How To Reduce Your SPAM - November ‘06 Newsletter

November 15, 2006
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Aaron Dwyer here, I just wanted to send you a quick note to tell you about the new format newsletter that is ready to download. This is a new format of newsletter, it’s a PDF. You can get a FREE PDF reader from FoxItSoftware

http:/websmartcentral.com/news/WSC-200611.pdf

It will be a monthly newsletter that will have lots of information first and then section on Web Smart Central housekeeping at the end.

This newsletter is all about how to reduce your SPAM. We all want to be able to do that right?

You will learn about the different types of SPAM, and what you can do to reduce your SPAM on both your server hosting account and locally on your PC with your email client.

They are very simple to do, and everyone should spend the few minutes to implement the changes on their hosting account and in your email program. Invest the time to fight your SPAM problem and you will save so much time that you would have normally spent dealing with the daily SPAM.

PS. I’ll add a newsletter signup box to the front page of the website to generate more subscribers for the newsletter including those that aren’y hosting or design customers.

PPS. Here is the link again for the newsletter.
http://netrospect.com.au/news/WSC-200611.pdf

Thanks

Aaron

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Produce More Online Sales Profit Using New Software Tool

July 8, 2006
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After 3 months of developement I have released some awesome software that is targeted directly to internet marketers.

If you do direct online sales copy then you’ll want to check this software out.

I’ve set it up with a complete free 7 day trial so you can really use it anger and make sure it’s right for you before investing in it.

I say investing because it’s goal to produce profit pulling web scripts to spice up your online sales copy.

If you’re in the internet marketing game, check it out, you won’t regret it.

http://script-smart.com

Cheers

Aaron

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Protect Your Valuable Email With a Backup Mail Server

May 9, 2006
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It’s been a long time coming but we finally have a backup mail server in place to handle all email should a server be down at any time.

This means that should a server be down all emails that normally would have bounced back to the senders server for a retry at a later date, will now be routed to a backup mail server, where they will sit until the primary mail server comes back online. At which point the emails will then be routed back to be delivered.

This results in no loss of emails at our end what-so-ever. Very nice indeed.
In the end as all things seem once you’ve done the hard work, it was a fairly simple task, and I can honestly say every host should have this form of redundancy in place, and be proud to show it off.
I’ll be writing an article about it so that others may benefit from my hours of research looking for the best methods to automate this procedure.

Doing it for one account is fine, doing it across multiple servers is a full time job. That’s why automated software scripts are a thing of beauty.

Aaron

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Who Else Would Like A Holiday With Your Web Hosting

March 1, 2006
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It’s a birthday celebration for Web Smart Central’s 1st business birthday.

I wanted to go all out and give a worthwhile gift away. So 17 holiday packages are up for grabs.

You get to choose where you wish to stay at over 250 premium location around Australia.

You get 7 vouchers for 2 nights each for 2 people, and you only have to buy breakfast and dinner at the hotel you choose to stay. Since you have to eat anyway, I figured this was a wonderful idea.

If you don’t want to eat at the hotel, some hotels offer a buy one night get the second night free using the vouchers.

To be eligible you have to invest in our Platinum Shared Hosting Plan, or any of our Reseller Plans.

Aaron

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You Can Make Money By Hosting, By Reselling

March 1, 2006
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At last after months of deliberating over whether to have reseller accounts or not, I’ve decided to include them into the Web Smart Central offering.

For those that don’t know, a Reseller has the ability to divide up their allocated space and bandwidth, and has a master control panel for their account. From there they can house other peoples websites completely separately (with their own control panel), effectively becoming a mini hosting provider. They can offer their clients the hosting space at whatever cost they desire. Being a reseller is fantastic for web designers, accountants, solicitors, and internet marketers.

If you chose your provider carefully then they deal with all the hard work, and you just get to make some profit. Some even deal with the support issues from your clients. This is still an area that I haven’t decided on what I’ll be doing. Let’s just say that I’ll find out the support ramifications as I go.

This is exactly where Web Smart Central started over a year ago, with a USA Reseller account. That was quickly outgrown, as we surpassed the hosting provider that was providing the reseller account. Plus there were clear signs that they were overloading their server so I moved away from them. Just in time as 2 months later they were no more.

If you haven’t read my report about overselling and the dangers of it, then I suggest you take a look.

The only force that drives hosters to overload the servers is monetary greed. But it’s just not worth it, it’s a business killer.

Aaron

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Web Hosting Providers Should Communicate More

February 22, 2006
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I used to hate with a passion the web hosting providers that I used and relied upon (cough, cough) before I started Web Smart Central.

Just the simple task of communicating was a foreign concept.

Other things used to bug me but you could break it down in the end to just plain bad communication.

If you have watched the Seinfeld TV show at any stage, you may have seen the episode where George Costanza being completely inept and hopeless at everything he ever did in life, simply turned himself around 180degrees to lead a charmed life, by doing the exact opposite of what he normally would do.

Well that is the exact philosophy that I chose when starting this hosting firm.

I figured if I do the exact opposite of what the bad hosting firms were doing to me, then I would have a great web hosting company.

I was right! Thank you George Costanza.

My main goal was give my clients as many avenues of communication as possible and to keep them informed when necessary.

To achieve this, I’ve setup… a Postoffice (email lists), Forums, Support System, Phone contact, Emergency Mobile Contact

Since I’m in regular contact with my clients through email, I am building up a relationship with them that other web hosting providers fail or are unwilling to do. Their loss.

As I’ve always said (assuming that your product is good) business is all about relationships.

Aaron

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What Is Your Biggest Fear?

