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Issue # 116
Oct 7, 2004

Merle's Cyber Promotions Press Ezine
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"M.C. Promotions Press Ezine-
"Creating Visibility Online For Small Business"

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Mission Statement:To provide and enlighten small to mid sized business owners with the services/ products and information they need to become successful online.

In This Issue:

=> 1. Marketing News/Resources

=> 2. Feature Article- "Blogs & Search Engines"

=> 3. Net Hot Spots!
=> 4. Sites to Help
=> 5. Site Promotion Software & More
=> 6. E-Books / Ezine Resources
=> 7. Other Valuable Ezines
=> 8. Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information


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Note From Merle:

Hi Kids,

I think I'm living in a time warp. It's like my life is whizzing past and the people who own all the stores are to blame. It must be a conspiracy. Have you noticed when you go in the stores lately it's Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all rolled into one. Now I don't know about you but I can only concentrate on one Holiday at a time. People, let me enjoy Halloween before I have to start sipping Eggnog. I think it's time for a revolt by the people to take back control of the events in our lives. If you're interested in waging a war with me drop me a line.

It's been a frustrating last couple of days. Major problems and emergencies that are occupying my mind day and night. Even sleep last night sucked. It was that whole tossing and turning thing. My mind kept running in circles and I couldn't turn it off. Do you ever have that happen? Maybe I'm suffering from information overload. I'm sure it's a disease and if I search the Net long enough I'll find a label for my newfound sickness. Grrrrr...

Did you catch Opera the other day? No, I'm not a junkie but once in awhile she puts on a good show. She featured a woman in her 30's from a bunch of different countries and I did find it fascinating. For example, did you know in Mexico there's a big problem with infidelity and if a man cheats and his wife wasn't taking care of his 'needs' then it's her fault and she gets no Alimony. In Iraq they can buy Valium for only 20 cents a bottle with no prescription. I guess with all of the gunfire their a little jumpy over there so they've decided to turn into zombies instead.

In Kuwait when you get married the government gives each citizen a 12,000 wedding gift. Wow! wouldn't that be nice. Makes me think twice about marrying George and I wonder if I could be come a Kuwait Citizen to cash in on that. Also in Kuwait they get free healthcare and 2 hours for lunch every day. They enjoy life not rush through it like so many of us Americans. I bet their just thinking about Halloween right now, not everything to come after. Do they even celebrate that?

More interesting points in Cuba you can get a divorce for only 3.50 and it only takes 5 minutes. I thought that was really cool. Imagine if you could do that here. Every time you get pissed off at your Spouse you'd be divorced. Heck, at that price I could afford a few a week. Salary's for work are not good there though. They only make about 23.00 per week U.S. dollars no matter if they're a Doctor or a Dancer. They also get free healthcare and education. I think we should have that. Why shouldn't people be able to get an education at college level for free. I mean it's benefiting society as a whole when you turn out a smarter populations. Anyway, just thought I'd share a few of these interesting tips with you in case you've been thinking of switching countries.

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1) Marketing News


FindWhat Starts Pay Per Call
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Kanoodle Launches BrightAds
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Yahoo Adding New Search Engine Tools
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2) Feature Article

 

Blogs and Search Engines for More Traffic

By Paul Easton

One of the newer ideas going around is the use of blogs
as a way of helping search engine ranking. I will cover
why and a little about the thoughts behind it.

A blog (or weblog) is basically a journal that is
available on the web. The activity of updating a blog
is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a
"blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using
software that allows people with little or no technical
background to change the content.

Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in
chronological order with the most recent additions
featured most prominently.

So a blog is really a web based version of a diary
that required no web design skills to create. Blogs
or blogging really come to mainstream around the
point where Google bought into a company that
provided blog services:

http://www.blogger.com

Then people started to wake up and take note then.
Google sees this as a way of having very up to date
information available to all. So what does it mean
to those marketing online?

1. Relationships -Blogs can ad a personal touch to
how you can contact your visitors, allow them to
not only learn about the business you are involved
in but your personal side.

2. Search Engine friendly- Search engines like blogs
as they are fresh information. Also they allow
archiving which means previous pages are stored
online and any links to your business site are
also stored. This is a great way to help your own
site in the search engines.

3. It's another marketing promotion method -Anybody
can start there own, starting at no cost at blogger
(they don't allow pictures but design ideas they
have look good)

Blogs are still in there infancy as a marketing
tool they are an easy to use future tool which
as they become more mainstream. As an idea the
term: blog was searched 1312615 last month and
that was only on Overture.com and Google's numbers
would be much higher.

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3) Net Hot Spots


Toll Free 800 Numbers

"Need a toll free number for your Net business?
Get a number that rings directly to your home
or business. Redirect it to your fax machine or
cell phone and back as you change locations.
Track calls on the Internet in real time. Set
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GuruDAQ.com

An index of Marketing experts with an interesting
twist it's based their Rankings on the web. "The
Main Index gives you the List in Rank order. The
24 Hour Graph involves a little randomness but
their share price is based on their popularity
on the site and their rankings from other
sources."

http://www.gurudaq.com/

 

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4) Sites to Help


Conversion Chronicles

This website Conversion Chronicles is resource which
explains how to get more customers from your existing
traffic. It's all about conversion baby. Visit the
site and subscribe to his ezine and you can snag a
free ebook on how to improve your conversion.

http://www.conversionchronicles.com/

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Executive Audio Institute

Over 117 hours of downloadable audio interviews,
marketing lessons and transcripts from some
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5) Site Promotion Software & More

Link Popularity Software

"A f-r-e-eware program that checks the link
popularity status of your web site on several
search engines and compares it to other web
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