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•    Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
•    Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
•    Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
•    Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
•    Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
•    Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
•    Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your
website is doing.
•    Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
•    Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
•    Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
•    Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
•    When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
•    When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
•    Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.

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Dmoz is an open directory project designed to answer the increasing demand for optimal use and advantage of the internet. It is very true that for just a couple of years, the internet has continued to grow at such a fast pace that automated search engines sometimes cannot keep up with the task of providing useful search results to the increasing number of citizens in the world wide web. Most search engines are run by commercial staffs which are limited in number as compared to the increasing number of citizens in the internet. The net result is that they cannot keep up with the submissions and provide quality and comprehensiveness all the time. The booming industry in the internet cannot be controlled; hence, Dmoz was organized to optimize, organize and provide better solutions to expected problems in the future. It is being developed by contributors and it is projected to become the ultimate and definite catalog of the web.

Dmoz is the only major directory that is free. There will never be a cost if you will get listed. This is because it was made to be free for anyone who will be agreeable to its license
and conditions.

This open directory powers major web search engines like Google, AOL Search, HotBot, Lycos, Netscape Search and others. This is because it is considered to be the most widely distributed data base of the web. It is run by editors and citizens of the net who have a better understanding of the needs of the growing population of the internet. The in-depth knowledge of these people will lead them to greater and new heights of discovery of solutions to problems expected in the future. If it is for everybody then everyone can contribute for its efficiency. You will get the benefits you ever wished for in an open directory.

Signing up is also very easy. It is not complicated. All you have to do is visit its website at http://www.dmoz.org. You can then select a category or subcategory for which your website is classified and then submit your URL. Instructions are carefully outlined. Just read and follow what is said. Sometimes it will take a few months before your web site will show up in the directory. Just be patient and there is no need to resubmit your website as this may just pose a delay in the overall process.

One thing to remember is that Dmoz is used by Google. Many other smaller search engines also use Dmoz. This means that major search engines will give popularity credit to your website if your site is already listed. Dmoz is an important link that should not be skipping. Dmoz has been around for some time and you can expect more and better results in the future.

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Search Engine Optimization is getting your content listed in all the top positions in Google, Yahoo and MSN for your targeted keywords. When someone does a keyword search in a search engine for your particular subject or niche – you want your site or content to be at the top of the list.

Here are 10 SEO tactics that have worked and are working for me at this moment in time. I make this clarification because you must understand search engines, especially Google, are constantly redefining how they rank pages. Here are my favorite tactics and strategies:

1. Quality Content is and always will be your number one factor for getting high rankings and keeping them. You must understand search engines are simply businesses who supply a product like any other company. That product is information. They must offer quality results to anyone using their service to solve a problem, answer a question or to buy a product. The more relevant, the more targeted the search solution they return, the higher the overall quality of their product and the more popular their search engine will become. Providing quality content is vital for SEO success.

2. Keywords are your number one tools for achieving high rankings. You must understand keywords and how they work on the web. You must know how many searches are made each day for your chosen keywords. Sites like Wordtracker and Seobook will give you a rudimentary number of searches. Design your pages around your targeted keywords and don’t forget to do some deep-linking to these pages on your site. Find and build backlinks to these interior keyword pages and not just to your home page or domain URL. Picking keywords with medium to low competition has worked out well for me. So too has using the more targeted and higher converting “long-tail” keywords been very beneficial for me.

3. Onpage Factors and site design will play a major role in the spidering and indexing of your site/content. Make sure all your pages are SEO friendly, made sure all your pages can be reached from your homepage and no pages should be no more than three levels away from it – keeping a sitemap listing all your major pages makes the search engines happy. Make sure you have all your meta tags such as title, description, keywords… are all optimized. (Title = around 65 characters, Description = around 160 characters) Remember, your title and description should not only be keyword targeted but these are the first contact/impression anyone will see of your site – make sure you use them to draw and entice interested visitors to your site and content. Also make sure your title and URL are keyword matched for maximum effect. Having your major keyword in your Domain Name also helps, using a pike | to separate different elements of your title has helped my rankings, so too does having your keyword in the first and last 25 words on your pages.

4. Google will send you the most qualified traffic so concentrate the majority of your SEO efforts on Google. Don’t ignore Yahoo! or MSN but Google is king of search so give it the respect it deserves. With its new browser, Google’s influence will only grow stronger so you must optimize your pages for Google. Use Google’s Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics to fine-tune your pages/content for Google. I also use Google Alerts to keep up on my niche keywords and for comment link-building on the newly created pages Google is indexing.

