After many requests from wordpress users, the latest version of wordpress has a build in option to create static pages. You can use static pages for an about page, contact page, a links page, etc. This dreamhost review page is an example of a stand alone static page. The advantages are that you can add stand alone content to its own page, outside the normal weblog hierarchy. Pages have the same editing options, plug-in functionality and themes as posts. Or you can customize the stand alone page as much as you want. Static pages also help search engine indexing, as opposed to dynamic urls.
The comprehensive overview and instructions are on the wordpress codex “pages” page.
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Byline- Ron Robinson maintains a personal weblog about science fiction writing and a Weblog about profitable online publishing.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
Thomas R. Cutler: Manufacturing Journalist Thrives as Contributing Editor for Industry 2.0
Approaching a year now, Thomas R. Cutler, has been a contributing editor for Industry 2.0. Cutler, who founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium in 1999, has grown the participation from 300 journalists to nearly 3000 key clients, journalists, editors, trendsetters, and key business leaders worldwide. Cutler has authored more than 1000 articles for a wide range of manufacturing periodicals, industrial publications, and business journals including most of the leading monthly trade publications. Cutler is the author of The Manufacturers’ Public Relations and Media Guide. Cutler was voted #1 Manufacturing Journalist for the third year in a row.
Industry 2.0 is published monthly. With a controlled circulation base of 30,000, more than two hundred thousand monthly readers across India, have relied up this vital publication since 2002. Covering twenty industry sectors, Industry 2.0 reaches key decision-makers. 65% of the publications readers are managing directors, CEO’s, vice presidents and other senior executives.
TR Cutler, Inc., (www.trcutlerinc.com), is the nation's largest manufacturing marketing and public relations firm, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. According to the website, “Cutler tells the extraordinary stories of manufacturers. There are great companies making great products. Cutler is quite vocal that there are too many manufacturers and companies serving the manufacturing sector that have simply neglected to tell their story. Cutler's goal is to tell these manufacturing stories in an interesting, dynamic, understandable, and relevant way.”
Cutler also contributes to such publications as Automation.com, Quality Digest, Manufacturing.net, IFSQN, Manufacturing & Technology, Food & Beverage Journal, Software Magazine, Food & Drug Packaging, Food Quality, Fabricating & Metalworking, World Trade, American Machinist, Industrial Distribution, The Manufacturers, and hundreds of other leading periodicals.
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Industry 2.0 is published monthly. With a controlled circulation base of 30,000, more than two hundred thousand monthly readers across India, have relied up this vital publication since 2002. Covering twenty industry sectors, Industry 2.0 reaches key decision-makers. 65% of the publications readers are managing directors, CEO’s, vice presidents and other senior executives.
TR Cutler, Inc., (www.trcutlerinc.com), is the nation's largest manufacturing marketing and public relations firm, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. According to the website, “Cutler tells the extraordinary stories of manufacturers. There are great companies making great products. Cutler is quite vocal that there are too many manufacturers and companies serving the manufacturing sector that have simply neglected to tell their story. Cutler's goal is to tell these manufacturing stories in an interesting, dynamic, understandable, and relevant way.”
Cutler also contributes to such publications as Automation.com, Quality Digest, Manufacturing.net, IFSQN, Manufacturing & Technology, Food & Beverage Journal, Software Magazine, Food & Drug Packaging, Food Quality, Fabricating & Metalworking, World Trade, American Machinist, Industrial Distribution, The Manufacturers, and hundreds of other leading periodicals.
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Finding and Managing Quality Reciprocal Links: A Tutorial for The Newbie
All of us want to increase traffic to our web sites. It helps our search engine rankings, and is a very cost-effective way to provide us with potential new customers. One of the best, and certainly least expensive, ways to do that is by exchanging links with sites similar to our own, or that contain content our own visitors are likely to find interesting and useful. It is important to restrict our exchanges to such sites because if we indiscriminately exchange with everybody and anybody we become what is known as a “link farm” and wind up being banned by the search engines. No one wants to be banned by the search engines, so this article will discuss how to find relevant sites with whom to exchange links, and how to keep track of them after you have exchanged the links. Even though there are software programs that will do most if not all of this for you, they have various flaws and inadequacies. If you are one of those people who prefer the personal touch, this article is for you!
