The deadline for our “grand finale” drawing for our 5th Annual Customer Appreciation Raffle is tomorrow at 6pm PDT.  Did you enter as many times as you’re allowed?  If you’re a past client and haven’t received your entry instruction, check your email or junk mail filters for past notifications or you can request a resend. 

Last week’s winners selected from our prize vault the following prizes:

• Ray La Point, Delight Cleaning, selected an 8mb iPod Touch valued at $199.
  Ray submitted 1 entry form and one testimonial.
• Andrea Raymond, Appletree Advertising, selected Season Tickets to the Sacramento Theater Company’s 2008-2009 season valued at $300.
  Andrea submitted 1 entry form and referred one new client since our last raffle.

With these prizes gone, the following items are still up for grabs:

• $100 SpaFinder spa Certificates
• $100 Restaurant-of-your-choice Gift Certificate
• A foursome at North Ridge Country Club valued at over $400
• Neat Receipts 3.0 Receipt Scanner valued at $180
• 8mb iPod Touch valued at $199
• YNot Web’s Biz Booster package valued at $300
• $100 Google Adwords budget
• Trial subscription to YNot Web’s Blogmentation™ service valued at over $400

Don’t miss your chance this year! Get your entries in!

Elizabeth Swan, O.D.

You may have noticed several client winners so far during our 5th year Anniversary Celebration–while having multiple prize options valued from $150-500–have opted specifically for something called “Blogmentation”.  While we wait to announce Week 3 winners and their prize selection, I thought I would provide a brief explanation of our newest service offering: YNot Web’s Blogmentation™.

Most my SEO clients have heard time and time again how their website content drives keywords and search engine rankings (if you don’t talk about ‘zippity widgets’ on your website, you’re unlikely to show up in Google top search results for ‘zippity widgets’).  Also, recentness of content and frequency of site activity are often factors in ranking scores.  For these reasons, I often recommend that my clients start blogging on relevant topics or create an article section or even a web-based newsletter to grow their websites and increase their search engine optimization and rankings.

Unfortunately, many busy business owners find it challenging to have the time needed to create quality content on an ongoing basis.  YNot Web’s Blogmentation™ is a new service we are offering exclusively to YNot Web SEO clients to help solve this problem by augmenting our clients’ website with search engine optimized blog entries or short articles on an ongoing basis.  Blogmentation is an ongoing subscription-based service. Clients choose their content posting intervals and their most important key phrases and YNot Web creates the fully researched, search engine optimized and unique articles on topics relevant to that client’s business and keywords. 

For instance, a real estate agent may have topics such as “How to choose a Real Estate Agent”, ‘How to Work with a Real Estate Agent’, and ‘Interview Questions for Selecting a Real Estate Agent’ or a series of entries on “Tips to prepare your House for Sale”. Keep in mind, blog postings are shorter than full-length articles (generally 250-450 words) and should be laser focused on a particular topic for best optimization effects.  YNot Web’s Blogmentation™ service frees up our clients’ time, relieves stress of coming up with topic ideas and keeping up with continual web site additions, helps our clients compete effectively for keywords relevant to their business, and provides useful information to their clients and prospects.  Currently this service offering is only available to YNot Web’s SEO clients who already have a blog or article section on their website and just want to add content to it.   To find out about becoming an SEO client or for pricing and details, contact Kammy by phone or email.

Our Week Two prize winners were offered options from all of our four Prize categories: Techie Gadgets, Cultural Experiences, Business Escapes Category and Marketing Category.  Of all the options, both winners opted for a 2 month trial subscription of YNot Web’s Blogmentation (details coming soon) service worth $400.  The winners were:

• FutureDecisions:  Kevin & Karen submitted 1 entry form, referred 2 prospects and have had several websites created and had ongoing maintenance since April 2005.
• ORIMtec: Richard & staff filled out one entry form, referred one prospect, and have been SEO/Marketing clients since February 2005.

Our next two winners will be drawn at end of business Thursday July 24th.  Have you submitted YOUR entry yet?

Our Week One prize winners had a chance to select one prize each, including options within all our four Prize categories: Techie Gadgets, Cultural Experiences, Business Escapes Category and Marketing Category.  The winners and their prize selections are:

• Meridith Krekelberg, Gold River Carpet One Floors & Home: 2 month trial subscription, YNot Web’s Blogmentation service worth $400.
  Meridith submitted 1 entry form and has been an SEO/Marketing client since December 2007.
• Janet Pickel, Sentinel Technology Solutions: Janet received season tickets to Sacramento Opera’s 2008-2009 season worth $270.
  Janet referred four clients since last year’s raffle and provided an unsolicited testiomonial on LinkedIn earlier this year.

This week, our raffle is up to 139 entries from past or current clients.  Our second week’s winners have been selected and notified of their prize options.  Once they have made their selections, we will post the results.

Results for our first chance drawing for our Customer Appreciation Raffle are in and winners are being notified.  We will update the blog with our winners names and prizes once they have confirmed their prize selection from this week’s prize options.  More winners will be pulled Thursday 17th.  If you are a past or current client, don’t forget to take advantage of one or more of the raffle entry opportunities.