E-commerce Carts

Our ecommerce solution is trusted by thousands of successful business owners nationwide. Web-based administrator area and installation wizard make setup and maintenance of the shopping cart as easy as point and click.  No programming knowledge is required to run our ecommerce solution. Our shopping cart has no logical limitations on the number of products you can enter. Our cart is optimized for smooth performance with up to 20,000 products.

Below are some of the features our ecommerce solution has to offer:

• Wide range of ecommerce features
• Flexible “tableless” design
• Easy text content modification using WYSIWYG tools
• W3C XHTML 1.0 compliance
• SEO friendly product catalog
• Web-based administration
• On-line payment gateways support
• Real-time shipping cost estimation based on product dimensions
• Inventory management
• Full multilanguage support
• Reports management
• View Full Ecommerce Features

The Expanded World of Ecommerce

Ecommerce has thoroughly revolutionized the way commerce is conducted. The expansion of Ecommerce that coincided with the growth of the internet has made Ecommerce industries into multi-million dollar economic powerhouses. Part of the reason for this is that Ecommerce allows even the smallest, local company the ability to conduct business on a global scale. It is humorous, to a certain degree, when one realizes that Ecommerce is merely an updated version of the weird world of mail order purchasing that was en vogue in previous generations.

Remembering Old School Mail Order Purchases

Allow six to eight weeks for delivery. That is a lengthy amount of time to wait for a package. Then again, it is being shipped all the way from Battle Creek, MI. In fact, there will a million mail order products that were delivered from the mysterious, far off land known as Battle Creek, MI.

Comedian George Carlin once opined that there were no human beings living in Battle Creek, MI and that the area consisted of little more than a humungous amount of post office boxes that magically delivered products to all those strange people who enjoyed purchasing things through the mail. Yes, at one time in popular culture, it was considered “odd” to purchase things through the mail.

Conventional wisdom at the time seemingly wondered why people would send away for items in the mail that could be purchased in a store. Because of this, some of the most successful mail order items were also among the most bizarre items one could imagine (sea monkeys, anyone?) possible.

Web-based Control Panel

• Password-protected administrative access
• All changes are real-time
• Control the cart from anywhere in the world using your web browser
• Unlimited number of admin accounts
• Support for restricted “shipping/fulfillment” admin accounts
• User-defined date/time format
• Ability for administrator to act on behalf of other users (e.g. to place phone orders for customers and use X-Cart as web based point of sale system)

Design and Layout

• 100% template-based design with separate template sets for the storefront and back end
• Fully customizable CSS-based design & layout
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant code
• Intuitive navigation
• WYSIWYG editor for product/category/manufacturer descriptions, language variables and static pages
• Automated product thumbnails generation with a sharpness filter
• Category thumbnail images
• Side-bar “mini-cart” viewable at all pages
• Build-in template editor: preview, edit and restore templates
• WYSIWYG text editor (webmaster mode)
• Debug console: displays a tree of templates for all pages
• The possibility to find, create and modify static HTML pages
• Customizable heading tabs
• HTML emails

Product Catalog

• Unlimited number of products
• Unlimited number of categories
• Unlimited category nesting
• Products can be assigned to unlimited number of categories
• Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
• Members-only categories
• “Featured Products” box
• Automated display of bestsellers
• Related products, up selling and cross selling
• 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
• Support for up to two different currencies in the products catalog (NOTE: payment processing is possible in one currency only!)
• Automatical currency conversion
• Configurable search by title, description, category, SKU, price and weight
• “Stop words filter” for product search facility (a special filter ensures that service and link words occurring in the search pattern are ignored when search by individual words is performed – available for English language only)

New York SEO

SEO can be defined as positioning your site for maximum search engine visibility. Maximum visibility can be reached through obtaining top rankings on search engines. Many people would be inclined to think that achieving top rankings on search engines is just about the creation and addition of meta tags, and the submission of your site to the major search engine indexes and directories.

But it’s a lot more than that. Internet directories are managed by Human Editors, while search engines depend on crawling “spider robots” as well as index pages, based on the specific engine’s algorithms.

SEO is a complex blend of variables comprised of research on keyword popularity, clear and easy navigation, marketplace research, website design, call-to-action, conversion ,measurement , metrics analysis and reporting. It is a procedure that makes one’s website content more search engine friendly, thereby pulling relevant traffic to your site via the major search engines and directories.

