(CNN) -- Former President George W. Bush joined a chorus of U.S. officials calling leaks of sensitive government information "very damaging," telling a forum at Facebook headquarters that WikiLeaks' recent release of 250,000 documents may significantly hurt Washington's image abroad.
"It's going to be very hard to keep the trust of foreign leaders," the nation's 43rd president said of the documents on issues ranging from Iran to Honduras to Turkey. "If you have a conversation with a foreign leader and it ends up in a newspaper, you don't like it. I didn't like it."
A relaxed Bush was joined by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage in Palo Alto, California, with hundreds watching from the audience and up to 6,500 following the interview live online.
The hourlong discussion centered on Bush's memoir, "Decision Points." Released just over two weeks ago, the book ranks atop the New York Times' hardcover nonfiction best-seller list, topping works by the likes of rapper Jay-Z, rocker Keith Richards and the late Mark Twain.
The president made it clear that pitching that memoir was his main reason for visiting the social network's office, saying, "you have got a lot of people paying attention, and I'm trying to sell books."
Still, beyond hawking his 481-page memoir and pushing several initiatives from the George W. Bush Institute, Bush said he had no desire to intervene in day-to-day politics or be the center of the world's attention once again.
"I have no desire to generate publicity," said Bush, 64. "I've had enough of fame, and I want to go back to a life that is productive ... without generating the [limelight]."
Beyond passing references to current events, like calling South Korea a "force for peace," Bush focused on key moments from his time in the Oval Office from January 2001 to 2009. He offered anecdotes, talked about sports and even kidded with Zuckerberg, no stranger to the spotlight after this year's hit movie "The Social Network," which presented one version of Facebook's rise.
The president admitted personally using "the Facebook" since leaving office, pointing to his 600,000 online friends. And he playfully, though publicly, asked Zuckerberg to join him in a "joint venture" promoting public education -- in light of his initiatives at the Bush Institute and Zuckerberg's donation this fall of $100 million toward improving public schools in Newark, New Jersey.
As he has in other interviews, Bush stated his confidence that the decision to invade Iraq was just, predicting that Iraq will become a crucial hub of democracy in the Middle East. He said that promoting "freedom" -- be it personal, political, educational or economic -- will be central to his post-presidency life.
"We're involved in an ideological struggle that will eventually be won, as freedom prevails," Bush said.
While his standing has improved, a poll released this month shows that four in 10 Americans say Bush was a poor president, and another third rate him as average. Another 28 percent rated him as a good or as one of the greatest presidents ever, up from 20 percent when he left the Oval Office in January 2009.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted November 11-14, with 1,014 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Bush said he won't criticize President Barack Obama, saying, "it's not good for the country ... [and] I don't want to." And Bush said he's learned, from his time as a business and political executive, how to handle criticism -- including when to ignore it and when to learn from others -- and come to grips with what others think of him.
"Anybody can distinguish between someone who is trying to be helpful and someone who is trying to hurt you," Bush said. "You don't have to be a rocket scientist or a college graduate, for that matter." Here he pointed to Zuckerberg, who dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
PPC Trends 2010
Later in 2010, Google and Microsoft Bing will be competing head-to-head in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising platforms (i.e. Adwords and Adcenter), after Yahoo decided to exit search and became Bing’s largest search traffic partner.
PPC Strategies for the Big 3 Search Engines
Your search engine marketing strategies will include the big three search engines (i.e. Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft Bing Adcenter).
To do well with the big 3 search engines:
* Understand Google Adwords Quality Score, standardize your Google Adwords PPC Optimization, and manage with Adwords Editor.
* Manage/optimize your Bing PPC with Microsoft Adcenter Desktop.
* Before seeing your Yahoo traffic all migrate to Bing, overcome your Yahoo Search Marketing problems and avoid Yahoo PPC automatic account optimization.
Keyword Research and Keyword Management
Create keyword lists for search targeted campaigns and content targeted campaigns:
* Use SEM keyword research tools to build your search campaign keyword lists, and estimate your keyword cost with Google Adwords Bid Simulator.
* Ensure the keyword list consists of all your trademark keywords and make use of Adwords PPC site links.
* Start with broad match keywords, review the search query report, and make good use of negative keywords to save cost.
* Create Adwords content targeting ad groups / keywords with Google Wonder Wheel Tool, and discover Google content network websites in your industry/category with Google Ad Planner.
Track Conversions
To monetize through search engine marketing, the ability for big brands to track return-on-investment (ROI) will become far more important than before. Google offers free PPC conversion tracking tools for search engine marketers who will not be spending budgets on “paid” conversion tracking software.
* Setup Adwords Conversion Tracking to track your website’s goals (i.e. leads and/or sales), and review Adwords reports regularly.
* Run Adwords Geographic report to review your campaigns’ performance in different cities/regions/countries.
* Use Google Analytics to track your PPC conversions from Yahoo Search Marketing, Bing Adcenter, Baidu PPC Phoenix Nest, and the 2nd tier PPC search engines.
Optimize Keyword Bidding
Keyword / ad group bidding is/are another areas that can no longer be done manually in an efficient way. Google offers Adwords Conversion Optimizer, a free keyword bidding tool. Follow Adwords Conversion Optimizer tips before using this bidding tool.
Use one of the auto-bid / portfolio bid management software from Efficient Frontier, Marin Software, Search Force or Kenshoo, if you prefer “paid” software and services. Paid bidding software allows you to manage/optimize all your different search engine accounts (Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Adcenter) in one system.
Optimize Landing Pages
Use dynamic keyword insertion to improve your ads’ click-through-rate (CTR), and optimize PPC landing pages to:
* Improve your site users’ experience
* Increase your websites’ conversion rates
Regards,
Senthilkc
PPC Strategies for the Big 3 Search Engines
Your search engine marketing strategies will include the big three search engines (i.e. Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft Bing Adcenter).
To do well with the big 3 search engines:
* Understand Google Adwords Quality Score, standardize your Google Adwords PPC Optimization, and manage with Adwords Editor.
* Manage/optimize your Bing PPC with Microsoft Adcenter Desktop.
* Before seeing your Yahoo traffic all migrate to Bing, overcome your Yahoo Search Marketing problems and avoid Yahoo PPC automatic account optimization.
Keyword Research and Keyword Management
Create keyword lists for search targeted campaigns and content targeted campaigns:
* Use SEM keyword research tools to build your search campaign keyword lists, and estimate your keyword cost with Google Adwords Bid Simulator.
* Ensure the keyword list consists of all your trademark keywords and make use of Adwords PPC site links.
* Start with broad match keywords, review the search query report, and make good use of negative keywords to save cost.
* Create Adwords content targeting ad groups / keywords with Google Wonder Wheel Tool, and discover Google content network websites in your industry/category with Google Ad Planner.
Track Conversions
To monetize through search engine marketing, the ability for big brands to track return-on-investment (ROI) will become far more important than before. Google offers free PPC conversion tracking tools for search engine marketers who will not be spending budgets on “paid” conversion tracking software.
* Setup Adwords Conversion Tracking to track your website’s goals (i.e. leads and/or sales), and review Adwords reports regularly.
* Run Adwords Geographic report to review your campaigns’ performance in different cities/regions/countries.
* Use Google Analytics to track your PPC conversions from Yahoo Search Marketing, Bing Adcenter, Baidu PPC Phoenix Nest, and the 2nd tier PPC search engines.
Optimize Keyword Bidding
Keyword / ad group bidding is/are another areas that can no longer be done manually in an efficient way. Google offers Adwords Conversion Optimizer, a free keyword bidding tool. Follow Adwords Conversion Optimizer tips before using this bidding tool.
Use one of the auto-bid / portfolio bid management software from Efficient Frontier, Marin Software, Search Force or Kenshoo, if you prefer “paid” software and services. Paid bidding software allows you to manage/optimize all your different search engine accounts (Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Adcenter) in one system.
Optimize Landing Pages
Use dynamic keyword insertion to improve your ads’ click-through-rate (CTR), and optimize PPC landing pages to:
* Improve your site users’ experience
* Increase your websites’ conversion rates
Regards,
Senthilkc
Current SEO Trends
Latest SEO Trends
Search Engines are regularly updating their algorythms that are used to rank content from the web. It is important to keep abreast of these changes and ensure that your website meets the criteria.
BuySearchEngineReports recommends that you monitor Google, MSN, and Yahoo's regular news postings to web masters.
Here is some useful advice based on latest Search Engine reports:
* Google's Web Authoring Statistics
This report noted that many websites do not follow best practice coding standards. While a normal web browser is forgiving of technical errors, a search engine browser (automated system) is not, and you website may be altogether invisible to major search engines. See http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html for further details. You can validate your website for free at http://validator.w3.org/
* Googles Jagger Update
Google has targeted sites with invisible links (same colour text on same colour background or hyperlinked fullstopes, excessively small text, and use of the word s. e. x. where it is not relevant.
