Archive for August, 2009

[ Singles & Dating ] What Should I Do About This Guy?

.Okay there is this guy that i like in class and im like super shy!!! Its like when i try to talk to guys i get all dumb and ditzy!!! They think im stupid!!! I really dont want this guy to think im stupid.please help me.. Idk what to do i really want to date him

[ Singles & Dating ] Planning A Date……….?

.. Something fun, different... What kind of activities could I plan out in which she doesn't have too drive anywhere besides too the first initial meeting, we will go for lunch or something, then after that I wouldn't want her too drive me somewhere so we can do something else.Ok heres the thing, SHE drives and I don't, she doesn't care,

[ Other - Food & Drink ] Where Can I Buy Butcher’s Twine?

[ Optical ] What Looks Real Through Or What Does Not?

..............which is the original size.i wanna know when u look through glasses what u c is that things get cleared but their shapes changes..hey there..but they're really cleared............i wanna know through glasses we can c things clear.but for me things get wider in breadth and length.........but why does things around get their shape changed....and my power is -3.. i have myopia...one of my friends told me tat when she put her glasses things gets small

[ Women's Health ] I Feel Weird Like Im Wronge..?

Is that bad?. Alot of girls I know are like flat chested and it just makes me feel uncomfortable around guys and even other girls.So

[ Politics ] Is It Wise To Lay New Carpets Before You Fix A Leaky Roof?

Why can they not manage to do the same? I feel so helpless sometimes because there is nothing we can do.6 trillion dollar budget this coming year and they have managed to find only $100 million dollars to cut, not even half of 1%?? I would bet most of us could easily cut 10 to 20% from our personal budgets if we tried hard enough. That's almost a trillion dollars over a 16 year period, and that is just one program!! Can any one of us possibly imagine how much money is wasted, just flushed down the toilet, through other programs in other departments? Why can't they figure out how to fix these problems before trying to start new programs? We have a 1.Why is our government not fixing the problems we have before they add new programs? There is 60 billion dollars lost to fraud each year in just the medicare/medicaid program. This is our hard earned money, money that could be used to pay down our debt. Do you feel the same frustration?. Money we could keep in our pockets that would help

Black People Stole My Car Or White People Store My Car

Today while I was looking at google stats I noticed something weird. There are a lot of searches for the phrase “blak people store my car”. I then followed along with the trend and searched for this myself. I then noticed this phrase also poped up a while back with the term “White People Stole My Car” It seems like this is a pointless search but there are tons of sites for it. Check it out for your self and you will understand better.

If anyone knows what this is related to then please leave a comment =]

Aesop Online – aesoponline.com

Aesop is an automated substitute placement service provided by Frontline Placement Technologies for K-12 school districts. As Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Aesop does not require any hardware or software at the district. Unlike traditional sub-calling programs, Aesop completely automates the process of substitute placement and absence management for over 2,000 school districts worldwide. Integrated phone and internet technologies allow district administrators, principals and teachers access to the service anytime, anywhere.

Frontline Placement Technologies, Inc. is a privately-owned Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) corporation that develops, owns and exclusively distributes Aesop in over 35,000 locations worldwide. With a dedicated staff that adheres to strong moral and ethical principles, Frontline recognizes the importance of customer satisfaction and operates with high standards of achievement. By listening to our customers and watching for emerging trends, we strive to deliver ever-increasing value to each client. Founded in 1998, Frontline provides automated staff placement, management reporting, and employee self-service portals through phone and internet technologies.

Aesop’s functionality, reliability, and commitment to customer service explain our rapid adoption by districts across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Russia. With so many districts relying on this system, Aesop takes great care to ensure system stability and data security.
With over 1.2 million active users daily, Aesop’s infrastructure has handled over 120,000 absences in a single day and can easily handle more.

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Friends of Gunnison Beach – Nude Beach In Sandy Hook NJ

Friends of Gunnison is a non-landed, American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) affiliated club. The clothing optional beach attracts nearly 5,000 naturists per weekend in the summer months. We have no clubhouse, We do not own property. Our club’s location is beautiful Gunnison Beach at Sandy Hook, NJ. There are over 200 members in the club. Many of the beach regulars formed this club to foster community and fun among the members.

