Top Internet Marketing Services Companies

Organic Optimizations: Top 30
SEO Image, Inc.
Intrapromote LLC
Bruce Clay, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization Inc.
Telic Media
Customer Magnetism
WebMama.com Inc.
YELLOW7 Interactive
USWeb.com
TopRank Online Marketing
Arte Works Business Class
iProspect
Web Targeted
icrossing
Submit Express
Service Internet Solutions, LLC
High Position Limited
1st on the List Promotion Inc.
Kinetic Results
Neutralize
UnREAL Marketing, Inc.
Prime Visibility
Inteliture.com
Alchemist Media, Inc.
First Page SEO
Reprise Media
eTrafficJams.com
Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc.
Search Mar, Inc.
360i LLC

SEM Training Programs: Top 5
Bruce Clay, Inc.
Global Strategies International
Laredo Group
Apex Pacific Pty Ltd.
Search Engine College

Search Engine Friendly Web Development: Top 5
delphicsage.com
avenuea-razorfish.com
2advanced.com
Red Clay Interactive
DeepBlue

SEM Hosting: Top 5
Rackspace Ltd.
GoDaddy.com, Inc.
Hosting.com
Interland, Inc.
Hostway Corporation

Search Engine Friendly Web Design: Top 5
Oxidev Interactive
DeepBlue
4guys.com
352 Media Group
ecisive.com

SEM Email Marketing: Top 5
Topica Inc.
Mailworkz.com
VerticalResponse, Inc.
Constant Contact
Double Click

Pay Per Click Management: Top 5
Telic Media
Intrapromote LLC
SEO Image, Inc.
SearchAdNetwork
Search Engine Optimization Inc

Link Popularity Services: Top 5
Intrapromote LLC
Patrick Gavin Inc.
Ad Maiora
TextLinkBrokers.com
Link Experts

Content Creation/ Search Engine Copywriting: Top 5
InfoSearch Media
The WriteContent.com
Smith Content
Content Domain
Ascent Copywriting

Press Release Distribution: Top 5
24-7pressrelease.com
PR.com
PR Newswire Association LLC
PR Web International, Inc.
Business Wire

Website Traffic Analysis: Top 5
Omniture, Inc.
Click Tracks
Web Trends Inc.
Mondosoft
Maxamine, Inc.

Seven Required Elements of a Home Business E-Commerce Package : By Frederic Thomson

Seven Required Elements of a Home Business E-Commerce Package : By Frederic Thomson

By: Frederic Thomson

Does managing your own e-commerce business sound appealing to you? Remain in the comfort of your home. Spend more time with your family. Be your own boss. The benefits of having a home business are numerous. That is why so many people are trying to determine what the best home businesses are. Being enthusiastic about igniting their own income through the Internet, people search to find how they can create their own home based business income opportunities. Then they realize there are an awful lot of options to choose from. So, what is the best e-commerce package for you? When it comes to e-commerce packages, most online merchants have the same basic needs. The trick is to make sure an e-commerce package satisfies your needs. You should try to find something that will be easy to use to increase your chances of sticking with it and becoming successful.

Some important things to look for in an e-commerce package are:

1. Website and Hosting Combination
Choosing a provider that helps you set up a site, or better yet, provides a ready-made site, and hosts it for you can save you a lot of time. It can also save you a lot of frustration if you are not particularly interested in the "techie" stuff. After all, you want to run a business and that is where you should spend your time.

2. Templates
If the provider gives you tools to help build your own site, be sure there are a variety of templates available. While all templates can be customized, sometimes that just does not work for every business. If there are a large number of templates to choose from, there is bound to be one that will fit your business.

3. Payment Methods
You need to make sure that the payment options that your e-commerce package uses will satisfy your customer’s needs. For example, if your e-commerce package only accepts Paypal, you will miss out on the customers that do not use Paypal. This will decrease your earnings. Be sure to accept MasterCard and Visa as a minimum. You can always add Discover and American Express if you like as they broaden the payment possibilities.

4. Shopping Cart
Be sure the shopping cart is easy to use, pleasing to the eye, allows customers to add or subtract from their order and provides a link back to where the customer came from so they can continue shopping before checking out. An easy to use shopping cart is a must. Anything that makes it difficult for a customer to complete their shopping experience, will either chase them away, or at the very least, keep them from ever returning.

5. Tax and Shipping Cost Calculation
This only applies if you are selling hard goods and not downloadable information products. While most customers probably will not be shopping from your state, tax is not a major problem, but you need to check with your state to find out what laws may apply to you. Shipping is a different matter. Shipping must be calculated for all customers. Customers also want to see what their shipping costs will be. The easiest way around this is to offer free shipping and build it into your product cost.

