So you got your website up and running and you think you have done a pretty good job optimizing it, however you forgot some of the most basic elements and have made quite a few SEO boo boos. At this point you only have two options; fix it yourself and risk not having it done right or hire a search engine optimization specialist to do it right the first time. Now not all SEO companies follow these guidelines and they can make mistakes to, so I have given you some of the basic things to avoid.

 Below are a few SEO mistakes that you and/or your SEO company needs to avoid at all costs. 

Having Your Entire Site or Even Your Navigation Built All in Flash

 If you have made this mistake you need to reverse it NOW and put your site into HTML. If you want the search engines to be able to view your site properly then your content should be in HTML not a flash image. Content is king in SEO and it is what will drive the search engines to push you up in the rankings for your particular keywords. Having a flash navigation can irritate your users and since they are the ones buying your products or services you want to make your site as easy to use as possible. 

Choosing the Wrong Keywords

 Have you done all the necessary keyword research before you optimized your site for them? If not then you could be wasting a lot of time and money optimizing for keywords that for one have no search volume and two do not or will not convert. If no one is searching for that keyword then it makes no difference it you are in position 1 or 100 as no one is looking for that anyway. No matter what anyone says if you do not convert sales from your keywords then get rid of them they are of no value since you make no money with them.

Interal Linking Gone Wrong

 Whenever you’re linking to a page on your own site, whether it’s from a blog post, your home page or a service page, make sure you have optimized your anchor text. If you have not then you have given that link no value and have basically just wasted your time.

External Linking to Link Farms

 A link farm is any group of web sites that all link to every other site in the group. Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated programs and services and will be considered SPAM. According to Google, a site that participates in a link farm may have its search rankings penalized as they think you are "spamming" the search engines.

Bad URLs

Bad URLs can hold you back form ranking properly in the search engines for your particular keywords. Having a properly optimized URL that includes your keyword in it will have much more value that one with just letters and numbers. You want to make sure you tell the search engines in every possible way exactly what you want your page to rank for.

Improper or No Title Tags

 Every page on your website should be have a unique Title Tag. It should describe the content on that page and be engaging enough to entice a user to click on your listing. After all this is what they will see when they stumble across your site in the search engines and if they do not like what they see or it is not relevant to their search you are likely to miss out on that sale.

AND FINALLY THE WORST OF ALL.......

Black or Gray Hat SEO

When it comes to ethics and Organic Search Engine Optimization, you’ve got three different routes you can go. You can follow the rules laid out by the search engines (”White Hat SEO”), you can try to deceive the engines to get better rankings (”Black Hat SEO”), or you can creatively interpret the guidelines to stretch their intended meaning (”Gray Hat SEO”). If the goals of your SEO strategy are long term then avoid ALL Gray and Black Hat SEO techniques. If you don’t, and a search engine catches you, it won’t hesitate to peanilize, leaving you with a website that is worthless. These penalties are assessed without warning and can last for life.

So now that I have given you quite a bit to think about and probably quite a bit of work to redo your best bet would be to hire an SEO company that is reputable and that will take care of your site with the utmost respect for the search engines as well as your users.

NoIQ is today one of Europe's biggest poker company that offers gambling on the Internet in poker, casino and sports betting. The company is authorized and regulated by the LGA (Lotteries and Gaming Authority) of Malta. This means that the profits of NoiQ will be tax free.

The company president, Robin Larson is a young and successful entrepreneur whose work primarily consists of keeping together the movement, and review opportunities for expansion of the company. NoiQ works actively to get their players to enjoy the personalized support and close contact with other players. The company works regularly with the recruitment of new players and are always looking for acquisitions in the gaming industry.

Through cooperation with Crystone, who are responsible for the Organic Search Engine Optimization piece, NoIQ has achieved a higher placement in particular "play internet poker" play online casino "" online casino tournaments "and many more keywords on Google.com

Below are some questions we asked Robin and here is what he had to say:

1st - How do you think that cooperation with Crystone has gone so far?
We are very pleased with Crystone and looks forward to continued good cooperation.