* Artificial Linking Schemes
Paying companies to provide links to your site where there is no relevance is not recommended. Avoide SEO's that promise hundreds of links to your site. One QUALITY link is worth a thousand ARTIFICIAL links. In fact, participating in these schemes can even cause your website to be removed by a search engine. WHY? If a user searches for 'hotels in Hong Kong' and discovers your website that sells watches, it reflects badly on the searc engine - a search engine's business is all about returning RELEVANT CONTENT.
Regards,
Senthilkc
Search Engines are regularly updating their algorythms that are used to rank content from the web. It is important to keep abreast of these changes and ensure that your website meets the criteria.
BuySearchEngineReports recommends that you monitor Google, MSN, and Yahoo's regular news postings to web masters.
Here is some useful advice based on latest Search Engine reports:
* Google's Web Authoring Statistics
This report noted that many websites do not follow best practice coding standards. While a normal web browser is forgiving of technical errors, a search engine browser (automated system) is not, and you website may be altogether invisible to major search engines. See http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html for further details. You can validate your website for free at http://validator.w3.org/
* Googles Jagger Update
Google has targeted sites with invisible links (same colour text on same colour background or hyperlinked fullstopes, excessively small text, and use of the word s. e. x. where it is not relevant.
* Artificial Linking Schemes
Paying companies to provide links to your site where there is no relevance is not recommended. Avoide SEO's that promise hundreds of links to your site. One QUALITY link is worth a thousand ARTIFICIAL links. In fact, participating in these schemes can even cause your website to be removed by a search engine. WHY? If a user searches for 'hotels in Hong Kong' and discovers your website that sells watches, it reflects badly on the searc engine - a search engine's business is all about returning RELEVANT CONTENT.
Regards,
Senthilkc
Search Engine Optimization SEO Trends in 2010
Online market is growing rapidly and it will continue to grow in much more better way in 2010. As all of us know, there is a huge contribution of search engines mainly of Google in online marketing. Websites which tops in Google ranking will undoubtedly get huge volume of visitors to the websites than the other sources. Only way to top the search engines is Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
It is likely to be a question in SEO expert’s mind that it is reliable to continue with current SEO strategy in order to rule the search rankings or there will be some dramatic changes in Google’s algorithm for improved search engine results. In fact, the Google has already began to show some variation in ranking with some hard to solve formulas for SEO masters.
Some of the notable variation in Google search results in 2010 will be:
* Geo location of any search query:
Google search engine algorithms may pay more attention geo location of any search query. That means search results in Google.com may vary in USA and UK. The variation of results may vary upon competition of querying keyword. Means higher the competition, higher the variation.
* Great role of Social Media and Social Networking:
Social media and social networking sites like FaceBook, Twitter will also have some noticeable impact on search engine results in 2010. It does already have some talk to include twits from the twitter in search engine results. So it’s time to include social media optimization as one of the search engine optimisation SEO strategies for SEO companies.
* Back-links from Low PR and Irrelevant websites:
Yes. This point is directly pointing to directory submissions, link farms and reciprocal link exchanges. Google is very smart and getting more and more smart and hard with spammers. Continuous back-links from low PR and irrelevant websites may really hurt your rankings. It’s also useless to use two-way (reciprocal) or three-way link exchanges in an order to improve rankings. Google is having the number of heads with PhDs and for them it is not hard to find two-way or three-way links.
* Google will no more equal to Search Engine:
Yes. After dominating nearly a decade, Google is now facing very tough competition in search engine market with rivals like Yahoo and Bing. Even though Yahoo is not as much effective as Bing because Bing is really giving some very good and relevant results in compare to Yahoo. In 2010, Google will definitely have to face some great challenges from Bing. In addition, if Yahoo/Bing partnership will come into reality than it would be biggest search engine revolution in the decade.
* Some other small but important factors:
Page load time, bounce rate, domain age would remain some other factor which may gain some importance in search engine results of Google. Google has already announced that page load time would be a factor in search engine result pages, to give user improved and fast loading websites in search results.
Search engine market is developing quickly. So you can expect some exciting and new trends to emerge for search engine optimisation SEO industry in 2010. It’s been time to change your online marketing strategies as New Year begins with some more stirring market trends and techniques. It is advisable to left those SEO services company which are using old-age SEO strategies in order to give higher search engine rankings. Get some advice from expert SEO consultancy in an order to step forward in highly competitive market. Finally, it’s time to get smarter with new trends and technology in 2010.
Author is well known search engine optimization expert and owning a website for quality search engine optimisation services. Come into touch with such organic SEO services provider firm in order to start the successful online business.
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It is likely to be a question in SEO expert’s mind that it is reliable to continue with current SEO strategy in order to rule the search rankings or there will be some dramatic changes in Google’s algorithm for improved search engine results. In fact, the Google has already began to show some variation in ranking with some hard to solve formulas for SEO masters.
Some of the notable variation in Google search results in 2010 will be:
* Geo location of any search query:
Google search engine algorithms may pay more attention geo location of any search query. That means search results in Google.com may vary in USA and UK. The variation of results may vary upon competition of querying keyword. Means higher the competition, higher the variation.
* Great role of Social Media and Social Networking:
Social media and social networking sites like FaceBook, Twitter will also have some noticeable impact on search engine results in 2010. It does already have some talk to include twits from the twitter in search engine results. So it’s time to include social media optimization as one of the search engine optimisation SEO strategies for SEO companies.
* Back-links from Low PR and Irrelevant websites:
Yes. This point is directly pointing to directory submissions, link farms and reciprocal link exchanges. Google is very smart and getting more and more smart and hard with spammers. Continuous back-links from low PR and irrelevant websites may really hurt your rankings. It’s also useless to use two-way (reciprocal) or three-way link exchanges in an order to improve rankings. Google is having the number of heads with PhDs and for them it is not hard to find two-way or three-way links.
* Google will no more equal to Search Engine:
Yes. After dominating nearly a decade, Google is now facing very tough competition in search engine market with rivals like Yahoo and Bing. Even though Yahoo is not as much effective as Bing because Bing is really giving some very good and relevant results in compare to Yahoo. In 2010, Google will definitely have to face some great challenges from Bing. In addition, if Yahoo/Bing partnership will come into reality than it would be biggest search engine revolution in the decade.
* Some other small but important factors:
Page load time, bounce rate, domain age would remain some other factor which may gain some importance in search engine results of Google. Google has already announced that page load time would be a factor in search engine result pages, to give user improved and fast loading websites in search results.
Search engine market is developing quickly. So you can expect some exciting and new trends to emerge for search engine optimisation SEO industry in 2010. It’s been time to change your online marketing strategies as New Year begins with some more stirring market trends and techniques. It is advisable to left those SEO services company which are using old-age SEO strategies in order to give higher search engine rankings. Get some advice from expert SEO consultancy in an order to step forward in highly competitive market. Finally, it’s time to get smarter with new trends and technology in 2010.
Author is well known search engine optimization expert and owning a website for quality search engine optimisation services. Come into touch with such organic SEO services provider firm in order to start the successful online business.
google seo rule of sept 2010 new trends seo new google seo rules 2010 what is the present trend for google algorithms Advanced Search Pages - Trends optimization trend google marketingtrend 2010 main trends in seo market usa search engine industry trends 2010 is trend is important factor in seo search engine optimisation current seo market? SEO trends june july august 2010 search engine trends usa http://seoguys net/blog/seo/search-engine-optimization-seo-trends-in-2010/ search trends summer 2010 google algorithm trend SEO Trends & Techniques new search engive trend current google seo current trends in engine what is the new google algorithm trend? whats happening with search engines changes in google seo rules 2010 search engine Today Trends
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New Trends in Search Engine optimization
New Trends in Search Engine optimization
The past year has been one of major transition in the search engine industry. Changes to the landscape have been enormous with mergers, acquisitions, and the easing of several formerly big-players out of the sector or, in the case of AltaVista, Lycos and LookSmart, into the minor leagues. We’ve seen new technologies and revenue models being tested by search firms, along with fresh promises of personalized ad-delivery through contextual placement. While there is no end in sight for changes in this evolving medium, this is a good time to examine the impact of such upheaval on the state of website marketing and search engine placement.