February 22, 2006
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I have been getting a fantastic newsletter from Scott Bywater from copywritingthatsells.com.au

He mentioned finding out from your existing customers their biggest fear they had before they become a customer of yours.

Simple question, but it the answers give you a direct key to knowing what you have to do to alay those fears that are present in your yet-to-be customers.

Invaluable knowledge wouldn’t you say. I asked my client list this very question.

“What was your biggest fear when deciding to sign up for our hosting service?.”

I was blown away by the response of 22% of my clients taking the time to answer my question. Not only answer my question, but give me other fantastic information as well.

It was such a good response that I’ve added some of the responses to my testimonials page and tagged a link to it from my homepage.

Go and check out what they had to say on the testimonials page.

I strongly suggest that you ask your clients what their biggest fear was, and you might be pleasantly surprised. I was.

Aaron

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Suffer From Affiliate Link Theft - Well Hide Your Affiliate Links Then!

February 16, 2006
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Doing joint ventures with other internet businesses is a fact of life these days. Bottom line is you can grow your business in leaps and bounds with just one good joint venture.

Affiliates are a form of joint venture, and is a topic that some internet users have an aversion to. Affiliates have their sales tracked by embedding a fairly obvious user ID string onto a link. It’s easy to spot an affiliate link and some people will go out of their way to either strip out the affiliate information relieving you of any commissions you may have been entitled to or in fact hijack the link with their own ID.

It’s just another form of stealing when you get right down to it. I refuse to expose myself to it, so I wrote a script some time ago to stop theifs dead their tracks. I’ve now decided to open it up for everyone else, mainly to get some promotion for my Australian Web Hosting and Development company, and maybe sell some of Jim’s software as well.

Jim Edwards had a program written called Affiliate Link Cloaker that has all the bells and whistles on it, and automates the whole process for you.

But if you want to see what all the hype is about you can test it for yourself, you can use my very own online link cloaker. Nowhere near as good as Jim’s product, but it get’s the job done and it’s awesome for hiding affiliate links

Beware it is manual process and probably not for newbies and also doesn’t have any error checking other than for pain in the ass spammers. Shite In = Shite Out

Enjoy

Aaron

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Look Out - I’m Off To World Internet Summit in Sydney March 9-12

February 16, 2006
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I’ve been an avid student of Brett McFall and his marketing ways for just over 2 years now, and last year when the World Internet Summit was held on the Gold Coast, I was very I’ll and wasn’t able to attend. It was disappointing for me.
This year as soon as tickets went on sale I jumped at the chance, grabbing one of Brett’s Birthday special price tickets. Only this year, it’s being held in Sydney.

So I’m off on a plane to Sydney for 4 days next month to immerse myself into internet marketing, joint ventures and all things internet. I can’t wait. For me personally since I am not a newbie to the internet (far from it in fact, since 1993), I’ll be using the time to meet like minded people and perhaps gather some Joint Ventures and great contacts.

Here’s the catch cry from Ted Ciuba (one of the 3 amigos) that run the event.

“Give Me A Willing Person…
Loan Me A Laptop Computer
With An Internet Connection …
And Within 72 Hours That Person
Will Have A Product, A Website …
And Money In The Bank - PLUS
A System To Make That Money
Over And Over Again FOR LIFE!”

Now they hold a contest where they pluck someone from the audience and use them as an example of the process to make a product and sell it online. From scratch.

Of course the huge figures that you see on the website are based on selling the product to the speakers (internet marketers) existing lists. Since the guinea pig in the audience didn’t have any contacts yet, this just shows the power of joint ventures. But the principles of the task are the secret sauce that you must know.

If you are thinking about generating an income online then why reinvent the wheel. You’re wasting your time. I’ve wasted about the last 2 years slowly learning about internet marketing when I could have been moving at full steam straight away if I had of been to a seminar like this back then.

Visit the World Internet Summit site here to see what it’s all about.

If you decide it’s what you’ve been waiting for then please contact me as I’d love to know someone ahead of time that’s going to meet up with them at the event.

Aaron

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Search Engine Optimisation - SEO

February 9, 2006
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I am a big fan of search engine optimisation - SEO.

But it can be so frustrating at times.

Let me outline for you the keywords that I’m trying to crack and have been since March 2005.

Brisbane Web Hosting and Australian Web Hosting

These are big players in the keyword marketplace. They fetch a high price on Google Awords and Yahoo Search Marketing (the old Overture)

I have advertising in both and it costs me, but it without it I would have no targeted traffic generation at all. Notice the bolded word targeted. It’s the best kind to push for.

Over the last few months I now have a good ranking i.e position 1 and 2 for Brisbane Web Hosting, and 2 and 11 for Australian Web Hosting, MSN and Yahoo respectively. But I’m still not showing in Google.

Now why is that. The Google web crawler visits my site up to 3 times a day, yet I still don’t show for my main keywords that I’ve optimised for.

I do show for other obscure terms that I never would have guessed people would be entering.

Aparantly Google has a sandbox (a trap they keep you in) for high profile keywords that you can only get out of over time. Supposedly up to 18months. How ridiculous that I have a number 1 postition in Yahoo but don’t even show in Google. My content is fresh, I am a legitimate business, but I’m still shut out.

The worst part is that there are listings in the first 10 pages that are just rubbish. I’m not talking about taking a front page spot here, I just would like to at least be in the first 10 pages and work it up from there, like I did with the other engines.

I have yet to work out what to do about this. I’ve been told by experts that I still need more links to my site. But when I do a check on the competition even on the first page of Google, I actually have better links and more of them than they do.

Will update the blog once I find a solution. If anyone has any ideas for me to try, I’m all ears.

Aaron

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