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There is a popular idea circulating among the search engine optimization community that has been debunked by the leading experts in the field, including Google employees. This idea has led many Websites to harm their search engine indexing and visibility. The concept is called PageRank Sculpting and it is based on the erroneous belief that you can somehow improve your site’s search engine results by hiding internal links on your site from search engines.
Despite having been shown to be ineffective by Google itself, people who believe in PageRank Sculpting continue to promote this very dangerous practice because they have invested so much time and energy in it that they cannot let go of the idea. Make no mistake: attempting to sculpt PageRank in your Website is a very high-risk, low-benefit proposition. The primary reason PageRank sculpting fails is that there is no reliable way of tracking or measuring the PageRank that Google assigns to your Web pages.
What most people don’t realize is that Google calculates its PageRank many times throughout the year but it only updates its toolbar PageRank data a few times a year. Many Webmasters wrongly conclude that if the PR value in the toolbar changes they must have made some difference. Especially now with faster indexing for real-time search, Google’s search results are in a constant state of flux. SEOs who believe in PageRank sculpting make no effort to allow for the changes that are caused by other factors in spite of their bad practices.
PageRank sculpting has been challenged and shown to be a false idea by leading figures in the search optimization industry like Matt Cutts (a Google employee), Shari Thurow, Adam Audette, Adam Lasnik (another Google employee), and others. If someone tries to teach you how to sculpt PageRank you should ignore their advice. But if you have already tried to sculpt your PageRank you should undo the changes you have made and fix your Website.
One of our Australian clients sent out a campaign using a list which had been complied manually.
The message contained information relevant for the specific job position that these recipients held. It had the sender’s details, a functional (and automated) unsubscribe link, real “from” and “reply” addresses and manual unsubscribes were actioned and replied to immediately. It was personalised with name, Company and position.
Did they have express consent from the recipient? No.
Was it Spam? No
According to the Australian Spam Act 2003, our client was able to send these targeted recipients information relevant to their positions. This is what is referred as “Inferred Consent”.
However, even though the campaign was entirely in accordance with the legislation, many of the recipients responded with “This is Spam” replies.
What went wrong? Nothing….other than readers expectations.
Australian, American and European readers expect a simplified solution to the current Spam problem. Hence, when the relevant legislations came into being in each country, the readers immediately (and wrongly) thought that any communications sent to them other than what had been specifically requested must be Spam. Similar to the Australian Legislation (Spam ACT 2003), the USA (CAN Spam ACT) and the EU Anti-Spam Legislation, provide avenues for businesses to conduct legitimate marketing campaigns to corporates (as opposed to the general public). So, rather than asking the obvious question, such as: Is this the end of all direct marketing email campaigns? I believe we should be asking: How can we educate the public?
Readers need to be educated on the difference between permission and non-permission email. It seems that the once starkly obvious line between permission-based emails and Spam is fading in our readers minds, causing endless problems for emailers - not only the obvious problems such as blacklisting, but other more insidious problems such as ROI and maintaining clean lists.
Most of the causes of the publics distrust are of course, rightly attributed to Spammers - real Spammers.
Consumers have been told repeatedly not to reply to, or unsubscribe from, Spam, for fear of confirming that their address is “real” and therefore being added to Spam lists. This thought, in turn has encompassed anything that hinted at a whiff of Spam, with no consideration for permission-based email.
These are the readers who press their “this is Spam” button at anything doubtful or unwanted without a second’s hesitation. They are also the reason for the growing amount of unopened email rates, as they are finding it easier to simply delete and report instead of unsubscribing to a newsletter they once signed up for. One such filtering program that is enabling the reader to do this is Mailwasher.
For the average email user, Mailwasher is an easy to use program to filter out Spam emails from legitimate emails. Unfortunately, it is also perfect for filtering your unwanted emails as well - emails that the reader once was interested in receiving, but now is not. With a click of the mouse, the once requested email is deleted on the server (i.e. it does not get recorded as being opened in your statistics), bounced (this is why your bounce rates are growing and your open rates are declining) AND reported to SpamCop - all with one click and 1 second of deliberation (or less). What’s more, Mailwasher is free. I thoroughly recommend you download a copy and see for yourself how easy it is for your readers to blacklist you: www.mailwasher.net.
