March 1st, 2010 by Carolyn Thompson
Our clients are tired of paying so much money to have their press releases published. We’ve decided to develop our own press release program, which will make it affordable to everyone.
- Introductory Rates - $25.00 each. or 10/ $200
- Have us prepare and publish your press release for you $125.00 ea or 10/$900
~ Fee includes press release marketing. Every press release submitted will be part of the Internet marketing program.
Press Release Solutions allow you to publish press releases more frequently and at your convenience.
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January 22nd, 2010 by Carolyn Thompson
This email was received on 1/22/2010
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Dennis Norkiewicz, DDS
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show details 5:55 AM (9 hours ago)
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“Moved up to #2 on Google for Rockville Dentist”!
DENNIS S. NORKIEWICZ, DDS, FAGD
Rockville Dental Arts
1107 Nelson Street, Suite 201
Rockville, MD 20850
301.424.2030 office
301.340.7719 fax
240.277.4221 cell
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Cloppers Mill Dental Care
18014 Mateny Road
Germantown, MD 20874
301-540-3100
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January 19th, 2010 by Carolyn Thompson
Kids in Montgomery County, Maryland are getting a lesson on social media marketing.
They’ve created a blog to promote their Box Tops For Education program. They believe that with a combination of community support and attention to their blog, they will collect 1,000 Box Tops.
Some of the schools in Montgomery County have collected as few as 1,600 box tops.
The Box Top Kids want to show Montgomery County that they can use both on and offline marketing to gain attention for the box top program. The Box Top Kids have solicited the support of local and national businesses to both help collect box tops and spread the word. Once a company agrees to support the program, they are supplied with a collection box.
Businesses showing support:
Elk Mt. Trails are offering free trail rides for people who turn in 100+ Box Tops
Rockville Dental Arts will provide a free toothbrush and toothpaste for every 10 box tops they receive and a free cleaning and consultation for every 100 box tops received.
Prospect Hill is offering a $50.00 Gift Certificate toward dinner or lodging.
Real Estate Search and Sale, LLC will provide a $1.00 credit toward real estate services for each box top they receive, with a maximum credit of 95% of their commission.
If you would like to support the Box Top Kids, visit their site and send them an email: boxtopkid@gmail.com
Their goal is to get 100 companies supporting them. They are well on their way and you can help.
We support these children and are mentoring them, as they strive to achieve their goals.
Help kids learn that they are not too young to make an impact on their community, while they learn they can garner community support using web marketing source.
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December 16th, 2009 by Carolyn Thompson
Your website should be doing more for your than providing a sense of credibility for your company.
Convert visitors into sales.
It is not too late to post gift certificate links to your site and generate instant revenue.
We charge a $75.00 set-up fee. This includes company set-up, logo uploads, and link posting to your site.
There is a separate one time set-up fee to the gift certificate processing company of $99.00 (Please call for current pricing).
SAMPLE ProspectHill Gift Certificate:
The Prospect Hill Website is being redesigned and should be posted within a couple weeks.
They are still selling instant gift certificates in the interim.
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October 21st, 2009 by Carolyn Thompson
Business owners not having or maintaining ownership of their own websites is a common problem.
Do you know if you own your domain?
Go to Whois.net and see who owns your site. You may be surprised. We get several calls a year by business who need to obtain control of their domain.
Many registrars state that they comply with ICANN guidelines. This helps provide protection for the rightful owner.
- Don’t forget to check the expiration date of your domain registrations.
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October 7th, 2009 by Carolyn Thompson
Malware Site Checker program. This is a quick and easy to check your site for Malware.
There are many websites which host malwares but camouflage themselves as nice and authentic sites in order to trap the visitors. Google Safe Browsing tool is a tool developed by Google which helps you to test a website which you think may not be authentic, before you visit the website and get infected with malware.
In order to check it, you just need to type the following in your browser address bar - http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=website url. For example we checked our site by going to http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=googletutor.com
If you find you are still having trouble- GET HELP! A very responsive site, which Google promotes is:
http://badwarebusters.org
Submit your site for review and you will find many online experts are standing by to help you find the problem.
Check the time between the posts and the responses and you will be amazed! This is a fabulous online community.
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September 24th, 2009 by Carolyn Thompson
This song is for you.
Thank you for sticking by me for all these years. You’ve been supportive of all of my numerous endeavors.
Thank you for being there and sharing our beautiful family and four “awesome” boys with me.
I look forward to sharing the rest of my life with you and enjoying some quiet moments (Is it possible?)
All my love. Today and always!
Carolyn
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September 5th, 2009 by Carolyn Thompson
Sometimes long urls take up too much room in a micro blog, such as Twitter.