2nd - Have you seen any major change / difference with the new rankings on Google?
After that started collaborating as we have seen a marked increase in new customers from search engines.

3rd - What is the goal of your SEO campaign and has Crystone have achieved this for you?
Our goal has been to increase traffic from search engines, which Crystone has been very successful with. "

Google has introduced a new feature that allows people to create and personalize their own holiday greeting cards and send them to others via email.

 The Google Blog provides more details about this. “We’re sure many of you have holiday plans in the works, so we’ve designed greeting cards you can email to friends and family—to share those fun adventures or just to say hello from wherever you are around the world.”

They are offering 10 different holiday covers and since it is from Goolge Maps you also have the ability to include specific directions, a Street View image or a favorite place on the inside of the card so it can make a great party invitation as well.

So start sending out those holiday card and party invitation the no hassel way at googlemapsholidays.appspot.com. Happy Holidays!

Google has introduced a new feature to its voice service that will allow you to send and receive free personalized calls from Santa.

Users can visit sendacallfromsanta.com and choose from a number of options to send customized phone calls to anyone in the U.S. Users can also send the messages from Santa via email, Facebook and Twitter.

The Google Blog provides additional information. “If you or your kids have a special request or message for Santa, you can leave him a message at his Google Voice number: 855-34-SANTA. Although he’s too busy to return messages himself, you can always create one on his behalf at the Send a Call From Santa site.”

“And don’t forget—if you want to keep up with Santa as he travels around the globe delivering presents on Christmas Eve, you can track his journey on Google Maps, on Google Earth with the plug-in and on your mobile phone, too.”

Did you know that over 80% of buyers first search online before making a purchase and that each day there are thousands of potential buyers searching the internet to find your products or services? Are they finding your website at the top of the search engine results? If not then you are in need of Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO)!

From now until the end of December when you sign up for one of our monthly SEO plans you will receive 1 MONTH FREE! Crystone's SEO packages can ethically and effectively get your website more visibility in the major search engines and we offer SEO packages starting as low as $299.00 per month.

Below are a few of the benefits of SEO:
•Higher Sales
•More Visibility
•More Traffic
•Targeted Traffic
•Increase Brand Visibility
•High ROI 

To receive your No Obligation Search Engine Optimization (SEO) proposal that will show you how we can increase the internet exposure for your website simply visit our Affordable SEO Packages page where you can fill in our contact form and learn more about our SEO packages and pricing.

So contact Crystone today so we can take YOUR website to the top of the search engines!

SEO Link Builders Needed

We are seeking energetic, outgoing and enthusiastic SEO - Link Builders to join our expanding team in Hollywood, FL. 

The main focus for this role is to build relationships with webmasters and bloggers and to acquire backlinks for the company though email.

About Us:

Since the launch of Crystone in 1997 our main goal has been to be a full service provider that puts stability and security as the main focus towards the services we provide. Our range of services helps around 60,000 clients to date. We offer internet related services such as International and Local Search Engine Optimization, SEO Content Delivery, Pay per Click Advertising Management, Banner Advertising, Search Engine Friendly Content Management Systems, Website Design, and Web Hosting

Requirements:

• Must have a working knowledge of computers, Internet Searching, Excel, Word, and Outlook.

• No previous knowledge of this position is required as training will be provided

• Experience with link building strategies a plus but not necessary

• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and through email correspondence.

The Benefits you will enjoy include:

• Working for an exciting company enjoying tremendous hyper-growth and that strives to help everyone achieve their professional and personal goals

• Exceptional opportunities for your creative ideas to blossom within a supportive teamwork environment

• Attractive compensation package, including competitive salaries, bonuses and incentive

Contact Info:

Andreas Linnuste

Direct: 1 954 926 5955

E-mail: andreas.linnuste@crystone.com

Crystone Media

Toll Free: 1 888 620 7102, Fax: 1 954 379 4503
Web: www.crystone.net Blog: www.crystone.net/blog
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Crystonemedia

It seems that Google's Sponsored Links are now being called Google Ads. At this time the roll out is only affecting English language domains and it is unclear when it will move to other languages.

