Thu 27th July '00
In this issue (Part 1):
1. INTRODUCTION
==>Sidewinder's turn, the forgotten pages.
2. PLACES TO VISIT
==>Places for you to visit.
3. TIPS BITS
==>Asking is the beginning of receiving.
4. CLASSIFIED ADS
==>Subscribe to the quality ezines advertised here.
In this issue (Part 2):
1. VOTING BOOTH
==>This week's quick poll and last week's results.
2. TOOLS AT NOWSELL.COM
==>Useful tools to make your life easier from NowSell.com
3. FEATURE ARTICLE
==>"DRAMATIZE THE EMOTIONAL REWARD TO INCREASE YOUR SALES"
By Bob Leduc.
An info Section with subscription details is included at the end
of both parts.
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Hello again,
I think the Infoseek/Go spider, Sidewinder, must have been
reading last week. No sooner had I told you how Google was
rapaciously devouring the web, and the Now Sell web site along
with it, than Sidewinder arrived. And boy did it arrive! Not to
be outdone by GoogleBot, it spidered 435 pages. Since I only have
around two hundred, it must have crawled some pages several
times.
I've never before seen Sidewinder so industrious, and can only
make a guess at two possible explanations for this sudden burst
of activity. Either Infoseek has been largely ignoring me in the
past (few of my pages are indexed with them, even though I have
two 3-star listings in the Go directory); or a large update of
their database is in the pipeline. Time will tell.
Dogpile and Mamma are two lesser known search engines that have
recently begun to send a reasonable amount of traffic my way.
After examining the phrases searched on, this is almost certainly
due to the two meta services returning results from pay-per-click
search engines.
I bid for listings on several of these, and this is one of the
hidden bonuses. Another is being listed on the sites of numerous
partners that display their results. As I've said before, if
you're looking at paid advertising, PPC SE's offer the best value
for money online today.
Oh, and in case you've been trying to access the last three
issues of Biz Bits online, you can't. 'Cos they ain't there!
Sorry. I completely forgot about making the web pages! I'll do
them all together after I've sent out this issue. The spiders
seem particularly eager to see them. Either that or they can't
accept failure. Unbelievably, they've requested those few pages
over 18,000 times! Wild.
BB
It's been a while since we last took a look at them, so here are
the latest internet usage figures from Nielsen/Netratings.
AVERAGE INTERNET USAGE, JULY 10-JULY 16, 2000:
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| At-Home | Current | % Change |
| | Week |from Last |
| | At-Home | Week |
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| Number of Sessions per Week | 6 | 0 |
| Number of Unique Sites Visited | 6 | 0 |
| Page Views per Week | 232 | 2.2 |
| Page Views per Surfing Session | 39 | 0 |
| Time Spent per Week |3: 08: 55 | 3.5 |
| Time Spent during Surfing Session |0: 31: 22 | 0.7 |
| Duration of a Page viewed |0: 00: 48 | 0.7 |
| Average Click Rate for Top Banners | 0.32 | 3.2 |
| Active Internet Universe (actually | 63.2 | 0.7 |
| surfed) | million | |
| Current Internet Universe Estimate (had | 144.3 | 0 |
| access, but did not necessarily go | million | |
| online) | | |
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| At-Work | Current | % Change |
| | Week |from Last |
| | At-Work | Week |
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| Number of Sessions per Week | 10 | 11.1 |
| Number of Unique Sites Visited | 12 | 0 |
| Page Views per Week | 367 | 11.6 |
| Page Views per Surfing Session | 35 | -5.4 |
| Time Spent per Week |5: 31: 30 | 14.9 |
| Duration of a Page viewed |0: 31: 46 | -2.7 |
| Time Spent during Surfing Session |0: 00: 54 | 2.9 |
| Average Click Rate for Top Banners | 0.16 | -15.8 |
| Active Internet Universe (actually | 28.3 | 4.2 |
| surfed) | million | |
| Current Internet Universe Estimate (had | 34.1 | 0 |
| access, but did not necessarily go | million | |
| online) | | |
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Source: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com
BB
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Azam
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Customer interaction tool enables site visitors to talk with you
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http://www.webtrendslive.com/
Another good hosted web site stats service. Free version requires
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http://www.marketingsherpa.com/
Central domain for the network of Marketing Sherpa marketing
related web sites. Loads of stuff here. Includes news, articles
advice and resources. FREE!
http://www.signposter.com/download/prepromote.exe
Freeware application 'PrePromote' that creates meta-tags for you.
Can also analyze pages, checking your meta-tags and suggesting
improvements. FREE!
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NLP Motivational Tip by Jan Tincher
Asking is the beginning of receiving.
It's like pushing a button to start your mental and emotional
workings. Receiving is not the problem. Failing to ask is.
Receiving is like an ocean, there's plenty to go around. Except
some people go to the ocean with a teaspoon. If you are one of
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You'll look better and stand taller when you make that stretch
from the beach (asking) to the ocean (receiving).
Don't you usually get more when you look good and stand tall?
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