The first thing to do is to type your key words or phrases into a search engine and see what comes up. The sites you see on the first few pages have made it to the top of the search engine rankings. Go to these sites and look around on the home page for the phrase “links exchange” or sometimes just “links.” Some sites now use “resources.“ They will have instructions for how to place a link to their site on your site, and instructions on the information they need from you in order for them to place a link to your site on theirs. Some have a form for you to fill out; others want you to e-mail it to them. Have your information (your site Title, URL (your home page where you want them to point their link), Description, and the URL of your links page where you have placed their link, your name and e-mail address) saved in a document ready to cut and paste into both forms and e-mails. It will save you tons of time. Always remember that the Golden Rule applies here. You want them to place a link to you on their site so you need to reciprocate. If you are uncomfortable with the content of their links page and would prefer not to be associated with that site, then just move on. There are plenty of others.
Some of the higher ranked sites will have non-content related restrictions about with whom they will exchange or will not links. They will only exchange with you if your site and/or links pages have achieved a certain Google PageRank. (To download the Google Toolbar click here.) Even if you do not have such a page rank yourself, you can request an exchange with such sites but do not be surprised if they decline or ignore you. If your site is new, be sure not to stop looking after the first page or two in the search engines. There are many wonderful sites not on the first few pages and most of them would be more than happy to exchange links with you.
Repeat this search frequently because nothing is static on search engines; you might get different results every day searching for the very same word or phrase!
Once you have exchanged links with a site check out the other sites on their links pages. Some sites have links pages loaded with other sites that would be a good match for you. Go ahead and offer to exchange links with them, also. Beware however that some sites may not have been very discerning in their choices of exchange partners. You, however, will be very discerning and will choose wisely the sites with whom you will exchange links! Be careful not to be too narrow, though. Remember that you want to exchange with sites that have content your visitors may find interesting and useful. If you only exchange with clones or near clones of your site, nobody will be interested for very long. For instance, if your site is about a particular breed of dog, don’t limit your exchanges to other sites about that breed, or even other breeds. Try sites that deal in dog food, dog care in general, grooming products, training methods, dog accessories, shows and other events, etc. Set your site up so that each category has its own page or set of pages, and alphabetize the links on each page by site title if your software does not do that automatically. What you want to avoid are sites that have nothing whatsoever to do with the main topic of your site. In our example of a site about a breed of dog, avoid exchanging links with sites offering bargain vacations on the other side of the globe, casinos, real estate, music, etc. You get the idea. Remember that people who visit your site are looking for dog related information, not that other stuff.
Now that you have accumulated several pages of links, you need to be able to keep track of them so that you don’t request exchanges from the same webmasters more than once. It would be embarrassing for them to respond to your request with “I exchanged with you 2 months ago” or something like that. So, what do you do if your software does not do it for you?
Set up a simple spread sheet. Don’t worry about setting it up to print out on neat pages, because you shouldn’t have to print it out. Make the columns as wide as you need to. You will need to set them up as follows: Title / Description / Category /URL / Reciprocal URL. You can add optional columns for webmaster name and e-mail if you want. Your categories in our hypothetical site would be food, training, accessories, etc. As you add a link to your site, add it to the bottom of your spreadsheet. You can then alphabetize your spreadsheet by whichever column you need. Not only will you know which sites you already have, but you can see at a glance where on your site you have put it! I have used this system extensively and it works extremely well.
