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Google IPO Could Net $3.3B, Ask Jeeves Deal Extended
http://tinyurl.com/42bpu

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Google's GMail Adds Features
http://tinyurl.com/6a72f
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PayPal Class Action Lawsuit Settlement
http://www.settlement4onlinepayments.com/
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Online U.S. Ad Spending to Double
http://tinyurl.com/5s4nk
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How to Stop Affiliate Clickbank Theft
http://www.clickbankguide.com/linktheft.htm

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Ask Jeeves Renews with Google
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3385991

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Overture Launches Search Optimization Tool
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3386431

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Who Pays And How To Survive The E-mail Transition
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"Spice Up Your Web Site With Rotating Images"

by Herman Drost

Normally I don't like moving objects when I arrive at
a web site. It distracts visitors from getting to the
content.However, many web sites could enhance their
visitor's experience by creating rotating images on
the home page. Here's a good example:

http://www.omelettechef.com

Let's look at some of the benefits of rotating
images:

1. Visitors don't need to drill down to the internal
pages of your web site to find your images. All your
images can be placed on the home page for easy viewing.

2. "Pictures are worth a thousand words" - If the
rotating images are high quality and provide an
overview of your best products, they give your
visitor a better impression than trying to say
it with words.

3. Timing of rotations, can be adjusted - with this
script, you can speed up or slow down the viewing
sequence of your images.

4. Show many images - you can insert as many images
as you need, although I would suggest showing only
the best ones,because Internet Users tend to be
impatient and won't spend more than a few seconds
on your web page.

5. Automatic rotation - when someone visits your site,
the images will rotate automatically like a slide
show, thus adding to the interactivity of your web
site.

How to install the image rotation script

1. Copy the image rotation script from:
http://simplythebest.net/info/dhtmlscript66.html and
paste it into the head and body tags of your web page.

2. Set up the viewing order of your images and number
them accordingly i.e. i.e. 1.gif, 2.gif, 3.gif etc.
(Give each image a number, not a name like danish.gif
...it will only produce errors).

3. Optimize your images - reduce the resolution of
each of your images to 72ppi to make them suitable
for the web.Large images will slow down the loading
of your web page.

4. Change the time interval between rotations - I set
mine to 3 seconds instead of the 5 seconds provided
by the script. This allows the images to be seen quickly
enough to keep your visitor's attention.

5. Insert the first image of your slide show on the
page and place a link to the URL of your web page.

6. Save and upload the images and web page to your
server (web host).

7. Check your script - view your web page online to
confirm that everything is working correctly.

Optimize Your Web Page for the Search Engines.

This script places a lot of javascript code in the
header tags of your web page, thus pushing your text
further down the page. Search engines tend to first
spider the top portion of the code in your web page.
Therefore it is imperative to reduce the amount of
code on the page ,especially in the header tags.

Here is how to do this:

1. Place the javascript code in an external file -
copy and paste the code (remove the beginning and
end script tags) in a text file, name it something
like my.js and save it. This will reduce the code
to just one line.

2. Insert the external file between the header tags
of your web page i.e.

<.header.> <.script language="JavaScript"
src="home.js".><./script.> <./header.> (remove the periods
in the code for the script to work).

3. Upload your my.js file and web page to the server.

That's it!

Web Copy Tip

Search engines will only spider text (not images)
near the top of your web page, therefore create an
optimized paragraph of text before the rotating images.
Place your most highly targeted keywords in this
paragraph and also include these keywords in the title
and description tags of your meta tags. This will
increase your chances of getting good rankings in
the main search engines, thus attracting fr.e traffic
to your web site.

Resources

Image Rotation Scripts

http://tinyurl.com/5lpvm
http://tinyurl.com/4pk2l

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Herman Drost is the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW)
owner and author of http://www.iSiteBuild.com
Affordable Web Site Design and Web Hosting
Subscribe to his "Marketing Tips" newsletter for more
original articles. mailto:subscribe@isitebuild.com.
You can read more of his in-depth articles at:
http://www.isitebuild.com/articles
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CS Counter

Free script that allows you to easily set up a counter
on your web pages. Set it to visible or hide it. Easy
way to track how many people are visiting your site.

http://tinyurl.com/4zpdc

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Media Scooper

Need website content? With all of the RSS feeds
available today there's no reason to come up short.
Media Scooper allows you to pick a feed or use a
link to any feed you wish and they give you some
script to put on your pages that allows the feed
to appear on your pages. Imagine seamless updating
with no work on your end.

http://www.mediascooper.com/

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Free Block Menus

Need a block menu fast! Free to download great looking
CSS menu designs that will have you up and running
in a heartbeat. Nine very cool menus to choose from,
download in zip format.

http://www.e-lusion.com/design/menu/

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Useful Tips
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Installing Downloaded Fonts

1) Close all software you have running

2) unzip the font file to a folder

3) Go to Settings, Control Panel, Fonts

4) From the file menu select install new font

5) Browse to the folder containing the new fonts

6) Select All, then say OK

That's it. If you don't follow all of these steps your new fonts will not be installed onto your computer correctly and you won't see them when you go to use them from within another software program.

Need Help With Your Keywords?

Here's a great service that was founded by a truly
successful online marketer. No time to find the best
keywords for your website? No problem, they'll do
the hard work for you while you rake in the traffic.

http://tinyurl.com/7xudm

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Where Did The Time Go?

Want to know how many years of your life you've
wasted? Type in some basic information and this
site will tell you exactly what you've been doing
with your life. Warning: It may depress you.

http://www.wheredidthetimego.com/

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Audio Blogger

Are you a Blogger user? If so Google has been adding
some really cool features for you to add to your
Blog. How would you like to post to your Blog using
your voice? Now you can with Audio Blogger. Free to
use, just dial a number and speak your message up
to 5 minutes and it will be posted to your Blog in
audio format for your visitors to hear. Very cool.

http://audioblogger.com/

They've also come up with Photo Blogging which allows
you to easily upload pictures with captions to your
Blog. Download the Blogger Compatible software here...

http://tinyurl.com/2cbf3

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If so why not submit them to one of the largest article
databases online today. Imagine Free exposure of your
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Library Spot

"Brings valuable research information together
with insightful editorial in one user-friendly
spot. The site simplifies the search for top-notch
reference tools, periodicals and online texts,
library information and much more. It was recently
named the Best Reference Site on the Web by
Forbes and a Top 100 site by PC Magazine."

http://www.libraryspot.com.

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Link Management Assistant Software

Duncan Carver is an expert when it comes to online
marketing. He's always creating great software then
releasing it to the public for fr.e. You have to
love this guy.Anyway, he's just released this free
linking software that makes the job of swapping
links with other sites childs play.

http://tinyurl.com/4jmgb

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Sauce Reader

Looking for a way cool RSS and news reader? Sauce
Reader is freeware has support for Blogs built
right in and has a nice Outlook style interface.

http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/

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Cascade DTP

New to Cascading Style Sheets? If so you may find
you can't view how the code is affecting your web
pages until you upload to the server. Try this fr.e
software that gives you a visual environment to see
how the CSS code you've selected is impacting your
pages.

http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/cascade.html

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