Thursday, September 27, 2007

Paid Link Management Easier Than Ever

Linkworth Announces a New Control Center

Linkworth, a leader in the search engine optimization and website marketing industry, launched its new website four months ago. The new site is sleeker and much more easily navigated, and Linkworth is now proud to announce the crowning glory of their new site--the new and improved Control Center.

(PRWEB) September 27, 2007 -- Linkworth, a leader in the search engine optimization and website marketing industry, launched its new website four months ago. The new site is sleeker and much more easily navigated, and Linkworth is now proud to announce the crowning glory of their new site--the new and improved Control Center.

When a user signs into their Linkworth account, the Control Center tells them everything they need to know about their account and gives them the power to modify their marketing strategy with a few simple clicks. The new Control Center is more user-friendly, with all the features front-and-center, increasing visibility and making it that much easier for Linkworth advertisers and partners to find the information they're looking for.

When a client logs into the Linkworth Control Center, they're now shown their account balance, monthly renewal, messages and alerts from Linkworth, and a list of featured partners. The Control Centered is designed to make planning and executing a marketing campaign with Linkworth a snap as technological advances open new horizons for internet advertisers.

"There was no doubt we needed a big update to our Control Center and website to keep up with the constantly changing web technologies," said Ron Wicker, President and Co-Founder of Linkworth. "While we are happy with the accomplishment, we're already working toward more improvements and preparing for what the web has in store for us around the next corner."

The new Control Center is just the latest innovation from
Linkworth, a company that has been on the forefront of website marketing strategies for the last several years. The site reorganization features new marketing products for both advertisers and partners, and an upgraded Control Center makes selecting products and partners so simple that customers will be able to execute a more directed campaign with as little trouble as possible.

"The new Control Center is just another step in the direction we're heading as a company. With the growing suite of products and services we currently offer, not to mention what is still in development, a more robust and user-friendly dashboard was a necessity," said Matt Stoddart, EVP of Sales. "It's a work in progress, but I'm very pleased with it."

Press Contact: Scarlett Tarjick
Company Name: LinkWorth
Phone: 2144403908
Website:
www.linkworth.com

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Barstool Racing and Search Engine Races

Barstool Racing, Bar Stool Racing, Bar Stool Races, and Search Engine Races

I admit that I had not heard of barstool racing before hearing a commercial on the radio for Ask.com. In the commercial, the woman speaking is in customer support and talks about how popular Ask is getting and that she is getting more emails. Then she reads one and her voice changes to that of a young man. Yeah, somewhat surreal.

Anyway, his letter is to say how awesome Ask is, because he told his friend about something called "barstool racing" and his friend bet that it didn't exist. When his friend did a search on "his" search engine, all he found was some links. When the young man searched in Ask, he found listings, photos, blogs, and other things.

In my search for "barstool racing" in MSN. Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask.com, Hotbot, Excite, Alltheweb, and SplatSearch.com, only SplatSearch failed to list www.barstoolracing.net is the first listing. Even SplatSearch had two listings for the search.

So does Ask really think their results are all that much better? After sucking for so many years and killing off the popular butler (The butler always did it for me...!), they suddenly seem to want our attention, but having a quality search product is not enough. No we have to endure misleading commercials like this one, garish and annoying ones like "Chicks with swords", and I think there was some other that I have successfully blocked from memory.

Ask may be succeeding, I don't know. All I can tell you is that I find their marketing either insulting or repulsive. They don't seem to realize that doing some more realistic and practical marketing would go much farther than what they are doing now. Getting people to try or switch search engines is easy, the hard thing would be getting them to stay. But if they have good results then that would not be that hard.

By the way, when are search engines going to start rotating their results? You and I both know that the same site as the top listing across all search engines is bogus. I'm sure that even for barstool racing there are several very good results that would deserve a turn in the top position, but for some reason, there is only room for one at the top. Until this changes, they will not best serve the needs of searchers or site owners, and will not help reduce the fight by everyone to be at the "top".

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Wadja Mobile Offers Mobile Web Users Service

Newly Launched, Wadja Mobile Offers Unprecedented Service to Mobile Web Users

Customers are flocking to the service, which is gaining renown for customization, message management and media browsing capabilities. Over 10,000 users have logged in for the new Wadja Mobile, after barely a week of release.

(PRWEB) September 13, 2007 -- Wadja Mobile (http://m.wadja.com) is the brand new version 1.0 mobile web service, making a big splash among mobile users worldwide. Wadja Mobile's version 1.0 release continues to bring their celebrated mobile social network to all types of handsets, offering users streamlined access to social media with exceptional usability. After the first week of release, over 10,000 users logged in with their mobile devices, from over 200 countries.

The service frees mobile users from dependence on clunky java downloads and substandard, user unfriendly interfaces that offer only limited functionality. What's more, Wadja Mobile frees users from the twin tyrannies of geography and handset incompatibility. Users can access Wadja Mobile from any part of the world using any handset equipped with a mobile web browser and mobile internet connection, now an industry standard.

But user friendliness and functionality is only a small part of what Wadja offers. The mobile web service is supported by a multi award winning social networking Web site. Since its launch in September 2006, the site's extensive menu of features has helped Wadja log impressive growth, and launch an array of national sites in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

"Wadja.com is a mobile social network that allows its members to set up unique personal mobile profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends," said Alex Christoforou of Wadja Media Ltd. "Wadja.com has gained international recognition as a leader in the young and exciting mobile web industry. With its high growth rate and dedicated, fanatic, user base, Wadja.com is in a coveted position to revolutionize the mobile web industry, an industry which offers enormous revenue potential through mobile web based communication and content related services and platforms."

Users can design a customized mobile home page that allows them instant access to the features they value most. Mobile users can choose from a wide variety of useful content, including inbox alerts, media browsing and friend sharing capabilities, mobile phone photos, music and video upload and download services, comment and rating features, network feed (so-called chit chat) services, free mobile SMS services, third party mobile site integration (including pop email accounts, and popular free email services from Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! mail) and much more.

Wadja.com highlights since its introduction include:
•    Nearing one million total users
•    Over 2,500 new users added daily (100% organic, word-of-mouth, growth)
•    Over 50,000 unique visitors daily
•    Over 400,000 page views daily
•    75 percent – 80 percent user return rate
•    14 Minutes average time spent on site per visitor
•    Over 2 million friend to friend, targeted SMS messages sent monthly
 
 
Wadja Mobile works with all mobile handsets, platforms and browsers including Opera Mini, Mobile Internet Explorer, Blackberry devices, iPhones, iMode platforms, Openwave browsers and just about any other device a customer can throw at them.

"Wadja Mobile bridges the gap between its web site and mobile service, giving users a full feature set of capabilities (and then some) on the mobile web service," Christoforou said. "Wadja users can always expect the near same and even more customized experience from their mobile phone as they get form the standard web site."

For more information, visit http://www.wadja.com/

Contact:
Alex Christoforou
Wadja Media LTD.
Home of the Blue Kangaroo
http://www.wadja.com/alex
Tel.: 30 210-72-17-292
Fax: 30 210-72-17-294
info(at)wadja.com


Press Contact: ALEX CHRISTOFOROU
Company Name: Wadja Media Limited
Phone: 302107217292
Website:
www.wadja.com