Here is how they looked before:

How they appear now:

This will not alter the way the ads are displayed or selected but it is quite interesting as to why they made the change since the term "Sponsored Links" has been used for so long now.

The addition of Google Places and various local ads may be a contributing factor to the demise of the “Sponsored Links” term. Another reason may be that Google found that the term “Ads” performed better.

Bing named their ads “Sponsored Sites” and Yahoo “Sponsored Results” so perhaps Google is trying to set themselves apart from the pack once again by this renaming of "Sponsored Links" to "Ads".

So you think choosing an Organic Search Engine Optimization provider is easy, well think again. SEO is complicated and it involves hundreds of variables and it is constantly changing. Proper SEO requires experience, patience, and the fine art of knowing how to make the search engines like your site, all while following the search engines' webmaster guidelines. 

It is pretty easy for a good SEO provider to spot the others companies that are just looking to make a quick buck at your expense, but for a typical business owner, all SEO providers often seem to be the same. So you need to look closely at what you are really getting from them in your SEO package.

Below are some of the things you want to beware of when you:

Watch Out For Guaranteed Ranking

SEO providers do not own the search engines; therefore they can never guarantee a particular spot within the search engines. However they should be able to give you an estimate on how long it will take to see results for your particular keywords

Thirty Days Or Less

Not if it is organic rankings you are looking for. If anyone is telling you they can rank your website in 30 days or less, they should be eliminated as a potential provider. If they are providing you with on-page optimization as well as off-page then this feat is impossible if they are using "white hat" SEO techniques

Keywords are Not on Target 

If you find your keywords are not hitting your target goals then it is probably because your SEO provider picked bad keyword/ phrases that sound good, but has little or no traffic. They do this because they are not competitive and easy to rank. A good SEO company will always show you all the information you need so that you may make an informed decision for your keywords

Cheap Prices

If an SEO company has unbelievable low prices then you are probably not getting much but a few on-page tweaks, this is by no means real SEO. 

Unethical or "black hat" SEO techniques that are used by some SEO companies have left a bad taste in people’s mouths. Many claim the entire industry is all a scam. I can't blame them given how hard it is to find a good SEO company that will do exactly what they say they are going to do. The reality is that people get scammed everyday and bad SEO companies give false promises of quick ranking, unrealistic guarantees, bad keywords and very cheap pricing. So it is worth you taking your time to make sure that you have the right provider working on your businesses’ website.

Google recently announced a new kind of search result called Place Search. These results can be accessed from the new "Places" option in the left panel on Google search results pages, but unlike many of the other search options available in the panel, Google will actually return you these results for queries automatically, when it thinks you are looking for local information. 

Place Search results are marked with red pins, much like you're used to seeing on Google Maps.  

Tthis is great news for local businesses that are optimized for local search (see below for one of our client examples). For those who aren't, this would appear to symbolize a crucial time to starting placing more focus on this area of local search engine optimization. 

"We've made results like this possible by developing technology to better understand places," explains Product Manager Jackie Bavaro. "With Place Search, we're dynamically connecting hundreds of millions of websites with more than 50 million real-world locations. We automatically identify when sites are talking about physical places and cluster links even when they don't provide addresses and use different names ('stubb's bbq' is the same as 'stubbs bar-b-que')."

"One of the great things about our approach is that it makes it easier to find a comprehensive view of each place," adds Bavaro. "In our new layout you’ll find many more relevant links on a single results page—often 30 or 40. Instead of doing eight or 10 searches, often you'll get to the sites you're looking for with just one search. In our testing Place Search saves people an average of two seconds on searches for local information."

This feature is just in the roll out phase now, but to make sure you are found there contact us today and we will handle all the necessary aspect of your organic search engine optimization.

Local Search Engine Optimization has been becoming increasingly more important for local business owners. If you own a local business and want to get more targeted traffic in the local listings, then Local SEO is the way to go.Local SEO is just like standard SEO, where relevant and compelling content is crucial. The next thing that is very important is making sure that proper local keyword research is done. Not all keywords have the search volume necessary for optimization.

