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March 13, 2008 - Thursday 
Unique content is King. Search engines love new, unique and updated content. If you produce new content at a rate of just one reasonably sized page per day and tied in with the other advice throughout the site, I can almost guarantee you will get good listings. Remember though, write for the visitors but cater for the search engines. If your field of expertise fits into a niche in the market, all the better for you but you must get unique content all you will fall behind. Seocontest2008

Page Structure. Search engine bots can sometimes get confused with poorly coded html, javascript and other web languages. If the bot has to wait too long or cannot decipher the web language then it will just abandon your site and move on to the next, even if it manages to get through the code it usually leads to poor search engine indexing of your website. You should also keep to widely used file extensions like .htm, .html, .php, .asp for your pages.

Loading Speed. The loading speed of your website should be kept to a minimum, if it takes long than 5 seconds on 256kb+ connections then you lose visitors - both real and search engine bots. There are a variety of reasons why pages can load slowly, it may either be your web server, poorly coded server side code like php or client side code like javascript which can slow or even stop your page from loading.

Visitor Navigation. This is more an aesthetic feature of your website focused at real visitors but you need to have some sort of standard navigation that is the same throughout your whole site. People can be put off and leave your website if they find it difficult to browse easily, search engine bots may also miss links if they can only be found deep within your site. Try to make as many internal links as possible available on each page.

Site Hierarchy. Site hierachy can be great for adding keyword density to your web site. An example of site hierachy working effectively would be this page, seo-advice.php. The full link contains SEO twice - www.seoassistance.com/seo-advice.php which is very beneficial in the way search engines determine your sites relevance to a particular subject. Use your domain, folders and file names to your advantage.

Avoid Blackhat SEO. Blackhat SEO is a vast topic that commands little respect from real webmasters as it means using underhand methods to gain search engine rankings, although the site is usually banned quickly. Blackhat SEO includes using link farms, search engine spamming, hidden or disguised text, fake meta tag data, using duplicate content and using doorway pages. I would recommend you stay away from tactics like this as you will end up losing out in the long run.

Targeted Linkswaps. Link swaps are great but you must make them work for you. It does little good for you when your going for top search engine positions when your link swaps are untargeted. You should choose some specific keywords for both the link text and the link title text then make sure before you link swap that the other webmaster adds those specific keywords with the link.seo contest 2008
March 12, 2008 - Wednesday 

Category: News and Politics
In-house vs. out-sourced SEOcontest2008

If your company is considering conducting your search engine optimization program in-house, here are some questions to consider.

• Who will be responsible for analyzing, developing, implementing and measuring the success of your SEO program?

• Is this considered the role of your IT department, Marketing department or some other individual(s) within your company?

• Do they have the time, knowledge, and resources to successfully implement and maintain your search engine optimization program? And do they really care if it works or not?

SEO contest 2008

Typically your IT department handles multiple daily tasks from trouble-shooting your company's LAN or WAN to fixing the sales department's laptops? Out of a busy IT person's day, what priority and focus do you think he or she will commit to for your SEO program? And even if your IT department has some skills in web design or development, these skills make up only a small percentage of the knowledge required for a successful search engine optimization program.

Marketing Department

Typically, your marketing department juggles many marketing projects at once and faces strict completion deadlines. From handling new print collateral campaigns to getting ready for new product or service launches, marketing personnel's time is spread very thin. In addition, how knowledgeable is your marketing department in the technical aspects of web design and search engine optimization? Do they have the time to become well-versed? Do they have sufficient internal resources? Often the answer to both questions is no, they do not.

Other individual(s) within your company for SEOcontest2008

Ok, so the responsibility falls onto someone outside of your Marketing or IT department. Who will that be and why are they responsible for your SEO program? Providing these individuals with a new "project of the month," will typically result in another check mark off of their monthly to-do list and frustration by top management of why their website is not producing any sales results.
March 11, 2008 - Tuesday 

Category: Blogging
Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions in SEO is that ranking at Google and Yahoo is all that counts in search engine optimization. Potential clients come to me with a single goal: "Get me a top-ten ranking at Google." Some will also mention MSN, and a few will rhyme off a list of search engines and want to rank well at the top 200 of them.  It is time to separate fact from fiction.  Yes, your SEO consultant can get you a top-ten placement at Google for seocontest2008. But...

