| LED Digest 1749: Mozilla & Tabbed Browsing, also 'Hacker Safe'? |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" pair Networks: The LED's Web Host Hosting and Domain Reg. from a Trusted Leader pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam,led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com ................................................ February 17, 2004 Issue #1749 ................................................ .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Mozilla vs Internet Explorer ==-- ~ Mike Silverman ~ Charles Oertel --== Keywords in Meta Tags ==-- ~ Michael Martinez --== AOL Bouncing Email ==-- ~ Ivan J. Jimenez ~ Tom Aman ==== BILLBOARD =================== --== Hacker Safe Certification? ==-- ~ Scott Marino --== Bayesian & Other Filtering Solutions ==-- ~ Graham Brown ===== CONTINUING ================================= From: Mike Silverman Subject: Mozilla / Netscape Browsers > Mozilla (particularly 1.5) seems to be much faster, stable > and honours CSS Level 2 much better... So I would like > to know from fellow LEDers whether Mozilla may soon > become the default browser of the web? - Viggie Bala, LED 1748 I've been a long-time user and advocate of the Netscape / Mozilla series of browsers. I'm presently on Netscape 7, and it's fantastic. No more pop-up problems, solid Bayesian spam filtering on the mail program, password management, form-fill auto-complete (whole forms, not just single boxes), multiple logins, etc... I have found it will have a slower load on some Java coding, and doesn't always seem to work and play well with .asp pages. Mike Silverman www.hsgear.biz ------- new post - same topic ------- From: Charles Oertel Subject: Mozilla I recently switched to FireFox (an open source mozilla browser at http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/ ) that runs on Windows and Linux. It is small, quick and makes browsing a pleasure. I don't understand how people can use a browser like IE that doesn't have tabs and doesn't implement CSS fully. I am also irritated by the changes in standards between IE5, 5.5 and 6 and the latest security patch - it is almost impossible to make a standards-compliant website that works on all these versions. When is Microsoft going to catch up to the Open Source browsers so that we can have some web standards? For those of you that do not have a browser that does tabs: get one. Why? When you search on Google (FireFox has a search entry field next to the URL input field), middle-click on each of the links that catches your eye, and the browser will download those pages in the background in new tabs. Once you have gone through the search results page, you can go to each of the downloaded tabs at your leisure. (As opposed to IE, where you either switch back and forth between google search results and the website, or you have new IE windows popping up in the forground over the browser window you are working in). regards Charles Oertel ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Michael Martinez Subject: Keywords > ... Google just spins the wheel now and then and picks a > handfull of sites to be on top at random intervals. It's very > frustrating to put a lot of time and energy into improving > your ranking just to have all the rules tossed out the window. - Clint Whitsett, LED 1747 No. Google has always been strongly influenced by what you put into your TITLE tag. When you changed your TITLE tag, you changed everything. You did the right thing but you didn't understand what you were doing or why. To rank well for multiple phrases, you need to create multiple entry pages. These pages should each have unique content that reflects the meaning of the TITLE tag. So, you need a page which talks about your company's ROOFING services and you need a page which talks about your company's ELASTOMERIC ROOF COATINGS. Don't worry about getting each page listed in the directory. You cannot do that, unless you create wholly separate Web sites (and I don't recommend this -- it's spammy and unnecessary). Just make sure all your pages link to each other cleanly (and be consistent in your linkage -- I recommend using full URLs, which are also called absolute URLs). Michael Martinez http://www.xenite.org/ ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Ivan Jimenez Subject: AOL Bounces > On my last email blast 1600 AOL addresses bounced back... > this is an opt-in e-newsletter. [The provider] of the email service > said they were bouncing because the recipients couldn't read > an HTML email. - Verna Wiseman, LED 1747 Why not use an e-mail campaigner that handles these issues for you? Unless you need super-sophisticated e-mail technology, a quality web-based e-mail campaign solution should be able to handle these as well as future issues since they're likely updating their technology regularly. AOL continues to be an issue and I suspect others will pop-up in their efforts to be "Sp*minators". A campaigner that understands the workings of AOL (and the like) and comes up with a way to recognize and independently treat these e-mails is a much more efficient solution than blindly cutting off prospects and / or customers. Keep in mind that customers and prospects come in different stages of their purchasing process. I may sign up for a newsletter today anticipating my purchase sometime within the next six months. I probably wouldn't realize getting or not getting your newsletter because it isn't that important to me... at the moment. As "purchase time" nears, I start getting recollections of a product / service I've seen in the past -- recollections fueled by that newsletter I signed up for six months ago. Each person that signed up for your list is valuable. Their relative value shifts from time to time however they always remain important. For all you know, there could be a "sleeper" somewhere in your database. Figure out what needs to be done to reach your list. After all, it cost you a pretty penny to get them in the first place. PS: GotMarketing.com has a web-based e-mail campaigner that does a great job of getting e-mails to AOL users and they're constantly improving their technology. They've partnered up with Microsoft AND Yahoo! which is a good indication that neither will give them a hard time as they already have a working relationship together. Their reseller programs really aren't consistent with their product, but that's another issue and a personal one at that... All the best, Ivan J. Jimenez http://cosmicbreath.com ------- new post - same topic ------- From: Tom Aman Subject: AOL bounces Seems to me that the simplest test at this point is to try sending a plain text email - if you don't get the bounces, then HTML email really is the problem (although that would be a surprise to me), if they do bounce you can go back to your provider with the evidence that HTML email is not the problem. One piece of info you didn't provide in your post was reason given in the bounced emails for them being bounced (usually, the bouncing system provides some kind of reason). Tom Aman Aman Software http://www.cyberspyder.com ==== BILLBOARD ==================================== From: Scott Marino Subject: Hacker Safe Certification Anybody have any feedback, positive or negative, on getting a site certified hacker safe? The company that does most of the certifications is http://www.scanalert.com Regards, Scott Marino www.webundies.com ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Graham Brown Subject: Filtering solutions > Do you think this method of using Spamcop could > accidentally be filtering some of the email I want? - Wanda Husick, LED 1748 Wanda, It depends upon how they are using Spamcop (or similar lists). If it just marks it as spam that is filtered out to somewhere where you can review it, that is OK. If they are just deleting the email then there may be problems there for you. For example, large parts of China, if not all, may be blocked because of spam originating from, not an individual address, but a whole block of addresses. Only you can effectively decide what is important to you. Filtering at your location is the only really effective way to deal with spam. Anything else contains within it the guarantee that email that you might want to see may be blocked. Regards, Graham Brown ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by pair Networks: pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains Copyright 1995-2004 Adam Audette. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Solitude vivifies; isolation kills." - Joseph Roux |
