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The Selling Lounge Surfing Really Smart Deals

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Don't forget this day...

Make sure you have your computer clean and ready!

It's not too late to sign up if you are interested in surfing RSD as a group for one fun-filled week. You can surf for any one of your sites that you sell on!

We have so far members surfing for their own websites, BluJay, Bonanzle, OverNightAuctions, and YourHighBid!! How Cool Is That!!

>>>> All Information Found Here <<<<

1. Let me know which site your surfing for
2. Put SellingLounge in your RSD account name
{EXAMPLE: debsgreatfinds@blujay-SellingLounge}
3. Start surfing at 6 P/M eastern time

We will be posting in forum during our surfing here:

EXTRA PRIZES!
If we have 6 or more of us surfing and make the top ten on RSD for one week with SellingLouge in our user names, Debbie will put The Selling Lounge Banner on the top of RSD for one week and each member will get an extra 500 credits.

PLUS!
For each one of you that make it to the top ten that week, Debbie will add one of your banners to the newsletter blog for 2 weeks. The banner size is 125x125.

PLUS!
All surfers that sign up & Surf for the full week will get one (1) Full Month Free of banner rotation in The Selling Lounge and The Selling Lounge Directory!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR REALLY SMART DEALS WITH SCREEN SHOTS CAN BE FOUND HERE:

Surfers Signed Up So Far Are:
Bays
Vinewood
kcarnahan2006
ForgetMeNotMinerals
TheGreenFamily2006
debsgreatfinds
Southwitch
Vintage Rose Collectibles
Keleka
copperpenny22
iamtheprincess
yellowsand1964

I'm really excited to see all of us get together and do this as a team.

Thank You All So Very Much,
Bays/Debi

Top 100 Shopping Sites

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Add Your Site | Member Login

Your Sites Ranking method is by incoming clicks.
Member Product Spotlight!

Place Your Site Here! Click On Empty Banner for Details!

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Advertise With Us!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:35:00 +0000

Member Product Spotlight!

Place Your Site Here! Click On Empty Banner for Details!

Want to exchange banners in my prime spot! Email Me! For One Yea

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Welcome to Top 100 Shopping Sites!

Are you a website owner or do you have an online eStore? How would you like to receive more traffic to your online business? We can help you!!! This is absolutely the perfect place for you to get yourself noticed. To get started all you need to do is Click on "Add Your Site" above.

HOW DOES IT WORK? After you have submitted your website or online eStore Banner & Link URL's to our Top 100 List proceed to "MEMBER LOGIN" at the top of the page where you will be able to retrieve your "banner code" for linking back to us, by clicking on "Get Your Link Code" which you will find on the left hand side of the page. You will find a number of banners for you to choose from.

PLEASE NOTE: Your ranking on our Top 100 Shopping List is based on how much traffic you send to our site through your banner code. You can place your banner code on as many sites that you have to help you in your ranking. (Place your code everywhere; your website, blogs, MySpace, and so forth.)

OUR REQUIREMENTS: Your link must be family friendly with NO ADULT CONTENT or distasteful substance. Any link that does not meet up to our simple requirements will be deactivated.

We also have paid advertising spots available for you as well. Simply click on the link below to take you to our website to purchase them or you may also click on the banner ads as well.

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Benefits of Owning Your Own Top List

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:38:00 +0000

You may be wondering why you would want to start your own top list. Top lists are excellent traffic building tools and can be used in a variety of ways.

Some of the best reasons to start your own top list are:

Easy Traffic! Top lists are simple to get good amounts of traffic to. It does take some time, but the steps to grow your list (which we will teach you) are very easy to do.

Large Amounts of Traffic! By owning your own top list, you will have hundreds or even thousands of other sites sending you more and more traffic (as they all try to get into the top 5 or 10 spots on your list). You can use your top list as a "traffic pump" to your main site(s) by placing links to your site(s) in highly visible locations on your top list.

