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_Though email marketing is a legitimate way to reach out to potential customers, spamming inboxes of people in the sheer hope of getting them converted as customer is the height of stupidity. If you would ask my humble opinion, I would not care a fig of them. They are just another bunch of spammers and what I feel is that spammers are not doers.   _

thanks for this

thanks for this, i will add a sitemap now

thanks for this, i will learn today how to set it up and then put it on the site, many thanks

Thank you alex i will have a look now. Cannot believe that different tools are bringing back different results

Here's our latest update about the Rank tracker at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/22457872-keyword-difficulty-and-rank-tracker-issues.

Thanks for that. i have notified them and it is running faster, so i will keep an eye on it. one of my major problems at the moment in the speed tool is it keeps coming up with  Specify image dimensions  which i have done in my joomla website and it also comes up with Optimize images, which i do as i use photoshop so i am a bit puzzled why it is saying these two things. But i am happy the speed is faster now after getting a new server, will keep testing it over the next few days. thanks everyone

hi thanks for this i will try them out, are they as good as pingler.com and do you know how i can solve my ip problem. really miss using pingler. Have contacted pingler but got no reply from them

cheers for that, i will try that. Will have to go to a friends house and use their computer to get the email address

Sorry I missed your followup question on this, Diane. I would say the original server mentioned is still the better choice. The Xeon processor in it is specifically designed for server use. The i3 processor in this one is the 3rd tier of Intel's consumer processors. In addition, the original is a name-brand Dell built with components specifically for servers - motherboard, power supply etc This is important because servers are a much higher-stress environment than most consumer-level computers. Also it has a RAID array which is of major importance in critical servers. i.e. if you lose money when sites are offline. The system you just listed looks to be a "white box" system - a system assembled by the hosting company using whatever parts are most economical. Doesn't mean it's a bad server, just that it's much harder to know the quality of the components. The one thing this last server has in its favour is that it's got 50% more RAM. Good for heavy server loads. But in my opinion this doesn't outweigh the other advantages of the first server. (And you can simply upgrade to more RAM for the original server if and when your websites' needs require it.) All that said, the hardware isn't the only thing by which to a dedicated server should be judged. The quality, speed and redundancy of the backbone connections to the Internet, quality and speed of tech support, turnaround time for hardware repairs are all critical as well. Hope that helps. Paul

thanks for this, yes rack space is very expensive and i have read many horror stories relating to 1 and 1 and did speak to them and was not confident with what they had to say, i have had a site vanish on me this week, they have today got it back but lost the template so i have to re enter the template.

thanks for that tina, it was odesk

Arvixe is an amazing (and amazingly cheap) hosting company. I have implemented a site with them and have been very pleased with their customer support. http://www.arvixe.com/managed_dedicated_servers

I would suggest start talking with your current customers and see if a newsletter is something that they would be interested in.  Maybe do a blog post on it, promoting what  will be in your newsletter or even use your social media channels.  It all depends on the level of conversation you are currently having with your clients.   Even LinkedIn offers you the opportunity to see people's emails if you wanna steal those. Also don't forget to use your email to engage customers, not just push your items.  I recently saw an email that said in the header "first person to email me back with a reply to said question gets a $10 gift card", this will allow you to keep an idea of who is actually engaged with your email and reading it.

thanks for that. i get the emails of the latest stories which i think are great

this is great advice, i am going to read your info on page using the rel="author" tag  as i am not sure how to do this. also i need to find out about if we can put the company name on there so people can find us as they will not know who we are with a personal name. i have content on the page but need to look at it and see what i can do to improve it

Diane, the excessive ads for the hypnotherapy/weight loss help reduce credibility of the site. The travel news articles are outdated (the most recent one about holiday deals talks about it still being winter and about the upcoming Olympic games) and the Ryanair incident was from April 2012.Nothing has a date byline on it, so it makes it difficult for me to trust the article. To a regular user, it looks like you don't have enough content and are trying to stretch it, as I'm seeing the same celeb picture multiple times in multiple locations on the home page. The site seems to lack focus, or rather be focused on ads. Do people really care about that many bingo news features on a site that's supposed to (I think) be about celeb gossip? The About section at the bottom looks spammy because it's small and in italics, making it hard to read. It looks keyword stuffed and like people aren't meant to read it, but that it's just there for search engines. You may want to reconsider if you want to focus so much on the keyword "lifestyle magazine". What is the search volume like for that phrase? Are people really looking for that? I'm surprised that I don't see a cookie notice like I do on most European sites these days. Is the UK excluded from that?

so if u had a news site would u go the way the sun does by having an introduction with a picture or would u reduce the pictures and go with headline titles instead

Brilliant, Marcus.  Thumbs up!  Diane, be sure to mark his answers as 'Good Answers" Cheers!