For most people seeking education, be it in high-school, college or some kind or courses, having a great score sheet is the most important thing they could possibly want, especially when they are dealing with scholarships or similar forms of financial aid.

No matter what your level or degree is, having some nice grades on your subjects is a big plus to have, not only because of the financial aids you may get but to your own pride and satisfaction. After all, having high grades is seen as a synonym of high skills on that subject.

When you have good grades, people begin looking at you, and if you are seeking higher-level education, such as university, college, master degree, and above, you will notice that your score is a very important asset on your path to better jobs and business opportunities. Having a high score and GPA, many companies will compete against each other to contract you as their staff.

However, achieving a high and perfect score in university level is not an easy feat. You must be independent and disciplined to get through your assignments in time. Once you lose your rythm, it can be really hard to catch up.

If you are like me, one of the most annoying tasks has to do with writing essays, such as a narrative essay, classification essays, where you need to be persuasive and sound in your arguments. In my case, the worst nightmare was when I had to turn in a literature essay, a real pain in the brain.

Moreover, there are also some rules in the essay writing, such as using APA style or others international writing standards, which can get in the way when trying to complete your work. It can be hard to do if you do not have good writing skills or if you have too many assignments at once and you can’t give the essays the concentration and time it deserves. What can you do?

A plausible solution would be to hire a custom essays online writer. Of course, you can’t just hire anyone to write the essays for you. You must ensure the essay writing service will provide a good piece of work. The best way to achieve this is to use reputable online services such as Essaychampions.com, which has clear and respected writing standards that ensure your essay will meet your teachers’ demands and even surpass their expectations.

Requesting an essay from this website is simple enough. You only need to make order and set the essay’s deadline. This web will help you find you topic and provide the essay’s basic outline. If you like it, you can request them to go ahead with the rest of the essay. If you don’t, they can find other topics for you.

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It’s a common trend that internet marketers do whatever they can do to get the e-mail address of the people visiting their site. Online, you have a really small window of opportunity to convert a visitor into a client and if they’re not ready to buy whatever they’re browsing on your site, it’s a good idea to at least find out who they are so that you can try a different sales approach on them on another day. Just because they’re not interested in what you’re selling today doesn’t mean you can’t find something else to tickle their fancy.

There are many ways to do this such as:

Offer a free report with information they’ll find valuable
Ask them to opt in to your newsletter or subscribe to your website for update
Intrigue them with entry into a free draw for a prize.Once someone has signed up for something you’ve got a valuable e-mail address that you can use to build your list of potential customers. Once you have that e-mail address, you want to be very careful with it because otherwise it won’t do much for you.

How do you stay out of the spam filter?

It’s a good idea to have someone confirm before you give away anything. Many will put in a fake e-mail address just to get something for free. You can require them to confirm by receiving an e-mail from you and clicking a confirmation link. Remind them to check their junk folder and if they mark your message as not being Spam, their email software could then automatically whitelist you so that you don’t land in the spam folder in future. By requesting a confirmation, you also ensure that you are getting a real e-mail address.

Autoresponder software is a good investment for anyone marketing online. Buying into a package AutoResponsePlus or something similar will help you easily manage your mailing lists. The thing is, once you have a mailing list in place and a plan that includes autoresponders, you need to work on your email content and deliverability.

Each communication you make in future with prospective client should do two things:

1) The e-mail needs to offer them something valuable otherwise they’ll unsubscribe. Give information or tips or helpful information that will have that person anxious to open future emails from you.

2) You need a call to action line at the end which will entice them to do something you want after they close the email. This could be to visit your website with a handy link, sign up for another service, refer their friends to you or even offer a purchase link so they can buy what you’re selling.

Deliverability is definitely a key factor. You want to know that your e-mails reach their recipient’s email box so here are a few things you can do to increase the likelihood of your target audience actually opening your e-mail. People are fed up with Spam and using all sorts of programs and techniques to ensure they’re not having to sift through spam to get to the important e-mails.

