Amurge from the Ordinary

Potentially Damaging Virus

2008-07-07T11:14:00Z

My wife in her quest for coupns, which is saving us about $10.00 every time we goto the store, she recently was infected with a Desktop Hijack software. This software basically makes yo u think you have the Blue Screen of Death from the old W2K systems. This was an XP home machine, I must say quite cleaver but I really wish they would spend their time elsewhere to make a contribution to societly. Ok sorry for the Rant, Heres how to fix it. I basically spent the better half the of last night and into this morning fixing Debs computer from this virus. First thing you will notice is a picture in the backgournd of your window that tells you, you need to download Windows2008antivirus program. To support this fictious claim, they have cleaverly shut down the ability for you to change the desktop settings making it appear that you have a blue screen of death only to find out its just the screen saver that kicks in. Very cleaver. Now when you try to change the sceen saver you will notice that the tab has been removed using a windows policy statement. "This person has way too much time on their hands and needs a job in the computer industry" Anyway. Amurge to the rescue. 1. Run any antivirus program you have "its most likely not going to work" but give it a try 2. Download www.alt-networking.com/coin_modules/downloads/dload.php?id=9 Click rhis link and download and run this file 3. Goto www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Line 51 ScreenSaver Disable/Enable or Tab Missing, Click on the Tab Missing option and it should return your properties window back to normal. 4. Enter windows in "Safe Mode" "Hold down the F8 key when the machine it start up, this will give you the option to boot with networking. Choose that option. 5. Clean out all temp files and temorary internet files. look for andy mysterious looking folders int eh C drive that might be hidden. 6. In the windows/system32 folder there might be a screen saver file blphc9b2j0en3g.sav, Delete this file it is the screen saver for blue screen of death making you think that you have computer problems. Please feel free to call Amurge at 847-751-7590 or 630-363-8157 Speak directly to Deb or I and we can walk you through this process As always thanks for the time and I hope you didn't get this latest virus. Sincerley, Kenneth Kolk, Parnter Amurge.com Remember for you 24 hour hosting needs see www.amurge.com and coming soon our store front at ww.amure.net for all of your shopping needs withough figtingl ines, people, and carts... please check soon as this will come up hopefully in the next 24 hours. Plesase feel free to me at kkolk@amurge.com for any questions

Go County listing site

2008-01-04T18:34:00Z

http://gocounty.com/

Attempting to give you as much information in a short period of time.

GoCounty.com is a great free resource to post your business, website and classified listings. It gets picked up by Google quickly and your listing are all grouped together.

You can submit by various counties and regional areas, making it a very flexible posting site.

Please if you like what you see here spread the word.

As always www.amurge.com offers hosting starting at just $3.99 a month
we also have 24x7 technical and billing support.

OLX Free Classifieds

2008-01-04T18:26:00Z

http://www.olx.com/

I know I constantly talk about free classified ads. This one OLX, I have found to be one of the fastest posting sites out there.

I posted Amurge and a couple of days later it was picked up by Google. This is why it is important to register your site with as many of these type of sites that you can find. My goal is to keep giving you these piece mail but ultimately it will become a complete listing that we can all work with.

There is no guarantee that Google will pick you listing up, but it's a pretty good chance. Take the time to post and it will help your overall score.

www.amurge.com has 24x7 Support for Hosting starting at just $3.99 a month.

www.amurge.com also has several templates that you can download and work with.

Happy New Year From www.amurge.com

2008-01-04T18:24:00Z

A new year brings on new thoughts on how to get your site to top. Well I have been a clear advocate of utilizing free classified ads, when they are done correctly. DON'T OVER USE THEM or POST in unrelated categories. These types of actions can actually get you removed from a service and blacklisted from their site. So resist the temptation to paste your site all over the classifieds and keep it in the appropriate category for your listing.

If you are selling a service, keep your listing to the service portions of the classifieds.

Well a new year and a new site for you to test out your SEO campaign.

I have been working with http://expo.live.com/ and they are actually pretty good when it comes to listing your ads. Make sure that your title of your ad is very close to the key words that you are trying to post. However, don't just make the title of the ad all keywords. Keep it some type of statement or even better a sentence.

Utilize http://expo.live.com/ to get some listings in key word areas you might be needing some ratings in.

As always, please check us out at www.amurge.com we have hosting plans from just $3.99 a month and 24x7 technical and billing support.

Press Release - Amurge SEO Hints

2007-12-28T00:08:00Z

Well we have talked about doing classified ads. Another way to get your site some listings and traffic is to have some type of short offer or press release that you can publish. Remember the goal here is to get as many links to you site as possible.

I personally like
http://www.i-newswire.com

They are very fast and well organized for news releases that usually gets published the next day if not the same day.

