RoboMail Extreme is a dynamic server application that is fast, efficient, and scalable to perform and maintain high expectations with high volume email. Inter7’s RoboMail is a powerful e-mailing messaging system is designed to take e-mailing to the next level for most companies.RoboMail was first launched in 2002 and is currently being used by companies to deliver millions of e-mail messages daily. Time is critical for most companies to send their newsletters, direct marketing, informational alerts, weather reports, etc. RoboMail’s commercial development cycle has been focused on, the ever changing, emerging global markets needs. Inter7’s past experience in development has paid off in dividens. Instead of developing software packages in a cubical, like many large commercial corporations do, Inter7 used their experience in the field and research of customer needs to fulfill the feature lists. Making RoboMail the fastest delivery system on the market today, The performance, stability, security and reliability speak for itself. Inter7 honors the age old tradition of giving customers reasonable expectations and exceeding them.

Today, RoboMail Extreme is far more desirable over other large e-mail delivery systems. This is because of primary key factors in deciding on what most IT professionals like to use for their e-mail delivery system: “functionality, speed, and price”. RoboMail is backed by the engineering development company of Inter7, which means the software is customizable to meet new customer’s needs. The application may reside on minimum hardware, a 1U server appliance, or using smart software keeping your start up costs low. Out of the box, RoboMail is clearly one of the “Best of Breeds” on the Internet today.

Some of the RoboMail Featuresproduct lines are:
* Remote web based console control center
* Centralized e-mail list directory containers
* Up loadable e-mail lists
* Personalized messages
* Individually formats each e-mail
* Multiple mailings to multiple lists simultaneously
* History page of each campaign & status
* MRTG to utilize graphical real time reporting for delivery performanceConsul
* Reporting pages for your e-mail list clients

Some of the Newer features in the RoboMail Extreme Include

* 2.5 Million emails delivered in 1 hour
* New Web Interface more graphically inclined GUI style
* Combined pages for easier navigation
* New Bounce Handling | Feature Released
Almost twice as more efficient
* Multiple batch processing for speed | Feature Released
Less system resources for less beefy machines
* AOL Scomps Feedback | Feature Released
Using the email address it removes the email from any of the mailing lists. One easy way to see if your are emitting problematic email is to ask to receive AOL “scomps” (spam complaint reports) for your network blocks. Many other major ISPs will soon begin offering scomp-like spam reports in the future.
* Customer Access to See Campaigns | Feature Released
You can now grant access to your customers to log in to view just “their” campaigns
You can now Create / Edit / Delete “Customers” who can have access to see the results of their mailings
Each mailing has a new drop down menu to specify “which” Customer can have access to see the mailing results Support for Logging out of the interface.
* Ability to Personalize the “URL redirects” | Feature Released
Without putting the personalization in the email body you can now personalize redirects.
This can be used to pre-populate forms with, say email addresses. This pre-populated url redirect should improve conversion rates tremendously, we’ll let you know some of our customers results when we hear back from them.
* Some Database Improvements | Feature Released
Speed up post processing when server has large number of lists. On post mail processing, support for removing failures from all lists or, for increased processing speed, support for removing the failures from just the list used on the mailing. We found some sites with large numbers of large lists would see very slow processing of failures since each failure email was checked against all lists. This new feature vastly increases post processing speed with little impact on list cleaning.

A Peak around the corner

Some of the emerging features will the first in the market! It will be like have a hosted ASP model, a RoboMail ASP mailing server that can be collocated anywhere and will allow telecommunication, marketing/advertising, ISP companies to sell access to their RoboMail server which will enable a customer to use the internet to log in to RoboMail ASP, upload their lists, create their message, send virtually any sized lists and track their progress with a full featured reporting backend. Simply put, giving anyone who owns a RoboMail ASP a powerful hosted emailing list mailing (MLM) server for hundreds of customers sending tons of e-mail on one tiny machine.

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About Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc.:

* Been in business for over 10 years
* Inter7 has over 1,300 customers world wide
* E-mail systems installed use over 14 Million active email accounts
* Installed email servers over 2,000 times
* Actively manages 20+ large ISP installations
* Primary developers of major parts of email related software

    Who’s the Ajax king? With applications like Google Calendar, Gmail and Google Spreadsheets, Google has taken a decisive lead in creative Ajax-based applications. But is Google still the Ajax king? InformaktionWeek writers Preston Gralla and Barbara Krasnoff asked – and answered – this question in a story that has just been published on TechWeb.
The result: In four out of six categories, Google’s products excel. In the “webtop” category, however, Google’s offering – as well as Microsoft’s Live.com site – has been relegated to the “also available” position. The winner: 10-months old Pageflakes.