6. Performance Reports
These are a must have as they are essential for seeing how your business is operating. E-commerce packages offer reports to help you keep track of your expenses and earnings. They can also tell you the number of people who visited your site, what pages they looked at, where they came from to get to your site and other valuable information to assist you in your marketing effort.

7. Marketing Assistance
And speaking of marketing, here is a biggie. There are packages available that provide valuable information and training on how to market your website. Seek these out. If you are new to e-commerce, this can be invaluable because just having a website is not worth much if no one knows about it. Driving traffic to your site can be done for free as well for money. Look for a package that offers information on a variety of methods so you can find the best fit for your business and your budget.

The author, Rick Thomson, is the founder of the MindStream Marketing Group, and is dedicated to researching select home business ideas, opportunities and resources. Find the results of his extensive research at www.MindStreamGroup.com.

Understanding SMTP Error Messages - How Email Works

Understanding SMTP Error Messages

Way too often, error messages are but mystic numbers forming some kind of incomprehensible code. This page wants to be your guide to the code mail servers produce when you try to send mail, but it doesn't work.

"Could not send your message. Error 421."

This was all the email client showed her. This, and a mere button waiting for the mouseclick of relief that would make even the sparse message go away: OK.

No, it is not OK. It is not okay to leave the user with a mystic code that tells nothing about whose fault it was that the message could not be sent, which error exactly occured, and, in particular, what can be done to resolve the problem.

It is not okay, but only too often it happens. What if all a physician said was: "we have to do a hypopharyngoscopy"?

What's your next step? You consult somebody who you think knows, a clinical dictionary or the web.

This page wants to be your dictionary for (E) SMTP (the protocol used to send emails) server response codes.

The Meaning of the Numbers

A mail server will reply to every request a client (such as your email program) makes with a return code. This code consists of three numbers.

The first generally tells whether the server accepted the command and if it could handle it. The five possible values are:

1: The server has accepted the command, but does not yet take action. A confirmation message is required. Currently, this is not used.
2: The server has completed the task successfully.
3: The server has understood the request, but requires further information to complete it.
4: The server has encountered a temporary failure. If the command is repeated without any change, it might be completed. This is hardly ever used by mail servers.
5: The server has encountered an error.

The second number gives more information. Its six possible values are:

0: A syntax error has occured.
1: Indicates a informational reply, for example to a HELP request.
2: Refers to the connection status.
3 and 4 are unspecified.
5: Refers to the status of the mail system as a whole and the mail server in particular.

The last number is even more specific and shows more graduations of the mail transfer status. This leads us to the detailed list of ESMTP server response codes, as layed down in RFC 821 and later extensions.

List of SMTP Server Response Codes

211 - A system status message.
214 - A help message for a human reader follows.
220 - SMTP Service ready.
221 - Service closing.
250 - Requested action taken and completed. The best message of them all.
251 - The recipient is not local to the server, but the server will accept and forward the message.

252 - The recipient cannot be VRFYed, but the server accepts the message and attempts delivery.

354 - Start message input and end with .. This indicates that the server is ready to accept the message itself (after you have told it who it is from and where you want to to go).

421 - The service is not available and the connection will be closed.
450 - The requested command failed because the user's mailbox was unavailable (for example because it was locked).
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451 - The command has been aborted due to a server error. Not your fault. Maybe let the admin know.
452 - The command has been aborted because the server has insufficient system storage.

The following error messages (500-504) usually tell you that your email client is broken. It's probably best to let the program's author know.

500 - The server could not recognize the command due to a syntax error.
501 - A syntax error was encountered in command arguments.
502 - This command is not implemented.
503 - The server has encountered a bad sequence of commands.
504 - A command parameter is not implemented.
550 - The requested command failed because the user's mailbox was unavailable (for example because it was not found, or because the command was rejected for policy reasons).
551 - The recipient is not local to the server. The server then gives a forward address to try.
552 - The action was aborted due to exceeded storage allocation.
553 - The command was aborted because the mailbox name is invalid.
554 - The transaction failed. Blame it on the weather.

