April 8th, 2008March M9 NewsletterIn this issue» A New Option from M9
» Case Study - Bauschke and Associates Ltd. » SEO Analysis Continued - M9 Redone » A Stable Place - Canada's Strong Financial Future » Programmer's Corner A New Option from M9 The M9 Web Design Corporation is proud to announce a new service we are offering our clients: Online Application Programming. This kind of innovative programming allows us to create unique functions within your website; functions that can do just about anything you can imagine.These are only some examples of what Online Application Programming can do:
And so on! With this technology M9 can build (almost) anything that adds functionality and dynamism to your website. Our Web applications support standard browser features which mean that they will perform regardless of the operating system. That way the application can be written once and deployed almost anywhere. In many ways it is the future of the World Wide Web. With Online Application Programming updates are more easily installed. Also a server processes all transactions and all the data is captured on a single database. Also the end user does not need to install software - a bonus for today's security conscious user.
Roger Syntak - President
[Back to Top] Case Study - Bauschke and Associates Ltd. "We believe that the very best human resources - yours and ours - working together, stand at the foundation of our mutual success." Bauschke and Associates Ltd. (B&A) is a local Winnipeg company with an international reputation. Built on the concept of supplying high quality human resource management services to the financial services industry Bauschke and Associates has been in business since 1971. During that time B&A has grown to provide a full range of human resource services to organizations including banks, credit unions, non-profit organizations, for-profit enterprises and non-government organizations. Bauschke and Associates Ltd.'s new and improved site focuses on their ability to provide proactive business strategies for their clients. These strategies enable their clients to maximize their productivity while creating healthy environments where individual employees can reach their full potential. Bauschke and Associates Ltd. and the M9 Corporation M9 originally worked with Bauschke and Associates in 2006 when took over the hosting for their original site. In the summer of 2007 B&A returned to us with a dramatic and far reaching proposal to rebuild and re-create their website. This extensive renovation involved writing and editing 12,262 lines of code to create the new and improved site. Some of the services provided by M9 for Bauschke and Associates Ltd. on their new site include:
We are proud to be associated with this company with its reputation for integrity and professionalism. We look forward to working with them far into the future!
Michael Van Rooy - Lead Content Writer
[Back to Top] SEO Analysis Continued - M9 Redone
Last month I described how I applied content-based SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies to the M9 Website to see how our SEO theories worked in practice. The figures showed a steady improvement as the SEO strategies were applied over a six week period in regards to a variety of terms used by potential searchers.
The Experiment The terms I optimized for were "Winnipeg Web Development", "Winnipeg Web Design", "Winnipeg Web Content", "Winnipeg Web Writing" and "Winnipeg Internet Corporation". The term "Winnipeg SEO" was tracked but not optimized and the search engine results show a minimal change in the ranking for that term from December 17, 2007 to January 29, 2008 on Google.ca:
Terms and Ranks
Changes and Results Following the experiment I decided to optimize for the search term "Winnipeg SEO" and track the response and the results have been amazing:
Terms and Ranks
In Conclusion Content Based Search Engine Optimization works! By making just a few educated changes to the M9 Website I managed to dramatically alter how the site appeared within the Google Search Engine ranking system. By moving M9's location from the third page to the first means a dramatic increase in the number of people who now know about the M9 Web Design Corporation.
Michael Van Rooy - Lead Content Writer
[Back to Top] A Stable Place - Canada's Strong Financial Future According to a report by the International Monetary Fund Canada's banking system shows a very high capacity to weather upcoming global financial shocks. The report, titled "Canada: Financial Sector Assessment Program - Detailed Assessment of the Level of Implementation of the IOSCO Principles and Objectives of Securities Regulation" describes Canada as possessing a highly developed and responsive financial system.The report carefully analyzed the Canadian system as a whole and came to the conclusion that; "In the largest jurisdictions, regulatory agencies are What this means is that the Canadian Economy is in an excellent position to survive any and all threats and issues. Of particular interest in Canada, considering the current sub-prime lending debacle in the United States is the fact that Canadian regulators are ". . . subject to a high degree of transparency including public consultation . . ." This means that Canadian regulators operate in an open and above board fashion which serves to increase consumer awareness and respect. Additionally the report describes the Canadian system as having broad enforcement powers. The report, made public on February 12, 2008, was written by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is the world's central organization for international monetary cooperation. According to their own description their primary purpose is: ". . . to ensure the stability of the international monetary
Michael Van Rooy - Lead Content Writer
[Back to Top] Programmer's Corner
As you probably have noticed our Lead Programmer Ian has not been available for the past few months to write his popular "Programmer's Corner." His absence from the M9 Newsletter has been due to the fact that he's been buried under copious quantities of programming.
In order to deal with this deluge we have just hired a new programmer to work here at M9: John Hornsby. So welcome John! And now the fun continues . . . |
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