One last thing. Please don’t ever refuse to exchange links with someone without a high enough page rank because they are new. Everyone was new once and started out with a page rank of “0” including those who are now at the top of the list for their chosen key words and phrases. As people help you to get started when you are new, turn around and help others behind you as they get started. In case you might be wondering how to tell the difference between a new site with a page rank of “0” and a link farm with a page rank of “0”, the new site with have a cached page and the link farm will not. The link farm will have a bizillion links and the new site will have few if any. To find this information look for the icon on the Google Toolbar that looks like a blue circle with a lower case white “i” in the middle, located right next to the little green bar that shows you your current page rank. When you click on that icon you will see a drop down menu that includes both “cached snapshot page” (what your page looked like last time Google checked out your site) and “backward links” which shows how many links Google shows point to your site from other sites. If when you click on one of those drop down menu choices you find that Google has no record of that site, it’s best to wait to exchange links until you find our why there is no record. If the site has been up for more than a few days, there should be at least a cached page. If there isn’t, the site may have been bannedFind Article, and you should not associate with banned sites.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandi Moses has been involved in internet marketing since
November, 2003. Visit her sites at
http://www.123iwork4me.com
http://www.123-home-based-business-works-4-me.com
The first thing to do is to type your key words or phrases into a search engine and see what comes up. The sites you see on the first few pages have made it to the top of the search engine rankings. Go to these sites and look around on the home page for the phrase “links exchange” or sometimes just “links.” Some sites now use “resources.“ They will have instructions for how to place a link to their site on your site, and instructions on the information they need from you in order for them to place a link to your site on theirs. Some have a form for you to fill out; others want you to e-mail it to them. Have your information (your site Title, URL (your home page where you want them to point their link), Description, and the URL of your links page where you have placed their link, your name and e-mail address) saved in a document ready to cut and paste into both forms and e-mails. It will save you tons of time. Always remember that the Golden Rule applies here. You want them to place a link to you on their site so you need to reciprocate. If you are uncomfortable with the content of their links page and would prefer not to be associated with that site, then just move on. There are plenty of others.
Some of the higher ranked sites will have non-content related restrictions about with whom they will exchange or will not links. They will only exchange with you if your site and/or links pages have achieved a certain Google PageRank. (To download the Google Toolbar click here.) Even if you do not have such a page rank yourself, you can request an exchange with such sites but do not be surprised if they decline or ignore you. If your site is new, be sure not to stop looking after the first page or two in the search engines. There are many wonderful sites not on the first few pages and most of them would be more than happy to exchange links with you.
Repeat this search frequently because nothing is static on search engines; you might get different results every day searching for the very same word or phrase!
Once you have exchanged links with a site check out the other sites on their links pages. Some sites have links pages loaded with other sites that would be a good match for you. Go ahead and offer to exchange links with them, also. Beware however that some sites may not have been very discerning in their choices of exchange partners. You, however, will be very discerning and will choose wisely the sites with whom you will exchange links! Be careful not to be too narrow, though. Remember that you want to exchange with sites that have content your visitors may find interesting and useful. If you only exchange with clones or near clones of your site, nobody will be interested for very long. For instance, if your site is about a particular breed of dog, don’t limit your exchanges to other sites about that breed, or even other breeds. Try sites that deal in dog food, dog care in general, grooming products, training methods, dog accessories, shows and other events, etc. Set your site up so that each category has its own page or set of pages, and alphabetize the links on each page by site title if your software does not do that automatically. What you want to avoid are sites that have nothing whatsoever to do with the main topic of your site. In our example of a site about a breed of dog, avoid exchanging links with sites offering bargain vacations on the other side of the globe, casinos, real estate, music, etc. You get the idea. Remember that people who visit your site are looking for dog related information, not that other stuff.
Now that you have accumulated several pages of links, you need to be able to keep track of them so that you don’t request exchanges from the same webmasters more than once. It would be embarrassing for them to respond to your request with “I exchanged with you 2 months ago” or something like that. So, what do you do if your software does not do it for you?
Set up a simple spread sheet. Don’t worry about setting it up to print out on neat pages, because you shouldn’t have to print it out. Make the columns as wide as you need to. You will need to set them up as follows: Title / Description / Category /URL / Reciprocal URL. You can add optional columns for webmaster name and e-mail if you want. Your categories in our hypothetical site would be food, training, accessories, etc. As you add a link to your site, add it to the bottom of your spreadsheet. You can then alphabetize your spreadsheet by whichever column you need. Not only will you know which sites you already have, but you can see at a glance where on your site you have put it! I have used this system extensively and it works extremely well.