Other times I use them for personalization:
Here is the original link:
http://blip.fm/profile/MyMusicSelections/blip/21635425/The_Eagles-Desperado_live
This is a automatically generated url:
http://tinyurl.com/kkn28u
This is the link that I am going to place in a blog page that I am creating for my anniversary:
http://tinyurl.com/I-Love-You-Jack
This is a handy tool to use when the url is too long to add the link and the message.
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September 1st, 2009 by Carolyn Thompson
Global Search Market Draws More than 100 Billion Searches per Month
Google Sites Leads Global Search Market with 67 Percent Market Share
RESTON, VA, August 31, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study of the global search market showing that more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, representing a 41-percent increase versus year ago. Google Sites attracted significantly more searches than any other engine with 76.7 billion searches conducted, or 67.5 percent market share. Yahoo! Sites ranked second worldwide with 8.9 billion searches (7.8 percent share), followed closely by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8 billion searches (7.0 percent share). Most of the top search properties worldwide experienced significant growth in search query volume versus last year, with Russian search engine Yandex growing at the fastest rate (94 percent) among the top ten.
Worldwide Search Market Overview
July 2009 vs. July 2008
Total Worldwide – Age 15+, Home/Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
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Searches (MM) |
| July 2008 |
July 2009 |
Percent Change |
| Total Internet |
80,554 |
113,685 |
41% |
| Google Sites |
48,666 |
76,684 |
58% |
| Yahoo! Sites |
8,689 |
8,898 |
2% |
| Baidu.com Inc. |
7,413 |
7,976 |
8% |
| Microsoft Sites |
2,349 |
3,317 |
41% |
| eBay |
1,223 |
1,723 |
41% |
| NHN Corporation |
1,243 |
1,526 |
23% |
| Ask Network |
929 |
1,291 |
39% |
| Yandex |
663 |
1,290 |
94% |
| AOL LLC |
1,148 |
1,023 |
-11% |
| Facebook.com |
743 |
879 |
18% |
Europe Accounts for Most Searches, but Latin America Highest in Searches per Searcher
The dynamics of search behavior vary considerably across different parts of the world. Among the five global regions, Europe accounted for the highest share of searches at 32.1 percent, followed by Asia Pacific (30.8 percent) and North America (22.1 percent). Notably, Latin America exhibited the heaviest search behavior per person with an average of 13 search usage days in July and 130 searches per searcher. Europe had the second highest overall search volume per person (117 searches per searcher) while North America exhibited the second heaviest frequency (12.5 search usage days per searcher).
Worldwide Search Market Overview by Region
July 2009
Total Worldwide – Age 15+, Home/Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
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Searches (MM) |
Share (%) of Searches |
Search Usage Days Per Searcher |
Searches Per Searcher |
| Worldwide |
113,685 |
100.0% |
11.0 |
103.3 |
| Europe |
36,446 |
32.1% |
11.8 |
116.9 |
| Asia Pacific |
35,001 |
30.8% |
9.3 |
84.7 |
| North America |
25,095 |
22.1% |
12.5 |
110.6 |
| Latin America |
10,524 |
9.3% |
13.0 |
130.4 |
| Middle East - Africa |
6,619 |
5.8% |
10.5 |
97.3 |
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August 13th, 2009 by Carolyn Thompson
Are you getting what you are paying for on Google Adwords?
I created several new campaigns for a client a couple weeks ago. I check my conversion rates constantly. I am finding that Google is charging the account when the click has a 100% bounce rate and ZERO time on the site.
Google Response: A visitor may land on a page, but unless they select to go off the landing page to a second page, it may record the time on the site as ZERO.
Hmmm. This does not make a lot of sense to me as it appears as though some visitors go to my client’s site and land on the page where I want them. The time on the site is recorded regardless of whether or not the visitor goes to another page.
I am going to set up a new webpage and not include it in the sitemap or robot. I will place analytics on the page; click on the page and check to see the results. I will test this numerous ways. I will go through various search engines and I will type the url directly into the browser. Each time I will record my actions.
I will post the results here in about a week.
————-In Google’s defense, I did contact their Adwords dept and received a response stating that if I think that I received the clicks in error, I can request an investigation. How many people are doing this? It seems as though this is where other search engines are finding their edge. They know that Google’s conversion rate is garbage. That people are still paying for garbage clicks.
I wrote a business plan for a search engine company and have determined at the time of writing the plan that Google knew that their conversions were garbage and were trying to make some changes, but it is clear that they have not gone far enough. Thanks to Yahoo Analytics, we can keep an eye on our Google conversions.
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