I keep mentioning Google here and there are other search engines, but lets not kid ourselves. Google maintains a very large share of searches. Just test the theroy, goto another search engine and do a search, then goto Google and put the same exact search in. You will most likely get better and more results with Google.

So yes, we usually cater to them as much as we can.

So, keep SEOing and have a good night.

Remember visit us at www.amurge.com for all of your hosting needs.

Great Centralized place to feed your RSS

2007-12-21T01:43:00Z

I have found a great place that lists our locations to feed your rss. Goto http://www.press-feed.com/howitworks/howpromotefeeds.php they have a list of sites that will syndicate your rss feed.

This is one of the most important things about a blog that your site can deliver. Make sure that before your blog is feed to these sites that it is compliant and follows all of the normal standards.

If your site is compliant these sites will syndicate your blog for you. In most cases all you need to do is type in your rss feed location.

If you find the information on this blog helpful please see us at www.amurge.com . Help spread the word and find out why our clients call us "The Website Surgeons". Clearly on our way to the top.

Thanks and have a good holiday season.

WebCosmo free Classified ads and Job posting

2007-12-21T01:40:00Z

http://www.webcosmo.com Im always trying to look out for my you my customers and potential customers. We talked earlier this week about free Classified ads and postings that help get you listings on search engines.

Webcosmo is one of those sites. Go there and check it out, create your self a free account and start posting away. The more postings the better.

The key to a good post is to make it have some type of educational experience with it. Keep your customers coming back by offers of coupons and education.

Remember "Amurge from the Ordinary"

If this information is helpful to you please spread the word. Visit us www.amurge.com to see our other related services. We also have a blog at http://blog.amurge.com

Submit Express - Amurge SEO Hints

2007-12-20T02:43:00Z

Well Im at it again.

After feeling so bad about the weak post, I figured I should make it up to you guys. Here is a great way to get some awesome information on your site. www.submitexpress.com has gone through a great re-write and is now offering several tools.

The best tool that I can see on this site is their meta-tag analyzer. This breaks your site down into possible key words and percentages for each. I am impressed, and not to easily. I have seen several of these that don't give half the detail as they do.

Go check them out and see what they are about. If you don't have meta-tags or you get a bunch of errors its time for us to talk.

See us at www.amurge.com/seo.html for more information on our services and find out why our customers call us "The web site surgeons"

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Yahoo Local Ads - Amurge from the Ordinary

2007-12-20T02:41:00Z

Getting your business listed in Yahoo local ads is another way to get your business highlighted on the internet. This is a free service that Yahoo offers and all you need is a Yahoo ID which is easily signed up for from their site.

http://local.yahoo.com/

Be as detailed as you can with this ad. Since these are free its a great way to get your business an additional listing on the net.

Sorry today is so short. I will work on that. Hope you have a nice holiday.

As Always please visit us at www.amurge.com/index.html for your hosting needs.

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Back to Business - Using free Classifieds

2007-12-18T00:36:00Z

Well after a short vacation it's back to business. I thought today I would discuss the concept of using free online classified ads or service ads to help you with your SEO campaign.

Everyone knows that internet is growing at alarming rates. This is good, you can find sites all over the internet that allow you to post free classified ads.

This can be seen with the boom of http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html. The key to this type of advertising is it can bring you into a very localized area of business or just the opposite and give you a very broad area of business. Depending on your business you may want to focus on free localized ads.

Example:

If your business is a dog grooming business and has a brick and mortar store front, you most likely do not want to advertise in California if your business is located in NYC.

However, if in this same dog grooming business you have a very unique type of dog food or biscuits that you want to ship all of the country, then you can focus your ad to do so.

When considering this type of advertising make sure that your ad targets the right customers. Give them enough information to be curious to click through to your site without giving away the entire store.

This is another easy method of getting your site listed with the major search engines. Make sure that you put your URL in the ad even if they have a spot for your URL when posting the ad. Be careful here, make sure there is no disclaimer that warns against doing this. Also, make sure that your posting your ad to the appropriate category. I can tell you that people do not like to read ads that they are not looking for. If they are posted in the wrong category, chances are that you will most likely turn away customers.

Don't forget that offer. Make it big and make it strong.

TTFN:

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CHECK OUT THE NEW AMURGE TEMPLATES

2007-12-18T00:34:00Z

www.amurge.com is proud to announce the release of it's new Template section. This is a dynamic site that allows for immediate purchase and download of templates. Templates are a starting point for any business to be able to create a web site. It is the creative work behind the site.

Most of the templates come with full code so that you can modify the site directly in the format it was created. You can also get a Corporate ID package if your starting a business. This will give you an identity from your letter head to business cards and web site. This is a great way to get the creative end of your business out the way without paying a company to come up with a custom corporate id package that costs you thousands of dollars.

