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Newsletter Archive: 2008
Quality BrowseRank Strategies
A few days ago I reported on how BrowseRank goes beyond PageRank to rank websites according to user behavior. Modern search engines tend to rank websites by relevancy and importance, and of course their algorithms can be gamed.

Date: 2008-09-03
Check Marketing Off Your To Do List with VerticalResponse
VerticalResponse makes online surveys an easy item to check off your to-do list (and it's affordable, too!) You don't have to be a big company or hire a market research team, simply use VerticalResponse Surveys to understand what makes your customers tick.

Date: 2008-08-28
Easy Solutions To Common Wordpress Mistakes
1. Problem: The homepage doesn't target a specific keyword combination that people actually search for. Solution: Add specific keywords to the homepage title, use a plugin like ALL in One SEO Pack to rewrite the default wordpress titles.

Date: 2008-08-18
SEO Meta Description Tags
Recently I decided to start compiling a series of search engine optimization tips. Each search engine optimization tip will be very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather "short and sweet" and directly to the point.

Date: 2008-07-29
Check Marketing Off Your To Do List with VerticalResponse
You don't have to be a big company or hire a market research team, simply use VerticalResponse surveys to understand what makes your customers tick. Choose from a range of pre-built survey templates, or create your own!

Date: 2008-07-24
Access Your PC From Anywhere
Here's how it works: You simply log on to GoToMyPC and your office desktop instantly appears on that computer. It's so easy! You have full access to all your files, programs, email and network.

Date: 2008-07-21
Five Laws For Online Publishing
Writing for buyers vs writing for cynics. 1. Most popular free online content contains factual errors, but it is still popular due to an affinity readers have for the author, and/or the ease of understanding what they are writing.

Date: 2008-07-16
Once You Publish Content, Don't Move It!
I used to think that this was obvious because I have been doing SEO for too long. *lol* But I found that there are many clients that still do not know the single most important SEO strategy for content: What I mean is, don't change the URL where the content lives.

Date: 2008-06-30
How To Increase The Google Crawl Rate For Your Website
Over at the Search Engine Journal, the resident writer Ann Smarty has written an extremely interesting post about how Webmasters can increase the Google Crawl rate for their websites. It is every important to understand one simple concept and it is that, you can never force or cheat Googlebot into crawling your website.

Date: 2008-06-25
Rackspace Hosting: The Smart and Cost-Effective Solution
Peace of mind. It comes from knowing that your mission critical IT needs are in the expert hands of the world's hosting leader, Rackspace Hosting. We're the smart and cost-effective solution for those needing 100% network uptime, responsive support, Microsoft technical expertise and a secure, high-end infrastructure.

Date: 2008-06-12
Dot Me Domain Names Might Target Social MEdia Sites
In keeping with the focus on user generated content from social MEdia sites, it could be that this new domain name may actually get legs and walk away with a target audience currently using .name domains.

Date: 2008-06-03
The Best Contact Form You Will Ever Use
Don't you wish you could get more information from those that fill out your web site's contact form? How did you find us? What search engine did you use? Where are you?!? Over the past few weeks I've been testing the appropriately named "Best Contact Form "-appropriate, because it is the best contact form I've ever used!

Date: 2008-05-14
High-Quality Backlinks Can Improve Your PageRank
Online marketers often vie for the very important free traffic that they can obtain from Google's natural search results. Those top 10 rankings are based on two crucial factors: unique, well-written, valuable content, and high-quality, one-way backlinks which, for many, represent the larger challenge.

Date: 2008-04-30
Mailtrust: Experience Email Relief
It's Our Commitment to Your Email Satisfaction... Our Promise speaks to the core values of our company and our commitment to deliver a reliable and feature-rich email experience. We know how much your business depends on our service so we take this promise very seriously.

Date: 2008-04-28
Get paid to give away business resources
Guaranteed payouts — We guarantee that publishers will make a minimum of $1.50 per qualified offer. With that being said, payouts range usually range from $2.00 to north of $20.00 per action depending on the content.

Date: 2008-04-21
A Hosting Company Built Around Customers' Needs
Our mission is to keep your IT infrastructure up and running, so your company can focus on growing and evolving. Every day we make this real for our customers, by expertly managing servers, critical applications and networks for them. Your people and resources will no longer have to be tied up with constantly supporting your infrastructure. Instead, they'll be devoted to the high-value projects that will shape your business. That is why Rackspace is the leader in IT Hosting and Fanatical Support.

Date: 2008-04-17
Blog Marketing Tips
How many times have you visited one of the many "professional" blog advice sites, and left with little more advice than the ubiquitous (and unhelpful) "build great content?" If building a great blog was as simple as writing quality posts, we'd all be tied for number one on the Technorati Top 100 blog list.

Date: 2008-04-02
SEO Titles For High Rankings
As we all spend more time in social media, such as Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon or Sphinn, the ability to write catchy headlines becomes as important as it ever was. If someone skimming through a list of possible topics is intrigued by your headline, then they may dip in to find out what it's all about.

Date: 2008-03-12
Instantly Find Competitor's Adwords Keywords and More!
See Adwords trends by monitoring your competition. You'll be able to uncover which keywords are actually turning them a profit. Then, take those keywords and use them to promote your own product!

Date: 2008-02-25
Blogging Tips And Strategy
The Online Marketing Blog recently ran a poll asking readers which SEO tactic they plan on using most in 2008 and the winner with 25% of the vote was Blogging. This doesn't surprise me because blogging is an excellent way to manage PR, offer technical support as well as interact with users.

Date: 2008-02-13
Simple Business Postage Solutions
Enjoy the ease of the new and improved mailstation 2™ system. Now you have access to postage anytime, online or through the phone. With these two ways to connect, easily track and refill your postage anytime 24/7.

Date: 2008-02-11
19 Steps For A 20 Minute Usability Review
Performing a complete website review is rarely easy. I've found that you can start a site analysis intending to spend just a few minutes looking over it only to find that it quickly spirals into a multi-hour marathon of research.

Date: 2008-01-30
Increasing Your Site's Popularity Isn't Easy, But It's Possibles
For whatever reason, I seem to be running into people lately who are unhappy with their Internet marketing results. They've been trying a lot of things, but they are getting tired. They tell me that "a small business can't break into the game anymore" or "my industry has already picked the winners and losers" or some other rationalization that explains why they can't change their company's trajectory.

Date: 2008-01-16