We expect to be back up and running on Monday or Tuesday.

From the Affiliate Marketing Glossary. Republished with permission of Website Magazine.

Excluded products: Make, Groups, SIGG bottles, CDs, buttons, magnets or mini-button orders (singles or multi-packs), wall peels, Thermos products, Trek water bottles, fulfillment products and bulk orders.

The sale ends on May 17, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. (PST).

Remember that a CafePress shop makes a great site promotion, advertising, and marketing tool.

Don’t have your own CafePress shop yet, just let us know and we’ll get that done for you too! As usual, we’ll be happy to work with you to control your costs – fully set it up and maintain it, set it up and provide you with the images you need and you can do the rest, or a combination of the two … whatever works best for our clients is how we’ll do it!

Feel free to check out High Aspirations, Inc.’s CafePress Shop as an example of products you could be offering in your own shop.

Author Marziah Karch says:

Don’t like being found in Google? Here are some sure fired ways to lower your ranking and get the worst search engine results. These are the worst of the worst dirty tricks, and they can lower your Google ranking or just get you banned.

Tricks explained include:

• cloaking
• duplicate content
• having a robot write your web site
• adding keywords that don’t relate to your content
• link exchanges and bad neighborhoods
• hidden text
• title stacking
• distributing viruses, trojans, or other badware
• doorway pages
• automated inquiries

Read the entire article at About.com.

Patrick Altoft of Branded3 says:

The Unnatural Link update works in direct contrast to previous updates because it penalises websites purely based on the link strategy they have chosen to adopt and it has caused huge problems for the sites that are affected.

Another quote from the blog post, and my personal favorite statement, says perfectly how High Aspirations, Inc. feels about SEO… do it right, keep at it, don’t play games or dirty tricks because eventually you pay for those big time!

Site owners need to understand that there is no point in getting rankings in 3 months if those rankings disappear 6 months later. If you want to build a long term business then you have to adopt a strategy that delivers top rankings that will stay for the long term even if this takes longer to show results in the short term.

I highly recommend you read the entire blog post at Branded3.

TKWeek

TKWeek is your all-in-one planner extravaganza! Featuring an impressive array of functional capabilities, TKWeek is an in-depth calendar, date book, and week calculator. Find the first and last date of a week, provide detailed date information, maintain important dates, and calculate time between dates.

Act fast because Amazon’s free apps are only free for just the one day.

You can always visit (or bookmark) Amazon’s Appstore Deals page for the free app of the day.

Follow High Aspirations, Inc. on Pinterest

Now, they have announced integration with Vimeo!

Pinterest is definitely making an effort to improve their already popular social media service. I wonder what will be next?

You can read more about this on Website Magazine.

Author Peter A. Prestipino says:

Google announced that it has taken a step to reward high-quality sites, but what it has really done is punish those engaged in techniques and tactics that don’t provide a good user experience.

High Aspirations, Inc. is very happy to see this happening. I cannot tell you how many times I have to explain to a client why a site keeps ranking higher than them when all they have is the same content page after page, endless links, and text that doesn’t make any sense to a human being! It is vindication to see a client’s site ranking where it should have been all along because we don’t resort to design and content games and dirty tricks! Yippee!

Read the entire article at Website Magazine.

From the Affiliate Marketing Glossary. Republished with permission of Website Magazine.

HAI Hosting’s Linux CentOS and Windows Dedicated Servers have been completely revamped to include 64-bit operating systems across the board! All CPUs have been upgraded to Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 options. Storage and bandwidth capacities have also been increased.

If any of High Aspirations, Inc.’s clients are ready for their own Dedicated Server, all they have to do is contact us. Whether you want us to manage it for you as part of your regular maintenance or handle it all yourself, we’ll be happy to assist in any way you need us to.