Using Windows XP: Windows XP System Configuration Utility

One of the tools included with Windows XP is the System Configuration Utility, a diagnostic program that automates routine troubleshooting tasks. This is the same tool that Microsoft Technical Support engineers will use when walking you through a system with problems. Giving it a look might save you a great deal of time and effort when attempting to solve system issues.

Submitting to Inktomi + 5 More SEO Tips

Jill, I’ve been working on optimizing a site that is not a new site. It’s been a live site for quite some time. I was thinking of hand-submitting it to Inktomi, but realized MSN and Hotbot have already indexed it without me doing anything. Is it necessary to pay to have your site submitted if it has already been indexed for free? Is it possible that it will be dropped from Inktomi if you don’t pay to submit?

Thanks for your help,

Mary Beth

Optimizing Dynamic Pages – Part II

The Widget Queen Revisited
You have the world’s finest collection of widgets. You created the world’s best widget website. You have no traffic.

You checked in the search engines and find that your site does not appear at all, even though all your competitors’ sites do. Perhaps the search engine robots cannot get to your pages to index them.

Search Engine Robots
Search engine robots are simple creatures. They can “read” text to add to their databases, and they can follow “normal” links–those links that are coded to look like

<a href=”bluewidgets.html”>blue widgets </a>

or the slight variation

<a href=”bluewidgets.html ><img src=”bluewidget.gif” ></a>

Marketing and Sales Alignment: How Siebel Does It

Siebel Systems is best known for its commanding share of the CRM market. Recently, the company has opened up to showcase how it uses its own marketing software to support some of the best practices in marketing and demand generation. You need not worry; this is not a Siebel commercial. As you will quickly realize, this is mostly about organization, process, and measurement. Here are some of the highlights, based on Andrew Clarke’s presentation at the Marketing Roundtable and a similar presentation given at a Siebel webinar.

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