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Gmail: Custom Signature for each Email Address
Google’s Gmail now supports a unique signature for every email address associated with your account. So if you’re sending email from Larry@my domain.com, you can automatically have a different email signature than when you send from Larry@anotherDomain.net. Google has also introduced rich text signatures into Gmail. Now you can change the colors or font size [...]
Google hits on the Caffeine!
Last week Google announced the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant [...]
Horizontal Attention Leans Left
Jakob Nielsen looks at user viewing patterns along the horizontal dimension and finds web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. A conventional layout is thus more likely to make sites profitable.
Top U.S. Online Search Providers
NielsenWire reports the top U.S. search providers by number of searches for the month of November 2009. The key thing to notice is the since it’s launch in the spring, Microsoft’s Bing is taking market share from Google. Top 10 Search Providers for November 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) RANK Provider Searches (000) Share of [...]
Real Time Social Media Searches
Google Caffeine Google’s new search algorithm, will be introducing ‘Real Time’ searches for the various social media networks. Similar to the Google News feature, only it’s like watching an online RSS media feed for Social Media sites like Twitter. We’re already experimenting with this new feature and studying how you could use it to produce [...]
We’re a Favorite Place on Google
I just received a letter (a real letter — on paper!) from the Google Local Business Team, telling me that Sigma Web Technologies’ business listing as accessed 240 times in the past quarter, and driving directions were accessed 38 times. The letter goes on to say “Because you’re so popular, we’re enclosing a window decal [...]
Sigma Web Technologies Joins RatePoint’s Business Partner Program
Leveraging Customer Feedback Tools to Proactively Connect with Customers and Grow Business Sigma Web Technologies today announced it has joined RatePoint’s Business Partner Program. Sigma Web Technologies (www.SigmaWebTechnologies.com) is now able to provide its clients with easy to use email marketing and customer feedback tools to help small-business clients improve customer satisfaction, build credibility and [...]
Pardon our Dust While We Redesign our Website!
It’s not just a paint job — we’re doing a whole website remodel! And like most do-it-yourself projects, it gets done in pieces, as time allows. Our work remains the same, with a strong focus on help you use the internet effectively to market locally. There are many, many tools available to help to you do this for free, and we’ll be highlighting some of them here.