Below are the benefits to local search engine optimization:

• Higher search-engine rankings: Competition will be less for the local keyword phrases which means you will see your ranking move up faster
• Higher conversion rates: Using the local keyword phrase your visitors are looking for, the website traffic you get is much more targeted
• Make more money: Your earnings potential is higher when you use local search engine traffic because people who come to you are more serious about your product, service or information.

Google, Yahoo, & Bing have also gotten serious about localized search, Google Places & Google Maps are examples of how local search is helping drive traffic to local businesses. Address, location and driving directions are important for local search so you need to identify your business correctly. Business identity needs to be established online. It anchors the customer experience with your business. If your identity is not established online, your business does not exist.

Consumers are also expanding the type of sources they use to find local information and local businesses.

Users are more likely to do business with a company that they find by using local search terms. Local business search on social sites will continue to grow and can’t be ignored either.

So if your business need a boost in traffic and sales then contact Crystone.net today and let us help guide you through the Local Organic Search Engine Optimization experience.

In another step to improve Crystone support we have in recent days has introduced a new service called "Crystone Remote Service" which means we offer our customers remote support. The service works is that Crystone customer service with the permission of you can go into your computer and resolve your case on the spot! As simple as it may well not be.

Here's how:
1st Crystone customer service employees will be able to see and control your computer.
2nd Crystone can not see anything other than what you see on your computer screen.
3rd Crystone customer service employees are bound to secrecy and will not pass anything on your computer or the information contained therein.
4th All information is encrypted so that no one else can access it.
5th You can cancel at any time the connection by clicking on the "Escape" button on the top left of the keyboard.

To start remote assistance:
1st If you have problems, contact your Crystone customer service, if they consider the case most easily solved through remote support, this feature will be used.
2nd Please enter the session number you get from Crystone customer service representative in a special box that you're told by customer service staff.
3rd Once you do this, you get a file that you run on your computer.

With Crystone's Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) packages we will ethically and effectively get your website more visibility in the major search engines and we'll make your website more search engine friendly too, thereby increasing the traffic to your site and creating better rankings in the search engines for your internet marketing strategy. Crystone is a SEO company that can help your business.

SEO Packages

Here you can choose from our regular SEO packages and our Pay for Performance SEO package. Our packages fit almost any business needs, we can also customize any packages and keywords please contact us to speak to one of our sales consultants, or call 1 888 620 7102

5 Keyword Small Business Package - $499 / Month

This is our Starter SEO package and is well suited for businesses looking to increase their visibility on the web.

10 Keyword Professional Package - $799 / Month (Most Popular Package)

Or most popular SEO package is suited for businesses looking to get an more competitive edge over their competitors.

15 Keyword Pro Plus Package - $1 099 / Month

The Pro Plus package is the choice for businesses looking for solid internet exposure.

25 Keyword Enterprise Package - $1 399 / Month

Our Enterprise package is suitable for any business that wishes to make a considerable impact on the web.

50 Keyword Elite Package - $1 799 / Month

This SEO package gives you the most exposure. More keywords equates to more exposure for your business on the web

30 Keyword Pay for Performance SEO Package - $ 3 300 Start-up Fee

Pay for Performance SEO is most suited for businesses with low to medium competition keywords. Under our Pay for Performance (PFP) monthly ranking guarantee, after the initial start-up fee you only pay a monthly fee based on the number of Top 10 placements we achieve for you in the organic results of the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo! and Bing).

Säpptes news reported that they got a new record with regard to its highest sum ever paid for a domain name . It is about insurance.com as reported, it has been sold for the entire $ 35.6 million dollars. The buyer is a lead generation company QuinStreet . This is just a domain sale and not a purchase of existing business, QuinStreet confirmed by a statement saying that they simply were not interested in the current activities undertaken on the site .

