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• Gammadyne Mailer is an incredibly powerful email automation utility.  It can send personalized text or HTML email to a list of recipients located in a database or text file.  It can also process virtually any type of incoming email, including bounce-backs, sign-ups, and opt-outs.  Gammadyne Mailer's unmatched set of features includes multi-tasking, direct delivery, list-serving, auto-responding, auto-forwarding, command line support, exclusion lists, unlimited mailing list size, message preview, personalized attachments, duplicate elimination, and much more.  Advanced list management features make it easy to add, change, verify, and remove recipients from the mailing list.  For complex situations, you can use a powerful scripting language called G-Merge that has the versatility to automate even the most difficult of tasks. Get more info
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• Cost Per Click (CPC) Advertising seems to be the wave of the future. Enterprising affiliates are using the CPC search engines to drive traffic to their offers for pennies per click. The Search Engine Institute, provides a great tutorial, for beginners and veterans alike.
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• eMarketing Association - http://www.emarketingassociation.com. The eMarketing Association (eMA) is the world’s largest international association of marketing professionals, companies, students and governments. The eMA provides marketing resources, services, research, certifications, educational programs and events to its members and the marketing community.
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• SEOConsultants.com: http://www.seoconsultants.com. A database of select Search Engine Marketing Professionals from around the world.
• Design Resource: http://www.mvd.com/webguide. This site showcases an HTML Style Guide, Image Creation Guide, Design Guides and links to dozens of sites for FREE images, free animations, free backgrounds, Java plugins, sounds, etc.
• SEOPros.org: http://www.seopros.org. An organization of search engine optimization consultants and internet marketers developing and implementing a set of "best practices" for the search engine optimization industry.
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• Cool Homepages: http://www.coolhomepages.com.
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• Google Toolbar:  Contains a pop up blocker, a page rank checker and much more
• Alexa Toolbar [ A webmaster's Toolbar ! ]: Contains a popup blocker and returns Google search results with Alexa information. Search Amazon for products, check news and stocks, find out a site's traffic ranking, find similar sites,  research your competition. The Alexa Toolbar is loaded with features. A must have tool for webmasters and power users!
• Hotbot Toolbar: Installs itself into your windows task bar
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• Teoma Toolbar: Includes a built-in highlighter that highlights your search terms as they appear on the page. Built in dictionary and email functions.
• Altavista Toolbar:  In addition to its built-in popup blocker news & image search and weather & zip code finder, this one will translate text or web pages into 10 different languages.
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• Dotwidgets:  DotWidgets are compact and easily-configurable scripts that make managing a website easy.
  
  Available dotWidgets:
  
  dotWidget CMS: A content management system that's completely browser-based and incredibly easy to use and install. Its many powerful features include a WYSIWYG Editor, multiple user support and a flexible templating system. We used dotWidget CMS to build this dotwidget.com site. ($49)  - More info
  
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• The FormMail Script, originally scripted by Matt Wright is one of the most popular scripts used by webmasters for Form Processing on the web. As a result Spammers have abused it time and again. Download a fortified version of this script here: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/formmail.zip. Read the documentation that comes with the script - this will give you a thorough understanding of what changes you'll need to make in order for it work correctly with your web site and server. It will also provide you with some examples. Other free script resources include: | Scriptarchive.com | Hotscripts.com | cgi-resources.com |

• UltraEdit: Text Editor – HEX Editor - HTML Editor – Programmers Editor. UltraEdit is a disk based editor with a 16-Bit version for Windows 3.x and a 32-Bit version for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 and XP (not Win32s). This is a fabulous replacement for the Windows NOTEPAD utility. It has numerous other features that NOTEPAD does not have: Supports files in excess of 4GB, has a built in 100,000 word spell checker with foreign language(s) support, a built in FTP client. It has other wide ranging capabilities including Programming features, Database handling features and File management features.... If you want to compose properly formatted text messages for us in a auto responder like Getresponse, UltraEdit is the way to go

• Search Engine Watch: This site belongs to search engine expert Danny Sullivan and is packed full of the most recent search engine developments. http://www.searchenginewatch.com
• Planet Ocean: Planet Ocean is the publisher of  "The Unfair Advantage Book on Winning The Search Engine Wars" -- a leading online search engine resource. The book is updated monthly so whenever you buy it, it's certain to be completely up to date.
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How to find out how many pages of your site are indexed:  Go to Google Search and type "allinurl:www.domain.com" (without the quotes, replacing "domain" in the above example with your own domain name). This query operator will return a list of every page of your site. Look in the blue bar across the top of the Google results page and you'll see the number of pages indexed at your site!

