This is the first time I have seen this - a deindexing and ban of a website in Google search for apparently violating YouTube policies.

It is an excellent lesson in Google using it's various services to punish anyone who violates one.

This risk is becoming greater and greater for marketers. If you violate an Adwords rule are you at risk for losing your gmail account, Adsense, and search rankings?

The website is essentially a spam site. The concept is you...

If you are a small company and want to use the power of e-mail to get your marketing message to your customers and prospects, here are three keys to getting it right and being effective. The first key to successful small business email advertising is to collect the email addresses of your customers.

You need to set up systems in the context of your company directory. No matter how your staff comes into contact with your customers, they must ask for the email address at the point of...

This is a post to recognize that persistence pays off. I think that most of us know that if you keep doing something over and over, one day a switch goes off in your mind that says you finally "know" how to do it. I think that this is something like the process that happens when you are learning to tie your shoe laces (if you wear those kind of shoes in your country). The workflow of setting up an auto-responder is not hard when it comes to the actual steps for the vendor that you have...