Many domain investors also argue that insurance.com would be more sought after than, for example sex.com , which we previously told you about is for sale . The reason is simply that the porn industry is in decline while the insurance market is strong and it is clearly so that by insurance.com relatively easy to move a first place at the term at Google, and thus generate leads much that they can then sell to insurance companies .

According to one Press Release Last week, as the Danish domain OnlineCasino.dk sold for $ 580,000 . The buyer is a gambling business from Malta and the sale takes place after the Danish government decided to relax the restiktionerna for game companies in Denmark .

The seller is a domain investor named Mark Høeg and in the sale so he picks home first place in the list of sold domain names with Scandinavian far . In Sweden, held first place by spel.se that in May 2009 was sold for € 190,000 in Sedo.

With regard to these shops so it is important to remember that there are very many names that are sold for various reasons but that the deal becomes public.

On August 24 to 25 the world's largest domain conference , T.R.A.F.F.I.C, will be the  fourth conference of the year in Dublin , Ireland .

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain is the industry's largest conference with over 500 participants , including business leaders , investors and experts . TRAFFIC is the largest and most successful domain conference in the world and the purpose of TRAFFIC is to bring domain owners and aggressive , forward- thinking sponsors together with domain investors , so that everyone can expand their networks , thereby creating successful partnerships .

The participants jointly controls more than 20 million domain names with over 50 million daily unique visitors . Participants consist of a small but extremely powerful and forward- thinking group of people who are finally beginning to be recognized for the knowledge they possess . The conference will enable participants to interact with people from major traffic monetization companies like Google.com , Yahoo.com , Skenzo.com , DomainSponsor.com etc.

One other event at TRAFFIC in Dublin is the so-called Test Tracker . Here entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas to real investors in a bid to get real money . If you want to present your business so you can apply at this URL : http://targetedtraffic.com/test-track.php.

Traffic Conference is where the domain industry started and you can expect as a participant :

● Tips and tricks from the best minds in the industry
● A great opportunity for networking with the biggest and the best
● Buy and sell domains at one of the world's leading live domain auctions
● New knowledge makes it possible to stay on top of the ever-changing domain industry
● Collaboration with a number of niche exhibitors that can increase your sales dramatically
● And of course , the exclusive TRAFFIC feast , packed with more punch than ever !


If you are interested in participating in the TRAFFIC Dublin on August 24 to 25 at The Shelbourne in Dublin , visit http://targetedtraffic.com/dublin/registration-pricing.php and register for the conference today !

All tickets include :

Full access to the show : the exhibition , panel discussions , live auction and TRAFFIC celebration .
Four - course lunch every day
2 evening activities ( 24th/25th )

USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism has published a study where they analyzed the impact that the web is for Americans and among the nearly 200 study subjects who are taking up so one of them is the issue of Internet users would pay for social media .

Most do not want to pay . For example, the study found that 49 % of those surveyed have used the free micro blogs Facebook and Twitter but zero percent said they were willing to pay to use them .

The question was , " Would you pay to use Twitter if it took a charge ? " .

" With such an extreme conclusion , that 0 % would be willing to pay for these services , underlines the difficulty of getting Internet users to pay for something they already get for free " says Jeffrey I. Cole, Director of Center for Digital Future at the school .

" Twitter has no plans to charge its users , but this result shows , beyond doubt , the enormous problem of converting ' free ' users to paying users , "says Cole . " Online providers face significant challenges in order to get customers to pay for services they now receive for free. "

This is obviously an obstacle especially newspaper publishers hope to overcome . Last week , were reported the News Corp 's The Times visits fell to one third of what the number was before they started charging their readers .

" Internet users can access content in three ways : they can steal it , or pay for it , or accept advertising on Web pages they read , "says Cole . "users express strong negative opinions about online advertising , but they still prefer to see ads as an alternative to paying for content . Consumers want free content without advertising , but in the end they still understand that the content must be paid for - in one way or another .

July holiday also meant for domain brokers , so there is not this month with some huge sales . The reason for not OnlineCasino.dk included in these statistics is that the purchase has not been confirmed with the bank statement yet.

