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John Alexander

John Alexander is Co-director of Training at Search Engine Workshops offering live, SEO Workshops with partner Robin Nobles, as well as online search engine marketing courses through Online Web Training.

John is author of an e-book called Wordtracker Magic and co-author of the Totally Non-Technical Guide for A Successful Web Site.

John is also an official member of the customer support team at Wordtracker.com.

Reports by John Alexander

Real World Statistics Reveal How Customers are Reading Your Newsletter
AWeber Communications Releases Newsletter Statistics for Best Open, Click-Thru and Delivery Rates

When is the best time of the week to send your newsletter? Which day of the week results in the highest average open rate? Sending your Newsletter at what time of day time generated the highest open rate? All good questions, right? If you publish a permission based newsletter using a sequential auto-responder like Aweber.com you may be interested in a few of the most recent statistics taken from thousands of AWeber customer newsletters sent over the past 30 days.



Keyword Effectiveness - Observing Big Differences In Little Keywords
There are all kinds of keywords being used by people daily, in their search for information. Most professional search engine marketers learn early in their career that all keywords are not the same. Some keywords are highly competitive while others are less competitive, which often seems as though fewer people are searching for them. But then there are some keywords that are really hardly being searched for at all. Some of the most ideal phrases are those that relate to a product or service but are being fairly often used by a specific audience of searchers, but at the same time have low competition.

Let's put it another way. Phrases which have a low number of competing pages, but also are phrases that are actually being used often by searchers, represent a nice"window of opportunity." The reason these keywords are appealing is because you can gain significant advantage (with little or no competition) while only performing mild optimization.

Result: High visibility on major search engines without the stress of competing with millions of pages.

Dialogue with your Web Visitors Through Smarter Writing Styles
Have you ever wanted to write more effective sales copy? If you have ever wished you could convert more of your Web site visitors into actual sales, then let's examine some superior ways to accomplish just exactly how it's done. Let's talk about working with smarter Web copy that can make a difference.

In a minute I want to come back to give you some examples, but let's talk about that word "dialogue." We know that the term "dialogue" is really more correctly thought of as the dictionary describes: "A conversation spoken between two or more people." If you look up synonyms for the word "dialogue" as a noun, you'll find a lot of terms that focus on "vocal expression" or "utterance" or "verbalization" in some aspect. So why do I use the term "dialogue" in terms of writing Web copy?

It's the best term I can think of to describe what I like to think of as the "flow of conversation" or nearly like writing your copy as though it was meant to be read "out loud" by voice.

Ten Things You Can Do to Increase Visitor Response at Your Website
Did you know that folks often make "buying decisions" when they are moved emotionally? Give this your full consideration when thinking about your website content. Traditional medias have made the most of these principles and taken advantage of them for many years now, whether it be through a TV commercial or an ad in a magazine.

People are emotional beings and we tend to make decisions (either good ones or bad ones) when we are emotional. If a customer becomes upset over a service issue, they could become angry over time if the issue is not resolved. If they become upset enough, they may just make a decision to discontinue the service entirely and find a new service. Alternately, if a customer is pleased or even happy with a service, they will do ongoing business or even refer the service to some of their friends.

Consider what the traditional media has known about for years. If you are able to put a creative spin on a product or service to make it either fun or represent it as something that is "cute," it can influence peoples' buying decisions tremendously. The emotional element is used to add life and appeal to nearly every type of product or service from print to radio and of course TV. From singing hamburgers and frys on TV to using subtle but cute hopping frogs or wadling penguins that promote cellular phone sales, it seems that everyone targets the emotions.

20 Ideas for Creating Traffic-Rich, Search Engine Friendly Pages
Sometimes questions will arise around the subject of gateway information pages or doorway pages. People have heard that "doorway pages" are BAD and some have stated that search engines "hate doorway pages." For clarification on these types of issues, John Alexander of SEO Workshops explains some simple SEO ground rules.

Do Search Engines Hate Doorway/Gateway Pages? To answer this we'll examine it in two steps. Let's understand: What it is that the Search Engines "HATE"? and then... What type of pages the search engines "LOVE"?

With this approach it will help us gain some understanding of the criteria that is most important. I certainly hope you enjoyed this article. I encourage you to explore creatively and think outside the box. I especially encourage you to dig deeply within the real-life behavioral trends that are revealed through my Wordtracker Magic techniques.

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