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SEO News Tip of the Day!
Well it’s coming to that time of the year again, where we say good bye to the old and welcome the new. Lots of us will be looking at what was achieved in 2005 and looking at what can be achieved in 2006. The New Year is always exciting in the search industry, with people rounding up the year and predicting what’s going to be hot, where things are heading etc.
Anyone who visits SEO Forum Watch regularly would of noticed it has been put on the back burner but I refuse to end the blog there and know it will come into its own come 2006. When I get time and the opportunity is right, the SEO Forum Watch will be moving to a WordPress blog and most probably be changing its focus slightly.
2005 was an interesting year for the SEO community, with the new MSN search probably being one of the biggest stories. And then towards the end of the year Google’s Jagger update hit us in three parts but rumours of Google engineers not being happy with the update is probably the bigger story there.
It looks like the Jagger update has tried to rebalance the importance of natural linking by devaluing reciprocal links and adding more emphasis to TrustRank (authority sites). However looking at Google’s results does leave one feeling like they have taken a bit of nose dive, even if the sites I’m conducting SEO on have benefited from the update!
As I said above the new MSN search in my opinion is the biggest story of 2005. MSN was previously using Yahoo as their search provider and is still using Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) to provide their sponsored results. MSN will be launching their own pay per click advertising service in 2006, replacing Yahoo’s and giving them an all important foothold on the SEM market. No doubt an advertising network will quickly follow for web publishers to be paid for displaying their ads (think Google adsense but with a MSN logo).
Well this has been my first round up post but no doubt I will post at least one more (time permitting). If you do for some reason forget not to come back, have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Have a drink for me and raise your glass to getting even more traffic in 2006.
James Anderson
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Water to Swim In
Not long ago, I took stock of my unrealized desire to be a published writer, or maybe I should I say â??Writerâ?? with a capital â??W.â?? For some reason it always seemed a lofty goal, to want to see my byline in print. I found this trepidation totally uncharacteristic to every other area in my life. For twenty years, I have ministered to women both in small home group settings as well as conferences. Especially in conference settings, friends would ask, â??Are you nervous?â?? Almost every time I could answer truthfully that I was not. I could easily stand up in front of hundreds of faces and feel quite confident in my own abilities. Yet, to put an article or query in the mail, or to push the send button to some unknown editor elicited in me, absolute, consuming insecurity.
Keeping a Love Journal
Do you love someone very deeply? A spouse, son, daughter,
or maybe a group of people. February 14 is Valentineâ??s Day.
This unofficial holiday is a day card companies started to
increase their business and has evolved into more over the
years. It is a day of reflection, a day to show someone
else you care, a day to see the love we have for ourselves
as well.
Writing Query Letters that Count -- Close the Deal with Your First Letter!
Your query letter can be a deal maker or a deal breaker. So, if your query letter just lies there, you've killed the sale immediately or your story or novel immediately. If you want that story -- your baby -- to be read, reach out of that query letter, grab the publisher, editor or literary agent by the neck and say, "Hey, you absolutely have to have this story!"
Query letters that begin with "Hello, My name is. . ." have as much chance of selling as vacation trips to Baghdad. Remember, your query is like a résumé?s cover letter, and if you're in a competitive industry, that cover will sell you far more than the resume will. So, you have to grab the reader with your first sentence. To do this, make him believe that he desperately needs what you're selling. Following are a few tips on how to do it.
Writing the 8 WebCopy Headline Categories
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recently titled; The Copywriters Handbook by Robert Bly, a
secondary small niche I focus on a bit. It categorizes the
different types of headlines which are most common and in use
today.
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11 Secrets from an Experienced Interviewer
A Simple Contest with a Strong Message: Wake Up Your Writing Spirit
The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not because we?re getting far more entries than we expected. It?s because along with entries, we?re also getting heartfelt messages from writers all over the world. I?ve run a few contests before and received quite a few entries, but I?ve never been personally emailed and thanked by so many writers.
Ten Tips To Get Started Writing Your Book
You are far more likely to successfully write and publish your book if you follow these tips before you write a single chapter.
7 Essential Letter Writing Strategies
Based on the feedback that I have been getting from visitors
to my writinghelp-central.com Web site, letter writing is
definitely the area where most people are looking for help
or guidance when it comes to day-to-day writing.
Use Real-Life Templates For Writing Success
At some point along the way, most of us have used what are
commonly called "fill-in-the-blank" writing templates. We
might have used them to write a letter, format an essay, or
set-up a resume or CV.
Recommendation Letters Demystified
There is a lot of confusion about recommendation letters.
Writing Business Letters That Get The Job Done
Despite the widespread use of e-mail in commerce today,
traditional business letters are still the main way
that the majority of businesses officially communicate
with their customers and other businesses.
10 Secrets For Writing Killer Complaint Letters
Complaint letters aren't always fun, but sometimes they need
to be written. In many cases, if people don't complain, the
problem agency at fault (i.e. company or government) won't
even know that the problem that you and others may have
experienced even exists.
How To Write Cover Letters That Work
Sometimes there is confusion about the exact meaning of the
term "cover letter".
7 Secrets For Beating Writers Block
Most people can easily identify with the dreaded "writer's
block". It is a well-known phenomenon that just about
everyone has faced at one point in their lives.
10 Secrets For Everyday Writing Success
During my 25-year career in a variety of professional
positions in both the private and public sectors I have
written literally thousands of letters and memos and
hundreds of reports. If I had to boil-down everything
I've learned about practical day-to-day writing for both
personal and business purposes into 10 key points, this
would be my "top 10 list".
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