Our full range of services include search engine registration, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing, monitoring of search engine activity, screening of websites for search engine readiness, and intense search engine directory marketing campaigns for large corporations and small businesses alike.

• Keyword matching options
• The 80/20 Rule of Search
• How to avoid duplicate content
• SEO Glossary
• Google News & Ranking Stories
• Google Analytics Features
• 100 Google tips
• Yahoo Dropping Paid Inclusion Program at End of Year
• How A Small Company Becomes Big – Tips To Grow Your Retail Business
• Evolution of Search Engine Optimization

NY Times Building

The New York Times says it will start charging for online content next year, dropping a big shoe in the debate over whether newspapers should — and can — get paid for something they’ve been giving away for free for years. Instead, it plans to offer a certain number of articles for free before charging a monthly price.

“This is a bet, to a certain degree, on where we think the web is going,” said Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. in an internal memo sent to employees. “This is not going to be something that is going to change the financial dynamics overnight.”

Speaking of those financial dynamics, the Times needs this plan to work — as does, arguably, the rest of the newspaper industry, which has been crushed by debt from financial restructuring, the recession, a weak ad market and intense competition from the same online medium this plan hopes to embrace. The Times‘ cash flow appears to be fine for the moment, although its new 52-story Manhattan high-rise and a stock price that lost about 75 percent of its value over the past five years surely pressured it to make the internet — quite literally– pay.

Google Traffic 2009

Americans conducted 14.7 billion core searches on the top five search engines in December 2009, an increase of 2% over November 2009, according to the latest qSearch data from comScore, Inc. Google searches accounted for nearly 66% of these queries.

Google Sites led the US search market pack in December with 65.7% of the searches conducted, virtually unchanged from 65.6% in November 2009. Google is followed by #2 Yahoo Sites (17.3%, down 0.2 points), and #3 Microsoft Sites (10.7%, up 0.4 points).

Ask Network captured 3.7% of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.6%, comScore said.

Of the 14.7 billion December searches, Google Sites accounted for nearly 9.7 billion of them, followed by Yahoo Sites (2.5 billion), Microsoft Sites (1.6 billion), Ask Network (545 million) and AOL LLC (383 million).

Bing Moves in US Expanded Search Rankings

In the December analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led the search market with more than 14.0 billion search queries, followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.6 billion queries and Microsoft Sites with 1.6 billion searches, comScore reported.

Bing experienced significant growth during the month with a 6% increase in query volume to nearly 1.4 billion searches. eBay and Amazon Sites experienced gains in December as retail search activity picked up during the holiday season.

• 

  Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN

  HP LeftHand SANs use distributed, clustered technology to deliver all of the functionality …  MORE INFO

  

• 

  HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions Family Data sheet

  Your storage needs are growing. You need a SAN (storage area network) for virtualized …  MORE INFO

  

• 

  Confidence in a downturn: Growing revenue fast on an HP BladeSystem and HP LeftHand P4000 SAN

  Deploying a VMware environment on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Servers with HP Virtual …  MORE INFO

  

• 

  The Storage Paradigm Shift: Surviving the Data Explosion with Disk- and Tape-Based Data Protection

  As data volumes explode, issues around bandwidth and resource constraints, storage …  MORE INFO

  

• 

  Rethinking Virtualization Solutions with HP LeftHand P4000 SANs

  HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide industries with storage that is optimized …  MORE INFO

  

• 

  Matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization

  In order to meet the challenges of running today’s data centers, an increasing number …  MORE INFO

  

Split testing is a conversion-tracking method that separates your message into two or more variations to see which gets the best response. Different visitors see different versions of the message and the results are tracked to determine the best return.

We wanted to learn more about conducting split tests (also known as A/B tests), and so we corresponded with Paras Chopra, founder of Wingify, a company that produces Visual Website Optimizer, a split-testing tool for ecommerce merchants and other web operators.

Chopra cited the example of a holiday A/B test conducted recently by MedaliaArt, an online art gallery specializing in Caribbean and Latin America art. “MedaliaArt put up a holiday sale where they offered 5 to 55 percent discounts on all paintings,” he said. “They wanted to determine the best location on the home page to put the message so as to optimize for bounce rate.”

The challenge for the company was to determine where to show the message. “Displaying it prominently on the home page will make more visitors notice it, but some visitors may find it too intrusive and leave the site immediately,” said Chopra. “On the other hand, putting it at a not-so-noticeable location may have no effect at all.”