5. Link Building is still the most effective way to boost your search rankings. Make sure you get backlinks from relevant sites related to your niche market and make sure the ‘anchor text’ is related to your keywords but don’t ignore the text and overall quality of the content linking to you. The anchor text is the underlined/clickable portion of a link. Don’t forget linking is a two-way street, make sure you link out to high quality, high ranked relevant sites in your niche.

6. Article Marketing
is a well established method of getting quality backlinks and it still works. Writing short 500 – 700 word informative helpful articles with your backlinks in the resource box is still very effective for getting targeted traffic and backlinks. Longer articles have also worked for me and I use an extensive network of distribution including SubmitYourArticle, Isnare, Thephantomwriters… plus other major online sites. Don’t forget the whole element of blogging and RSS feeds in your article distribution. And always remember you’re also using these articles to pre-sale your content or products. Don’t forget to leverage sites like Squidoo, Hubpages… to increase your rankings and traffic.

7. Onsite Traffic Hubs have worked extremely well for me. These traffic hubs are whole sections of your site devoted to one sub-division of your major theme. For example, if you have a site on Gifts, then wedding gifts could be a separate section. This would be fully fleshed out with extensive pages covering everything dealing with wedding gifts – a self-contained keyword rich portion of your site on wedding gifts. Works similar as a sub-domain but I prefer using a directory to divide it up, such as yourdomain/wedding_gifts. (Most experts suggest always using a hyphen in your urls but underscores have worked fine for me.) Search engines love these keyword/content rich hubs but keep in mind you’re creating content to first satisfy your visitors.

8. WordPress blog software is extremely effective for SEO purposes. WordPress software is easy to install on your site even if you have no experience with installing server-side scripts. Besides search engines love these highly SEO friendly blogs with their well structured content and keyword tagging. I have at least one of these on all my sites to draw in the search engines and get my content indexed and ranked. I also use Blogger (owned by Google), Bloglines and other free blogs to help distribute my content.

9. Social Bookmark/Media Sites are becoming very important on the web. These include a whole range of social sites like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter… media news sites like Digg, SlashDot, Technorati… you must get your content into this whole mix if you want to take full SEO advantage of Web 2.0 sites. You should be joining these sites and using them. It’s time consuming but it will keep you in the swing of things. One simple thing you must do is to put social bookmark buttons on all your pages so that your visitors can easily bookmark your content for you. You can use a WordPress plug-in or I like using a simple free site/service from Addthis.com which gives me a simple button to put on all my content.

10. Masterplan! Many webmasters and site owners forget to develop or have an overall masterplan/strategy when it comes to SEO. You must have an understanding of what SEO is and what it can do for you and your site. More importantly, you just don’t want SEO – you want effective SEO. In order to achieve effective SEO you must have three things: Relevance, Authority and Conversions.

First, your content/site must be relevant to the topic or niche area you’re pursuing – your content must fit in and be related to all the other sites in your niche. That’s why closely themed sites do so well in the search engines, they give only relevant content to what’s been searched for or discussed.

Second, your content/site must be perceived as an authority site on your subject or niche. Establish this authority position and the search engines will love you and your content. One way is to develop this authority, besides offering superior content, is to form links/partnerships with other perceived authority sites in your field. Always strive to make your site an authority site – tops in your niche – the one site everyone has to check before drawing or forming a conclusion.

Third, conversions should be your main goal of any SEO efforts because you want to convert your targeted traffic into site members, subscribers, buyers or just repeat visitors. If you’re into online marketing, conversions will be the most important element of the whole SEO process because you want buyers, not just visitors coming to your site.

Most of all, you must convince yourself Search Engine Optimization is not difficult, nor is it the equivalent of the online bogeyman as many would like you to believe. Used effectively, SEO can give you the targeted traffic you’re seeking, just follow some of the outlined steps/tactics listed above and you will have SEO working for you and your site in no time at all.

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But before you reach for your credit card yet again just take a moment and ask yourself this: Do you realistically think that you could set up any ‘normal’ business and make it successful just by buying a $99 ebook and then sitting back while the money floods in?

No, I thought not. You will very soon be on the road to financial ruin if you follow a path such as this in the ‘real’ world of commerce.

So why do you think it’s possible to do it online? I’ll tell you why:

Because it’s the INTERNET!

