Switching to our email hosting has never been easier

If you are thinking about moving your hosting to us and one of your concerns is losing emails in the process, have no fear. We now have the ability to easily transfer your email accounts to our hosting environment from many popular email providers. We can help migrate your email from Exchange 2007, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus, IMAIL and others.

Contact your current system administrator if you are unsure which mail server type you are using.

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Google Bot Feeds On Bread Crumbs

Google has recently started to return bread crumbs as clicable results on some of their search results pages (SERPS).  The program is still new and according to Googles Matt Cutts and what you are seeing now may change down the road.  The neat thing for webmasters is that it provides more links to your site from the SERPS page on Google.  At this point all that is needed to get Google to display bread crumbs with your search results is you need bread crumbs on your site with a consistent deliminator between them and the bread crumbs should reflect your sites hierarchy.

Remember bread crumbs aren't a magic bullet for SEO but it is my belief that every website should have them regardless of there effect on your search results.  Breadcrumbs help improve the user experience on your site especially if your site is pretty deep.

Here is what Matt had to say about the topic:

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Writing A Good Title Tag For SEO

Writing Good Title Tags For Search Engine Optimization

It amazes me how many companies are not taking full advantage of their title tags or not formatting their title tags properly. If your page is all about branding your company name then put the company name at the front of the title tag, but if your page is trying to capture traffic for a specific phrase like "Thermal Dynamic Techno Funk" you want the key phrase at the front of your title tag.

Missed Opportunity:  XYZ Company-  Leader in Thermal Dynamic Techno Funk

Properly Formatted:  Thermal Dynamic Techno Funk Information XYZ Company

Title Tags are one of the most important elements on your page so use it well.  For the most part, your company is going to show up well on the search engines because it's all over your site.

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Can you guranatee to get us on the first page of google?

Here is what Google Says About Ranking Guarantees: "No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. Beware of SEO's that claim to guarantee rankings."


- Google's SEO Tips

At Foremost Media we have a great track record of providing top rankings for our clients and we can guarantee that your project will be completed in a ethical and honest manor and with the same attention to detail that we have used in the past to deliver excellent results to our other SEO clients. Our results with our past and current clients are our guarantee that we have had great success with search engine optimization.
I am confident that we can help your company generate more leads through the search engines. Remember that the search engine optimization projects are a collaboration between our companies. We will defiantly need input from you and your team as we move forward. The more involved in the process your group is the better the results. Our job is to help you tailor your content to both the search engines and the surfer to help you not only be found but also generate more leads for your business.

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Microsoft Warns that Internet Explorer 6 is Flawed...

This week Microsoft has admitted that its Internet Explorer 6 browser that is running on Windows 2000 and Windows XP computers has flawed code that contributes to a security hole in the software that was recently used in attacks on Google in China.

Microsoft is now urging users who have not yet upgraded from IE6 to consider upgrading to a new version of Internet Explorer. Upgrades from Internet Explorer 6 have been freely available from Microsoft for several years, but Microsoft has refused to force users to upgrade.

Do you think that these security holes will be motivation enough to cause users who have not upgraded in the last 3-4 years to take the leap now?

Read more about this story here...

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Do you catch my drip?

Drip Email Marketing Campaigns Can Help Sell Complex Products and Reduce Sales Cycle-
Many products epically in the B2C realm take some time to explain and buyers often need to be educated on the product. Enter stage left- Drip Marketing! The idea behind drip marketing is to take a cold lead or a researcher and educate that lead about the product in an attempt to turn them into customers. One way to do this is to have a series of automated emails sent a few days or weeks apart, which explain more about the product. Each email sent can build on the last email and highlight a new feature as an example.
Using drip emails like this help build trust with the prospect, and give the seller the opportunity to position themselves as an authority in the industry or topic under consideration.


Contact us today to learn more about using our email marketing software to set up drip marketing emails!

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Mr. Ballard Google Is On The Phone

My phone rang a few minutes ago and our receptionist buzzed into my office saying "Chris from Google" is on the line and would like to speak to you.

My first thought "WOW- Google wants to talk to little old me?"

I quickly picked up the phone and a low energy voice at the other end of the line and answered my greeting with a "Hello, this is Chris from Google"

My first question- "How can I help you Chris"

Chris- "I'm On Your Website"... Wow a real Google employee on my website... "and I see your not ranking very well" (Wow, Google is really getting involved with their customers)

Me- "Which website are you on Chris?" (Since we are a web development company we manage hundreds of sites)

Chris- "www.gamebirdhunts.com"

Me- "What search term are you looking at Chris?" (Gamebirdhunts.com is a pheasant hunting site with thousands of unique visitors per day) -

Chris (He seemed a little shocked by this question- Who is little old me to talk to a Google God Like this?) "Well... Montana Deer Hunting, Your 4 pages back and we can guarantee you the first page for that listing"

Me- (This is when I knew that Chris was not everything he seemed to be) Are you sure you work for Google Chris?"

Chris- "No, I work with Google" (That's not the story he used to get through my gate keeper and not what he told me when he first got me on the phone)

Me- "So Chris, What are you offering me, some sort of pay per click service?"

Chris- "No, it's not pay per click you get a monthly bill for the top search position on Google"

Me- "So you want to charge me more then I would pay doing pay per click directly with Google in return for setting up Pay Per click for me?"

Chris- Click

Me - "Hello, Hello Chris"

The moral of this story is if Chris From "Google" calls you beat him to the hang up. There are a lot of companies running scams on unsuspecting sites out there. Phone answerer be ware! I wish I would have caught Chris's companies real name.

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