“Pageflakes is the one I’d pick,” said Barbara Krasnoff. “To begin with, Pageflakes has the most interesting and useful types of applets (which it calls Flakes), and the widest variety: Besides offering a very easy way to link to various popular RSS feeds, the service lets you add the Funny Quote of the Day and TV listings and use a movie finder that hooks into IMDB.com. The service also lets you write notes; check the weather; keep to-do and contact lists,” she added. “As of this writing, there were 98 different Flakes that you could choose from.”

“Pageflakes has around 100 widgets now and is one of the best start pages on the market currently. In my opinion there are some promising business models in this space - and Pageflakes is showing a lot of innovation in pursuing them”, said Richard MacManus, ZDNet writer and publisher of the popular ReadWriteWeb blog.

About Pageflakes
Pageflakes is a leading player in the rapidly-growing personalized startpage space. At www.pageflakes.com, the company provides a convenient one-stop access-point to a user’s favourite internet applications and content such as blogs, news feeds, Del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos and numerous other web services and applications. Since its beta launch in February 2006, Pageflakes has been adding new features at record speed. One of the latest innovations is the ability to share pages with friends or publish them for anyone to see. In May 2006, the company announced that it has secured seed funding from Benchmark Capital.

For more information, please contact
Ole Brandenburg
Pageflakes Ltd
Phone: +61.7.32768112
Skype: occi2005
Email: ole@pageflakes.com

SearchCamp is a two day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Search Engine Marketing space to talk about search engine advertising, including optimization and marketing issues. This event is the first of its kind in India and will feature workshops, debates and keynotes on the present state and evolution of Search Engine Marketing.

When & Where?

The event is scheduled for the 6th & 7th of October 2007, and the venue is at the Main Auditorium, Tidel Park, Chennai.

The Event starts at 9 a.m, with Registration and a Light Breakfast.

Who is organizing the event?Everyone is. SearchCamp runs as an unconference, where everyone is an organizer and there is no passive audience. So it is as much your event. The overall co-ordination is being done by The Knowledge Foundation, the same group behind events such as Barcamp Chennai, Blogcamp, WikiCamp.in and Proto.in.

Topics

Topics to be discussed

• Introduction To Search Engine Marketing
• Keeping track of Search Engine Algorithm Changes
• Getting rid of Search Engine Over-Optimization Penalties
• Essential elements of Search Engine Keyword Research
• Web Analytics & Measuring Success
• Generating Buzz With Link Baiting and Viral Campaigns
• Link Building Basics
• Writing Contents For Search Engines
• Measuring Search Engine Marketing ROI
• Alternative TireII PPC Search Engines
• Creating Traffic Rich, Search Engine Friendly Pages
• User Generated Content & Search
• Mobile Optimization
• Black Hat Search Engine Optimization : SEO’s Dark Side
• Image and Video Search Optimization
• Pay Per Click Management and Strategies
• Social Media Optimization and Search Engines
• Earning Money From Contextual Ads
• Intent based SEM
• SEO of Flash Site
• PPC/SEM Vs. Natural SEO

You can suggest topics. Feel free to add them.  Topics page.

ParticipantsAdd your name in the participants list.

Cost

Rs.500 per person. It’s a door donation to meet the expenses towards venue, logistics and lunch. It’s still an unconference. Which means that each of us helps out by becoming a speaker or helping with the organizing or blogging/video blogging the event.

Sponsorship

SearchCamp is a non-profit educational event. We seek Sponsorship to help meet the expenses. The Sponsorship Kit page has more information.

Resources

• For additional reading, see resources page
• Here are the list of volunteers helping out.

Accommodation

For more details on nearest hotels and friends who will host you at their homes, visit the accomodation page

Visit for more Information: - searchcamp.in

Hakia is building the Web’s new “meaning-based” (semantic) search engine with the sole purpose of improving search relevancy and interactivity, pushing the current boundaries of Web search. The benefits to the end user are search efficiency, richness of information, and time savings.

The basic promise is to bring search results by meaning match - similar to the human brain’s cognitive skills - rather than by the mere occurrence (or popularity) of search terms. hakia’ s new technology is a radical departure from the conventional indexing approach, because indexing has severe limitations to handle full-scale semantic search.

hakia’s capabilities will appeal to all Web searchers - especially those engaged in research on knowledge intensive subjects, such as medicine, law, finance, science, and literature.