You do not need to be a member of Friends of Gunnison to go to Gunnison Beach because it is a part of the Gateway National Recreation Area located at Sandy Hook, NJ. The Clothing Optional Beach is fully sanctioned with National Park Service Lifegurards and Facilities at the non-clothing optional Entrance to the beach. There is also a “snack shack” on the beach. The park and its beaches are run by the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service.

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Plant Tycoon

Plant Tycoon® is a gardening sim game where you nurture plants and experiment with increasingly rare and valuable species. You start with a couple of dollars, some soil and water, a handful of seeds. Organize and harvest seeds, Grow plants, monitor your plants’ health, age and maturity and protect your plants from dehydration and infestations. The object is to breed and cross breed plants until you find the 6 Magic Plants of Isola and solve the genetic puzzle. Sell some of your creations to fund your research, buy better supplies to use in your Nursery and purchase ornaments to customize your virtual garden.

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Search Engine Ranking Factors

Each participant was asked to rate more than 100 search ranking  factors along with specific questions about hot issues in the SEO  field. Then we’ll examine the top 5 black hat SEO techniques in  a bid to help you determine whether the SEO firm you’re currently  using are potentially compromising your business website. This year  features contributors from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,  Iceland, the Ukraine, the Dominican Republic and many more..Every  two years, SEOmoz surveys top SEO experts in the field worldwide  on their opinions of the algorithmic elements that comprise search  engine rankings. This document, representing the collective wisdom  of expert practitioners, is, in opinion, one of the most useful  resources for SEO practitioners of all varieties, helping to provide  transparency into what matters (and doesn’t) for best practices.

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Top 5 White Hat and Black Hat SEO Techniques

We sit very firmly in the white hat camp believing that while black hat SEO techniques might have some short term positive effect, the long term implications can be disastrous for your website and in turn your business. To describe the two SEO methodologies the terms “White Hat” and “Black Hat” SEO were coined. Then we’ll examine the top 5 black hat SEO techniques in a bid to help you determine whether the SEO firm you’re currently using are potentially compromising your business website.Search engine optimisation, as with all things in life has a good, wholesome, fair and right way of doing things

Top 5 Black Hat SEO Techniques

1. Hidden Content

Top
of our list of black hat SEO techniques is hidden content. Hidden content comes in many guises but the basic principle is that within the code for the site there will be content stuffed with keywords, this content will not be visible to the end user of the site.

One way of doing this is by using comment tags.

Comment tags look like this;

<!– Comment Tag –>

The real purpose of comment tags is for developers to add in useful reminders within their code explaining what that piece of code does.

Here’s an example of the comment tag being used correctly,

<!– Start of the Main Content –>

Here’s an example of a comment tag being used incorrectly in a bid to promote a hypothetical page targeting search engine optimisation,

<!—Search engine optimisation, SEO, professional search engine optimisation company, spamming search engines –>

Another popular way of hiding content is the use of the <noscript> tag. The <noscript> tag should be used to inform a user that a script is being used but their browser either doesn’t support the script
language used or they have that function turned off.

Here’s an example of the <noscript> tag being used correctly,

<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
document.write(”Hello World!”)
//–>
</script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>

Here’s an example of the <noscript> tag being used as a black hat SEO technique again in a bid to promote a hypothetical page but this time targeting car hire,

<noscript>
Imaginary Car Hire Firm do Car Hire which is very affordable so if you want to hire a car call our car hire firm because we are the best car hire firm in the world
</noscript>

Other HMTL tags misused in similar ways include the <noframes> tag and hidden inputs in forms.

Content can also be hidden from the end user by using CSS, excessively small text and coloured text on the same coloured background.

All of these techniques are frowned upon by search engines and if detected can mean your website will be penalised or even banned. To the untrained eye it can be very difficult to spot the use of some of these techniques which is why we offer a free website MOT test at PushON.

2. Meta Keyword Stuffing

There are two Meta tags that are generally used to inform search engines of the content on the page. They reside between the <head> tag of a page and when used incorrectly they can alert a search engine that a site is using spam techniques in an attempt to improve its ranking.

Meta Description

The meta description should be used to describe the content of your page honestly and concisely and be 1 or 2 sentences, 3 at most.

