Your stats show the Googlebot is visiting your site.  That is a good first step to getting listed and ranked.   A client asked us the other day if it makes a difference to Google if you have the www in the web address or can leave it out.  

The webmaster tool provides this answer:

The intelligence built in to search engine crawlers is fantastic and impressive to say the least.  Each search engine that is crawling and indexing your site will likely follow the Google example to some extent.

The important thing to get correct is being consistent.  Promoting your site and getting backlinks is important. If you are not putting any time or money
into your sites it should be no surprise that few leads result.  If you are going to use www in promotional materials etc.. then always use it in print,
online, in videos and on your apparel.

We talk about having business intelligence and gathering data as the all important seed for business success.     Information intelligence and knowing your company strengths and opportunities is necessary for sure but take a moment to look at your internal business processes.

We witnessed a humble process that happens in every business, cleaning the floors.   Alsmost no process is to small to improve.  In casual observation at a standard facility it was noticed that a particular cleaning person would get a broom and sweep everything into piles.  That is fine and we all would do the same thing, grouping the dust and junk to a pile and pick it up.  This is where the process seemed to break.  The custodian never brought a dust pan. 

How did this affect the process?  What where the ramifications?  The custodian would have to go back and get the dust pan leaving the piles along the corridors and hallways.   People had to go around the piles, they looked unsightly and of course the work was only half done.  The person had to travel to each area twice instead of once.  Sure they where busy but the hallway had the appearance of not being clean on a regular basis.  

The simple act of bringing the dustpan resulted in areas being cleaned and the piles where not left for people to go around.  The impression was a new cleaning company must have started. The custodian got done quicker by saving on the extra trips to the cleaning closet. 

Fast forward to a year and all those minutes add up to a cleaner place with less effort because a simple change was identified and implemented.   
What business process can you improve today?

If you received an email with any thing similar to the below information it is pure junk mail.   

I am Dr. Martin Vermont and I work for Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc.  in Washington DC  ( Tel: 1-202-558-2504) – I would like to speak with the person in charge of your international clientele. Who is my contact? Who should I speak to??

In fact, after visiting ”your domain would be listed here” , I have noticed your website cannot be found on foreign search engines (I tested it on Hispanic search engines, German search engines, Asian search engines,  etc.) Our company is specialized in multilingual search engine promotions in 28 languages . From the Japanese Google to the German Yahoo, from the AOL  in Spanish to the MSN in Chinese, we can show you how to develop a true international online presence by promoting your website on foreign search engines.

Let us show  you how to develop a presence on the multilingual web without having to  translate your website: It is not necessary to translate your website in  order to submit to foreign search engines, however, you need to have at least  1 page in Japanese optimized with Japanese keywords and meta tags in order to  submit to Japanese search engines, at least 1 page in Spanish optimized with  Spanish keywords in order to submit to Hispanic search engines and so  on…

I strongly suggest that you watch our online presentation which  will explains clearly how to get top rankings on foreign search engines with  only 1 entry page per language (click on the following link or copy-paste it  into your web browser): (Link removed to spam site) 

From the Japanese Google to the German Yahoo, from the AOL in Spanish to the MSN in Chinese, get users to find your website when  searching with YOUR KEYWORDS in their Native language.

Please call me at (phone number removed) or email me and let’s work on giving your website the true international exposure which it deserves to have with foreign native online users!!

Regards,

Martin Vermont, Ph.D.
(link removed)

Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc.
1250 Connecticut Ave N.W. Suite  200
Washington, DC 20036 USA
TEL: +1 (202) 558-2504 – FAX: 1 (202)-318-2453
(Link Removed)
Multilingual Search Engine Promotion Services (apparently spamming) since 1999.

Could someone in DC go to this office and verify it they actually have an office?  That would be different than the common sleaze. 
We are sure people would be happy to ship them some junk back.

The effects of the recent update to the search engine giants ranking algorithym are just starting to be realized by webmasters and designers everywhere across the US.   For those sites employing best practices of white hat SEO your sites may find themselves doing better as junk sites stuffing the search results go down.   What is not clear is how much social media sites matter in this update where mentions and links to sites are frequently shortened and cloaked with bit.ly and other similar sites.

Read the original post on the official Google blog.

The myth continues that you can get cheap unlimited reseller web hosting and actually succeed, survive and thrive.   Electricity costs money folks and that glitzy page touting unlimited everything for 7.95 just is not going to happen.  You are better off finding a small hosting company with live phone support and sleep well at night.  There has been a 20% drop in the number of ISP’s still in business.     Countless innocent victims have suddenly found the websites they worked so hard to promote are offline and that cheap host with such a good deal just went belly up and you went belly down.   Unless you have a backup of your database and files along with your registration in order your side could be down for awhile.

If this has happened to you and your business is important and your email needs to be dependable then generally steer clear of the unlimited hosting ad sites out there.  We considered putting recommendations here but did not want to seem biased.    There are a lot of good regional ISP’s that deliver good service.  If they have been around 15 years it is a pretty good bet they are doing something right.