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The picture quality of this television is really outstanding. It is however compromised by an issue common to all 2011 Panasonic plasmas known as “Fluctuating Brightness”. About a half of a second after a scene change there is sometimes an instantaneous change in the overall brightness of the screen. Full discussion of this issue can be found by Googling “panasonic

2011 fluctuating brightness”.

Panasonic, to their credit, has recognized this as an issue and has come up with a solution that eliminates it. All sets produced after August and have a serial number of “xx1215xxxxxx” or higher will have new software installed that eliminates these brightness fluctuations from happening. If you have an earlier model and notice these fluctuations, contact Panasonic and let them know. They should either schedule a Panasonic employee to flash the software to your EEPROM, or they will schedule a 3rd party tech to replace your A-Board with one that already has the new software installed. In my case, they replaced the A-Board. Since then I have not seen any fluctuation and I am now completely

satisfied with my set's remarkable picture quality.

Otherwise this television is exactly what I was looking for. Great price, superb picture quality, good Internet connectivity and interface. 3D is nice for future-proofing but it wasn't something I was actively looking for, but Panasonic sets with the best 2D picture quality are all 3D capable. Panasonic's menu interface seems a little more dated than their competitions, but it is simple and straightforward which makes it very functional without any extra eyecandy. The ST series is a great value if you don't need the somewhat fancier styling of the gt or vt series, or the thx certified picture mode, or the extra connections (st lacks vga, and has 3 instead

of 4 hdmi ports). Also the st is the only series to offer the 42″ size screen. For me it all boils down to this being the perfect television for 2011 now that Panasonic has given us a solution to the problem of Fluctuating Brightness.

**COMMENT ON PANASONIC'S RESPONSE**

I think Panasonic really demonstrated how committed they are to their product's picture quality by addressing this issue. Instead of writing this off as only a minor issue, they stepped up and supported their customers. This is a great response that insures that without condition Panasonic's line of 2011 3D televisions have the best picture quality you can buy. THANK YOU PANASONIC!

Making money by selling expired domains is gaining immense popularity because of its potentialities to make lot of profits. Many expired domain traders treat this business very seriously and they use a number of methods and strategies to sell their domains at very lucrative prices. Also known as virtual estate properties, expired domains and domains expiring are some of the hottest business opportunities in the world. Experienced domain traders use one or a combination of different methods to make money

from their stock of expired domain names. These may include such methods as domain parking, domain name selling, or domain flipping. A well-planned combination of these methods will provide you with very high income making potential. Here are some details about each one of these methods: Domain Parking: This is the starter method to earn money from your domain names. It is easy to set up a domain parking account and simple to operate it, as the domain-parking firm will take care of that aspect. What you want to do is to sign up for an account on one of the well-known domain-parking firms and use the web page provided by them to host your name. Most of your web site visitors are un-targeted and they will click on one of the ads provided on your web page. The method used here is the famous pay-per-click system and the income earned by you depends on the number of visitors who click on the online ads to visit other web sites. The only downside of this income gen erating method is its inability to provide a large stream

of income. However, for a newbie entrepreneur, this is a safe and assured method to make some amount of money. Expired domain name selling: This is perhaps the most famous method for making money with expired domain names. People make millions by selling their special domain names while the average capacity to earn money by selling an average expired domain is about $25. There are records of unique domain names sold for millions of dollars. Expired domain name reselling is highly competitive and the place where you buy them can be just like an auction house where people will be fighting to buy their products and services. Some experienced domain name traders buy domain names and sell them at regular basis to create a constant pool of income. Domain flipping: Expired domain names traders also convert one or two of their domains into highly useful and beneficial web sites that will be potential money-spinners. Domain flipping is a thoughtful method of conve rting an expired domain into information and content

rich web portals. Smart domain traders succeed in driving lot of traffic to their flipped web sites. Web sites with plenty of traffic can help them to reach top of major search engines like Google and Yahoo. People love to buy web portals that contain useful content and information apart from lot of incoming links and traffic. You can also use sophisticated techniques like Pay-per-click PPC Affiliate marketing Search engine optimization SEO and RSS feeds to make he flipped web portal income enabled and value added.

