Question: Could you send me the cost for purchasing opt-in consumer email
lists. Targeting quilters, sewing, arts & crafts, beadwork, crochet, knitting, needlepoint

Answer: Go to this page: http://www.wordsinarow.com/optin-email-lists.html.

Contact any of the firms listed on that page, and ask them what lists they have. There are about 50 of them listed — we provide this lsit of optin-email-list providers as a public service. There’s a lot of advice on that page about mailing lists in general, too.

We am not in the email list business.

Best,

Jeré Matlock
http://www.wordsinarow.com
Website Design & Marketing / SEO

Question: A HUGE THANK YOU!!! for your information on getting a website into the directories and registered with the search engines. I’m a total newby and don’t have any money to pay the big boys so I was really appreciative of your willingness to share the knowledge so I could do it
myself. Thanks so much. - C.

Answer: You are very welcome. I hope the registrations work for you. There’s a good little program available here: http://directorysubmitter.imwishlist.com/

It costs less than $100, and will help you register your site in about 2500 different directories. About half of those are paid …

Re Keywords - specific vs general

Question: I’m just starting a network marketing biz. It’s about a solution to the problems of wireless connections. Do I focus on the problem words, cell phone and cancer, cell towers and electro pollution? etc.? Or do I go for the solution words, electro-pollution protection? Thanks, H.

Answer: The trick with keywords is to figure out *exactly* what people are searching for that, if they click on the link to come to your site, your site would be the answer to whatever they are looking for. So I always advise that people go *more* …

Occasionally I receive random questions through the form on my website, http://www.wordsinarow.com/contact.html. I am going to post these to my blog so that the answers may do some good, as they are of general interest to those designing or promoting websites:

Question: how should I promote links?

Answer: It’s best to get links from these two sources:

1. Directories. These will provide one-way links to your site. I
recommend you download and use the Directory Submitter software for $97.00
here: http://directorysubmitter.imwishlist.com/

Then submit to ONLY the directories that do not charge for a submission, and that DO NOT require a
reciprocal …