Search engines have begun to penalize web sites that have multiple links with the same anchor text on other sites, frustrating webmasters who need help from automated link exchanges. Over-worked webmasters have a new way to save time and avoid the penalty.

Pleasant Hill, Calif. (PRWEB) July 31, 2005 -- It takes too much time to individually exchange links with other web sites, but webmasters are frustrated with the automated link exchanges because of the new penalties they are getting from search engines.

“Using the same anchor text for links back to your site can get you ‘OOPed,’ so your Google rating can go down instead of up,” explained Robert Volk, search engine optimization expert at www.Link-Blaster.com.

Recently Google has been giving an “Over-optimization Penalty” (OOP) for sites that place links on other sites with the same anchor text for those links. Automated link exchanges generate the same anchor text for links. Webmasters use the automated service to save time and as a faster means to gain more reciprocal links, but now the practice is hurting their site rating instead of helping it.

“We designed a unique automated link exchange that gets around the penalty and provides better quality links,” explained Volk.

“Each member site on our exchange is automatically linked on every other member’s site, but the anchor text of the link changes. Now when the search engines compare links they do not see all the same anchor texts, so the penalty does not kick in,” said Volk.

Volk’s company, VolkNet Enterprises, operates www.Link-Blaster.com. Anyone signing up before the end of August 2005 gets the first month free and $5 off every month for life, with no obligation to continue.

“When a member joins, they are automatically placed on all other members sites, so the larger the membership, the more advantageous for everyone. Each member also gets the ability to edit which categories they want to show up on their site, and all pages show up as a static html page not a php,” said Volk.

The system is innovative, and extremely effective. It is completely automated, and the webmaster retains complete control.

For example, a site could select to rotate three keyword anchor texts such as “Original Oil Paintings,” “Reproduction Oil Paintings,” and “Fine Art Paintings.” The webmaster can select the “weight” or frequency that each anchor text will be displayed. The result is that one link will look like three or more links to the search engines.

“Serious SEO’s have the option to have the link directory hosted on our servers, at no additional charge, so they receive only incoming links with no reciprocals,” said Volk.

The new service at www.Link-Blaster.com began June 25 and is already gaining significant attention from webmasters and search engine optimization specialists. Volk has a significant promotion program underway with adword campaigns on the major search engines, joint ventures, affiliate offers, referral program, and public relations. The result is rapid membership growth.

Internet search engines exist to organize the overwhelming amount of information available on the web. They direct people to pages that are relevant to their searches, pages that discuss the exact keywords they are looking for. Customers in search of a particular product or service often choose companies listed on the first page of search results, and rarely continue searching past the second page. For a business that receives the majority of its clientele from search engines, search engine rankings can make or break an e-commerce company. Here we discuss specific search engine techniques that will help you to bring more traffic to your site and more business to your company.

Search Engines

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the marketing technique of enhancing a website and its content in order to increase the chances of achieving a high rank on search engine result pages (SERP) under relevant keyword searches.
Search engines are very secretive about their criteria and ranking system— they continuously update and revise their algorithms (a mathematical formula used to determine which web pages are displayed in search results). This way, there is less likelihood of webmasters and search engine optimizers using manipulation and spamming to achieve higher rankings.
Each search engine has its own formula and criteria for indexing and ranking pages. One can analyze SERPs and backward links (all the links pointing at a particular web page) and attempt to determine a search engine’s indexing criteria, however, there is a lot of risk involved in relying on a limited number of optimization techniques.

Because of the unpredictable nature of search engines, a website can easily move from a top ranking position on a SERP down to the third or fourth SERP or even banned from the search engine altogether.

The Issue of Trust

There are many unethical SEO companies that claim to be able to offer your website top rankings. However, by using aggressive marketing techniques to manipulate search engine results they give the industry a bad name.

The main problem with SEO companies is that they base their methods and techniques on research, trial and error, and speculation. As a result of the secretive indexing criteria of search engines, webmasters and SEO companies can only make an educated guess about the ranking systems and possible algorithm revisions.

While SEO companies may be able to achieve high rankings on search engines for your website, it is important to keep in mind that the way they do it is precarious and requires a great deal of caution.

Some SEO companies may use ‘black hat’, techniques to manipulate search engine results to their advantage. These techniques are high risk or illegal and can get a site banned from search engines. Black hat techniques can cause severe damage to the business of an e-commerce company.

A few examples of ‘black hat’ techniques:

• Hidden text/hidden links: stuffing your pages with keywords or links too small to read or the same color as the background, so viewers are unable to see any difference in the aesthetics of the page.
• Cloaking: using browser/bot sniffers to serve the search engine spiders a different page than the page visitors see. It is used to show an optimized page to the search engines and a different page to viewers.
• Mutiple submissions: submitting your domain and pages to search engines, for example submitting http://www.logobee.com and http://www.logobee.com/samples as two seperate urls.
• Link farms: sites created soley for the purpose of search engine ranking. These sites are nothing more than random links which have no relevance to one another.
• Selling PR: sites that sell their high PR links for a fee through direct advertisement and for the sole purpose of increasing link popularity.
• Doorways: having one page stuffed with keywords that re-direct to another more user friendly page.
• Meta tag abuse: having too many keywords in the meta tag description, title and keywords.

Not all SEO companies use ‘black hat’ techniques, there are some that use safe techniques, however relying on an SEO company to achieve top rankings for your website is a gamble.


As Easy As ABC

You don’t have to be a computer genius to achieve higher search engine rankings for your website. Effective search engine optimization can be done by anyone who has the time and determination. There exists hordes of information, suggestions, ideas, methods and techniques about successfully optimizing your website for search engines. SEO companies do not use any ‘special’ tactics that we don’t already know or that we can’t easily research on the internet.

Safe SEO techniques:

• Content: Add valuable and relevant content to your site. The more content the better. Keep your paragraphs brief and to the point.
• Continuously update your website: Add new information and new pages to your site. Create a section on your home page containing up-to-date news items relevent to your business.
• Link popularity: Participate in link exchanges that are relevant to your business or that compliment your business. The more inbound links, the more important your website is perceived to be by the search engine spiders. Progressively build your links. Do not add 500 links to your site at one time.
• Site maps: Include a site map on your site. Site maps can help your visitors easily surf your site.
• Meta tags and Alt tags: Meta tags contain information about the website, placed in the HTML header of a web page, that is not visible to browsers. The most common meta tags relevant to search engines are title, keyword and description tags. Title tags are the most important tags because they contain the information that a viewer sees concerning your website on a search engine results page. Choose a title that clearly represents your business. Make sure that your all your tags contain relevant keywords. Alt tags describe the graphical elements in a web page.
• Header tags: Header tags (H1, H2, H3….) are tags used to represent headers and important titles. Use H1 tags for the most important headers, H2 for the next, etc…As well, use bold, italics, underlining, and different font sizes. Spiders and bots give high value to sites that contain a variety of text and font sizes.
• Keep it simple: Make your site simple and user friendly. Make your site easy to surf, eye-catching, informative and interesting. Keep in mind that surfers have a short attention span.
• Stay away from large images and Flash images. Spiders have a preference for html text sites.
• Keyword density: Keywords should exist in your title tag, headline tag, description tag and throughout the content of your home page as well as other internal pages. Be careful not to over do it though.
• Informative and authoritative: Include authorative articles pertaining to the topic of your business, FAQ, tips, how-to’s, etc..
• Participate in SEO and webmaster forums to keep up to date on SEO techniques and search engine criteria revisions. Read websites and articles on various SEO suggestions.
• For other safe optimization techniques see Google’s guidelines for webmasters (http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html).