An Example Split Test

For its split test, MedaliaArt created a couple of versions of its home page with “Holiday Sale” displayed at two different home page locations. One version represented what Chopra calls an “in-your-face ‘Holiday Sale’ message displayed in big, red font prominently on the homepage.”

“In-your-face” Holiday Sale message placement.

The second version was a sidebar “Holiday Sale” message in a smaller font.

Sidebar Holiday Sale message placement.

“Usually, split testing tools track conversion rates (percentage of visitors doing desired action). But, to track the bounce rate, MedaliaArt defined a click on any link on the home page as conversion. Thus the conversion rate of, for example, 40 percent corresponded to a 60 percent (100 percent less 40 percent) bounce rate.”

The first batch of conclusive results was available within two weeks.

“Clearly, the in-your-face, prominent promotional message has a dramatically lower bounce rate (60 percent) than the sidebar one (76 percent), said Chopra. “The reduction in the bounce rate of 21 percent is statistically significant (at 95 percent confidence level) so the in-your-face variation obviously represents a better version. The improvement in bounce rate means more interest by visitors in the paintings they are selling and potentially more sales.”

Without split testing the company could have never known the optimal position of its promotional message. And, fears that a prominently displayed promotional message might backlash by irritating visitors proved not to be an issue.

How To Improve A/B Test Results

Chopra had a suggestion for MedaliaArt (and other ecommerce merchants considering A/B testing). “Also include a variation without the ‘Holiday Sales’ messaging. If MedaliaArt had included such a variation, it would have provided a benchmark to see the effect of the sales message, irrespective of the position.”

Chopra said MedaliaArt could also have used different versions of text in addition to different home page positions. “Maybe a message with the word ‘discount’ (such as ‘55 percent discount on paintings this holiday season’) would have worked better than the default message (‘Holiday Sale’). And, optimizing for bounce rate is fine, but a better metric would have been to measure and optimize for sales, which is what really matters to an ecommerce site.”

Conclusion

Chopra said he believes split testing is the only way to really know what will work and what won’t. “It is essential to check assumptions related to promotional messages, checkout process, product category ordering, buy now button, and more.”

He suggested that merchants should be a little adventurous and test radically different home page designs and ideas. “You can always choose to include only a small percentage of traffic and can disable non-performing variations at a click of a button.”

by Kate Monteith

Few people ask the “What is Twitter?” question any longer. Oprah helped take care of that one. However, one that I am asked with great frequency is, “How do I use Twitter for business?”

At the outset let me say Twitter is an amazing application with manifold uses. Companies as large as Dell and Zappos have created business models around it. Small businesses, including ecommerce merchants, are also proving its case as a channel for sales.

In fact, a recent survey said that most users (89%) of Twitter agree that companies should engage their customers there. Over 80 percent indicated they also have a better impression of companies that use Twitter for customer service (81%).

Businesses are using Twitter to:

• Network with others in their industry or community
• Stay connected to customers and prospects
• Monitor what is being said about their company, products, services, industry and competition
• Gather valuable feedback about products or services
• Raise awareness about the company, product or service
• Find answers and get advice
• Offer proactive customer service
• Promote events, products and services
• Drive traffic to the company Web site or blog
• Incite word of mouth among customers and others
• Share helpful content such as articles or blog posts
• Generate leads

As you can see the list is extensive and limited only by your imagination. In fact, due to its amazing simplicity, Twitter can be used in just about any manner you see fit. It is malleable. You don’t have to adapt yourself to Twitter’s use. Instead, it adapts to you.

How to Start Using Twitter for Business

I’m going to begin by outlining a simple, workable marketing strategy that applies to any form of social media engagement, including Twitter. So simple, in fact, it consists of only three words: Listen, Follow and Engage.

Listen

You cannot become an effective social media marketer if you don’t first listen to what’s being said about you, your company, brand, service, industry and competition. Listening is the new marketing, but it’s not something we’re prone to do. Still, that’s where it begins.

Monitoring your online reputation is one of the most significant ways Twitter can be used for marketing purposes and one way do so is to use Twitter search. There are a number of applications suited to this purpose. Here are the two I use most often:

• Twitter’s own search engine
• Tweetbeep

Follow

The way you build your network in Twitter is by following others, then engaging them in conversation. But, whom should you follow?

Keeping in mind that Twitter is another marketing channel, go back to the basics and ask yourself the same questions you’d ask when considering any other form of marketing: “Who is my market?” “Who am I attempting to reach?” “What niche am I seeking to penetrate?”

