Source: ZDNet - Open source thrives in downturn. "While large, closed vendors are struggling to steer through increasingly unsettled waters, open source looks all the more attractive to budget-constrained businesses trying to maximize their cost effectiveness."

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X Media Services (XMS) is now specialized to offer enterprise-class IT solutions to non-profit and charitable organizations. XMS staff, composed entirely of grizzled IT veterans with years of experience in the non-profit sector, understand the tremendous challenge of delivering compelling solutions on strict budgets and deadlines.

By developing and delivering solutions leveraging open-source technologies, XMS can greatly reduce your development costs but still deliver outstanding Web presence solutions that match those of Fortune 500 companies.

No doubt, your organization's Website is the place the public can find out what you do and what you sell. Most likely, they'll type in keywords they think best match your products and services in search engines such as Google or Yahoo, click the mouse button and review the search results. How confident you'll be on that first page where 70 percent of users stay and are content to click through to just those sites listed?

If you're not on the front page, the likelihood of a click through drops tremendously. Less the five percent click through on a third page link. Page 1 is where the action is and only through search engine optimization (SEO) can you consistently convert click throughs. For any organization, SEO is a critical marketing strategy to capture those precious Page 1 clicks. There's lots of mystery of how to truly optimize your page for Google and other search engines since their search algorithms are unknown. However, business can at least leverage search optimization trends.

X Media Services offers a comprehensive -- and guaranteed -- service to get your organization on the Page 1 of search results. We talk with principals in your organization to capture the best keywords, make recommendations based on search trends to optimally place these keywords in key areas of your Web site and leverage social media and more to keep boosting your search rank.

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