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Pieces of The Internet Marketing Tool Box - updated 20080617 June 17, 2008
Posted by Guy Cook in : internet-marketing , add a commentRecently I was discussing Internet Marketing ‘tools’ with a fellow and he asked if I had a good starter list, so I’ve made the start here. These aren’t all of the things I use but a good start of them.
This might be the start of a ideas from others too.
1. Do you have a Gmail account from Google?
This is a good tool, it will give you access to lots of great desktop tools, one of which is “Docs” that is very quickly coming into it’s own, http://blog.compete.com/2007/12/06/google-docs-spreadsheets/ shows a clear picture.-updated 20071218
2. Do you have a Business PayPal account?
3. Do you have a CraigsList.org account?
4. Do you belong to MySpace, Facebook and Linked In (if not you can use
your Gmail account to join)
5. Do you have a Google account? Actually Gmail is a part of Google account for login.
6. Do you have a Yahoo account?
6a. Updated 20071216- Discover who visits your blog site MyBlogLog signup with your Yahoo ID from step 6.
6b. Updated 20080524 add also the Blog Catalog Terms of Service an easy to use social networking site for bloggers, publicize your blog and more.
7. Do you have a Skype account? It now offers outbound calling to land-line phones for only $2.95 per month (upgrade was easy done, and works very well)
8. What about Instant Messages? Ever heard of PIDGIN? This was added back in 2007 when this post started, now today in my email I get news that ZDnet has featured Pidgin in their downloads, here are the details “Pidgin: Feature Download”
After this was posted, another issue arose that used Feedburner for publicizing RSS feed of a site. Check them out at Feedburner.com That’s all for now 20071212
- updated 20080202 a great way to read RSS feeds is with a tool like Bloglines from Bloglines.com and it will allow you to have a ‘blog’ there to share what your reading. Mine is http://www.bloglines.com/blog/GuyRCook if you have one too, do share it here.
Added 20080617 - Meta Tag Generator saves time, once the tags are created they can be saved as snippets in your web page creation software.
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Top MP3 Songs May 16, 2008
Posted by Guy Cook in : Mind, News , add a comment
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People Don’t Need Marketing May 14, 2008
Posted by Guy Cook in : Blogs, internet-marketing , 1 comment so far
Today I attended a webinar that explains this image above, from Mike Volpe (VP of Marketing for HubSpot), time well spent and cause again to “Rethink the Marketing strategy” online.
As promised, here’s that link to the webinar recording and slides at hubspot.com http://www.hubspot.com/seo-may2008
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Download Free Fonts with Font Cubes April 19, 2008
Posted by Guy Cook in : Frontpage, Internet , add a commentDownload Free Fonts with Font Cubes
Font Cubes is where you can find the a lot of free PC fonts and free Mac Fonts from the best font artists in the world. You can download any fonts easily by clicking the “Download” button. Registering as a member will allow you to access Font Cubes’s unique font management system. By registering, you could keep track on your favourite fonts by fontmarking them and asside of that, you could also use the system to keep track of font you have used in your project as well. However, the fonts listed in Font Cubes are the font author’s property. Please contact the authors for further consultation regarding the use of the listed fonts for. http://www.fontcubes.com/
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Website Storage and Web Tranfer Limits upgrading again for the third time this year. March 6, 2008
Posted by Guy Cook in : Features , add a commentWe are again increasing disk space and bandwidth for many plans at no charge for the third time in a little over a year.
On May 2, 2008, the following allocation increases will go into effect for Business Class (non-SOHO) hosting accounts:
1) Website Storage - increases two times from current published storage
2) Web Transfer Limit - increases three times from current published storage
Thank you for choosing BuyOurWebservices.net.
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Using the Announcer feature, how many email addresses can you send email to? January 30, 2008
Posted by Guy Cook in : Features , add a commentHow many email addresses can you send email to?
When sending mail, there is a limit to how many recipients you can send an email to at one time. This limit is 4,096 bytes, or four kilobytes. Please note that this is not a limit on the size of the actual email itself; this is a limit on the size of the portion of the email which holds the recipient’s email addresses (e.g. the “To”, “CC” and “BCC” fields).
Here’s how it works: each character in an email address, excluding commas, semicolons and spaces (which are used to separate multiple email addresses in the same field, depending on the email client you are using), uses up one byte. Therefore, if your email addresses are twenty-two characters long on average, then one email can be sent to as many as 186 recipients.
In the event that the email addresses exceed the four kilobyte limit, that portion of the email is truncated (shortened), so that it will no longer be over the limit. This means that some of the people on the recipient list will not get the email you sent.
As a general rule-of-thumb, you will be more than reasonably safe if you never send an individual email to more than 100 recipients at any one time.
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Canonical issues: www vs. non-www January 4, 2008
Posted by Guy Cook in : Blogs, Frontpage, internet-marketing , add a commentA portion of some good spider information at http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm
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Canonical issues: www vs. non-www There’s been much talk lately of canonical issues and search engines. This is where both the www and non-www versions of your pages are listed in a search engine. This is said to possibly trigger a duplicate content penalty and/or split page rank. If this is of concern to you, you may wish to use the following, but be aware that you may suffer a further loss of traffic while the engines sort out what’s what. This example is where you wish to direct all non-www traffic to www. Add the following to your .htaccess file.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Ensure that all your links to folders always end in a trailing / if there is no filename after that link.
FrontPage users: in addition to the above, you’ll also need to change the .htaccess files in: _vti_bin
_vti_bin /_vti_adm
_vti_bin/ _vti_aut Replace “Options None” to “Options +FollowSymLinks” Those folders are part of your FrontPage extensions on the server, so you’ll need to gain access via FTP. Note: test, test and test again after making changes. Test *immediately* after implementing 301 redirects. If you find anything wrong, remove the redirect immediately. User a server header checker to ensure that you’re getting a correct 301 response when using the old URL.
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Upgrading to WordPress version 2.3.2 December 29, 2007
Posted by Guy Cook in : Blogs, WordPress , add a commentEasy as cake, followed the instructions here http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress and all went as expected. That’s all there is to say, 2.3.2 version has been out over an hour at this writing.
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Why Choose BuyOurWebservices.net? November 30, 2007
Posted by Guy Cook in : Features, Internet, News , add a commentA seamless blend of UNIX and Microsoft TM technologies
Our technology combines the functionality of “Windows TM hosting” and “UNIX hosting” onto one platform. You can run ASP/MS Access and PHP/MySQL based sites from the same server farm. With our seamless blending of UNIX and Microsoft TM technologies, BuyOurWebservices.net’s hosting system is truly “cross-platform and one of the most advanced in the industry.
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IE, still not ‘there’ yet so far as CSS use November 23, 2007
Posted by Guy Cook in : Expression Web, Frontpage, Internet, Microsoft , add a commentIE, still not ‘there’ yet per this article from SitePoint Tech Times newsletter, on the Ultimate CSS guide and what was found in the Internet Explorer browser.
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