The NextStudent website (http://www.nextstudent.com) has been redesigned and officially launched which I gotta say looks HAWT! The design was done by Andrea Farnsworth and the site is very clean, professional and very easy to navigate. It’s a big change from our last design which was good but kinda outdated.

Big props to the entire NextStudent Web Marketing team who worked on this project. More updates and tools will be coming to the website so continue to stop by or bookmark the site, especially all of you college kids

That’s right, today Apple officially kicked off their largest back-to-school promotion in the company’s history which is brilliant!

Apple is offering a $299 rebate to cancel out the price of an 8GB iPod touch until September 15th, however the rebate can also be applied towards the purchase of a 16GB ($399) or 32GB ($499) model. Though, participants can elect to receive a free 8GB iPod nano for the reduced rebate value of $199.

To qualify for the deal, the iPod and Mac system have to be purchased at the same time and appear on the same sales receipt. Products that qualify for the deal are the MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Pro. Note the Mac mini, previous-generation 17” iMac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod shuffle, iPod classic, 4GB iPod nano, and refurbished products are not eligible for this back-to-school offer.

As I’m constantly reminded by Captain Thundercock about the power of blogs I do forget sometimes. I was reminded again however when a buddy of mine asked me for help knocking down an inaccurate post in ”the Google” that was making a company he was working with look bad. 

The inaccurate post was ranking for a certain key phrase that may have been seen by a potential client and could possibly effect their business. So, after my buddy’s failed attempt at trying to get in contact with the site owner of the inaccurate post, I informed him about rounding up some bloggers to write posts related to this key phrase (wasn’t very competitive).  

He rounded up a few in-house bloggers and they all posted. Making their posts hella relevant and professional, I told him to then cross link the blogs via the key phrase and “BAM!” They were able to drop the inaccurate post out of the top three pages.

It only took about an hour or so and all the posts showed up in ”The Google”. They now dominate the first 2 pages of this certain key phrase with the blog posts they all wrote.

Pretty insane how fast a blog post can dominate in “the Google”.

wOrd!    

The Google Cheat Sheet is a pretty cool list that adelaider.com put together. This two page document lists all Google services & tools as well as background info. The Google Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp both basic & advance Google query building concepts and ideas. Click the images below to see the Google Cheat Sheet.  

NextStudent is redesigning its homepage and it needs your help. You could win $2,000 and a chance to be featured in an article on our website, NextStudent.com.

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