Internet Marketing Blog by kandi111777

Google Team gives presentation on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

2009-06-26T09:38:00.001-04:00

How to send an email to undisclosed recipients

2009-06-19T08:23:00.001-04:00

This may seem pretty straightforward to other people but I figured if I needed to look it up maybe someone else needs the info as well.

Launch Outlook 2007, and click the button to create a new email message.

In the 'To' address field enter 'Undisclosed Recipients' followed by your e-mail address in braces.
- For example: 'Undisclosed Recipients youremailaddress@gmail.com'
- Side note: If you leave the TO: field blank, the email may bounce as some service providers may filter mark the mail as spam.

In the BCC field, enter the e-mail addresses of those to whom you are sending the message.

Write your message and send your e-mail.

Thank you to Carol's Corner Office at infopackets for the great tips!

Online Video Marketing

2009-06-17T10:37:00.000-04:00

Jivox is an interesting addition to your pay-per-click marketing. They offer online video marketing in a different way.

According to their website, step one is to create your free online video ads. Jivox offers a step-by-step builder and library of videos, images and music that are royalty-free. Our use their QuickStart templates to create your ads. You can also upload your own images or videos of your products or storefronts and create video slide show ads. Then add your headline or special offer and your video ad is ready for online distribution.
Step two is to select your target audience. You can target the whole country or narrow it down to your state or even your city. Geo-targeting capability makes the exact target audience you want to reach possible. Or use Jivox's interactive map to combine multiple geographies to match your requirements.
Step three is the easiest. Tell Jivox how much you want to spend over what time frame. They also offer subscription packages for more savings. For as little as $300, you can get 15,000 full video views on the Jivox Online Publisher Network.

I'd love to hear what anybody else has to say about this service! Have you tried it? If so, did you like it?

A few do's and don'ts for that graduation speech

2009-06-16T11:23:00.001-04:00

A few do's and don'ts for that graduation speech

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Vocaboly - Help with SAT

2009-06-15T17:46:00.002-04:00

Vocaboly is new vocabulary software to help with the TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, SAT and VOA Special English.

If your child/teenager has difficult learning the traditional way, you should check out this software. A free trial download is available. Note: the trial version uses computer voice, after registration, you will get high quality human voice of American accent.

As you all know, I swear by www.download.com. Well here is what their review said:

August 01, 2004: CNET Review

...The clear and direct interface lists all your study options on the main window's left side. We were impressed by the number of ways Vocaboly can help you learn. For example, you can have words and meanings randomly tick across your screen, take a multiple-choice test, spell words when given their definitions, and play several games...

Other awards/nominations include the Shareware Industry Awards Nomination on May 11, 2004:

Vocaboly was nominated for "Best Educational Program or Game"

And the five-cows rating from Tucows.com:

March 5, 2004: Vocaboly got five-cows rating from Tucows.com - the first and most professional software rating website.

Their software includes more than 12,000 words, including meanings, phonetic symbols and pronunciation. You can select a book according to your purpose and English level. Each book contains eight flash cards for focusing on specified words. Each word can be assigned to a difficulty level from 0 to 5, which makes the vocabulary learning very efficient!

You can also create your own books and enjoy all the following innovative features:

Word Ticker. Display words automatically.
Recall. Recall the meaning of the words.
Spelling. Spell words by meaning.
Listening Test. Spell words according to pronunciation.
Multiple-Choice Test. Select correct meaning or word from four choices.
Memory Game. Match the word and meaning.
Star War Game. A shoot game.

Take your username before someone else does!

2009-06-15T16:04:00.001-04:00

Use a great website like KnowEm UserName Check to find all the social websites that you're missing. According to their website, "Don't have time to register for all 120 sites? Let our team do it for you! For $64.95 (about .50 cents a name) we will fill out the registration on all these popular social media sites with your Username and information in about 1 to 5 business days. Don't fall victim to "Cyber Squatting" or social media identity theft - ensure that your username or vanity URL is saved for you!"

Use it or don't complain when someone reserves a name that you think should be yours!

