How many of your Newsletters Get Lost in Cyberspace? Find out now. by: John Alexander

How does one go about setting up a newsletter? There are plenty of services like Aweber.com which is a fully featured sequential auto responder, which is completely browser based. Newsletters can be personalized and customized and sent out to your readers on a regular basis easy as 1, 2, 3. However, these days it can be difficult to determine how many of your newsletters or customer communications are actually making it through the various Spam filters. Do you sometimes get the impression that perhaps not all of your e-mails are being delivered? Suppose that only 60% of your e-mail is actually making through to your subscribers or that some ISPs may have incorrect information about your domain. Could it be that you are being labeled a "Spammer" even though you are meticulously following a completely permission based Opt-in policy.

Here's one solution called Deliverymonitor.com which actually monitors the success ratio of each of your e-mail campaigns.

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How and when should I submit my website to Google? by: Glenn Murray

The second reason is a recent phenomenon called ‘Google Sandbox’. Many SEO experts believe that Google "sandboxes" new websites. Whenever it detects a new website, it withholds its rightful ranking for a period while it determines whether your site is a genuine, credible, long term site. It does this to discourage the creation of SPAM websites (sites which serve no useful purpose other than to boost the ranking of some other site).

By submitting your domain name to Google as soon as you register it, you’re establishing a site history even if the site has no content. By the time you’ve built your site, written your copy, and developed the rest of your content (and written your business and marketing plans), Google will probably see no need to sandbox you.

If you wait until launch day to submit your site, you’ll spend a month or two (maybe more) sitting in the sandbox watching potential customers spend their money elsewhere.

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How Yahoo's Recent Facelift Can Mean More Traffic To Your Site by: Tinu Abayomi-Paul

If you could use a daily stream of traffic from even a small portion of Yahoo's estimated 20 million users, this could be your final wake-up call. You'll want to learn how to create a feed that gets well listed immediately. This is because Yahoo will still need hundreds, perhaps thousands more, even if it only intends to list the "creme de la creme" of the submissions it gets. Being in that group is as easy as submitting your feed.

Being at the top of the list isn't. Your feed and your site still have to play by the rules of basic search engine optimization, among other things. "My Yahoo!" RSS Headline module Coming Out of Beta?

If I had to guess, I'd say all signs point to yes. When that happens, Yahoo's RSS/Atom directory will likely contain only those who added their feeds early. New feeds seeking to be included will probably face stricter standards than in the past.

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