Some things you can do to minimise complaints:
1. Have a complaint system in place
This should be preferably manned by a person, not automated, so the complainant knows that you are taking them seriously. A reply ideally needs to be done in the same day as the complaint, and it needs to be positive rather than negative in tone. Be understanding, whilst clarifying that you have followed the legislative requirements and assure them that they will receive no further email communications from your company. THEN IMMEDIATELY, unsubscribe them from your database.
2. Have as much personalisation within the email as possible.
True Spammers don’t have actual lists of email addresses. They create lists using dictionary attacks. Once they have emailed the list created using the above method, they pull the bounces, and then reuse the “good” addresses. Because of this, they are not able to personalise the emails at all, hence servers and personalise filters are set to stop any emails which do not include any personalisation. Therefore personalisation helps on 3 main levels:
• Helps to get through the filters and actually arrive in the recipient’s mailbox.
• Helps the recipient to identify that is not Spam as it is addressed to themselves in various ways.
• The more personalising of the email the better - not only in name, company, position, member number etc but also in tailoring content to suit the person therefore reducing the likelihood of the recipient growing tired of receiving your communications.
3. The readers must be educated.
This will only happen in time - and only from using a combination of good emailing etiquette will they be assured that it is safe to unsubscribe from a newsletter they no longer want rather than delete and report. Most people that call you a spammer do so because they don’t know the legislation. We, as marketers need to be aware of the need of educating our readers.
4. Automate the unsubscribe method.
Why do readers delete/bounce/report when tired of receiving the email instead of unsubscribing? Because it’s easy. So, make it as easy as possible for your recipient to unsubscribe. It’s a mistake to try and keep them on your list by means of a complicated unsubscribe method. You want a clean list -you only want people on your list who are potential buyers etc. By having a clean list you are better able to: deliver accurate reports, market research -understand what your customers are wanting and reduce the risk of being reported as a spammer and being blacklisted.
5. Inform them how you received their information.
Be open with them. The more you hide, the more you will look like a spammer in their eyes.
Don’t be discouraged. As with all things, the more learned we (and our clients) become with regards to the Spam legislature, the easier it will be to conduct successful email marketing campaigns. The more marketers comply with the legislature, the more responsive our readers will be as well as learning to distinguish between Spam and genuine email marketing.
Kath Pay is Marketing Director of Ezemail, a web-based e-communications tool, which enables you to create, send and track your email marketing and SMS messaging campaigns.
For more information please go to http://www.ezemail.com or contact Kath at: kath@ezemail.com
I imagine you have seen, heard about, or already know what spam is. But just in case you don’t, it is unsolicited and unwanted emails that arrive in your email inbox from a person or company that you don’t know.
What you might not know, however, is that now there is a law in the USA designed to protect you from specific types of spam - yes, there is more than one type of spam — the variety and methods used are shocking.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has created a law called The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 to pursue, fine, and prosecute blatant and persistent “spammers”.
Furthermore, the Department of Justice (DOJ) works actively to shutdown or fine offending web sites or emailers by enforcing this relatively new anti-spam law.
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Do you wait longer and longer in front of your PC because it is getting slower and slower?.
If your Registry is a mess you can end up with a very slow Windows 7
Your windows operating systems contains a very important file called windows Registry. It holds data about your computer. The location of all the software you have installed, the DLLs files, program short cuts that reside on your desktop and in the Windows start menu.
Everything you do while using Windows ends up in the Windows Registry. That could be the location of the latest files used (documents, spread sheets, images, videos etc.). You will also find data about the applications installed and uninstalled.
There are plenty of explanations why a PC gets slower as it gets older.
It just means that your computer needs professional help!
A professional solution normally follows these steps:
- The tool scans you PC and detects the errors on you Windows operating system (e.g. Windows XP, Vista and 7).
- Cleaning up and removing the errors
- Finally you PC has become faster, it may even boot faster and it no longer contains registry errors.
More thinks that can make your computer slow
A cluttered Windows Registry is not the only thing that can make your PC slow
Sometimes anti-virus programs causes your PC to be slow due to bad configuration
If your anti virus is set up to check for viruses i
Additionally anti virus programs are often set to analyza local harddrives as well as network drives.
Regular scans of your network drives takes a lot of your CPU time, the reason is that network drives are much slower than local harddrives
Normally there is hardly no risk involved in disabling network scanning in your anti-virus software
- John Mckinsey Bates
