Barbara E. Warne

E-Mail: bewarne@misinc.net

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Registered Since: 2008-01-13 23:42:33

Profile: Barbara graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of New Mexico and later moved into doing websites. Experience: Promoting websites continuously since 1996 Has worked for MIS, Inc. since November of 1997 In addition to promoting websites, Barbara does a little bit of everything including handling domain names, programming real estate sites to allow searching of their local IDX database, customer service, updates, and anything else that is needed except design and high level programming.

Posts by bewarne:

Characteristics of a Good Business Website

November 13th, 2006

These are some characteristics of a good business website:
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A few ways to get some more traffic to your website

October 30th, 2006

In order to get traffic you should follow these steps: Read the rest of this entry “

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What You Can Do to Reduce Email Spam

August 17th, 2006

Here are some ways you can reduce the amount of Spam messages you receive: Read the rest of this entry “

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Get a Blog for Your Website

July 7th, 2006

Ever wanted easier control of at least one page on your blog? Want better ranking in Google and the other search engines? A blog may be an answer for you.

We can create a page in your site that looks like all your other pages. It can be called “What’s New”. And we can give you control of the content in this page. It would be as easy to add content to this page as to write an email. You just go to a password protected website, put in your username and password, and then type a title, and an entry (just as you would for writing an email). Your post is then dated and posted to the page (in the format you see here). You can also edit past entries.

Once you make a post, the fact that you have added to the page goes out to anyone who has signed up for the “Feed” and it also goes directly to Google and Yahoo and maybe other search engines. The search engines know this is brand new information and they will pay attention.

You should commit to adding information at least once every two weeks. Once a week would be better. And the post should consist of mostly information that would be of interest to your target audience but not just about your business or site. It should have a more general use. Google recognizes information that is promotional, and it isn’t as interested in that. As a business owner, etc., you have information in your head that your possible customers would like to know. Giving away information helps you in the long run. Something useful to the kind of people you want to appeal to. Show them how much you know, help them do things, and help yourself in the search engines at the same time.

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For those NM sites with a shopping cart

July 5th, 2006

Effective July 1, 2006 the New Mexico Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) has been changed for many locations in New Mexico. The new GRT rate for Albuquerque is 6.875% (up from 6.75%).

You can see a rate schedule by location  by going to:
<a href=”http://www.state.nm.us/tax/pubs/gr_rates_jul_06.pdf”>http://www.state.nm.us/tax/pubs/gr_rates_jul_06.pdf</a>

Please contact us if you’d like us to help you update your shopping cart to reflect these new rates.

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Various Scams (Faxes and Emails)

May 17th, 2006

From time to time we would like to share with you some information on various scams, viruses, etc. that are going around and that relate to your website, domain name, search engine listings and email address. There is a lot of them and this will just cover the ones that we have been reminded of recently.

1. There is a fax scam going around. It is two pages. Cover sheet says, “SAO Listing Service”. Second page says “Annual Internet Advertisement Listing” and the price is $79.95 a month or a year. It looks like an invoice. But in small print it says “This is not a bill. This is a marketing offer.”
2. A second fax scam is much like the first one. Internet Corpoaration Listing Service’s fax claims you paid them last year and now you owe them for this year. They tell you what your account number is and this year is just $35. But don’t bother.
3. And another fax from something called The Official Internet Registry & Optimization Bureau. Says they have been doing this for you for some time and this is a semi annual website marketing and monitoring bundle. We got it and I know we never hired them. They just send bills and someone pays and they make money just by sending out invoices via fax.
4. There is an email going around with a title like “Follow up - New Update to fix Windows File Errors”. They want you to run a diagnostics test. Don’t do it.

Whenever you receive unusual emails or faxes on Internet Marketing, etc. and you are unsure of what they are or whether they would be useful to you, feel free to use us as a resource. And if you want Internet Marketing, call us. Those of you with Full Service Website Hosting plans should ask for your yearly search engine and promotion meeting on how to get your website more traffic. MIS is here to help with all your website needs.

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