October 20

Have Your Site Visitors Contact You With Windows Live Messenger

This is a handy utility which will work on any Website to let your customers contact you or your delegates through Instant Messenger.

Easy to install, just follow the following steps:

1. Go to http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/WebSettings.aspx
2. Log in with your Windows Live ID (or register for a new one).
3. Check, “Allow anyone on the to see my presence and send me messages”
   
4. Click Create HTML on the  Left Hand Side.
5. Select your display option and copy the HTML code.
   
    
6. Put the code into the appropriate part of your site and you will have the application embedded:
   
   

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August 21

buy-and-sell-computer.com, a great place to Buy Computers from thewebandi.com

We created Buy and Sell Computer at thewebandi.com. We wanted to give consumers the best place to buy a computer. http://www.buy-and-sell-computer.com

For help with computers call us at 646-853-0573 or visit us on the Web at thewebandi.com.

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What We Do

This is a draft and I am soliciting suggestions at this time.

 

What We Do

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1. Providing a Great Place to Find and Buy Properties You Want.

   1. We have an army of real estate sites with the best listings.

   2. We can help you shop neighborhoods with the best information.

   3. We can make sure you get a great value.

   4. Moving?  Interact with the locals on forums for the state you want to move to.

2. Providing a Wealth of Buying Information for Consumer Goods You Want.

   1. Our Consumer Central sites provides:

      1. Reviews of the products you want.

      2. Comparison shopping.

      3. Auctions.

      4. Books.

      5. Social Networking.

3. Aggregate and analyze real estate information.

   1. This information is re-used in our state by state comparisons. 

      1. Our comparisons provide critical information to help you decide what state to live in. 

      2. For investors, these comparisons will help you speculate more effectively.

      3. Provide extraordinary Internet Marketing results.
   1. We have over 300 consumer sites now and we will soon double that. 
      1. We provide advertising on those sites to market your property or service.
      2. We blog on those sites to sell your property or service.
      3. We have multiple marketing channels, each channel has multiple sites. 
      4. If you have a property to sell, our army of real estate websites will get your property to the top of Google faster and less expensive than any other method.
      5. If you have a service to market, we have you covered.  As a national site, we know the neighborhood. When you surf in to estate, you select a state and then a locality.  These sites are highly optimized for localities by aggregating information from many sources at once.  Unlike other directories, we will not leave out any area of the country.  We aspire to best reflect the whole. From a marketing perspective, the structure drills down into localities, which is the only proven way to get you noticed by Google and therefore attract the customers you need.
   2. We have hundreds of social networks at our disposal.
      1. Marketing channels for every state, every profession we advertise for, and every product category we sell.  We market most heavily in real estate, but our other channels are all home and family related.
   3. Low Price Point.
      1. Compared to solutions from Google, Yahoo, and Bing, we are inexpensive.
      2. Our packages are results-based rather than paying by the click.
   4. Get a Professional Website.
      1. Websites are the new Yellow Pages and the new coffee shop downtown. 
      2. You need a destination for all of your advertising and you should be empowered to handle your own marketing.  These sites do all of that and more.
      3. Help professionals organize and run web services and applications from their site.
      4. Customer Relationship Management and Sales.
      5. A cloud computing model makes performance optimal and hosting free of charge.
   5. Controllable Budget.
      1. Our prices are lower allowing you to get the marketing you need and sell for a price that still lets you make a profit.
      2. Because you are paying for a measured quantity of marketing, there are no uncertainties with pricing.

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July 08

Iobit Advanced System Optimizer Free Edition
I have just installed this new utility from Iobit.  This operates similiar to Norton Utilities, only it is not integrated with antivirus and it is free. 

This can be downloaded at http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html?Str=download .

Several test systems are receiving the software for testing, from an old Windows XP laptop to a Dell Precision Workstation with multiple processors and 9GB Ram running Windows 7.

CNET and CNN have nothing but good things to say about this product.

I found the installation to be easy and the interface to be fairly intuitive.

I have just run it on my Dell Precision Workstation running Windows 7 with great results.  Spyware was removed, my hard drive was optimized and defragged, windows was cleaned, and it all was compatible with Windows 7.   Tomorrow I try more platforms and tests.

