Sundays are special days even though I get one a week, I use it as a day of rest and spiritual growth. I take the time to commence with soul searching as an individual as well as attend church in a congregational format.
I chose to go to the book store and peruse some book and have a wonderful cup of coffee with a special friend.
Lastly we come home and relax and talk.
Happy Sunday to you!
Van Dexter
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Website Site Creation Solutions You Gotta See
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It will show them how to create their own site from the scratch to monetization.
For FREE.
If you want to go even further they offer reasonably price paid membership that will provide your with products and the knowledge you need to sell them.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Search optimization, not search engine optimization
Search optimization, not search engine optimization
Search optimization focuses on how people search. Search engine optimization focuses on how search engines work. Search optimization sees quality web content as its foundation stone. In an age of information overload, how is your website going to get found? Because if it’s not found, it might as well not exist, and all your effort will be in vain. Every day, millions of people use search engines to find things. A significant majority of these people will not go beyond the first page of search results, and most people will stop searching by the third page. However, if you want to succeed with search engines in the long term, you should not primarily focus on how the search engine works. Rather, you should focus on how the brain of the searcher works. Because if you understand how people search, you’re halfway there to getting found when they search for your content.It all comes down to a small set of words. (I call these words “carewords”; the words people really care about.) The searcher is the modern equivalent of the hunter gatherer. They go out hunting and gathering content in order to complete a task. It’s very important to understand that searching is just the first step in this task completion. Making sure your content is found in the first page of search results is a great start, but it is only a start. Until the person has completed the task they came to your website to complete, then nothing of substance has been achieved. People want to make a reservation, renew a license, find out more about a course, etc. Therefore, we need to see search optimization in the context of the task. In reality, what you need to focus on is task optimization. How many customers bought your product today? How many citizens availed of your service today? How many students applied for a place at your university today? The focus of this series of articles is on how you can optimize your website for how people search. I will explore why linking is so crucial to success. I will explore how you can create content that significantly increases your chances of being found, as well as increasing the chances of task completion.I was recently thinking of renting a holiday home in Spain, so I searched for: “Spanish holiday homes”. I clicked on the first search result, and this is the text I read.
Spain Holiday Rentals Holiday rentals in Spain for holidays in Spain Spain Holiday Rentals directly from the owners. Rent Spanish holiday homes - a holiday villa or perhaps a holiday apartment in Spain. Spain vacation rentals for holidays in Spain are easily located by searching a Spain holiday home on our website. Spain Holiday Rental offer Spanish holiday homes for your next Spain vacation.
This content is excellently written from a search engine optimization perspective. The carewords (Spain, holiday, rentals, etc.) are prominent and repeated often. However, this content doesn’t seem credible to me. I don’t get a sense of trustworthiness off it. In fact, it reads to me like spam, and that made me quickly hit the Back button.Remember, getting people to your website is just the first step. Having them complete the task is ultimately what it’s all about.
:Gerry McGovern provides website content management solutions
Search optimization focuses on how people search. Search engine optimization focuses on how search engines work. Search optimization sees quality web content as its foundation stone. In an age of information overload, how is your website going to get found? Because if it’s not found, it might as well not exist, and all your effort will be in vain. Every day, millions of people use search engines to find things. A significant majority of these people will not go beyond the first page of search results, and most people will stop searching by the third page. However, if you want to succeed with search engines in the long term, you should not primarily focus on how the search engine works. Rather, you should focus on how the brain of the searcher works. Because if you understand how people search, you’re halfway there to getting found when they search for your content.It all comes down to a small set of words. (I call these words “carewords”; the words people really care about.) The searcher is the modern equivalent of the hunter gatherer. They go out hunting and gathering content in order to complete a task. It’s very important to understand that searching is just the first step in this task completion. Making sure your content is found in the first page of search results is a great start, but it is only a start. Until the person has completed the task they came to your website to complete, then nothing of substance has been achieved. People want to make a reservation, renew a license, find out more about a course, etc. Therefore, we need to see search optimization in the context of the task. In reality, what you need to focus on is task optimization. How many customers bought your product today? How many citizens availed of your service today? How many students applied for a place at your university today? The focus of this series of articles is on how you can optimize your website for how people search. I will explore why linking is so crucial to success. I will explore how you can create content that significantly increases your chances of being found, as well as increasing the chances of task completion.I was recently thinking of renting a holiday home in Spain, so I searched for: “Spanish holiday homes”. I clicked on the first search result, and this is the text I read.
