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The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" Data > Information > Knowledge > Wisdom www.WillMaster.com/Master : the LED's Key Sponsor Master Series Software - Get Connected with Your WebSite www.SEOToolSet.com/training/ : the LED's Premier Sponsor Bruce Clay's Search Engine Optimization Training & Certification ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. January 25, 2008 Issue no. 2576 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ====== NEW ====================== <Moderator Comment> ~ New Moderators --== StoresOnline.com Seminars ==-- ~ T. Scott "Anyone that has been successful with this program?" --== SmugMug Photo Sharing Site ==-- ~ Al Toman "I came across a top notch photography web site..." ==== CONTINUING ================= --== NS Promising Top 10 Rankings ==-- ~ Michael Martinez "They're not promising anything they should not be able to deliver..." --== Bounce Rates as Ranking Factors ==-- ~ Tom Aman "...assume [search engines] are very simple minded when following links." ========= NEW ===================================== <Moderator Comment> Greetings LEDer, and may this issue find you in health, happiness, and the possession of a caffeinated beverage. I caught a nasty flu this week and have been really suffering. Being sick simply sucks (but it does seem to have nice alliterative perks, doesn't it). Things are just really s-l-o-w out there in the land of LED. Why not try to change that by posting something?! There's a thought (I kid because I love). On that note, now's a good time to introduce our new moderators to the list. We'll send them out into the wilds of moderating very soon - maybe next week depending on how much I can get done in the meantime. Without further ado, here are our new mods: From: Jeremy Weiss In response to Adam's (repeated) request for a bio, here's a little bit about me. I've been married for nearly 13 years and have four children, all girls (stop shaking your head). I currently reside in Panama City, Florida, and it's a big change from the small towns in Arkansas where I grew up. I have eleven years experience in web development and internet marketing. My primary focus is to teach clients how to use their website to it's fullest potential. I'm more concerned with the number of leads / sales generated by a site than with the bells and whistles people are so fond of these days. And all the leads in the world are of no use if there isn't a system in place to ensure the leads get the attention they need, so I often build php / MySQL back office type programs to help companies manage the leads. Oh, and I want to thank Adam for letting me help out. I think it'll help in my quest for world domination. -Jeremy Weiss From: Anthony Kirlew Anthony Kirlew is an Internet Marketing veteran having founded his first SEO Firm (now known as NSI Partners) in 1999 and his second SEM firm (Web Traffic Team) in 2006. As an Internet Marketing expert, Mr. Kirlew has been featured on the radio, has testified before lawmakers with regard to anti-spam laws, formerly moderated the selfpromotion.com forum, and was a web-marketing expert about About.com's All Experts. Mr. Kirlew is also the author of "Internet Marketing Secrets from the trenches" as well as several industry articles and runs the Search Marketing blog, OldSchoolSEO.com. -Anthony Kirlew --------------- From: T. Scott Subject: Storesonline.com Do you have any info or feedback from StoresOnline seminars? Anyone that has been successful with this program? Thanks, T. Scott ========= Begin Sponsor Message ========= Control . Who . Syndicates . Your . Content Your content. Other websites. Some have permission to syndicate your content. Block those who do not. Syndicate with PHP or with JavaScript. Your choice. http://www.willmaster.com/Gateway ========== End Sponsor Message ========== -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Al Toman Subject: Photo Sites - SmugMug Someone inquired about photography web sites in a past issue of LED Digest way back when. I came across a top notch photography web site, www.smugmug.com, that may interest photo-type LEDers. They also have some nice "gift" products related to photography for us non-photo-types. It is well-marketed. I read the profile of these guys in an off-line article. These guys can be your next door neighbor yet they are no small potatoes. They closely work with Amazon.com and other big names. I mean CEO to CEO. To put it in another way, a million bucks to them is beer money, pocket change. If whomever is looking to post photos professionally, then, this may be a good place to start (stats below). There is a subscription fee but it may be worth paying instead of creating a new web site, to start. It's definitely a "social" web site but it makes UTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc, look like kiddie corner (aka SEO playground), comparatively. It's very well done. stats: links: google ........... 17,200 msn .............. 0 yahoo ........... 11,077 total ............. 28,277 saturation: google ........... 16,400,000 msn ............... 01,100,000 yahoo ............ 22,336,652 total ............... 39,836,652 keywords: "online photo albums" is the first keyword listed in their keyword meta tag and they place on SERP "1" Check their other keywords on their site. They list them for you. Kind regards, Al Toman studio9 web design ps: okay, so I like to dig SEOers just a tad ======== CONTINUING =============================== From: Michael Martinez Subject: Guarantees > Here's a link to the wording of the > guarantee: http://tinyurl.com/yrp8j3 > [networksolutions.com]. This just seems > wrong from so many different angles, worst > of all trying to explain to clients and > prospects that a guaranteed Top 10 listing > on AltaVista or HotBot in the next 10 > months is like a guarantee of wispy clouds > over Ohio at some point during that same > time period: So what? - Beth Ann Earle, LED 2574 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1989/190/ They're not promising anything they should not be able to deliver, but they are not promising to deliver either traffic or sales: "This service(s) does not guarantee any sales or traffic to your Web site. Traffic and sales depend upon the demand for your particular product or service, the design and layout of your Web site, and many other factors that are beyond the control of Network Solutions." It looks like promotional hype to me, a bit more honest than a lot of promotional hype I have seen before, but still promotional hype. None of our clients have come to us about this. If they did, I would read the fine print to them very carefully. Michael Martinez http://www.michael-martinez.com/ ========= Begin Sponsor Message ========= One Way Links to your Site, by the Hundreds? Yes! Get Traffic and Link Popularity to Your Site from Legitimate, General Interest Web Directories. DomainDrivers Makes It Hassle-Free. Details Here: http://www.domaindrivers.com/directory-submissions.html ========== End Sponsor Message ========== -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Tom Aman Subject: Bounce rates > In BestPrac.Org's own case, a close > examination of Google's analysis of our > internal links showed that our site > navigation was not well understood by the > search engine. It used a form list box with > a cgi script. The search engine did not > recognise the links in the form HTML as > internal links. - Trevor Johnson, LED 2575 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1990/190/ To play it safe with search engines, assume they are very simple minded when following links. As in the above post, they are very unlikely to follow CGI based links. The same is true for Javascript based links. While you may include such *fancy* approaches for links to impress (?) visitors or to allow a really neat (?) design, to be sure search engines will spider your site you should always make sure you have plane old-fashioned <a xhref="..." links to be sure the robot will finds its way. Tom Aman Aman Software http://www.cyberspyder.com (c) Copyright 1995-2008 Orange Wheel, LLC. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance." - Lakota |
