ItsAboutCash believes marketing and life successes can only happen with persistence, integrity and education. We share our opinions and knowledge. http://www.itsaboutcash.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:08:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.itsaboutcash.com/images/M_images/iac3.gif http://www.itsaboutcash.com ItsAboutCash believes marketing and life successes can only happen with persistence, integrity and education. We share our opinions and knowledge. http://www.itsaboutcash.com/marketing-articles/established-businesses-have-an-advantage-online-3.html Established offline businesses have a small but definite advantage online IF they take the time to learn how to capitalize on it BEFORE creating a web presence. There are several reasons this advantage exists and a few of them are: An established customer base Physical products. A location that can be visited. Credibility because of the physical location. A phone listing in the yellow pages. All of these help the consumer feel safe because they KNOW where to find the merchant's business and how to reach them. To capitalize on this advantage, a business person needs to understand the World Wide Web is a source of information and it is also becoming a communication tool. Articles - Marketing Articles Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:49:16 +0100 http://www.itsaboutcash.com/marketing-articles/get-indexed-in-google-faster-3.html Static Websites aren't indexed as fast as blogs but I usually get them indexed in 5-7 days by doing the following for both types of sites: Create at least a 5 page site. The home page, privacy policy, disclaimer and a visitor sitemap can be 4 of them. Create an XML sitemap and submit it to Google through Webmaster Tools. http://www.google.com/sitemaps (http://www.google.com/sitemaps). you will need to verify you are the site owner by adding a meta tag or an HTML file with information Google provides. Visit https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ (https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/) to add your XML sitemap to Yahoo. You'll need to verify there too. Note: Yahoo seldom indexes fast. Google likes to find your site by following links from other sites. To help them find my sites, I do the following: Articles - Marketing Articles Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:30:07 +0100