Crystone announces their newest addition to the Crystone family, Crystone CA.

Search Engine Optimization Canada: Get Your Business Noticed
Trying to build a business in Canada? You're going to need search engine optimization services to make sure that your site gets seen. Most traffic comes from search engine optimization and Canadian SEO is just a part of what our search engine optimization company does. If you're establishing an online presence in Canada then Canada optimization methods will be necessary.

www.Crystone.ca will be launching soon so feel free to check back in for all the latest updates!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been widely used for some time now, however there are still many website designs that hinder the search engines from properly ranking them. Granted you can expect a certain lack of SEO knowledge from uninformed users and designers who are new to site building, however there are still quite a few cases where many companies fail to recognize the importance of an SEO friendly Web design.

Here are some of the issues that can cause the search engines to not rank your site properly:

• Lack of content on the homepage

• Lengthly site load time due to excessive flash or "heavy backends"

• No hierarchy. For very large sites, the lack of a clear hierarchy presents a problem

• Same Title on Every Page

• Lack of updating the site with fresh information

• Non-SEO friendly Content Management System (CMS)

• Flash Entry Pages or Splash Pages

• Framesets and Framed Pages

Some examples of SEO friendly Web designs from Crystone:

www.hostley.com

www.domaininvest.com

www.seolinks.com

After the problems we have experienced with our current spam filtering provider we have  decided to start looking for a new third-party provider for our e-mail filtering. Today, over 175,000 mailboxes have spam filtering and we will now replace our mail server which handles approximately 2.4 million e-mails every day. More than 98% of those messages are spam messages that must be filtered out before they end up in customers' mailboxes.

There are a few different players in the market today that are capable of the demands we put on a new supplier, and after a thorough evaluation, we have chosen Swedish Halon as our new partner. Today they deliver spam filtering solutions for large Swedish web hosting companies and other companies and we are confident that with the new solution will solve the problems we've had in past years.

We expect to have the filtering in operation within two months, a separate page for spam filtering will also be posted on crystone.se for those of you who wish to read more about it.

We thought it would be good to give you a bit more information about our new data center that we previously announced the initiated relocation of our servers to. This post will probably be quite "technical" but we think it is important to give as much details as possible so we can show the steps we have taken to secure our operating environment.

The datacenter has fully redundant systems for power and cooling and has a sophisticated exterior protection and firefighting systems by halo producer gas. We now have two different and completely physically separated data centers located in Liljeholmen and Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, allowing for purely geographical redundancy. The datacenter in Liljeholmen will also receive an upgraded substations during the summer of 2010.

In our new datacenter our customers servers are put in 47U server racks. The new center is also built to handle the most frequent external risks in the operation of servers, systems and applications. The facility minimizes the risks that is related to burglary, fire, power (ex. power outages, lightning and voltage fluctuations), water damage and sabotage. 

Crystone Hammarby has fully redundant power supply through ..

.. two completely separated power supply systems, if your company's servers comes with dual Power supply, this means that your server is still working even if one of our power supplies for any reason suffer a poweroutage. The facility is fully redundant with separate A-and B-force. Either one comes with enough power to supply the entire datacenter. You can also rent a component that connects your server to A and-B supply even though there's only one power supply in the acctual server. In this datacenter, we also have a high voltage ring with its own substation, which provides feeds from two different directions into the facility.

During normal operation, power is delivered from different directions into separate substations. Electric power then goes through a separate UPS systems, which together deliver the power on to power breakdowns in the data center. Would we, for any reason have a power failure at our high-voltage loop it's backed this up by redundant batteries connected to our UPS:es. Our reserve power is supplied from two large redundant diesel generators from Volvo Penta.

The UPS and diesel generator feeds are on separate systems and are not interdependent. If there is a power failure the energy will come from the UPS batteries instead. The diesel generators are powered up to later take over the electricity supply from the UPS and batteries. And when we regain our high-voltage power supply, the two feeds, eg. Emergency and primary electronic metering, are phased out. And once we are sure that the supply of high voltage power really works the operation is returned to normal.