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July 28

Affiliate Marketing Sites Created July 28, 2010

Armoire Furniture

http://www.armoire-furniture.com

 

Bedroom Furniture

http://www.bedroom-furniture-sets.net

 

Buy Land

http://www.buy-land.info

 

Buy or Sell Home

http://www.buy-sell-home.net

 

Chandeliers and Lighting

http://www.chandelier-lighting.info

 

Metal Detector Central

http://www.metaldetectorcentral.net

 

My Pillar Candles

http://www.mypillarcandles.com

 

Outdoor Patio Furniture

http://www.outdoor-patio-furniture.org

 

The Candleholder

http://www.thecandleholder.com

 

Website Designers Online

http://www.websitedesignersonline.net

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July 04

All You Need To Know About SEO

Siliconindia
6/21/2010
Deepak Kumar

Each affiliate's link to your sales letter conversion page will bring you traffic and a better search engine rank too. Topics covered are Web design essentials, Web usability and accessibility, search engine optimization, Google page rank, and recommended software tools and utilities. After around 3-4 months, this page will have a much better chance of attaining a good ranking in the search engine. However, it's also important that SEOs provide complete information, as to the potential consequences of using methods counter the published search engine guidelines. We then optimize your website page content to help increase your search engine ranking.

That's still important, even if the traditional search engine rankings pages are less important. Page rank Forum - Presents recreation, search engine optimizations, and details regarding page rank. Content is king when it comes to getting high page rank and high search engine rank. Links pointing to your website are probably the most powerful off-page factors determining your search engine ranking. This page rank, combined with the content of your website, will determine your search engine position for particular search queries. Your site map point to the right page and also boosts your search engine ranking - not a bad deal. Importance of Page Rank: Page rank is extremely important, in that it determines how high you get on search engine results. »Guaranteed SEO articles, discussion and blogs where you can find useful information related to search engine optimization and mistakes to avoid.

1> Quality Web directory submissions: Submitting your website to quality search engine friendly web directories will significantly improve your website's page rank. Many bloggers are completely unaware of their Google Page Rank and often of their blog's position in the search engine results. It also gives the robot information that could help raise the rankings of the page within the search engine database. They gradually drop further and further down the search engine listings as their Page Rank just leaks away. Exactly how long should a page be and why is this important in terms of search engine rankings. Google is the only search engine that is known to record a specific PageRank, but other search engines take similar information into account. Search engine optimization specialist experienced in achieving high rankings through both on-page and off-page optimization techniques.

By utilizing highly targeted keywords in your web pages, you can easily have your site top the search engine rankings in your niche market. There is only one sure way of securing a high page ranking in Google or any search engine for that matter. Belgian company specialized in SEO optimization, search engine friendly web design and website promotion. This site targets improving search engine rankings by using a "follow the leader" approach to keyword selection and page wording. As I mentioned above, page ranking has nothing to do with your search engine success. Each affiliates link to your site letter conversion page will bring you traffic and a better search engine rank too. If you need a page rank at the top of search engine results, you will need more than just basic knowledge in SEO. The proper use of on-page and off-page optimization factors will be an advantage in promoting search engine rankings. The higher the page rank, the more chances it will be high up in the search engine results. Ongoing search engine optimization also includes the off-page factors such as inbound links and improvement of page rank, but this only happens over time. Search engine optimization encompasses both on-page and off-page factors when considering improvements in rankings or growth in internet traffic. Sites with a page rank of 5 or higher are more likely to have a positive impact on your search engine link popularity score. Your content should be keyword rich so that your search engine page rank (SEPR) can increase. Using Meta Tags, however, provides no guarantee that your website page would rank highly in the search engine rankings.

Web pages

It is based largely on the number, page rank, and relevancy of web pages that link to that page. I've actually seen web pages that contain no back links and minimal page rank appear in engine search results because of content. Briefly listed below are some of the main ranking factors you should be optimizing your web pages for in your marketing. Google update their index by recalculating the Page ranks of each of the web pages that they have crawled. What you MUST do to rank well for your inner web pages... So, when you see a Web page's Page rank in the Google toolbar today, it's an estimate that's independent of link reputation. Build web pages that obtain high rankings fast and bring in a ton of new customers! The actual algorithm used today is secret, but this paper will gives you some ideas as to the methods used in ranking Web pages. Google does not display the Page Rank of web pages that it has not indexed. This major change to the Google systems will have an impact on the ranking of web pages in the Google index.