21 Ways To Avoid Email Spam Filters

21 Ways To Avoid Email Spam Filters

1. Use a consistent "From" field.

2. Have permisson to contact the recipient. Never spam.

3. Avoid spam trigger words.

4. Follow best practice email marketing techniques.

5. Monitor the blacklists.

5. Don't use carbon copy to lots of recipients.

7. Personalise the "to" field.

8. Don't keep mailing to someone if they have unsubscribed.

9. Don't use a mailing service that tolerates spam.

10. Remove bounces from your list.

11. Don't use the recipient's email address in the subject line.

12. Avoid using words that appear in Outlook's Junk Filter list.

13. Don't use multiple exclamation marks or dollar signs.

14. Ask recipients to add your email address to their "trusted sender" or "whitelist" list or Address Book.

15. Don't use excessive capitalisation.

16. Avoid javascript, embedded forms, and hidden text in HTML emails.

17. Prefix all links with http://

18. Don't use an IP address in links instead of a domain name.

19. Don't mention spam laws compliance.

20. Block generic email addresses from your list (abuse@, nospam@, sales@, info@, webmaster@)

21. Use confirmed opt-in (ie. send a confirmation email whenever someone is added to your list).

How To Make Money Using RSS

How To Make Money Using RSS

By: Art Luff

RSS, (Really Simple Syndication) has become so popular today and is being referred to by internet users as "Pull" Technology rather than "Push" Technology.

It's difficult to imagine that anyone who logs on to the Internet has not heard of "Spam." Most, If not all Internet users are inundated with these advertisements, that we did not ask for or request.

For those of you that may not be familiar with the term, rest assured we're not talking about canned meat here. LOL! Rather, it is unwanted advertising from people that we neither asked for or requested to recieve. Spam is "Push" technology. "Pushed" in your face and inbox, wanted or not.

Many believe this brand of "Push" technology is or will be, the death of email. Yet, as long as there are individuals and companies that continue to use the illegal spam process, email will be around for a long long time. The irony being, companies are raking in millions, selling spam solutions, to people and big corporations, that are Not Working!

RSS, is the Total Opposite of the above "Push" technology. When subscribing to an RSS Feed, subscribers "Pull" information into their RSS Readers and can only be done so if someone voluntarily subscribes to a particular RSS Feed. If they find it's not the information they want, they can simply unsubscribe and never have to recieve another message from the owner of that particular feed. Hence the term "Pull" Technology.

Utilizing RSS "Pull" technology has become a popular source of income for webmasters that use RSS Feeds on their websites. Here's How:

Let's say, you set up a one page mini-site or you could even set up a Blog. A Blog would be a quick and easy alternative.

You can then host ads from either Google Adsense or the New Yahoo look alike Google Ads. When someone visits your page and clicks one of your ads, You Get Paid.

If you've followed along and done the steps above, you've created a good starting place. You're going to need to make sure your pages are optimized properly. This will ensure you get your page ranked high in the search engines.

Like any site or page, the more targeted traffic you get, greater are the chances that someone will click your ads. Which increases your Income.

Now, by using the power of RSS you increase your pages earning potential. When you add an RSS Feed to your page, you convert it into an ever changing, dynamic web page. Bringing you an abundance of visitors who, in all probability will return to read it.

Especially if you add 10 or 15 RSS Feeds to your page. You will create a dynamic, ever changing, self updating page. Providing valuable content that readers will want to read, over and over again.

Any web page can be turned into a dynamic web page. Just use the free RSS creator software called "Carp" This is one of the most popular free versions and can be downloaded here: http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

After you set the program up on your website and added the proper code to your website, then you will need to collect RSS feeds that relate to the topic of your web page.

You've got your web page, It's topic is about writing articles. Go to Google News, Get their RSS Feed Code, Insert it into the designated Carp Coding, then make the necessary changes found below: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=writing+articles&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

Same with Topix.net, adjust the code like this: http://rss.topix.net/search/?q=writing+articles&xml=1

Once you've got your web page uploaded, It will automatically pull in fresh content from Google and Topix about writing articles.

Do these things for any web page and watch your search engine ranking soar and also your Income!

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Dynamic Marketing With RSS Feeds

Dynamic Marketing With RSS Feeds

By: Marige O'Brien

When RSS Feeds first came out only the larger news services and web servers invested in them. But, as more and more webmasters and marketers discover their positive effects on page rankings and realize each feed is considered an inbound (often permanent) link, they are being embraced on a much wider scale.

For the end user, their greatest advantage is the instantaneous transmission of information, which is delivered directly to anyone who has the feed in their feed reader. This offers users up-to-the-minute information. But, as a marketing tool, many are just now discovering that, with each new feed set up, another inbound link is created, one that, with promotion, will build a page's rankings and site traffic significantly. Plus, with email becoming increasingly uncertain as a form of communication, newsletters have also discovered this to be an excellent alternative, one that has wide appeal because of its anonymity.

And, too, authors are discovering the advantages of creating RSS feeds for their articles, since it can save them what is an otherwise arduous task of submitting their work to a multitude of submission sites. In fact, with this option, end users and newsletters can directly feed into their favorite authors, bypassing the submission sites altogether. Not good news for the submission sites-- unless THEY pick up the feeds, too. And many are doing just that.