• Think in terms of demographics and geography
• Follow those you already know
• Follow influentials
• Follow keyword users
• Follow hashtag users
• Follow those who follow you

For a more extensive list of tips on who to follow, see my blog post, Fifteen Twitter Follow Dos and Don’ts.

Engage

Google Rankings

Once you 1) see what people are saying relative to the keyword searches, 2) give yourself some time to gain perspective by reading other’s Tweets and 3) have started following a few folks, the next step is to jump into the Twitterstream and engage them in conversation. But, how do you go about doing so?

Years ago, my father took a rather direct approach at teaching me to swim. One summer’s day we boarded in our small boat and paddled out to the middle of the pond on our property. Dad grabbed me up, threw me in the water and stated matter-of-factly, “swim or drown.”

Looking back, I’m sure he would not have allowed the latter. At the time, however, I determined the best course of action was to make for the shore, which I did with all haste. And, guess what? In the process I learned to swim.

I’m a bit like dad when it comes to Twitter in that I think the best approach is to joining or starting conversations is “swim or drown.” Just jump in and start conversing.

OK, for the faint of heart, here are some “rules of engagement”:

• Respond to what others are saying by adding your two cents
• Provide information those in your target market would consider valuable
• Engage in casual conversation with your followers

One thing you don’t want to do is solicit business or “pitch” people. You know the type: “Thanks for the follow. Check out my blog at _.” It’s okay to let people know what you do, but Twitter is a medium for conversation, not solicitation. Include a link to your Web site in your Twitter bio. Those who have an interest will check you out.

Conclusion

Hopefully, that’s got you started down the path to using Twitter. If you’d like more information, I offer a free ebook (no registration required) which you can download here. You may also wish to check out my new book The Digital Handshake, which includes an entire chapter on the subject.

There are many other great books on the subject too. Check them out at Amazon or other bookseller.

Next time, we’ll talk more about how to use Twitter for business and discuss some of the rules of the road. In the meantime, feel free to comment on this post.

There is always a big discussion when it comes to comparing two of the best ways to advertise online: PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising and article marketing, otherwise known as “organic” or “natural” search engine optimization. There is no denying that both methods can be effective. However, which method is better? Which gives you a bigger bang for your buck?

You may get varying statistics on this issue, depending on which website you visit for information. Oh yes, this matters, because you have to consider the source of the statistics and who is sponsoring the article. For example, two sources of information (respectively, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and ComScore) recently produced studies indicating that PPC advertising was more cost-effective on average. However, did the fact that Yahoo/Overture and Google were sponsoring this major study play any role in determining the final outcome? Of course it did – those are the two biggest PPC companies on the net!

In figuring out which of the two is better, you have to consider cost-effectiveness as well as click-through-rates and direct conversion from visiting user to paying customer. We are going to review some statistics a little bit later on. For now, let’s consider some logical points that illustrate how PPC and article marketing differ.

Search engine result pages display more listings than PPC results, which does have a psychological effect on the user. For some users seeing ten search results (each one relevant to the search) is enough to convince them that there is enough web information on the subject and that “fishing” PPC ads might not be necessary.

The catch is that in order to actually rank in the Top 10 SEO results for your keyword, you have to have relevant website content, not to mention technical prowess in HTML coding. Search engines will be focusing on their proprietary algorithms, or the most relevant websites based on the search term queried. There is no “bribery” here, whereas in PPC, it is quite the opposite: whoever bids highest for each word usually gets the top listing. A quality algorithm definitely plays a part in PPC, but in the end money talks. In article marketing, we haven’t quite come to the point where “money talks”. The best websites still win the search engine contest and that is an important factor to consider in your marketing campaign.

Even PPC proponents will admit that PPC is largely style over substance. With PPC advertising you are trying to grab attention in just a few loud and occasionally obnoxious words. You direct the user to a carefully crafted page that “sells” the idea. This operation contrasts with article marketing, which doesn’t necessarily sell an idea on a single page, nor does it grab attention with a few words. With article marketing, there is an entire article waiting for the visitor, which uses a methodical and “indirect” approach. Assuming you are listed in the Top #10, your listing means that the search engine agrees that your website is the best authority on the keyword subject – for the time being. People in a hurry or on a whim will probably click on PPC. People on a mission will be looking for relevant content on their chosen keyword.

Therefore, the question now becomes which methodology works better for your business? Are you appealing to the fast clicker or the thoughtful user? Let’s now consider two sources of statistics for a clearer view of the issue. First, one in favor of article marketing, the next in favor of PPC.