Visit: - http://www.hakia.com/

When you target international markets than that time it’s very important to know which search engine are used by that country’s web surfers.

Google has a large market share in the US. Astonishingly, Google’s market share seems to be even bigger in Europe. Here are the numbers from Germany, France and the UK:

Search engine market shares in Germany

With a market share of 88.5%, Google is the clear leader in Germany. Yahoo has 3.4%, followed by German ISP T-Online (2.2%), MSN (1.4%) and AOL (1.3%).

Search engine market shares in France

With 89.79%, Google’s has an enormous market share in France. Yahoo follows with 3.14%. MSN gets 2.48%, local ISP’s Orange and Free get 1.89% and 0.72%.

Search engine market shares in the UK

Google has a market share of 79.38% in the UK. Yahoo gets 7.72%. With 4.48%, Ask.com is the third biggest search engine in the UK. Microsoft’s search engines MSN and Live get 3.75% and 1.53% (a total of 5.28% for Microsoft search engines).

Google is by far the most widely used search engine in these European countries.

The stats show how important it is to optimize your website for Google.

By this chart source free-seo-news.com

To obtain positive results is not very fast to achieve. It always takes time to reach a good ranking on search engines since there are millions of web pages to be indexed in their databases.So it takes approximately between six months & one year to see ranking results according to new strategies set by search engines specifically Google, taking into consideration of doing the least effort to reach so.At frequent basis you will need to add new fresh text content & resubmit every time a significant change is done to your website. Always make sure that the submission process is done manually otherwise the automated system could lead your site to become penalized since spiders have the capability to identify them.

How search engine spiders index pages

Spiders are completely automated programs made by search engine companies in order to web crawl pages then take keywords & index them in databases to return the search results you find.The conclusion above explains that spiders do not understand anything about what your site says , they ranking system is done automatically, therefore before any submission action takes place make sure the guidelines are followed properly.

Spiders cannot recognize any images or graphics; instead you should rely on text as an alternative to be read in graphic or design areas in the page.Also make sure that the most important paragraph appears on top of the page in addition to keeping navigation simple & in text format.

Places your keywords should appear for optimized ranking.

- Title tags/ place the keywords in your title tag that match the ones placed in your text content.

- File names

- Meta tags/in terms of the keyword & description tags, although search engines do not put intense emphasis on them, they are still important to be taken into consideration. Make paragraph short & concise & always place keywords existing in your text.

- Alt tags/ represented in the form of text placed on image, since spiders cannot interpret any image therefore placing text keywords is the alternative.

- Frames/ if they are essential then you need to place tag in your HTML code.

Monia Hassan is specialized in providing SEO services. Working for Moon Search Engine Optimization(http://www.moonsearchengineoptimization.com) company specialized in SEO services.

Writing SEO articles is part of her task, to help increase people knowledge of what trends are used by search engines on an updated basis.

AOL MOBILE:

AOL has improved its Mobile Search Capability, especially for Windows Mobile devices. Earlier I had incorrectly reported that there had been a full relaunch of its mobile portal. Only the search functionality has been improved and relaunched. There are now two types of search experiences: an enhanced Windows Mobile experience and a non-Windows Mobile version, which is also improved but with a slightly different presentation.

AOL noticed that a disproportionate number of users were using Windows Mobile devices (and mobile search), so the company created an experience with horizontal tabs that dynamically change depending on the query or context of the search.

Here’s an example for Click Here

How to get a high Pagerank? (Let’s clarify: saying ‘high Pagerank’, we mean at least PR6)

Of course there are many different ways.

You may start exchanging links with PR1-2 websites, then with PR2-3, then with PR3-4 etc? and after a year of this madness you’ll probably get a result. But till that time, your mailbox will burst from tons of “link exchange proposals” and your website will look more like a free-for-all directory. Or you may start writing articles adding your website URL in the bottom, but not everyone can do this, and it’ll also require many months of efforts.

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Search Engine Friendly Site: - There are many websites that fail to target their required traffic, even if they’ve had some search engine optimization work done. One of the main causes for this is simply because the website isn’t search engine friendly.

This is a basic essential that needs to be incorporated into the design of all websites at the outset ? think of it as the foundation to establishing your search engine optimisation strategy.

This article aims to highlight the areas a web designer should think about and incorporate into their design for maximum search engine effectiveness:

1. Search Engine Friendly Pages

It is important that when you design your website you not only bear in mind what your website requirements are, but also what the requirements are for search engines. Best way to approach this is to remember that search engines don’t really care about how nice or complicated your graphics or flash movies are, or how snazzy your Java script is.