Make Extra Cash! You can take advantage of the large amounts of traffic generated by your top list by placing advertisements to affiliate programs on your list.

Add Value for Your Surfers! You will keep people coming back to your site because they will view it as a valuable resource to find related information.

As you can see there are great benefits to owning your own top list.

Check Us Out Today! Add Your Site!

Why Should I Add My Site To A Top 100 Site?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:34:00 +0000

Top 100 lists are excellent traffic building tools and can be used to drive traffic to you and your products.

Top lists are simple to get good amounts of traffic from.

Do you need a banner for your Top 100 Site?

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Do you need a Banner or a Logo so that you can
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Top 100 Ad Rates

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Advertise on Baysbeauty Top 100 Shopping Sites!

Advertise with us and you will get your Banner Links not only placed on our Top 100 Shopping List, you will have yourself on our Websites, Our Google Page - Top Sites, and also you will be seen in our Blog! Advertising online and in various places gives you the opportunity of gaining the attention of buyers worldwide. The exposure is endless! Advertising Questions? Email us at sales@baysbeauty.com

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Below you will find the various options that we provide for our Members. During your payment process, please add in the comment area: Your Website URL and Your Banner URL. Please note that we only accept Family Friendly Sites!

Our Member Product Spotlight! A 125x125 Banner will be placed on our Top 100 Shopping Site. Choose one of your favorite products that you would like to Spotlight and we will place it at the top of each page on our Top 100 Site. These spots are limited and are only available until they run out.

Price: $4.00 - 1 month

Price: $5.50 - 2 months

Our Sponsor Exchange Ads: 125x125 Banner Appears at the top of the site. Our Sponsor Ad spaces are all yearly spots and are FREE with other Top 100 Sites! What we do is exchange Banners with you as long as you have a Top 100 Site. We will place your banner on the top of our site and you will place our banner on the top of your site. Please send your Site URL and your Banner URL along with the URL of the site were our banner will be placed.

Our Sponsor Ads: 125x125 Banner Appears at the top of the site. Our Sponsor Ad spaces are monthly spots, 3 month spots or 6 month spots. These spots are limited!

Price: $ 4.00 - 1 month

Price: $14.00 - 6 months
Price: $18.00 - 1 full year

Please Note!
You are responsible for hosting your own banner ad! We need from you your Banner URL and your Site URL. Sometimes a banner will not show up or is no longer on line and that will be your responsibility to keep an eye on your own banner and make sure it is still there. If this occurs, we will replace your banner with another unless you contact us to let us know there is a problem with your banner and hosting. We are trying to keep our site nice and neat and broken images just do not look that great. When we have to take down a banner and you want your banner back up, please send us your receipt of payment and we will put you back in line for a spot if we are filled up. Your banner will not be placed in the same spot as it was if we have full spots. Thank you so much for your understanding as Baysbeauty Top 100 Shopping Sites wants to stay clean and neat and looking good!

Baysbeauty Top List Rules
We do require a link back to us from somewhere on the site that you are submitting. Once you have submitted your site, you will be given linking instructions.

Only submit sites that are on topic. Unrelated sites will be deleted.

Please do not use ALL CAPS in your titles or descriptions.

Please only submit sites that are in the English language.

Sites that contain illegal content will not be accepted into our list.

Sites that contain adult material will not be accepted into our list.

Rate apply for our Top 100 Guide as well.

Member Spotlight!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:45:00 +0000

Member Product Spotlight!

Place Your Product Here! Click On Empty Banner for Details!

Want to exchange banners in my prime spot! Email Me!

Shop Our Spotlight Member Sites!

Top 100 Shopping Sites

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Tips for Online website owners to achieve success.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:16:00 +0000

We have scoured the internet looking for tips to share with you to try to help you with your websites.
Below is a list of interesting articles that we hope would help you.
Please email us with any feedback regarding topics you would like to see posted.

How to Make your Website Sing
Build a bad-looking small-business site filled with poorly written text, and your potential customers will go away. Build one that is attractive, compelling and clever, but crucial design mistakes will still guarantee that few people will know that the site exists.