We all know that millionaires are made overnight on the INTERNET, right? It’s different on the INTERNET.

Well I’m sorry to pee on your fireworks, but it’s NOT. It’s just as hard to make a living online as it is offline, or anywhere else. In fact it can be even harder because the interweb waters are full of sharks, imposters and wannabees. And they all want only one thing: YOUR MONEY!

Basically you have to look at your online business in exactly the same way as any offline business. For either to succeed you need to concentrate on the fundamentals.

The 6 Steps To Success

1. DETERMINATION – You have to WANT it, and want it enough to see it through, come what may. There will be many pitfalls and disappointments along the way, so you need to be able to overcome them and carry on regardless.

2. KNOWLEDGE – You have to be a SPONGE for knowledge, to soak up everything you can about your chosen niche. You have to be the expert in your field, the go-to guy who solves the problem.

3. APPLICATION – Knowledge is power, but only if you APPLY that knowledge. Make it work for you and use it to further your business and make more money. Use your knowledge also to empower your target market, give them something they can’t get anywhere else, then you’ll have a happy customer who’ll keep coming back.

4. STAYING POWER – No matter how many ‘Gurus’ tell you otherwise,
it is NOT going to happen overnight. You have to stick with it and stay focussed. Whatever you do, don’t start thinking, “This is too hard, I’ll try something else”. You have to KEEP GOING on your chosen track. By just doing this one thing you will have out-lasted 95% of all the other ‘online entrepreneurs’ out there.

5. DISCIPLINE – Folks, someone has to tell you this: You have to get out of bed in the morning, start up your computer and GO TO WORK! You need discipline to do this EVERY DAY. Do NOT believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Okay, you don’t have to give up your day job in the beginning, but if you want to make the big bucks you have to put in the time and effort. And once you’re making good bucks you CAN give up your J-O-B! How good will that make you feel?

6. RUTHLESSNESS – Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting you go out there and ’shaft’ everyone while you’re clawing your way to the top. But you need to be ruthless in weeding out those daily non-important tasks and concentrate on the things that make you MONEY! You have to be ruthless and unsubscribe from the hundreds of time-wasting emails you’re going to get from other ‘Gurus’ recommending their ‘buddy’s’ latest system/course/ebook for making money while sitting on your butt with your feet up.

Never forget that business is business wherever you conduct it and the rules are the same. You will find that all the self-made millionaires out there, online and offline, have bucket-loads of every one of the above attributes. If you’re very lucky, you might find one of these successful businessmen/women to share his/her knowledge with you and set you on the right road from the start.

But beware, check out their credentials thoroughly first, and look for the proof to back up the hype. Be very careful who you listen to, and be even more careful who you give your money to, on the big w3.

If you do find someone who’s walking the walk and not just talking the talk, grab the opportunity with both hands and GO WITH IT! You will have just left most of your competition choking in your dust!

I hope this article has fired you up to learn more about Online Business. If so you’ll find one guy who does walk the walk at the link below. But don’t take my word for it, go there and see what he has to offer, then make up your own mind.

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When you find the cover engaging, you move on to the text. So now, you know that the cover is a very essential part of just about anything. Without a catchy and interesting front, your material might as well go to waste. The success of your custom brochure depends a lot on what your reader sees first.

You will find in this write-up some pointers on how to develop the cover into the perfect face that you want it to be. Read on and find out how these can be helpful to you and your business.

First, if you must use a photo on the cover, make sure that you put your own photo/s — meaning these are not taken from the internet or any other source aside from you. In addition, make sure that these are not just plain photo. These are quality and attention-grabbing photos. Using your own photos will establish the credibility of your company and the earnestness of your message.

Second, try playing with colors. Think of appropriate, catchy hues that will make your custom brochure more impressive and appealing. However, make sure also that the colors you use are reflective of your company’s image and are consistent with your theme and purpose. These colors can emphasize major elements on your cover or beef up the message of your material.

Third, remember to develop a memorable tagline. This statement should be suitable to your target clientele and should be easily understood. Make it brief but bold. Make it simple but engaging. Think of your recipients. Think of what they want to hear. Then create an instant connection with them through your words and images.

Fourth, see to it that the cover is appropriate to the concept of your custom brochure. For instance, if your product is food, use photos of food and other relevant images on the cover. If you are doing a travel brochure, make the cover fun, light and colorful. Do not forget that your cover should instantly convey what your material is all about.