There are SEO companies by the dozen, attempting to lure you in, convincing you to believe that they, and they alone, can help you attain top ranking results on search engines. If you are considering whether you should use an SEO company or not, you may want to do some research on the SEO industry. You can find some helpful information at http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html.

That said, instead of spending big bucks to achieve these results, consider coming up with your own strategies to increase your search engine rankings. Don’t spend endless hours worrying about search engine results and crawling spiders. While keeping in mind basic SEO techniques, you will be much better off customizing your web site for your human users and not for spiders and bots.

Logobee is a logo design firm that designs high quality logos and corporate identity for businesses worldwide. Logobee was founded in 2000 and since then the company has grown at an exponential rate. For each logo design project, a team of 2 to 4 designers will work on 6-8 initial samples best suited to the company’s business needs. Logobee offers complete customer satisfaction and a variety of packages that include business card, brochure, and stationary design. or more information and to view our logo design samples and gallery, please visit our website at http://www.logobee.com or call us toll free at 1-888-905-6462.

SIGNWAVE®, the Australian sign franchise leader, will contract with Zunch Communications, Inc., of Dallas to provide a new website design and architecture for their current site at www.signwave.com.au. The Australian company has already utilized the services of Zunch to provide search engine optimization for their Web presence. As part of the FASTSIGNS® organization, SIGNWAVE® has been operating in Australia since 1993.

(PRWEB) August 1, 2005 -- Dallas, TX – SIGNWAVE®, the Australian sign franchise leader, will contract with Zunch Communications, Inc. of Dallas to provide a new website design and architecture for their current site at www.signwave.com.au. The Australian company has already utilized the services of Zunch to provide search engine optimization for their Web presence. As part of the FASTSIGNS® organization, SIGNWAVE® has been operating in Australia since 1993.

John Sanchez, Chairman & CEO of Zunch, is pleased with the opportunity to do business on the other side of the globe. He believes the addition of services indicates that his company has proven themselves through their search engine optimization work.

“It’s great to have a relationship with SIGNWAVE® and we’re very glad the company elected us for their most recent needs. It is of course easier to have all of your interactive services going through one vendor, and we believe that is one of the strong suits of Zunch,” offered Sanchez.

Kate Groom, General Manager for SIGNWAVE® agrees, “Zunch has increased our ranking in our industry and they also did a great job with the design and architecture of our American counterpart’s website. It made perfect sense to go with Zunch.”

Within the new website will be Zunch’s Content Management System, known as zMS. Built with Microsoft ASP.NET, zMS will allow SIGNWAVE® personnel to quickly and easily adjust the content, navigation and structure of the site. Zunch expects to launch the same Microsoft .NET mobile search and mapping applications for the SIGNWAVE® site as it has for the FASTSIGNS® website in the United States.

“I wouldn’t call this a simple text editor,” says Giovanni Gallucci, President & COO of Zunch, “The CMS we’ve built is truly unique and allows for tracking of ROI and further optimization of content and navigation as you go. We try to integrate this tool into most of the websites we build. These days, anyone who’s serious on the web is chasing CMS technologies because it makes the jobs of managers and marketers much easier. This is especially true of players in the mid-market space. We’ve taken this one step farther by putting technologies in place to integrate search engine optimization, analytics, and click fraud technologies directly into our content management system. SIGNWAVE® will see the immediate benefits of these abilities when the site is launched. All this at a price point that the medium-sized business can easily budget for.”

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Zunch Communications, Inc. (http://www.zunch.com) is a search engine optimization, website design and Microsoft Certified application development company dedicated to achieving measurable results for its clients. Top-ranked worldwide in search engine optimization, Zunch Communications is a member of DFWIMA, SEO Consultants, seopros, DFWSEM, topseos and a Circle Member of SEMPO. Zunch also maintains offices in New York City, Orlando and Mumbai.

DALLAS (PRWEB) July 1, 2005 -- Dallas/Fort Worth-based VeriClix has launched a newly designed Web site providing free full-featured Pay Per Click (PPC) fraud monitoring and auditing services.VeriClix is fully sponsored by relevant industry advertisers, which allows them to provide a full featured, professional service at no cost to advertisers.

“Advertisers already pay billions of dollars for their pay per click campaigns – we don’t believe they should have to pay to monitor for click fraud as well,” said Jeff Martin, founder of VeriClix.

Monitoring your PPC traffic has never been easier. VeriClix uses state of the art methods to tag Internet traffic as it comes into a site via your Pay Per Click campaigns. VeriClix then captures all of the pertinent information about the visit and all future visits, even a visit by the same machine using different IP addresses, through a pay per click network. VeriClix empowers advertisers to take control with the knowledge of what exactly is happening with their advertising dollars and provides more detail than the PPC networks are willing to share.

The web site also features information on VeriClix’s services as well as up to date click fraud news with commentary and an XML feed and newsletter to keep you up on the latest with VeriClix and industry-related news.

“We are very excited to announce the new Web site and services and look forward to sharing with those in our industry. VeriClix was built to empower the advertiser with the knowledge they need to effectively manage their pay per click campaigns and maximize their ROI,” Mike Waltman, co-founder of VeriClix.

About Pay Per Click Monitoring Services:
VeriClix pay per click fraud monitoring can detect and alert you to click fraud trends in real time. VeriClix reporting will show up to the second data on any PPC network including:
Google Adwords
Yahoo! Internet Marketing (Overture)
Kanoodle
Findwhat
and others...

If you have control over where the PPC ad sends the user (the forwarding URL), then you can use VeriClix for monitoring your PPC campaigns. The custom reports that VeriClix provides allows advertisers to run numerous detailed reports to provide the trend information they are looking for. VeriClix data can be exported into several different formats that are ready to be submitted to your Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture), Kanoodle or other pay per click representative.

In addition to the free services, VeriClix also offers co-branding opportunities so interactive and ad agencies can offer click fraud monitoring services to their clients. “This is a win-win situation. Agencies gain a new revenue stream from a service becoming more and more in demand and advertisers can feel confident that their agency partners are actively protecting their advertising investment,” said Martin.

