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Wednesday, 28th November, 2007     Vol-003-2007 

RedAlkemi Fortnightly Newsletter

 
In this Issue:
Industry News Special Offer Experts Speak
Client sites launched Featured Case study Top Ranking Website
Client Testimonial Featured Blog Post RedAlkemi Events
 
 
Industry News
Senators Urge FTC to Continue Google/DoubleClick Investigation
Google's new merger is under review for anti-competitiveness. To ensure competition in the online ad industry, the proposed merger is under investigation by US Antitrust regulators.
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AOL Launches 'Ticker' Ads, New Video Player
AOL introduces a new online video advertising solution in the form of "video tickers" developed in conjunction with Gannett-owned rich media provider PointRoll.
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Google & Go Daddy Partner on Webmaster Tools
Go Daddy hosting customers will have easy access to Google Webmaster Tools and Go Daddy will automatically submit sitemaps to Google on behalf of customers.
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 Experts Speak

Tips from our Experts
Here are some simple yet powerful tips from our experts that can help you gain more from your online presence. Try them out...
Web Development: You should avoid using heavy graphics, animation and flash on e-Commerce websites to improve site download speed. Animated banners and images are a big distraction for a buyer who is ready to make a purchase on your site and is trying to focus on the transaction.
Design: While it is important to make the home page of the site easily accessible to the users from all the site pages, one shouldn't force them to navigate to the home page each time for browsing other pages on the website. Placing a navigation/menu-bar on all pages of the website helps navigation and site usability. It also helps search engines locate your inner content easily.
SEO: The file name of the webpage plays a small role in improving the search engine relevance. Using short keywords in the file name not only helps identifying the page content but also improves page relevance for the term. Therefore, it is better to name a page like - http://www.redalkemi.com/articles/anchor-text-optimization.php rather than http://www.redalkemi.com/articles/article23.php. Also, make sure you use hyphens '-' between keywords instead of underscores '_'. Google considers hyphen as a space and underscores as a merged single word.
Link Building: Most search engines consider http://www.yourwebsitesite.com & http://yourwebsitesite.com (without the www) as two different pages. Use the 'www' version in hyper-linking all your internal links as well as for securing incoming external links. You can also use Google Webmaster Tools to specify your preferred domain format.
PPC: It is a good idea to study the PPC ads that appear above and below your own ads in the search engines. Analyze if other ads are more appealing to a potential buyer and improve yours accordingly. This will improve your click-through rates. Also analyze the landing pages of the competing ads to make sure your page is more relevant to the keyword search string and more appealing than your competition. This will improve your conversions.
Article Syndication: Writing good articles on your industry and publishing them on relevant content sites is a useful way of boosting your incoming links and direct click-through traffic. Many sites allow you to place a link to your site within the text of the article.
Website Usability: Users don't like scrolling on a web page. Vertical scrolling is still tolerable, but horizontal scrolling is an absolute no-no. Different users use different screen resolutions so it is best to keep the site in 800x600 pixel size as this format works well for most users. Also keep your most important information above the fold (the screen that shows without scrolling). ‘Above the fold’ is a term borrowed from the traditional newspaper publishing industry which denotes the space above the fold of the newspaper as a premium space.
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Ask our Experts

Q: What are the ideal places in my web page code where I should consider inserting keywords for my site optimization? – Paul Smith

Ans: Here is a list of places where you can place your keywords in the source code, listed in order of their importance:

  • Title Tag – Use about 90 characters including spaces.
  • Meta description tag.
  • H1 and H2. – Use CSS to control the display.
  • In paragraphs and general text on the site.
  • TITLE attributes on anchor tags: <A HREF="" TITLE="Here you can get info about Keyword">
  • In STRONG tags: <STRONG>Keyword</STRONG>
  • ALT description attributes on image tags: <IMG SRC="" ALT="A picture about Keyword">
  • In the file names of images: <IMG SRC="keyword.gif">
  • In the file names of the web document: www.domain.com/keyword.html
  • SUMMARY attributes on tables: <TABLE SUMMARY="In this table you will see keyword">
  • Meta keyword tag – Not very important these days, but does not hurt.
    Remember: Do not overuse these tags or stuff too many keywords in them.
You may send your individual queries to ask-experts@redalkemi.com» We shall take them up in our subsequent newsletters.

 
Featured Article
Most Deadly SEO Sins "Common mistakes even experts fail to notice"
If you are initiating Search Engine Optimization of your website, you probably have done some study about SEO techniques through forums and articles. You may have somewhat worked out a roadmap of how to proceed with the site optimization process. While you may be clear on 'what to do', it would also help to understand 'what not to do'..

