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A new PDF converter has just been released by Nooran Corp. of Canada, named after their site PDF-File.com. This PDF converter is the second offering from this Canadian software firm.

Ontario, Canada. - Nov. 2005

The latest PDF converter has just hit the PDF space in the form of PDF-File PDF Converter. This is another quality offering by Nooran Corp., a software firm based in Canada. The firm has named this PDF conversion tool after the website PDF-File.com, from which the software is being sold. Nooran Corp. had also launched a software utility recently by the name of 123FileConvert.

The PDF-File PDF Converter has multi-function capability: it can convert a PDF file to a Word document, and a .doc or .rtf document can be converted into a PDF file. So you can make your PDF files editable by changing them into one of the popular text formats, and also create or write a PDF file from these text formats. You don’t have to worry about losing the formatting of the source document as the software handles this very well.

This PDF converter is an easy-to-use tool, which does not need any special technical skills to operate. It has a “wizard” style interface, which guides you step-by-step through the PDF conversion process. This PDF tool is therefore, one of the easiest in its segment to use.

In addition to being easy to use, the PDF-File Converter comes with a lot of features, which are surprisingly being offered at a very low price of $19.95.

The PDF-File converter, apart from the basic function of converting to a PDF and from a PDF, can also extract images from PDFs, and further, convert these images to popular graphic formats; this feature is particularly useful as you can extract graphic files from any PDF file to a specific folder in the format that you want.

The PDF-File Converter has multi-lingual PDF conversion capability and it can convert PDF files in nine languages–English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French, Russian, Norwegian, Portuguese and German.

Multiple text files can also be combined to create a consolidated PDF file. A PDF can also be partially converted by specifying a page range for conversion.

This is one PDF converter, which has collected a lot of favorable reviews and awards from software and shareware sites very fast. If you wish to try it out, the PDF-File PDF Converter can be downloaded free for an evaluation from http://www.pdf-file.com.

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Cologne,10 July 2004. ICANN accredited registar Secura announces today, that the company is accepting applications for the sunrise and real time period of eu-domains (https://www.domainregistry.de/eu.html).

Sunrise Period

You should send now to your applications to secure your rights at the new eu-domains. The eu-domains will be the most important event since the introduction of com-domains.

There will be a Sunrise Period (Phased registration for those holding prior rights to a name) at the eu-domains.

The Sunrise Period of eu-domains will have two phases:

The EU Regulation stipulates that the registry must make a sunrise provision at eu-domains to allow those with ‘prior rights’ to a name to apply for registration of eu-domains in advance of beginning general registrations. The PPR states that the sunrise period (phased registration) of eu-domains will take place in two phases each lasting two months.

During phase one, public bodies and holders of registered Community or national trademarks will be able to register their names.

During phase 2 those who may register in phase 1 may register their eu-domains as well holders of other rights recognised under Community law or the national law of an EU member state. Eu-domains registered during the sunrise period must be an exact match for the prior right claimed and documentary evidence must be supplied to proof the right.

Live Registration: First comes-first serves

Some weeks after the Sunrise Period eu-domains goes live and general registrations of eu-domains will begin and registration of eu-domains will be done on a first come first served basis for any eu-domain not taken during the sunrise period.

About The Author

Hans-Peter Oswald
CEO
ICANN accredited registrar Secura GmbH

You can reprint or republish these articles for free if these three lines are at the end of the articles:

http://www.com-domains.com

https://www.domainregistry.de

secura@domainregistry.de

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Most Filipinos would love to hear from their relatives or friends from the US. Who won’t? There’s just so much to tell and burning the lines would be one helluvah understatement if you are to make an international call to the Philippines. This is because the Philippines is one of the most eventful places in the world right now. See the news to prove this.

Placing an international call could be a very wallet-pinching endeavor. But this should not always be the case. There are numerous ways to make a long distance call, especially if the destination of your call is the Pearl of the Orient, the Philippines.