About Pay Per Click Auditing Services:
VeriClix catalogs all your pay per click traffic from any and all PPC networks into our easy-to-use reporting area. You'll be able to login, build custom reports, set notification thresholds and compare clicks from all PPC networks.

When you login to your account you can build and manage custom reports for all campaigns from one interface. The customizable reports allow for easy comparison of all of your PPC data allowing you to effectively analyze and monitor the performance and trends in your PPC campaigns.

The best thing you can do is to know what normal traffic to your site looks like. Once you become familiar with your PPC performance trends, looking for fraudulent trends will not be as difficult.

About VeriClix:
VeriClix is a Dallas/Fort Worth based online company conceived and built by Jeff Martin and Mike Waltman to provide pay per click advertisers with all the information in regards to the activity of their pay per click ad campaigns - including the information PPC networks are not willing to share. For more information please visit – http://www.vericlix.com/

The Search Marketing Association of North America (SMA-NA), an association for people and companies involved in the study, promotion and practice of search engine marketing is launching a major membership drive beginning August 1, 2005.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) August 1, 2005 -- The Search Engine Marketing Association of North American, officially launched February 2005 aims to be an open, democratic, and responsible, member-focused trade organization representing the interests of professionals working in the field of search engine marketing. In addition to giving its members an industry voice, the SMA-NA provides a platform to inform and educate the business marketplace of the benefits of search engine marketing. The SMA-NA is proud to stand alongside the SMA-UK and SMA-EU chapters, both launched in 2004.

“We are getting a clear message the industry wants and needs an organization to promote and support the welfare and interests of professionals working in the field of search engine marketing,” said Ian McAnerin member of the working group committee. “The association will be member driven and open to all types of search engine marketing professionals ranging from individuals to the larger search marketing firms. We are actively seeking members from Canada, Mexico and the United States.”

The SMA-NA is actively seeking new members and encourages anyone in the search engine marketing industry to apply for membership. Official elections of the Board of Officers is scheduled for early fall 2005 after the membership drive has ended. Only registered members of the organization will be eligible for nominations to the Board and can vote in the election. The working group committee plans on having its membership drive kickoff meeting at the Search Engine Strategies tradeshow in San Jose during August of 2005.

For more information visit http://www.sma-na.org.

Cube Management's Search Engine Optimization / Blog expert Todd Mintz recently authored an insightful article entitled, “How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger (aka Blogging Bo Bice).” The piece was just published on the Search Engine Guide website, one of the leading online sources for search engine information.

(PRWEB) July 31, 2005 -- Cube Management’s Search Engine Optimization / Blog expert Todd Mintz recently authored an insightful article entitled, “How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger (aka Blogging Bo Bice) ” The piece was just published on the Search Engine Guide website (http://www.searchengineguide.com ), one of the leading online sources for search engine information.

In the article (http://www.searchengineguide.com/mintz/005184.html ), Mintz relayed the surprising turn of events surrounding a search engine optimization experiment that involved the creation of blogs for each 2005 American Idol contestant. A combination of initial search engine success with the Bo Bice blog (http://bo-bice-american-idol.blogspot.com ) combined with a genuine enthusiasm for Bo’s music and performance lead Mintz to blog Bo Bice like a true fan in addition to optimizing the blog for search engine success. As Mintz blogged Bo all the way to the American Idol final round where Bice lost to Carrie Underwood, Mintz learned many tips and tricks that beginning bloggers can use to blog successfully on their chosen topic. If a blogger-to-be would follow Mintz’s blogging tips and tricks, they can create a blog that generated targeted traffic even if the blogger isn’t a search engine optimization expert.

The SEO experts at Cube Management can map out an online strategy that enables your prospects and customers to easily find your site online, greatly increasing your opportunity to convert site visitors into leads and leads into sales. By combining your knowledge of your company’s unique selling proposition with our proven SEO techniques, we can help you generate the best possible organic search rankings to foster online success and strengthen your ROI. We’ve done this for others; we can do it for you.

To download a detailed Search Engine Optimization datasheet, please click on the following link: http://www.cubemanagement.com/pdfs/SEO.pdf .

About Cube Management
Cube Management (http://www.cubemanagement.com/?source=prweb) provides sales acceleration services to emerging growth and mid-market companies in the technology, manufacturing, healthcare and business service sectors. The experts at Cube Management work across the entire spectrum of marketing, sales and business development to provide customized solutions that drive revenue and profit growth. Cube Management combines Strategy, Process & People to produce winning results.

In a fresh take on advertising and marketing, coBRANDiT is building a network of citizen advertisers available to produce documentary video about lifestyle and brands. The first 40 consumers to send in a short video about their favorite beer, gear, or car will be paid $50, and will form the core of the new agency.

Boston, MA (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) July 28, 2005 -- coBRANDiT, the world's first open-source documentary advertising agency, has announced a call for entries on its web site cobrandit.com. Consumers submitting short documentary ads about brands and products they love will be paid $50 for their effort. With the advent of simple and inexpensive video cameras and editing tools, consumers have become producers and brand marketers are increasingly interested in their output. Terms such as “Consumer Generated Media” and “Citizen Marketing” have been used to describe the phenomenon now confronting brand managers--coBRANDiT seeks to provide a resource for this new type of commercial content.

Founded by cousins Owen Mack and Jesse Buckley, coBRANDiT documents “real life experience of the brand.” Clients include PUMA and Pabst Blue Ribbon. The experiment makes sense for the beer, says Pabst brand manager Neal Stewart, because its recent resurgence was basically the result of a grassroots consumer phenomenon. “The real hook," Buckley says, "is to have this kind of peer-to-peer advertising, where everybody is selling their experience as consumers." "They're not ads in the conventional sense," Mack continues. "They're conversations about brands, in 30-second bits. It's our belief that with the explosion of entertainment options, people will be interested in watching branded content made by others like themselves. " coBRANDiT content is designed for display online and in broadcast media.

For additional information about coBRANDiT and documentary advertising, contact Owen Mack or Jesse Buckley, or visit www.cobrandit.com and the related videoblog www.obttv.com.

WebAsyst launched its newly redesigned site.Explore familiar pages,enriched with new, inviting color schemes and user-friendly guides.

Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- A US-based software company WebAsyst LLC announced the launch of its recently remodeled site. WebAsyst LLC encourages would-be end- users to experience unfailing quality together with thousands of existing customers from all over the Globe.

We strongly believe that fresh strokes of brush, full of new, inviting color schemes and user-friendly guides shall be warmly greeted and valued by our customers.

We have remodeled our site for even easier and more enjoyable navigation. In the pursuit to meet our customers' needs we structured all the necessary information in such a way that it can be easily percepted. Absorb new bits of information with the help of perfectly-arranged and easy-to-follow guides.