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Eventually every small-business owner realizes that they will need a website for their business, but figuring out where to start can be a challenge. Just understanding the technical lingo and all the options can be confusing, but with the right preparation you can have an impressive and easy to maintain website for your small business in no time. Check The Competition The first place to start on your website project is to look at some competitor websites in your industry. You will want to know what your potential customers will comparing you to. You will also want to find out what the standard is for your industry in terms of the number of pages, the

type of information and the general look and feel. If for example, your competitors have large sites and many interactive features then you will want your site be comparable, but if your competitors have small simple sites, then you know that you wont need lots of bells and whistles. Prepare Your Information Before you meet with your web designer, gather some examples of competitor websites that you like. List what it is that you like and dislike about those sites. If you have any pamphlets or brochures for your business, have those ready for your designer as well. Choose some colors or have an idea of some color schemes that you like and if you have won any professional awards or have any important professional affiliations, put that information together because you will probably want to feature that on your website. Do You Need A Content Management System? One important decision that you need to make about your website is whether or not you are goi ng to need a content management system. Content management systems are typically used on larger sites, to control text, video, pictures etc. A content management system allows you to easily change and update the information on your site. This is useful for a website on which, for example staff photos and bios are added often or a newsletter archive is

maintained. If you anticipate making many changes on your website, a content management system can save you time and money. With a content management system, the owner of the site can make the changes as needed, without having to wait for a web designer or webmaster to make the changes for them. This can be a very important feature because it allows you to keep your website current at all times so youre making the best possible presentation to your customer. It can save you money because you will not have to pay your web designer to make the updates for you. Typically, a website that is more than 15 pages would be a good candidate for a content management system. The more information you have on your website the greater the chances are that you are going to need to keep that information updated. If your website is less than 15 pages, you probably will not need a content management system. WordPress As A Content Management System For Small Business Wor dPress is popular as a content management system for small businesses for several reasons. One it is that it is relatively easy to use. You do not need to be versed in HTML or any other programming language to handle WordPress. There are also many training videos and materials available on the Internet and also a number of plug-ins so that you can customize

the software for your needs. WordPress is also useful for blogging which can help to keep your website information up to date. If you would like to show up higher in the search results, then WordPress is a good choice for that as well. Google has stated that WordPress is one of the easiest systems to crawl so it can help you come up higher in the search engine results. When you begin planning for your small business web site, start by checking competitor websites in your industry. This will give you an idea of approximately how many pages you will need as well as what type of features you will want on your site. Your goal will be to have your website look as good as, or better than your competitors. By planning ahead and knowing what your potential customers will be comparing you with, deciding how large you want your site to be, and what type of features you will need, you will be equipped to get the best possible website for your small business.

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On average, teleseminars that charge a registration fee cost from $29.95 to $39.95. Generally, those running a teleseminar series simply multiply the number of sessions by a figure in the average range, then lower the total cost to a psychologically appealing price point. For example, a series of four teleseminars usually costs around $99 because $29.95 times 4 is $119.80. However, if youre savvy about factors that boost the perceived value of teleseminars, you can charge many times more than the going rate. For instance, in the summer of 2008, I ran an eight-session teleseminar course for which I charged and got $997. A few months before that, I ran a four-session teleseminar course for which I charged and got $795.

Do the math, and youll see that I received up to five times the going rate. Heres how you might be able to do the same. Add as many of the following factors as you can to your offering and watch people happily pay high enrollment fees. Eight Factors That Boost The Perceived Value of Teleseminars 1. An outcome. Participants will pay much more for a teleseminar series that promises to deliver a result or outcome rather than merely offering education, insight or support. Compare Start and Finish Your Nonfiction Book in 90 Days or Become an eBay Power Seller, which clearly aim at a specific result, with Managing Difficult Employees, which is bound to be helpful but does not target an outcome. 2. Instructors reputation. If the leader is well-known, impressively credentialed or highly respected by the target audience, the admission fee can go higher than for a no-name unknown. 3. Rarity of the class. For my $997 eight-session class, I told my list it was a one-time group version of my $2995 one-on-one training. Since Im known to be a straight shooter, people wanted to take advantage of their one and only opportunity to learn the material from me for less than $1,000. If you offer your teleseminar course only once every two years, thats the next best thing to presenting it one time only – and also effective in boosting peoples willingness to pay higher than usual fees. 4. Tangible materials. When you offer hard-copy printouts and