One last thing. Please don’t ever refuse to exchange links with someone without a high enough page rank because they are new. Everyone was new once and started out with a page rank of “0” including those who are now at the top of the list for their chosen key words and phrases. As people help you to get started when you are new, turn around and help others behind you as they get started. In case you might be wondering how to tell the difference between a new site with a page rank of “0” and a link farm with a page rank of “0”, the new site with have a cached page and the link farm will not. The link farm will have a bizillion links and the new site will have few if any. To find this information look for the icon on the Google Toolbar that looks like a blue circle with a lower case white “i” in the middle, located right next to the little green bar that shows you your current page rank. When you click on that icon you will see a drop down menu that includes both “cached snapshot page” (what your page looked like last time Google checked out your site) and “backward links” which shows how many links Google shows point to your site from other sites. If when you click on one of those drop down menu choices you find that Google has no record of that site, it’s best to wait to exchange links until you find our why there is no record. If the site has been up for more than a few days, there should be at least a cached page. If there isn’t, the site may have been bannedFind Article, and you should not associate with banned sites.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandi Moses has been involved in internet marketing since
November, 2003. Visit her sites at
http://www.123iwork4me.com
http://www.123-home-based-business-works-4-me.com
Thursday, May 10, 2007
7 Simple Steps For higher Search Engine Ranking.
These are general guidelines that may vary from search engine to search engine.
You want to make sure that you have a lot of relevant keywords in your meta tags first off. you also need to have a lot of html text on your page. fill out your alt tags for all your images. you also want to avoid duplicate content as the spiders will disregard them.
These are general guidelines that may vary from search engine to search engine:
1. Keywords should be relevant, applicable, and clearly associated with page body content.
2. Keywords should be used as allowed and accepted by the search engines (placement, color, etc.)
3. Keywords should not be utilized too many times on a page (frequency, density, distribution, etc.)
4. Redirection technology (if used) should facilitate and improve the user experience. But understand that this is almost always considered a trick and is frequently a cause for removal from an index.
5. Redirection technology (if used) should always display a page where the body content contains the appropriate keywords (no bait and switch).
6. Redirection technology (if used) may not alter the URL (redirect), affect the browser BACK button (cause a loop), or display page information that is not the property of the site owner or allowed by agreement without sound technical justification (ie, language redirects).
7. Pages should not be submitted to the search engines too frequently.
Additionally, you need to make your site sticky. This means you need to have a content rich site that makes your users stay at your site longer than your competitors.
I would suggest if you don't know ABC of SEO, then think of taking the services of SEO professional, though they chargeArticle Submission, they give you value for money.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Bell, SEO Consultant.Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services.comProfessional And Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services Trought Natural Search Engines Results. Want To learn More About SEO? Get your FREE SEO Newsletter With Hundreds Of "killer" Website Marketing Tips And Tricks.Affordable Search Engine Optimization Service.com™ is an Award Winning Search Engine Optimization Company that focuses on creating Natural Search Engine rankings.
You want to make sure that you have a lot of relevant keywords in your meta tags first off. you also need to have a lot of html text on your page. fill out your alt tags for all your images. you also want to avoid duplicate content as the spiders will disregard them.
These are general guidelines that may vary from search engine to search engine:
1. Keywords should be relevant, applicable, and clearly associated with page body content.
2. Keywords should be used as allowed and accepted by the search engines (placement, color, etc.)
3. Keywords should not be utilized too many times on a page (frequency, density, distribution, etc.)
4. Redirection technology (if used) should facilitate and improve the user experience. But understand that this is almost always considered a trick and is frequently a cause for removal from an index.
5. Redirection technology (if used) should always display a page where the body content contains the appropriate keywords (no bait and switch).
6. Redirection technology (if used) may not alter the URL (redirect), affect the browser BACK button (cause a loop), or display page information that is not the property of the site owner or allowed by agreement without sound technical justification (ie, language redirects).
7. Pages should not be submitted to the search engines too frequently.
Additionally, you need to make your site sticky. This means you need to have a content rich site that makes your users stay at your site longer than your competitors.