The biggest recent shift in the industry is the steady erosion of Google’s dominance over the past eight months. In mid-July, the SEO community started to notice subtle changes in Google’s ranking algorithm. At that time, Google had an absolute lock on the search engine world with some form of involvement in over 76% of all searches conducted globally. By the time Google released its infamous "Florida Update" in mid-November, Google’s lock-hold was slipping. At that time, Google was the main listings provider for a host of Internet properties including the gigantic search-portal Yahoo!. That changed recently when Yahoo discontinued their relationship with Google in place of their in-house database, Inktomi. With the loss of distribution through Yahoo!, Google now fuels approximately 48% of all search traffic, with the bulk of the remainder split between Yahoo and MSN, both of which are currently fed by Inktomi. (Please note: Yahoo will be moving away from Inktomi in mid-April in favour of their own paid-inclusion database.) While Google continues to enjoy a higher viewership than any other search tool, it has lost a great deal of distribution power since being dumped by Yahoo!. The bottom line here is that there are now three major search engines as opposed to just one and SEO strategies need to change to meet the new environment. Last year, clients were strictly concerned with Google rankings, knowing full well that good Google rankings were a sure-fire ticket into Yahoo. SEO-Reaction: This year, SEOs will need to concentrate on a mixture of strong-keyword enriched copy in order to please Inktomi, along with a well thought-out link-building campaign to please Google. The re-emergence of Yahoo and MSN as serious players in the search industry is beneficial to advertisers and webmasters as competition and the corresponding increase in consumer choices tend to produce better products and services in the long run.
Bigger, Better, Undercut&ldots;
The validity of the truism about competition driving innovation and producing better products and innovations is demonstrated by the number of new services and innovations introduced over the past twelve months. Search is becoming far more technical and, in many ways, far more specific. Localization and personalization are two of the new common buzzwords in Internet marketing. Localized search results promise increased relevance to the searcher by delivering search results from sources within a reasonable traveling distance such as a postal/zip-code or telephone area-code. Personalized search results promise listings based on specific interests or behaviours of the individual searcher, or the computer used to conduct the search. An early example of a search tool designed to deliver personalized Eurekstersearch results is Eurekster. Eurekster bases it’s results on two major factors. The first is the user’s personal behaviour. The second is the behaviour of friends and others belonging to a social or work grouping. The basic idea is that groups share common interests. Weighing a search-query by those interests may produce better, more personalized search results. SEO-Reaction: In order to adapt to these two innovations, website marketers and SEOs will need to add highly specific elements to a client’s website such as geo-specific metatags and text, and corporate identifying information such as full street addresses and telephone numbers. Website marketers will also need to add features to websites making them more useful to individual searchers such as newsletters, local-promotions and blogs to make their site relevant to specific users in order to present a level of personalized attention that will keep viewers coming back, or at least keep the client’s website in the minds of search engine users.
The big three are using these and other features to try to undercut each other’s level of service offerings, including blogging, news aggregators, email and instant-messaging, and a whole host of tool-bars. It is only a matter of time until someone introduces a new technology or search tool that "re-invents" the way we relate to information retrieval. Both IBM and MSN are developing deep-crawling spiders that will certainly expand the scope of search. IBM is developing the Webfountain tool and MSN is slated to release its new search tool based on the coming Longhorn operating system. These tools will include Excel sheets, Word docs, emails, and other documents found on a hard drive that a user has viewed, in search results for that specific user.
Evolution or Bust
Over the past three years, search engine marketing has become the fastest growing advertising medium in the world. New SEO firms are emerging and established SEO firms, like StepForth are growing rapidly. Website owners and webmasters are advised to shop around before choosing an Internet marketing provider. Check out several SEO websites and compare service offerings. Ask serious questions and don’t be afraid to challenge an SEO’s knowledge of the environment. With change comes confusion and we are noting a number of new firms playing on that confusion in order to see short-term gains. A new company in our area will take $200 from clients in order to add their URL to an automated submitter. As difficult as it may be to believe, there are still millions who fall for that old, "better living through automation" argument. Another pitfall to watch out for is hiring a company that is not prepared to evolve their services to meet new technical innovations. As the search world changes, good, honest SEOs are prepared to adapt and tell their clients exactly how that evolution will take place and why.
Regards,
Senthilkc
The past year has been one of major transition in the search engine industry. Changes to the landscape have been enormous with mergers, acquisitions, and the easing of several formerly big-players out of the sector or, in the case of AltaVista, Lycos and LookSmart, into the minor leagues. We’ve seen new technologies and revenue models being tested by search firms, along with fresh promises of personalized ad-delivery through contextual placement. While there is no end in sight for changes in this evolving medium, this is a good time to examine the impact of such upheaval on the state of website marketing and search engine placement.
The biggest recent shift in the industry is the steady erosion of Google’s dominance over the past eight months. In mid-July, the SEO community started to notice subtle changes in Google’s ranking algorithm. At that time, Google had an absolute lock on the search engine world with some form of involvement in over 76% of all searches conducted globally. By the time Google released its infamous "Florida Update" in mid-November, Google’s lock-hold was slipping. At that time, Google was the main listings provider for a host of Internet properties including the gigantic search-portal Yahoo!. That changed recently when Yahoo discontinued their relationship with Google in place of their in-house database, Inktomi. With the loss of distribution through Yahoo!, Google now fuels approximately 48% of all search traffic, with the bulk of the remainder split between Yahoo and MSN, both of which are currently fed by Inktomi. (Please note: Yahoo will be moving away from Inktomi in mid-April in favour of their own paid-inclusion database.) While Google continues to enjoy a higher viewership than any other search tool, it has lost a great deal of distribution power since being dumped by Yahoo!. The bottom line here is that there are now three major search engines as opposed to just one and SEO strategies need to change to meet the new environment. Last year, clients were strictly concerned with Google rankings, knowing full well that good Google rankings were a sure-fire ticket into Yahoo. SEO-Reaction: This year, SEOs will need to concentrate on a mixture of strong-keyword enriched copy in order to please Inktomi, along with a well thought-out link-building campaign to please Google. The re-emergence of Yahoo and MSN as serious players in the search industry is beneficial to advertisers and webmasters as competition and the corresponding increase in consumer choices tend to produce better products and services in the long run.
Bigger, Better, Undercut&ldots;
The validity of the truism about competition driving innovation and producing better products and innovations is demonstrated by the number of new services and innovations introduced over the past twelve months. Search is becoming far more technical and, in many ways, far more specific. Localization and personalization are two of the new common buzzwords in Internet marketing. Localized search results promise increased relevance to the searcher by delivering search results from sources within a reasonable traveling distance such as a postal/zip-code or telephone area-code. Personalized search results promise listings based on specific interests or behaviours of the individual searcher, or the computer used to conduct the search. An early example of a search tool designed to deliver personalized Eurekstersearch results is Eurekster. Eurekster bases it’s results on two major factors. The first is the user’s personal behaviour. The second is the behaviour of friends and others belonging to a social or work grouping. The basic idea is that groups share common interests. Weighing a search-query by those interests may produce better, more personalized search results. SEO-Reaction: In order to adapt to these two innovations, website marketers and SEOs will need to add highly specific elements to a client’s website such as geo-specific metatags and text, and corporate identifying information such as full street addresses and telephone numbers. Website marketers will also need to add features to websites making them more useful to individual searchers such as newsletters, local-promotions and blogs to make their site relevant to specific users in order to present a level of personalized attention that will keep viewers coming back, or at least keep the client’s website in the minds of search engine users.
The big three are using these and other features to try to undercut each other’s level of service offerings, including blogging, news aggregators, email and instant-messaging, and a whole host of tool-bars. It is only a matter of time until someone introduces a new technology or search tool that "re-invents" the way we relate to information retrieval. Both IBM and MSN are developing deep-crawling spiders that will certainly expand the scope of search. IBM is developing the Webfountain tool and MSN is slated to release its new search tool based on the coming Longhorn operating system. These tools will include Excel sheets, Word docs, emails, and other documents found on a hard drive that a user has viewed, in search results for that specific user.
Evolution or Bust
Over the past three years, search engine marketing has become the fastest growing advertising medium in the world. New SEO firms are emerging and established SEO firms, like StepForth are growing rapidly. Website owners and webmasters are advised to shop around before choosing an Internet marketing provider. Check out several SEO websites and compare service offerings. Ask serious questions and don’t be afraid to challenge an SEO’s knowledge of the environment. With change comes confusion and we are noting a number of new firms playing on that confusion in order to see short-term gains. A new company in our area will take $200 from clients in order to add their URL to an automated submitter. As difficult as it may be to believe, there are still millions who fall for that old, "better living through automation" argument. Another pitfall to watch out for is hiring a company that is not prepared to evolve their services to meet new technical innovations. As the search world changes, good, honest SEOs are prepared to adapt and tell their clients exactly how that evolution will take place and why.
Regards,
Senthilkc
seo latest trends
So what SEO techniques are you using? Are you using the latest techniques and are you aware the latest SEO trends? Do you have any idea what direction the search marketing industry is going? Unfortunately to keep up you must work hard to be educated on the latest direction the industry is moving.
All the big forces and even some of newest players are taking the industry in a new direction and if you are not keeping up the picture will become dull. What is becoming a major change in how people communicate on the internet?
The train has left the station did you get on board? The changes taking place are so fast you may only be aware of the SEO methods you use just don't work as well as they have in the past. The old methods of directing your customer via emotions to make a purchase just is not working like it used to. The direction we are moving today some of the old guys just may remember. The new business model today is moving in the direction of trust before a purchase is made.