Welcome to the Exciting World of Ecommerce
The world of ecommerce can be a great place to invest, and a great place to open a business. This article provides an overview of this exciting market.

Four Ways to Increase Online Sales
Small changes - like improving your customer checkout process - can have a big effect on how many people end up buying from your site.

3 Top Tips on Making Profit Through Your Website
Discover how to avoid missing out on substantial new business through your website with these 3 top tips.

Making Money Online: Persistence is the Key
Establishing a profitable E-commerce site is a tough job nowadays. Thousands of companies are struggling against each other to get more and more profit out of the internet. You should use each and every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales.

10 Ways to Lose Web Sales
The first step to avoiding web design mistakes is knowing what they are.

E-Commerce- Most Important Parts
All e-commerce websites need to provide certain information to their visitors. Doing so will convert visitors into customers.

Build Your Internet Business For Success
For you internet based business, you need to have a clear understanding as to the fact that you are not simply just selling some product, but you are consuming people time! This is one of the most forgotten issues.

5 Ways To Make Your E-commerce Website More Competitive
Shopping online has many benefits. Knowing them can save you time and money.

Shoppers Expect a Bargain Online
Shoppers expect a bargain when they connect to your website for online shopping. They might browse your shopping website out of curiosity, but they'll only buy when they find real bargains. Your challenge is to appeal to whatever combination of price and products or services they want to capture their business.

Welcome to the Exciting World of Ecommerce

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:23:00 +0000

The simple word ecommerce means many different things to many different people. To some of us, ecommerce means the ability to buy that great new book at 4 in the morning from our favorite online bookstore. To others, ecommerce means cleaning out the closet and making some money by putting those unwanted treasures up for sale at our favorite online auction house. To others, ecommerce means the ability to have different businesses connect seamlessly and cost efficiently, and the business to business world of ecommerce is one of the fastest growing segments of the market.

Ecommerce allows suppliers to easily connect with buyers of finished products, and business people to easily compare prices and quality among different suppliers. The Internet also provides a wealth of information, and this information is an integral part of the ecommerce solution.

When the Internet first emerged on the scene, it was used by government agencies as a secure way to communicate with one another. Even when the Internet became the province of ordinary users, it was mostly a playground for college students and computer geeks. It took quite some time for the commercial potential of the Internet to be exploited, and the first ecommerce companies were quite primitive by today’s standards. Some of those first ecommerce companies are still around and stronger than ever, while others failed to make a profit. Anyone interested in opening an ecommerce business of their own would do well to study the history of ecommerce and the Internet for important lessons.

Despite the bursting of the Internet bubble, ecommerce continues to have nearly unlimited potential for smart entrepreneurs. In fact, the world of ecommerce offers so many advantages over traditional brick and mortar businesses that it simply cannot be ignored. While a brick and mortar business needs to rent space and hire employees, a start up ecommerce business can be run from a single computer as a one man or one woman operation. Many of the most successful ecommerce businesses got their start in just such a manner, and more and more ecommerce startups are born every day.

There have been a great many changes in the world of business over the last couple of decades, but perhaps no change has been more important than that of the Internet. The World Wide Web has become so important in our lives that many of our children could not conceive of a world without it. Business has been changed in many ways by the power of technology, affecting everything from the way we get hired to the way we do our jobs.

For more information on the world of ecommerce visit http://www.ecommercesold.com

How to Make Your Web Site Sing for You

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:21:00 +0000

The idea that if you build it, they will come, might have worked for Kevin Costner in the movie “Field of Dreams,” but it certainly does not hold true for Web sites.

Build a bad-looking small-business site filled with poorly written text, and your potential customers will go away. Build one that is attractive, compelling and clever, but crucial design mistakes will still guarantee that few people will know that the site exists.

Your Web site is like a digital business card, designers say, the first online look at your company that a customer gets. With luck, it will not be the last.