Here’s an example of the meta description being used in the correct manner,

<meta name=”description” content=”PushON are an Online Marketing agency providing a full range of digital marketing services throughout Greater Manchester and the North West UK. If you need Search Engine marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) or Pay per Click (PPC), we can help you. Contact us now.” />

Here’s an example of the meta description tag being used incorrectly for a page promoting a restaurant called “MadeUp”,

<meta name=”description” content=”MadeUp restaurant website is the best MadeUp restaurant website, our restaurant is better than any restaurant,great restaurant,best food restaurant,visit our restaurant” />

3. Meta Keywords

Meta Keywords should be a short list of words that inform of the main focus of the page. Meta keywords have been so misused in the past that there are few if any search engines that take any heed of them.
Here’s an example of the meta keywords being used in the correct manner,

<meta
name=”Keywords” content=”Online marketing, digital marketing, search
marketing, search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, SEO” />

Here’s an example of the meta keywords tag being used incorrectly for a page promoting a restaurant called “MadeUp”,

<meta name=”keywords” content=”Restaurant,restaurants,food,feed,take away food,fast food,junk food,eat,eating
out,dinner,dining,meal,eating,MadeUp,steak and chips,chicken and chips,pie and chips,pudding,desert,big restaurant,small restaurant,best restaurant,great restaurant, exclusive restaurant,cocktails,wine,drink,pizza,sandwhiches”>

4. Doorway or Gateway Pages

Doorway or Gateway pages are pages designed for search engines and not for the end user. They are basically fake pages that are stuffed with content and highly optimised for 1 or 2 keywords that link to a target or landing page. The end user never sees these pages because they are automatically redirected to the target page.

Off-the-shelf SEO software often encourages the use of gateway pages as do SEO firms that don’t know what they’re talking about. Search engine spiders are being enhanced continually to detect these pages and will get ignored or worse still, flag your site up as being spam and ban you all together.

5. Link Farming

In the real world if you were to build your house in a bad neighbour hood then your house would be affected by its surroundings. The same is true of the virtual world. Link farms or free for all (FFA) pages have no other purposes than to list links of unrelated websites. They won’t provide you with any traffic and you run the risk of having your site banned for participating. Don’t participate in link farming.

Top 5 White Hat SEO Techniques

1. Quality Content

When we first started looking at SEO as a separate entity to website build there was one phrase that we would continually hear, “content is King”, and it’s true. There is nothing more valuable you can do to optimise your site for search engines than offer unique well written content. A search engines aim is to serve up what it believes to be the most appropriate website for any given search to the end user.

Imagine we are the end user and we are searching for a portable air conditioner for hire. We go to our favourite search engine and search for the phrase “portable air conditioner hire”. In this imaginary scenario let’s assume there are only 2 websites that target that phrase,

Website 1

Website 1 consists of a single page with 3 paragraphs of text. The text tells us that the company does portable air conditioning hire and give us a phone number to call.

Website 2

Website 2 contains 30 plus pages all focusing on various portable air conditioning units that we can hire, costs and technical explanations of how portable air conditioning units work.

Which website do you think the search engine is likely to offer to the user first? It’s a rather obvious example but it illustrates the importance of good content so your priority should be good quality content.

2. Use Structural (Semantic) Mark Up and Separate Content from Presentation

Semantically structuring your mark up helps search engines understand the content of your webpage which is of course a good thing. Making proper use of heading elements is essential because search engines give more weight
to the content within the heading elements.

Using CSS to separate the design elements from the content makes for much leaner code and makes it easier for search engines to find what they’re looking for, which is content. Remember content is king!

3. Titles and Meta Data

Providing pages with proper titles and meta data is essential. As discussed in the top 5 black hat SEO techniques section the meta description and meta keywords elements have been so misused in the past that Search
Engines now regard them as less important, it’s still important to use them and use them properly. Titles however still carry a lot of weight and when we think of semantic mark up it is obvious why. The title of anything is a declaration as to what the content might be, so make sure your page titles are a true representation of the content of the page.