Web site

If your link is on a high ranking web site home page you will surely be indexed immediately. Getting a new web site page ranked and indexed are two things everyone should take into account. This gives your web site the maximum points for page rank and exposure. The Page Rank Calculator is not a crawler: it will not crawl your web site for you and calculate its Page Rank. First a web site or page ranks well. Google Page Rank (PR) is one piece of the web site promotion puzzle, and it's an important one. Link development is a web site promotion strategy to increase your web site's Google Page Rank. This program allows you analyze your web site: get Google Pageant, incoming and outgoing links for each page of your web site. One of the best ways to drive traffic and attract customers to your Web site is to improve your Google page rank. Based on these various techniques, they assign a page rank to the web site.

Google toolbar

It is possible to view the page rank of your pages by downloading the Google toolbar. The ranking of the page can be found on the Google Toolbar of your browser. Almost all browsers support the Google toolbar and hence the page rank. In case you have installed the Google toolbar on your internet browser, you will see the page rank in it. For example, when looking at the Google toolbar there were a couple of occasions on which a lot of page's Page Rank dropped. So, when you see a Web page's Page rank in the Google toolbar today, it's an estimate that's independent of link reputation. Many experienced promoters have been stressing that the page rank meter on the Google Toolbar is wildly inaccurate at best, essentially useless. If you have the Google toolbar installed in your browser, you would be used to seeing each page's Page Rank as you browse the web. The Google toolbar includes a Page Rank displayer. There are two types of links; reciprocal and one way. Start by getting the Google toolbar it tells you page rank ratings.

Google page rank

Webmasters can spend most of their waking hours doing everything they can to raise their Google Page Rank. We will research appropriate one-way inbound links from high PR (Google Page Rank) sites with high relevancy to your final keyword phrase choices. 1. We will provide more extensive link building which should result in even faster increases in Google Page Rank.

Google uses

Google uses Page Rank to examine the entire link structure of the web and determine which pages are most important. Google uses a complex algorithm for its Page Rank system that tries to rank websites fairly. Do some research on speculated algorithms that Google uses to calculate the "rank" of a page... For example, Google uses hypertext-matching analysis and Page Rank(TM) to determine the results of a query. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one. There is a different logic Google uses to calculate page rank and keywords is only a portion of it.

Link popularity

Our Web marketing team finds and establishes alliances through link submissions and link purchasing which generate strong link popularity and Page Rank. Use the links on the right to check your backlinks, page rank, and link popularity among many others. To help you determine your own linking reputation, I wrote about how to test your site for its link popularity and page rank.

Incoming links

Simply put the more incoming links a particular document has, the better it would rank when sorted by Page Rank. The quality and quantity of incoming links will determine the page rank of your site. It also shows how many incoming links you will need to get your page to a certain page rank. Included are Google and Alexa rank, whois, robots.txt, indexed pages, incoming links, keyword density and more.

Web design

It now gives far less weight to backlinks and Page Ranking and far more weight to relevance and web design. You can optimize web design related information on one page and optimize SEO information on another page. Bruce Clay will discuss the three fundamentals of web design and page rankings that are part of any complete SEO strategy.

Search results

Important pages receive a higher Page Rank and appear at the top of the search results. I've actually seen web pages that contain no back links and minimal page rank appear in engine search results because of content. There are a number of factors that will affect your site's listing, search results and page rank. It matters because it is one of the factors that determine a page's ranking in the search results.

Quality content

There are a lot of other factors than page rank to consider like quality content, layout and Trust rank. It is a combination of the above techniques along with quality content that should attain higher page rankings for your website. Poison words are a way to weight low quality content pages, decrease your rankings, including blog comment spam and other spammers' tactics.