Your every question about this unique software was anticipated with the sole and vehement intentio, that is to give an exhaustive answer. So, don’t hesitate, click on the link and start a new suggestive tour…

Thousands of customers worldwide have already made use of this turnkey software solution and are enjoying a new trouble-free way of e-store creating. With thousands of our customers, using this software all over the world, we want you to become a part of the global audience of Successful E-store Building Team.

WHAT’S NEW?
To find out which features may be applied to your demands visit our page with a comparison table, containing all features, inherent to released Shop-Script editions. Look through, compare and make a choice…

Short, yet informative descriptions, accompanied by screen-shots will help you get a better understanding of whatever functionalities this software has and how it will improve your e-business.

“Live stores” section offers true stories of how contemporary, IT-focused merchants take advantage of this truly inspiring software. These examples were placed for you to better visualize your way of Shop-Script application.

For more information please visit our new site: http://www.shop-script.com

Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com partnered with Ballston Common Mall to use their award-winning website design and marketing skills to unveil the newly redesigned web site www.ballston-common.com, one of the premier shopping malls in the Washington, DC area.

Washington, D.C.(PRWEB) June 30, 2005 -- Ballston Common Mall www.ballston-common.com came to Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com looking to modernize their commercial online image, as well as make their site easier to navigate. They needed a total reconstruction of their website featuring 119 stores, 15 eateries, movie theatre, and sport and health club. The Mall wanted to highlight the wide selection of stores, the friendly shopping atmosphere, and the variety of services they provide for customers including tour bus services, gift certificates, lottery tickets, and handicap accessibility.

Blue Water Media enthusiastically stepped up to the challenge, providing an entirely new look to the website introducing user-friendly options and brightly colored pictures to accurately portray the character of the mall. Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com developed new services available to visitors including a navigational online shopping Mall directory and store listings, traveling instructions, and up to the minute movie listings. They also created an online space where Ballston Common Mall www.ballston-common.com could post upcoming special events and alert viewers of current news.

Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com worked with Ballston Common Mall www.ballston-common.com in the marketing, design, and support of their website. With its progressive strategies, Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com used innovative methods of website analysis and search optimization to best tailor to its clients’ needs and to increase web site exposure and traffic overall.

Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com delivers the cutting edge in website expertise and creates exceptional online experiences for local businesses as well as national Fortune 1000 companies. Guided by a seasoned team of in-house DC web designers, Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com delivers website visuals that leverage both form and function, conveying the client intelligently while reaching the audience effectively. Driven by progressive methods of website analysis, search engine optimization, online advertising and conventional marketing, they shape sophisticated marketing strategies that are tailored to each company’s distinct needs. Blue Water Media www.bluewatermedia.com is dedicated to providing high-quality traffic and increased online visibility for their clients.

To find a directory of the stores located in the mall, we encourage you to visit www.ballston-common.com. For a list of Ballston Commons restaurants, check out www.ballston-common.com.

To learn more about the Washington, DC website designers, please visit www.bluewatermedia.com.

Tango Marketing, LLC today announced the immediate availability of its Sage CRM and Sage Accpac CRM product newsletter, *info for Sage CRM. The quarterly newsletter is a turnkey marketing communications tool allowing Sage Software Authorized Partners to effectively and efficiently communicate with clients, prospects, and alliance partners.

Edmonds, WA (PRWEB) August 1, 2005 -— Tango Marketing, LLC today announced the immediate availability of its Sage CRM and Sage Accpac CRM product newsletter, *info for Sage CRM. The quarterly newsletter is a turnkey marketing communications tool allowing Sage Software Authorized Partners to effectively and efficiently communicate with clients, prospects, and alliance partners.

This issue of *info for Sage CRM features articles covering the new branding and packaging of Sage CRM, and the Sage CRM Solo Server utility, expanding the capabilities of remote users.

While the Sage CRM product has not changed, the way it is packaged and sold has, and this article covers this development, informing existing users of what they can expect when they receive their next product update.

The Sage CRM Solo Server is a utility that allows users to load a subset of Sage CRM data to their laptop and then work with that data offline, synchronizing the data when they come online again. This article highlights the tremendous functionality offered with Solo, including the synchronization options and the ability to work offline.

Tango Marketing provides the *info newsletter for more than a dozen different Sage Software products. The newsletters are part of the Sage Software Turnkey Marketing Program making them eligible for up to 60% co-op reimbursement. Every newsletter is published in full color in both printed and email versions. Each issue is filled with product reviews, news, and tips, and is personalized for each business partner, including company logo, and contact information.

About Tango Marketing, LLC
Tango Marketing specializes in providing targeted marketing programs exclusively to Sage Software Authorized Partners. The company’s *info Newsletters are part of the Sage Software Turnkey Marketing Program making them eligible for generous co-op reimbursement. Currently Tango Marketing publishes newsletters for: Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200, Sage MAS 500, Sage Accpac, Sage Pro, Sage CRM, Sage SalesLogix, ACT! by Sage, Sage Abra HRMS, Sage BusinessWorks, Sage Timberline Office, Timeslips by Sage, Peachtree by Sage, Sage MIP, and Sage PFW solutions. In addition to its *info newsletters, Tango Marketing provides Sage Business Partners with services such as: Web Site Development, Search Engine Optimization, Success Stories, Corporate Brochures, and Direct Mail. For further information call (800) 781-1377 or visit www.tango-marketing.com.

'Imagine sailing to the Caribbean on a fun vacation with some of the world’s top millionaire marketers,' says internationally acclaimed Internet marketer, author, and speaker Joel Christopher, 'and learning a proven, foolproof formula from these successful entrepreneurs that will shortcut the path to marketing success.'

(PRWEB) Aug. 1, 2005 -- Christopher, billed as the Master List Builder for achieving rapid and phenomenal success building targeted e-mail customer lists, is inviting anyone who wants to dramatically improve their Internet marketing and direct marketing efforts to attend his exclusive marketing cruise from Oct. 20 to Nov. 3, 2005.

Joining Christopher on the five-day cruise from Miami to the Grand Cayman Islands are millionaire-marketing authorities Ted Nicholas, Dr. Joe Vitale, Rosalind Gardner, Brad Fallon, Tom “Big Al” Schreiter, and Mike Filsaime.

“We're giving all participants a chance to network with some of the world's top marketing gurus and to learn first-hand their marketing tips and secrets,” Christopher says. “It will be like having your own personal mentor.

“Our goal is to coach, inspire, and empower each attendee to realize his or her dreams and achieve personal marketing success," he added. "And the relaxed setting aboard the luxurious Carnival Fun Ship® Imagination will also allow everyone to have fun and revive the senses."

Attendance is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information and to book a cabin on Christopher's marketing cruise, visit www.MarketingCruise.com.