Load balancing (GLBP)

Companies who wish to distribute traffic among multiple servers can use our load balancing service, GLBP (Gateway Load Balancing Protocol). This means that we connect two routers to your servers that balances the load. Router A and Router B also has a master/slave- relationship, meaning as long as the master is active, the slave remains as the backup and would identify problems with the slave master, it will shortly take over the operation and thereby minimizing downtime. We also offer a variety of backup solutions delivered on a SAN from EMC.

Here is a highlight of one of our newest clients, www.pscars.com.

“This a very unique site in the way it will be handling the car buying and researching process. This site is built not only for the consumers but it gives dealers a distinct advantage as well on the type and quality of the leads they will receive. 

Consumer Side:

PScars.com is completely free to our consumers at all times.  When they come to the site, here is a brief list of what they can do or will be able to do.

·         Create a Member profile

·         Create a car profile

·         Create a finance profile

These profiles throughout the process are completed as they follow the process in Building, Researching and Comparing cars within our Configurator.  PScars.com is the first site to take the prominent feeds of 3^rd party services, and make all the information available in an easy, practical system. 

As a consumer plays in the configurator and builds their car, the system is gathering all the car details, special packages, finance options etc and then when the consumer is done building the car, they can save it to their “garage” and come back to it when they are ready to do more, or post it to our dealer network.  They remain anonymous to the dealer throughout the negotiation process, can edit and make changes to the car, work with the dealer on up sells and additional packages etc completely anonymously. 

Once the consumer is happy with the price and car, they click “confirm” – once they do this is when the dealer is charged for the lead, and is provided with the consumers contact information.

Consumers will have a member’s area, the Pscars community, linked in to all the social media sites so they can post their cars and share with friends. Receive email newsletters and announcements, and be the first to become part of the Practical Systems family of sites.

Dealer Side:

On the dealer side, we have been working with dealers getting their input and feedback on how the back end or psdealers.com side should be developed.  What tools do they need to work with us, how can we make the whole process more “practical” for them as well.

One of the best things about it, is it’s a pay for play system.  Currently dealers get 1000’s of bad leads from lead aggregators and have to weed out the poor quality leads in hopes of finding one or two that work.  With our system, they are notified when a consumer in their area posts a car, all the car details, credit scores, and trade in info, preferences, financing options etc so the lead becomes that much more qualified as all the details are already spelled out.  So it puts the consumer back in the driver’s seat so to speak, provides the dealers with a system that they will know and learn provides only quality leads, and they only pay for leads they work.

There is SO much more to what we will be including as we grow, but first we want to get phase one up and running. 

As you also see from the site, there are tons of areas for great advertising opportunities for the OEMs, major brands, independent dealers and affiliates.  When you select a brand, it takes you into a variety of customizable show rooms, with plenty of features for the dealers/brands to display commercials, downloadable PDF brochures of the cars, sale and specials etc.

On the business side, the dealers get other vendors in their arena to join their practical system, and it becomes this b2b directory again hopefully where then they build and invite people into their practical system, so through proper advertising and word of mouth, it just starts building itself and we keep adding more and more features, functionalities and markets as we grow." states Terrence Smalley of Practical Systems, LLC.

"We will be working long and hard to achieve the best results possible for Pscars.com. This will be a great opportunity to let our Organic Search Engine Optimization  efforts shine." states Andreas Linnuste, Managing Director of Crystone USA.

So Crystone would like welcome Pscars.com to our SEO community.

Earlier this March, Crystone and Microsoft launched a new collaboration on Microsoft's new Hyper-V platform for virtualization.

- Virtualization is growing fast and the opportunities are huge, "says Murat Yigit, Operations Manager, Crystone.

- Virtualization is providing opportunities such as full redundancy, ability to upgrade the performance without downtime at a much lower price than the conventional solutions available today on a broad front. We have seen that many small and medium-sized enterprises have a much better understanding of the opportunities surrounding virtualization says, Per Ahlberg, Microsoft.