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http://blogs.siliconindia.com/expertsinseo/All_You_Need_To_Know_About_SEO-bid-Sa9N4U3x28664236.html

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Web.com to acquire Register.com for $135M

Associated Press
6/17/2010

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Web.com Group Inc., which does online marketing for small businesses, said Thursday it has agreed to acquire privately held Register.com for $135 million.

Web.com said it will pay $20 million in cash, and finance the rest with proceeds from a new $110 million term loan and a $5 million seller note.

Register.com, which provides Web domain name registration and website design, complements Web.com's existing services and gives the companies new opportunities to sell to each other's customers.

The deal is expected to cut annual costs by $10 million, Web.com said. The company expects it to boost adjusted earnings immediately.

The combined company will have more than 1 million paying subscribers and more than 1,100 employees in the U.S. and Canada, based on figures from March 31.

Web.com shares rose 3 cnets to close at $3.84.

 

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gy8JKFmzL6kpyWo0E7KGC4FZmCVgD9GD8PD00

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Google enters travel market with flight data purchase

BBC News
7/2/2010
Daniel Emery

Search engine giant Google has entered the travel market after acquiring flight information firm ITA Software.

ITA provides software that organises fares, flight and journey times that are used by airlines, travel agents and flight comparison sites such as Orbitz.

Google said it may well expand the scope, enabling users to search directly for flight destinations.

Google paid $700m in cash for the US-based company, founded in 1996 by a team of MIT computer scientists.

"What we're going to do is build new flight search tools that focus on end users," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.

However, he said that the firm would not be selling airline tickets to consumers and that it would honour "all existing agreements that ITA has with its partners".

Those partners include some of Google's direct competitors - such as Microsoft's own flight comparison website, Bing Travel.

 

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10486358.stm

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July 03

Nebraska tourism board website features reservation system

KTIV
7/3/2010
Associated Press

he Nebraska Division of Travel and Tourism has announced the addition of the BookDirect online lodging-reservation system to its VisitNebraska.gov website.

With BookDirect, visitors can check rates and availability of rooms at destinations statewide and then make reservations online. Rather than using a third-party vendor, BookDirect allows travelers to book lodging directly with the selected site.

Travelers can access BookDirect through a direct link on the home page of VisitNebraska.gov website to search for accommodations including hotels or motels, bed and breakfasts, and guest ranches.

Read More…

http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12751727

 

The Web and I, Inc. is ready to make you a reservation system as well.  Based on Microsoft’s OfficeLive technology, any modules we write for you such as reservation systems, directories, etc. have the technology contiunally updated behind the scenes by Microsoft.   Functionality is a major driver of traffic.  If you want to get more customers, offering an interactive service that is useful to your existing and potential customers is a great way to do it!

Call us at 646-853-0573 to get started now!

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June 28

The Call to Action: Better Customer Relationships Through Web Design

ECommerce Times
6/24/2010
Paula Selvidge

Every time you ask a prospective customer to take action, you imply that you can provide a unique value proposition. Carefully consider your most important calls to action, have a small number of distinct actions the prospect can take, and draw attention to those effectively.

Designing company websites has evolved into an art form, and much attention is paid to selecting the appropriate colors, using the right graphics, and making sure the content best reflects the corporate messaging and brand.

These are absolutely areas of importance, but often companies design their websites to be aesthetically pleasing without providing clear, easy ways for visitors to take action in order to experience the service or product. As a result, people can't complete their tasks and leave frustrated, never to return. Unless there are distinct calls to action that draw attention, it's unlikely they'll progress from being "visitors" to being customers.

It's easy to prevent this from happening. A "call to action" in Web design describes a specific element on a page that solicits an action from the user. Basically, it represents what you'd like the visitor to do to further engage, i.e., sign up for a product/service trial, purchase something or add it to an online shopping Planning for the next peak season? Ensure your website is fast, secure and available 24/7. Click here to learn how. cart, subscribe to a newsletter.

The most common way to showcase a call to action is through a clickable button, accompanied by a textual directive ("Buy now"). Putting a button on your homepage may seem intuitive and simple, but it should not be done haphazardly. It's important to keep the following best practices in mind when creating an optimal call to action.