CDs or DVDs along with your teleseminars rather than just telephone sessions and downloadable extras, the perceived value rises greatly. Most participants appreciate having a physical copy of your material rather than just a memory of the sessions and some files on their computer. The tangible materials also help assuage a participants worry about not being able to attend all the sessions. 5. Consulting, coaching or mentoring component. Build some sort of one-on-one help or advice into your course, and you can charge lots more for your teleseminar or series. And guess what – surprisingly few participants take advantage of such an opportunity. Since they figure thats their own fault, theyre still willing to pay the premium fee for something that makes one-on-one advice or feedback available. 6. Additional services. My four-session $795 teleseminar course included having me distribute a press release for them at no charge – a $149 value. Here Im not suggest ing simply piling on downloadable bonuses, which everyone knows cost next to nothing to deliver, but bundling in an extra service that would normally cost extra, such as free proofreading or free cover design for the participant in Start and Finish Your Nonfiction Book in 90 Days. 7. Certification. Participants adore it when satisfactory completion of your program enables them to call themselves a certified something or other. Because this beefs up their credentials, theyre

happy to pay more for a program that includes certification. 8. Continuing education credit. In some industries, professionals have to earn a certain number of educational credits every year to keep their license current. If that applies to your area of expertise, investigate which organizations are in charge of determining which courses can count for such credits, then apply for includion in that program. The very same content is worth more to participants who can satisfy continuing education requirements by signing up with you. Along with increasing the perceived value of teleseminar programs, the eight factors above strongly reduce refund requests, too. Now go back through the list and think about which elements you can incorporate to boost your teleseminar profits!

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Veteran teleseminar presenter Marcia Yudkin specializes in high- ticket, high-value teleteaching courses. To find out more about your teleseminar options, download a complimentary copy of 66 Ways to Use Teleseminars to Promote Your Business or Your Cause, go to http://www.yudkin.com/teleteach.htm . Discover how to plan, promote and deliver profitable teleseminars, whether youre an entrepreneur, business or health professional, nonprofit organization or corporate marketer. Read More Articles From Marcia Yudkin: http://thephantomwriters.com/recent/author/marcia-yudkin.html

How do you prevent people who have registered for your teleseminar from passing around the teleseminar call-in information to those who havent paid for it? This question came in from someone preparing to launch her first teleseminar. Based on my years of experience leading teleseminars and my conversations with other teleseminar presenters, this worry has little foundation in fact. In most niches, this kind of dishonesty simply does not happen. Even so, theres no sense in tempting fate, so there are a few steps you can take to minimize

the odds of non-legitimate participants calling in to your telseminar. First, provide the call-in number and access code for the conference-call line by email rather than posting it on a web page, where some Internet-savvy people and search engines can find it even when you havent publicized the page. Second, tell your paying participants exactly what to do if they know someone else whos interested in the teleseminar. Even when its a free teleseminar, I tell registrants to direct friends to the signup page rather than give them the call-in information, because there are a limited number of slots for the call. Studies show that if you provide a reason for something, people are more likely to comply with your request. Third, youll most likely be able to see for yourself whether or not unregistered people are calling in to your teleseminar. Most bridge line providers either routinely provide you with a list of those who called in or will do so upon reques t. You can simply compare the number of people signed up with the number of people who called in. What youll see, I predict,

is that there are people who paid for the call but dont show up and do not ask for a refund rather than people who called in but did not sign up and pay. You thereby come out ahead, not behind. One firm that has a teleseminar admission fee in the hundreds of dollars told me that they once noticed an unauthorized company dialing into an event. If I remember correctly, they noticed it because of an unfamiliar area code showing up in the participant list. After investigating, they approached the interloper afterwards in a low-key manner, telling them that someone had called in from their company without registering, and the offender quickly paid up – probably never to try to pull that move again. Note that while this situation did occur, it happened only once for this company that presented a couple of dozen teleseminar events each year. A last bit of advice: If youre concerned about teleseminar gatecrashers, provide your handouts by email also, rather than posting them on the web. Otherwise the handouts can become accessible in web searches. See this for yourself by typing teleseminar

handout or teleclass handout into Google. Thousands of handouts come up, some of them for courses that cost many hundreds of dollars to attend. I believe that most of those who posted those handouts did not intend them to be publicly available. Generally, however, all you have to do is simply provide the call-in information and handouts to registrants via email and then concentrate on delivering the very best program you can.

