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The Axandra newsletter archive - 7 October 2003
Welcome to a new issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter.

This week we're informing you about second-generation link popularity building tools. In the news: Google buys a newsearch engine and adds a gagging clause to its AdSense program. Microsoft drops Looksmart.

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We hope that you enjoy this issue and that it helps you to get more out of your web site. Please pass this newsletter on to your friends.

Best regards,
Andre Voget, Johannes Selbach, Axandra CEO

1. Facts of the week: The top 5 myths about link popularity building tools
Some experienced webmasters gave link popularity building tools a bad reputation in the past. They argued that these tools would artificially inflate the link popularity score of web sites in order to deceive search engines.

This may have been true for the first generation of these tools but then ARELIS entered the market, promising to be the first serious reciprocal links management tool.

Unfortunately, the old arguments are still alive. This article now calls these arguments by their name and exposes why these arguments have become myths, using the ARELIS software as an example.

Myth #1: They're spamming tools, they send the same email message to everyone

    This might be true for older tools. However, ARELIS is definitely not a spamming tool. ARELIS requires that you visit every found web site before you can send an email message. It does not automate the task of sending email messages and it does not create a list of email addresses. For spammers, the tool is useless.

    However, the email feature of ARELIS allows you to automatically include each website's unique information into the body of your email to further personalize your message.

    The software license of ARELIS strictly prohibits sending spam messages.

Myth #2: They create link farms which are penalized by the search engines

    ARELIS does not create a link farm. It semi-automates the task of finding relevant web sites that could possibly link to you. Your personal link directory does not contain hundreds of unrelated links.

    The link pages that you create with ARELIS are on your web server and you alone decide which links will be added to your link pages. Your link directory is a unique page on the web that contains only links that you have chosen.

Myth #3: The search engines don't like these tools because they overtax their servers

    It's often the opposite. ARELIS is a search engine friendly web site promotion tool. It causes as little traffic as possible for the search engines. Often, it causes even less traffic than the average surfer performing the same task.

    For example, ARELIS queries search engine result pages with 100 results at a time if possible. That means that for every query it makes at a search engine, it gets 100 web pages in return. That way, ARELIS causes even _less_ traffic than the average Internet user who only sees ten web site results at a time.

Myth #4: These tools create link pages that all look the same on all web sites

    This is true for older tools but not for ARELIS. ARELIS offers more than 50 variables to customize your link pages. ARELIS helps you to create link pages that perfectly match the design of your other web pages. Every ARELIS-created link directory is unique.

    Internet marketing expert Michael Wong of Search-Engine-Optimization-Strategies.net says, "Even a HTML expert couldn't tell if a link directory was created by hand, or a program such as ARELIS."

Myth #5: Doing it manually is easier

    Your main benefit of using ARELIS is that you'll get many more links to your web sites. But ARELIS has many additional advantages. For example, ARELIS creates custom link directories with the click of a single button - much faster than creating link pages manually.

With ARELIS, you can change the link description of a web site in seconds. ARELIS also allows you to change the category of a web site and removes a web site from your link pages with a few mouse clicks.

ARELIS can check if a web site still links back to you, even after weeks or months. You don't have to manually visit every web site every few days. If someone doesn't link back to you anymore, ARELIS can automatically remove that web site from your link pages or send an email message to that person.

ARELIS finds relevant link partners for you and it automatically adds a title and description for these pages. ARELIS also helps you to find the contact information of a web site so that you can contact the web site owner faster.

In summary, ARELIS makes it very easy for you to keep track of your links. You'll always know who you've already contacted so you don't write to the same person twice.

Why are the old arguments still alive? One can only speculate the some webmasters fear that these tools have become so easy that everybody is now able to improve the link popularity of their web site. John Doe doesn't need the expensive search engine optimization company anymore. With ARELIS, the former elitist job of searching for relevant link partners, managing them and creating link pages is now as easy as 1-2-3.

Relevant links from other sites bring your web site targeted traffic from your search partners and they help you to increase your rankings on search engines.

You can find more information about ARELIS here.

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2. Search engine news of the week
Google AdSense gagging clause: Shut up and serve ads

    "Google has changed their terms of service to require that you not publicly discuss AdSense. [...]

    Meanwhile, other annoying provisions are that you can't: have multiple accounts (which is useful when you want to keep separate statistics for separate sites), talk to advertisers about their ads, disclose any results, get paid for anything Google considers 'fraudulent clicks', find out why they're considered 'fraudulent clicks', pass on payments to anyone. And Google can cancel you whenever without a reason."



Verisign to shut down search service

    "VeriSign Inc., the firm that oversees Internet addresses ending in ".com" and ".net," yielded to pressure yesterday and said it will temporarily shut down a new service that steers web surfers to its own online search directory when they mistype the name of a destination into their browser.

    The company's action came after the Internet's main oversight organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demanded that the company take down the service or face legal action."



Google buys new search engine - PageRank RIP?

    "Google has bought Kaltix, a three-month-old, three-man Stanford startup that's working on personalized and context-sensitive search. Despite its battalion of PhDs, Google isn't too proud to acquire external search technologies [...]"



Google starts counting searches

    "Google has quietly started placing a counter on its home page for a small number of its most frequent users.

    [...] Although Ms. Mayer says Google is not keeping count or a record of the searches any specific test user conducts, some privacy experts have raised concerns about the potential to collect such information, especially from a search company as popular as Google."



LookSmart sponsored listings to take on Google & Overture

    "LookSmart has relaunched its Sponsored Listings program using a new bid-for-placement model, a move it hopes will let the company win distribution partners from rivals Overture and Google, as well as increase its advertising revenues.

    On a related note: Microsoft dumped Looksmart yesterday.



Search engine newslets

    Google expands keyword matching. TerryLycos and Google sign Adsense agreement. - Yahoo profit seen rising 80%. Google opens Madrid office and launches Google News in Spanish. - AdSense is now available in Spanish and other languages. - FindWhat enters Japan partnership.

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3. Articles of the week
Interview with Google's CTO Craig Silverstein

    "When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice."

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4. Recommended resources
Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 3 coming this week

    We're releasing IBP 3 this week. The new version features many improvements and it will have a powerful search engine submission feature that helps you to submit your web site to all important search engines, Internet directories and even special interest sites while following all search engine submission rules.

    Until the release of IBP 3, you can download IBP 2.3 here. If you purchase IBP 2.3 now, version 3 will be a free update for you.



Benefit from ethical search engine optimization

    Axandra web site promotion software tools help you to get the best results for your web site. You'll always get results that reflect the current state of search engine optimization. In contrast to other web site promotion software tools, our tools use only ethical search engine optimization methods.

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