In Favor of Article Marketing

Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. and principal founder of the Nielsen Norman Group researched the behavior of users who found search engine results pages and noticed some trends. Forty-two percent of users selected the #1 search listing for their result, leaving 58% that selected another Top 10 Result. The #1 site listed held the majority of clicks. This indicates that almost two thirds of Internet users were not content to choose even the #1 listing on a natural SEO search. That means that these users (and the majority of all users) are actually using independent judgment in deciding what links are most relevant to their needs.

Other related statistics (with sources from ComScore, Webxico, iProspect, SEOResearcher and Hotchkiss, Garrison, and Jensen) concluded that 77% of search users choose organic listings over PPC ads. There were also studies that suggested organic click-through generated 25% higher conversion rates than equivalent PPC click-through.

In Favor of PPC Advertising

Now to be fair, we have to consider some advantages that PPC advertising has. The best feature PPC has is that it gets instantaneous results. SEO advertising takes time, especially if you have a new website just submítted to the all of the major search engines. Yes, this can be frustrating. PPC brings you immediate traffic and sometimes brings in thousands of users. Seeing your Alexa ranking take a drastic jump certainly pumps up your adrenaline!

ComScore recently published statistics in favor of PPC, stating that their studied users had an 18.3% click-through-rate on “paid” search results versus a 4.3% click-through rate for organic search results. The conversion rate was also higher according to ComScore, stating that PPC had a 1.4% versus SEO’s 0.6%.

The Real Issue: Longevity

However, the downside here (even if you didn’t contest these suspicious results) is that instant and high volume traffic is, frankly, cheap and not as exciting as it first appears to be. Remember that when you use PPC ads you are making a pitch and capitalizing on your audience’s curiosity. When that curiosity fades, they forget your website – especially if it’s just a glorified advertisement. PPC campaigns can also be costly and time consuming when you consider your duties as a manager.

Another problematic scenario with PPC is that they have no staying power – unless of course you have thousands of dollars a month to blow in this recession. With article marketing you get more quality traffic, and perhaps more importantly to you, you earn customer trust over time. Internet users aren’t stupid, the popularity of Yahoo Answers notwithstanding. Most users know that PPC ads usually aren’t relevant to their search – they’re just there because someone is consistently paying to get noticed.

You can consider article marketing as an investment that continually pays all through the life of your company (or until you shut the website down) since it generates traffic forever. You can easily spend thousands a month on a brilliant PPC campaign and soon run out of money, meaning your ads go extinct. Therefore, we can conclude that article marketing does have specific advantages over PPC, which are intrinsic because of the differences in operation.

•     Article marketing generates traffic forever

•     Article marketing improves your natural SEO ranking and backlinks

•     Article marketing establishes trust – you appear as a professional in your industry

•     Article marketing doesn’t cost you extra on top of fees spent on websites, landing pages and superfluous domains

How About Return-On-Investment?

ROI is another key issue, as short-term and long-term profit must equal out. Article marketing, by some authorities appears to have a slower ROI -(especially if you make revenue on CTRs). However, studies suggest that organic ROI is more consistent than PPC. Consider some independent research conducted by popular blogger Gord Hotchkiss who explained the situation in crystal clear terms. Let’s say you have 50 high traffic search terms. Now for these 50 terms, there are 2.8 million searches being launched in a month. If statistics like ComScore’s are correct and unbiased, that translates to 456,000 visitors thanks to PPC and 153,000 visitors thanks to article marketing.

The total cost of those 456,000 PPC visitors would amount to over $500,000 with an average CPC of $1.18. Even if you work with an SEO company that charges top dollar ($10,000 a month, let’s say) you’re still paying $10,000 compared to half a million. That means article marketing’s virtual CPC amounts to $0.07. Even if you apply PPC’s higher conversion rate, 3,647 converted visitors, you are paying $147.08 for each individual person. Compare that to 611 visitors you earned through article marketing – you are paying $16.37 for each visitor. And in doing so, you are also earning a higher quality of customer and generating traffic until the end of days.

Does your final ROI number take into account your total expenses? Absolutely! While both methods of advertising have their place online, when it comes to earning quality traffic, article marketing gets the last word.

About The Author
Words You Want is your one stop resource for all of your writing needs. Words You Want offers a variety of services including SEO packages, article directory submission, SEO article writing, ghostwriting, eBook writing, travel writing, equine writing and more.