Here is a rundown of suggestions on how to make that international call to the Philippines without shelling out much of your hard-earned dollars.

1. Be careful when buying call cards.

Several prepaid phone cards have hidden charges. There could be a connection fee that could be almost tantamount to getting ripped off especially when the card buyer makes a call and either the call is routed to a voice mailbox or to an answering machine. Connection fee deduction is automatically done even when the caller did not say anything yet.

Other phone card hidden charges include service fee, maintenance fee, access number and long talking fee. The expiration date should also be checked.

2. Know what type of phone will receive your call.

It won’t be advisable to make a long distance call to any mobile device. This is because most of overseas carriers implement the “calling party pays” system. The tariff rate of an international wireless phone could be a lot higher compared to a call made to a land-line in the same country.

3. Say no to a telephone operator.

When you choose to be assisted by a telephone operator when placing an international call, you choose to pay considerably more. Whenever possible opt to use a dial-around service or dial direct.

4. Sign up to a prepaid long distance plan.

Various carriers offer this kind of service to those who frequently place long distance calls. Opt for those with flexible programs. These plans work like phone cards but do not have fees and charges associated with prepaid phone cards. They usually have very low domestic and international rates 24/7 and call quality is usually excellent. One more thing about these prepaid plans is the convenience of being able to use them when placing calls from any telephones be it cell phones or public phones.

5. Calling during non-business days or off-peak time will help you save.

Make the most out of these privileges by checking on what your carrier offers. Just make sure that it won’t be too much of an inconvenience to the recipient of your call.

6. Bad connections should be noted.

Bad connections happen and the Philippines is not an exception to this nuisance. When this happens, take note of the time and the number you called. Prepaid calling cards rarely gives you credit for bad connections. But if you made an international call using a standard long distance carrier, or prepaid long distance plans, better check if you could be given credit for that call. They always do.

It would help if you print this info to be always reminded of the Do’s and Don’t’s when it comes to making an international call.

With these simple tips, you don’t have to worry when your phone bill arrives.

Finally, here’s the step-by-step process in calling the Philippines.

a. Dial 011, which is the international code

b. Then, key in the Philippines’ country code, which is 63.

c. Now, dial the city area code where your your wife and kids are.

Here are the major cities in the Philippines with their respective city area codes:

Angeles Luzon - 455

Bacolod - 34

Baguio - 74

Cebu - 32

Clarkfield, Pampanga - 45

Dagupan, Pangasinan - 75

Davao - 82

Iloilo - 33

Laguna Province - 49562

Lucena, Luzon - 42

Makati, Luzon - 2

Manila - 2

Ozamiz City - 88

San Fernando, Pampanga - 45

San Fernando, La Union - 72

San Pablo - 49

Subic, Zambales - 47

Tarlac - 452

Tarlac Province - 45

Zamboanga - 62

d. Finally, dial the remaining digits.

Also, don’t forget to greet your Filipino friend using her native lingo. “Kumusta”, pronounced as “cooh-moose-TAH” surely will never fail to make her smile.

www.MrLongdistance.com owner Bernard Pragides has been in the telecommunication business since 1997. Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries on phone cards or international call rates. You may email us at HelpMeSave@MrLongDistance.com

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A cruise offers the chance to enter a totally different world and that’s appealing to all ages. So bring the whole family along. Most cruise lines have special children’s rates and provide lot’s of entertainment specifically aimed at youth.

Many cruises have trained personnel whose sole job is to supervise the wide variety of children’s programs. One example is Princess Cruises’ Love Boat Kids program. It includes complete Youth and Teen Centers and a toddler’s play area and theatre. The kids can enjoy movies, games, arts & crafts, computers and more.

Teenagers are notoriously difficult to entertain. Being stuck with Mom & Dad for a week is especially hard their mood. Cruise lines such as Disney, Carnival, Princess and others have set up adult-free zones and special “nightclubs” that provide a wide range of activities and a place to hang out with other teens.