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Veteran teleseminar presenter Marcia Yudkin specializes in high- ticket, high-value teleteaching courses. To find out more about your teleseminar options, download a complimentary copy of 66 Ways to Use Teleseminars to Promote Your Business or Your Cause, go to http://www.yudkin.com/teleteach.htm . Discover how to plan, promote and deliver profitable teleseminars, whether youre an entrepreneur, business or health professional, nonprofit organization or corporate marketer. Read More Articles From Marcia Yudkin: http://thephantomwriters.com/recent/author/marcia-yudkin.html

Written by Clinton Douglas IV Starting an online business doesnt have to be a challenge, especially when youre equipped with the right knowledge, tools, and business planning strategy. Choosing a niche market is the first step towards building your online empire, but there are many other important factors to consider before getting started. Are you ready for a successful online business? Here are some key items to consider so you are prepared with the right information before jumping in Mapping Out Your Small Business Ideas When youre considering different types of small business

ideas, mapping out each one individually can help you decide which ones will be most profitable-and which ideas just wont work for the long-term. Mapping out your small business ideas can help you outline the benefits and challenges of each, and help you make a better decision. Your Small Business Startup Marketing Plan Your marketing plan will consist of the different ways you plan to promote and build your network. This includes both clients and customers, and is an important step for a small business both online and offline. If your internet business ideas cant be promoted properly, youll miss out on the right opportunity. Designing a valuable small business startup marketing plan is an essential step towards success. Whether you choose to launch a retail site, a newsletter, or even a blog, consider a variety of approaches so that your online business startup can be a success. Number of Employees for Your Online Business Is your onlin e business going to be a solo venture, or will you be hiring employees? An online business that is maintained with just one or a few employees is easier to start and manage; you can plan out everything step by step,

and slowly build your business until you feel youre ready to start paying a salary or wage to others. One of the biggest benefits of a small business startup is the ability to control and manage operations from the get-go; if you enjoy working independently and are interested in building your own small business, consider waiting until a later date to bring on a team of employees. Designing Your Online Business Website With Success If youre not web-savvy enough to build or design your own website, youll need to hire a professional web designer to manage the project. Make sure you choose something that will attract customers and make it easy for people to find your products. You want customers to be able to get a hold of you easily, so its a good idea to include an e-mail address or phone number for contact. Whether its an online retail business or just a service, a great presentation can help you make the sale. Building Credibility Online Your online business will need to build credibility to attract customers, clients, and subscribers. You can do this by marketing and promoting your website using a variety of tools already on the web. From article distribution

to press releases, youll need a strategy to build credibility so your online business can take off easily. There are many money making ideas on the web today, but only a few survive because of effective marketing and promotions. Use a variety of strategies to start building credibility online, and youll start seeing profits sooner than you think. Being prepared for online business success is an important step. From marketing to hiring, get your online business off to a strong start with any or all of these key factors in mind.

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What is an article resource box? For those who may be some what new to the field of internet business and article marketing the resource box is the small biography about the author of the article with a hyperlink to his website. Most articles have this at the end of the article. Resource boxes are not a new concept created just for the internet. Magazine articles have used them for many years. Newspapers have used them also, except maybe for staff authors. What the internet has done is add the hyperlink to the resource box. You can think of it as a bartering exchange. The publisher benefits from the content being provided by the author, which

makes his website more informative and useful to visitors. The author benefits from the increased exposure that links back to his website. So what makes for a good resource box in an article? The goal is to not be too overwhelming for the publisher. Yet it has to be effective in drawing the reader to click on the hyperlink and visit your website. A third but equally important requirement is to consider how the search engines view your resource box. 1 – From a publishers perspective: I have a website which I use to publish articles from other authors. I dont just automatically approve all articles but read them to decide if appropriate. Ive learned that one of the first things I do before even reading the article is to check out the resource box for some obvious issues: * Is the authors name included? This indicates ownership and commitment. * Are there too many hyperlinks? For me, one or two links are desired. Depending on the l inks maybe three is appropriate. If it appears the author is simply greedy and looking for exposure to multiple sites I dont even bother with reading the article. * Does the author say something about himself or about their website or what they do? One or two sentences are usually appropriate here. * Follow the hyperlinks and check out the

