 2 javascript redirects, 5 errored and 5 were rejected as duplicates)
Out of the 15 links that did count 13 of them were rated as 0 in the google pagerank.
The two that had page rank were:
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Which was a really nice PR 4 links page that had multiple links back to the site with good anchor text.
and
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This was PR 2 blog roll link, this was pretty good to, should stand the test of time.I did the same report on google to see what pages it had picked up in the last month and it returned 4 pages, not all linking, but google only reports 12 links in total (but as we all know google lies).
Press release:
I had a quick look at a press release related to the website and found that it had 9 pages in the google index, probable discredited by the duplicate filter.######
I have seen little follow up news stories related to this, press releases are only really worth something if website pick them up and run stories about them. I saw one press type story when looking at the links:
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This is the only useful news I could find connect to the site. I might have found more if I had increased the time period I was looking at.
Type of links built
Another thing that is worth noting is the manner in which the links have been built apart from the two mentioned above. 70% of the links built were from directories, mainly free low quality ones, 10% were from press release which got caught in the duplicate filter.I hope this help anything else you need please give me a shout.
It's nice to look at someone else handy work. I really do believe we can do a so much better job. We just have better resources and we know what we are doign more that sounds silly but the big boys charge so much more than us and they are lazy by the look of it all they are doing is submitting to hundreds of free or cheap directories.
Anyway just a couple of shout outs to friend Calf implant uk and snack and drink vending machines all very good people. Thanks for the support.
Google is trying to grow market share for its new online payment system, Google Checkout. eBay, however, only allows users of its auction website to accept online payments through its own partner, PayPal. This has frustrated customers, many of whom have had poor experiences with PayPal and put the two internet giants at odds with one another.
Google planned to protest eBay’s payment policies by holding a Let Freedom Ring party to pressure the auction magnate into giving their customers the choice of which payment system to use. The party would be held at the same time and in the same city as the eBay Live Annual Seller’s Conference, and could therefore attract a number of irate eBay users. “We’ll use the same spot where revolutionaries launched the Boston Tea Party to celebrate freedom with free food, free drinks, free live music — even free massages,” Google trumpeted.
EBay wasn’t about to take a slight like that sitting down. They responded by pulling all of their AdWords advertisements from Google’s system. Google immediately realized that the party was going too far and cancelled it.
Despite the party's cancellation, eBay has not restored its AdWords advertisements, which are estimated to be worth more than $200 million to Google, about 2% of the search engine giant’s annual earnings. eBay ranks well in Google’s natural results, so they may not have to go back to paying for their advertisements at all. If eBay drops AdWords ads, Google’s profits could take a big hit.
Google has long spoken out against a Black Hat SEO practice called doorway pages. These pages are highly optimized for certain keywords and contain dozens or hundreds of links in order to get them ranked highly in the search engines. Google will remove doorway pages from the index because they are made for search engines and provide little in the way of useful resources for site visitors.
However, the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog has chimed in on the topic, clarifying that there is a responsible and acceptable way to use these kinds of pages. Pages of links to provide quick and easy navigation through useful content for the site visitors can actually be a helpful SEO practice.
The Google Bloggers refer to a Dutch practice known as startpages, which was started by a website called Startpagina.Nl. Startpages have become popular in the Dutch market, and are NOT against Google webmaster guidelines.
The Google Blog highlights three major differences between doorway pages and startpages:
1. The linked content is unique and useful to visitors
2. The pages provide useful navigation for visitors
3. The links are not primarily a paid service designed to boost Google rankings.
I think this is a great clarification for webmasters. If you have a lot of content that can be grouped by different navigational methods, this could be a really useful tool for you. Now you have Google's blessings to test out the idea, as long as you keep your users' needs firmly in mind.