Some may remember that a customer's trust had to be earned instead of assumed to insure getting a sale.
If you are keeping up with the game a new area that has left the station is the mobile search technology. We are headed for a huge growth in this area get onboard for huge opportunity.
Search marketing is moving in the direction of location based searches. Have you taken note of late that even Twitter has done the job of giving the axe to the old fashion spammy business model to prepare for location marketing that is coming. You can see this change coming at us very fast by the new phones hitting the market. Just look the new phones that know your exact location and the technology even knows all the places you are close to.
The location game is growing in leaps and bounds with all the things that can be done with the information. If you are following along you may already see this with Facebook and Twitter building their location marketing options. The train has left the station in the direction of location based marketing for the industry.
Are you Onboard Yet?
You do not have to look very hard to see all the mobile phone new additions the mobile application has already blasted off with the new applications. The major search industry is no longer just providing results for laptops and kids home and business computers. The search capability is now following you everywhere on the planet. You can download and application from your phone for many businesses to improve your visit experience for more efficiency.
Today's Marketing Strategy is Trust
Not really a new concept just one that has long been forgotten. Internet marketers that are not putting in the time to learn the changes in the industry will quickly be left behind. Trust will be the key to driving sales in the not too distant future online trust will be the answer to many companies success in getting the sale.
The ever changing industry of search engine marketing is moving at lightning speed to the future. The new technologies are descending on us almost every single day. The strange part is it is not going to slow down for you to catch up. The changes in SEO techniques are going to come faster and faster as time goes
Regards,
Senthilkc
All the big forces and even some of newest players are taking the industry in a new direction and if you are not keeping up the picture will become dull. What is becoming a major change in how people communicate on the internet?
The train has left the station did you get on board? The changes taking place are so fast you may only be aware of the SEO methods you use just don't work as well as they have in the past. The old methods of directing your customer via emotions to make a purchase just is not working like it used to. The direction we are moving today some of the old guys just may remember. The new business model today is moving in the direction of trust before a purchase is made.
Some may remember that a customer's trust had to be earned instead of assumed to insure getting a sale.
If you are keeping up with the game a new area that has left the station is the mobile search technology. We are headed for a huge growth in this area get onboard for huge opportunity.
Search marketing is moving in the direction of location based searches. Have you taken note of late that even Twitter has done the job of giving the axe to the old fashion spammy business model to prepare for location marketing that is coming. You can see this change coming at us very fast by the new phones hitting the market. Just look the new phones that know your exact location and the technology even knows all the places you are close to.
The location game is growing in leaps and bounds with all the things that can be done with the information. If you are following along you may already see this with Facebook and Twitter building their location marketing options. The train has left the station in the direction of location based marketing for the industry.
Are you Onboard Yet?
You do not have to look very hard to see all the mobile phone new additions the mobile application has already blasted off with the new applications. The major search industry is no longer just providing results for laptops and kids home and business computers. The search capability is now following you everywhere on the planet. You can download and application from your phone for many businesses to improve your visit experience for more efficiency.
Today's Marketing Strategy is Trust
Not really a new concept just one that has long been forgotten. Internet marketers that are not putting in the time to learn the changes in the industry will quickly be left behind. Trust will be the key to driving sales in the not too distant future online trust will be the answer to many companies success in getting the sale.
The ever changing industry of search engine marketing is moving at lightning speed to the future. The new technologies are descending on us almost every single day. The strange part is it is not going to slow down for you to catch up. The changes in SEO techniques are going to come faster and faster as time goes
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tips for improving seo traffic
To include every Google SEO tip out there, a lot of time, typing and research would have to be done. However, if you are searching for a few helpful “on page” tips, you have come to the right place. The following will help you improve Google SEO on your website.
Keywords Outside of Content
For Google SEO, or any SEO for that matter, keywords should appear in more than just the main content. Website owners should include a main keyword in the site’s URL, title tag, and domain name. Priority keywords should also appear in the titles of articles and alternative text for images and photographs.
Pick Reliable Sites for Linking
Websites often contain links to other websites. When working with Google SEO, make sure your website only links to reliable, relevant websites that offer quality. Google has become very intelligent in how it indexes pages. Choosing a good link can boost your site’s position, but choosing a bad one can hurt it.
Proper Linking with Anchor Text
When linking a website, make sure the anchor text includes a relevant, appropriate description of the site being linked. This is reviewed for Google SEO and can impact how your site is indexed. The anchor text doesn’t have to be long and drawn out, but it should be accurate and descriptive so Google (and human readers) know what the site is about.
Update Often
Update your website content often. The new content will attract web crawlers and can improve your Google SEO. New content will also attract visitors and encourage return visits, especially if they are done regularly (such as daily, weekly, multiple times a week or even bi-weekly). Stick to a schedule and both Google SEO and human readers will come back for more.
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Senthilkc
Keywords Outside of Content
For Google SEO, or any SEO for that matter, keywords should appear in more than just the main content. Website owners should include a main keyword in the site’s URL, title tag, and domain name. Priority keywords should also appear in the titles of articles and alternative text for images and photographs.
Pick Reliable Sites for Linking
Websites often contain links to other websites. When working with Google SEO, make sure your website only links to reliable, relevant websites that offer quality. Google has become very intelligent in how it indexes pages. Choosing a good link can boost your site’s position, but choosing a bad one can hurt it.
Proper Linking with Anchor Text
When linking a website, make sure the anchor text includes a relevant, appropriate description of the site being linked. This is reviewed for Google SEO and can impact how your site is indexed. The anchor text doesn’t have to be long and drawn out, but it should be accurate and descriptive so Google (and human readers) know what the site is about.
Update Often
Update your website content often. The new content will attract web crawlers and can improve your Google SEO. New content will also attract visitors and encourage return visits, especially if they are done regularly (such as daily, weekly, multiple times a week or even bi-weekly). Stick to a schedule and both Google SEO and human readers will come back for more.
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Senthilkc
Seo tips & tricks to rule #1 position in search engine
(1) Initially add search engine friendly theme with less heavy images,java codes etc .Try to reduce code size as much as possible to maintain the speed factor as well.
(2) Install "All in SEO" Plugin".This plug-in are easily available online free of cost.
(3) You must configure and add Google Custom Search and Google Analytic Code to track the website traffic.
(4) Don't forget to add "alt tags" in banners or while posting a content, if it's difficult for you to solve this problem you can try "Custom Header" plug-in and enter HTML codes for each posts and pages.
(5) create search engine friendly URLS is very important part and that too helps to stand at a good position in to the search engines ranking.
(6) You should add your sitemap 'sitemap.xml" file to webmaster tools such as Google,Yahoo and MSN ,to crawl the URL on regular basis by the crawler.
(7) Don't miss to add archive section with in your website because new visitors love to read old posts written in your blog.
(8) Add and activate "Recent post" plugin . This plugin helps to retrieve a list of the most recent post for your visitors
(9) Add "Google Sitemaps" to the plugin folder and activate . Set write access to the root server and then go to options >>
Google sitemap and then click "Build sitemap manually" link and this creates site map and as you add new post xml file gets updated automatically with new posts URL.
(10) Register to Feedburner and add your post RSS feed to Feedburner and create an option in the blog for your readers to subscribe your posts and when you make a post, then th reader will be sent mail or noticed through browser about your new posts
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Senthilkc
(2) Install "All in SEO" Plugin".This plug-in are easily available online free of cost.
(3) You must configure and add Google Custom Search and Google Analytic Code to track the website traffic.
(4) Don't forget to add "alt tags" in banners or while posting a content, if it's difficult for you to solve this problem you can try "Custom Header" plug-in and enter HTML codes for each posts and pages.
(5) create search engine friendly URLS is very important part and that too helps to stand at a good position in to the search engines ranking.
(6) You should add your sitemap 'sitemap.xml" file to webmaster tools such as Google,Yahoo and MSN ,to crawl the URL on regular basis by the crawler.
(7) Don't miss to add archive section with in your website because new visitors love to read old posts written in your blog.
(8) Add and activate "Recent post" plugin . This plugin helps to retrieve a list of the most recent post for your visitors
(9) Add "Google Sitemaps" to the plugin folder and activate . Set write access to the root server and then go to options >>
Google sitemap and then click "Build sitemap manually" link and this creates site map and as you add new post xml file gets updated automatically with new posts URL.
(10) Register to Feedburner and add your post RSS feed to Feedburner and create an option in the blog for your readers to subscribe your posts and when you make a post, then th reader will be sent mail or noticed through browser about your new posts
Regards,
Senthilkc
Use The Excellent SEO Tips To Get Traffic for Your Website
These days various well known companies are using SEO techniques in order to bring the much needed traffic to their websites. If you are operating a large internet based business then you can hire a good SEO service provider that can provide you all the excellent features and services. The basic purpose of the Seo service is to put your website on top of the search engine results. If your website is popular then you would surely get the much needed traffic to it. The SEO services would provide you the much needed tools with the help of which you would be able to achieve success in your internet based business.
