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What You MUST Know About Text vs. HTML Emails

James Opiko — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:30:48 +0000

By Bjorn Brands HTML messages allow for text formatting, multiple columns, images, and brand recognition. They are growing in popularity and over 95% of customer email programs today will support...

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How to Optimize for Google: Part 1 of 3

James Opiko — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:13:14 +0000

Writes: Scott Van Achte In today’s online world search engine rankings can make your business succeed, and while rankings in Yahoo and MSN are very valuable, their combined market value is...

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SEO and SEM; How to Dominate Google!

James Opiko — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:40:37 +0000

Search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) are two of the most powerful and profitable things you can do for your online business. As Google celebrates its twelfth birthday...

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Using Articles to Improve Your Site’s Ranking

James Opiko — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:35:20 +0000

It should always be your goal to provide those people who read your website or blog with relevant content. After all, whether someone is reading your personal blog and looking for perspective on...

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Top 5 Ways To Benefit From Universal Search

James Opiko — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:11:10 +0000

Writes: Jennifer Horowitz What is Universal Search and Why Should You Care? Universal Search combines all the information within its Vertical engines/databases into one index to serve a single set...

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Is Your Website Working For You?

James Opiko — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:00:30 +0000

Writes Alicia Forest If you’ve got a business online, then it’s likely you have some sort of web presence. Perhaps it’s a one-page ’sign up for my list’ kind of site, or...

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3 Fast and Simple Ways to Dominate Google Rankings!

James Opiko — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:06:07 +0000

Writes: Michael Small “Most old-school tricks don’t work today and many can get your pages banned. This is great news for you. Over the next few minutes I’ll show you how to make...

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Search Engine Optimization, Google, And The Reptilian Code

James Opiko — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:03:02 +0000

Writes: Jerry Bader. Search engine optimization dominates the thinking and to a large degree the marketing efforts of many small and medium-sized companies, but have you ever noticed that many of...

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A Web-Branding Blueprint

James Opiko — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:21:54 +0000

Writes: Jerry Bader Change is inevitable; as an economy matures, ages, and ultimately evolves into something new, adjustments must be made to our business development, marketing and branding. Failure...

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Writing Website Content - That Gets Results!

James Opiko — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:40:52 +0000

Benefits of High-Value Web Content This kind of content has value for the reader, obviously. But it also benefits the author / publisher. Here are the top five benefits of creating high-value website...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing

James Opiko — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:53:47 +0000

Writes: Kalena Jordan Pay Per Click (PPC) search engine marketing refers to a specific type of advertising where you pay a search engine every time a potential customer clicks on your ad. These ads...

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The New Rules of Marketing - Internet Marketing Tools For 2008

James Opiko — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:17:23 +0000

Write(s): Sam Law and Julian Stone Online businesses are coming to the realization that in an organic environment like the Internet, organic marketing is required; paying for traditional or static...

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10 Key Content Strategies to Increase Online Visibility

James Opiko — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:15:02 +0000

Write(s): Lani and Allen Voivod Now more than ever, if you want to be a successful business owner, you need a successful business website. Which means you have to make nice with the search engines....

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What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

James Opiko — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:13:46 +0000

Writes Donovan Baldwin: Anyone involved in any sort of Internet marketing sees the term, “search engine optimization”, or SEO, everywhere these days. Everybody throws it around as if they...

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Google launches open APIs for social networks

James Opiko — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:38:11 +0000

Writes Elinor Mills Borrowing a page from Sun’s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once. Google’s version...

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Search Marketing Industry Shake-up Imminent

James Opiko — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:18:55 +0000

Writes Jim Hedger As sure as the sun shines behind the clouds on a rainy day, a major shake-up in the search marketing industry is coming soon. The signals are being sent and received through-out the...

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Tables Still Have a Place in Web Page Layout

James Opiko — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:43:45 +0000

Writes: Kevin Yank At tonight’s meeting of the Melbourne Web Standards Group, Andrew Krespanis and I have been assigned to argue for the statement “Tables Still Have a Place in Web Page...

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Build a Professional Website with Site Build It!

James Opiko — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:21:20 +0000

Matt Cutts Pokes Fun at Keyword Stuffer

James Opiko — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:02:21 +0000

Crying about Google ignoring your keyword stuffed web pages just gives Matt Cutts and the rest of the SEO world something to gleefully mock. Note: Naughty tricks aimed at gaming the search engines...

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‘Directory Submitter’ Review — Software Gets You Tons Of Quality 1 Way Links

James Opiko — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:10:51 +0000

You may or may not know that Website Directory Submission is a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website. These kinds of links are exactly what the search engines are...

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Social Media Optimization’s impact at your Web site

James Opiko — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:31:10 +0000

Social Media Optimization’s impact at your Web site Writes: Boris Mordkovich Over the last year or so, "social media" has quickly become the next "big" thing online. A plethora...

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Web Hosting — IPowerWeb Announces Biggest Sale EVER!

James Opiko — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:26:23 +0000

To celebrate the Fourth of July, IPowerWeb has announced its biggest sale EVER! IPowerWeb’s normally-priced $7.95/month Pro Plan hosting package will be discounted to the extremely low price...

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Insider information about Google’s ranking algorithm

James Opiko — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:42:50 +0000

The New York Times has recently published an article about Amit Singhal. Amit Singhal is in charge of Google’s ranking algorithm. The interview reveals some interesting facts about...

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Conversion Rate Optimization Vs. SEO

James Opiko — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:25:51 +0000

By Frederick Townes Within the e-commerce sphere, the “mind games” between site owners and search engine designers have focused on search engine optimization (SEO). After all, you...

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FREE Marketing & Publishing Gifts From — InkwellEditorial.com

James Opiko — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:57:40 +0000

Run by Yuwanda Black, InkwellEditorial.com is a Business portal for and about the creative and editorial industries. At InkwellEditorial.com, you will find first-hand info about success stories, the...

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It’s Curtains For Google Adsense Arbitragers

James Opiko — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:28:36 +0000

Writes — Ba Kiwanuka Playing the Arbitrage game — “There’s a strong correlation between Google Adwords and Google Adsense which so happens to be the basis of the whole Adsense...

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Google Launches “Universal Search”

James Opiko — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:53:46 +0000

Google’s search algorithm now has an integrated interface, integrating all relevant results from Google Blog Search, Google News, Google Maps, Google Images, Local Search, etc. into one results...

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What Produces Successful Web Advertising?

James Opiko — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:05:32 +0000

Here are six questions to ponder: 1. How will your product or service change your customer? 2. Is what you have to say different? 3. Do you know how to tell your story? 4. Can you say it boldly? 5....

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Protect Yourself Against AdSense Click Fraud

James Opiko — Mon, 21 May 2007 09:36:08 +0000

If you use Google AdSense on your web site, then you need to be aware of this… Did you know you could easily lose all your Google AdSense income without notice and through no fault of your...

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