1. If the placement is for "dirty brown shoes", it probably won't help your shoe store one bit, even if I get you the first place ranking. Few people are actually searching for that term.

2. Being number ten might not help much either, depending on the term. People searching for "Essential Nectar liquid vitamins", will probably click on the first result they see, or at least on one of the "above-the-fold" results that do not require scrolling. On the other hand, someone searching for "liquid vitamins" might check through two pages of results to familiarize herself with the options available.

3. If your title tag reads like a cheap list of search terms, it will not be enticing. For instance, if it reads: "vitamins, liquid vitamins, multivitamins, multi-vitamins", you might skip over it in favor of the next result that reads "Liquid vitamins from the Liquid Vitamin Supplements Store".

4. If your description tag is a mess, people will more likely skip over your listing, even if it does rank number one, in favor of one that sounds like what they are looking for. Google and others use the description tag usually when the term searched for is found in it, so make sure to include your key search terms in a description tag that actually reads well.

I recently responded to a forum question, which went something like this: My site ranks number one for this term at this engine. The term is searched this many times per day, and the engine has this percentage marketshare. Can I expect this many visitors?  That's not an SEO challenge; that's a math problem: searches x marketshare = visitors  I responded with a few factors that override mathematics in the SEO game, including the site's title tag and description tag, as well as whether the term lends itself to scrolling. I also pointed out that it depends on the title tags and description tags of the competition, too.

Another factor that makes predicting traffic difficult is the abandonment factor – how many people click on none of the results because they get interrupted or confused, or abandon the search for a new one because they find themselves off-topic or searching too broadly.  It also depends on how many sponsored links there are and how they are marked. Often at Yahoo and Lycos, for example, there are so many ads that the average searcher might never scroll a screen or two to see the organic (natural) results.  And, of course, it also depends on the color of the walls in the room the searcher is clicking from, the weather outside and how well they slept last night. But there is little you can do about that.  What you can do is to work with your SEO consultant to choose the most effective search terms for your business and make sure he develops a title tag and description tag that sell to both humans and the search engines. Then make sure he is monitoring not just the rankings for your key search terms, but also the description used by each of the search engines.

A good ranking at Google and Yahoo is just one measure of your SEOcontest2008s success. A more complete evaluation is that he is your partner in building long-term, targeted traffic.

March 8, 2008 - Saturday 

Category: Games

Search engine optimization, or SEO, for SEOcontest2008 is big business. If you rely on search engines to bring visitors to your business website, you need to rely on more than luck. Your business will lag far short of its potential unless your site is optimized and re-optimized for search engine results.

What is search engine optimization for seocontest2008?

SEO is optimizing your website for search engines, acquiring inbound links, and monitoring your traffic and referring links to use them optimally. SEO is also studying and monitoring your competitors' techniques.  The goal of SEO is to bring in targeted traffic that is organic, i.e., from search results. When people type in a keyword or phrase that you've optimized your site for, you want your site to appear on the first page, preferably high on that page. Good SEO results in increased traffic without the cost and time spent on advertising.

The SEO industry

Where there's a need, there's an industry ready to help you spend money on that need. SEO firms charge from a few hundred dollars up to six-figure amounts to optimize your site for search engines.  If paying thousands of dollars to an SEO firm isn't in your budget, consider using SEO packages to optimize your site yourself.  A combination of SEO tools is needed to get the best results. The SEO packages described below offer a variety of tools to help you optimize your site for search engines.

March 7, 2008 - Friday 

Category: News and Politics
SEO Introduction Seocontest2008
If your looking to increase your websites presence SEO on the internet we will provide you with a detailed insight into the world of Search Engine Optimization, so let us begin with this broken down introduction to SEOcontest2008. In the current age having your site online is only one step towards making your mark on the internet, it's incredibly easy to get online but once you get online you will probably encounter a common dilemma, where are the visitors? Undoubtedly you have joined the many millions of websites that fall into the abyss of the search engine's, if you are fortunate to get listed by them at all. You may not think search engine positioning affects you but if you own or operate a website, it does. If you any ambitions for your website then you have to cater for this increasingly important SEO webmaster role.

