http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Meridith+Berk Advice Meridith Berk Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=504187&ca=Advice Hollywood produced a movie a few years ago, “Fools Don’t Rush In,” in which a guy fell in love with Selma Hayek but played it cool and coy, and ultimately won her heart. The movie’s title is my theme for advising people about their rights under California’s lemon law with respect to the many Toyota... Internet Meridith Berk Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=429322&ca=Internet When the Internet first began growing in popularity as a search tool, directories, not search engines, led the way. With Yahoo and DMOZ in the forefront these directories used human editors to catalog the web – a daunting task. Website owners and Internet marketers would submit their websites to the... Marketing Meridith Berk Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=429323&ca=Marketing To answer this question let’s take the well-worn analogy of linking on the Internet being akin to a popularity contest. When somebody links to your site this is considered a vote for your website. It’s the other website saying “I like you and think you are worthwhile and valuable”. They’re being you... Marketing Meridith Berk Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=429324&ca=Marketing Internet directories are a collection of descriptions and links to websites across the web. These websites are indexed into categories with sub-categories and sub-sub categories that can go many levels beneath the first general grouping. Your goal with directory submissions it to get your website li... Legal Meridith Berk Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=428596&ca=Legal To give consumers more rights against credit card issuers’ practices of increasing rates and fees, President Obama signed into act the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 in May. This act is more commonly know as the Credit Card Act of 2009 and will be implement in... Internet Meridith Berk Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=402706&ca=Internet As a principle in a website promotion company for over ten years I have looked at thousands of web pages with an eye to marketing the sites. Many of these websites have been designed well and were ready for mainstream advertising right from the start. However, a surprisingly large number of these si... Internet Meridith Berk Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=397100&ca=Internet When Website design first started no real attention was paid to search engine optimization. Website designers knew html or an html design program such as Front Page or Dreamweaver. A good designer also had an eye for layout, colors, etc. Search Engine Optimization was little known and less understoo... Internet Meridith Berk Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=380826&ca=Internet It has everything to do with popularity. Remember high school. Making friends, joining teams and clubs and basically your overall success had to do with linking. If you became friends with someone well-liked in a particular sphere you too became almost instantly popular. A simple smile and a wave fr... Internet Meridith Berk Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=377936&ca=Internet When it comes down to it search engines, visitors and business or personal website owners all want the same thing from the Internet. They all want the most interesting and relevant website links to appear when they search on any search engine or directory. This is why all SEO, no matter how cutting-... Recreation Meridith Berk Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=355719&ca=Recreation The white tailed deer are the most hunted animal in North America. There are currently over twenty to twenty five million estimated deer in North America alone, and the species can be found in three areas. There are currently 38 species of the deer found in North, South, and Central America. These i...