L&G Business Solutions, LLC, looked into the future of marketing and sales, and recognized that to continue to grow and build revenues, L&G needed to revitalize and reinvent its online strategies.

Avon, CT (PRWEB) July 31, 2005 -- L&G Business Solutions, LLC, looked into the future of marketing and sales, and recognized that to continue to grow and build revenues, L&G needed to revitalize and reinvent its online strategies. As part of that reinvention, it hired ImageWorks, LLC, to reinvent its web site to make it more interactive and create space for lots of good free content that its business clients and potential clients can use to grow their businesses

“We believe that businesses and potential business clients want more from us than a pretty web site with stagnant content,” Lewis Green, Founder & Managing Principal, says. “People who visit our Site do not want us to talk about ourselves. They want to know what is in it for them.

So, we brainstormed with ImageWorks to reinvent our Web Site (www.l-gsolutions.com) so that it offers an interactive forum (http://www.l-gsolutions.com/phpBB2/) with lots of free business tips, a link to white papers, and a free eZine with sales and marketing and business development news and articles.”

According to a white paper authored by Rick E. Bruner, Director of Research, DoubleClick, the number of adult Americans using the Internet rose steadily at an average cumulative annual rate of 7 percent from 2000 to 2004.

“Consumers have taken control,” Jeffrey Cohen, Vice President of Sales, ImageWorks, says. “The savvy business person recognizes that the new consumer often knows as much about the products and services offered as does the business selling those products and services.

“So businesses need to give the consumer what they want—informative and useful content and interactivity. Businesses such as L&G Business Solutions recognize they need to embrace the new market reality and move at least some of their marketing strategies online.”

As more proof that people are taking more control of their buying habits, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that 8 percent of all Internet users maintained a blog (Web Log) as of November 2004, while 38 percent said they were familiar with them, and 27 percent called themselves regular blog readers. Other research indicates that nearly 95 percent of business people look to the internet at least some of the time for both their personal and business needs.

“In addition to a more robust Web Site, we responded to the research by launching an interactive and participatory Web Log (http://l-gsolutions.blogspot.com/) with free business tips, and are focused on driving people to our online presence in a variety of ways,” Green says.

“By offering free information that any size business can use to increase their revenues, we believe we help businesses grow. When businesses grow—whether or not they are our clients—all businesses, including ours, benefit.

“We continue to advise our clients to use a mix of marketing and advertising strategies,” he added, “but we are much more aware of the new consumer and urge our clients to respond to them in a far different way than they would have even a decade ago.”

Connecticut-based L&G Business Solutions helps businesses along the East Coast that want to grow by focusing on sales and marketing processes, strategies and techniques. They are thought leaders whose clients benefit from the “5 Ps of InfoGuru Marketing”: Positioning, Packaging, Promotion, Persuasion and Performance. L&G solves problems relating to retaining and growing customers and they guarantee their work.

Connecticut web design firm, ImageWorks, LLC, creates immediate positive results for companies, no matter the size, by turning web design into an elegant, user-friendly place to visit. They do this by combining colors, images, layout & style into something pleasing to the eyes. ImageWorks LLC designs web sites to focus on function & content.

Free service for authors with book marketing questions.

(PRWEB) August 1, 2005 -- The book industry reports that 78% of the titles published come from small/self-publishers. With combined annual revenues of less than $50 million, these publishers have limited publicity budgets and their authors are expected to do their own promotion. Where can they turn and learn?

Now authors with books to promote may ask questions of nearly 150 author experts whose specialties run the gamut from romance to foot surgery.

Assembled from the thousands of subscribers to Book Promotion Newsletter, the experts include authors, editors, book reviewers, book coaches, ghostwriters, publicists and publishers.

This free service is hosted by Maureen McMahon at http://www.maureenmcmahon.com, author of romantic suspense novels, Return of the Gulls, Shadows In the Mists and others, and Francine Silverman, author of Book Marketing from A-Z (Infinity Publishing 2005), a compilation of the best marketing strategies of 325 authors. http://www.bookpromotionnewsletter.com

The “Ask the Experts” link is on the left side of Maureen’s Moonspinners Writer’s Page, http://www.maureenmcmahon.com. Once at the Expert Side, visitors may ask a book marketing question of any of the experts. Responses will be emailed back to the inquirer within 3-5 working days.

Lemon Drops Press is also hosting a bulletin board in which visitors may ask book marketing questions at http://lemondropspress.com/phpBB2. Both registered users and anonymous guests can post questions by clicking on "Marketing with Fran" in the community forum and then on "new topic" on the new page that opens. There are fields for a username, subject, and message, as well as a selection of fonts and emoticons (expressive faces). When finished, the user simply clicks the "submit" button and his or her question is posted. After Fran posts a reply on the forum, the person who asked the question as well as all other visitors to the Lemon Drops Press website will be able to view both the question and the response. “In this way,” says host Lana Jordan, “the entire community benefits from the individual questions.”

"The question I get most often is, 'Why is my computer so slow ?' You should see the look on their face when I tell them its probably Spyware."

(PRWEB) Aug. 1, 2005 -- No newcomer to Spyware, Doug Woodall has 15 years of experience. He has been online since 1993.

Presented with a Commodore 64 for his Birthday in 1983, it didn’t take long for him to become hooked to the online world. There was no Internet then, he says, just Bulletin Board Services.

"Today I see a lot of headlines about Identity Theft and I wonder why?" questions Doug. "Education is the key when using the Internet. Your personal information is your property, why give it away to someone who will use it for financial gain?"

"The question I get most often is, 'Why is my computer so slow?' You should see the look on their face when I tell them it’s probably Spyware."

Doug Woodall has recently put together a Website called SpywareBiz to provide free information and recommended products to combat Spyware. He started SpywareBiz to help educate and protect those who are unaware of the dangers online. A new out of the box computer put online without proper protection can be compromised in less that 20 minutes!

He is a member of the IWA (International Webmasters Association) and he also runs a Blog where users can post problems and questions concerning Spyware. Doug's site has already won several awards, including the Elite Learning Fountain Award.

Accessibility of information is a important aspect of Doug's Website. His expertise in trouble-shooting Spyware is available at his site, SpywareBiz.com

WebsiteSource.com, a leading Website hosting company, announced on Friday a partnership with LowPriceDomains.com (http://www.lowpricedomains.com) to offer registration of .info domains for a low price of $2.95.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 31, 2005 -- (www.websitesource.com) WebsiteSource.com, a leading website hosting company, announced on Friday a partnership with LowPriceDomains.com (http://www.lowpricedomains.com) to offer registration of .info domains for a low price of $2.95. Other domain name registrations of .com, .net, org., .biz and .us are offered at $11.95.

