Tripod News Bulletin

• 5 Ways to Write Effective Email Newsletters
  How do you write effective email marketing newsletters that get your message across and reel in readers at the same time? Here are five points to consider:
  
  • Write headlines and subheadings that clearly tell readers what the newsletter is about.
  • Use links that direct readers to where you want them to go on your site.
  • Place keywords at the beginning of your email followed by a call to action.
  • Use bulleted and numbered lists to impart lots of information quickly.
  
  
  • This Month with Webon
    Here's what's new with the Webon site builder this month:
    
    Facebook "Like This" Add-on -- We added a new Facebook module that you can drop on your site to enable visitors to "Like" your site and have it appear in their Facebook News Feeds. It's a great way to promote yourself on the world's largest social networking site.
    
    More styles -- We're about to release a major update to the way we publish new styles that will enable us to release them more readily. In fact, there are more than 40 new styles waiting in the wings for this new process to launch. You can expect a herd of new styles to come out in October and November after we catch up with the backlog.
    
    What's going on under the hood -- We recently added a new software engineer to our team who is dedicated to working on the underlying database functions that power Webon. His focus is on improving the speed and stability of the site builder. You can expect Webon to become faster as the fall progresses.
    
    
  • Webon Tip
    Once you publish your site, you'll want it to be found by Google and other search engines. Webon automatically updates its sitemap, which is regualry crawled by search engines. You don't need to submit your site to these search engines or do anything else. The amount of time it takes for a site to be crawled and indexed varies from one search engine to another.
    
    Being indexed does not guarantee a site will appear prominently in search results, however. Each search engine has its own algorithms for deciding when to display a particular search term. The major search engine operators provide suggestions for how to improve your site's ranking. For example, you can find Google's suggestions here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=3576
    
  
  

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  Webon Spotlights

  This month we're featuring four more websites we feel are strong examples of what you can do with Webon. Submit YOUR site to be featured here and be seen by more than a half a million people.

  SWSTech		Mark's Custom Woodworks
  Sylva Fire Department.		Rumi Maki Martial Arts

  
  

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  Best Wishes,
  The Tripod Team