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As some of you may have seen on our about us page we have decided to come out of the shadows and build our own blog network.  Over the last several decades our sales and marketing techniques, both on and off of the internet, have been used by many other companies and have caused monumental results.  Growth in sales and as an overall company.  now it is out turn!

We are stepping out into the light with our own blog network. And the best part is you can be involved too.

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If you have done many searches lately you have probably seen some results from many of the different Wiki’s.  The most prominent of these is probably Wikipedia.  Listed as an online dictionary, Wikipedia CAN be a great source for informaton, but that reccommendation comes with a caution. 

A Wiki is a collaberative collection of information, normally open to all to post.  Though many of these sites, incluiding Wikipedia, are moderated this doesnt mean that all the information contained there is accurate.  Some Wiki’s like Wikipedia try to list information that has not been verified by an outside source as unconfirmed. 

The advantage of a Wiki is the age old adage “two heads are better then one”.  By allowing collaberation a Wiki can bring a collection of experts to a topic and give you the best and more up to date information available.  Give a Wiki a try.

In the new today Microsoft is again making an offer to Yahoo.  This 44.6 BILLION dollar merger offer which was announced on the 2nd of February would be a monumental combination.  Today there is even talks that Microsoft may up their offer to make the deal even more irressitable to Yahoo.

What would a merget like this mean to the internet.  Google has dominated the search engine market for the past several years with no real competition.  Some of the search engines simply went out of business, other have bought content from Google, and though Yahoo would be the closest competitor the competition isnt even close.  Can the power and resources or Microsoft turn this around?  Would Microsoft be able to do to Google like they did to resently shut down Netscape that was once the standard for web browsers?

As an internet user this really only means two possible outcomes to you.  Option one is that the new Micsrosoft owned Yahoo would need to learn the lesson of relevant content and provide much more accurate and relevant results.  This seems to be something that currently only Google has been able to provide. The other option is that Google will listen to their customers and step up to a much greater level of customer service then it has had to date. 

In either of these cases you will be the real winner.  Better quality and reliabilty and/or better service is always a good thing.

So often I find myself repeating the phrase “form follows function”  I cant even tell you anymore who told me that first, but I live by it every day.  I have seen some incredible website that were amazingly designed.  The sad part of that is that in almost every case the web sites that are the most hideous are the ones that make the most money.  All the research teaches you about the use of white space and how to focus your content to a single call to action and yet there are far too many affiliate marketers (and bloggers) who have no focus at all (ok lets call it what is is “clutter”) and yet they often consistantly make money — WHY?

The answer comes back to the same basic statement I made at the beginning. “form follows function” meaning that the way something looks is not nearly as important as the fact that it works.  Do you you have what the customer is looking for?  Have your words made it clear that what they are seeking you have?

And most importantly when it comes to your web site — GET STARTED

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I was just thinking that all too often we take some of the things we use the most for granted.   This made me think about search engines.  I have been asked many times which search engine in best and though it has changed over the years at this point I would resoundingly say - GOOGLEGoogle does a really good job of trying to present with web sites that are truly about what you are looking for.  Several years ago it wasn’t uncommon to ask for one thing and from a search engine and get something entirely different.  Google came along and changed the search engine by focusing on content rather then listing anything that said it was about something.  Google looks at both the intended content as well as the actual content of the web site and does a really good job of giving you back what you asked for.

Oh sure, the longer you have used the internet probably the longer the list is of the things you could say about Google both good and bad, but in respect to how it used to be and how much better Google has forced the search engines that are still around to give us what we are searching for, I say good job Google. 

If you havent tried it give www.google.com a chance - I think you will be glad you did

 If you have a web browser you are ready to search and find information.  You can look at news both written and video feeds.  You can check the weather, the almanac, driving conditions, find out who plays Mr. so and so in the movie you just watched and the list goes on.  University of Phoenix has an online library that is 2^nd only to the US Library of Congress and that is just one web site out of billions.  Bloggers write about things that are meaningless and things that are important that no one else will report.  If you have a love for information then you will soon know why the internet is called the information superhighway.  Most of the time just like on a regular highway any vehicle will do.  In truth, the speed at which you can type in information, read what is on a site to see if it is what you are looking for, process it and then move on will in most cases be the thing that slows you down.  Also like a car you can spend a lot and have the capability to go faster then anyone else on the road even if you never use it.  The thing you will find when you are gathering information is that with so much out there you will quickly need to manage what things you keep and what things you learn to reference when you need it.  Only one word of caution - Almost always the first need of all information seekers is more hard drive space to put everything.

When you perform a search the more specific you can be the better.  If you were to look up the word “computer” you would get 10′a of millions of results and who knows whether any of them would be what you are looking for.  If you narrowed the search even a little say to the phrase “laptop computer” you will likely reduce the total results down to about 10% of the word computer alone.  Still this is millions of results and again may not have any thing you are looking for.  Are you looking for “laptop computer repair” or “laptop computer parts” or “laptop computer sales” or something else entirely?  Let’s say you want to buy a new laptop.  Which would you prefer, the best price or a local company you can go to for questions service and upgrades?  Each of those have appeal to different people but each is a different search.  The more specific search phrase “lowest price laptop computer” or “cheap laptop computer” will not only yield a much more specific set of results and probably less then 1% of million we were looking at before.  However this would be a much different result from a search for “laptop computer sales portland oregon”.  This search will probably be the least number of results because of it’s very specific nature and if local is what you are looking for you will be set.  On the other hand if you want to lowest price anywhere it may not be locally.   Either way as you can see the more specific you can be the less results you will have and the more to what you are looking for they will be.  I would suggest starting with as many search crteria as you can and eliminate words till you get the result you are looking for.

 By the way webmasters the works in reverse too.  The more you know your audience the better the result.  See webmasters know your audience for more detail.

There was a time when listing your web site in a search engine meant simply placing every word you could think of in your meta keyword and then submitting your web site to alta vista or other such sites with as many keywords as you could.  It seemed like everyone had the words sex and money in their keywords. And to some extent this worked as well as it could.  Each word was seperated by a comma and the search engine would result any site that had any of those single words in the keywords.  As search matured so did the need for a more mature approach and logging process.  With billions of web sites available search engines started storing keyphrases.  These days the more you know about your ideal or target customer the better.  This allows you to refine the content and the keywords to as specific of a group as possible.  If you are a auto repair shop specializing in hondas you know a few things about what your customers will be looking for; obviously they will be searching the words auto repair and probably honda, so there is a keyword phrase for you “auto repair honda”.  But what else do we know?  We can make a very educated guess that someone is not going to drive very far to get their car fixed.  So how about we add some locality to our keyword phrase and now we have “auto repair honda portland oregon”.  Go to Google right now and compare the result between “auto repair honda” and “auto repair honda portland oregon”.  though even the phrase “auto repair honda” is specific enough that there are only 20,000 to 30,000 results when we add locality to it we can drop the result down to almost no one.  You could have a 1st page listing day one with your site AND when you start to advertise you will find that you get much better ad results and that companies like displaying your ads because when a customer clicks on it they get what they want. 

Before anyone emails me.  YES! I know there is way more to SEO then just this one thing, but before you throw rocks think about how happy webpage owner would be with the results from just this.

 For those of you that own a web site and just had a light bulb moment YES there is even more that can go with that to make your web site perform even better