Before you select a particular SEO service provider, it is highly essential for you to consider the pros and cons. In this article, I would like to tell you about the important things that you need to keep in mind before selecting the best SEO service provider.
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I would like to tell you that you must consult professional people who can provide you all the information that you need for hiring a good service provider. Understand the competition in the industry as it would be able to help you to plan out certain strategies for the benefit of your business.
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If your website is popular then you would surely get the much needed traffic to it. Look at the previous projects that were undertaken by that specific SEO firm. If they were successful in providing good services to their precious clients then you can also consider them for your company.
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It might take some time before you actually experience great results after taking the help of the SEO services but you must never lose hope and interest.
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Carry out a throughout market research as this would help you to locate providers that are genuine and can actually provide you good results.
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You must stay in touch with your provider during the entire process as this would help you to know about the techniques and tools that your provider is using.
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There are various SEO software also available in the market these days that can provide you a lot of help, but they can be very complicated to use.
Regards,
Senthilkc
Before you select a particular SEO service provider, it is highly essential for you to consider the pros and cons. In this article, I would like to tell you about the important things that you need to keep in mind before selecting the best SEO service provider.
#
I would like to tell you that you must consult professional people who can provide you all the information that you need for hiring a good service provider. Understand the competition in the industry as it would be able to help you to plan out certain strategies for the benefit of your business.
#
If your website is popular then you would surely get the much needed traffic to it. Look at the previous projects that were undertaken by that specific SEO firm. If they were successful in providing good services to their precious clients then you can also consider them for your company.
#
It might take some time before you actually experience great results after taking the help of the SEO services but you must never lose hope and interest.
#
Carry out a throughout market research as this would help you to locate providers that are genuine and can actually provide you good results.
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You must stay in touch with your provider during the entire process as this would help you to know about the techniques and tools that your provider is using.
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There are various SEO software also available in the market these days that can provide you a lot of help, but they can be very complicated to use.
Regards,
Senthilkc
Monday, November 15, 2010
Obama shares dreams for his kids in book on 13 Americans
President Obama's picture book for kids, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Knopf, $17.99), pays tribute to 13 Americans whose traits he sees in his own children.
The 31-page book, for kids ages 3 and up, is filled with lyrical questions for Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, opening with, "Have I told you lately how wonderful you are?"
The book, out Tuesday, is illustrated with Loren Long's paintings of the Obama girls and their dog, Bo, as well as the 13 famous Americans as kids and grown-ups.
A series of two-page spreads asks questions ("Have I told you that you are creative?") across from short tributes. He writes of Georgia O'Keeffe: "She helped us see big beauty in what is small: the hardness of stone and the softness of feather." His most controversial choice may be Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn: ("A Sioux medicine man who healed broken hearts and broken promises.")
Obama's publisher says he's not planning interviews or events for the book. His royalties are to go to a scholarship fund for children of soldiers killed or disabled.
Obama has written two best sellers: Dreams From My Father, a 1995 memoir reissued in 2004, and 2006's The Audacity of Hope. The first printing for his kids' book is 500,000 copies.
Long, 46, who has illustrated picture books by Frank McCourt and Madonna, says that after reading Obama's manuscript for the first time, "all I wanted to do was share its powerful message with my own two sons."
Obama's lawyer, Robert Barnett, says the manuscript was written between the 2008 election and the 2009 inauguration, but publication awaited "the beautiful illustrations."
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Thanks usatoday.com
Senthilkc
The 31-page book, for kids ages 3 and up, is filled with lyrical questions for Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, opening with, "Have I told you lately how wonderful you are?"
The book, out Tuesday, is illustrated with Loren Long's paintings of the Obama girls and their dog, Bo, as well as the 13 famous Americans as kids and grown-ups.
A series of two-page spreads asks questions ("Have I told you that you are creative?") across from short tributes. He writes of Georgia O'Keeffe: "She helped us see big beauty in what is small: the hardness of stone and the softness of feather." His most controversial choice may be Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn: ("A Sioux medicine man who healed broken hearts and broken promises.")
Obama's publisher says he's not planning interviews or events for the book. His royalties are to go to a scholarship fund for children of soldiers killed or disabled.
Obama has written two best sellers: Dreams From My Father, a 1995 memoir reissued in 2004, and 2006's The Audacity of Hope. The first printing for his kids' book is 500,000 copies.
Long, 46, who has illustrated picture books by Frank McCourt and Madonna, says that after reading Obama's manuscript for the first time, "all I wanted to do was share its powerful message with my own two sons."
Obama's lawyer, Robert Barnett, says the manuscript was written between the 2008 election and the 2009 inauguration, but publication awaited "the beautiful illustrations."
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Senthilkc
Thursday, November 11, 2010
World Series of Poker Circuit Biloxi Day 3: Lutes Wins Main Event!
After an exhilarating three days of tournament poker, the 2010-2011 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event from Biloxi, Mississippi, ended with Travis Lutes being crowned champion!
The event began with a field of 270 players vying for the title. It was mainly a mix of local pros and circuit regulars willing to pony up the cash to let it ride in this event. Only nine made it to Day 3, all with their eyes on the top prize of $95,253. The chip counts heading into the final table were as follows:
Seat 1: Jerry Monroe - 154,000
Seat 2: Jason Cluxton - 589,000
Seat 3: Steven Marshall - 106,000
Seat 4: Yair Alon - 404,000
Seat 5: Farid Nasserazad - 1,697,000
Seat 6: John Holley - 315,000
Seat 7: Robert Gunter - 144,000
Seat 8: Bob Talbot - 276,000
Seat 9: Travis Lutes - 1,725,000
The pressure was on with every move, and the action got off to a fast and furious start. On the first hand, John Holley three-bet all-in with {A-Hearts}{3-Hearts} but was unable to shake original raiser, Farid Nasserazad, who called with {A-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}. Two eights fell on the flop and Holley, who could not recover, was eliminated in ninth place. Even though Nasserazad took the chip lead with that pot, he remained pretty quiet for the next 75 minutes or so when the rest of the table started dropping like flies.
Steven Marshall exited next when he shoved {K-Spades}{8-Diamonds} into Yair Alon's {K-Hearts}{J-Clubs} in a battle of the blinds. A king hit the flop but was not enough for Marshall. Less than five minutes later Alon struck again, calling Jerry Monroe's all-in bet with {A-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}. Monroe tabled a dominating {A-Hearts}{K-Spades}, but a nine fell on the flop and Monroe did not catch up, finishing in seventh place.
Robert Gunter busted in sixth, running his two red nines into Bob Talbot's {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}. Yair Alon was the next to go, four-betting all-in with {A-Spades}{7-Clubs} smack into Travis Lutes’ {A-Hearts}{K-Spades}. No help came for Alon, who exited in fifth place. Jason Cluxton seemed primed to double up four-handed, calling all-in with {A-Hearts}{A-Spades} after Bob Talbot shoved with {J-Diamonds}{J-Spades}, but the board ran out {10-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs} to make a straight for Talbot. Those chips did not last very long for Talbot, though, as he was our third-place finisher. In a limped pot between the blinds, Talbot and Nasserazad clashed. The final board read {A-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}{5-Clubs} and Nasserazad check-called bets on every street, culminating with an all-in call on the river holding {A-Spades}{7-Spades} besting Talbot’s {9-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}.
Just like that, we were down to heads-up play within 90 minutes. Nasserazad help about a 2-to-1 chip lead over Lutes and the two battled for over five hours before it came to an end. At one point, Lutes was facing a 6-to-1 deficit but battled back and truly earned the title. On the final hand, Nasserazad called on the button and Lutes checked out of the big blind.
The flop came down {A-Clubs}{10-Spades}{6-Spades} and Lutes checked. Nasserazad fired at the pot and Lutes shoved all-in, quickly getting called. Lutes tabled {A-Spades}{6-Hearts}, having Nasserazad's {A-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} needing help. None came as the turn and river brought running fours, securing the victory for Lutes.
