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I create websites for businesses at http://www.a1aweb.com. I help people that already have websites optimize them for the search engines and teach them how to get more hits using Overture and Google.
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June 10

Florida Land for Sale Cheaper than Ever Before

Spring has come and gone and now summer is upon us. The weather here in Crescent City Florida is really quite mild this time of year with a light breeze coming off of Crescent Lake making it quite pleasant to sit out on the front porch on a lazy sunny summer afternoon. If you like porch swings and southern climes, big fancy houses on oak tree lined streets you will love Crescent City. It is a Florida secret that I would like to share. Just a tiny town on Crescent Lake with all the local amenities such as bank, post office, grocery store, restaurants but without the hustle and bustle and overdevelopment of Orlando and nearby Deland. Drive north on 17 from Deland and you will find Crescent City a pleasant respite with a down home flavor, gorgeous lake views and good folks sittin on their front porch swings soaking up the easy times. While you are visiting drive down Park street north and you will see my Florida lots for sale only 1 block from the lake. Next to them is a Key West style home w. front porch swing. I am hoping someone will build something similar on these lots to blend in with the local historical flavor of architecture. Be sure to visit the waterfront restaurant on the water within walking distance of these properties.

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Rust Prevention on Used Heavy Equipment

Heavy Equipment is a valuable investments so you want to keep your own used heavy equipment in excellent shape and condition as much as possible. No matter how old or new it is or whether it’s a known model or not, you should give it special treatment as it provides as efficient, safe and comfortable means of earning a living as well as being used for personal use.

It is inevitable for any type of used heavy equipment to experience common mechanical problems; this is especially true if the model is already old. Among the most destructive and the most annoying problems is rust. This affects almost all machinery parts, especially those exposed to moisture. One used semis the body panels, including the doors, the fenders, the hood and the bed are of course among the most vulnerable. When damaged by rust, these body parts become weak and not only that, they become ugly too. Replacement may be your only solution.

The hood is one of the most important body parts as this is used to protect the most vital parts of your semi truck such as the engine. Just like the doors and the fenders, this must be rigid and tough to be able to give the best protection to parts underneath.

Since the hood has a metal covering that is exposed to harsh elements in the environment, the hood is also very susceptible to rust. Because of this, proper care is needed. It must be kept clean all the time and make sure the drain holes around the hood are clear so water can't pass through and cause rust.

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November 14

The Controversy over Bird Flu

The Controversy over Bird Flu

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Local governments and health organizations began to squabble over who had the power to do what. The question was of legalities: who would control distribution of anti-viral drugs for the Bird Flu and who would receive those drugs? Army barracks received attention but prisoners were ignored. Families with pets were labeled as ‘higher risk’ groups but no-one knew if these families should receive more help or less. As in-fighting became more severe, decision processing became more difficult. Who should give the daily press briefings? Who would organize mass cremation? Who would facilitate conferences for global medical meetings? The list grew rapidly.

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July 12

Exchanging Links with Related Sites

I have learned after doing many link exchanges on many different sites that it is better to share links with others in related industries-similar to the way you see many different businesses of the same ilk grouped together at intersections-like car dealerships and gas stations for instance. The reason for this is because the more businesses you have grouped together-it works just like the shopping mall concept-you get more traffic and more traffic means more customers to browse in your store and thus more buyers. It is all a numbers game-the more hits you get to your website (the more eyeballs you can get to look at it) the better your chances of making a sale. I am trying to instill this concept into the minds of some of my newer website customers that are dealing in gemstones but they are afraid of losing potential customers to other dealers thru a link exchange. I beleive that you have far more to gain from networking with other businesses in the same arena than you could ever lose. They will be linking back to you-so they are taking just as much of a chance as you are. It also builds rapor and comaraderie and they are more likely to refer someone to you because of it.
If you would like more information about how to increase hits to your website please go to Improving Your Websites Performance Thanks, Ann Menke

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June 03

Blogging To Help Your Site on the Search Engines

I have recently suggested to some of my A1AWEB customers to create a blog thru blogger.com to help their sites do better on the search engines. It is the easiest way I know of for them to create content online. The way this works is they write about their website and whatever else they want to write about and put links to their website within their blog. This can also help if you have affiliate programs you want to get more traffic to. Add links to some of your affiliate programs and mention one of your web pages every few days within your blog postings.
I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to remember to put a link to your websites within your blog.
After you create a blog be sure to join yahoo.com and add your blog as an RSS feed to your My Yahoo web area. You can also do this by joining MSN.com as they offer MSN webspaces for you to create a blog in which you can pull into your yahoo web area. Pulling your blog as an RSS feed into the content of your My Yahoo will cause Yahoo to index that blog. If you post to your blogger for 8 days in a row Google will pick up your blog. And if you put links to your website within the blog-this will cause google to crawl and hopefully index your website as well. I hope you find this information helpful- if you need help with getting your website to do better on the search engines please contact me Ann Menke at 800-459-8675 or email me at: info@a1aweb.com

June 02

Search Engines Don't Care How Big You Are

I consistently hear from companies who are puzzled as to why their expensive, cutting-edge website is perpetually outranked by a site of perceived inferior quality - “our website is better than theirs” or “we are a much bigger company” are common remarks. Beauty is, as always, in the eye of the beholder. The sites that consistently rank highly are almost always using optimization methods that offer something of value to people who entered the search query. Search engines care as much about the size of a company or how much it spent on its website about as much as they care about what you had for breakfast this morning.
Rather than chase the ever-changing technical attributes that can get you short-term results, you instead use optimization methods that leverage your company’s knowledge of your industry to create something useful for the searcher. You can improve your website and offer the information and products that prospects are seeking, even if those prospects are in the earliest stages of the buying cycle. In general, you will not have to watch your rankings swing wildly based upon new spam filters or algorithm shifts, and thus will enjoy a higher level of predictability when it comes to your website (although with search engines, there are never any guarantees). Since you aren’t constantly forced to re-address your site’s search engine optimization methods, you’ll have more time to focus on other online marketing areas that need attention, such as doing link exchanges, creating a newsletter, etc.
So just add more relevant content-even just one page a week or even one page a month and slowly but surely you will get a more long lasting boost on the search engines.
Need help on the search engines go to A1AWEB
or call me - Ann Menke at 800-459-8675.

 
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