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| Greetings Valued Affiliate, Well Spring is almost here! You know what that means...time for a Spring special offer from 1&1 Internet. Read more below for details. You probably know 1&1 as a pricing and feature leader in the hosting industry. You might also know about 1&1's boat in the world-famous America's Cup race. (Congratulations to the 3 affiliate winners of the Jan-Feb contest - see you in Spain!) But there is another side that is not about web hosting, a side that want to help make the world better one child at a time. 1&1 has helped create a foundation to help raise funds for UNICEF. 1&1 has already given over $1 million dollars towards this cause. Interested in helping out? Visit: United Internet for UNICEF for more details. This month's issue introduces a 25% off Spring Special offer and also contains a new Spotlight article for all of you who are struggling to get better inclusion and ranking in Google. Who doesn't want more free traffic from search engines?! Additionally, we have added some new events related to online marketing and some new and useful web resources to help you learn what it takes to build your traffic and also your affiliate referral sales.
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Getting ready to take our top 3 Affiliates to Spain!
Are you still curious about 1&1's America's Cup team? Visit http://united-internet-team-germany.com/ and see what all our excitement is about. Even if you did not win in the America's Cup Affiliate Competition, watch this newsletter for future contest announcements. Contests are fun for everyone, but continuing to earn from 1&1 is in itself a great benefit of being both a customer and affiliate. In addition to being able to "self fund" your own hosting and domains, you get the satisfaction of knowing you are working with a world leader in the hosting business. Current Campaign News: You will see that our banner ads will reflect this latest offer. However if you integrate text links into your website or emails, make sure you mention the 25% off limited time offer in addition to the other great benefits 1&1 has to offer. After all, the same reasons you like 1&1 will be the same reasons you referrals will like us too! |
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15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part 1 Reprinted from Free-Seo-News.com (our friends at Axandra) Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites. If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In the next articles, we'll take a look at the 15 most common Google spam filters and we'll tell you how you can get around them. Google's Sandbox, Google's Trust Rank and Google's domain age filter These three Google filters all take a look at the age of a web site. Many web sites don't get very old. For that reason, Google implemented a filter that prevents new web sites from getting high rankings for competitive search terms. That filter is called Google's sandbox. Google's TrustRank filter is closely related to that filter. Web sites with a high TrustRank get high rankings on Google. The TrustRank of a web site is determined by the age of a web site, the quality of inbound links and the contents of a web site. The domain age filter is another filter that considers the age of your web site. Web sites with old domain names are more likely to get high rankings for competitive keywords on Google. Further information about the sandbox, Google's TrustRank and domain name filters can be found in these articles: Google's
SandBox and TrustRank filters and your web site How to get around these filters It's not easy to get around these filters. As they all consider the age of your web site, you basically have to wait some time until Google releases your web site from the sandbox. The best thing that you can do is to work on the content of your web site to show Google's web page spider that your web site is a valuable resource for your topic. Make sure that your web pages are relevant to your search terms. In addition, get good inbound links to increase the TrustRank of your web site. The better the links to your web site, the higher your TrustRank and the higher your web site will rank on Google. |
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All the news that's fit for affiliates and online marketers to read. Stay up to date with the latest news about affiliate marketing, search engines, email and other issues which can affect your online marketing success. News: ReveNews - Affiliate portal and newsletter MarketingSherpa.com - Premium Internet Marketing studies and research
SEO news - Weekly search engine optimization news Marketingnewz - Assorted marketing headlines Searchenginewatch - Top search engine news MediaPost - Professional online marketers news and resources Events: April 10-13, 2007 April 15-15, 2007 June 12-13, 2007 SES
Latino June 19-22, 2007 Affiliate Summit East 2007* *A 1&1 Affiliate Team Leader will be there. If you go, let's meet! |
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Even if your website is not about web hosting or domains, it is worth the time to create at least one page about 1&1 hosting products and one page about 1&1 domain names. Why? Because it is very easy to create a sub-domain like http://hosting.yourdomain.com or http://domains.yourdomain.com and then to redirect the sub-domain to 1&1 using your unique tracking URL. Additionally, you can link these pages to your main site, optimize them for search engines, and theoretically get some organic traffic to them. The main benefit of doing this is that you get a very easy to remember URL that you can tell to people OFFLINE. Almost no one could remember a full tracking URL, but they can remember a short nice subdomain. Need to "deep link" to a specific 1&1 product page? It can be done, and we can show you how. Contact us at emarketing@1and1.com if you want us to make the product specific links for you. |
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In this section we explore questions and ideas from 1&1 affiliates like you. We are always happy to help you better understand our affiliate program and our company. Here are the latest questions that have come in since last month. Q: Sometimes there is a short delay from when I know I made
a sale and when it appears in my Control Panel. Is this normal?? Q: If I call you with a question about how to earn
more from your affiliate program, will someone from the 1&1 affiliate
team really answer the phone?? |
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Tips and Resources
These tools and newsletters are completely FREE. Hint: Add these goodies
to your web favorites and grab them today. RevenueToday.com Newsletter: Web Master Tools Search Engine Marketing Tools Create a Googlerankings account Free website templates Free PDFmaker (great for making newsletters or eBooks that you can
imbed your affiliate link into) Favicon Generator - Brand your site! W3C link checker: Affilipedia: |
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Last Chance to Capture Great Images! 1&1 partnered with Fotolia to bring you the first marketplace for royalty-free images in the largest image base of over 2.5 million graphics starting from as little as $1. As a 1&1 customer, you are entitled to an exclusive deal of 25% additional images for the standard price. This amazing partnership ceases at the end of March 2007 Images from Fotolia are of excellent quality and in addition to using them on your website;
they are suitable for brochures and other print media. Take advantage of this remarkable deal before it ends.
Visit
Fotolia or go to your Control Panel to claim great images for your
site! 1&1 Affiliate freebies you might have missed: |
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Thank you for your continued support of 1&1 and for you interest and participation in our program. We hope you will bookmark this month's eNews and tell others about our program. Keep reading future editions of this newsletter. We will continue to bring you the latest product and affiliate tips to help you increase your traffic and affiliate earnings. Your 1&1 Affiliate Team 1&1 Internet Inc. |
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The
January/February affiliate sales competition is now over and our 3
winners
have been personally contacted. These lucky winners will get a 3 day
trip with 1&1's Online Marketing Director, Joshua Sloan to Valencia,
Spain. They will meet top 1&1 affiliates from U.K., France,
and Germany and learn even more about the world's largest web host,
1&1. |
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