While often very complex in their calculations and data processing, the critical operations performed by the major search engines in order to rank websites isn’t as lengthy as one might think. The processes they use to provide relevant results when a web search is undergone can best be described in the following four steps.

1. Send out the Web Crawlers
   Search engines use invisible “bots” or “spiders,” which are really programs or automated scripts, that browse (or “crawl”) the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Search engines use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. This type of technology is necessary because the rate at which people create new Internet documents greatly exceeds any manual indexing capacity. In fact, an estimated 20 billion web pages exist, and search engines have crawled about half of them.
2. Index the Pages
   After a spider crawls a web page, it makes a copy of it and adds it to its database. This process is known as indexing. With so many search queries submitted each minute, it is very important that search engines are steadfast in their index management so that they can search and sort billions of documents in fractions of a second.
3. Process Queries
   Search engines process hundreds of millions of search queries every day. When someone keys in a search term and clicks “Search,” the engine retrieves from its index all of the documents that match the query. It determines a match by finding the same terms or phrase entered into the search bar. Entering a multi-word phrase by itself can return literally millions of results, but entering that same phrase in quotes can greatly narrow the results, giving the user a more accurate listing of websites that relate to their particular search.
4. Rank Pages
   A very closely guarded mathematical equation, called an algorithm, is employed by each search engine to determine how to sort and rank search query results. This algorithm allows the engine to rank the most relevant web pages first, and the rest in descending order of importance to the user.

What You Can Do for Your Website: Avoid Speed Bumps & Walls

You may not know it, but you could be hindering or preventing your website from being crawled by search engine spiders. As spiders crawl the web, they rely on the architecture of hyperlinks to find new web pages and revisit those that may have changed. Complex links and deep site structures with little unique content may act as “speed bumps” in the process by slowing down the spiders. Even worse, data that cannot be accessed by web crawlers are really like “walls” in that they completely prevent your web pages from being ranked.

Beware of the Following “Speed Bumps”:

• URLs with 2+ dynamic parameters; i.e. http://www.url.com/page.php?id=4&CK=34rr&User=%Tom% (spiders may be reluctant to crawl complex URLs like this because they often result in errors with non-human visitors)
• Pages with more than 100 unique links to other pages on the site (spiders may not follow each one)
• Pages buried more than 3 clicks/links from the home page of a website (unless there are many other external links pointing to the site, spiders will often ignore deep pages)
• Pages requiring a “Session ID” or Cookie to enable navigation (spiders may not be able to retain these elements as a browser user can)
• Pages that are split into “frames” can hinder crawling and cause confusion about which pages to rank in the results.

Beware of the Following “Walls”:

• Pages accessible only via a select form and submit button
• Pages requiring a drop down menu (HTML attribute) to access them
• Documents accessible only via a search box
• Documents blocked purposefully (via a robot meta tag or robots.txt file)
• Pages requiring a login
• Pages that re-direct before showing content (search engines call this cloaking or bait-and-switch and may actually ban sites that use this tactic)

In order to avoid the above pitfalls and ensure that your website’s contents are fully crawlable, be sure to provide direct, HTML links to each page you want the search engine spiders to index. Remember to make every page of your site accessible from the home page, since the home page is usually the place spiders begin their crawl. It’s also a good idea to add a sitemap to your website in order to increase its navigation.

This article was written by David Montalvo. David Montalvo is the CEO of UnReal Web Marketing LLC. He has achieved over 150,000 top 10 positions for Fortune 500 companies since 1997.

Recognizing the need for IT professionals to have a truly independent tool for pricing telecommunications products, we created a site that utilizes the capabilities of many authorized independent agents representing all the major telecom carriers for voice data and colocation. We use real time quote tools connected to the different carrier’s databases and connect directly with the carrier’s agent channel for special promos and pricing.

Our goal is to provide you with timely and accurate pricing from all the carriers in your location.

Our approach to how we run our business is based on the highest levels of professionalism. We take great pride in being responsive, paying attention to details, and exceeding your expectations. Our service and support truly sets us apart from others. From the pricing we provide, to the support you will receive expediting your order, outstanding performance is key.

Carriers

• Access Point
• Nitel
• Time Warner Cable
• ACC Business
• Netwolves
• SAVVIS
• Sprint Nextel
• XO Communications
• AboveNet
• AT&T
• Optimum LightPath
• Level 3 Communications
• Global Crossing Inc
• Qwest Communications

T3 Providers Website -  Colocated Hosting