Instead search engines look at the code behind your page. Therefore if you want to impress a search engine, then your code needs to be nice and easy to read.

Now from this I don’t mean adding ‘comment’ tags and breaking the lines of code up with spaces, but to ensure that the elements the search engine is interested in, i.e. Title tag, Description tag, Keyword tag (these days only some search engines really use the keyword tag), Alt tag, are readable near the beginning of the code. Search Engines don’t like wadding through lines and lines of javascript to get to the core areas that can help you page’s ranking. Therefore careful planning and positioning of your page elements is required.

TIPS:
- If you’re using table for laying out your page then make them simple and not too complex.
- Avoid using frames.
- If you need javascripts for navigation purposes, then use smaller scripts to call up the bulk of the javascript from a different file.
- Think twice on how to use graphics ? make them relevant to your content and use the Alt tag for all images.
- Position the main content of the page before the images, or at least with the images nested between the text.

2. Keywords

Having good keywords is one of the most important areas to consider when designing a website/webpage.

One of the best tools for this is Wordtracker (www.wordtracker.com), which allows you to identify good competitive keywords for your pages.

In general the range of keywords associated to your pages can be very extensive therefore for good concentration and prominence of keywords it is advisable to carefully select the top 10-15 keywords. You can always export the results to Excel and try out other competitive keywords if the ones you selected initially do not produce any noticeable benefits.

TOP TIP:
Wordtracker offer a one day subscription to their service from which you can squeeze nearly 2 ? days worth of use! Here’s how ? Sign-up for the service on the evening of Day 1 (the service will be available almost immediately so you can start searching for your competitive keywords straight away). You will also be able to use the service for the whole of Day 2 and strangely for the whole of Day 3! Enough time to get some good keywords for a lot of pages!

3. Content

Many search engines look at the main body of the page and identify keywords and phrases that are used within the text.

TIP:
Use competitive keywords relevant to the purpose of the page within the main body of the page. Always try and ensure that the keywords are prominent within the text body, i.e. they appear near the beginning of the page, they are defined using the ‘heading’ tag, they are typefaced in bold, or they are used as hyperlinks.

4. Page Title

This is arguably one of the most important areas of a page and needs special attention to ensure that a good title is selected.Similar to many other areas of designing a search engine friendly page, the Page Title should also have a good keyword which describes the page content.To keep within the limits of many search engines the number of words for the Title shouldn’t exceed nine.

5. Page Description

Another important area to work on for good ranking is the Page Description.This is the text found under the META Description tag and is displayed to users in the search results. Again, it is a good idea to pay attention to the use of good keywords when writing the description, which should be short (not more than 20-25 words) and sells your page before the user has even opened it!

6. Graphics

We’ve covered the use of graphics briefly above, emphasising the importance of using an Alt tag containing the relevant keyword(s).Although the use of images can be nice and very appealing to a website, it is also important to bear in mind that they shouldn’t overpower the textual content of your page. As a general rule of thumb it is best to stick to a 70/30 ratio (70 text/30 images).

7. Site Map

A Site Map is a fantastic way for search engines to find all your juicy pages on your website. There are many free Site Map tools available on the web that’ll create your site map instantly.

8. Navigation Links

Navigation links to other pages on your website should be nice and easy. There are some engines which find it difficult to navigate through to the other pages on your website if the nav bar is too complicated, e.g. complicated pop-ups, use of flash, etc. Therefore if your site does have complicated navigation then it’s always a good idea to implement simple text based hyperlinks to your common pages at the bottom of every page on your website.

Following the basic suggestions above will help lay the foundation to apply further good search engine optimisation advice which will make the difference in your overall search engine ranking.

This finer area of SEO is beyond the realm of this document and will require further investment based on individual needs.

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Definition: A doorway page is content created specifically for the purpose of garnering high placements in the search engines.

Issue: Google makes the following specific recommendation: Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content

This article addresses the issue of doorway pages, proposes an acceptable alternative and offers some insights into the basic principles of search engine optimization.

To frame the issue of doorway pages it is important to understand why content is so critical to search engine optimization. In order to do this we need to step back and take a look at the search engines themselves:

? Google, Yahoo, MSN, and all other search engines want to provide the same thing: A prioritized list of links that point to most relevant web sites satisfying the users search criteria.

? Relevance is defined as the “best content” with the “best fit” to the user’s search. That’s a search engine’s value ? providing efficient access to the information a user wants when they want it.