Great tool for Internet Marketing - Number 2

2009-06-13T16:03:00.001-04:00

WhosTalkin (http://whostalkin.com/)
- A great website to find who is talking about yourself or your clients.
- Checks website such as: Backtype, Blogdigger, FriendFeed, Google Blog Search, IceRocket, identi.ca, Indianpad, Myspace Blogs, Plazoo, Plurk, Social Mention, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress.com, Ask News, BBC, Google News, ITN, Microsoft Live News, Newspad PRWeb, Techmeme, Topix, Yahoo News, bebo, Facebook, Friendster, hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Myspace, Netlog, Ning, xanga, Blinkx, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Revver, Viddler, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, YouTube, DeviantART, Flickr, Fotki, PhotoBucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Yahoo Image Search, BoardReader, BoardTracker, Omgili, Blinklist, Blogmarks, del.icio.us, Faves, instablogs, Jumptags, Metafilter, MyWeb, Newsvines, Reddit and WordPress.com.
- Again, you can use the Excel 2007 "Import Web Query" option to gather the data in an easy-to-use format.

How to Integrate your Blog into Facebook

2009-06-12T14:01:00.000-04:00

Login to Facebook and click on your Profile tab. Then click on Notes. On the right should be a box to add your RSS feed. According to Facebook, “You can import posts from one external blog so that they appear along with your notes. Facebook will automatically update your notes whenever you write in your blog. Imported blog posts cannot be edited.”

Great tool for Internet Marketing

2009-06-11T13:08:00.001-04:00

Great tool for Internet marketing

ValidRank
- Our Backlink Checker Tool is designed to see how many websites are linking back to you. Additional information is also available such as the Page Rank of the linking page, and whether the page has nofollow tag.
- Great tool to get a list of websites/pages that are linking back to you, what their PageRank is, and how many outbound links are on the webpage.
- Use the Excel 2007 “Import Web Query” option to gather the data in an easy-to-use format.

HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter

2009-05-26T10:25:00.003-04:00

HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter

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Is It Still Worth Using Keyword and Description Meta Tags?

2009-05-25T14:08:00.009-04:00

There has been a lot of talk about whether or not keyword and description meta tags are even worth doing anymore. Here's my opinion - YES! Here are the actual facts:

Back as far as November 26, 2007, Search Engine Journal was reporting that the keywords tag has little impact on where a site will appear in the Google search results.

In an article published April 25, 2008, at searchengineland.com by Barry Schwartz (originally by Eric Goldman), a US Court Judge ruled that since the keyword meta tags do not influence search results, having trademarked terms in them are immaterial.

The Google Webmasters/Site owners Help section on Meta Tags does not identify the keyword meta tag in the list of meta tags that they support but it does list the description meta tag:
- <meta name="description" content="A description of the page" />
- <meta name="robots" content="..., ..." />
- <meta name="googlebot" content="..., ..." />
- <meta name="google" content="notranslate" />
- <meta name="verify-v1" content="..." />
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="...; charset=..." />
- <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="...; url=..." />

They also discuss how to help improve the quality of the snippets displayed for your pages by providing informative meta descriptions for each page. Because one of the ways that Google generates the snippet displayed for your pages is by using DMOZ, they give you a way to stop them:
- To specifically prevent Google from using this information for a page's description, use the following:
  - <meta name="googlebot" content="NOODP">
- To prevent all search engines (that support the meta tag) from using this information for the page's description, use the following:
  - <meta name="robots" content="NOODP">
- If you use the robots meta tag for other directives, you can combine those. For instance:
  - <meta name="googlebot" content="NOODP, nofollow">

Everything thing that I've read and researched online shows that Yahoo and MSN still use the keyword and description meta tag for search engine results pages.

The most important thing to remember is consistency. Yes, Google does control the lion's share of the search market; however, people still use Yahoo and MSN. At one of my local clients, their engineers swear by Yahoo and won't use anything else.

So be consistent. Don't produce a website for the search engines first and users second. Remember that search engines are looking for reliable, valid, up-to-date content and that includes meta tags. Don't let your clients persuade you to remove these tags!

Check out my second guest post at Search Engine Journal!!

Pacamor Kubar Bearings (PKB) Maintains ISO9001/AS9100 Certifications - Pacamor Kubar Bearings' Blog

2009-05-19T15:55:00.002-04:00

Pacamor Kubar Bearings (PKB) is pleased to announce that they have successfully passed their ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100:2004 audit. The quality system assessment was completed at PKB’s Troy, New York facility on May 8, 2009, including a review of all special capabilities necessary to develop and/or manufacture miniature and instrument ball bearings for the aerospace industry.

via pacamor.com

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How Do You Manage Client Expectations?

2009-05-14T13:54:00.002-04:00

via outspokenmedia.com

Great article!!

