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Are Blogs Ready for Primetime?
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1002860
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FTC Says No to " Do Not Email Registry"
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/06/canspam2.htm
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PayPal Makes Changes to Fee Structures
https://www.paypal.com/feesfaq
https://www.paypal.com/performancepricing

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Microsoft Files More CAN-SPAM Suits
http://www.clickz..com/news/article.php/3366851

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Google Stirs Controversy With Froogle
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7377
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Ebay Introduces Buyer Credit
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y04/m06/i08/s02

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"How to Get Your Web Site Listed in the Major
Search Engines"

by Herman Drost

Getting your web site listed in the major search engines
is an absolute necessity. Why? Because 85% of all people
on the Internet use them when searching for information.
When they type the keyword or keyword phrase in a major
search engine, up pops your web site, or at least you
hope so.

The easiest, fastest and free way to get listed in any
of the major search engines is getting links from other
related sites that point to your site. Once you get your
web site listed in one major search engine or directory,
your site will appear in the others.

Besides working on your link building strategies, you
can also submit your web site to the major search engines.

Here's how to submit to the major search engines, listed
in alphabetical order:

1. AllTheWeb.com - owned by overture which also provides
results for Lycos.

Fr.e Submission

http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
Only submit your homepage and a couple of inside pages.
It takes about 6 weeks before your pages appear.
There is no guarantee to get listed.

Paid Submission

AlltheWeb doesn't have a direct paid inclusion program
but uses Lycos Insite Select

http://tinyurl.com/3hx2h
Price $35.00
It takes 72 hours to get listed. Your pages will be visited
every 2 days for 1 year. This is a good option if you want
a new site to quickly get listed.

2.. Altavista - owned by overture

http://www.altavista.com/addurl/new

Free Submission

This gives you a basic submission.
You can add up to 5 URLS to be considered for inclusion
in 4-6 weeks. Submit your homepage and one or 2 other
pages.There is no guarantee of inclusion.

Paid Submission

AltaVista Express Inclusion

https://www.infospider.com/av/app/signup
Submit your homepage.
Your pages will be listed within 2 weeks and revisited
regularly.Price $39.00 I URL for a 6 month subscription
Guarantee: Your pages could be dropped if you don't
renew your subscription.

3. Google.
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Google is the top choice for searchers. It's search
engine results also appear in Yahoo and AOL.

Free Submission
It is free to submit but there is no guarantee of a
listing. Submit your homepage and a couple of other
pages. It takes about a month for your pages to appear.

The best way to get listed in Google is to find a lot
of related inbound links - links from other sites that
point to yours. This will vastly improve your search
engine rankings and your site will probably show up
more quickly.

4. Infospace.
http://www.infospace.com/info/submit.htm

Free to submit, however you need to fill out a form
to get listed.

5. Inktomi - it was recently purchased by Yahoo, so
it may provide results for Yahoo in the future.
http://www.inktomi.com/products/web_search/submit.html

Free Submission
As with all other major search engines, building links
to your site is the best way to go if you want to get
listed for free.

Paid Submission
Inktomi's search engine has an extensive network of
Web search partners, including MSN, About, HotBot,
Overture. It refreshes your site every 48 hours, to
keep your content up to date in the index.

Submit your homepage
Your site will be listed in 2 days and will be regularly
revisited up to one year. Price $39.00/year. Each URL
thereafter costs $25.00/year. Guarantee: Your pages
may be dropped if you don't renew your subscription.

6. Teoma - provides results for the popular web site
Ask Jeeves (http://ask.ineedhits.com)
Ask Jeeves owns the Teoma search engine. Teoma partners
include: Ask.com, Teoma.com, Metacrawler, Excite, iLor,
MySearch.com, MyWay.com, Ixquick, Mamma.com, Hotbot.com,
Search123.com.

Free Submission
Like the other major search engines, get links from
other web sites to point to yours and the search engines
will eventually find you though their linking structure.

Paid Submission
Ask Jeeves Site Submit (http://ask.ineedhits.com)
Submit your homepage Your site will be listed within
one week.

1st URL $30.00
2 - 1000 URLs $18.00 each
Guarantee: Your pages may be dropped if you don't renew
your subscription.