S. Rosendahl, CEO of Website Source, Inc. commented: “At WebsiteSource.com, we have succeeded in giving our customers the quality of service that exceeds the industry standard. Now, we are happy to offer low price domain name registration, SSL certificates, and domain name news through LowPriceDomains.com. Many of our customers have chosen to transfer their domain registration to LowPriceDomains.com in order to take advantage of the low pricing and the many new additional features.”

Customers will also have the option of registering their domain name at no charge with the purchase of an annual WebsiteSource.com hosting plan.

Search engine marketing tips and techniques are also offered at LowPriceDomains.com. Use the search engine submission tools to increase your online visibility.

LowPriceDomains.com offers customers many free features that are included with domain name registration such as email forwarding, web/URL forwarding, DNS services, and a free parking page.

For more information, visit www.websitesource.com or www.lowpricedomains.com

Writers, business communicators, students and researchers should make room for a new link at the top of their favorites list: http://www.scribendi.com.

With today’s rollout of a new, expanded website for its clients, Scribendi has become one of the biggest and most productive editing, proofing and translating services on the web. Thanks to rapid growth over the last year and a new emphasis on B2B services, Scribendi now edits more than two million words each week. “We handle more words in a week than Shakespeare wrote in his entire career,” states Chandra K. Clarke, one of the founding directors.

Much of Scribendi’s recent growth reflects increased attention to business clients around the world. Clarke notes that “most businesses understand the critical importance of clean, clear communications with their clients. Scribendi offers quick turnaround and simple pay-as-you-go rates that make it the perfect solution to this problem.”

The completely redesigned Website now gives writers instant quotes on more than two hundred different kinds and levels of services. With as few as one or two clicks, document authors can obtain a guaranteed rate. Another few clicks, and the document goes on its way through an automated task distribution system to be picked up by the Scribendi editor best suited to handle it. A new client account page allows clients to track the progress of their documents and manage accounts and payments. Scribendi.com accepts most major credit cards, plus Paypal, for instant service, and offers business accounts to companies and corporations.

With editors and translators in nearly every time zone around the globe, Scribendi can provide eight-hour crisis editing, regardless of when the document arrives. With the new Website, Scribendi has strengthened its infrastructure to support B2B clients, while retaining the close, personal coaching style that authors and ESL writers have long appreciated.

Scribendi.com offers services in eight different categories, including: book authors, students/academics, ESL/ENL clients, business, translation, personal, and corporate/NGO/government. For more information, please visit www.Scribendi.com and/or use the contact form to have a representative get in touch.

Incorporating some of the most advanced features and capabilities currently available on the Web, today's launch of the Previewseek.com search engine promises to change forever the way millions of people use the Internet. Yet even more impressive than the search engine technology itself, are the truly extraordinary measures the company took to ensure total secrecy of the project -- even from its own programmers and developers.

London, United Kingdom (PRWEB) Aug. 1, 2005 -- After months of unprecedented stealth development, Previewseek Limited announces today the official launch of its flagship search engine Previewseek.com. With some of the most advanced artificial intelligence capabilities available on the web today, and built upon over 35 proprietary and patent pending technologies, Previewseek.com promises to radically improve the way people search, buy, interact, and communicate online.

Development in Total Secrecy:

Yet even more impressive than the search engine technology itself, are the truly extraordinary measures the company took to ensure total secrecy of the project -- even from its own programmers and developers. The development of the cutting-edge Previewseek.com search engine represented one of the technology world's most closely guarded secrets in recent memory, with even most of the site's 26 core programmers, designers, and engineers kept completely in the dark about the overall vision of the project.

“We had to take these extraordinary measures because we knew that we were creating the most advanced product, in the most competitive industry in the world… Internet search,” said C. “Christopher” Hong, the London-based Chairman of Previewseek Limited.

“Using code words and strongly encrypted communications, we meticulously parsed out the development of this search engine to geographically dispersed and completely autonomous teams from such far away places as China, New Zealand, Australia, Estonia, and the Ukraine, in addition to the UK and the US,” Hong added. “We needed to make 100% certain that even if information about one part of the project leaked out, no one would be able to piece together the revolutionary nature of the technologies and services that we were creating.”

To Create Cutting Edge Technologies:

The Previewseek search engine uses a number of proprietary artificial intelligence algorithms to help people find exactly what they are looking for quickly, easily and efficiently. More specifically, Previewseek:

- Automatically “understands” the meanings of words: Thanks to its proprietary SenseGate© technology, Previewseek is the first search engine that 'understands' the meaning of words, and which can help users distinguish between java the island, java the programming language, or java the coffee.

- Automatically distinguishes between unbiased and commercial content: Thanks to its unique DiscoveryBase© technology, Previewseek is also the first engine that can automatically identify integrate completely unbiased and insightful information about the most important search terms.

- Automatically generates visual “previews” of search result pages: Furthermore, Previewseek's advanced visualization capabilities also allows users to see the web pages before actually visiting them, thereby saving needless time and frustration.

A small number of exclusive beta testers around the world have already tried out the Previewseek service, and their response has been virtually unanimous. James McFadden, a beta tester from the U.S. raved, “This is vastly superior to any search engine I have ever used. I found all the information I was looking for in 50% less time than using other sources.” Likewise, Angela Chan, a tester from Hong Kong stated, “The functionalities of this engine are impressive. I can search in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese or English and the results are exactly what I need.”

While these beta testers (and soon, millions of users) may never know about the intense level of secrecy or the intricately complex technology that went into developing this site, Hong says that this is exactly what the company would like to achieve. “We want to make Internet search not only as powerful as possible, but also, as simple as possible. For the end user, it should just be a terrific online experience.”

The Previewseek.com site is available online to the general public at http://www.previewseek.com.

About Previewseek Limited:
Headquartered in London, UK with a presence in the US and Hong Kong, Previewseek Limited is a privately held company that provides the most advanced Internet search engine available on the web today. Previewseek Limited was founded by leading entrepreneurs with both a strong demonstrated track record of success and a true personal passion for Internet search. Previewseek's public site can be accessed at http://www.previewseek.com from August 1st 2005.

Global Technology Solutions has introduced a revolutionary new method to tap into a vast offshore global workforce.

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) August 1, 2005 -- Global Technology Solutions, Inc. (GTS) has introduced a revolutionary new way to tap into a vast offshore global workforce, bringing every sort of technical and service expertise just one mouse-click away.

“As our world gets increasingly networked, companies can now use technical expertise and know-how from virtually anywhere, often to a huge cost benefit,” says Brandon Lee, CEO of GTS. “With our two new web sites, we provide an easy online gateway into a diverse, qualified global workforce."

The first of GTS’s web sites, Hire Manage Pay™ (available at http://www.hiremanagepay.com), allows companies to hire highly skilled information technology professionals in as little as five minutes. Through the site, these professionals can be managed from anywhere in the world. Hire Manage Pay™ also provides a facility to pay – often at rates as low as $9 an hour – after productivity has been monitored and verified through timesheets, Web cam and desktop snap shots.

