The world wide web is changing at an alarming rate. Have you noticed or read the current surfer stats?

If you have you know that your business should be booming with all the extra people who have found their way online in the last year. Especially if you’re actively marketing with blogs and rss feeds?

Focus. Attitude. Knowledge. Personality.

The major shift is already upon us and our old marketing techniques are getting tired. Video has arrived, google has made serious changes to their search engine algorithms, and your website visitors are savvier than ever… Read the rest of this entry »

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More on Google this post…

How to get more of your site’s pages listed in Google, faster!

I hope your summer has been both fun and profitable!

I’ve been busy with the farm, but also with testing new tools (both free and paid) over the summer and I’ll let you in on these promotional shortcuts and my test results throughout the coming weeks.

But quickly today I want to tell you about the hot new way to get more of your content listed in google quicker than clicking an Add Url Button…

It doesn’t cost a cent, just a few minutes of your time.

This technique is a ’spin off’ of sneaking in the back door of yahoo without the $299 inclusion fee.

Only this time, it’s google we’re after!

I’m sure you know that google doesn’t charge for inclusion, but it can take 4-6 weeks to get google to visit a new site or index new pages on an existing site.

This technique cuts that time down to 3-4 days!

Even if your site is already listed in google, take 5 minutes and set this up anyway. This will ensure that google crawls your site more often and indexes your new pages and posts faster.

And, this technique also works for websites that aren’t running RSS Feeds or blogs…I’ll show you how.

Scoot over to http://www.smartzville.com/google-homepage.htm to catch the lesson and implement this right away.

Laura

* revisited and edited in January 2007 * this technique is still one of my favorite techniques when launching new sites. It’s fast and free - what more could a marketer ask for?

Laura Childs

A few notes today for you about getting the most out of WordPress…

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1. The latest WordPress update is 2.0.3
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The update fixes trackback and security issues.

Step by Step Upgrade Notes: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

Latest WordPress Download: http://wordpress.org/download/

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2. Optimizing WordPress for Search Engines
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Blogs are quickly flooding the marketplace and the search engines are adjusting. It’s time to ‘take it up a notch’ and the task is easy with a few simple tools and these WordPress tricks…

Read the complete article at: http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/?p=101

To Your Continued Blogging Success!
Laura

p.s. If you’re looking for something to make your blog ‘look’ spiffier to your website visitors you have to check out all the free WordPress templates here: http://themes.wordpress.net/theme-viewer.php

But please remember that the search engines don’t reallly care how pretty your blog is, they want to see optimized content and tags before they give you high marks!

Two RSS tools hit the market in June.

One is still going strong. The software is consistently being improved and updated.

The other was promoted by three top marketers, and then seemingly disappeared from view.

And at first blush these two looked the same…

They both scanned online RSS NewsFeeds and posted them to your blog. The outcome is an active, regularly updated blog without a daily time investment on your part.

Does it work?

The answer, whether you have a blog or not, is a definate YES. (If you don’t have a blog in your area of expertise then set one up on blogger and let the tool run on auto pilot - at the least you’ll gain off-site link points from the search engines.)

The program I’m talking about, that is still available and still the top RSS tool in my books, is RSStoBlog.

RSStoBlog runs on your server. While you rest, work, or take a vacation, without using up your desktop resources.

I’ll write more on this program in a few days, and I’ll do my best to answer any questions you may have (just drop me back a note), but if you’re in a hurry you can learn more about the program here: http://www.smartzville.com/automate.htm

To Your RSS Success!

Laura Childs

Without a doubt WordPress is the software of choice for serious bloggers, but until you get working with it, it could seem confusing.

Here’s help…

The success in using WordPress for website traffic and sales comes with a price - the learning curve!

If you’ve been feeling alone and frustrated, or are convinced that you don’t have the time to learn a new software program, this will solve your problem.

Watch this series of over 20 free videos right now to get started.

There will be more videos - on more intemediate and advanced topics - within a few weeks.

Don’t hesitate to prepare in advance by seeing this first set free now…

Wordpress Videos

And cut that steep learning curve down to a small incline that leads to success.

Truly,
Laura Childs