Of course, you would expect that a Disney cruise would be geared towards kids. And you are right. They provide a whole array of age-appropriate activities including children under three.

When dining onboard with the family you will normally find that the earlier dinner seating is less formal. There will be more families present so it makes it much easier to get a table with other kids close to your own children’s ages. If you ask, the server may be able to seat your family alone.

Even though many cruises cater to kids, it’s not a good idea to bring small babies. They demand so much attention that you just cannot enjoy the cruise experience.

Children are usually more prone to sea sickness so it’s a good idea to discuss with your doctor what medication to bring.

There are a lot of amenities that are not necessarily obvious like ice, extra blankets, pillows, games, crib or high chair, etc. Just ask your cabin steward what’s available. The crew is more than happy to help you have a pleasant stay.

Stops at ports of call are typically brief. You don’t have to spend your brief visit browsing the same old duty free shops. Do a little research ahead and you can find some interesting local spots for the family to visit such as a museum, zoo or beach.

It’s a good idea to get the kids involved in the activities immediately rather than waiting a day or two. This gets them involved and lets them feel a part of the program. Joining in later they may feel like outsiders and have a more difficult time interacting with the kids who already know the ropes.

Even though the programs are there to be used, don’t forget that this is a family vacation. Be sure to allot plenty of time together. The kids can have a lot of fun with the planned programs but they also need time with Mom & Dad.

Before you book a cruise, be sure to ask a lot of question of your travel agent or the cruise line. Don’t accept vague answers. You want to know exactly what the cruise lines attitude is towards families. Let them know what ages your children are and get specifics on the activities, programs and training of supervisory crew. Choosing the right cruise line and ship can make all the difference in the world.

The author, of this article, Peter Shannon, is the owner of the website www.1001-vacation-ideas.com. Here you will find a large collection of vacation and getaway ideas for travelers searchable by theme and location.

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Copper Keels:

Nature provides varying resources in different parts of the world. In Ireland the use of leather in boat-building made sense. Leather craft going underwater led to glass or other submersibles to reach sunken ships in the time of Alexander and the designs some people think are alien craft on the Lascaux Caves are most likely leather submersibles. The hardwoods of Central and South America allowed for some truly fantastic big ships to be hollowed out of very large trees. Ironwood is heavier than concrete and it is even possible that they used concrete on ship hulls or to build ships with the geopolymerized technology that Pliny reports, and scholars did not understand, so the scholars failed to properly translate his writing. If 9,000 years ago the people of the Aleutians and the copper route were able to use ivory bearings in two or four man crafts that cut a catamaran type wake which Scientific American says exceeds our present technology, then you can imagine almost anything.

The use of copper sheeting on hulls and keels extended the life of wooden crafts in warm waters where boring beetles destroy any wooden craft. This allowed the Phoenicians or those who built ships that could travel the whole world a great advantage. They also had above deck windlass type technology to keep planked hulls intact during storms. These two things made larger ships more durable and feasible. The Murrhine vases for turning salt water potable would have been a huge advantage. It is not lost on me that the very name of these vases includes the name Mu just as Troy’s real name does.

RED OCHRE:

The supposed worship of the Sun in many ancient cultures was also a worship of the ‘Son’ of God which we all can actualize. Thomas Huxley argued the position of science well in his confrontations with the churchian Wilberforce and I admire the Huxley clan. In many ways Aldous Huxley was a groundbreaking observer of real science rather than the Kuhn constructs Fuller prefers anarchy over. I love to read how Aldous was excited to get the first hand accounts of Joseph Campbell walking on the healing fire of the Japanese shamanistic Shinto priests. There are many Eranos attendees like Jung and Campbell who are excellent scholars and well respected authors including Eliade and Daisetz Suzuki.