Two of the most determining factors in Google's ranking are your domain name and title tag. For example, a domain name such as: http://www.computer-electronics.com  will generally get ranked higher than http://www.companyname.com , assuming that they had identical keywords and page content. Another useful tactic -- is to add your keywords into the names of your pages, such as http://www.companyname.com/computer-electronics.htm 

• Your title tag is equally as important as your domain name. Using keywords in your title tag can improve your Google ranking significantly. Trying to achieve a balance of professionalism with keyword density in the title tag however, is sometimes a little more difficult. A good title tag would be: <title>"Company name provides affordable computer and electronics services in Chicago."</title>
  
  Usually, the closer to the front of your title tag the keywords are placed, the better. <h1> tags seem to have been depreciated by style sheets these days, and are not used as often as they used to be.
  
  The Google ranking algorithm dictates that if you're using a <h1> tag, then the text in between this tag must be more important than the content on the rest of the page. Here's a quick example: <h1>Google sees this text as more important</h1>  <p>... than this text</p>. 
  
  By default, H1 tags aren't the prettiest in terms of formatting, so using a CSS style to override the default look is usually a good idea: H1 { color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px }



• Sprinkling keywords throughout your page content can also improve your sites keyword density. Keyword density simply means the ratio of optimized keywords to the rest of the content on your page. It is usually expressed as a percentage, and should be between 7% and 10% for each page on your site.
  
  Don't overdo the keyword density, however, but don't overlook it either. A good example would be:
  
  BEFORE
  Company name provides affordable computer and electronics services in Chicago.
  
  AFTER
  Company name provides affordable computer and electronics services to the Chicago region in Illinois
  Notice how we use the keywords more efficiently the second time around?



• Back links are websites that link directly to your website. The general principal is the more back links you have, the higher your pages will be ranked, as your website must be good if so many other sites are linking back to it.



• Submitting your site to dmoz.org, Yahoo! and other directories is also an important step to increase the number of sites linking back to yours. Setup a links page like ours: Apondo Systems Links Page, and ask other webmasters for reciprocal links. Link Partners.com provides a superb tool for automated management of a links page.

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• Write in layman's terms so that everybody can understand your content, unless you're running a technical site for technical people.
• Reading from a screen is painful: use 50% less words than you would use on print.
• If a page is too long, break it into several pages and link to them.
• Frames - Search engines don't understand frames, it's as simple as that. If a website has frames, then the search engine's spider will visit the website and either leave or only look at the pages on the site that aren't in frames. Preferably you shouldn't use frames but if you absolutely have to, then make sure you have your keywords listed in your no-frames tag for all of the search engines to see.
• Don't use font sizes smaller than 10pt. for the body of your page. Specify your fonts in percentage terms instead of pixels to let users set their own size preferences using their browser's text view options.
• Use a spell checker. Spelling mistakes are embarrassing and hurt credibility.
• Ask for feedback: include a feedback form in your Contact Us page.
• Publish an ezine and include a subscription form in your homepage. Give your customers valuable information and encourage them to contact you.
• Too Many Graphics - If used properly, attractive graphics and flashy multimedia can make your website look very impressive. Unfortunately search engines can only read text. So no matter how good your graphics are, your website will only achieve a good ranking if the search engines can find high quality text that contains keywords that are relevant to your site.
• Include poll Make your links descriptive. They should indicate what the user will be linking to, as opposed to just saying "click here's and other tools to gather market intelligence.
• Don't underline anything that is not a link.
• Underline your links and use a consistent color for them across your site (preferably blue) .
• Use a different color for visited links, so that your visitors know where they've been (preferably purple or a more subdued tone of the unvisited links color).
• When linking to a non-HTML file, such as Excel, Word or Acrobat, make it evident, by including a small icon next to the link.
• Don't link to "under construction" pages.
• Doorway pages - A popular tactic among webmasters was to produce many slightly altered copies of their WebPages in order to compensate for the different algorithms used by search engines to index sites. Search engines can usually detect when people have tried to use this method to trick them and will either penalize the site or simply ban it altogether. Avoid using doorway pages under any circumstances.
• Make sure that your links work and that you don't have broken links. There are free online tools that can help you with this.
• If you use graphic links, don't forget to use the ALT attribute. The ALT attribute should describe what you are linking to.
• Optimize your graphics. Use only .gif and .jpg formats. Make your image files as small as possible while maintaining acceptable quality. Use a free online graphics optimization tool.
• Use thumbnails (miniature versions of a picture) and make them clickable to the actual size picture.
• Avoid graphics that look like ads. People ignore them.
• Use the ALT attribute on pictures, even if the image is not a link. It helps users with disabilities and people who have turned off graphics.
• Create short, descriptive page titles, to entice search engine users to click on your links.
• Create a site map containing all your pages, and link to it directly from your homepage. Search engine robots will follow the link to your site map and will most likely add all your pages to their index.
• Decide what the two or three main keywords are for each page (the words you believe search engine users will type to find your page) and repeat them often in your page title, description meta tag and page body.
• Create a Links page and call it Resources. In it, place links to those sites that have agreed to place a reciprocal link to your page. The more inbound links you have from quality sites with a topic related to your site, the better your site will rank with the search engines.
• Use more text than graphics, and minimize the use of Flash and JavaScript. Search engines heavily favor text and will crawl and index your site faster.

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