Spain Holiday Rentals Holiday rentals in Spain for holidays in Spain Spain Holiday Rentals directly from the owners. Rent Spanish holiday homes - a holiday villa or perhaps a holiday apartment in Spain. Spain vacation rentals for holidays in Spain are easily located by searching a Spain holiday home on our website. Spain Holiday Rental offer Spanish holiday homes for your next Spain vacation.
This content is excellently written from a search engine optimization perspective. The carewords (Spain, holiday, rentals, etc.) are prominent and repeated often. However, this content doesn’t seem credible to me. I don’t get a sense of trustworthiness off it. In fact, it reads to me like spam, and that made me quickly hit the Back button.Remember, getting people to your website is just the first step. Having them complete the task is ultimately what it’s all about.
:Gerry McGovern provides website content management solutions
10 ways to promote your website
10 ways to promote your website
10 ways to promote your website
1. Post newsgroups
2. Press releases
3. Email to VIPs
4. Article submission
5. Reciprocal Links
6. Forum Posting
7. Directory submission
8. Tell everyone with whom you communicate
9. Post adds to free advertising website
10. BloggingWhat is most important here ?
What is most important here ?
11. Have something worth promoting. By far, the most important thing most often forgotten is having something of unique value to promote. Developers fall in love with their websites. You need to see your website the way a visitor would ....someone who may have visited 3, 5 or 7 previous websites about the same thing as yours. Most sites are not deficient in promotion, they are deficient in substance. Do not compound this deficiency by posting "me too" articles with ZERO Information Value to game the search engines. Rule Number One: Good Content Is The Greatest Promotion TechniqueHave something worth promoting and you'll have something interesting to write articles about. It is amazingly easy to have a good looking site using tools like First Page. That means uniqueness and innovative ideas are the only way to compete. And most webs sites have nothing interesting to say. Yet they take an entire site to say it. Showing a genuine interest in developing a unque product is your first step toward respecting the time of the web site visitor. Think about every visitor to your site as paying to see it, they are paying attention. Too often people show visitors disrespect by posting dull, trite, recycled inanities the reader has seen 1,000 times before -- done better.
10 ways to promote your website
1. Post newsgroups
2. Press releases
3. Email to VIPs
4. Article submission
5. Reciprocal Links
6. Forum Posting
7. Directory submission
8. Tell everyone with whom you communicate
9. Post adds to free advertising website
10. BloggingWhat is most important here ?
What is most important here ?
11. Have something worth promoting. By far, the most important thing most often forgotten is having something of unique value to promote. Developers fall in love with their websites. You need to see your website the way a visitor would ....someone who may have visited 3, 5 or 7 previous websites about the same thing as yours. Most sites are not deficient in promotion, they are deficient in substance. Do not compound this deficiency by posting "me too" articles with ZERO Information Value to game the search engines. Rule Number One: Good Content Is The Greatest Promotion TechniqueHave something worth promoting and you'll have something interesting to write articles about. It is amazingly easy to have a good looking site using tools like First Page. That means uniqueness and innovative ideas are the only way to compete. And most webs sites have nothing interesting to say. Yet they take an entire site to say it. Showing a genuine interest in developing a unque product is your first step toward respecting the time of the web site visitor. Think about every visitor to your site as paying to see it, they are paying attention. Too often people show visitors disrespect by posting dull, trite, recycled inanities the reader has seen 1,000 times before -- done better.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Saying Merry Christmas?