Support Oasis (available at http://www.supportoasis.com) provides high-quality customer support services, giving companies the opportunity to increase productivity and streamline customer interactions. Support Oasis offers a Call Center (inbound and outbound), server management, voice-based support, email response, web chat support, data processing and online sales support services.

“Both Hire Manage Pay and Support Oasis assign specific tasks to the individuals best qualified to complete them,” says Lee. “By lowering costs and improving response times and performance standards, they give companies the ideal option to leverage an affordable, skilled global workforce. ”

About Global Technology Solutions, Inc.:
Global Technology Solutions, Inc. is a US-based provider of a wide range of high-quality technology solutions at affordable cost to the global community. With over 2,000 employees worldwide, GTS provides on and offshore development, project management and support staffing solutions. In addition, GTS offers a wide variety of electronics products and services, ranging from computer servers to installation, at very low costs. For more information, please visit http://www.gtsincorp.com.

Brinkster today announced a six month, no strings attached, free Linux hosting offer. Adding to the announcement of low priced full featured Linux hosting made in mid-July, Brinkster is now offering customers a no obligation opportunity to try before they buy.

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) August 1, 2005 – Brinkster today announced a six month, no strings attached, free Linux hosting offer. Adding to the announcement of low priced full featured Linux hosting made in mid-July, Brinkster is now offering customers a no obligation opportunity to try before they buy.

“Often customers do not know if they have chosen a quality web host until they have spent money. This offer will allow Brinkster to prove the quality of its services,” says Jared Stauffer, President and CEO of Brinkster.

Not Your Average Free Hosting Offer

Many free hosting offers in today’s market have a limited feature set and environment. The six months no strings attached offer from Brinkster features a regular “sized” hosting account. “The free Linux accounts come with 750 MB of web space, 15 GB of data transfer, and 200 e-mail accounts,” says Ben Chambers, VP of Marketing. The free accounts can be used for personal or business use.

To further distinguish the offer, Brinkster is offering $1 domain names with the promotion. Alternatively customers can transfer in an existing domain name. International customers are required to purchase a domain name to assist with identity verification.

No Stranger to Free Hosting

Brinkster is no stranger to free hosting, having offered the free Educational Plan or it’s equivalent for nearly six years. “A lot goes in to providing quality hosting to hundreds of thousands of free and paid customers. Brinkster has spent many years developing systems, software, and infrastructure to successfully support our users,” says Jared Stauffer, President and CEO of Brinkster.

The free Educational Plan is a free hosting account that provides an ideal environment for people of various experience levels to test and hone their skills in HTML and Microsoft’s ASP and ASP .NET.

About Brinkster
Established in 1999, Brinkster Communications Corporation is a privately held web hosting company. With customers in over 130 different countries worldwide, Brinkster offers web hosting solutions that cater to individuals, small to medium sized businesses and web developers starting at only $4.95 a month. For more information, please contact e-mail protected from spam bots, or visit our website at www.brinkster.com.

Please see www.brinkster.com/hosting/linuxpromo.aspx for details on the Free Linux Hosting Account offer.

Brinkster is a registered trademark of Brinkster Communications Corporation.

All other names of companies or products may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of domain names worldwide, has chosen DomainsBot, the well-known provider of domain name information, to offer its powerful new name suggestion technology on the GoDaddy.com website. When visitors to GoDaddy.com search for a domain name, they are presented with several relevant, alternative domain suggestions that closely match their original query.

ROME, ITALY and SCOTTSDALE, AZ (PRWEB) August 1, 2005 – GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of domain names worldwide, has chosen DomainsBot, the well-known provider of domain name information, to offer its powerful new name suggestion technology on the GoDaddy.com website. When visitors to GoDaddy.com search for a domain name, they are presented with several relevant, alternative domain suggestions that closely match their original query.

Available to registrars via an XML feed, DomainsBot provides fast, relevant, available domain name suggestions that turn domain name searches into registrations. Using a combination of syntactical, statistical, and human feedback mechanisms, DomainsBot offers alternative domain name suggestions that respond to the concepts behind a user’s search. Users oftentimes end up registering the name originally searched for, as well as additional, related names that were presented to them as a result of DomainsBot’s technology.

“Our new relationship with DomainsBot is off to a good start,” said Bob Parsons, president and founder of GoDaddy.com. “Implementation of DomainsBot’s technology was not complicated, and the actual integration took just about one day. Best of all, the technology is highly scalable – which was an absolute requirement for GoDaddy.com.”

“The ability to find the right domain name is good for both the customer and the registrars, since better suggestions lead to more registrations,” said Max Ralli, DomainsBot CEO. “Integrating our technology with the number one domain name registrar in the world, GoDaddy.com, is a real vote of confidence in our hard work and expertise.”

ABOUT DOMAINSBOT
Founded in 1999 in Rome, DomainsBot is a well-known source for domain name search and suggestion information on the Internet. With the introduction of its self-learning domain name search technology, DomainsBot offers a powerful new way to search for domain names, returning ranked domain suggestions that embody the ideas and concepts sought by the customer, often providing a better domain name than the customer's initial search. For more information, visit http://www.domainsbot.com. To learn more about the DomainsBot XML solution for registrars, visit http://domainsbot.com/partners/DomainsBotXML.aspx.

ABOUT GODADDY GROUP
The Go Daddy Group is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar both in terms of new registrations and domains under management. The Go Daddy Group enables individuals and businesses to create and safeguard their unique identities and brands on the Internet by offering a complete line of web development tools, including domain name registration, hosting, email systems, SSL certificates, and complementary products and services. The Go Daddy Group includes three ICANN-accredited domain name registrars: flagship registrar GoDaddy.com (www.GoDaddy.com), membership-based registrar Blue Razor Domains, Inc. (www.bluerazor.com), and reseller registrar Wild West Domains, Inc. (www.wildwestdomains.com). The Go Daddy Group also offers private domain name registration services through Domains By Proxy, Inc. (www.domainsbyproxy.com), as well as SSL certificates through its SSL Certificate Authority, Starfield Technologies, Inc. (www.starfieldtech.com). The Go Daddy Group registers a new domain name every 6 seconds.

SuperTrade.com is a new, free Web application that allows users to create lists of bookmarks, comment on those bookmarks, engage in on-line discussions of bookmarked Websites and more. Based on the principles of knowledge management, SuperTrade is much more than a bookmarks site, but less than a blog.