2010-2011 WSOP-C Biloxi Final Table Results
1. Travis Lutes - $95,253
2. Farid Nasserazad - $57,857
3. Bob Talbot - $42,523
4. Jason Cluxton - $31,295
5. Yair Alon - $23,445
6. Robert Gunter - $17,865
7. Jerry Monroe - $13,841
8. Steven Marshall - $10,898
9. John Holley - $8,717
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Senthilkc
The event began with a field of 270 players vying for the title. It was mainly a mix of local pros and circuit regulars willing to pony up the cash to let it ride in this event. Only nine made it to Day 3, all with their eyes on the top prize of $95,253. The chip counts heading into the final table were as follows:
Seat 1: Jerry Monroe - 154,000
Seat 2: Jason Cluxton - 589,000
Seat 3: Steven Marshall - 106,000
Seat 4: Yair Alon - 404,000
Seat 5: Farid Nasserazad - 1,697,000
Seat 6: John Holley - 315,000
Seat 7: Robert Gunter - 144,000
Seat 8: Bob Talbot - 276,000
Seat 9: Travis Lutes - 1,725,000
The pressure was on with every move, and the action got off to a fast and furious start. On the first hand, John Holley three-bet all-in with {A-Hearts}{3-Hearts} but was unable to shake original raiser, Farid Nasserazad, who called with {A-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}. Two eights fell on the flop and Holley, who could not recover, was eliminated in ninth place. Even though Nasserazad took the chip lead with that pot, he remained pretty quiet for the next 75 minutes or so when the rest of the table started dropping like flies.
Steven Marshall exited next when he shoved {K-Spades}{8-Diamonds} into Yair Alon's {K-Hearts}{J-Clubs} in a battle of the blinds. A king hit the flop but was not enough for Marshall. Less than five minutes later Alon struck again, calling Jerry Monroe's all-in bet with {A-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}. Monroe tabled a dominating {A-Hearts}{K-Spades}, but a nine fell on the flop and Monroe did not catch up, finishing in seventh place.
Robert Gunter busted in sixth, running his two red nines into Bob Talbot's {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}. Yair Alon was the next to go, four-betting all-in with {A-Spades}{7-Clubs} smack into Travis Lutes’ {A-Hearts}{K-Spades}. No help came for Alon, who exited in fifth place. Jason Cluxton seemed primed to double up four-handed, calling all-in with {A-Hearts}{A-Spades} after Bob Talbot shoved with {J-Diamonds}{J-Spades}, but the board ran out {10-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs} to make a straight for Talbot. Those chips did not last very long for Talbot, though, as he was our third-place finisher. In a limped pot between the blinds, Talbot and Nasserazad clashed. The final board read {A-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}{5-Clubs} and Nasserazad check-called bets on every street, culminating with an all-in call on the river holding {A-Spades}{7-Spades} besting Talbot’s {9-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}.
Just like that, we were down to heads-up play within 90 minutes. Nasserazad help about a 2-to-1 chip lead over Lutes and the two battled for over five hours before it came to an end. At one point, Lutes was facing a 6-to-1 deficit but battled back and truly earned the title. On the final hand, Nasserazad called on the button and Lutes checked out of the big blind.
The flop came down {A-Clubs}{10-Spades}{6-Spades} and Lutes checked. Nasserazad fired at the pot and Lutes shoved all-in, quickly getting called. Lutes tabled {A-Spades}{6-Hearts}, having Nasserazad's {A-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} needing help. None came as the turn and river brought running fours, securing the victory for Lutes.
2010-2011 WSOP-C Biloxi Final Table Results
1. Travis Lutes - $95,253
2. Farid Nasserazad - $57,857
3. Bob Talbot - $42,523
4. Jason Cluxton - $31,295
5. Yair Alon - $23,445
6. Robert Gunter - $17,865
7. Jerry Monroe - $13,841
8. Steven Marshall - $10,898
9. John Holley - $8,717
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Obama jokes
Obama Himself Cracking Jokes (just for fun)
"That's what he talked about yesterday, 'I want to drill here. I want to drill now.' I don't know where he was standing. I think he was in a building somewhere." ~Obama on John McCain's energy plan.
"I would have to...investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother." ~Obama on whether Bill Clinton was our first black president. Obama jokes
"I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party." ~Obama responding to revelations that he and Dick Cheney are eighth cousins.
"But I have to say tonight's venue isn't really what I'm used to. I was originally told we'd be able to move this outdoors to Yankee Stadium, and can somebody tell me what happened to the Greek columns that I requested?" ~Obama at the Al Smith Dinner.
Obama, McCain and All Hillary Die And Go To Heaven
John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama all die and go to heaven. God looks down from his throne and asks McCain, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"
McCain takes a breath and then replies, "Well, I think so because I was a great leader and tried to follow the words in your great book." God looks down and then says, "You can sit to my left side."
So, McCain takes his seat and then God asks the same question to Hillary, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?" Hillary thinks for a second and then replies, "I think so because I have been fighting for the rights of so many people for so long." God again looks down and this time says, "You can sit to my right side."
Finally God turns to Barack Obama and asks, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"
Obama smiled and replied, "I think you're in my seat." ohh my god said god (Obama jokes)
"That's what he talked about yesterday, 'I want to drill here. I want to drill now.' I don't know where he was standing. I think he was in a building somewhere." ~Obama on John McCain's energy plan.
"I would have to...investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother." ~Obama on whether Bill Clinton was our first black president. Obama jokes
"I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party." ~Obama responding to revelations that he and Dick Cheney are eighth cousins.
"But I have to say tonight's venue isn't really what I'm used to. I was originally told we'd be able to move this outdoors to Yankee Stadium, and can somebody tell me what happened to the Greek columns that I requested?" ~Obama at the Al Smith Dinner.
Obama, McCain and All Hillary Die And Go To Heaven
John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama all die and go to heaven. God looks down from his throne and asks McCain, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"
McCain takes a breath and then replies, "Well, I think so because I was a great leader and tried to follow the words in your great book." God looks down and then says, "You can sit to my left side."
So, McCain takes his seat and then God asks the same question to Hillary, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?" Hillary thinks for a second and then replies, "I think so because I have been fighting for the rights of so many people for so long." God again looks down and this time says, "You can sit to my right side."
Finally God turns to Barack Obama and asks, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"
Obama smiled and replied, "I think you're in my seat." ohh my god said god (Obama jokes)
Today's Issue in Link building
In Today's Issue:
***What Is Theme Relevancy And Why Should I Care?***
***Hey, A Link Is Still A Link, No Matter Where It Comes From, Right? Wrong!***
***OK, So How Do I Find All These Beautiful Sites Related To Mine?***
What Is Theme Relevancy And Why Should I Care?
What theme relevancy means is the site that places a link to yours (an vice versa) should be relevant or related to your sites "theme". Ideally, your link partner's Website should complement, but not compete with whatever you are offering.
For instance, if you are selling blue widgets, it makes sense to get a link from a site selling widget accessories. Or, if you are selling Search Engine Optimization services, it's a good idea to get links pointing to SEO-related articles, search engines news and forums. And, in both examples, it's definitely NOT a good idea to exchange links with casino, gambling, or real estate sites.
This is not to say that blue widget buyers never gamble or never purchase real estate. But if they came to your site looking for your products or services such as blue widgets or SEO services, there's probably one chance out of a million they are interested in casinos or real estate right now.
This is how your site's visitors would have thought, and this is how search engines think it should be. Google, Yahoo!, Bing and other major search engines have been designed with one purpose — to provide value to their users, which means relevant, accurate search results. Their algorithms may — and will — change, but this underlying principle will remain the same.
"Hey, A Link Is Still A Link, No Matter Where It Comes From, Right?"
Wrong! This is a misconception that can easily get you in trouble. This approach could bring you short-term benefits 2 or 3 years ago, but major search engines (especially Google) have gotten a lot smarter since then.
If you still think theme relevancy is nice-to-have rather than a must-have, well, think again. Get a hundred unrelated links pointing to your site, and several things will happen, none of which involves high rankings for you:
* Google will simply not count these links when computing your ranking. This is the best thing that could happen since it doesn't involve penalizing your site;
* Google will think (justifiably) that your site belongs to a different theme (say, gambling) and treat it accordingly. This could mean your site will go up in gambling-related search results, and down in the results you seek (such as blue widget results). Now, you don't want this, do you?
* With the last Google algo update (dubbed "Big Daddy"), Google will decide (again, justifiably) you are trying to trick search engines and will simply drop your site from its index. Ouch. That was definitely NOT intended.
So here's a rule of thumb: Always keep your site's visitors in mind when running your link building campaigns. Try to get into your visitors' shoes and think what resources they would be interested in. Would they be interested in casino sites? No? Then don't do it.
"OK, So How Do I Find All These Beautiful Sites Related To Mine?"
Easy. There are several ways you can do it:
1. Do a search in major search engines such as Google using your niche keywords. Scan the results, copy the URLs you are interested in into a spreadsheet, wash rinse and repeat.
2. Visit a good link directory. Link directories are human-compiled directories of sites broken down into categories. DMOZ is an excellent example. Simply find your niche category in a directory, and search for relevant link partners there.
3. A trick you could use is examine your competition. Your competitors, who are selling, say, red widgets, most likely have other sites that link to them. You can use the LINK:WWW.COMPETITOR.COM command in Google, for example, to find out who.
So really, you can do it all by hand. The only problem is that finding quality link partners for your site — as important for your site's success as it is — is very time-consuming. So if the above does not seem easy for you, here's the good part.
