tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116178122011-04-21T22:45:13.267+03:00Tea With An Edge discusses issues related to Marketing, eMarketing, eBusiness and keeps a detailed journal of the birth and development of a new Marketing resource, TeaWithEdge.com Of course, there's the occasional rambling on totally Marketing - unrelated stuff... ENJOY!DorkusMarketingushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089559671533045062noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11617812.post-1117912810235364572005-06-04T22:20:00.000+03:002005-06-04T22:20:10.256+03:00

My excitement over what comes next in this post might sound infantile if any "SEO expert", "internet marketing guru", and other impressively denominated persons get to read this; however, if you're just getting started in website optimization and still wondering how to improve your search rankings and overall online presence, you might be interested in reading this. The newborn Marketing portal

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For those of you interested in principles and theory of eMarketing / Internet Marketing, here is a much viewed and sought-after article highlighting the main aspects of what an eMarketing plan should be.You are free to reprint this article, on the condition that you keep it "as-is", no cuts and no additions to it, and you will include the resource box with enabled URL's.The eMarketing Plan -

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I'm perplexed at the scarcity of eMarketing courses available... and I wonder why is that. I wanted myself to take professional courses but I found it extremely difficult to find anything trustful in terms of content: most of the so-called emarketing courses merely deal with how to send bulk emails and that's about it.I find it upsetting that most people (and I mean professionals) would still

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Came along this useful piece of software, that's not only free but it comes in handy when assessing the link popularity of a website: the program is called, oh well.. Link Popularity Check and can be found for download at http://www.checkyourlinkpopularity.com/I'm playing with it right now and I'm a little disappointed at how few link TeaWithEdge.com raised until now (a mere 181 links) but at

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I've just remembered that it's about time to get upset at DMOZ.org (Open Directory Project). The reason is a very simple one and you might have already guessed it... yep, TeaWithEdge.com is still unlisted within the directory, after two months of waiting.That wouldn't be a big thing considering how DMOZ works... as a former editor I've seen sites submitted and unprocessed even after 2 years since

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After a long (and hopefully excused absence) from this blog, caused by an extended travel to my native country over the Easter holiday, here I am, back with great news!TeaWithEdge.com is ranked 4 / 10 by Google I was amazed one day by the end of April, when visiting my own site to see if all scripts are okay, to notice I've already been ranked by Google and awared a promising rank of 4. Now... I

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I'm pretty much done with submitting my site to all kind of directories now, though it was quite a job to find some decent directories aside from the big 'uns we all know. Of course... I found a mirriad ones with tiny ranking and looking rather linkfarmingly... well that's not my desired audience in the first place so I stayed away from them.Meawhile some new SEO and SEM reports I'm munching they

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The quest for quality links continue... however I noticed it's getting harder and harder to find quality sites to share links with. That because the vast majority of those offering link exchange are nothing but link farms, obscure sites advertising overnight fame and fortune schemes and so on. Some more places where I submitted requests and got links back are: AdFree.com gmnetpromos.com

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I wish search engines to get standardized in terms of technologies and algorithms... I'm way too confused now after having some interesting feedback to a question I posted at marketingprofs.com.As you know by now, I'm working on building link popularity for TeaWithEdge.com, my Marketing portal, and I've got the site listed in some pretty good directories and Marketing-related websites. Then, I

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Good question, huh?Well, I'm totally sunk in this frenzy of building my website's link popularity and I "restlessly" search for places where to insert my link. I've obviously submitted the site to major directories (such as Dmoz.org for example) but I have huge question marks about WHEN will be the site listed. Dmoz.org still holds captive my submission for a beauty website (BeautySofa.com) since

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After starting my day at 8am with what else than walking my Mini Schnauzer (unoriginally named... Snoopy - click the name to see his page) I continued with frenetically writing more content for my Marketing portal (TeaWithEdge.com) but I somehow ended up searching for articles and info about SEO... bad bad idea!I'm continuously perplexed by the billions of articles on this subject, from all kind

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I'm Romanian. I don't live in my country any longer (for purely personal reasons that have nothing to do with immigration whatsoever, that's a whole other story though) but I do care a lot for what happens there. As a Romanian AND a marketer, you can easily imagine how thrilled I was to see a TV spot one day announcing a one-day conference in Bucharest held by... no one else than Philip Kotler!

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Welcome to the Tea With An Edge bloggin' blog!My name is Otilia (aka DorkusMarketingus - which means we've already established where I stand in Darwin's tree) and I'm here to tell you my journey thru the tough world of Marketing. Well... not only that... I'm pretty much sure that I'll be rambling on and on about other things that happen in my life, or around me, or way far from me.The point is (

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