websites. Is the site completed? Is it useful and appropriate? The kind of site I would be willing to link to? These are the resource box attributes I look for before even reading the article. Again this is my option, but from what Ive read other publishers look for similar requirements. 2 – From a visitor or users perspective: For the reader or potential customer you have only a few sentences to draw them to click on your website. As mentioned previously, some basic information usually fulfills this requirement. The real work for invoking the users click on your link is with the article body itself. If the article content is found to be useful and interesting to the reader, they are more likely to click on your link. Under these conditions your resource box simply needs to give them a little guidance to get them there. 3 – From the search engines perspective: From the search engine perspective keywords are everything. It is bey ond the scope of this article to detail exactly how keywords are determined. Check out any popular forum Google for one on search engine optimization and youll find plenty of topics about keywords. Many experts now recommend including the keywords in the anchor text portion of the hyperlink. The anchor text is the portion of the link which

is visible to the user. When the user clicks on the anchor text, the hyperlink directs him to the website address which is the second part of the hyperlink. The primary obstacle with using your keywords as the anchor text is that it requires some html elements to be included when submitting your article to be published. Many automated web publishing systems automatically strip out any html elements it finds, which then eliminates your link. To get around this obstacle authors are submitting two links as part of the resource box. One is with the html formatting to properly display their keywords as the anchor text portion of the link and another link with the plain text version of their website address. This method at least provides a basic link to their site if the html formatted link is removed.

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If youre like me, then you are probably tired of hearing the word Web 2.0 passed around the net like a buzz word on steroids. Google alone currently shows 126,000,000 results for the search term web 2.0 at the time of this writing. However, although this term may be overblown, it does have significant influence on the current changes taking place on the Internet. Most importantly, it has many implications for the online marketer. Wikipedia has defined social search as the following Social searching is the latest innovation in the search engine industry. Sprouting from web2.0 concepts like folksonomy or social bookmarking it gives the user the ability to interact with the search engine and promote what they feel are the relevant results. This is a user based approach website relevancy as opposed to the traditional webmaster based approach We are currently seeing a multitude of social search engines exploding onto the I nternets virtual landscape. Sites like Digg, del.icio.us, and MySpace are attracting millions of users. The users search experience is being taken to an entirely new level through the collective intelligence of millions of individual editorial decisions. The Internet has always strived to give power to its users. Social search develops upon this cultural bedrock. Algorithmic search engines have essentially reached their peak. These automated software-based crawlers and indexing systems can never deliver excellent results on a consistent basis. This is due to the crowds of people who are constantly trying to beat the system. Social search, on the other hand, provides a human editorial factor that cannot be obtained

by traditional search engines. By using the wisdom of crowds, people are able to access more customized and targeted information. A great example of this can be seen at Yahoo Answers. According to Comscore, this site has become the second most popular Internet reference site after Wikipedia. Why has this site been such a success? Because it capitalizes on the wisdom of crowds. Anyone can ask a question on Yahoo Answers and have a crowd of millions of users available to answer their question. This technique allows users to receive multiple perspectives rather than the often irrelevant links that can be found using a traditional search engine. In fact, many of the major search engines are putting forth an effort to get involved in the social search arena. Yahoo in particular is betting heavily on social search. Yahoo bought photo-sharing site Flickr along with del.icio.us. Then, they also purchased WebJay, a site for creat ing and sharing music playlists. Yahoo is hoping to change the way people find information online by tapping into the collective knowledge of crowds. Google has also bought a couple of social-networking sites, including Orkut and Dodgeball. However, they have done far less than Yahoo in terms of online community building. It makes one wonder whether or not this technology is a fad or a way of searching that is here to stay. If social search does become a proven technology, then it seems that Yahoo will have quite an advantage based on the fact that they have jumped into the game far earlier than Google. Microsoft has also made plans within the social search arena. They have just recently unveiled a question-and-answer http://www.live.com/?scope=qna social search tool as part of Windows Live. Microsoft research shows that generic search engines cant answer 50% of queries asked. However, with a system like Yahoo and Go ogle Answers, you can almost always find an answer among a user base of millions. Todays search giants must increase their social-search efforts to keep up with the new developments that are occuring. Social networks pose a potential threat to the well-established search engines like Google and Yahoo. Sites like MySpace and Digg are quickly increasing their market share. What This Means for the Internet Marketer Social search is definitely something you should keep in mind when planning your marketing activities. However, it should only be a piece of the marketing puzzle, combined with search engine optimization, article marketing, blogging, etc. Having said that, here are some of the Web 2.0 hot spots that you will want to be involved in. Collaborative Directories http://www.prefound.com http://www.zimbo.com http://www.wikipedia.com http://www.stumbleupon.com http://www.kaboodle.com Create Your Own Pro file Pages at: Squidoo.com Windows Live Spaces http://spaces.live.com/ Yahoo 360 http://360.yahoo.com/ Google Personalized http://www.google.com/ig MySpace.com Social Networks: Social networking sites are all about connections. After all, the Web has and always will be a social space. According to Wikipedia, the first social networking service was Sixdegrees.com, created in 1997. Since that time, these social hangouts have exploded, allowing you to meet and network with hundreds of like-minded individuals.