“I remember Aldous Huxley talking to me through a long evening, and his white hands held into the fire, saying, ‘This is what transforms. These are the legends that show it. Above all, the legend that the Phoenix is reborn in the fire, and lives over and over again in generation after generation.’ Fire is the image of youth and blood, the symbolic colour is the ruby and cinnabar {From which the alchemist got Mercury.}, and in ochre and hematite with which men paint themselves ceremonially.” (14)

But was it just ceremonial? No! Hematite is still important to the art of crystal therapy. It is naturally able to generate energy in tune with the Earth Energy Grid that we all are impacted by even though we can’t see it. Ochre is found on the bones of the far older modern human (by at least 20,000 years) called the Mungo Man. It may actually be cinnabar but archaeologists are not alchemists and usually don’t believe in the Philosopher’s Stone which required cinnabar.

The Beothuk painted themselves with the ochre they received in payment from Phoenicians involved in the Old Copper Route to Lake Superior’s unique and pure ore deposits before the advent of widespread smelting. L’Anse Amour is an archaeological site that shows where they were in the 5th Millennium B.C. They had moved when the water flow changed after years of the earth adjusting to the miles of glacial ice that had been on top of it. The Beothuk had a unique watercraft most like the northern Europeans such as the Irish. They were as tall as the Adena who came from the Poverty Point location of the Keltic Phoenician Red Heads who are like the Red Headed Mummies of Urumchi. But they were called ‘redskins’ before the Canadian Government or other authorities put a bounty on their heads and the 19th Century saw their demise just as the Kelts of Easter Island and New Zealand were eradicated. Earlier than that it was far worse for the remnants of the Brotherhood of Man whose leaders understood the nature of the Solar Deity as a mere representation of a science average people were unwilling to devote the time required to grasp. It wasn’t just libraries that were burned at the stake. I hope you can see that if no other scholar has written about red ochre in this way and few point out the massive advantages the copper keel would provide, that it is a reflection on academia and the nature of those who keep secrets.

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

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Instant review on CallWave call alert service

Are you a dial-up Internet user like me? If so, I bet you have
the same experience as me: missing important calls while online,
cannot afford or feel too expensive to take another extra phone
lines and needs to go thru all the hassles plugging and
unplugging the phone line every time you wish to go online.

Fortunately, there are various vendors in the market that offer
call alert service to get rid of this kind of problem. Like your
everyday Instant Messenger program, Internet call waiting can
track when you’re online. When you are online, the computer
answering machine does its thing, immediately replaying messages
for you while you’re online. Among all the Internet call alert
services that I tried so far, CallWave is the one that I like
the most. It’s well value the money in my opinion and definitely
worth for a try, as their trial version required zero cost to go
with.

What CallWave says about their offers:

— NEVER miss a call while you are online with no extra phone
line cost

— Internet answering machine: answers your incoming calls from
your PC

— Calls redirect to your mobile and fixed line

— Check callers id and block undesired numbers

— Free private fax number for CallWave fax

— Send faxes thru email with CallWave fax

Things I like
about CallWave

Caller’s ID and calls blocking

Besides all the common functions that an Internet call alert
service should has, what I like the most about the CallWave is
the fact that I can decide to take or not to take a call when it
comes in. This is how it works: The Callwave download appears on
your computer as a small box with options. You will be able to
navigate the tool bar to see the Caller ID for the calls that
come in, you’re able to save messages or hear them and you can
have the option of disconnecting and having the service callback
the person who tried to call you. It gives you the ability to
block undesired calls as well in the same interface - this is
extremely useful when you have a some undesired calls form those
telemarketers that keep on calling up you to promote their
latest *bargains*.

Bye-bye to answering machine

In addition of telemarketing blocking, CallWave also has the
ability to divert calls to your mobiles or other fixed line.
This in turns can save up your money where you do not need a
phone answering anymore.

Quality after sales services

The online customer supports and after sales services is good.
Reach them 24-7 whenever you are facing difficulties in using
your CallWave. I am sure you’ll be amaze on the support crew’s
politeness.