So you don't know how to modify these templates, don't fret, www.amurge.com can help you usually at a fraction of the price that you would be charged by some other company. Amurge from the ordinary and sign up with Amurge today. We can take the guess work out of your corporate Id.

Looking for some clip art, or maybe photos for your site, we also have those items. What are you waiting for? goto http://www.amurge.com/templates/template.html choose from 1000's of templates for your web site today.

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Get a Listing on Google Fast

2007-12-06T23:19:00Z

I think I have found the jackpot to listing your business on Google. Granted it's not going to give you an exact listing but you might find this very useful.

If you have not already done so, goto http://www.merchantcircle.com and sign your business up.

I did this a couple of days ago, they must have some sort relationship with Google. Every entry I make either through the blog or a customer feedback, gets instantly, yes instantly posted on Google.

Now that has to be the best thing I have seen in my career of SEO. If you don't believe me, take the time to fill out the business profile. It costs you nothing an I get nothing. Just helping out my fellow business members.

If this works for you, I would love a feedback comment.

Thanks

Ken

As always www.amurge.com has some of the best pricing on the internet

To link or not to link - part 2

2007-12-06T23:17:00Z

I should have guessed this one was coming. I received a some replies asking for some locations where you can find free directories.

I like this one:

http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/free-directories.html

Be careful as not all of the directories listed here are free. The best method to work this is to select the listing and copy the table cells and paste them into Excel. This gives you the ability to sort them by PR rate and cost, it also gives you the ability to add a column for submitted to that way you know where you left off.

Remember that this is a great way to get your site on search engines quickly. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at info@amurge.com or visit our web site at www.amurge.com.

Thanks

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To link or Not to Link

2007-12-06T23:16:00Z

To link or not to link that seems to be the question. After years of researching SEO online and reading all sorts of different articles about linking, I have clearly determined that you need to link. Why, you ask do I need to link?

The more inbound links that you have on your site the greater possibility that someone is going to find you. Not to mention that Google puts alot of weight into the number of INBOUND links that you have.

Now, there has been several discussions on whether or not it's important to have your links on sites that have a high PR rating. The fact is that you have no control over what sites put your link on their site. Goggle has come out and said that if your site is linked to a site that has a poor PR rating that this is not taken negatively in rating your site. HOWEVER, there is one thing that you want to be careful of. Notice I have been talking here about INBOUND links. These are links that are linked from another site to yours.

What you don't want to have in a bunch of links on your site that point to sites with a low PR rating. This is something that will clearly hurt your PR rating. If you decide to have reciprocal links on your site because they put your link on their site, make sure its a site that is related to your industry or a site that has a high PR rating.

So let me summarize this:

Link away - inbound links will help
Utilize directories, blogs and misc search engines
Careful of outbound reciprocal links

In a nut shell link away, find as many directories that you can. Search Google for Free Directory Listings. This does take time. In the long run you will get better ratings because of your efforts. Don't expect to see immediate results.

Check out my site at www.amurge.com/seo.html for a small listing of sites and more information.

Check your Hosting Plan before the end of the Year

2007-12-06T00:34:00Z

Check your hosting plan before the end of the year. Most web hosting plans will expire at the begining of the year in January. Over the years Amurge has been able to save companies and non-profit organizations thousands per year just by reviewing their hosting plans and moving to a lower cost provider.

Alot of people out there might be frightened by a low cost provider or think that they won't get the same support. Actually, the opposite is usually the case, the low cost hosting providers typically have more service offerings at a less price then what you are paying. The majority of the low cost providers have 24x7 technical support.

Ok so what does this mean to you, that you might be able to move your hosting to a provider that will better support your needs at a lower cost. Don't take the web designers word for it do your homework and look at the differences before making a decision.

Some points to look at before you make the decision to move hosting providers:

Look at the plan that you are paying for and compare the price to what you would be paying you could save a ton of money
Make sure that the monthly transfer rates are the same or better
Make sure the storage capacity for the plan is the same or better
Make sure you get the email for free ( most companies are doing this, unless its Exchange hosting )
Call both providers and see what type of response you get from both sales and support

These are just a couple of points to think about before you renew your hosting plan. Reviewing your hosting plan can save you alot of money on an annual basis. Check out www.amurge.com for our current rates.

Welcome to our new blog

2007-12-05T23:13:00Z

Welcome everyone to our new blog. This promises to be a place that you can get new information regarding Amurge services and hopefully a learning experience for all. Any bad statements will automatically be removed, any persons found slamming will be automatically reported. Please feel free to review our web hosting services at www.amurge.com