You must know your audience in order to design effective calls to action that will elicit the desired response.

For whom are you designing the call to action? First, consider your target audience and the value proposition you offer.

What are the users' goals? Are you offering them something of value if they act? Do you effectively convey this value to them in a way that's easily identifiable from their perspective? Do you clearly convey the benefits of selecting your product or service?

Once you have designed the calls to action with these considerations in mind, then conduct A/B tests to validate that your design is effective and understand which factors are more likely to lead to conversion with your audience.

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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/The-Call-to-Action-Better-Customer-Relationships-Through-Web-Design-70268.html?wlc=1277774034

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January 13

Google Webmaster Tools Site Re-Verification


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Scott DeSimone PLLC Website Launched


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December 11

OfficeLive Business Contact Manager Error

This error appeared on my Business Contact Manager.

I am trying to determine whether there are missing required fields or other issue with interfaced data pushed from SQL Server.

The text says, “

Select a company, contact, or opportunity to associate with this  item.
One or more entries on this screen are not valid. Check your text and try again.

The Microsoft Office Live Small Business Web service has encountered an unexpected problem in processing your request. Please check the Address box to make sure you have entered the correct Web address.
Use your browser's Back button to take you back to the previous page.
If you continue to encounter this problem or your attempts continue to fail, please contact Customer Support. “

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November 26

Talking about YouTube - HousesWanted.org

 

Produced by the Web and I, Inc., a promotional video.

YouTube - HousesWanted.org
 

This was made for our client site at http://houseswanted.org


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November 18

MS OfficeLive Domain Setup 404 Message

This is a rare peek at the site that has been redirected to MS OfficeLive but has not been fully set up yet.

HTTP/1.1 404 
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:59:15 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
P3P:CP="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo"
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6421
X-DIP:218
X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7
MS-Author-Via: MS-FP/4.0,DAV
MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Collab

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Officelive Google Adsense Code

<IFRAME src="http://houseswanted.org/Documents/houseswantedadsense.html" width="770" height="110" frameborder="0" scrolling=no> [Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However,you can <A href="http://houseswanted.org/Documents/houseswantedadsense.html" target="new"> --> Click Here</A></IFRAME>

 

is good code to use.  Officelive is syntax specific and does not work with lower case tag <iframe> and possibly has other syntax issues.

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Google News Gagets on your Officelive Site

Use the code:

 

<div align="center"><iframe frameborder="0" width="300" height="250" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
        src="http://www.google.com/uds/modules/elements/newsshow/iframe.html?q=officelive+website&rsz=small&format=300x250">
</iframe></div>

 

In and HTML module.  Refer to the doucmentation for formating details on the API.

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November 17

Keyword Research Tool from Google Adwords

I have read a great deal of information about SEO and how you should choose keywords right from  your content.  But often the keywords which are most successful for your topic are in multi-word phrases.  Since there are so many combinations of words and pages on your site, you could stuff thirty or more keywords into your meta keywords, but search engines do not respond well to that. 

Since there are so many combinations of words, I am more interested in word combinations related to my site which gets the most traffic.  I will be adjusting my content to make sure that I have at least an eight percent keyword density.

When choosing those phrases, I like to use the Google Keyword Research Tool.  I can use the content I have already written and let Google come up with suggestions for me. The traffic of those keywords shows up for both global and local searches.  Since I have locally geotargeted business websites, I am choosing some high volume and medium volume keywords.  I am more likely to get to Number One on Google with medium volume keywords because there is less competition.  I can take some of the high volume keywords I couldn’t compete in otherwise and make geotargeted tails so that they are less competitive long tail keywords.

This tool is designed for those with Adwords.  Your firm may not have a budget for that, but the tool is free to use and requires no payment.  They hope you will use the tool to buy their advertising, yet the tool is still available for free.  

The tool is available at:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

You will have to sign in with your Google ID.

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November 16

Add Google News to Your Website with News Show

Google’s new News Show allows either a header or a rectangle of news to be displayed.  You can have top stories within the standard categories of news, or you can have a completely custom search.

Looking at the API, I see that it is possible to also have a comma separated values list of queries.  However I find it much more useful to be topic specific to segregate the results.

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