People make use of domain keys and SPF records so that they aren’t getting phishing e-mails by those posing as their bank or PayPal.

People use spam filters and this helps them build the trust in their incoming messages. Once you make it past that filter, you’re set.

By getting yourself whitelisted, you can increase the likelihood of being delivered to an e-mail inbox instead of a Spam folder and by buying an autoresponder product that’s hosted on your own server, you can more easily get past Spam filters because if you’ve done your bit to get whitelisted, you’ll be trusted by your recipient’s e-mail server which will increase the chances of your brilliant and persuasive copy being taken seriously.

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Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:

Two star links:

• The Industry Standard provides us with the 25 top B to Z-list blogs. Why am I giving the link 2-star status? Because the stupid site spaces the list out over multiple pages. ARGHHHHH. Take your page views and ad impressions and shove ‘em up your arse.

Three star links:

• Andrew Girdwood shares an amusing Gmail ad that may have been a little lost in translation.
• This clever photoset depicts Storm Troopers living their lives in an everyday setting.
• Better think twice about calling in sick–your boss might soon be able to detect if you’re just trying to play hooky.
• Shoemoney pings a bunch of SEOs (including myself and Rand) and asks them for their definition of what "SEO" is. The responses are interesting and pretty helpful.
• A real-life Rocket Man tested jet-powered wings in Switzerland. Rocket Maaaaaaan, burning out his fuse up here alone…this dude better not try to raise his kids on Mars. I’ve heard it ain’t the kind of place to do that (in fact, it’s cold as hell). Okay, I’ll stop now.
• Danny found a site that teaches you how to create a joy buzzer in your shoe that’ll pass a current through your body and shock people. Danny’s so nice.
• Mark Cuban (you guys shouldn’t have given Avery Johnson the boot!) talks about an interesting strategy for Yahoo/Microsoft: what if they paid the top 5 results for the top 25k searches to leave the Google index?
• This guy posits selling your SEO data/logs as a new SEO business model. Rand thinks that you’d need to band together a lot of sites to do it successfully, but that there’s probably some VC funding headed that way if a good team runs with it.
• The NY Times talks about why Yelp is super duper. Um, because they hired us to do their SEO? Or because their newsletters are awesome?
• Kim Krause Berg talks about how she hates people using the web as a weapon. We’ve all been there–the Internet is an enticing medium to vent your frustrations and start a major bitchfest campaign against someone. The real challenge is demonstrating how much restraint you have.
• Advertising on social networking sites is projected to hit $1.4 billion this year, a 55% increase from 2007. And all of those ads assume that Danny is gay and engaged.

Four star links:

• Mike Elgan provides an interesting argument as to why Steve Ballmer should resign as CEO of Microsoft. To sum up his stance, Ballmer’s inept.
• Pretty cool idea–recycled paper is turned into furniture. Here’s the artist/furniture maker’s website, in case you’re interested.
• Speaking of cool furniture, how about a Nintendo controller coffee table? That’s pretty damn cool.
• This site does a comparison of portion sizes today compared to 20 years ago. *SPOILER ALERT*: They’ve gotten bigger.
• Search Engine Journal has a post about the next frontier for search marketing standards. Unlike Darren Slatten, Ken Clark thinks that our SEO quiz is a good assessment of a hiring candidate’s SEO knowledge.
• This blog goes through the 3 key phases of blogging. Pretty apt observations, if you ask me.

Five star links:

• Sarah found this great article about how to track intellectual assets to stay ahead of competitors. It provides some really useful tips and links out to additional resources.
• Vanessa Fox provides us with great tips on how to rank as the original source for your syndicated content.