Tips

1. Just submitting your web site to the major search
engines is not sufficient to get a good ranking. Make
sure your web site is correctly optimized before you
do your submissions. Read "How to Use Keywords to
Optimize Your Site for Search Engines
(http://www.isitebuild.com/keywords)

2. Getting massive amounts of traffic doesn't guarantee
sales. Your web site copy must pull your visitors
through the page for them to take action. Get others
to read your copy and ask for their opinions.

3. To achieve higher rankings (and therefore more
traffic) in the search engines, you need to continually
refine your web site. Monitor your web site rankings
and if necessary, adjust the keywords in your meta
tags and web site copy.

4. Search engines should be only one of your marketing
strategies. One week you could be at the top of a search
engine, the next week your site may disappear. Therefore
don't just rely on traffic from the search engines, but
use other methods to drive traffic to your site.

Now go and submit your site to these major search engines.
When you succeed in getting a top listing, as a result
of taking action on this article, drop me a thank you
note - I'll be cheering for you!

Part 2 of this article will explain how to get listed
in the Major Directories.

*************************************************
Herman Drost is the author of the popular ebook:
"101 Highly Effective Strategies to Promote Your
Web Site" http://www.isitebuild.com/web-site-promotion
Subscribe to his "Marketing Tips" newsletter for more
original articles. mailto:subscribe@isitebuild.com.
You can read more of his in-depth articles at:
http://www.isitebuild.com/articles
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Create Your Own Favicon

Would you like to display your own icon on the browser
address bar when visitors view or bookmark your
web page? The favicon feature makes it possible to
brand address bars, bookmarks / favorites, and/or
tabs with custom icons. This online tool allows you
to upload any picture you like and convert it to a
favicon. Add the code to your site upload the graphic
to your server and you're done.

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

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Tell A Friend Script

I'll admit it I'm no programmer and I hate setting up
scripts.They always seem to give me a headache. Not
this one. I went in search of a new "recommend this
site" to a friend script since the service I was using
no longer was working. Anyway, I did some copy and
paste and changed the url and email address and this
worked right away. Love it.

http://tinyurl.com/26bh3

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Links Department

"With Link Department you easily create and maintain
a link directory site. The system is fully manageable
from advanced yet easy to use admin control panel.
Front end appearance is completely template driven
so you smoothly fit it into any existing design
without being forced to modify any PHP code. Search
engine friendly with static HTML pages. Installs
in minutes with click-and-go web setup script."

http://hitcode..com/products/linkdept/linkdept.php

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Useful Tips
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"Adding Comments to Your Code"

Sometimes you need to remind yourself of what
certain HTML code or CSS code is for. Putting
comments into your code is easy.

For HTML use

<!--this is a HTML comment-->

/* and this is a comment in a style sheet*/

Only you can read comments and they will not be
activated in your style sheet or web page.

29 Ways to Promote

Dr. Wilson has put together a nice list of 29
ways to promote your website.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/checklist.htm

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Gift Certificates

"At GiftCertificates.com you'll find gift certificates
from hundreds of popular stores, hotels, airlines,
theaters, restaurants and services. They're great
for birthdays, holidays, anniversaries -- whatever
the occasion." This site makes picking the perfect
gift easy.

http://www.giftcertificates.com/

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Mission Fish

"MissionFish helps you support your favorite causes
through trading on eBay! Since 2000, they've been
helping nonprofits raise hundreds of thousands of
dollars, using a unique online auction process that
turns in-kind donations into cash." Mission Fish
is a nonprofit service. Pick your charity and how
much of the items sale price you want donated to them.

http://www.missionfish.org/

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Ebay Feedback Withdrawn

Think you're stuck with negative feedback? If you use
Ebay and can get the other party to agree to withdraw
it after working out a mutual agreeable solution Ebay
will remove it from your overall feedback score.

http://tinyurl.com/22jd3

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Create MS Reader Ebooks

"Create eBooks from Microsoft Word version 2002 or
Microsoft Word version 2003 files at the click of
a button. The Read in Microsoft Reader (RMR) add-in
for Microsoft Word enables you to convert any Word
document into a Microsoft Reader format eBook in
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Text Monkey Lite

"It can clean up all the ugly quoting symbols that
result from forwarding email messages back and forth.
It even cleans up extra blank lines, deletes leading
and trailing spaces, and converts line breaks to
spaces for proper formatting." There's a free version
and a Pro version with even more options.

http://www.textmonkey.com/

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