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As part of our efforts to maintain the high quality of directory we are pleased to inform that we have removed the homepage sponsored links and the space has been untlized to post the latest blog posts from our directory blog.

The change is aimed at refreshing the content of the homepage more frequently and to add more content for our visitors to read.

AIMpromote lead management software review

A good customer relation is vital for a success of any business regardless of the size and the nature of the business.  Customer Relationship Management also know as CRM is a concept used various companies to manage their relationship with customers. There are plenty of ways to keep a good relationship with customers. One of the greatest way to improve your crm is the use of crm software.

Customer Relationship Management software is an application designed to assist a business in organizing all the data associated with a client.  I must stress that crm is not just a technology, but rather a comprehensive approach to an organization’s philosophy in dealing with its customers. These days many companies use such software’s to increase their productivity.

Among many such softwares I would like to highlight the powerful AIMpromote. It is essentially a CRM, but is focused particularly on lead management. It is an on-demand lead management software designed to track, disposition and communicate with leads on a more timely and efficient basis. I personally visited the site and was amazed to see the kind of features available in this unique software. Unlike more traditional crm software’s AIMpromote is easy to use and provides a solution that can be implemented with quickness and ease.

Not many online softwares offer as many features as offered in Aimpromote.com. Since it is  a business application designed to organize all the data associated with a client, it has many new features enabled to achieve the companies main goals. It provides more functionality than it’s competitors at much lower cost. Among many great features that comes with the crm software, I would like to highlight some of the features offered:

  • Lead Attention Meter -  Mainly used to provide a quick way to see how much attention (or neglect) a lead is receiving.
  • Custom Lead list display - Which gives you the power to create a lead list that shows the information you need to see without opening the lead to retrieve important lead data.
  • Lead Reselling - Which allows you to set up and manage lead reseller client accounts.
  • Return on Investment Reporting - Which gives you the ability to calculate ROI by taking the actual net profit generated by an advertising campaign and dividing it by the advertising expense incurred with that campaign.

Unlike many other sofatware’s that you have to buy before you can try, AimPromote offers a 14 day free trial to test the product by yourself. Customer relation is essential for any business. More knowledge about it is the key. I have also see an interesting view about customer relation from ITS site at (http://www.its.state.nc.us/About/Divisions/CRM/CRM.asp). Use of available resources could help to achieve the goals.

Primeview Web Design!

Web designing is a profession which requires good knowledge and excellent skills related various subjects. There are several International companies specialized in web design service. Among many such compnaies I would like to highlight Arizona web design giant Primeview.com

Primeview.com came to my attention after seeing several web sites they have designed which impressed me a lot. I have noticed that many web sites designed by Primeview are very well optimized for search engines. This is an area vast majority of web design companies forget to include. When it comes down to search engine optimization, there are certain things that web designers can improve at the designing stage. The consistency of design of a site is one of the factors that differentiates amateur sites from professional ones. If you look at this new website built by www.primeview.com you will realize the difference I have mentioned above.  I would leave it for you to judge the difference between their old site and the new site.  

http://web.archive.org/web/20061017182222/http://www.dashcourses.com/

Having quality and efficient designers is the major reason for the huge success the company is having currently. As we all know rebuilding a roughly 400 page static site into a dynamic site in just 03 weeks is not an easy task to do. But, staff at Primeview have successfully done it with pride. It is believed that the company will soon be launching its new website in Tokyo soon. Just click here to see some of their previous works.

What is Search Engine Optimization?

We all know that search engine optimization is a great way to get high ranking in search engines which will lead to more vistors to your site. But, the question is what is search engine optimization? In simple search engine optimization is a process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” search results. There are many factors which contribute to the high ranking in search engine results.

The process of SEO involves a site’s coding, presentation, and structure, as well as fixing problems that could prevent search engine indexing programs from fully spidering a site. All these are absolutely necessary steps and should be done in accordance with how search algorithms work. The approach to SEO is also very important. Some experts  favor more aggressive approach to SEO while others prefer holistic approach.

I personally view good search engine rankings as the end product of developing a Web site with good content. Many search engine optimizers consider optimization as part of the main marketing strategy which I too find agreeable.

Matt Cutts comments on Web Directory Isuues and PR

Finally Matt Cutts has commented about the latest fluctuation in ranking for web directories. His comment was brief and did not go into details. Here is what he said.

Here’s what I’ve said about directories recently:

“Q: Hey, as long as we’re talking about directories, can you talk about the role of directories, some of whom charge for a reviewer to evaluate them?
A: I’ll try to give a few rules of thumb to think about when looking at a directory. When considering submitting to a directory, I’d ask questions like:
- Does the directory reject urls? If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site.
- What is the quality of urls in the directory? Suppose a site rejects 25% of submissions, but the urls that are accepted/listed are still quite low-quality or spammy. That doesn’t speak well to the quality of
the directory.
- If there is a fee, what’s the purpose of the fee? For a high-quality directory, the fee is primarily for the time/effort for someone to do a genuine evaluation of a url or site.
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Those are a few factors I’d consider. If you put on your user hat and ask “Does this seem like a high-quality directory to me?” you can usually get a pretty good sense as well, or ask a few friends for their take on a particular directory.”

He also commented about the delay in Page Rank. Here is what he siad.

As far as the toolbar PageRank, I definitely wouldn’t expect to see it in the next few days. Probably not even in the next couple weeks, if I had to guess..

It is now clear that there will not be any Page Rank update at least in the next couple of weeks.

Here is the link to Mr. Cutts comment.

Current Google SERP changes

Google SERP has been shaky ever since last week. SERP changes are noted in all major niches. I do beleive google is currently dumping tons of pages from its index to get rid of many spammy sites. Suprisingly this time many well established sites were dropped from SERPs. Many establsihed sites are not visible for their own compnay names.

SERP changes are quiet usual and it has to be also however, what we are seeing currently is a “major” change. I hope it all gets back to normal soon.

Alive Directory launches a Search Engine Marketing Blog

Alive directory has lauched a Search Engine Marketing Blog aimed at providing directory news, marketing and webmaster related infromation. Alive directory is one of the strongest and most promoted web directory in the world. The blog will also provide vital information for web directory owners as well as submitters about various issues related to web directories.

Apart from regular webmster news, there are many web directory, and blog templates avaialble for dowload free of charge. Alive directory has been awarded authoritive status by Google recently.

Leading Directory announces a special offer

We are pleased to announce special discounted offer for featured link reviews from day for 3 days. As part of the offer prices have been reduced to 25%. We are also offering 01 free link along with every featured link purchased.

 Leading Web Directory is currentry PR5 strong directory. Featured listing can have upto 5 deeplinks while regular links can have upto 3 links.