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• Featured Client: Visit West Volusia
• Creating your Google Places Listing
• How to Rank in Google Places
• Google Base for Real Estate Listings
• View Website Traffic in Google Analytics
• Webinars & Support
• Alternate Image News

This month's newsletter is all about Google! After analyzing our Google Analytics reports to learn more about our site traffic and teaching a class about how to compete online, we learned what everyone really cares about:

How Do I Rank
Higher On Google's Search Engine?

This entire newsletter is dedicated to Google and search engine marketing. We know how valuable a search engine optimized website can be to your business. For most, it's a necessity and has long surpassed the phone book listings or bus bench ads as a means of exposure for their business.

Lucky for you your website is developed with Alternate Image's search engine friendly software, allowing for do-it-yourself website optimizing that will make your website more visible to search engines. Read our blog for more Internet Marketing tips.

Don't have time to optimize? Overwhelmed with meta-tags and blogging? Ask about Alternate Image's Search Engine Optimization Services.

VisitWestVolusia.com

The West Volusia Tourism and Advertising Authority's website launched April 26th, 2010 to showcase the local places to stay, eat, things to do and event happenings in the West Volusia region.

The WVTAA brought in Alternate Image to design and develop a new website to display the large amount of content on the website, including a calendar of local events, restaurant directory, lodging and hotel directory, and other local attractions and parks. The software developed by Alternate Image allows the staff of the WVTAA to easily update and manage the large and constantly changing database of local information by different employees.

After overwhelming approval from the board, the WVTAA is proud to launch their new website which will help to increase their area's exposure for scenic activities, free or pet-friendly things to do, fun stay-cations, and great tourist attractions.

Read the full press release at Alternate Image's blog.

Create your Google Places Listing for Google Maps

If you are not on Google Maps then this article is for you! Google Maps is like the phone book of the Internet. Users can quickly find businesses they need for any localized searches performed in Google. Google offers business owners a free way to create and update their listings. Read More

How to Rank Higher on Google Places

Google has begun to rank their Google Places listings (formerly Google Maps) according to specific criteria. Google Places are shown in the coveted Google ten pack or five pack shown above the organic search listings but below the sponsored listings. Read More

Using Google Base for Real Estate Listings

Google Base is new application from Google that allows Realtors to upload their listings to display on Google Maps. This will give your real estate listings more exposure on the Internet. Read More

Analyzing your Website Traffic with Google Analytics

Learn how to view your website traffic in Google Analytics. See how many visitors have come to your website, where they are coming from, which keywords they are using in search engine to find your website, and which pages they are viewing. Read More

Don't forget to use the Alternate Image Wiki for instant customer support. For all other requests, be sure to send an email to the ticketing system, help@aisupportdesk.com, and not to our individual staff members.

The ticketing system is the only way to process website requests - emails to our individual staff members may get burried in our inboxes. Stick to the support system! And you can always call us during office hours for additional customer support.

MAY WEBINARS
Alternate Image provides FREE online tutorials on everything from using your website software to Social Media and Internet marketing. Webinars last 30-45 minutes and are a great way to learn more about effectively using your website.

Hotel Training
Wednesday, May 19th at 2pm
Learn how to manage your hotel booking engine software and how to setup your inventory and rates.

General Website Training
Wednesday, May 26th at 2pm
Learn the basic website applications and how to use your website, add landing pages, add administration users, and other basic software applications.

Sign-Up For Webinars

ALTERNATE IMAGE IS HIRING A PROGRAMMER

We are searching for an experienced software programmer to join our team as a full time employee with benefits. Please send us any referrals, good programmers are very hard to find!
View the complete job description.

FUN AROUND THE OFFICE

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