- What was previously thought to be complicated and too advanced has become much easier today, "continues Per Ahlberg.

- We are very pleased that Microsoft has chosen us for this cooperation, we have a long and successful experience with Microsoft products, continues Murat Yigit. With this collaboration, we hope to build on our already good relationship. In early April, the new services will be aunched, where Crystone will offer Microsoft's entire broad repertoire of products in the virtualization platform, Hyper-V. For this project we have bought into a very powerful hardware, we also invested in our new and ultramodern server hall in Hammarbyhamnen.

- Microsoft's goal has been to find a supplier of Hyper-V in Sweden, which has both the technical maturity and good quality of deployment for our platform, Crystone meets all these requirements, "says a satisfied Sofia Skötte, Microsoft.

We have signed an agreement for the new server hall in Stockholm following the blackout that occurred on the 11th of March. This weekend was the first move of several planned. The decision to move the hall was already in place following the cooling failure that occurred on August 28, 2009.

"The blackout that hit the server hall in Liljeholmen last Thursday was what sped up our planned relocation. “says Murat Yigit, Head of Operations.

The new server hall, which has just been newly built, has a double and completely separate power supply, redundant networks, and extinguishing systems. Also the cooling corridors between the racks makes the cooling more efficient.

Crystone now has two server halls in Stockholm and a unique position to offer full redundancy through these.

"It is important for us to show all of our customers, that through our actions, we are actively taking charge of any situations." continues Murat Yigit.

We want to highlight the most important things we have, our customers, and thus begins an interview series dedicated to just these. First up is Robin Larsson, CEO of gambling company NoiQ.com , which we are helping with organic search engine optimization and online marketing.

Name: Robin Larsson
Lives: Madliena, Malta
Born: Town, Sweden

What is NoiQ and what are your duties?
We provide games on the internet within Poker, casino and sportsbetting. My job consists mainly of keeping the movement together, and will review all options for expansion of the company.

What is a typical day at NoiQ?
An ordinary day at NoiQ is that we work largely with two different parts. One part is to maintain our current players with the support and VIP services, while the second part is working more with the recruitment of new players.

You recently launched your new website, what are your expectations for this?
With our new website we wanted to simplify navigation between our various products significantly. We expect to have a larger spread between the products, and increase the turnover of the casino and sports betting.

How do you think it has been so far to work  with Crystone, which is your SEO provider?
It has worked very well and has been very easy to work with Crystone, which is our SEO provider!

Have we so far lived up to your expectations?
Crystone has certainly lived up to our expectations and we look forward to a long partnership.

We previously wrote on our blog about the domain auction for Haiti that was held by MissDomain after the initiative of Internet Sweden a domain auction. Sales were passed on in full to help the victims of the earthquake disaster in Haiti.

The auction generated around 10 012 EUR (approx .$ 13,600 USD), a total of 217 domains were donated to the auction and 73 were sold. The most expensive domain was IJ.se that went for 2350 EUR (approx $3,200 USD).

Crystone's own donation, webhotell.com, was the domain that generated the largest number of unique bids and the final price ended up at an impressive 900 EUR (about $1,230 USD), which resulted in a bronze place among the domains that were sold.

Here we have listed the 10 most expensive domains:

1 IJ.se 2350 EUR
2 forsakringar.nu 1100 EUR
3 webhotell.com 900 EUR
4 prylar.nu 850 EUR
5 uthyres.nu 850 EUR
6 skidor.nu 800 EUR
7 festlokaler.nu EUR 325
8 bytjobb.nu 225 EUR
9 idol.nu 190 EUR
10 tippa.nu 176 EUR

We have at the year end of 2009 completed the sale of our Norwegian operation to FS data. The reason for selling is that we want to invest and grow in our other markets, primarily Sweden, USA and Turkey, and we are through this sale gain both capital and other resources to do so in an even greater extent than we do today. 

For Crystone AB, Crystone LLC and Hostley customers this means, of course, no change at all. And to our Norwegian customers, there will be no change in existing systems and server structure in the near future, it will be business as usual.