When it comes to breaking through to your customers’ email inbox, it’s getting to be less about what you say and more about how you say it. The spam net that i.merchants must circumvent is getting ever more sophisticated and, dare we say, overzealous. In fact, recent surveys indicate that more than one-third of permission emails that consumers want to receive from trusted sources are being blocked by email filters and corporate firewalls.
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In order to start writing for maximum search engine visibility, you need to start thinking like a search engine.
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SEO vendors shouldn’t be judged on “gut feel”. Effectively separating the wheat from the chaff requires that objective rather than subjective criteria be used.
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Every page of your site has its own unique “song” so the goal is to make each page “sing” for its own unique keyword focus. Each page should have one, maybe two, but certainly no more than three keyword foci.
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If you target the wrong keywords all your efforts in search engine optimization will be in vain. The right keywords are not only the ones relevant to your business but are also popular with searchers.
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Search engines tend to have problems fully indexing dynamic websites (in other words, sites that are hooked up to a database of content). The kinds of sites that search engines have the biggest trouble with are ones that have overly complex URL structures, including…
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SEO can be broken into two distinct areas - “on-page” factors and “off-page” factors. On-page factors include anything that you can affect on the page itself, such as the title tag, body copy, H1 heading tags, image ‘alt’ attributes etc. Off-page factors encompass things that influence rankings but are not on the page itself …
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Partially indexed, poorly ranked, penalized and possibly banned: such is the unpleasant fate of a Web site that’s not duly optimized for the search engines.
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Many consider search engine optimization (SEO) - the process of enhancing your Web site’s visibility in the search engines through ways other than paid search ads - a sort of black box. But once the essential features of a search-engine-optimal Web site are laid out in a concise list, SEO is not nearly as mystifying.
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DMA Annual Conference — New Orleans, LA
As consumers rely more heavily on spam filters, the e-mail marketer’s dilemma is nearing a breaking point. Soon only 50% of your consumers will receive your e-mails! What are the major factors influencing your own deliverability challenges? This session will reveal ways to assess your vendors’ network reputation, best practices for designing spam filter-friendly e-mails, how to get whitelisted with major ISPs, and where e-mail marketers go from here.
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- Understanding whitelisting criteria for ISPs such as AOL and Yahoo!
- Secrets to monitoring your own spam record — and your e-mail vendor’s
- Tactics for making your e-mails filter-friendly while complying with the law
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