Marketing Your Business - How Do I Adapt To The Internet?

by Admin


19 Jun
 None    Site Promotion

by Martin Lemieux
http://www.smartads.info

The way we do business is changing rapidly. From VOIP, video conferencing, email support, telephone answering services, and the almighty internet. As a business owner we are faced with hundreds of decisions our parents and grandparents never had to contend with.

Some of you keep hearing from other business associates that internet marketing is the greatest method of increasing business and building a foundation for customer support. The only problem is, you've just learned how to send emails to people! Never mind learning about SEO, web design strategies, content analysis, pay per click, ROI, etc!

Google's Sitemaps service

by Admin


17 Jun
 None    Search Engines

Copyright Axandra.com
Web site promotion software tools

Last week, Google released its new Google Sitemaps service. Despite the name, Google Sitemaps is not a tool that creates sitemaps for your web site. Google Sitemaps is another way to submit your web pages to Google.

The True Power Of Search Engines

by Admin


16 Jun
 None    Internet Related

by Rob Sullivan
http://www.enquiro.com

This is a true story.

If you live on or near the west coast of North America you likely had a stressful hour or so this past evening.

This is because a tsunami warning had been issued for all coastal areas between the California/Mexican border and Alaska.

We were watching a Seattle TV station at the time, it was about 8:15 when they interrupted the show we were watching to inform us of the tsunami warning. But there was very few details other than an earthquake happened off the coast of California and there was a warning issued. We had no idea who was affected or for how long.

So I decided to see what the net had for information.


Blink, Thin Slicing and the Art of Search Marketing

by Admin


15 Jun
 None    Internet Related

by Gord Hotchkiss
http://www.enquiro.com

In Malcolm Gladwell's book 'Blink' he examines how we make decisions in a split second, and how these intuitive decisions are often more valid than ones we labor over for months.

While Gladwell's book examines how intuitive decisions are made in a number of situations, it's fascinating to apply his insights to how we search.

After asking thousands of people to think about they search (through all our research, we're probably closing in on 3000 now) only one thing has been consistent in our findings. People don't really know. In some cases, we think we know, but our interactions happen so quickly with the search results page and at such a sub conscious level that we're often at a loss to explain how we chose the results we did. The fact is, the minute we ask people to slow down and start examining their search interaction, that interaction changes and we don't get a true picture.


Other Online Sources

by Admin


13 Jun
 None    Internet Related

by Rob Sullivan
http://www.searchengineposition.com

Last week I wrote about the different market shares that the main engines have, and how maybe many online marketers put too much emphasis on Google and should focus on others.

Today I'm going to go even deeper and say that perhaps focusing on 3 or 4 engines may not be a complete strategy for you.

Sure they account for almost 75% of the traffic, but that means you could be losing 25% of your traffic by ignoring the other engines and directories out there.

It is true that there are many popular meta search engines out there that have the potential to drive significant traffic to your site, and that they get their results from the main 3 or 4 engines, but you may not realize how popular they can be. In fact, there are 4 engines in the top 10 that you may not have heard of, or have dismissed altogether: My web search, My search, Dogpile, and AOL.


Web Site Strategies that Work

by Admin


12 Jun
 None    Internet Related

by Philippa Gamse
http://www.CyberSpeaker.com

Philippa Gamse, a Web strategy consultant and professional speaker sheds more light on how to study your own web site for further analysis and how to take it to the next level.


Icon Empire announces version 2.0 of IconEmpire

by Admin


12 Jun
 None    News

IconEmpire 2.0 - New all-in-one graphic design toolkit for software developers

Icon Empire is excited to announce the release of IconEmpire 2.0, a new versatile toolkit for creating and editing all kinds of graphics required in the software development cycle. Compatible with all Windows OS, the application allows developers to design professional-quality icons, static or animated cursors and interface elements - all in one easy to learn and use program environment.

IconEmpire 2.0 is a powerful utility for creating and editing icons and cursors in standard and custom sizes with the color depth up to 32-bit True Color. Developers can give their graphics an added gloss with numerous visual effects, ranging from semi-transparency to drop shadows. In addition to graphics design, the program allows for extracting and modifying standard icons or cursors stored in Windows executables, libraries and cursor files.

What is Wiki?

by Admin


11 Jun
 None    Internet Related

by S. Housley
http://www.feedforall.com

Wiki is web server software that allows users to contribute content. Collaboration is the key to Wiki, which is designed as a powerful system for online communities to build web pages and web sites. Unlike blogs and forums, all users are allowed to contribute and edit existing content. Wiki is derived from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki" meaning "quick". The concept behind a Wiki is that collaboration on projects will move it along quicker.

Wikis generally allow web pages to be written, edited and created collectively in a web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and simple text. Most Wikis are open, and allow any user the ability to edit the contents of a Wiki web page. While some say this opens the concept to abuse, Wiki moderators and self-policing in the Wiki sector appear to be taking hold. Wiki supporters generally feel that it is generally easier to correct mistakes than create the content from scratch. Wikipedia is a standing symbol of what many would consider a succesful Wiki.


Google's PageRank - should it be discontinued?

by Admin


10 Jun
 None    Internet Related

Copyright by Axandra.com
Web site promotion software

As you might have noticed, Google wasn't displaying the PageRank information from 27 May to 30 May. The PageRank bar in the Google toolbar was grayed out for every web page.

Many webmasters speculated that Google might have discontinued the PageRank information. However, it seems that this was only a temporary glitch and that Google will keep the PageRank display for some time.


Bloglines Tracks Half a Billion Blog Articles

by Admin


09 Jun
 None    News

Doubles Index Size in Six Months

OAKLAND, Calif., June 8, 2005 -- Ask Jeeves(R), Inc. (ASKJ) today announced that Bloglines(TM) (www.bloglines.com), the world's most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content, has set a new standard among newsreaders: 500 million blog and news feed articles are now stored in the service's comprehensive, searchable database.

Bloglines' milestone reflects the meteoric rise in popularity of blogs as a new communication channel, the development of RSS-type technologies for content syndication, and the creation of user-friendly newsreaders to simplify the process of subscribing to blogs and news feeds of interest. Between January and June of this year, the size of the Bloglines index doubled. And each day Bloglines adds 2 million to 2.7 million new blog and news feed articles to the database, drawn from a diverse range of sources in many languages -- from blogs about knitting to major online newspaper feeds.

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