LinkAssistant makes it a lot easier to find relevant link partners. Just point to Tools -> Find new link partners... and explore your options. In short, you can do it all:
1. Find new partners using keyword search. Point to Tools -> Find new link partners... -> Search for new partners on the Web -> Find sites by keyword search. Then simply enter your niche keyword phrase and let LinkAssistant do the rest — find hundreds of potential link partners related to your site's theme. Pretty fast, too.
2. With LinkAssistant you can also scan a complete Website (such as a links directory) and harvest all links from it, or just a specific category or page.
3. LinkAssistant doesn't stop here. You can also use it to quickly figure out who links to your competition and acquire hundreds of relevant link partners this way.
4. And it's getting even better. Some sites are using link submission forms to exchange links. They provide you with a form that you must fill in specifying your domain, the page with a backlink, your email, etc. With LinkAssistant you can quickly find relevant "Auto-Complete" link partners, and fill in their submission forms automatically — again, saving you time.
Now, let's assume you need to find and evaluate 50 link partners a day. If you do it by hand, and spend 5 minutes on every link partner, you'll end up stealing more then 4 hours of your precious time. If you don't use LinkAssistant, that is.
And, after you've tried the manual versus the LinkAssistant way of finding potential link partners, I won't have to ask you which one you like best — I know the answer ;-)
I hope you enjoyed this issue as much as I did when I wrote it. So go make yourself a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, power up LinkAssistant and let it do the job for you.
That's it for now. Contact me at dan@link-assistant.com if you have any questions, and stay tuned for the next issue entitled "Link Anchors And Descriptions — Things You Must Know About Them To Get On The Right Side Of Google".
***What Is Theme Relevancy And Why Should I Care?***
***Hey, A Link Is Still A Link, No Matter Where It Comes From, Right? Wrong!***
***OK, So How Do I Find All These Beautiful Sites Related To Mine?***
What Is Theme Relevancy And Why Should I Care?
What theme relevancy means is the site that places a link to yours (an vice versa) should be relevant or related to your sites "theme". Ideally, your link partner's Website should complement, but not compete with whatever you are offering.
For instance, if you are selling blue widgets, it makes sense to get a link from a site selling widget accessories. Or, if you are selling Search Engine Optimization services, it's a good idea to get links pointing to SEO-related articles, search engines news and forums. And, in both examples, it's definitely NOT a good idea to exchange links with casino, gambling, or real estate sites.
This is not to say that blue widget buyers never gamble or never purchase real estate. But if they came to your site looking for your products or services such as blue widgets or SEO services, there's probably one chance out of a million they are interested in casinos or real estate right now.
This is how your site's visitors would have thought, and this is how search engines think it should be. Google, Yahoo!, Bing and other major search engines have been designed with one purpose — to provide value to their users, which means relevant, accurate search results. Their algorithms may — and will — change, but this underlying principle will remain the same.
"Hey, A Link Is Still A Link, No Matter Where It Comes From, Right?"
Wrong! This is a misconception that can easily get you in trouble. This approach could bring you short-term benefits 2 or 3 years ago, but major search engines (especially Google) have gotten a lot smarter since then.
If you still think theme relevancy is nice-to-have rather than a must-have, well, think again. Get a hundred unrelated links pointing to your site, and several things will happen, none of which involves high rankings for you:
* Google will simply not count these links when computing your ranking. This is the best thing that could happen since it doesn't involve penalizing your site;
* Google will think (justifiably) that your site belongs to a different theme (say, gambling) and treat it accordingly. This could mean your site will go up in gambling-related search results, and down in the results you seek (such as blue widget results). Now, you don't want this, do you?
* With the last Google algo update (dubbed "Big Daddy"), Google will decide (again, justifiably) you are trying to trick search engines and will simply drop your site from its index. Ouch. That was definitely NOT intended.
So here's a rule of thumb: Always keep your site's visitors in mind when running your link building campaigns. Try to get into your visitors' shoes and think what resources they would be interested in. Would they be interested in casino sites? No? Then don't do it.
"OK, So How Do I Find All These Beautiful Sites Related To Mine?"
Easy. There are several ways you can do it:
1. Do a search in major search engines such as Google using your niche keywords. Scan the results, copy the URLs you are interested in into a spreadsheet, wash rinse and repeat.
2. Visit a good link directory. Link directories are human-compiled directories of sites broken down into categories. DMOZ is an excellent example. Simply find your niche category in a directory, and search for relevant link partners there.
3. A trick you could use is examine your competition. Your competitors, who are selling, say, red widgets, most likely have other sites that link to them. You can use the LINK:WWW.COMPETITOR.COM command in Google, for example, to find out who.
So really, you can do it all by hand. The only problem is that finding quality link partners for your site — as important for your site's success as it is — is very time-consuming. So if the above does not seem easy for you, here's the good part.
LinkAssistant makes it a lot easier to find relevant link partners. Just point to Tools -> Find new link partners... and explore your options. In short, you can do it all:
1. Find new partners using keyword search. Point to Tools -> Find new link partners... -> Search for new partners on the Web -> Find sites by keyword search. Then simply enter your niche keyword phrase and let LinkAssistant do the rest — find hundreds of potential link partners related to your site's theme. Pretty fast, too.
2. With LinkAssistant you can also scan a complete Website (such as a links directory) and harvest all links from it, or just a specific category or page.
3. LinkAssistant doesn't stop here. You can also use it to quickly figure out who links to your competition and acquire hundreds of relevant link partners this way.
4. And it's getting even better. Some sites are using link submission forms to exchange links. They provide you with a form that you must fill in specifying your domain, the page with a backlink, your email, etc. With LinkAssistant you can quickly find relevant "Auto-Complete" link partners, and fill in their submission forms automatically — again, saving you time.
Now, let's assume you need to find and evaluate 50 link partners a day. If you do it by hand, and spend 5 minutes on every link partner, you'll end up stealing more then 4 hours of your precious time. If you don't use LinkAssistant, that is.
And, after you've tried the manual versus the LinkAssistant way of finding potential link partners, I won't have to ask you which one you like best — I know the answer ;-)
I hope you enjoyed this issue as much as I did when I wrote it. So go make yourself a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, power up LinkAssistant and let it do the job for you.
That's it for now. Contact me at dan@link-assistant.com if you have any questions, and stay tuned for the next issue entitled "Link Anchors And Descriptions — Things You Must Know About Them To Get On The Right Side Of Google".
Amazon.com title defending pedophilia sparks boycott call
(CNN) -- An e-book that was for sale on Amazon.com that appeared to defend pedophilia has sparked hundreds of angry user comments and threats to boycott the online retailer unless it pulled the title.
A listing for "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct" was no longer available on Amazon.com late Wednesday.
Before then, more than 2,000 users had commented on the title. The lion's share deplored its publication and vowed to boycott Amazon until it removed the self-published title from the site, and at least two Facebook pages have been dedicated to boycotting Amazon because of the book.
The stated content appears to violate two of Amazon's content guidelines for digital publication.
The author of the controversial tome said he publised it to address what he considers unfair portrayals of pedophiles in the media.
"True pedophiles love children and would never hurt them," Phillip R. Greaves II said in a phone interview with CNN on Wednesday.
When asked if the self-published e-book was a "how-to manual," he said, "there are certain parts that are advisory," which set out lines that should not be crossed.
"Penetration is out. You can't do that with a child, but kissing and fondling I don't think is that big of a problem," he said.
The Pueblo, Colorado, man told CNN that he has not had sexual contact with a child as an adult, but did when he was a teenager. He also said he "was introduced to oral sex when I was 7" by an older female but did not provide specifics.
In the title's Amazon.com product description, Greaves described it as "my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian [sic] rules for these adults to follow.
"I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught," he said.
Most users who commented on the title said they deplored its publication and vowed to boycott Amazon until it removed the title.
"It is ILLEGAL to molest children, and for Amazon to promote such is insane. I'm an abuse survivor, and am OUTRAGED Amazon would choose to promote this nonsense. I will not be purchasing anything from your website until this is removed," one user wrote in a comment echoed by others.
Others lamented they could not give the book less than "one star" in submitting their reviews, saying they would shop elsewhere during the holiday season.
"Cannot believe that Amazon is selling this. I was in the middle of placing my whole Christmas shopping order when I saw something about this. After reviewing it, I have canceled my order from Amazon and am encouraging all of my friends not to order from Amazon because they are choosing to sell this book. I will not be purchasing anything from Amazon until they agree to quit selling this book," another user said.
Amazon did not return CNN's requests for comment, but one user posted what it said was Amazon's response to an e-mail the person had sent.
"Let me assure you that Amazon.com does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts; we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions."
"Amazon.com believes it is censorship not to sell certain titles because we believe their message is objectionable."