I would suggest if you don't know ABC of SEO, then think of taking the services of SEO professional, though they chargeArticle Submission, they give you value for money.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Bell, SEO Consultant.Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services.comProfessional And Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services Trought Natural Search Engines Results. Want To learn More About SEO? Get your FREE SEO Newsletter With Hundreds Of "killer" Website Marketing Tips And Tricks.Affordable Search Engine Optimization Service.com™ is an Award Winning Search Engine Optimization Company that focuses on creating Natural Search Engine rankings.
How to Tune Your Model Airplane Engine
Tuning is simply adjusting your engine for peak performance. The factory-fresh settings may be a good starting point. However, you may need to compensate for higher altitudes, or for temperature changes with the seasons. Changes in fuel type or engine wear, may also require a tune-up.
Relatively more fuel to air is known as a "rich" mixture, while the opposite is known as a "lean" mixture. A lean mixture generates more power, but also generates more heat. Too much heat could damage the engine. A rich mixture generates less power and less heat. Too rich and the engine might quit while you're flying.
The popular twin-needle carburetor has two needle valves. The high speed needle controls the total fuel flow into the engine, and affects the engine's behavior from half to full throttle. The low speed needle tends to have more of an effect from half throttle down to idle. Both the low and high speed needles can be richened (counterclockwise turning), or leaned (clockwise turning).
Tuning Procedure:
1) Start with the factory recommended needle valve settings.
2) Start the engine.
3) With the engine or aircraft secured, open the throttle to full.
4) Lean the high speed needle slowly and watch and listen:
Too rich: lots of smoke, low pitched sound
Leaner: reduced smoke, sound starts changing to higher pitch
Leaner still: little smoke, max rpm reached
Too lean: very little smoke, max rpm can be heard falling off. Open the needle valve up 20 or 30 degrees from this point. If you have a tachometer, open the needle about 300 rpm less than max.
5) Still at high throttle, perform the pinch test. Briefly pinch then release the fuel tube going into the carb. If the engine momentarily speeds up, then slows back down, you're done. If the engine does not speed up, or quits, then it is too lean; richen the needle some more.
6) Now throttle back to idle; let the engine idle for a couple minutes.
7) Now perform another pinch test. This time pinch and hold the line. The engine will want to speed up and die. If it speeds up immediately, it's too lean, richen the low speed needle. It should take 4-6 seconds to speed up and begin to die. Any longer and it's too rich.
8) Also check the throttle transition. With the aircraft secured and engine idling for a couple minutes, advance the throttle quickly to fully open. If the engine hesitates, the low speed mixture is too rich.
For more information about Model Airplane EnginesHealth Fitness Articles, visit the RC Airplane Advisor – Model Airplane Engines.
This article may be reprinted if proper credit is given and all links left intact.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andre is a regular contributor to the RC Airplane Advisor:
www.rc-airplane-advisor.com.
Relatively more fuel to air is known as a "rich" mixture, while the opposite is known as a "lean" mixture. A lean mixture generates more power, but also generates more heat. Too much heat could damage the engine. A rich mixture generates less power and less heat. Too rich and the engine might quit while you're flying.
The popular twin-needle carburetor has two needle valves. The high speed needle controls the total fuel flow into the engine, and affects the engine's behavior from half to full throttle. The low speed needle tends to have more of an effect from half throttle down to idle. Both the low and high speed needles can be richened (counterclockwise turning), or leaned (clockwise turning).
Tuning Procedure:
1) Start with the factory recommended needle valve settings.
2) Start the engine.
3) With the engine or aircraft secured, open the throttle to full.
4) Lean the high speed needle slowly and watch and listen:
Too rich: lots of smoke, low pitched sound
Leaner: reduced smoke, sound starts changing to higher pitch
Leaner still: little smoke, max rpm reached
Too lean: very little smoke, max rpm can be heard falling off. Open the needle valve up 20 or 30 degrees from this point. If you have a tachometer, open the needle about 300 rpm less than max.
5) Still at high throttle, perform the pinch test. Briefly pinch then release the fuel tube going into the carb. If the engine momentarily speeds up, then slows back down, you're done. If the engine does not speed up, or quits, then it is too lean; richen the needle some more.
6) Now throttle back to idle; let the engine idle for a couple minutes.