Merry Christmas
Saying “Merry Christmas” years ago used to be commonplace. No one put any thought into analyzing it, they just said it. Typically, when someone
says “Merry Christmas” to someone else, they tend to repeat it back to them. Again, no one analyzed it. Nowadays, people are spending entirely
too much time on analyzing anything and everything until what’s being analyzed is left without any meaning. Someone, somewhere decided that
saying Merry Christmas to others was offensive. I can’t explain why they feel it is offensive, but apparently, it has become that way.
Departments store managers started to debate whether or not they should hang decorations with the famous Merry Christmas phrase on it, or if they
should simply do without the phrase. It became the basis of lengthy articles in newspapers. Talk show hosts debated it. Somehow, the opinion of a
few people in thinking that this popular phrase was offensive, had taken over the minds of so many groups of people. The simple phrase of Merry
Christmas had taken away some of the focus of the holiday itself. Religious leaders stepped up and debated what the phrase actually meant. Those
offended by the simple phrase argued that Happy Holidays would be much more appropriate as it covered all of the various holidays that occurred
around Christmas. While there is a favorable argument in that logic, eliminating the phrase Merry Christmas simply is offensive to a large amount
of individuals as well.
In the famed story, ‘Twas the night Before Christmas’, Santa doesn’t fly off into the night saying Happy Holidays. He waves good-bye and says,
“Merry Christmas to all…”. If it wasn’t an issue when that story was written, why has it become such an issue today? Sure, there are lots of
people celebrating Hanukkah and Kwanza, but that doesn’t mean that the phrase Merry Christmas has to be eliminated. It means that we should all
be respectful of the different holidays. If you know that someone celebrates something different than you do, wish them a wonderful holiday –
whatever it may be for them. Be aware of the fact that not everyone celebrates Christmas, but don’t let that stop you from saying Merry
Christmas. Not to mention the fact that if someone happens to say Merry Christmas to you, and it may not be something that you celebrate, say it
back to them. Why? Because it is the respectful and polite thing to do. The holidays should not be about a simple phrase or who may be offending
who. They should be about celebration and happiness. Forget all of the phrases – celebrate what you want, how you want, but don’t take away someone else’s joy by refusing
to say Merry Christmas.
What do you think? Feedback is welcome
Van Dexter Rutledge
www.bigbucks4beginners.com
www.debtpainreliever.com
Saying “Merry Christmas” years ago used to be commonplace. No one put any thought into analyzing it, they just said it. Typically, when someone
says “Merry Christmas” to someone else, they tend to repeat it back to them. Again, no one analyzed it. Nowadays, people are spending entirely
too much time on analyzing anything and everything until what’s being analyzed is left without any meaning. Someone, somewhere decided that
saying Merry Christmas to others was offensive. I can’t explain why they feel it is offensive, but apparently, it has become that way.
Departments store managers started to debate whether or not they should hang decorations with the famous Merry Christmas phrase on it, or if they
should simply do without the phrase. It became the basis of lengthy articles in newspapers. Talk show hosts debated it. Somehow, the opinion of a
few people in thinking that this popular phrase was offensive, had taken over the minds of so many groups of people. The simple phrase of Merry
Christmas had taken away some of the focus of the holiday itself. Religious leaders stepped up and debated what the phrase actually meant. Those
offended by the simple phrase argued that Happy Holidays would be much more appropriate as it covered all of the various holidays that occurred
around Christmas. While there is a favorable argument in that logic, eliminating the phrase Merry Christmas simply is offensive to a large amount
of individuals as well.
In the famed story, ‘Twas the night Before Christmas’, Santa doesn’t fly off into the night saying Happy Holidays. He waves good-bye and says,
“Merry Christmas to all…”. If it wasn’t an issue when that story was written, why has it become such an issue today? Sure, there are lots of
people celebrating Hanukkah and Kwanza, but that doesn’t mean that the phrase Merry Christmas has to be eliminated. It means that we should all
be respectful of the different holidays. If you know that someone celebrates something different than you do, wish them a wonderful holiday –
whatever it may be for them. Be aware of the fact that not everyone celebrates Christmas, but don’t let that stop you from saying Merry
Christmas. Not to mention the fact that if someone happens to say Merry Christmas to you, and it may not be something that you celebrate, say it
back to them. Why? Because it is the respectful and polite thing to do. The holidays should not be about a simple phrase or who may be offending
who. They should be about celebration and happiness. Forget all of the phrases – celebrate what you want, how you want, but don’t take away someone else’s joy by refusing
to say Merry Christmas.