4. Keyword Research and Effective Keyword Use

Create your website with keywords and key phrases in mind. Research keywords and key phrases you think people might use to find your site. Single words are not always the most effective target, try multi-word phrases that are much more specific to your product/service and you’ll be targeting end users that are much more likely to want what you are offering.

Use the keywords and key phrases you’ve identified effectively throughout your website. Assign each page 2-3 of the keywords you’ve identified and use the keywords throughout all the important elements of the page. Those are,

  • Title
  • Meta Description
  • Meta Keywords
  • Heading Elements <H1> <H2> <H3>
  • Text
  • Alt Tag
  • Title Tag
  • Links

5. Quality Inbound Links

Having inbound links to your website can be likened to having a vote for the good but there are good links and bad links so therefore votes for the good and votes that are bad. Good links are links from other web pages
that are regarded highly by the search engines and are contextually relevant to the content of your page. Bad links are links from web pages that aren’t regarded highly or potentially banned by search engines and have no relevance to the content of your page.

For example;

Imagine we have a website that sells telephones.

Link A: Link on the homepage of the British Telecoms website. = Good

Link B: Link on John Smiths Beer and Ale appreciation links page = Bad

The amount of quality inbound links to your site therefore have some relevance on how high up the search engine your site is placed. When sourcing links you should be thinking of quality over quantity and deep linking to pages within your website not just the home page.

Out with the old and in with the new!

Well alot has went on in my life in the last 2 weeks or so. I haven’t really had to much time to focus on the websites but I did manage to keep this one up and running effectively. I learned some cool google SEO techniques that I will share later in the week.

I also been thinking about moving to another country. The united states has been home to me for quite some time now but I think its time for me to see the rest of the world. I still have yet to see all of America but I feel like I have seen enough. So right now before I make any decisions I am planing a nice vacation to Rome. You can stay out there for $100.00 USD at a luxury 2 bed room apartment for a week. That is not bad at all!

My stats for AlonzoWest.com has also been alot better in the last week or so. I think its about time this site bangs. I will be filling more category today. If you can think of anything you would like to see on this site just shoot me a message.

Peace Out!
Alonzo

Great WordPress Plugin To Feed WordPress!

Just like the name says Feed WordPress will basicly feed your blog using RSS Feeds. This is a great plugin to generate tons of content quickly.

FeedWordPress is an open-source Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog; if you syndicate several feeds you can use WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregator (“planet”) website. It was originally developed because I needed a more flexible replacement for Planet to use at Feminist Blogs.

FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of configuration in mind. You’ll need a working installation of WordPress or WordPress MU (version 2.8, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0 or 1.5), and also FTP or SFTP access to your web host. You don’t need to tweak any plain-text configuration files and you don’t need access to shell or crontab on your web host to make it work. (Although, I should mention, web hosts that don’t offer shell access and cron jobs are bad web hosts.)

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[ Biology ] Where Has My Logic Gone Wrong?

[ Video & Online Games ] I Have Fifa09 On The Ps3 And Im Trying To Get The Optimus Chung Trophy(win A Game With Adidas Live Enabled)…?

i bought all the leagues.but it wont unlock.is that y its not working? PSN- abideen1.ive playd the teams in the same league. i have tried

[ Religion & Spirituality ] What Are Unitarian Universalists Views On Afterlife?

Someone posted that UUs do not believe in an afterlife. Would this belief be accepted within this church? I'm also heavily into astrology, would I be looked down upon or judged by this belief if I were to become a member of this church?. I personally believe in an afterlife

[ Maintenance & Repairs ] I Overfilled My Car W/ Oil – It’s Smoking Like A Rock Concert?

after changing the oil and putting in the correct amount, it still is putting out a considerable amount of white smoke. temperature gauge says its not too hot, but im worried ive messed something

[ Higher Education (University +) ] I Need To Know About Studying About Nuclear Physics?

hi i want to study nuclear physics in university.Do i need to know computer programming language for studying nuclear physics?. which

[ Homework Help ] History Homework Help…..!!!!!!!?

D- that the Arab invasion of sind took place.she found the answer from these lines: "It was during the reign of one Omayyid Caliph-Walid 1,705-14 A. Our teacher said it's Omayyid Caliph.but i m sue it's wrong.Can u answer this:Name the khalifa who was instrumental in