SEO Search engine optimization is more than making your site contest well in the major search engines, it's about integrating it seamlessly into your page design without your visitors even being aware exists. SEO is an on going task that all webmasters need to undertake in order to keep reasonable positioning within search engines and receive the subsequent traffic it brings. A common SEO mistake many people make is to optimize their site once and believe that they can hold a rank, this might be true for some obscure key words but there is so much information flowing around the internet that there will always be someone willing to contest your site for rankings.  To start, add you link in our free directory.
March 6, 2008 - Thursday 

Category: Games

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) SEOcontest2008
On February 1st 2008, I entered this "SeoContest2008" to see how my SEO skills match up to the professional SEO consultants. If I do well in the contest I will consider doing seo work for other web sites. As of today, 17 February 2008, I am in 3rd place. I have been as high as 2nd place and as low as 8th place in this contest. I suspect that the competition will get stronger the closer we get to April 1st 2008, the end of the SEOcontest2008.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Some people feel that search engine optimization (SEO), is a smaller part of search engine marketing (SEM). SEO involves "optimizing" your website so it becomes more appealing to search engines and as a result your website is placed higher in the search results for your desired key terms. Your SEO professional should take the time with you to explore as many possible key words and phrases to use in your website pages. The SEO professional should also have sources to get additional key words that would be attractive to your target audience. Your SEO consultant should also be able to do a website competitive analysis of your top competitors and use that information to your benefit.

The most difficult part of SEOcontest2008 is waiting the time required to get your website to the top. Search engines do not update their information daily or even weekly, it can take six to eight weeks or more to see the full effects of a professional SEO job in your website's search engine search results. Nevertheless, Organic SEO costs a lot less than PPC. PPC (Pay Per Click) is a marketing program where the user must pay each time a person clicks on your advertisment or link.  SEOcontest2008

March 5, 2008 - Wednesday 
SEO Marketing notes of Kinetic Die Casting and Seocontest2008.

From 1998 until 2005 I relied on "professional" SEO marketing people to help my business grow. Their results were very sad. Kinetic had a single page listing on page 30 of Yahoo and no listings on any other search engine. I discovered that these professionals were selling space in their directories and marketing their directories but not helping my web site specifically. That is why I began learning the secrets of SEO Marketing and joined seocontest2008.

I have been (doing SEO marketing) working on improving internet marketing (the search result rankings) of Kinetic Die Casting since March 2005. I use many forms of SEO marketing such as:

   1. Search Engine Submissions including a direct submission into Google, Yahoo and       MSN.
   2. I have used SEO and optimized the website so there are many first page listings on many search engines.
   3. I control a PPC (Pay Per Click) program to improve results in other areas.


As a result Kinetic Die Casting has improved the Alexa Traffic Ranking from 1 in 4,000,000 websites to the current traffic ranking. I have a few links to get the current Google Search Result Rankings for a few "Keywords" Kinetic Die Casting is optimized for in the "natural" listings.

SEOcontest2008
is a contest between seo consultants such as myself to get to the top of Google search results for the term seocontest2008.  I am participating in this contest and am doing very well.
March 4, 2008 - Tuesday 

Category: Friends
West Coast Die casting companies are experiencing a lot of difficulties. In the last few years many die casting companies have either closed down or purchased by another company. In the last five years these eight die casting companies in Southern California have either closed or have been sold.
C&D Die Casting (closed auction)
Robinson Die Casting (closed auction)
Pomona Die Casting (closed auction)
Prime Casting (closed auction)
Spencer Die Casting (sold to competitor)
Cascade Pacific Die Casting (closed auction)
Universal Die Casting (closed auction)
Lansco Die Casting (sold to competitor)

Kinetic Die Casting has grown in the past two years despite the economic difficulties of doing business in America and California.

Prices
The prices for fuel have risen thus increasing the cost of natural gas to melt metal and pay the electric bill to run the die casting machines. The price for aluminum has risen dramatically in the past few years. Despite these difficulties, Kinetic Die Casting has maintained a competitive, a low aluminum die casting part price for our die casting customers.