Social networking sites allow you to make connections all around the Internet. These acquaintances may turn into business partners, joint ventures, or just great friends. Either way, you dont want to be left out of the loop. To get some additional insight into social networking, I talked to Dina Giolitto of http://www.wordfeeder.com. She is one of the first people I have seen to offer Web 2.0 marketing http://www.wordfeeder.com/services.htm#web_20 to her clients, helping web sites to get noticed on all of the web 2.0 hotspots, including squidoo.com, the Ryze Business Network, Digg, Technorati, and more. Here is some of her insight into social networking: Web 2.0 will get you networking, learning, link swapping and forging alliances with millions of website owners and future customers. Join as many groups as you have time for, but then choose one or two where you see an opportunity to really get to know people on a dee per level professionally, and then participate regularly in those places. For me, the Ryze Business Network at http://Ryze.com was the perfect initiation into the ways of the Web. To start, post on other peoples networks. When you feel confident enough, start your own network. Its great way to become schooled in internet marketing, attract complementary business owners who share your work ethic, goals and ideals, and establish authority in your niche – all at the same time! If you havent gotten involved in a social community yet, now is a great time to do so. To find a group thats right for you, check out the following list of social networking sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_web sites Social Bookmarking: From the beginning, the Internet has put the power into the hands of its users. Social bookmarking continues this attempt of democracy. Social bookmarking sites are composed of a community of users who submit, categorize, and rank their favorite web sites. In this system, the popularity of any individual submission is based upon the communities opinion rather than an algorithmic ranking like that of Google. By simply submitting fresh, unique content to these sites, you can gain your website some additional exposure. To try it out for yourself, check out this list of 120 social bookmarkings sites: http://noahfleming.com/private/?p=37 Audio 2.0 Discover, share and submit podcasts using the following directory list: http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Directory.html Video 2.0 Create, discover, search, share and store your videos at http://www.econsultant.com/web2/videos-hosting-sharing-searching -services.html News 2.0 Citizen Journalism has exploded in the past couple of years. This phenomenon is similar to that of open source software. None of us can put together th e type of quality that can be brought out of our collective wisdom. You can discover, read, and even share your own news stories at the following sites. http://www.targetyournews.com http://blogniscient.com http://backfence.com/home/index.cfm?mycomm=BE http://www.gabbr.com http://n.ewradio.co.uk/ http://newsalloy.com http://newsgarbage.com http://newsvine.com http://nowpublic.com http://nulltag.com http://reddit.com http://rojo.com http://shoutwire.com http://stockdiggcom http://tailrank.com http://www.techtagg.com/