What do you think? Feedback is welcome
Van Dexter Rutledge
www.bigbucks4beginners.com
www.debtpainreliever.com
There are many people who have a very traditional idea about Christmas, however few of these really realize that most of the Christmas traditions
that we have come not from Bethlehem, but from Northern Europe. Everything from the snow in the manger scene to the Christmas tree actually
starts in European countries, and not in the holy land. With this in mind, why should we not change Christmas when it suits us to fit our
cultures and our individual styles.
This is why I have begun to collect African American Christmas Decorations. There is definitely a unique African American style which has
penetrated the American mainstream as much as any other style that there is, and it seems like a shame not to celebrate it. African American
Christmas Decoration not only celebrates authentic African traditions, but also the styles and contributions of generations of African Americans.
Getting or making your own African American Christmas Decoration is the best way to celebrate your own heritage if you are an African American,
or to celebrate tolerance and cultural diversity in America if you are not. I am not saying that you should go all out and discard all of those
blown glass Christmas ornaments that you have stocked up to put all over your tree. But what I am saying is that that same tree will look all
that much better with African American Christmas Decoration strung up alongside the more traditional Christmas decor.
Of course, what exactly constitutes African American decorations really varies depending who you are asking about it. Some people take African
American Christmas Decoration to mean African Christmas decoration, and like to adorn their trees with charms shaped like giraffes, gazelle, and
stylized masks. I do think that this has a place in African American Christmas Decoration, but I do not think that it is enough by itself. In
reality, African American Christmas Decoration has so much more to offer. When I think of African American Christmas Decoration, I think of
Christmas ornaments that celebrate and remember African American history. That means celebrating literature, music, education, farming, and all
of the other areas in which African Americans have made a contribution to our culture, and doing it with a distinctly African American style. Of
course, that is just me. The beauty about African American Christmas Decoration is that you can do it in whatever way is the most meaningful to
you.
I hope you enjoy my article
Van Dexter Rutledge
www.bigbucks4beginners.com
that we have come not from Bethlehem, but from Northern Europe. Everything from the snow in the manger scene to the Christmas tree actually
starts in European countries, and not in the holy land. With this in mind, why should we not change Christmas when it suits us to fit our
cultures and our individual styles.
This is why I have begun to collect African American Christmas Decorations. There is definitely a unique African American style which has
penetrated the American mainstream as much as any other style that there is, and it seems like a shame not to celebrate it. African American
Christmas Decoration not only celebrates authentic African traditions, but also the styles and contributions of generations of African Americans.
Getting or making your own African American Christmas Decoration is the best way to celebrate your own heritage if you are an African American,
or to celebrate tolerance and cultural diversity in America if you are not. I am not saying that you should go all out and discard all of those
blown glass Christmas ornaments that you have stocked up to put all over your tree. But what I am saying is that that same tree will look all
that much better with African American Christmas Decoration strung up alongside the more traditional Christmas decor.
Of course, what exactly constitutes African American decorations really varies depending who you are asking about it. Some people take African
American Christmas Decoration to mean African Christmas decoration, and like to adorn their trees with charms shaped like giraffes, gazelle, and
stylized masks. I do think that this has a place in African American Christmas Decoration, but I do not think that it is enough by itself. In
reality, African American Christmas Decoration has so much more to offer. When I think of African American Christmas Decoration, I think of
Christmas ornaments that celebrate and remember African American history. That means celebrating literature, music, education, farming, and all
of the other areas in which African Americans have made a contribution to our culture, and doing it with a distinctly African American style. Of
course, that is just me. The beauty about African American Christmas Decoration is that you can do it in whatever way is the most meaningful to
you.
I hope you enjoy my article
Van Dexter Rutledge
www.bigbucks4beginners.com
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