Delivery
Kinetic Die Casting will run production orders of 100 parts to producing 100,000 parts for our customers in a year. Our niche is generally for lower quantity production needs. Kinetic Die Casting is delivering aluminum parts faster than ever before. We use a lean manufacturing die casting process that allows us to deliver diecastings in days verses weeks of long ago. We can deliver in some cases the week we get the order.

Quality
Kinetic Die Casting has learned the lesson that "you cannot inspect quality into production parts" We make the parts correctly so that these parts will not have to be fixed or reworked into compliance of our customers needs.

Marketing
Kinetic Die Casting has the best internet marketing presence of any die casting company.  SeoContest2008

March 3, 2008 - Monday 

California Die Casting Companies are experiencing many difficulties.  Kinetic Die Casting is a California Die Casting Company.  Lansco Die Casting is gone.

Lansco Die Casting sold all their customers to a competitor. Lansco Die Casting Inc. operated one of the largest die casting facilities in California. they Were a full service die caster, offering a tremendous range of solutions in aluminum and zinc alloy die castings. their unique capabilities set them apart from most die casters their 70,000 square foot facility was designed and constructed specifically for die casting. In an ever-demanding marketplace, Lansco's commitment to the latest manufacturing technology and the expertise of their people has kept them on the forefront of their industry. Lansco serviced a wide range of industries, including the communications, medical diagnostic, office products, trucking, automotive after-market, aerospace and military industries. Lansco provided high quality castings to nearly every segment of the valve industry. From electronic fluid handling to gas control valves, Lansco provided die casting solutions that helped their customers succeed.

Kinetic Die Casting
is able to succeed in these difficult times and is continuing to grow through marketing seocontest2008 Contest for SEO 2008 Kineticdc marketing.  seocontest2008

March 2, 2008 - Sunday 
Description of Aluminum Boxes, Aluminum Enclosure Castings and Aluminum Housing Die Castings The terms "aluminum enclosures" and "aluminum housings" are the same. Aluminum housings and enclosures are boxes die casted for many reasons. Die cast aluminum housings require less labor in assembly than other processes. Die casting aluminum parts, enclosure parts are produced at a faster rate than other manufacturing processes. Aluminum housing parts weigh less then steel fabricated parts.  SEOcontest2008



Aluminum Enclosures, Aluminum Housings or Aluminum Boxes are electrically conductive and can be easily be electrically grounded. Aluminum box enclosures can be produced with the mounting holes necessary for installing circuit boards and covers or lids to the enclosures to seal from moisture and damage to the components assembled. Aluminum enclosures work well with aluminum heatsink parts to remove and dissipate heat from components.  SEOcontest2008

Die casting box parts do not require welded seams, so they usually look better. Depending on the size and weight of the parts, Aluminum boxes, aluminum enclosures and aluminum housings can be produced at the rate of a few hundred to a few thousand parts each day. Aluminum Box Enclosures or Aluminum Box Housings Parts are easily powdercoated.  SEOcontest2008
March 1, 2008 - Saturday 

Category: Automotive
Auto Parts and Car Parts and Automotive parts. Car Parts or Auto parts in aluminum are 1/3 the weight of steel parts. Aluminum auto parts are produced from a few hundred to thousands of auto parts a day. Many features of the automotive part are manufactured "net shape" to save the cost of wasted materials and the additional labor of machining. Mounting holes are usually produced into the aluminum auto part during production. also saving cost. Many of the primary "tier one" automotive manufacturers have their own manufacturing plants. They also purchase aluminum automotive parts from companies such as Kinetic Die Casting.

Good news for Chevy parts, Toyota parts, Nissan parts, Honda parts and Jeep parts users! Auto Parts Train, the country's leading auto parts dealer is now selling these top quality auto parts at the lowest prices. While you get satisfied from the auto parts' superior quality and performance, you can also save from Auto Parts Train's hottest deals on these products. Up to 50% discounts are offered plus you get more choices as Auto Parts Train includes auto parts for older and the latest models.
seocontest2008
February 28, 2008 - Thursday 

Category: Food and Restaurants
The Chocolate Fountain uses a Heater Plate to keep chocolate warm and flowing, just like hot liquid chocolate candy. Chocolate Fountains are used for many events such as Wedding Receptions, Parties and Birthday Parties.

