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Newsletter Archive

Although our free monthly newsletters have been suspended while we concentrate on providing you with our web promotion service, you are welcome to take a look at our archive of Newsletters, containing marketing tips and news about the search engines.

Our newsletters regularly featured :

The Alcander (unofficial) Web Awards. We pick out "the best" website in various categories.
"What is". We introduce a new term or concept (to go in our knowledgebase). This section was excluded in issue 7.
Internet / Search Engine news. News you may have missed, usually focusing what is going on in the world of search engines and directories.

Alcander Ltd. helps you read the signs leading to those enviable positions at the top of the search engines

Issue	Date	Highlights
	(2004)
8	May	Optimisation of anchor text Beyond Google : Search Engine Shortcuts What Is? : Bookmarklets Read issue 8 here

7	April	7 Big Mistakes in Web Design : (6)Bad HTML Beyond Google : Visual-meta search engines (part 2) Read issue 7 here

6	March	7 Big Mistakes in Web Design : (5)Unstructured planning of websites. Beyond Google : Visual meta search engines (part 1) Read issue 6 here

5	Feb	7 Big Mistakes in Web Design : (4)The Search Engine War - Avoiding Being Overtaken Beyond Google : The Deep Web Read issue 5 here

4	Jan	Benefiting from Online Discussion Forums Ways to localise your Website 7 Big Mistakes in Web Design : (3)The Search Engine War - Resisting Anger Read issue 4 here

3	Dec 03	How a Web Callback System can help Communication with your Customers 7 Big Mistakes in Web Design : (2)The Lust for more traffic Beyond Google : Searching for Images Read issue 3 here

2	26 Nov 03	Popular Free Resources for Website Enhancement 7 Big Mistakes in Web Design : (1)Redundant Features of websites Read issue 2 here

1	10 Nov	Read issue 1 here

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