(PRWEB) August 1, 2005 -- SuperTrade, which claims to be the “ultimate free knowledge exchange” is the latest on-line creation of Jeffrey Baumgartner, the eccentric founder of the jpb group. SuperTrade is a web application that allows users to create “Lists” of bookmarks. Unlike other bookmark sites, however, SuperTrade includes a number of features normally found in knowledge management tools. Users can categorize bookmarks, manage categories, attach detailed commentary about bookmarks and even engage in on-line discussions about bookmarks – each bookmark has its own dedicated discussion forum. Bookmarks can include any on-line document or file: web pages, text documents, images, digital music, digital video, PowerPoint presentations or indeed anything that can be found on the Web.

The original concept behind SuperTrade was to develop a knowledge management tool for professionals; one where they could save links to on-line documents, provide their own commentary and share those links with their peers. Today, this kind of knowledge sharing is most often accomplished by circulating e-mails to large groups of colleagues, associates and others. However, e-mails are often lost, sometimes not wanted and do not provide a single source of all links shared via e-mail. SuperTrade solves all these problems. Moreover, a subscription function allows anyone to subscribe to a list and receive e-mail notification of new content.

As SuperTrade was developed, it quickly became clear that the software could serve other groups as well. People who like to share funny, bizarre or other kinds of web sites with friends can readily use SuperTrade to share these web sites. Hobbyists can build up pages of links relevant to their hobbies. People who travel frequently or use multiple computers can build a central bookmarks site which they can access from any computer anywhere. They can even opt to keep their lists private. Users can even make lists of film or video clips.

SuperTrade, at www.supertrade.com, is free for all. However, users must fill in a simple registration form if they wish to set up their own lists, participate in discussion forums or subscribe to lists. Currently, SuperTrade is advertising supported, although jpb has plans to develop more sophisticated tools on a fee payment basis. Basic lists will always be free to set up and manage.

Jeffrey Baumgartner and his jpb group of companies – based in Belgium and Bangkok – has been behind an eclectic range of projects. A sculptor by training, Baumgartner is a well known expert of organizational innovation and idea management. Bwiti bvba, his Erps-Kwerps, Belgium company which developed SuperTrade has also developed and currently markets Jenni Idea Management virtual software and Sylvia Web BrainStorm. During the dot.com heyday, Baumgartner was called an e-commerce Guru by the Internet Society's magazine “On the Internet”. He has also been a columnist, advertising agency owner and teacher. His projects have ranged from DrEcommerce – a popular web resource developed while advising the European Commission on promoting e-commerce in Europe – to writing an astrology column for a Thai business magazine in spite of the fact that he does not believe in Astrology. His popular Report 103 newsletter – where he shares his theories of organizational creativity and innovation - reaches thousands of creativity and innovation professionals around the world.

The American College, the leader in financial services education, recently launched a new weblog (blog) on its website. Known as "The Wealth Channel," this blog will provide financial professionals and the public with a place to ask questions, share information, and be heard. Reading and participating in this blog will enhance students’ awareness of the important issues facing financial practitioners and their clients. To participate in The Wealth Channel blog, go to http://wealthchannel.blogspot.com or visit The American College’s homepage.

BRYN MAWR, PA (PRWEB) August 1, 2005 -– The American College, the leader in financial services education, recently launched a new weblog (blog) on its website.

Known as "The Wealth Channel," this blog will provide financial professionals and the public with a place to ask questions, share information, and be heard. Reading and participating in this blog will enhance students’ awareness of the important issues facing financial practitioners and their clients. To participate in The Wealth Channel blog, go to http://wealthchannel.blogspot.com or visit The American College’s homepage.

Those who submit entries or comments can choose to identify themselves or remain anonymous. The blog also serves as a way for users to directly communicate with American College President and CEO Dr. Larry Barton.

“This blog opens up a new channel of communication that anyone can take part in,” said Barton. “I hope the full spectrum of financial services professionals will participate in this blog and I look forward to hearing their views and stimulating discussion on a wide range of important industry topics.”

Blogs are online journals that reflect personal opinions and are primarily open to the public for viewing and commenting. In their short history, blogs have established themselves as a new form of communication and have helped expose wrongdoings by corporations and provided a communication channel breaking news. In fact, many news organizations now get a portion of their news from blogs. Important issues currently being discussed on The Wealth Channel include professional business ethics, commission disclosure, and the middle market.

The American College is the nation’s leading non-profit educator of professionals in the insurance and financial services industry. Located on a 35-acre campus in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, The College is a public charity that serves over 35,000 students annually, predominantly on a distance education basis. The American College offers an array of specialized designation programs, Master of Science degrees in several disciplines and customized continuing education programs for those pursuing a career in financial services. For more information, visit www.TheAmericanCollege.edu.

HubMe Network (http://www.hubme.com), a new Asian web hosting provider, announced today it has officially opened its doors for new hosting clients.

The company, which was founded earlier this year, hopes to specialize in high-needs hosting clients, by offering one-on-one support and quality servers. It also plans to locate servers in the eastern, central, and western United States for added redundancy.

Ronald Goh, executive director and founder of HubMe Network, also hopes to give back to local communities.

“We plan to provide free hosting to non-profit charity organizations,” said Goh. “It’s something I have always wanted to be a part of.”

Services the company offers for all clients include shared hosting, and site transfer services. Hosting plans start at $9.95 a month with no setup fees. As a promotional offer, new clients will only pay one dollar for their first month.

HubMe Network was created after Goh saw a need for simplification in the industry, and economically stable providers.

“Our industry is not merely about getting rich, it’s about giving back to the people who support you,” said Goh. “We are taking small business and individual hosting to the next level.”

Goh hopes to be able to offer assistance to small businesses starting out on the internet for the first time.

“Nobody’s going to be left alone, our team is going to be here to personally assist all of our clients as they grow their websites,” he said.

About HubMe Network
HubMe Network (http://www.hubme.com) is a high-quality web hosting company, focused on providing excellence in the realm linux hosting and support. Based in Singapore, HubMe Network boasts an international customer reach – and offers a plethora of shared hosting plans

Written by an industry insider, there's a ew ebook that teaches IT Departments and invidual internet marketers how to potentially save thousands of dollars in SEO and SEM costs through natural and organic based content search engine marketing.

This hot new area of search engine marketing has been discussed at recent SES (search engine strategies) trade shows all over the world. It is the topic of many web marketing professionals.

Websites that lack proper visibility for spider searches also do not rank high with the natural search engine queries. This ebook in basic laymans terms, helps to explain and coach the reader into creating thier own content campaign to create visibility in the natural search engine results.

This ebook is designed to save the reader thousands of dollars in unnecessary SEO and SEM costs. Content marketing is one of the few alternative avenues to get away from expensive CPC (cost per click) programs or keyword bidding programs.

The ebook is written to show how easy it is for any IT dept. to add content to a website that will get results. Every company that does any form of internet website advertising or optimization needs to apply the basic principles of this ebook for extreme search engine visibility, it can save you thousands of dollars.