A chocolate fountain is a device for serving chocolate fondue. Typical examples resemble a stepped cone, standing 2-4 feet tall with a crown at the top and stacked tiers over a basin at the bottom. The basin is heated to keep the chocolate in a liquid state so it can be pulled into a center cylinder then vertically transported to the top of the fountain by a corkscrew auger. From there it flows over the tiers creating a chocolate "waterfall" in which food items like strawberries or marshmallows can be dipped.

Kinetic Die Casting makes a heaterplate to keep chocolate melted for a chocolate fountain.  Melted chocolate is very temperamental, so rich couverture chocolate, which is high in cocoa butter, is commonly used to ensure consistent flow. If the cocoa butter content of the chocolate is too low, an additive must be mixed in to decrease viscosity. (Vegetable oil is most commonly used to do this.) But even couverture chocolate--unless specifically designed for fountains--often still requires an additive to make it flow smoothly. Because of this, it is highly recommended that chocolate formulated specifically for fountains be used to avoid the need for the addition of vegetable oil, as the oil gives a slimy, gritty taste and texture to the chocolate. Few chocolate fountains are capable of melting chocolate directly in the basin, so chocolate is typically melted in a microwave or double boiler before pouring it into the chocolate fountain.  SEO contest 2008
February 27, 2008 - Wednesday 

Category: Games
Golfers are always seeking new golfing products to improve their golf game. Sometimes it is new golf clubs or a new golf swing appliance. A new type of golfball or glove or even a new golf towel.  Kinetic Die Casting makes golf ball warmer Product.

If you golf, chances are you've gone through your share of balls. They seem to get lost all the time, and the costs mount quickly. Even the best golfers routinely lose balls, and for the average duffer, these "misplaced" golf balls can quickly become an expensive addition to the golf outing.

Used golf balls that are in great condition and ready to play can be purchased in bulk over the internet. There are many companies that sell used balls, usually in dozens. Different companies have different grading systems but they are all relatively similar.  seocontest2008

Most sites describe some sort of quality assurance sorting, so that the balls are graded. Balls are sorted into various categories and sold by the dozen.

Top grade used golf balls are often called Grade A or Grade 1, one or two sites listed them as Grade AAA. They are usually described as like new. Many customers have commented that these balls are often indistinguishable from the new ones, and can be subsequently lost just as quickly as those right out of the sleeve. These are usually described as near perfect with a slight blemish or mark.
February 26, 2008 - Tuesday 

Category: Music



Guitar Amplifier Chassis Housing. The Solid Metal dual-tube distortion pedal produces massive, face-melting gain. Flexible controls let you dial in metal tones from the 80's to beyond tomorrow. The unique shape of the Bass control adjusts the speaker's resonant response for the proper level of chest-thump during tight palm-muted passages, while the Scoop and Treble knobs sculpt and top off your tone to perfection.  seocontest2008


Dual 12AX7 tubes biased at 250V internally
Aluminum die-cast guitar amplifier chassis by Kinetic Die Casting
Switchable 20DB nuclear gain boost
Unique Bass control adjusts the guitar resonant speaker response
Scoop control for massive tone-shaping for guitar
Advanced-order Treble control for detailed high-end guitar response
Comprehensive guitar LED indicators
Power supply included
Remote switching

February 26, 2008 - Tuesday 
Handle Hardware Parts and Aluminum Bracket Hardware parts made. Are very common in manufacturing and production of homes and equipment. Hardware parts from aluminum handles or aluminum brackets can be produced near net shape, meaning no welding pieces or assembling pieces. A solid Aluminum Die Casting Handle Hardware is stronger than a handle pieced together as a weldament.

Aluminum handle brackets can have the hole cast into place thus saving the cost of machining the holes. In some cases the aluminum handle bracket parts are stronger than a steel welded part because the aluminum handle can be designed with radii and strengthening ribs. Tooling molds and tooling to produce aluminum hardware parts.  seocontest2008