Google Team gives presentation on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Thanks to PageTraffic Blog!

How to send an email to undisclosed recipients

This may seem pretty straightforward to other people but I figured if I needed to look it up maybe someone else needs the info as well.

• Launch Outlook 2007, and click the button to create a new email message.


• In the 'To' address field enter 'Undisclosed Recipients' followed by your e-mail address in braces.
  
  
  • For example: 'Undisclosed Recipients youremailaddress@gmail.com'
  
  
  • Side note: If you leave the TO: field blank, the email may bounce as some service providers may filter mark the mail as spam.


• In the BCC field, enter the e-mail addresses of those to whom you are sending the message.


• Write your message and send your e-mail.

Thank you to Carol's Corner Office at infopackets for the great tips!

Online Video Marketing

Jivox is an interesting addition to your pay-per-click marketing. They offer online video marketing in a different way.

1. According to their website, step one is to create your free online video ads. Jivox offers a step-by-step builder and library of videos, images and music that are royalty-free. Our use their QuickStart templates to create your ads. You can also upload your own images or videos of your products or storefronts and create video slide show ads. Then add your headline or special offer and your video ad is ready for online distribution.
2. Step two is to select your target audience. You can target the whole country or narrow it down to your state or even your city. Geo-targeting capability makes the exact target audience you want to reach possible. Or use Jivox's interactive map to combine multiple geographies to match your requirements.
3. Step three is the easiest. Tell Jivox how much you want to spend over what time frame. They also offer subscription packages for more savings. For as little as $300, you can get 15,000 full video views on the Jivox Online Publisher Network.

I'd love to hear what anybody else has to say about this service! Have you tried it? If so, did you like it?

A few do's and don'ts for that graduation speech

A few do's and don'ts for that graduation speech

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Vocaboly - Help with SAT

Vocaboly is new vocabulary software to help with the TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, SAT and VOA Special English.

If your child/teenager has difficult learning the traditional way, you should check out this software. A free trial download is available. Note: the trial version uses computer voice, after registration, you will get high quality human voice of American accent.

As you all know, I swear by www.download.com. Well here is what their review said:

August 01, 2004: CNET Review

...The clear and direct interface lists all your study options on the main window's left side. We were impressed by the number of ways Vocaboly can help you learn. For example, you can have words and meanings randomly tick across your screen, take a multiple-choice test, spell words when given their definitions, and play several games...

Other awards/nominations include the Shareware Industry Awards Nomination on May 11, 2004:

Vocaboly was nominated for "Best Educational Program or Game"

And the five-cows rating from Tucows.com:

March 5, 2004: Vocaboly got five-cows rating from Tucows.com - the first and most professional software rating website.

Their software includes more than 12,000 words, including meanings, phonetic symbols and pronunciation. You can select a book according to your purpose and English level. Each book contains eight flash cards for focusing on specified words. Each word can be assigned to a difficulty level from 0 to 5, which makes the vocabulary learning very efficient!

You can also create your own books and enjoy all the following innovative features:

• Word Ticker. Display words automatically.
• Recall. Recall the meaning of the words.
• Spelling. Spell words by meaning.
• Listening Test. Spell words according to pronunciation.
• Multiple-Choice Test. Select correct meaning or word from four choices.
• Memory Game. Match the word and meaning.
• Star War Game. A shoot game.
  

Take your username before someone else does!

Use a great website like KnowEm UserName Check to find all the social websites that you're missing. According to their website, "Don't have time to register for all 120 sites? Let our team do it for you! For $64.95 (about .50 cents a name) we will fill out the registration on all these popular social media sites with your Username and information in about 1 to 5 business days. Don't fall victim to "Cyber Squatting" or social media identity theft - ensure that your username or vanity URL is saved for you!"

Use it or don't complain when someone reserves a name that you think should be yours!

Great tool for Internet Marketing - Number 2

1. WhosTalkin (http://whostalkin.com/)
   
   
   • A great website to find who is talking about yourself or your clients.
   
   
   • Checks website such as: Backtype, Blogdigger, FriendFeed, Google Blog Search, IceRocket, identi.ca, Indianpad, Myspace Blogs, Plazoo, Plurk, Social Mention, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress.com, Ask News, BBC, Google News, ITN, Microsoft Live News, Newspad PRWeb, Techmeme, Topix, Yahoo News, bebo, Facebook, Friendster, hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Myspace, Netlog, Ning, xanga, Blinkx, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Revver, Viddler, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, YouTube, DeviantART, Flickr, Fotki, PhotoBucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Yahoo Image Search, BoardReader, BoardTracker, Omgili, Blinklist, Blogmarks, del.icio.us, Faves, instablogs, Jumptags, Metafilter, MyWeb, Newsvines, Reddit and WordPress.com.
   
   
   • Again, you can use the Excel 2007 "Import Web Query" option to gather the data in an easy-to-use format.

How to Integrate your Blog into Facebook

Login to Facebook and click on your Profile tab. Then click on Notes. On the right should be a box to add your RSS feed. According to Facebook, “You can import posts from one external blog so that they appear along with your notes. Facebook will automatically update your notes whenever you write in your blog. Imported blog posts cannot be edited.”

Great tool for Internet Marketing

Great tool for Internet marketing

1. ValidRank
   
   • Our Backlink Checker Tool is designed to see how many websites are linking back to you. Additional information is also available such as the Page Rank of the linking page, and whether the page has nofollow tag.
   
   
   • Great tool to get a list of websites/pages that are linking back to you, what their PageRank is, and how many outbound links are on the webpage.
   
   
   • Use the Excel 2007 “Import Web Query” option to gather the data in an easy-to-use format.