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In This Issue:
Random Free Hosting Site
We'd like to
congratulate REMAX
Town and Country for being the winner
of this month's free hosting site. At the beginning of each month we
will call up our own site's homepage. Whomever's site is the featured
site when the page loads will get FREE hosting of one domain for one
month. It's just our way of saying thank you.
Recycling Printer Ink Cartridges
As many
of you know, Susan and me train guide dogs for the visually impaired. The school
we volunteer
with is
Guide Dogs
of Texas. They are collecting printer ink cartridges
for recycling and fund raising.
Click HERE to read more about their project. Before you throw out that empty ink
cartridge, please give me a call and I'll come pick it up for
recycling by Guide Dogs of Texas. If you are one of our many clients
not fortunate enough to live in 'God's Country' you may mail the
cartridges to me and I'll discount the shipping charges from your
bill.
We
thank you in advance to taking the time to help with the worthwhile
project.
What's
Wrong With Reciprocal Linking
It used to be flattering
to get a link request, knowing that someone had visited your site and
wanted to exchange a link. These days most of the requests are done
with software and it means that no one has really visited your site.
Automation in itself is not bad, but it leads to all kinds of abuses,
and it prevents you from picking out the good links from the bad.
In addition to being a resource to your own visitors, you want to
exchange links in hopes of getting some targeted traffic back to your
site. It used to be easier; a webmaster would have a site with say ten
different pages and one of his pages would be a "links" page. On that
page he would display 30 or so links. The link to this page would be
prominent in the site's navigation menu. You could be assured of
getting some meaningful traffic if your link was placed on this kind
of page.
That has all changed. People now build huge directories of hundreds of
categories, stuffed with pages and pages of links. It is extremely
unlikely that many visitors will drill down through all the pages and
find your site in such a directory.
The problem is that many of the link
requests put your site's link
buried on pages where
human eyes will NEVER see it.
So, before you agree to
link to another site, go to the homepage of that site and see if you
can navigate to the page they've "so graciously" added a link to your
site. If you can't find your link, or you have to click through many,
many pages to get to it, then delete the link request.
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