It is not just small operations that make a mishmash of their sites. Large companies can be just as prone to major design mistakes.

One global company states on its home page that “Indigenous and proven career management tools coupled with a comprehensive series of integrated initiatives have been evolved, to ensure that employees continue to sustain a high performance culture, while recruitment and selection is based on necessary competencies.”

That is “just gobbledygook,” Mr. Flanders said. “The words are not understandable by humans.”

According to Jakob Nielsen, a Web site consultant and author of the book “Prioritizing Web Usability,” it is essential that a Web page get a company’s message across quickly, because visitors are a fickle bunch. Most people do not go beyond what is in front of their faces.

Studies by Mr. Nielsen’s company, the Nielsen Norman Group, an Internet design firm in Fremont, Calif., show that only 50 percent of Web visitors scroll down the screen to see what lies below the visible part on their PC monitor.

“Users spend 30 seconds reviewing a home page,” Mr. Nielsen said. “A business must encapsulate what they do in very few words.”

With findings like those, it is no wonder that Web pages must visually hit a visitor right between the eyes. If a site does not answer a user’s questions about a business, then you have scored one for the competition. For example, the first thing customers visiting any restaurant’s Web site want to know is when it is open. But often that information can be found only by digging through multiple pages. As a result, “the site fails,” Mr. Nielsen said.

“It’s all about the basics,” said Baris Cetinok, Microsoft’s director of product management for Office Live, a site that offers free Web hosting and design tools for small businesses.

Visitors must immediately find out “who you are, what you do and how people can reach you,” Mr. Cetinok said.

Besides good grammar, Mr. Nielsen suggests that companies list a physical address, include a photograph of the building and not ask potential clients to fill out a form simply to ask a question. “That immediately communicates danger,” he said.

Making a site look good is complicated by the fact that no two monitors will necessarily present the Web in the same way. Users can set their browser’s default font size to be bigger or smaller, so it is impossible to know exactly how text will appear to any one person.

And how much of a Web site’s home page can actually be seen by users varies, based on the screen’s resolution.

The problems are made worse by designers being in Los Angeles or New York, and not, say, Texas, so “they think everyone has a large monitor and a fast D.S.L. connection,” said Neil Hettinger, co-owner of Lead Pencil Ad Design, a marketing and design company in Manhattan Beach, Calif. He suggests mixing text and graphics on a Web site, with dark type set against a light background for easy reading.

If you are selling a product, use thumbnail photos that can be enlarged when clicked on, Mr. Nielsen said, not a graphic that can be rotated in every direction. Otherwise “you see products at weird angles.”

“The most important rule in Web page design is to eliminate unnecessary design,” Mr. Flanders said. He recommends not adding large, spinning graphics that take a long time to download.

He also advises business owners not to add introductory splash pages that force a viewer to watch a video or animation.

“Splash pages are only needed for pornography, gambling and multinational Web sites that need to direct users to a particular country’s page,” Mr. Flanders said.

Graphics also do nothing to help a site get discovered by search engines like Google or Yahoo. Those sites troll the Internet for key words, as well as the frequency and quality of one site that links to another.

Text embedded in a graphic, like the name of a shop in a photograph, cannot be seen by search engines. And the old practice of embedding key words in white-on-white type will not increase a site’s page ranking; in fact it will do the opposite.

“The first time a word is used on a site, it’s significant,” said Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer. “If that word is used 50 times, there is a diminishing return.”

“If you put hidden tags on your page, you’re a total moron,” Mr. Flanders said. “You will get caught by search engines, or others will turn you in.”

If your business is local, make sure that the entire geographic area you serve is mentioned in text on the site. To increase the number of sites that link to yours, list your business in online trade directories, and mention it on various blogs.

Google offers free Web master tools that automatically analyze a site to determine if it is being optimized by search engines.

In the end, getting a prominent placement in a search engine is the only way to ensure that your site will be seen by those who can increase your business.

“If your site is not listed on the first page of search results, you might as well not exist,” Mr. Nielsen said.