By: Graham Burt | Source: site-reference.com

Advertise Yes But Do not Spam

There is a big difference between advertising and spam and it is unfortunate that a high percentage of new internet business owners do not realize the distinction between the two. This is critical because while an interesting, adequately written Internet marketing campaign can help to entice new clients and have existing clients stay with you, spam is liable to distance both new clients and existing clients. This can be exceedingly harmful to profit margins for a business owner. Email campaigns can be remarkably effective tools in the business of Internet marketing. Email campaigns may incorporate mailing regular e-newsletters containing useful information as well as advertisements, short instructive email courses or emails giving discounts on goods and services. Trusted clients who opt into your email list may probably not label these emails as spam and may buy other goods and services from your business as an upshot of this marketing procedure. In addition other internet users who have specifically requested more details about your products and services normally also find this kind of advertising to be useful.

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By: Andy Beal | Source: webpronews.com

Publishers and bloggers, looking to monetize their site, have a new option to consider with today’s launch of MIVA MC. Any publisher in the U.S. or U.K. can apply for a MIVA MC account, and if accepted into the program, can display a wide array of ads on their site, including:

• Content Ads: keyword or contextually targeted Pay-Per-Click Ads displayed in fully customized implementations beside site content.
• MIVA InLine Ads: Pay-Per-Click Ads that appear when users mouse over hyperlinked keywords within actual site content.
• Search Ads: Pay-Per-Click Ads displayed in response to specific typed-in search queries.

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By: Jimmy Daniels | Source: revenews.com

After nearly three months, DMOZ, The Open Directory Project, reinstated the Site Suggestion, Update Listing, Editor Reinstatement, and Forgotten Password forms. The directory has been experiencing technical problems since October.

A DMOZ Resource Zone administrator reported on Saturday that several features remain unavailable, with no current ETA:

"New editor applications are still disabled and we are still not able to check on the statuses of previous applications. As well, the public abuse reporting system, editor feedback, and any other feature for which the ‘Service Temporarily Unavailable’ message is still appearing are still not available."

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