YOUmoz entries:

• Barbara Ling: Secrets of a Veteran Webmaster. Bookworm SEO interviews Barbara Ling of Ask Owlbert.
• Words, Words, Words, and Why SEM is Dependent on Them. Kate Morris talks about the benefit of having a writing background when starting a career in search marketing. After all, well-written content is an important part of any SEO/SEM campaign.
• Write Quality Content, Not Keyword-Stuffed Hype. Darkligh+ning also talks about the importance of having high quality, compelling content on your site, and how you should optimize for users more than for search engines.
• Social Marketing and Web 2.0: It’s About Passion. Kate Morris authors up another post for us. This time she talks about how user engagement is proportional to how passionate the user is, and that this is especially important for SMM engagement and participation.
• Selling to Seniors: Are You Ready for the Boomers? Webwordslinger.com talks about the browsing and web surfing behavior of senior citizens.

Best of YOUmoz:

• Twitter Insights and How Coke Pissed Off Danny Sullivan by Rishil uses one of Danny’s Coke tirades as an important lesson learned: don’t underestimate the power of social networking. He also highlights the benefit of using Twitter for research and for venting your frustrations.

New events added to the Events Calendar:

No new events added this week.

Upcoming events:

• Page Zero Marketing Seminar May 15 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• PPC Summit May 19-20 in San Francisco, CA
• International Search Summit May 22 in London, UK
• SEO Training Class May 23 online at highrankings.com/seo-classes

New additions to the SEOmoz Marketplace:

Featured job postings:

• Senior Internet marketing associate, paid search marketing coordinator, and paid search data analyst for Vertive in Austin, TX
• Long-term link building SEO. Can work from anywhere.

Featured companies:

United States/North America:

• The MasterLink Group in Texas
• EngineWorks in Portland, OR
• Vertive in Austin, TX
• Redonk Marketing in Dallas Fort Worth, TX
• Eqqy Designs in Vancouver, BC, Canada

UK/Europe:

• Business Feet in the UK
• SEO Ibiza in Spain

Featured resumes:

Happily employed:

• Sandy Allain is a multilingual SEO who works in the Travel and Educational industry.

Looking for employment:

• WJ Muller is a web developer who also specializes in web usability and SEO. He was able to bring a client up from >100 to the 3rd and 6th result for two keyword campaigns.
• John Gao is an eCommerce SEO who has many years of international sales experience.

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Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google and other much larger rivals.

Besides Dictionary.com, Ask is picking up Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group LLC. Terms of the deal, set to be announced Thursday, aren’t being disclosed.

With the addition of the widely used reference tools, Ask hopes to make more money showing ads to people looking for answers to basic questions. “We want to ‘super serve’ those people,” said Jim Safka, who runs Ask for its corporate parent, IAC/InterActiveCorp.More than 30% of the search requests entered on Ask are seeking reference material, Safka said.

The sharper focus on reference tools doesn’t mean Ask is abandoning its role as a “general, multipurpose search engine,” Safka said. “This (acquisition) isn’t all we are going to do. It’s the first tangible piece of the puzzle.”

Without providing specifics, Safka indicated Oakland-based Ask also will take measures to highlight more information about entertainment and health issues.

When Ask trimmed its work force by about 8% in March as part of a shake-up, the company’s officials indicated the search engine had decided to would return to its roots as answering straightforward questions. Ask officials also said the search engine would start catering to its core audience of women.

In a Wednesday interview, Safka said The Associated Press and other media misinterpreted the search engine’s intent. He said it would be “myopic and inaccurate” to think of Ask as a specialty search engine.

Ask plans to plant some of its search engine results on the reference sites in an effort to expose its technology to an even wider audience.

Dictionary.com is the most popular of the newly acquired reference sites, drawing 22.1 million visitors worldwide in March, according to the most recent data from comScore Inc. That represented a 20% increase from the same time last year.

Some of the material from Dictionary.com and other newly acquired reference sites will be featured at the top of Ask’s search results page devoted to “smart answers.”

Dictionary.com and the other reference sites will also get a financial lift from their new ownership. That’s because they will be entitled to a bigger commission from the ads that Google displays on their sites under a contract that IAC negotiated last year, Safka said.