The company's website provides content guidelines for titles sold through its Digital Text Platform Program. The guidelines say publishers are expected to conduct proper research to ensure that titles are in compliance with all local, state, national and international laws.
"If Amazon Digital Services, Inc. determines that the content of a Title is prohibited, we may summarily remove or alter it without returning any fees. Amazon Digital Services, Inc. reserves the right to make judgments about whether or not content is appropriate," the guidelines state.
Pornography, offensive material and "titles which may lead to... illegal activity" are among the prohibited content listed in the guidelines.
What Amazon deems offensive, "is probably about what you would expect" the guidelines state, without elaboration, except to say that, "Amazon Digital Services, Inc. reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of Titles sold on our site."
A few Amazon.com users defended the author's right to free speech, and a discussion on the site titled "Why Amazon is Right" delved into the constitutional implications of the controversy.
"While I think 99.9 percent of us object to pedophilia (even though I think this particular book was a publicity stunt/joke), I think we can all agree that we don't want someone else censoring a subject matter that we may be interested in. Religion, atheism, homosexuality, etc. are some subjects that spring to mind ... and they have been censored in the past until we realized that it's best to let all information in (even if we don't like some of it), rather than allow some authority or individual decide what we can and can't know about based on their own opinions or motivations," one user wrote.
The author has three other titles on Amazon.com under his name. They are available on the e-reader, Kindle, and all were published within the last week.
Greaves described himself as a former nurses' aid and in-home health care provider who is retired and on disability for "manic depression." He said he first began writing as a child and hopes to continue doing so full time.
But conspiracy theories over the book abound, with commenters citing it as a publicity stunt, a hoax, or perhaps a law enforcement sting.
"People... Relax... This book is obviously promoted by Amazon per request of FBI in order to track down and catch pedophiles. This book is obviously a bait for the sickos that are lurking around out there trying to prey on our children."
Regards,
Thanks cnn
Senthilkc
A listing for "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct" was no longer available on Amazon.com late Wednesday.
Before then, more than 2,000 users had commented on the title. The lion's share deplored its publication and vowed to boycott Amazon until it removed the self-published title from the site, and at least two Facebook pages have been dedicated to boycotting Amazon because of the book.
The stated content appears to violate two of Amazon's content guidelines for digital publication.
The author of the controversial tome said he publised it to address what he considers unfair portrayals of pedophiles in the media.
"True pedophiles love children and would never hurt them," Phillip R. Greaves II said in a phone interview with CNN on Wednesday.
When asked if the self-published e-book was a "how-to manual," he said, "there are certain parts that are advisory," which set out lines that should not be crossed.
"Penetration is out. You can't do that with a child, but kissing and fondling I don't think is that big of a problem," he said.
The Pueblo, Colorado, man told CNN that he has not had sexual contact with a child as an adult, but did when he was a teenager. He also said he "was introduced to oral sex when I was 7" by an older female but did not provide specifics.
In the title's Amazon.com product description, Greaves described it as "my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian [sic] rules for these adults to follow.
"I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught," he said.
Most users who commented on the title said they deplored its publication and vowed to boycott Amazon until it removed the title.
"It is ILLEGAL to molest children, and for Amazon to promote such is insane. I'm an abuse survivor, and am OUTRAGED Amazon would choose to promote this nonsense. I will not be purchasing anything from your website until this is removed," one user wrote in a comment echoed by others.
Others lamented they could not give the book less than "one star" in submitting their reviews, saying they would shop elsewhere during the holiday season.
"Cannot believe that Amazon is selling this. I was in the middle of placing my whole Christmas shopping order when I saw something about this. After reviewing it, I have canceled my order from Amazon and am encouraging all of my friends not to order from Amazon because they are choosing to sell this book. I will not be purchasing anything from Amazon until they agree to quit selling this book," another user said.
Amazon did not return CNN's requests for comment, but one user posted what it said was Amazon's response to an e-mail the person had sent.
"Let me assure you that Amazon.com does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts; we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions."
"Amazon.com believes it is censorship not to sell certain titles because we believe their message is objectionable."
The company's website provides content guidelines for titles sold through its Digital Text Platform Program. The guidelines say publishers are expected to conduct proper research to ensure that titles are in compliance with all local, state, national and international laws.
"If Amazon Digital Services, Inc. determines that the content of a Title is prohibited, we may summarily remove or alter it without returning any fees. Amazon Digital Services, Inc. reserves the right to make judgments about whether or not content is appropriate," the guidelines state.
Pornography, offensive material and "titles which may lead to... illegal activity" are among the prohibited content listed in the guidelines.
What Amazon deems offensive, "is probably about what you would expect" the guidelines state, without elaboration, except to say that, "Amazon Digital Services, Inc. reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of Titles sold on our site."
A few Amazon.com users defended the author's right to free speech, and a discussion on the site titled "Why Amazon is Right" delved into the constitutional implications of the controversy.
"While I think 99.9 percent of us object to pedophilia (even though I think this particular book was a publicity stunt/joke), I think we can all agree that we don't want someone else censoring a subject matter that we may be interested in. Religion, atheism, homosexuality, etc. are some subjects that spring to mind ... and they have been censored in the past until we realized that it's best to let all information in (even if we don't like some of it), rather than allow some authority or individual decide what we can and can't know about based on their own opinions or motivations," one user wrote.
The author has three other titles on Amazon.com under his name. They are available on the e-reader, Kindle, and all were published within the last week.
Greaves described himself as a former nurses' aid and in-home health care provider who is retired and on disability for "manic depression." He said he first began writing as a child and hopes to continue doing so full time.
But conspiracy theories over the book abound, with commenters citing it as a publicity stunt, a hoax, or perhaps a law enforcement sting.
"People... Relax... This book is obviously promoted by Amazon per request of FBI in order to track down and catch pedophiles. This book is obviously a bait for the sickos that are lurking around out there trying to prey on our children."
Regards,
Thanks cnn
Senthilkc
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Learning the Latest in SEO Techniques
One of the fastest growing forms of marketing is the use of search engine optimization or SEO. Think about it, how many use the Internet today for searching things that they need as compared to using, say, the yellow pages? There is a cool marketing viral video about Google vs. Yellow pages that can shed light on the issue in fact.
If you are a business owner who owns a website, or even without one, you should get with the program if you aren't already. Without a website? Time to start one if you want to take advantage of SEO. Already have a website but no SEO yet? Time to jump in. Learning SEO is a pretty straightforward thing to learn, but it requires time and dedication. You know what they say, you cannot rush perfection.
A primer on how SEO works, you first start by figuring out the keywords you want to get ranked for. Then you optimize your site using these keywords. You then do some off page optimization by linking back to your site using the same keywords. There are many more steps and procedures to learn if you really want your site to rise up from the ranks. This is why you must be on your toes when it comes to learning the best and most recent SEO techniques available.
SEO can be simple or it can be complicated. It is really up to you which direction you want to take, but learning the latest SEO techniques will always help your cause. There are tons of SEO experts out there, and it will be good for you to grow as an SEO practitioner if you learn from them. Though the techniques they use vary from user to user, it is also up to you how you build your SEO campaign. Many can live with simple SEO, while others prefer to rise up to the challenge and do it the complicated way. However, do not let the word complicated confuse you. Being complicated does not mean it is difficult, it only means that it requires a little more work.
So whether you are an SEO newbie, or a seasoned SEO expert, learning the latest SEO techniques will keep you on your toes and give you a leg up no matter what. A boost to your business is almost always recommended. So utilize SEO to its maximum and watch your profits rise.
Regards,
Senthilkc
If you are a business owner who owns a website, or even without one, you should get with the program if you aren't already. Without a website? Time to start one if you want to take advantage of SEO. Already have a website but no SEO yet? Time to jump in. Learning SEO is a pretty straightforward thing to learn, but it requires time and dedication. You know what they say, you cannot rush perfection.
A primer on how SEO works, you first start by figuring out the keywords you want to get ranked for. Then you optimize your site using these keywords. You then do some off page optimization by linking back to your site using the same keywords. There are many more steps and procedures to learn if you really want your site to rise up from the ranks. This is why you must be on your toes when it comes to learning the best and most recent SEO techniques available.
SEO can be simple or it can be complicated. It is really up to you which direction you want to take, but learning the latest SEO techniques will always help your cause. There are tons of SEO experts out there, and it will be good for you to grow as an SEO practitioner if you learn from them. Though the techniques they use vary from user to user, it is also up to you how you build your SEO campaign. Many can live with simple SEO, while others prefer to rise up to the challenge and do it the complicated way. However, do not let the word complicated confuse you. Being complicated does not mean it is difficult, it only means that it requires a little more work.
So whether you are an SEO newbie, or a seasoned SEO expert, learning the latest SEO techniques will keep you on your toes and give you a leg up no matter what. A boost to your business is almost always recommended. So utilize SEO to its maximum and watch your profits rise.
Regards,
Senthilkc
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