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11 Internet Marketing Skills That Must Be Second Nature | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing

2009-05-10T22:42:00.002-04:00

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Awesome! I am all of those things except for rolling averages :(

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Linking is Like Love, You Have to Give Some to Get Some

2009-05-06T09:25:00.002-04:00

My first guest blog post at Search Engine Journal! I'm so excited - everybody check it out: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/linking-love/10121/

How to Have a Crappie Spring

2009-04-17T10:30:00.003-04:00

I saw this title on one of my favorite websites and I knew that I would have to blog about it. Some of my favorite fishing memories are of being a child and my stepfather waking me and my sister up early in the morning and stopping at McDonald's on our way to go fishing in the rain. Anyone that is interested in fishing, definitely needs to check out www.fishny.com!

Utica Tattoo Fest

2009-04-13T14:09:00.002-04:00

Great event in Utica, New York and I can't wait! Eternal Images rocks! Everybody knows how much I love tattoos. I'm known for the tattoo on my upper right arm that says "Fear is temporary, regret is permanent". That's how I try to live my life. I just got another tattoo, this time from Dylan at Eternal Images. It's part of my mother's tattoo that he recreated on my back. I love it and I scheduled my next tattoo for May 7!

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Google Analytics Blog: Web Analytics Tips & Tricks

2009-04-10T10:59:00.000-04:00

Great article! Using Google Analytics to Create an Optimization Plan.

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New Add-On for my Blog - Tweet & Track

2009-04-09T09:35:00.000-04:00

Make it easy for your readers to share links to your content on Twitter and track who clicks them.
Copy these two lines into the head tag of your HTML page:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://bit.ly/javascript-api.js?version=latest&login=tweettrackjs&apiKey=R_7e9987b2fd13d7e4e881f9cbb168f523">
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://s.bit.ly/TweetAndTrack.js?v=1.01"></script>

Then, add this with each item on your blog or content site:

<a href="#" onclick="return TweetAndTrack.open(this, '{Permalink}');"><span style="display:none;">Your custom message - {block:PostSummary}{PostSummary}{/block:PostSummary}</span>Tweet & Track</a>

Substitute whatever template tag or variable you use for permalinks for {Permalink} and your Post Title template tag for {block:PostSummary}{PostSummary}{/block:PostSummary}. You can also add a common custom message where it says "Your custom message - ".
Make sure that you convert each < to <>.

FEEDJIT real-time blog traffic feeds

2009-04-08T14:51:00.003-04:00

I found this great little free widget while I was visiting another blog and I just had to have it. Then I found out that it's FREE! Fun, cool and free - it doesn't get any better than that.
According to their website:

Get a cool widget and get local visitors for your blog. Blogs that install our widgets are also included in the Geoblogosphere and are featured to local readers. Read the Geoblogosphere FAQ for more info.

I installed it on the sidebar of my blog so people can see what search terms other visitors used to end up on my blog and what geo-location they are from.

Free ASP script: Learn how to display RSS/XML feed

2009-04-07T19:03:00.001-04:00

This page provides quick guide for displaying of RSS/XML feed using free RSS2HTML ASP script in ASP or ASP.NET environment. This script can be used free of charge on any ASP or ASP.NET web-server and generate HTML from RSS feed.

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The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing)

2009-04-06T13:45:00.001-04:00

The failed bankers on Wall Street have been whining that if they have to cut bonuses and salaries dramatically, they'll be unable to recruit great talent, and they need great talent to fix the situation...

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ReputationDefender Blog : Twitter Becomes SEO Friendly

2009-04-05T13:43:00.001-04:00

Twitter, it seems, has optimized its title tags. This could turn out to make Twitter an instant SEO tool, launching people to the top of Google.

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How I Got a Link from CNN

2009-04-04T13:40:00.001-04:00

Build Relationships
Stay Top of Mind
Offer an Insider's View
Position Yourself as an Industry Expert
Be Accessible
Never Miss a Deadline
Ask for the Link

Shocking, I know. But, unless you ask, you could miss this golden opportunity. I usually say "In closing, I have a small request. I'd really appreciate a link directly to Voices.com. If you can swing it, that would be great!" Consider adding this as a P.S., as if it was an afterthought and not your modus operandi. The lesson here is you'll never know unless you ask.

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SEOmoz Tools - Top Pages on Domain Kick Ass

2009-04-03T13:11:00.001-04:00

Where this tool really adds value is the ability it gives you to investigate old domains and their previously indexed (and linked to) pages. Take the example above. This old domain is 301 redirecting somewhere else, but the following URL in the list, with another 3 links, leads us to a 404 error page.

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