Then, if we talk about the layout, make sure that it is pleasing to the eyes. It should not look muddled and crowded so as not to discourage your reader. Have you noticed how a clean and simple layout draws more attention? So arrange your layout smartly and you are sure to keep your audience reading.

Your goal here is to keep your readers going — they have to read your message from start to finish getting your message across. However, for them to be engaged in the material, your cover should convince them first to stop, read, and pay attention and then act. If you can do magic to your cover, you can win your target readers over.

So there you have it, if you want your custom brochure to be effective, on top of everythingScience Articles, focus on your cover first. The dress should catch attention and make your audience take a second look. That garb should make your readers want to know you more.

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Other people have an abortion and it causes such a huge healing crisis, be it conscious or shoved into their unconscious. The only problem with that is it will express itself in a number of ways. Via depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and a host of other physical and emotional problems.

Such was the case for me after I had an abortion 7 years ago.

Abortion for me solved one problem. But created a whole nother can of worms. But I suspect there’s worms were there anyway and were just more visible now that I had a reason to delve deeper, deeper than I had ever gone before.

I spent 7 years on a journey to work through the after-effects of abortion. I wanted to just get on with my life, just move on but parts of my psyche felt differently. Nothing in my life had affected me as much, or as deeply, as the recovery after the abortion but it was a mystery to me why.

I had tried so many different kinds of therapies and still I had symptoms. I had depression, anxiety, I tended to feel anti social, I had guilt and a sense of self punishment.

It didn’t matter what my head said, or that I understood my reasoning behind it, at a deeper level I was suffering and for the life of me I couldn’t understand why. Why it lingered. Why I had flashbacks and emotionally relived that short procedure.

After being in denial and on antidepressants for a few years, I decided to tackle it anyway I could. I tried EFT, I had mediumship readings, I had therapy, I read quite a few books, I had a huge amount of understanding, on all levels.

Finally the biggest relief came when I understood and experienced healing at a Soul Level. By looking at this terminated child as a Soul and not just a body, I realised that I had a Soul Group history with this Soul, and my connection with this Soul took me on such a journey of self discovery, one that I don’t feel I would have taken without it.

In fact that journey is how I found my vocation to be a psychic/medium/healer. I felt that soul had to come that far into my body and life in order for me to “get it”. Talk about a huge tap on the shoulder.

As a mother it went against all of my natural instincts to do the emotional and spiritual works to “let this soul go” and trust that this wee spirit wasn’t wafting out there all alone.

But energetically and emotionally hanging onto the spirit of this unborn child is what was keeping me stuck as well.

In fact I looked like I was still pregnant years after I had been through the termination.

Are you still hanging onto the spirit of your unborn child? If you’re not willing to let go then chances are that energy is still affecting you.

If you are suffering after an abortion, one that happened weeks ago, or decades ago, then it may be time for you to take this spiritual journey of healing.

It’s a grief that’s often seen as taboo. It’s a double edged sword, you chose to have an abortion so why cry over a choice you made? And having an abortion wasn’t always so easily to get and it still is cloaked in controversy even though millions of them are performed each year. So there’s a sense of relief as well that we are “allowed” to have one so easily.

Perhaps your Soul is calling you to do the deeper work, one that takes you to a Soul level of understanding. And until you doScience Articles, then the psychological and emotional pain will still linger.

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1. Can You Make Your Home Smaller? – Consider which rooms you use everyday. You might be better served by shutting off the main heat to certain rooms and using an economical space heater for those rooms that do not get constant everyday use. However, do not make the mistake of shutting off heat everyday and then completely reheating everyday. It requires more energy to warm back up a room. If you have zone thermostats, simply turn the heat down but not off.

2. Smart Plan Your Winter Vacation – Do you normally take a break during the winter? You will save more heating money by going to Florida in February instead of March. If you can reduce the number of days you are in your home during the coldest part of the year, you will save the most – per day. For most areas of the country, the coldest days are in February.

3. What Is The State Of Your Equipment? – The older your heating equipment, the more likely it is inefficient. The newest units are designed to be the most energy efficient from the start. Not only is your older equipment built to be less efficient, but it has usually deteriorated adding to the cost of operation. Clogged filters, clogged burner holes, tired motors, poor seals – these all lead to higher heating fuel costs. As of late, there have been some tremendously rewarding tax breaks for the purchase of new equipment. It is worth a cost-analysis look to see if a new system will pay for itself in a short period of time. You may also win by switching to a more economical fuel source such as natural gas over heating oil. It depends on energy pricing in your area.