CallWave Fax

CallWave provides more than just call alert services. CallWave
fax is something you would not want to miss. You can send out
email faxes with CallWave fax services and save up the extra
cost for your fax machine. It might be not so useful for home
users like me but its definitely an A++ additional service that
small business owners do not want to miss.

Things I DON’T
like about CallWave

Pop up ads

From time to time, CallWave will pop up a few ads on your PC.
This is sometimes extremely irritating as it works like a Trojan
file embedded in my system.

Subscription fees!

Basic CallWave package is cheap (Approximately $3/month) but
advance CallWave package is quite costly for home users like me.
To enable the functions of telemarketing blocking needs the
$10/month package. Although its still cheaper than the cost of
an extra phone line, but I still wish badly they can lower their
price for a dollar or two as I am using it on a long term basis.
However, since there’s no other cheaper products that I am
satisfy with, CallWave is still the call alert services
installed on my PC

Wrapping things up, CallWave might be suitable for you or it
might be not suitable for you at all. But since trying up
CallWave is free, I believe it’s no harm to try it out. For your
information, setting up the CallWave free trial is instant and
it doesn’t need your credit card information - so, why not get
yourself a chance on this call alert software? To read more
about CallWave products demo, I strongly recommend this site:Review CallWave (Call Wave)
call alert services.

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There are symptoms that can help us greatly cure our PCs before it’s too late. By being too late I mean the time you learn to be infected and unfortunately you may have lost something including but not limited to, your credit card numbers revealed to strangers, your email password stolen, your stable operating system deformed, etc.

Nowadays especially Windows XP users prefer to use the built in hibernate feature of their Windows and less and less they restart their PCs everyday.

You might know that whenever a Trojan, malware, adware, virus and other newly created online or offline threats enter and resides in your computer, a restarting of your machine gives these new guests a golden opportunity, some of them multiply, others simply hide inside other files like photos or txt files and others actively gain more power by being able to access some system resources they like.

So, first note, whenever you visit a suspicious website, or download something especially a file from unknown sources like p2p programs or from unverified Urls, scan the files downloaded and then scan your computer before hibernating or turning off.

If after restarting your computer or coming out of hibernation you are encountered by an error message that you didn’t see before downloading the specified file, this might, be a sign of an intruder.

Read the error message exactly, if it asks you go online and visit a website, it strongly can be an adware or spyware commanding your internet connections to allow it use your online resources, or complete downloading some other malwares onto your computer.

In some cases if you see some errors that are related to your VGA status, for example Windows warns that your color settings are too low or something like that, it’s better to scan your PC with your several updated anti-virus and anti-spyware programs and if the case persists, just uninstall your VGA software and reinstall.

Make sure that whenever being online, your pop up blocker is active, cause many adwares and spywares are downloaded through pop up windows. Also pay very attention to messages asking you turn off your firewall, it’s a proven trick that some sites exporting malwares, usually offer free softwares and exciting programs and when you begin downloading an error message appears on your screen that in order to download or continue downloading of this software, please turn off your firewall, Never download such things and Never turn off your firewalls in such cases.

Spam emails too are among the new evolved methods of sending malware to people through unrealistic messages, for example you receive emails that your bank account is in danger and your bank asks you change your account password.

In such cases, if you use mail clients like Outlook, just right click on the email message and read about the senders real email address, in fact you very well know what email address belongs to your bank. These emails usually come from free online email addresses.

Don’t forget to make a phone call to you bank and inspect if such action is needed or not.

Nowadays, quite unlike the past some keyloggers and malwares do not need to reside inside an attached email message, instead they hide inside html and picture emails and load onto your computer through mere reading, it’s a trusted word that when you receive an email from an unknown source with a strange title like: I Love you or You have won the jackpot, delete it unread.

In some cases when you scan your computer and your anti-spyware programs find some malwares, your scanner wants you to restart your PC, so that the cleaning take effect, if this is true about you, turn off and rescan after restarting to see if the Trojan has been successfully cleaned.