http://italknews.com Content 2.0 Web 2.0 has transformed the publishing platforms that are available today. Because of this, there are now many more outlets for your articles and your valuable resource box. Listed below are some resources that will help you to further syndicate your content. http://www.comagz.com/ http://www.zimbio.com http://www.wikipedia.com http://www.squidoo.com The lenses being created on Squidoo are getting traffic, credibility, and even showing up in top Google results. You can use a lens to increase the number of authoritative inbound links to your site, position yourself as an industry expert, announce the latest news within your niche, or promote your very own radio show. Social Q&A Sites: Yahoo Answers http://answers.yahoo.com/ Google Answers http://answers.google.com/answers/ http://www.answerbag.com http://www.wondir.com The key to being successful in the social realm of th e web is to create unique and valuable content that people will want to link to. Then, once you have valuable content that is worth sharing, share by tagging, pinging, and sharing your bookmarks on all of the major bookmarking services. However, dont forget that you are part of a community and you are there to provide value to that community. This means that you should share other web sites as well. This will make your involvement in the community much more valuable and people will respect your submissions. If you are only sharing and book marking your own web sites, your reputation will fall drastically. At this point its hard to tell which social search engines will emerge as being the top performers. Thats why it is important to get your content in as many web 2.0 locations as possible. Although social search technology is certainly fun to play with and offers some new and interesting ways to search the web. It sti ll has a ways to go before anyone would become dependent upon these alternative search engines. Their growth, just like traditional search engines, will take time. The future of social search depends greatly upon how fast the general online audience adopts it. As with all community sites, the benefits grow with the size and activity of the group. Social search is unlikely to overcome the traditional search functionality of algorithmic search. However, it will be a great supplement to both organic and paid search and will provide users with additional insight that larger search engines cannot offer. The ideal search solution would be to combine traditional search, social search and human editorial input. This would allow users to experience the power of human mediated search with the comprehensiveness of algorithmic search.

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Kim Roach is a staff writer and editor for the SiteProNews http://www.sitepronews.com and SEO-News http://www.seo-news.com newsletters. You can also find additional tips and news on webmaster and SEO topics by Kim at the SiteProNews blog http://blog.sitepronews.com/. Kims email is: kim @ seo-news.com This article may be freely distributed without modification and provided that the copyright notice and author information remain intact. Read More Articles From Kim Roach: http://thephantomwriters.com/recent/author/kim-roach.html

Being a full-time SEM Search Engine Marketer I have been conditioned like Pavlovs dog not a pretty picture to jump every time Google twitches. Lately Google has been doing a lot of twitching. Specifically, the rather startling news from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa that Google has ditched PageRank from Webmaster Tools. Weve been telling people for a long time that they shouldnt focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think its the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true, states Moskwa. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it. Source WebProNews Now, for SEO reasons or for ranking

in Googles index, PageRank has long been eunuchified by Google. However, even missing a few dangling bits, history has shown us, eunuchs still wheel tremendous power. PageRank is no different. Regardless of what Google wants to happen, PageRank is still extremely important to anyone marketing on the web, especially if youre selling SEO services or operating a web business. Try selling SEO services when that little green bar on your site is pointing to PR0 or worst yet, pointing to a solid gray bar. Obtaining a high PR7 or PR8 simply means more business and revenues… regardless of how Google is or is not using PageRank. People know how to count and they learned long ago, a ten is a lot more than a big fat zero. Placed against a PR1 site, a PR8 will win more respect in the eyes of potential clients and can produce enormous profits for the site owner and we wont even mention the still widely practiced habit of selling links, which Google is desperately t rying to stop. Total and full elimination of PageRank would be an honest start but it will still be an uphill, if not an unwinnable battle, for Google to fully eliminate link selling. Even with my modest sites, I have turned down a small fortune by not selling text links on any of my sites. When I had a PR6 site instead of a PR4 – those link requests were nearly doubled. So one can easily understand Googles position and the need to downplay PageRank, if they want to put even a small dent in all this link selling and buying, which is still

running rampant on todays web. PageRank is Googles creation, and unless they remove it fully from their system and the Google toolbar, then PageRank still Counts. Actually, in the whole scheme of marketing your website on the net, PageRank counts big time. And in more ways than one. There are several reasons why you shouldnt count PageRank out. For years Google has been downplaying the important of PageRank and states its only one of about 200 ranking factors which determines how Google ranks its index for keywords. Obtaining top organic rankings for popular lucrative keywords in Google simply means money in the bank. Actually, even a movement of only one or two places on those first page SERPs Search Engine Results Pages can make a major difference to any online marketers bottom line. Now while you can have a lower PR number and still rank above other higher PR pages for your chosen keywords, I have even had many times when my PR drops but my actual SERPs rankings in Google goes up, mainly due to building related relevant backlinks. So PageRank counts little towards your keyword rankings but it cant be totally dismissed. Mainly because, even if PR is just one ranking factor, in close competitive keyword battles I am presently fighting tooth and nail for some very choice keywords just one ranking factor such as high PR can make the difference of whether or not you get to the top spot. Big dogs are still jumping and for those of us who know how to count, getting a number one spot in Google

makes all the difference in the world. Not only because Google controls roughly 80% of all search engine traffic, but more importantly Google has established unmatched credibility and brand recognition in the eyes of potential customers visiting your site. Web users trust Google. Web users look to Google for guidance and direction. Web users believe what Google is telling them. In the online world, rightly or wrongly, perception is everything. As an online marketer, I am completely amazed each day at the marketing power Google now commands with web surfers and with the general population. Google is king of online search and no other search engine even comes close to Google. PageRank is Googles ranking system, and in the eyes of those who notice these things, it still wheels tremendous influence and power. By default, PageRank is Googles opinion of your site, and web users can count at least to 10 and if Google believes people are still not counting when it comes to PageRank, then they are fully mistaken.