4. Program For Savings – One of the most cost effective things you can do is to buy and self-install a programmable thermostat. These are readily available at the big box home improvement stores. Remember though, just dial the heat back, do not turn it off completely, unless you plan to be gone for several days at a time. Even then, remember to keep enough heat running so your pipes do not freeze.

5. Heating Fuel Price Deals – Plan on the price of heating oil to go up as the winter progresses. This phenomenon is based on the fact that it becomes more difficult to transport crude oil from Alaska and the frozen Great Lakes during this time. If domestic sources are slowed by weather, then more oil has to come from foreign sources. This too, adds to the transportation costs. If you can lock in a fairly attractive price for the season, typically you should go ahead and do it. There is one provision to look for in your contract, though. Make sure it reads that if the price of heating oil goes down, then you have the right to buy at the lower price. Some, but not all, dealers will offer this. One final caveat is to make sure that you buy from a dealer who has been in business for at least 10 years. Many people have been stuck by pre-paying for heating fuel oil and then having the dealer go out of business – leaving the buyer in the literal cold!

6. Insulate, Baby – If you have an older home, you probably do not have enough insulation. Insulate to at least R38 in the ceilings. Under the floors, you should add enough insulation to have R30 and in the walls, add to R20. Also, see that your ductwork is sealed and insulated. Duct joints fall apart all the time and there is nothing worse than the sinking feeling you get when you realize that you have inadvertently “heated” your unheated attic all winter.

7. Fine Tuning – A well tuned system can easily pay for the cost of a service call. Prevention contracts are common these days with most HVAC professionals. It is smart, good insurance to have your system checked and your house checked for leaks to save the most energy dollars.

These areas will save your hard earned money. With a little forethoughtArticle Search, you can control your heating oil costs and enjoy a toasty winter season.

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Nowadays, especially on the world wide web, who hasn’t had access to guided meditation downloads? There’s even short meditations on YouTube. I mean if you’re reading this then you have access to the internet.

Guided meditations are probably the easiest way to access the Akashic Records. Easiest if you just want to relax and not have to think about the process. And because you’re not having to be thinking about what to have to do next you can let go. You don’t necessarily have to go deep, but deeper than every day consciousness.

Have you noticed how spiritual information seems to be so much more readily available these days? It’s almost like there’s a quickening.

There’s really only a few simple rules when it comes down to who can access the Akashic Records. First and most importantly, it is about your intention.

You have to have an honourable intention when going into the records.

There’s no point accessing the records to be nosey or find out what your ex is up to, or what your neighbour is really like.

You just won’t come up with any information.

So take that as a firm NO! You’re not allowed into that person’s record if your intention isn’t for the highest good of all. Access to places is another storyComputer Technology Articles, we are all keepers of this land we call Earth and the more we know about a place the more connected we are to it and the more we will honour it.

The Akashic Records are a great source of knowledge if you want to find out more about your Soul’s journey and who you are today.

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It shows up in the present and is felt as blocks and restrictions in your physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual well being.

If your issue comes from the past… it can be remarkably resistant to present life treatment and therapies
. This is because the universe is trying to get you to remember what you need to know now by facing the wounds from your past lives.

When we enter this world a new born baby appears to start out from day one in this life with a clean slate. Perhaps a baby has a new body but it’s soul is older than it’s body.

As a theory this might explain how some people are dealt harsher cards than others. This is an analytical approach not emotional, but we are not powerless to change our lives.

Far from it in fact.

More and more we are hearing stories and case histories of people who have remembered living before. One of the most famous cases being documented in recent years was by Dr Brian Weiss MD. Originally he was a skeptic but through at least 4000 regressions of his clients, and now specialising in this fieldArticle Search, he has made this practise of regression more main stream. His documented case of Catherine being the one that lead him to research her past life story through public records and become a believer.

The healing effects of past life regression are based on the fact that many stubborn present life issues like phobias
are rooted in past life experiences. And once these memories surface then they are automatically healed.

More and more these days new techniques are coming to light about how we can heal through past life regression and remembering our past lives. If the intention is to heal past lives even spiritual healing via practitioners is just as successful as accessing the past lives yourself through regression. Although experiencing it for yourself is memorable and well worth the time.

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