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Subject: Canadian Pharmacies, Discount Pharmacies, Online Drug Stores, Canadian Discount Pharmacy Message from ML, one of our readers about online prescription drug companies: Website - Affiliate of XL Pharmacy. What would be the cost of getting to page 1 or 2 of the major search engines using 24-30 keywords? How long would it take? Reply: We need some other information before we can give a quote. We need the list of keywords you would like to target. And, the website you mentioned that you own does not seem to be functioning right now. So, we can't tell what you already have on the website because I get an error when I go to it. How many pages from the website do you currently have with information? Who is your target audience? Also, when I look at it with Google Search of the index of web pages, it looks like all the pages you have and XLPharmacy web pages are the same. From ML: You are so kind to get back to me. Long story short, I spent a lot of money on a campaig...

How do I get key word searches when using Yahoo or Google to pull up our site? I thought by using Title and Descriptions with key words that would work. What am I missing? Bay Area Huskers Search Engine Optimization And Internet Marketing Answer You got me Internet marketing laughing... Sorry, The simple site that you have without prompting it will not automatically just place you in the results. Take a look at the numbers for example if you do a search for Bay Area Huskers on Google, http://www.google.com/search?q=Bay%20Area%20Huskers there are about 63,000 pages that have those three keywords. You may show up if you submit to the search engines. You are not actually in the results for Google yet. I only looked at Google. See this search: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abayareahuskers.org If they had more information it would be displayed there. Are you ready to submit? Do you have everything set for the most part how you want it? If you do then you can submit for free on each o...

Clogging Up The Relevant Online World By: James A. Warholic In a relevant article published online at the Canadian Technology Human Resource Board, Bureau canadien des ressources humaines in technologie, Do Online Business Ethics Exist? By: Niall Roche, the author hits the internet nail on-the-head. Much of the information currently found online is nothing more then chewed up, spit out, copyright infringed, and general lack of business ethics; where websites even make a mockery of the legal system by cheating and selling copyright protected works to other individuals for use in student term papers and other works that are falsely being passed off as original content. The following excerpt is from the article @ CTHRB.CA : In the world of online busines [business] something has gone wrong. Something has gone badly wrong. In the pursuit of wealth and success business ethics have not so much fallen by the wayside as been torn up, stomped on and burned to ash. Where some loose form of rul...

In today's online cynical email times, sometimes the marketing, advertising, and Email messages portrayed seem, too good to be true. Evaluating the website messages to new prospects on the Internet requires continually asking the branding questions: What does this do to my brand? Does it add a plus, minus, or a brand neutral to the overall internet marketing message? Most B2B and B2C companies need to attract new customers in order to profit for the long haul. Capturing leads certainly is an important part of the process. Many times this requires building a trust relationship before someone will commit to providing an email address especially in the B2C world where most consumer email boxes are being filled with junk, unsolicited email spam, and fraud scams on a daily basis. Internet Marketing and Advertising Messages Too Good To Be True Internet Marketing Online Advertising Email Internet marketing Contact "Be number one on Google." "We guarantee placing your we...

Statement: "I am not getting very many e-mails from my online advertising. Oh, By-the-way, a new customer called me on the phone." Question: "How did he find you?" Answer: "Saw my online Ad." Measuring conversions can be very tricky indeed. In the online advertising world a conversion can cover any number of occurrences that are viewed by the Internet advertiser as a positive step in the life of a "click." For example: When a person clicks on the online ad and is delivered to a specific landing page, what happens next could be considered a Good conversion. Tracking a visit through to a contact page, sign-up for a newsletter, register for information, a purchase, and yes even a phone call because of an ad can all be viewed as good Ad conversions. Many times conversions go on un-noticed with an advertising campaign because it may involve the phone call with never any mention of how they found you. If a general phone number is on the w...

by: James A. Warholic Search Engine Optimization What the heck is "Search Engine Optimization?" Internet marketing technical jargon, terms, and phrases can be very misleading. I once made the mistake of referring to my wife as a "school teacher." She promptly corrected me and said, "I am a teacher, not a school teacher! I don't teach schools, I teach children math!" That same logic applies to seo "search engine optimization." No single individual on a website optimizes the search engines. Only the search engine companies themselves adjust or change their algorithms to improve the results. When people use the term SEO they typically mean they optimize the page or the website for improving the ranking in the natural search results for the targeted keywords. Over the years, this has evolved into companies promising prospects that they can get a website to the number one position in the results. This is a bunch of " bird seed ....