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The author is a full-time professional online marketer who has numerous niche websites. For the latest web marketing tools try: http://www.marketingtoolguide.com/ or here: http://www.bizwaremagic.com Copyright 2009 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached. Read More Articles From Titus Hoskins: http://thephantomwriters.com/recent/author/titus-hoskins.html

As owner of a winery and also a restaurant, I often get asked a lot of questions about wine and also about the wine industry in general. So here are some great wine facts for you to savour. 1. There are 20 million acres are planted to grapes worldwide. 2. Among the worlds fruit crops, wine grapes rank number one in the amount of acres planted. 3 164 countries import California wines. 4. Prunes were the primary fruit crop in Napa Valley during the 1940s. 5. 30 million gallons of wine were lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

6. On August 19, 1873, phylloxera was first discovered in California. 7. 10,450 acres of Napa County vineyards have been replanted in the last 15 years because of phylloxera. 8. 4,450 more acres of Napa County vineyards will need replacement. 9. It takes 4 to 5 years to harvest a commercial crop from newly replanted grape vines? 10. 10,000 varieties of wine grapes exist worldwide. 11. It costs around $1 per bottle to age wine in a French oak barrel. 12. It costs around $3 per bottle to age wine in only new French oak barrels. 13. When was the first known reference to a specific wine vintage? Answer: Roman Historian Pliny the Elder rated 121 B.C. as a vintage of the highest excellence. 14. How old was the wine being reviewed? Answer: 200 years old! Pliny the Elder wrote the history of the Roman Empire around 70 A.D. 15. A bottle of opened wine stored in the refrigerator lasts about 6 to 16 times longer than it would i f stored at room temp. 16. There are 400 oak species. 17. 20 of them are used in making oak barrels. 18. 5% percent of an

oak tree is suitable for making high grade wine barrels. 19. The 1996 grape crop in Napa Valley was down 20% – 25% from normal. 20. California, New York and Florida are the top three U.S. states in terms of wine consumption. 21. 58% percentage of legal-aged Americans contacted in a Nielson phone survey drink wine. 22. 55 percentage of restaurant wine sales are red wines. 23. $2.64 is the average cost of the grapes used to produce a $20 bottle of wine? 24. Dom Perignon 1638-1715, the Benedictine Abbey at Hautvillers cellar master who is generally credited with inventing the Champagne making process, was blind. 25. Thomas Jefferson helped stock the wine cellars of the first five U.S. presidents and was very partial to fine Bordeaux and Madeira. 26. To prevent a sparkling wine from foaming out of the glass, pour an ounce, which will settle quickly. Pouring the remainder of the serving into this starter will not foam as much. 27. Old wine almost never turns to vinegar. It spoils by oxidation. 28. In King Tuts Egypt around 1300 BC, the commoners drank beer

and the upper class drank wine. 29. It is the VERY slow interaction of oxygen and wine that produces the changes noticed in aging wine. It is believed that wine ages more slowly in larger bottles, since there is less oxygen per volume of wine in larger bottles. Rapid oxidation, as with a leaky cork, spoils wine. 30. Before harvest, the canopy of leaves at the top of the vine is often cut away to increase exposure to the sun and speed ripening. We hope you enjoyed these facts.

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Ian Macdonald as founder and owner of Macdonalds Gourmet Burgers combines his passion and knowledge of food, wine and nutrition with savvy business tactics. He is also the MD of a corporate consulting firm that advises on strategic negotiation, dispute resolution and workplace change. Clients are mainly from top 100 corporations. For lots of free resources from their extensive website go to: http://www.MacdonaldsGourmetBurgers.com Read More Articles From Ian Macdonald: http://thephantomwriters.com/recent/author/ian-macdonald.html