While some hesitate to take on this new form of communication, the fact is, it is easy to create and maintain an RSS Feed and, at the time of this writing, the software is still available for free. In fact the only real barrier to Feeds becoming more wide-spread seems to be the lack of straight-forward instruction in setting them up. This has stopped many from pursuing this new, dynamic type of communication. (For instruction, see below.*)

And, too, some feel that there is less control with this new medium since, unlike email marketing, the recipient's remain anonymous. But with spam filters that block even those that have "opted-in" and regular, private email being erroneously blocked more and more often, the email marketer begins to wonder about the validity of their efforts.

While this does pose a serious question about the future of email marketing, it also provides an answer to those who use email to circulate newsletters or news about relevant site updates. By simply providing an RSS Feed, this information can be obtained.

Most of all, RSS Feeds keep marketers on their toes, since only those sites that are regularly updated, will benefit the most.--mo

Marige O'Brien works as a writer, web designer and Internet Marketer. (www.trackermo.com) NEW-- RSS Feeds to Articles and blogs, Plus A Special Offer for new TCC Sign-ups. Click HERE for complete RSS instructions.

Earn Money Online By Mastering Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising

Earn Money Online By Mastering Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising

By: Marcus Boo

Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising is the fastest growing internet advertising media to date. The popular advertising technique of PPC involves placing sponsored links that are usually in the form of text ads on various websites, advertising networks, and also on search engine results pages. The auto-generated text ads are typically positioned near search results and the advertiser pays a certain cost for each visitor that click through on the link or banner to visit the advertiser’s web page. There are some businesses that rely solely on PPC advertising to earn money online, thus proving its effectiveness as a powerful marketing tool.

Generally, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the position you want on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by bidding on keywords or phrases that are relevant to their products or services. The higher the bid, the higher the position on the search results, the more people will find the ad and click on it to go to their websites. Some people call this "keyword auctioning". Advertisers would then pay the bidding price every time a visitor clicks through to land on the webpage.

Pay Per Click advertising normally involves the following steps. First, choosing and setting up an account with a PPC search engine followed by depositing funds into the account. Next, creating a keyword list of specific keywords or phrases you want to bid for where your listings will appear on the results pages of the search engine. Then you carry on to bid on the ad position for the keywords or phrases you selected. Next, you write a relevant and compelling ad copy to entice visitors to click through. You then define which page you want the visitor to land on after clicking through. Finally, you confirm and place the advertisements on the search engine.

There are many advantages to Pay Per Click advertising, making it an effective marketing tool to promote your business and earn money online. Some of them are listed below:

1. Immediate Traffic
PPC advertisements are implemented almost instantly thereby giving you an instant onslaught of traffic within the shortest time possible to earn money online.

2. Getting Highly Targeted Traffic
PPC advertising can provide you with a flood of qualified highly targeted traffic. Visitors who click on your ads are actually looking for the specific product or service that you are offering thereby increasing your chance to convert the visitor into a customer and earn money online faster.

3. Tracking Your Investment
Most PPC advertising come with a tracking system that will determine exactly how many visitors click through to your website and which keyword or phrase they found your advertisement on. Some tracking systems also allow you to determine the time spent by the visitor on your site and the number of pages they viewed. These are valuable tools in determining statistics such as click through rate (CTR), conversion rate and return on investment (ROI) which will increase your ability to earn money online.

The following are some of the important points to consider when planning a pay per click campaign.

1. Know Your Product
Knowledge of your product or service is critical to a setting up a good PPC campaign.

2. Stay within Your Budget
Determine your daily or monthly budget and stick with it. This means keeping your budget in mind and avoiding bidding wars whenever possible.

3. Bid the Right Amount
You need to master the art of bidding. A bid that is too high can easily exhaust your entire budget, while a bid that is too low can make you lose the coveted position.

4. Watch the Bottom Line
Measure your profit margin against your spending or expenses. Know when to stop and terminate your PPC campaign. If conversion is too low then spending more money on advertising is not advisable.

5. Building a Good Keyword List
Select the right keywords and phrases to bid for. Research your keywords well using existing search terms and online keyword suggestion tools. Know which are the terms that are mostly used by your customers when searching for your product or service. Concentrate on specific keywords or phrases and not broad ones.

6. Use an Effective Landing Page
A good landing page, be it a sales page or a lead capture page, is crucial to the success of a PPC campaign. The conversion rate will determine if you can earn money online successfully with PPC advertising.

Mastering the art of advertising with PPC can boost your profits and allow you to earn money online quickly and easily. With PPC as a powerful marketing tool in your arsenal, you can be sure to crush your competition and dominate your niche to earn money online successfully.

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