An excellent article on finding the right platform to run your ecommerce site can be found at the link below -

http://ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/building/article.php/3551461

Enjoy your weekend.

The war is over... maybe... you know the one where search engines say they index the "most" content. Details can be found at the following link -

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3551586

We talked last week I think about being prepared for an emergency - so what if you have pets - this site may help you get them prepared as well.

http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_disaster_center/disaster_preparedness_for_pets/

Hopefully you enjoyed your weekend - DEMC had an informative ezine over the weekend which included an excellent one on Pay per clicks -

http://www.demc.com/artman/publish/article_41.shtml

Make sure you check out the other articles as well.

A nice tool to find out if you've been banned from Google -

http://123promotion.co.uk/tools/googlebanned.php

A nice list of video and audio downloads from business leaders - best thing no charge to download.
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/av_speakers.html

Have a great weekend.

A nice search engine that will help you find out how you're doing for terms in multiple search engines - find out more here -

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3550681

Fine tune your keyword research from Wordtracker with this free report -

http://www.wordtracker.com/keyword-research-guide.html

How big is Microsoft - pretty big -

http://www.rjdudley.com/blog/TheMassivenessOfMicrosoft.aspx

An interesting article about Blogs and will Google visit your site more often because of one.

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/does_googlebot_visit_more_often_because_of_my_blog.html

An excellent free report on keywords / finding the right keywords.

http://www.KeywordWorkshop.com

If you like crosswords / cryptograms then you'll enjoy this site -

http://oneacross.com/

Some good ideas on running your newsletter / email campaigns.

http://www.marketingsherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentID=3076

Don't forget to send your estimated taxes in tomorrow ... Bah Humbug.

A great resource for disaster planning (for you and your business) can be found at the link below.

http://www.youngandsuccessful.com/newsletter/ys_weekly_090805/

We've talked some about usability in the past - you can find some good info at the following link -

http://webreference.com/authoring/design/usability/

Some good stuff there if you dig for it a bit.

If you like to keep on top of the latest trends I would highly recommend the following newsletter.

http://www.trendwatching.com/

A newsletter I look forward to getting.

Unfortunately when you have a disaster scammers come out of the wood work. The link below may help keep you safe (from scammers).

http://www.scambusters.org/hurricanekatrinascams.html

Have a wonderful weekend.

Couple of good links today -

1. Protect your computer - 8 good hints about keeping your computer safe.
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20050907_eight_steps_to_system_security_2005.phtml

2. 20 things you can do to make sure your website is accessible.
http://devwebpro.com/devwebpro-39-20050825TheTop20ThingsYouCanDotoMakeYourWebsiteAccessible.html

It seems that Google did a PR / backlink update over the weekend - guess they didn't take the holiday off - some details on that can be found in the following forums.

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=7673
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/31072.htm

The Sept. issue of our newsletter can be found at the following link -

Building business relationships, interesting newsletter stats and more.

We hope that you and your family had a wonderful holiday weekend.

A few good tidbits today - note we won't be posting tomorrow or Monday so enjoy your holiday - hug your family and have a bit of fun.

Are alt tags worth it -
http://www.searchengineguide.com/aws/2005/0830_aws1.html

An excellent guide to wordtracker - click save as since it is a pdf file.
http://tanny.com/keywords/keyword-research/Wordtracker-Guide.pdf

Earlier we said that Yahoo was going to be creating a service similar to AdSense - you get paid for your traffic. Their beta is open and details can be found here -

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/nl/aug05tu.php

Again enjoy your weekend.