The two major internet browsers Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are both familiar names to millions of online browsers and there is not yet any exact evidence as to which one is safer against online threats but you can test them, download and use them updated and then browse with each one for a while and after using each one, just scan your PC, after a short while you will learn that which one is right for you.

But a note must be mentioned here, neither of these two browsers can make you immune from online threats if used by themselves, so be equipped with several anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, scan everyday and after suspicious behaviors.

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Some people step onto a boat and are straight at home. For them the challenge, the mechanics, the simple joy of sailing all combine to make the sport less of a pastime and more of a necessity.

These people - let’s call them fanatics - come alive on board a boat, forgetting the pressures of work and home in the sheer exhilaration of surfing down a wave on a tight reach, or coaxing the yacht upwind in a gusty force five.

I am married to one of these fanatics. He is trying to teach me to sail.

It is a difficult task, I admit, as I have absolutely no desire to set foot on the boat unless the wind (force 1 - 2), the weather (sunny) and the sea (calm) are just right. But, being a man of considerable determination and luck, he finally succeeded in giving me my first few lessons last month.

I learned a lot.

Sailing is, when you come down to it, incredibly simple - a matter of pointing the boat where you want to go, feeling for the wind, and adjusting the sails accordingly. Yet it is also incredibly complicated.

I used to race dinghies, sitting in the pointy end, pulling in the sails, but even so I learned a fair bit about lifts and headers, cunninghams and kickers. It all came flooding back to me as I helmed the yacht last month, dodging the ferries between Largs and Cumbrae.

For the first time I really began to understand the relationship between boat, sail and wind. I could feel the yacht responding to the helm; feel it spin in the water; surge down the waves, slow in the chop. I could see what was happening as the gusts hit and the sails either flapped in the header or the boat tipped over in the lift.

And that was my problem. The boat tipped over. I guess that I will get used to it eventually, but I just cannot be comfortable sitting at a 25 angle, staring down into black waves that look perilously close to my feet.

Dinghies don’t tip over, or at least if they do they are not too hard to bring back upright again. Yachts are different. They are supposed to tip over, and you are not supposed to swear blindly and gibber at the helm when they do.

And the noise! I thought sailing was supposed to be quiet! What with the wind on the sails and the boat slooshing through the water and the depth gauge beeping every two minutes, it was hardly peaceful at all.

So I learned a lot: I learned that there was a lot I didn’t know.

And my husband learned a few things too - most particularly, that there some things you just do not say to reluctant sailors who have consented to come on board:

• ‘Right! Well, why don’t you try reversing us out from the berth and then take us out of the marina!’

• ‘It’s only a tiny leak - nothing to worry about!’

• ‘No, of course yachts don’t capsize - not unless it’s really, really windy!’

• ‘I know the depth gauge is beeping. It’s not really working properly at the moment.’

• ‘Look at it this way, the boat really can’t tip over any more than it is already.’

• ‘When I said ‘aim for the buoy’, I didn’t mean for you to hit it!’

I, on the other hand, now know that it is not good to say:

• ‘So these are big cabins, are they?’

• ‘Which way is the wind coming from, again?’

• ‘Is this a tack or a gybe?’

• ‘I want to go home!’

• ‘Wow! Is the engine supposed to give off that much smoke?’

• ‘Oh! Sorry! Were those hatches supposed to be shut?’

• ‘What happens if I press this button?’

• ‘You didn’t tell me to tie it on!’; and finally

• ‘Well, it wasn’t too bad…’

Looks like I have another lesson pencilled in for next Tuesday.

For all the Reluctant Sailor articles go to The Reluctant Sailor.

Helen MacKenzie is a freelance writer. She contributes to the web site at http://www.sea-dreamer.com The Sea Dreamer web site has articles, guides and news on sailing and cruising on the West Coast of Scotland.