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 Recent Work: Client sites launched

http://www.insurancelearningcenter.org
www.insurancelearningcenter.org
insurancelearningcenter
 

Scope of Work: Logo Design, Website Design & Development
Insurance Learning Center is an excellent resource of Insurance related information with hundreds of articles on every type of insurance, users can search on the website via geographical location or insurance type. Some of the main functionalities include article rating, listing of top rated articles calculated by a rating engine over a period of time.



Other Projects launched by RedAlkemi
www.technavio.com
Services: Website Design & Development

www.peturns-online.com
Services: Website Design & Development

Check out these sites and send us your valuable feedback at webmaster@redalkemi.com
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 Featured Case study – Search Engine Marketing

http://www.regonline.com
www.regonline.com
www.regonline.com
 
Overview: RegOnline is one of the largest online registration systems. RegOnline was designed and developed on the premise that companies who organize and conduct events do not want to commit financial and human resources to building and managing an online registration system. RegOnline's customers are primarily corporations, independent meeting planners, associations, universities, governmental organizations, and religious and non-profit organizations. Profitable since inception, RegOnline continues to grow through internally generated funds.

Challenges: RegOnline aimed to achieve online revenues using natural Search Engine Rankings. With the increasing role of high quality Link Building in the Search Engine Rankings of a website, RegOnline was aiming to increase it's rankings for a range of extremely focused and important keywords. The on-page optimization of the website was already done by RegOnline but it was lacking the support of quality link building to substantially improve their rankings on the major search engines.

Solution: RedAlkemi carried out a focused non-reciprocal Link Building campaign for RegOnline.com spread over a 10 month period. We used a combination of Anchor Texts which had the most important keywords of the site. The links were established from industry relevant webpages which added great value to these incoming links and substantially improved the Search Engine Ranking of RegOnline.com for it's competitive keywords.

7 months since optimization, the following rankings have been achieved:
 
Keywords Google Yahoo MSN Competition
event registration 1 1 2 97,800,000
online registration 3 1 2 239,000,000
online event registration 1 1 2 39,800,000
online registration software 1 1 1 73,900,000
         
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 Featured Case study - Web Development

http://www.cremation-online.com
www.cremation-online.com
www.cremation-online.com
Overview: Cremation-online offers cremation keepsakes, memorial urns, funeral videos as well as beautiful cremation urn jewelery to memorialize your loved ones. They provide artistically designed crematory urns to preserve your loved one's remains and keeping his/her memories alive.

Challenges: The challenge was to design the site in such a way that it appeals to its target market segment without offending any one's emotions.

Solution: Our design team has designed the look and feel of the site so that it conveys a feeling of warmth to its visitors. The site has been developed in PHP and My SQL as DataBase.
 
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Top Ranking on Search Engines

www.cigars-now.com is an e-commerce store that sells various brands of cigars online. RedAlkemi has redesigned the site to best reflect the list of products being sold. Since the site was not ranking well on any search engine, the site was optimized and a link building campaign was initiated focusing on the following keywords:
 
Keywords Google Yahoo MSN Competition
discount cigars - 4 8 1,190,000
padron cigars 3 7 3 299,000
ashton cigars 5 3 4 486,000
 
www.latinvip.com
www.latinvip.com
Client Testimonial:

"Hands-down the RedAlkemi team is by far the best group of individuals I have had the fortune of working with. From the initial creation of the LatinVIP site, to the changes, to the overall aspect of keeping me updated through the message board, I am overly satisfied with every aspect of your work. I have nothing but praise and many future referrals for you guys."
Christopher M. Bowie
www.latinvip.com
 
 Featured RedAlkemi Blog Post

Time & Effort distribution to reap maximum out of your Internet Marketing Strategy
RedAlkemi being one of the most comprehensive Online Marketing Solution provider, it is our cyber-duty to suggest website owners and development teams; how to ideally distribute their valuable time (in%) & efforts to reap maximum out of their Internet Marketing Strategy.
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RedAlkemi Events

Annual Function: RedAlkemi to celebrate its 5th Anniversary
RedAlkemi is nearing its Annual Function - Founder's Day as on 1st Dec 2007. The event will commence with an opening speech by the HR department, followed by a speech from CEO - Mr. Atul Gupta & COO - Ms. Anuja Gupta. Team heads of all the departments including Business Development, Web Development, Design & PDME will also share their thoughts about the past achievements and lined-up challenges.
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