Posted on 03 April 2009 by Jeremy Hermanns
Forum discussion on Google API Outage at Google Groups.
AdWords API users out there, you may have noticed that Google is returning errors for some of your operations and calls. Reports came in on April 1st at a Google Groups thread, which has been confirmed by Google.
Posted on 22 February 2009 by Jeremy Hermanns
With iContact’s extensive features, you can easily create Email Messages, send them to your subscribers, and track their performance. When you apply Autoresponders to your email marketing campaign, you can stay in the forefront of your customer’s mind with automatic messages based on timed sequences or customer actions. Surveying provides you, the marketer a platform to collect data from your customers and iContact provides you with the real-time results of your data. RSS Feeds are the latest direct online communication tool. Your customers will immediately receive your most recent messages when they sign up for you RSS feed. iContact is a leading on-demand email marketing service, enabling organizations of all sizes to easily create, send, and track email newsletters, RSS feeds, blogs, surveys, and autoresponders.
Standard Features (Included free with your account!)
* Mail-merge Personalization
* Forward-to-a-Friend
* SpamCheck™
* Bounce-back Handling
* WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor
* Message Scheduling
* Assured CAN-SPAM Compliance
* Open and Clickthrough Tracking
* Subscription Management
* Over 300 Templates Included
Advanced Features (Also included free with your account!)
* List Segmentation
* Multiple Message Autoresponder
* Integrated Surveying
* RSS Feeds
* Advanced Analytics
* Event Management
* Industry Leading Deliverability
* Public Newsletter Archives
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Posted on 08 February 2009 by Jeremy Hermanns
What product are you selling? Are you selling it just to make money? How useful it is to your customers? Do you have an idea what people need these days? Too many questions, only one answer but only a few about it.
This year will continuously demonstrate the effect of recession, and may even get worst. Let’s hope not. But for the meantime, we must face the fact that life must go on and business as usual. For huge corporations, CEO and his employees are making some adjustments. For small businesses, it may be a bit difficult. For ordinary workers, I don’t need to mention it.
But what if you are into Internet marketing? What is the best product to sell online in this time of recession? Can you still make money by selling hot products? The latter seems easier to answer, while the former may need a long debate. Well, not really if you understand the real meaning of the word best in this time of recession.
If you are selling a marketing e-book, you add the word best to make it more attractive. If you want to make money from selling real books, you choose the best-selling author. But again, I am referring the best product in this time of recession. Now, look around. Which products do people want to buy online these days? If you think it’s just the hot products, look again.
Posted on 18 August 2008 by Jeremy Hermanns
More Customers, Fewer Costs: Why Marketing to the “Long Tail” Makes Sense
This session will address how marketers utilize the long tail of the Internet and search engine marketing to identify and reach consumers who are interested in what a company has to offer, but don’t fit the traditional definition of the demographic audience. The end result is a more strategic, cost-effective search marketing campaign. We’ll discuss the “long tail approach” from a tactical standpoint, including strategies that fit the users of this emerging market, as well as examples of why this works in terms of increasing sales.
Highlights of the presentation include:
* Keywords: Capturing consumers with tail
* The power of secondary search engines
* Case study examples of the concept “in action”
Posted on 30 June 2008 by Jeremy Hermanns
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2008
- Is Google Crawling Absolute Paths?
We’ve repeatedly recommended Google Webmaster Tools to help you assess problems with your website. It can help you figure out if you’re having some problems somewhere and then you can get to the bottom of them. In a specific example, a Cre8asite Forums member is finding that Google is crawling absolute paths, such as http://domain.com/var/www/html/page.php and /home/public_html/admin.html, which shouldn’t ever happen. Is it a problem with Google, or is there a structural issue with the
- Is there a Minimum Number of Pages Required for Decent Organic Rankings?
While SEO becomes more and more important, people try to find angles that they can exploit or take advantage of so that they can achieve good rankings. In one specific instance, High Rankings forum post asks if there’s a minimum number of pages that need to be targeted to achieve decent rankings. It’s important to note that in general, a site as a whole is collectively not ranked. Each page ranks individually. Therefore, you need
- Search Engine Optimizers Should Back Up Their Statements!
At SEO Refugee, Skitzzo talks about how the SEO blogosphere is starting to shift drastically and people are giving their opinions as fact. Instead of using jargon like “in my experience” or “as far as I can tell,” they think that their specific experiences mean that these statements hold true in all circumstances when in fact most of these experiences are circumstantial and they may not entirely hold true in all instances. The discussion moves
- Plurk Brings Micro Forums, Like Twitter Brought Micro Blogging
A few weeks ago, I joined Plurk to mess around with the newest social media buzz. After playing around with it for a few weeks, I have really grown to enjoy many of its addictive features. The main thing I want to explain is that Plurk feels to me like a micro-forums format. Just like Twitter is a micro-blogging system, Plurk is really a micro-discussion forums platform. Plurk works where you can post a 140
- Use Google Ad Manager To Set Minimum AdSense eCPM
Stuart McDonald posted a thread at WebmasterWorld explaining how you can use Google Ad Manager with Google AdSense to specify a minimum eCPM. You must keep in mind that you need to have other ads in your Ad Manager inventory to compete with your AdSense ads, in order for this to work properly. Google Ad Manager allows you to set a minimum CPM for most ad runs. By specifying the minimum CPM with house or
- Some Webmasters Are Banning Yahoo Slurp
It seems like some webmasters are becoming fed up with the activity of Yahoo’s crawl, Yahoo Slurp, relative to the amount of traffic Yahoo Search is sending the web site. In fact, some webmasters have taken the plunge and banned Yahoo from crawling their sites. It is funny, because some webmasters were or are afraid to ban Yahoo because they think it might have some sort of impact on their Google results. One such webmaster
- Moving to a U.S Hosted Server: Will it Impact Country Specific SEO?
A WebmasterWorld thread asks how much of an impact will a site see if it is moved from a Dubai host to a USA based host? The answer is not really all that known. This webmaster’s main concern is that he receives “80% of traffic from UAE and have lots of content and back links related to UAE.” He wants to continue to receive higher rankings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) regions. He is
- Why Did Google Tells Us They May Use Cookies To Prevent Spam?
Matt Cutts, of Google, posted a blog post at the official Google Blog named Using data to fight webspam. In that post, he describes how the web spam team uses log data, IP addresses, and cookie information to help prevent search spam. The question in the forums is why? Why is Google handing over this information? Let me quote a snippet from Matt’s post: The IP and cookie information is important for helping us apply
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 29, 2008
You love basketball? I do. This video recap, I play some basketball and you can score some great schwag by watching me play. Learn how by watching. So what did I chat about? Google proves to everyone out there that they know who you are, what you are doing and how much you can spend with Google Ad Manager and Google Trends for Websites.
Posted on 31 March 2008 by Jeremy Hermanns
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
SEORoundTable – Daily Search Forum Recap: March 31, 2008