Friday, October 28, 2005

FeedShot Unleashes Blog Search Submission Service

 
FeedShot Unleashes Blog Search Submission Service

(PRWEB) October 3, 2005 -- FeedShot (http://www.feedshot.com) has released a beta version of its blog search submission service, currently submitting RSS and Atom feeds to 19 search engines and aggregators. The service is free and in beta, with plans for a production launch in late October.

"I was tired of telling my friends and colleagues to visit 50 blog search engines in order to submit their feed. I kept waiting for someone to release a submission service, but after searching for a few weeks decided to write my own." said FeatureCreep, the author of the FeedShot service.

"The response has been overwhelming." he noted, referencing the more than 25,000 outgoing submissions FeedShot has sent since it opened a week ago. "We're trying to stay on pace of adding 2-3 new search engines per week, and we've received a few addition requests from search engines themselves."

With a marketing effort consisting of "sending emails to the blogs I frequent," FeedShot hopes to continue its low-cost, grass roots marketing effort that makes it feasible for it to serve the blogging community. "If we had to pay for advertising it never would have happened. Bloggers have a lot of power these days."

In addition to increasing the number of sites it supports, FeedShot has thoughts of expanding into the pinging space, and to begin offering some type of premium submission services. When asked about the specifics of those services, FeatureCreep responded "Five days ago I had no idea FeedShot would be such a success. Needless to say, I'm still working on what's next."

FeedShot hosts a blog discussing the day-to-day struggles of running the FeedShot service, located at http://www.feedshot.com/blog/.

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Press Contact: FeedShot Support
Company Name: FEEDSHOT.COM
Email: support@feedshot.com
Phone: 408-555-1212
Website: www.feedshot.com

posted by Rakesh Ojha at 12:30 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

SEO

>I am very interested in what other I-searchers have found and
>follow re: char length in Meta description and optimizing "other"
>tags.
- Kelly Blazes, SearchReturn Digest #009

Up until last Spring, we used to use a large set of meta tags, about 50. We did this for many years and had very good results from all our client projects. We knew that many of the tags were just taking up space, but felt if they were being recognized that it would benefit the site, and thought we might be getting some benefit for "making the effort". Since we spent quite a bit of time on the tags and provided them with the appropriate data and not just a bunch of keyword phrases in all of them, we felt it was worth the effort. We also used to add the description as an HTML comment, since we had seen that it was often picked up instead of the decryption tag. These methods never hurt and seemed to help. Results for all projects we very positive so we never did any testing. We also use to spend time on a site's ALT tags.

Then last year I took a 1-page site of a client and as a favor optimized the page with only title tag, meta description tag, and keywords meta tag. I then started adding pages of content on a regular basis, all with just basic, simple optimization for what was on the page.

The results were startling.

This was a favor to a client, so we did no keyword research, and only optimized the tags quickly based on page content. In addition, this was not a "proper" site but only had information about the client's business on the home page. Still, about 6 months after the traffic had increased by many times, the client was actually contacted and secured a project from someone in California (We are in Minnesota). The reason I did this for free is that the client is my oldest one and he did not see the need for a web site, much less SEO. He now realizes what I've been talking about for the past 5-6 years and if he wasn't so busy with exiting clients, I'm sure he would have us to help him with a proper site & submission of the site. We only put up about 6 links to the site and submitted to maybe 15 search engines and directories, a far cry from the 180 that we normally do.

As a result of this experiment, we now only use those 3 tags in our optimization, and do not optimize H tags or other things that you hear people talk about. They may help, but they also increase the time/cost and until what we do stops working, we won't be making things more complex.

For tag lengths, we have changed what we use a little:

Title tag: Up to 85 characters max, but some do go over without noticeable harm. I like at least 60 and generally use 70 chars.

Description: We use to always use as close to the 255 character limit, but we are seeing more and more sites limit this to about 150 with some at 200 and some at 100 chars. We try to craft the description so that if it is cut off at those points, it will still look and read well. We may standardize on 150 since it's a bit of work to match those cutoff points.

Keywords tags: Not very important, but if you use common sense, it may help. We used to have a 1,000 character limit, but now try to keep it down to about 400-600 chars. If you are going to use keyword phrases, use commas to separate them. We use to really fill this up with many variations of what was on the page as well as things not on the page. This was limited to words that meant the same, but different spellings and different combinations of what was on the page. Now it's less work just picking things from our keyword results that are about the same as what is on the page.

We use as many scored keyword phrases as possible in titles and descriptions, tempered with use of good English and advertising copy.

Thank you,
Chris Nielsen
BizProLink-Internet.com

posted by Rakesh Ojha at 8:16 PM 0 comments

Redzee.com, Redzeeguru.com, LP keywords, and related sites to avoid.

This company seems to have morphed into another version selling the same kind of keyword bidding that is only available to browsers who have chosen to "upgrade" their browser and become infested with something they were not aware of, and may not want. They also sucker people in with a free toolbar.
 
If you are looking for information on one of these sites, you may be interested that all of these are hosted on the same server and also connected with www.webwisemedia.com and www.redzee.com.
 