7) Now perform another pinch test. This time pinch and hold the line. The engine will want to speed up and die. If it speeds up immediately, it's too lean, richen the low speed needle. It should take 4-6 seconds to speed up and begin to die. Any longer and it's too rich.
8) Also check the throttle transition. With the aircraft secured and engine idling for a couple minutes, advance the throttle quickly to fully open. If the engine hesitates, the low speed mixture is too rich.
For more information about Model Airplane EnginesHealth Fitness Articles, visit the RC Airplane Advisor – Model Airplane Engines.
This article may be reprinted if proper credit is given and all links left intact.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andre is a regular contributor to the RC Airplane Advisor:
www.rc-airplane-advisor.com.
Cool New Search Engine On The Block
Amazon recently launched www.A9.com -- a search engine that creates more of a "portal" experience than the traditional search engine where you input your search terms...
If you log on to PayPerClickSearchEngines.com you'll find they list over 600 different pay-per-click search engines operating online.
In fact, some online sources report that over 1,000 "search engines" of various size and popularity operate in the U.S. alone.
With so much competition among sites to capture the search traffic that Google.com and Yahoo.com seem to dominate like 800 lb. Gorillas, why would one new search engine rate even a second glance?
The answer: Amazon, the Web's mega bookstore, launched a new search engine with a very user-friendly interface and some of the fastest, most relevant searches online... along with a **twist** that will help EVERY person who wants to sell ebooks for profit, publish articles to get traffic, or create special reports that go viral.
Here's the story...
Amazon recently launched www.A9.com -- a search engine that creates more of a "portal" experience than the traditional search engine where you input your search terms, click a button, and pray something relevant to your search appears in the results.
When you first log on to A9.com, it looks like a traditional search engine, but once you start searching, you'll find an organized and extremely helpful set of search tools right at your fingertips.
A9.com organizes its search criteria by category on the right side of the page.
Input a search term such as "mortgage loan" or "George Washington" and you'll start to see why I like this search engine so much.
When you first input your search term, the website displays the "web" search results to show you various websites A9.com deems relevant to your search.
Click the "books" button on the right and get a list of the most relevant books available on Amazon.com.
Follow virtually any of those book links to the Amazon website and you can literally browse through the table of contents, first chapter, and even the index of most books.
Click on the "Movies" button and get a list of any relevant movies with your search terms included.
One of the helpful things you'll notice as you start searching different types of media is that you can show or hide various search results on the same page.
So if you only want to search books and movies, you can hide the Web and reference results.
Depending on the type of information you need to research, you can also use the "Reference" results to get dictionary, encyclopedia, and history information on the search terms you entered.
Needless to say, when I did a search for "George Washington," this reference section overflowed with relevant links and information.
However, I was surprised at just how much reference material was available for search terms like "mortgage," including information from Investopedia.com on alternative search terms to help me narrow my search for more relevant information.
Probably the biggest reason I like A9.com so much is that it helps to wade through the ever rising tide of information that threatens to drown us all online.
Depending on what you need to find, you can quickly get suggestions, reference material, physical books, and even information on available film and video without leaving the A9.com website.
Now, here's specifically how A9.com can help anyone who wants to publish their own ebooks, articles, or special reports.
#1 - Insert your main search term at A9.com and look at 2 things: total web results (higher number the better) and the books and movies tabs.
If you see a lot of web results and tons of books and movies on the subject, you have a VERY good (and fast) indication that the topic you're considering is "hot" enough to warrant more investigation for creating your own ebook, special report, or other info-product.
#2 - Follow the look links to specific listings on Amazon. Some of those books will allow you to go through the table of contents, first chapter, and index right there on your screen.
Use this opportunity to:
A. Make notes on the most important points on your topic (from the table of contents) and expand your list of potential points to cover.
B. Get a feel for the general topic and the typical way authors are currently approaching it (first chapter).
** By the way, the table of contents and / or first chapter will usually give you at least one great idea for an article you could create (or pay someone to create) and use to generate traffic to your website.
C. Look for additional keywords you could use for your pay-per-click campaigns as well as your headlines, bullets, and other classified ads (in the index).