Internet marketing and online advertising have one thing in common. You must think like your customer. It would be great if we could sit behind each and every customer while they are searching on the Internet. Or, know what they are thinking while reading online advertising . There have been Internet marketing studies that say you need to catch the attention of a person in the first few seconds when they visit a website. Well, that may be true, but the first thing that you must always ask yourself is, "Who is the target AUDIENCE?" A while back, I had a conversation with a customer in which I was inquiring about some specific details of a product he was fabricating for the antenna industry. With my Ham radio background, KD6RPD I was looking for some specific technical details to include in his website that would be important to an engineer that might be searching online. It was at this time that he had come to the realization that he really did not know as much informat...

So you want to market and advertise to the world? Understanding the cultures of the different targeted countries is important when marketing and advertising globally. Remember all those cultural classes that seemed so boring in high school and college? Well, those classes are more important today then what anyone would have thought of at the time. Even when marketing and advertising with-in a country it is important to take in consideration the targeted audience. Internet Marketing Services, Online Advertising Strategies, and Web Branding Solutions for B2B and B2C Websites. Take a look at colors for example. In some cultures an advertisement in a certain color can have a positive affect while in another country it will be a turn off. In fact, colors can have various mood settings in the different cultures. For instance, the color blue may be viewed as masculine or "the color of cool" in the US while having the meaning of: virtue, faith, and truth in Egypt, villainy in...

There are moments in time where certain things really stand out. One of those is the artistic beauty in the written language. Sure, there is a inner beauty to a well written work. One can really appreciate the thought process that the author places into their work. But there is another beauty that gets overlooked. To really appreciate it one needs to see it. I am not an expert in other languages. I understand a small amount of Spanish, and I do mean poco. The one language that jumped out at me today was Japanese. There is a beauty to the swirls and curves of the written word. It is as though the words actually paint a picture on the page. Somehow it is as though the picture is telling another story all its own. Take a look at the following links in the various language translations and see for yourself if the picture speaks to you. Spanish | German | French | Italian | Portuguese | Japanese | Korean | Chinese | English Cop...

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Marketing on the Internet is becoming increasingly more technical and complex as time goes on. Internet Marketing Results Everyone wants the same thing, or should I say that everyone wants a top position in the search engine results pages (SERP) for their key words without doing any work. The number of pages cataloged in the search engines has doubled in the past year. Now that might seem like a great thing for the searcher, but it might not be such a positive for companies that are trying to be found in the market place. How can a company overcome the web barrier? How can you get your company website found on Google , Yahoo! , MSN , or the hundreds of other searches popping up? Marketing On The Internet Provide a niche. If you have a product or service that is unique then highlight your area of expertise . If you are in a very competitive market place, consider what it is that sets your company apart from the competition and really stress those marketing points. Do not be ...

I read an excellent article this morning at: http://www.seo-news.com/ The title of the article was "Avoid Search Engine Blacklisting" The author went over a number of key points about what individuals should do in order to not become blacklisted. The question I have for everyone, is should this also apply to other search engines themselves? Take a close look at the results. Note update 10/31/05: Results have changed significantly since writing this posting. Maybe some good is coming out of this reporting. Example searches: B2B from legal, ethical and regulatory perspective b2b and b2c ethics Are there two sets of rules? One set for individuals and another for other search companies? Should the same rules apply to all? Things can get frustrating for those of us that are trying to do it right, when we see things like this. I am not saying that we never make mistakes in the way we fine tune our pages for the search engines but how do you go up against something like this? Note: ...