 
Other words of interest are LP, LP Keywords, browser upgrades, browser upgrade, wise media, natural keyword positioning technology, browser add-ins.

posted by Rakesh Ojha at 3:37 AM 0 comments

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Warning: Beware of installing "Secure Service Pack" on your computer

Warning: Beware of installing "Secure Service Pack" on your computer
 
Unless you know and understand what the "Secure Service Pack" actually consists of, we strongly recommend against installing it or anything that may popup and ask for permission from you to install it. Just because you have some trust in the site you are visiting does not mean you need or want what is being offered. If you are concerned about the security of your computer, only install things from the manufacturer's site, or the creator of your computer's operating system.
 
By the time you read this, "Secure Service Pack" may be called something else, so don't be fooled. Our understanding of this item is that it installs software that changes how your browser functions and you may or may not like what it does. You may be able to un-install it once you realize it's there, but do you want to trust something that will not even tell you what it is?
 
"Secure Service Pack" sounds like it's a Microsoft Service Pack that will upgrade your software, but in fact the software is designed to deliver advertisements in the form of web sites that you may be interested in. Part of the "benefit" of this software is to let you just type in keywords and not URLs to find sites. What they don't tell you is that they only sites they show you are paid advertisements and may or may not be what you are looking for, and might not even be a good site if they do have what you are looking for. It's the same old "Keyword browsing" scam that has been around for years. It's pure crap and should be avoided at all costs. Seriously!
 
I have seen at least one page that has a number of browser plug-ins and says " This page contains links to the Windows Authenticode family of plugins for Internet Explorer". If you want to upgrade your Internet Explorer, go to the Microsoft site and make sure you are getting the real deal.
 
Again, if you don't know for sure what you are installing, don't just trust the name of the application that you see, since it could be a trick and your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs WILL NOT PROTECT YOU OR WARN YOU!!
 
(hris

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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Avandes Introduces Build by Email (BBE)

Avandes Introduces Build by Email (BBE)

(PRWEB) October 1, 2005 -- Avandes, Inc. (Avant-garde Designs) has recently released a new product for publishing data on the Web. The BBE product is designed specifically for non-technical people. Moreover, all web-related work is completely automated and done for you. All you need to do is to send e-mail. Once your e-mail is received, Avandes software automatically builds sophisticated, professional quality web page/site for you in seconds.

BBE is an all-inclusive, easy to use, see-before-you-buy web publishing service, based on the standard e-mail interface. It is fast, easy, inexpensive and it covers all the web needs: web design, publishing and hosting.

BBE is the perfect technology for small businesses, families and people interested in personal web pages. It is also a great way to create temporary Web pages for on-line announcements, classified advertisements, special event notices and travel diaries.

For more information about the company, please visit: http://www.avandes.com. Information about BBE is available at: http://www.buildbyemail.com.

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Press Contact: Lucy Grosz
Company Name: AVANDES, INC.
Email: Lucy@avandes.com
Phone: 614-891-2695
Website: http://www.buildbyemail.com

[ Comments: If you have any interest in this kind of thing it's worth a look. The demo works as advertised, but I did not check to see if they offer optimization options. (hris ]

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Pixels By The Dozen Is New(almost) Form of Online Advertising

Pixels By The Dozen Is New Form of Online Advertising

(PRWEB) October 1, 2005 -- Pixels Buy the Dozen (http://www.pixelsbuythedozen.com) is the latest innovation in online advertising. The homepage is a grid of 10,292 squares, each square being 12x12 pixels. Companies purchase pixels for $.50 each to display their advertisement or logo. The minimum ad space is a 12x12 pixel square and there is no set maximum. Customers are able to pick their ads placement on a first come, first serve basis.

An interesting feature of the site is that when a visitor hovers over an ad with their mouse, a 144x144 ad is displayed for the advertiser. There is a Featured Pixels area showing links for their advertisers in a rotation based on the number of pixel squares they have purchased. They also have the Latest Pixels, showing the last 3 companies that have purchased pixel space.

Said site creator Lee Dodd, " This approach capitalizes on the 'novelty and buzz' aspect of the web. Once the homepage is 100% sold out that's it. No more space. Of course, the page will be quite a site to see as it fills up, and that's the goal. Fill it up, generate some donations, and then who knows where it will lead..."

The company, Pixels Buy the Dozen, is based in East Texas and with the recent impact of Hurricane Rita, they are donating 10% of the site's revenue to the Salvation Army Hurricane Relief Fund. The site's owner, Lee Dodd, also shared that he is offering registered non-profit organizations a pixel square ad spot at no charge.

URL: http://www.pixelsbuythedozen.com

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Press Contact: Lee Dodd
Company Name: Pixels Buy The Dozen
Email: lee@sprintusers.com
Phone: 903-873-6070
Website: http://www.pixelsbuythedozen.com

[ Comment: This is the second site that I have seen like this and now it looks like there is a entire crop of advertising sites springing up that offer the same thing... try http://www.thepixelwars.com/. Once the novelty wears off, there it's gone..., what will be the attraction of these sites...? (hris ]

 

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