#3 - Use the "Reference" tab on A9.com to access the dictionary, thesaurus, and other tools to find MORE keywords you can use to advertise on pay-per-click search engines... specific "niche" keywords many of your competitors probably aren't using.
Though nothing on A9.com is actually new, it does present a much faster and easier way to search the web, compare reults, gather marketing intelligence, and wade through available data to help you with your own ebooks, special reports, article writingFeature Articles, and other marketing activities.
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If you log on to PayPerClickSearchEngines.com you'll find they list over 600 different pay-per-click search engines operating online.
In fact, some online sources report that over 1,000 "search engines" of various size and popularity operate in the U.S. alone.
With so much competition among sites to capture the search traffic that Google.com and Yahoo.com seem to dominate like 800 lb. Gorillas, why would one new search engine rate even a second glance?
The answer: Amazon, the Web's mega bookstore, launched a new search engine with a very user-friendly interface and some of the fastest, most relevant searches online... along with a **twist** that will help EVERY person who wants to sell ebooks for profit, publish articles to get traffic, or create special reports that go viral.
Here's the story...
Amazon recently launched www.A9.com -- a search engine that creates more of a "portal" experience than the traditional search engine where you input your search terms, click a button, and pray something relevant to your search appears in the results.
When you first log on to A9.com, it looks like a traditional search engine, but once you start searching, you'll find an organized and extremely helpful set of search tools right at your fingertips.
A9.com organizes its search criteria by category on the right side of the page.
Input a search term such as "mortgage loan" or "George Washington" and you'll start to see why I like this search engine so much.
When you first input your search term, the website displays the "web" search results to show you various websites A9.com deems relevant to your search.
Click the "books" button on the right and get a list of the most relevant books available on Amazon.com.
Follow virtually any of those book links to the Amazon website and you can literally browse through the table of contents, first chapter, and even the index of most books.
Click on the "Movies" button and get a list of any relevant movies with your search terms included.
One of the helpful things you'll notice as you start searching different types of media is that you can show or hide various search results on the same page.
So if you only want to search books and movies, you can hide the Web and reference results.
Depending on the type of information you need to research, you can also use the "Reference" results to get dictionary, encyclopedia, and history information on the search terms you entered.
Needless to say, when I did a search for "George Washington," this reference section overflowed with relevant links and information.
However, I was surprised at just how much reference material was available for search terms like "mortgage," including information from Investopedia.com on alternative search terms to help me narrow my search for more relevant information.
Probably the biggest reason I like A9.com so much is that it helps to wade through the ever rising tide of information that threatens to drown us all online.
Depending on what you need to find, you can quickly get suggestions, reference material, physical books, and even information on available film and video without leaving the A9.com website.
Now, here's specifically how A9.com can help anyone who wants to publish their own ebooks, articles, or special reports.
#1 - Insert your main search term at A9.com and look at 2 things: total web results (higher number the better) and the books and movies tabs.
If you see a lot of web results and tons of books and movies on the subject, you have a VERY good (and fast) indication that the topic you're considering is "hot" enough to warrant more investigation for creating your own ebook, special report, or other info-product.
#2 - Follow the look links to specific listings on Amazon. Some of those books will allow you to go through the table of contents, first chapter, and index right there on your screen.
Use this opportunity to:
A. Make notes on the most important points on your topic (from the table of contents) and expand your list of potential points to cover.
B. Get a feel for the general topic and the typical way authors are currently approaching it (first chapter).
** By the way, the table of contents and / or first chapter will usually give you at least one great idea for an article you could create (or pay someone to create) and use to generate traffic to your website.
C. Look for additional keywords you could use for your pay-per-click campaigns as well as your headlines, bullets, and other classified ads (in the index).
#3 - Use the "Reference" tab on A9.com to access the dictionary, thesaurus, and other tools to find MORE keywords you can use to advertise on pay-per-click search engines... specific "niche" keywords many of your competitors probably aren't using.
Though nothing on A9.com is actually new, it does present a much faster and easier way to search the web, compare reults, gather marketing intelligence, and wade through available data to help you with your own ebooks, special reports, article writingFeature Articles, and other marketing activities.
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