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There is nothing worse than seeing garbage blowing down the street of your neighborhood, or finding broken shards of glass at the local swimming hole where children play. Wildlife is just as vulnerable to garbage and many have lost their lives after becoming tangled in waste or mistaking garbage for food. It is up to each of us to make an effort to minimize this unsightly, and sometimes hazardous, problem.

Animals, wind and traffic breezes put legs to loose garbage and are able to distribute it great distances from the original source. The first thing that we can do to prevent this is to ensure trashcan and dumpster lids are secure. Metal and plastic trashcans are more preventative than bags - leaving a bag out over night or even for several hours, is an enticing invitation for stray animals to wreak havoc. When taking a load to the dump, be sure that it is securely covered by tightly tying a tarp over the load with some rope or bungee cords.

Carry plastic shopping bags on your walks to clean up litter that you find along the way. Often, people are rewarded for their efforts by the deposits returned from bottles and cans. Those who have noticed your efforts will begin taking up the same habit once they realize the impact it has.
Report any dumping you witness, whether it was done illegally or accidentally - just get the license number and leave the rest to the officials. Also, report any site where garbage has been left by others. These problems can be reported to the local city, highway, public works or conservation office. Ask them to arrange for it to be cleaned up.

By doing these relatively small actions, we prevent contamination and injuries to people or wildlife in the area. When separating recyclable items, we keep a valuable resource out of the landfill. In addition, we maintain a pristine environment for citizens, tourists and wildlife to enjoy. We can all take pride knowing that by keeping garbage in its place, we are making the world just a little better for everyone.

– Written by Dave and Lillian Brummet based on the concept of their book, Trash Talk. The book offers useful solutions for the individual to reduce waste and better manage resources. A guide for anyone concerned about their impact on the environment. (http://www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)

– Written by Dave and Lillian Brummet based on the concept of their book, Trash Talk. The book offers useful solutions for the individual to reduce waste and better manage resources. A guide for anyone concerned about their impact on the environment. (www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)

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Use a keyword density of about 1 to 2%. Use to be that you could rank high with 5% to 15%, but not any more. Google will call that “over optimizing” and penalize you.

Don’t use more than 83 characters (including spaces) in your meta title tag. That usually comes out to about 10 to 15 words. If you have more characters, there is no penality it’s just that Google won’t count them as being in your title tag.

Your important keywords absolutely MUST be in your title. (That is if you want them to achieve any importance at all.)

Google doesn’t use the description tag for a description like some search engines do, but take the time to write a good description of your site anyway. Google does index the words in the description tag just like they were words in the text. Be sure to use keywords in your description tag. Google only looks at approximately the first 25 words in the description tag.

The keyword tag is NOT indexed or counted by Google. So why should you use it you might ask. One of the minor search engines still use it for the time being. But, I use the keyword tag on every page to remind me what keywords I am optimizing the page for.

Google indexes all of the visible text on a page up about 100k. This is way more than you would ever be using anyway.

Google counts “cat” and “Cat” as the same word. In other words, Google is NOT case sensitive.

Very important: Google counts “dog” and “dogs” as two totally different words. Singular and plural versions of a word are different words for Google. Google also counts “run” and “running” as different words. Word-stemming creates different words.

Keyword order is important. “atlanta restaurants” is NOT the same as ‘restaurants atlanta”

A hyphen is the same as a space with Google. “Nashville-singers” is the same as Nashville singers”

Google likes sites with a LOT of pages. A good goal would be to add one new page a week. Your site should have a minimum of 3 to 5 page to start with. More pages would be much better. Link each one of them back to your home page. You can also link every page to every other page.

Look at the different linking strategies described in other articles on this site.

The most important thing to remember about Google is to have as many incoming (on-topic) links as possibe.

Try to add at least one or more incoming links every week. (You won’t even be listed on Google until you have at least one incoming link from another site that is already listed on Google.)

Craige Stacey has been studying search engines optimization as a hobby and has achieved some very good search engine positions in the past for
membership software

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