? The search engine that does the best job of delivering the largest quantity of the most relevant results attracts the most users.

? Obviously speed, ease-of-use and “marketing” impact popularity but in the end the quality of the results counts most.

The best way for you to get long-term results is by “partnering” with the search engines. Partnering means recognizing and supporting the value-proposition that the search engines provide to their end-users:

? Provide lots of highly relevant content

? Follow accepted (i.e. ethical) search engine optimization principles

Is there an alternative? Sure, like many situations there are always short cuts and quick fixes that purport to let you “game the system.” Instead of partnering with the search providers you compete with them. By “compete” I mean all the effort (and dollars) expended to chase their constantly evolving algorithms and artificially increase your site’s rankings. These techniques may get you short-term results but many are considered the equivalent of “spamming” and could get your site de-listed. From a search engine providers point of view, anything that gets better results for sites with inferior content (and fit) is compromising their product and is temporary until they tune their algorithm so that it correctly ranks your site (down).

One of these shortcuts is the use of “doorway pages.” The rest of this article discusses the use of doorway pages and recommends an alternative approach.

What is a doorway page?

Doorway pages are pages of content that have been specifically designed to achieve high rankings in the search engines. They are often used by websites that don’t have an abundance of content within the main pages of their site due to technology issues or design conflicts. They can be an effective tool for garnering short-term placement in search engine rankings when used appropriately, but doorway pages have been abused by websites for many years, to the point that they are frowned upon by search engines who now attempt to exclude them from their result pages.

What does a “Doorway Page” look like?

A doorway page appears as if it was built specifically to attain high search engine placement, and offers little value to searchers. It often has the following characteristics:o A lot of poorly written content, with an abundance of hyperlinked phrases in the body text

o Copy that is stuffed with lists of keywords

o Zero (0) in-bound links from other parts of the websiteExample: you build a doorway page named “targeted-keyword.html,” but do not link to this page from any other part of your website. Google assumes no in-bound links exist because this page is of little value, and you want to hide it from regular visitors to its site.

o A “redirection” that automatically loads a new page once the doorway pages is accessed

Bottom line: A doorway page stands alone from your website, and offers little value to searchers

If any of those characteristics exist on the page, and if a number of these pages are created within a single website, Google is likely to discount their value, or worse, ban the site.

If doorway pages are inappropriate then what is a better alternative?

The “essay page”

An essay page, on the other hand, is integrated into the main website (although not into the navigation structure). It offers real value to the searcher because the content is relevant and well-written. It often has the following characteristics:

o Clean HTML coding with an HTML design similar to that of other pages of the website

o A lot of content, with several hyperlinked phrases in the body text

o Several in-bound links from other parts of the website

Example: On the solutions page, you hyperlink the phrase “targeted keyword,” to the targeted-keyword.html essay page.

o Quality content that offers real value to the searcher

Bottom line: An essay page is a natural extension of your website. For all intents and purposes, it is integrated content more than it is a doorway page, because it expands on a certain subject.

Will you benefit from using essay pages?

Essay pages used effectively can be good solutions when a site’s navigation does not support the addition of content, or if it would be difficult to develop valuable content to include within the main navigation. If this is not the case I recommend that you add additional pages of content (which will provide more benefits than essay pages), while enhancing the user experience.

Summary and Recommendation

The creation and proper integration of additional content is critical to the ability to achieve consistent top 10 rankings on the most targeted keywords. Essay pages can be valuable when a website cannot be easily scaled to include more content through the main navigation structure. However, the first priority should be increasing content as much as possible before resorting to essay pages.

Over time, your more sophisticated competitors will compete for placement by incorporating significant content, and by implementing important search engine optimization features, not by using essay (or doorway) pages.

If you’ve adopted an aggressive “doorway page” strategy, it’s possible (and maybe likely) that a competitor would report it to Google. If Google determines that you have violated their “rules,” you could be “de-listed”.

As a result of the risk that doorway pages pose and the benefits integrating additional relevant content provides, I strongly recommend the approach of reevaluating your navigation structure, and adding additional pages of relevant content if possible. From a search engine ranking point of view ? content is not king, but relevant content sure is.

Scott Smigler has been an evangelist for a serious, ROI-based focus on the online channel since he founded Exclusive Concepts in 1997. Exclusive Concepts provides integrated online marketing strategies, Internet brand consulting, search engine marketing campaigns and results-oriented web sites for hundreds of clients that range in size from small ecommerce firms to public companies.

Visit Scott’s website: http://www.exclusiveconcepts.com