While Ask has relied on Google’s advertising acumen for much of its revenue for years, it has been investing heavily in upgrades aimed at positioning its search engineer as a smarter alternative to Google.

Although many of Ask’s innovations have impressed analysts, the efforts haven’t changed the competitive landscape.

Google ended March with a 60% share of the U.S. search market, while Ask ranked a distant fifth with a less than a 5% share of the market, comScore said.

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Online classifieds leader Craigslist.com filed a countersuit on Tuesday against business rival eBay Inc, alleging eBay used its minority stake in Craigslist to steal its corporate trade secrets.

In a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco, Craigslist challenged allegations in an eBay suit filed in Delaware state court in April that accused Craigslist of discriminating against eBay as a shareholder.

EBay’s suit in Delaware Chancery Court charged Craigslist had used “clandestine meetings” to dilute eBay’s 28.4 percent stake in Craigslist to 24.85, or less than a quarter of the company.In addition to unfair competition and fraudulent business claims, the countersuit accuses eBay of copyright infringement and using misleading advertising on Google Inc to run ads for its rival Kijiji site that appeared to be Craigslist ads.

The lawsuit demands that eBay restore all shares of Craigslist owned by eBay or for the court to require eBay to divest its holdings in Craigslist. The suit asks eBay to disgorge profits tied to the business and for punitive damages.

EBay spokeswoman Kim Rubey responded to Craigslist’s lawsuit against eBay, saying: “We regret that Craigslist felt compelled to resort to unfounded and unsubstantiated claims in order to divert attention from actions by Craigslist’s board that unfairly diluted our minority interest.”

EBay, the world leader in online auctions and payment services, took a minority ownership stake in Craigslist nearly four years ago as part of a strategy to buy up classified advertising services both in the United States and Europe.

In 2004, eBay began to expand into the market through the acquisition of online classified businesses Marktplaats and later, LoQuo and Gumtree. In 2005, eBay launched its own free online classifieds site named Kijiji in nearly a dozen markets in Europe and Asia. A year ago, it entered the United States.

Craigslist and eBay grew out of the same early rush to create Web businesses in Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s.

But their paths quickly diverged as eBay went on to dominate online auction markets, becoming a multibillion company, while Craigslist stayed true to its uncommercial ethic by not charging for most of its local listings.

Craigslist operates with only a few dozen employees. Its headquarters is located in a modest, century-old Victorian house located in a residential neighborhood of San Francisco. It relies on volunteers to run sites in 567 cities worldwide.

They compete directly in the United States and a dozen other countries, with Kijiji tailoring its ads to young families in contrast to Craigslist’s open flea-market style.

Craigslist’s complaint alleges a plot by San Jose, California-based eBay to use its position as a minority shareholder and its position on the board to pressure Craigslist into a full-scale acquisition deal by eBay.

Barring that, Craigslist argues eBay used its position to gather competitive information that led to the launch of eBay’s rival classifieds business. It charges eBay code-named this its “Craigslist killer” in internal strategy discussions.

“In the months leading up to the launch of its competing Kijiji site … eBay used its shareholder status to plant on Craigslist’s board of directors the individual responsible for launching and/or operating Kijiji,” the latest suit alleges.

It also alleges eBay used its position on the Craigslist board to pressure the company to provide it with key details of its expansion plans and operating performance.

“Using the pretext that the information was necessary for Craigslist board-related matters, eBay made constant demands for confidential information in excess of what was required for that purpose,” Craigslist alleges.

Craigslist has until Monday to respond to eBay’s original lawsuit that seeks to protect its minority shareholder rights.

Rubey quoted from Craigslist’s own complaint to suggest that both parties recognized that the right of the other to compete with one another. However, the Craigslist lawsuit says eBay would relinquish some rights if it chose to compete with Craigslist on online job listings, its sole source of revenue.

The Craigslist complaint can be found here.

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