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ASCENSION MAGAZINE Yes finally after two long years Ascension Magazine now has a home on the web. Those who are familiar with Ascension Magazine know it to be the premier monthly publication of what's happening in Ascension Parish. And now they are online. Check them out at 
HOUSEHUNTER 24 / 7 Whether you are looking to Buy or Sell your home you will find all the resources you need on their website. You can sell your house on your own by listing your property on our site, or you can seek the professional services of a highly qualified Realtor. Contact one of their representatives with any questions you might have. 
NEW IMAGE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER Looking to stop smoking without the withdrawal symptoms of patches, gums and pills? Tired of fad diets and unhealthy pills to loose weight? Do you suffer from back and neck pain and are through with pain pills? Well we have the laser you have been looking for. Yes, that's right, laser therapy is available right here. Dr. Donald Auzine and the trained staff of New Image Health and Wellness Centers are waiting to hear from you. Check out their website at 
YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge The YWCA is the oldest and largest multicultural women's organization in the world. Across the globe, they have more than 25 million members in 122 countries, including 2 million members in 300 local associations in the United States. And with a mission to eliminate racism and to empower women what a better organization to support. We were contracted this year to utilize our experience and expertise of web marketing and e-communications to increase the awareness of the numerous valuable services offered by this most valuable organization. We created a bi-monthly e-newsletter to be in constant communications with our growing membership. And the results have proven very successful. Some of their programs include youth and teen services, breast cancer awareness and education, the family resource center, racial justice programs and so much more. So take a moment and see what the Greater Baton Rouge YWCA has to offer. You might be surprised.
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Everyone wants free traffic, but it's a full time job to try to keep on top of the search engines changing rules. Instead, build a good content-rich site and do the things suggested below and you’ll get the traffic you want and increase your search engine page ranking. Write More About It - Submit press releases frequently with news of interest to the media and your target market. Write Even More With A Blog – Blogs must have frequently updated content. Base yours on information helpful to your customers, not sales pitches. Testify On Other Sites – Submit your testimonials to other sites and let them publish it on their web site as long as they link back to you. E-Newsletters – With all the pages of articles you will have from the above suggestions, why not make an e-newsletter to distribute to your mailing list and to interested visitors to your site E-Mail Letters – SPAM is not defined as an email from you to a person in your email list. Send your customers and friends monthly emails reminding them of what you do, any special events or sales you might have. Pay For It - Get traffic in no time with Pay Per Click services. Google and Overture are the primary ones. Key to make this work: know your visitor value, bid on several keywords/phrases that are not too competitive, and track the results. Where’s Your Address? How can visitors be expected to visit your website if you they don’t know it is there. Put your web address on EVERYTHING including business cards, letterhead, envelopes, note cards, voicemail… EVERYTHING. Yes, internet traffic is good and sometimes can seem overwhelming or too expensive to generate. But there are many things you can do that cost little to nothing. Simply pick one item above at a time and start working with that, you will see the results. |
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ARE BRIDES YOUR MARKET? Attention to those who want to target market the ever growing bridal industry. Southern Grace Weddings has teamed with Ascension Magazine to bring the first bridal magazine and interactive website to the area. Advertising prices are extremely affordable. Contract deadline is May 15. The issue and website will be out in June. Act now and you'll receive the pleasure of talking to Orhan Mc Millan or Julie Rivett about your advertising needs ABSOLUTELY FREE. A priceless value all yours for free if you act now. www.southerngraceweddings.com RED HOT ART Get out your HOT COLORS and HOT IDEAS and bring one or two artworks for the RED HOT ART SHOW which will be on display all through June. Take in for the art will be June 1,2 & 3 from 10-4pm. Ribbons will be awarded. Paintings, Photography, & 3-D Accepted. |
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Keywords - Why Do I Need Them
Knowing which keywords to use and how to use them in your website are critical steps to getting your website found by visitors using search engines. If your keywords and the content of your site do not contain related keywords, your potential customers may not find your website but will find your competitions when they do online searches. So what words to use? Well that’s the million-dollar question. It can be a bit confusing but basically you need to choose words that are popular and relevant to your site. The ideal terms in a site should be terms that a potential customer would use when searching for your type of website. In order to achieve success your website should have terms and phrases that are descriptive, related to your content, and which receive a significant amount of searches. In addition and the biggest challenge is that you want to find terms and phrases where there is little competition, so you quickly achieve high ranking in the important search engines. Markets saturated with other sites competing for search terms make it difficult to find quality keywords. Sometimes it is better to optimize for a less popular term, one that is more targeted at your visitor, because it is more likely to have a higher conversion rate than a less specific popular term. The first step to determining keywords is brainstorming a list of logical terms and phrases that relate to your type of business or service. The idea is to get a group of people to give their choices for your type of website so that you get a good overall public representation. There are a number of free and low-cost tools available online and for download that will allow you to expand and research terms that have been brainstormed. The results typically vary with the tools but overall the tools will assist you in determining where to focus your keyword efforts. Another trick is to go to your competitor’s websites who already have good search engine ranking and see what type of wording they are using in their copy on their website. Go to your favorite search engine and find businesses like yours that have top ranking. Make sure and go to a few of the major search engines including Yahoo, Google, AOL andMsn. Pick the top three companies from each and go through the body copy of their website and make a list of the words they used in their site. Take this list of words and phrases and compare and contrast and create your master list of keywords and phrases. Now review the body copy and make sure that it has all of the keywords you chose. Repetition of keywords is a good thing also. Then contact your webmaster to make sure that your html coding of your keywords is updated with your new selection of words and phrases. So how do you know if they are working? Which words might need to be changed? That is where your web stat software comes in. Most web companies offer some sort of traffic monitoring software that comes with your hosting package. In this software you want to find the section that has top referring keywords or top referring search engines with the keywords used. As you monitor this over a few months, make notes as to which words get the most use and which don’t. Then you simply go back to your list make adjustments and substitutions and modify your words. Does it take time? Yes. Is it important? That answer depends on how much traffic you want your site to get from the search engines. There are several online services available that will help you in this process. Some of the more popular ones are:
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Keywords are a list of words that are included in the code of your website, people type these word into the search engine to find your site. These words are highly relevant to the content of your web pages.
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OUR APOLOGIES We wish to apologize for the delay in our e-newsletter. It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating our annual holiday toy drive and now we are already in the beginnings of summer.
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HAVE YOU "ASKED O" This is where you ask questions of interest and we'll do the research and post the answers to your inquiry. There are lots of things about marketing, the internet and print media that can be challenging, so, 
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COOL GAME The object of the game is to simply survive by moving the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black perimeter walls. It's been said that the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to survive for at least 2 minutes. |
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