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September 30th, 2008

Cialis for Erectile dysfunction

Cialis is a prescription medication used for treating problems with obtaining or maintaining an erection. Numerous men suffer erectile dysfunction at times, and the likelihood increases with age. Estimates seem to be increasing as more careful studies are done and as men become more prepared to seek help. Some estimates indicate that about 40% of men over 40 will have erection problems.

Only your doctor can decide if Cialis is right for you. Cialis can cause mild, temporary lowering of your blood pressure. You will need to have a thorough medical exam to diagnose

Erectile dysfunction and to find out if you can safely take Cialis alone or with your other medicines. Your doctor should determine if your heart is healthy enough to handle the extra strain of having sex.

Some medicines can change the way Cialis works. Tell your doctor about any medicines you are taking. Do not start or stop taking any medicines before checking with your doctor or pharmacist. This includes prescription and nonprescription medicines or remedies:

Consider, Cialis should never be used with medicines that contain nitrates (see Cialis Is Not for Everyone).

If you are taking medicines called alpha-blockers for the treatment of high blood pressure or prostate problems, your blood pressure could suddenly drop. You could get silly or weak.

Interview With Peter Lewis, Author of “Treehouse Chronicles”
September 25th, 2008

Reader Views is happy to have with us, Peter Lewis, author of “Treehouse Chronicles.” Welcome Peter!

Irene: Peter, you have a book here that is very unlike other books. Tell us a little more about it.

Peter: “Treehouse Chronicles” is a story about people, the joys of working together, and the wonder of the natural world, all wrapped around a dream shared by kids of all agesthe creation of an enormous treehouse filled with odd contraptions, secret locks, furniture made from trees, and a drawbridge activated by gravity and falling boulders. It’s a hardcover, large format book full of photographs, sketches, and watercolors. But it’s more than just big and pretty: it has a wonderful message – it’s a coffee-table book with heart.

It’s the story of what happens when big people decide to be kids again and they have tools and lumber. I call the book my “master’s thesis on irony” because it explores the ups and downs (pun intended) of living a dream which on some days seemed like the greatest adventure in the world, and on other days seemed like the biggest mistake I ever made. I kept a journal during the construction and the 1400 pages that I amassed form the heart of the book: from day 1, when inspiration struck, to day 1028, when I splashed the last bit of shellac on the last stair tread. It’s the story of an ordinary man who goes on a great journey without ever leaving his back yard.

Irene: What inspired you to publish this book?

Peter: I’ve written a bunch of books and this was my first book of whimsy (and it won’t be the last). I published this book because people need to know that childhood never really has to end, and that being a grownup isn’t just about going to meetings and paying bills and shuttling kids to soccer practice and answering e-mails. Although chronologically I was in my 40s when I built the treehouse, the whole time I felt like I was about twelveand I had the time of my life.

Irene: Tell us about yourself and how “Treehouse Chronicles” reflects on your own life.

Peter: I grew up in a family where imagination, creativity, and industry were highly prized. My parents didn’t encourage me to think outside the boxthey told me they weren’t sure there was a box. (My father, who is 80, builds boats.) This idea of pushing, learning, and experimenting, has stuck with me my entire life. But, we weren’t just idle dreamersthere was a practical side. When I was little, my mom said to me, “Dreams need feet, Peter. They’re no good stuck between your ears.” She meant that the “doing” part of dreaming was even more important than the “thinking” partshe (and my dad, too) wanted results. (It was okay if the dream was sillyas long as you got it done.)

Irene: You were very fortunate to have parents did were so upbeat. They seemed to be ahead of their time when you were growing up. Did you appreciate their encouragement when you were growing up?

Peter: In most ways my parents, and my early years, were fairly conventional: two parents, two kids, dog, house in the suburbs (fortunately surrounded by forests and swamps). My dad was a mechanical engineer; my mom was mostly home, but worked a little. Typical for the 1960’s. My parents were differentalthough I’m not sure “ahead of their time” describes them. I certainly appreciated the freedom they gave me to get a feel for the creative life. We had rules, to be sure, but my parents weren’t afraid of saying “yes,” whenever I wanted to try something. They let me keep snakes in my room (and in my pockets); I was allowed to climb on the roof (as well as trees) starting when I was about six; tools and lumber were everywhere for me to experiment with; playing in the swamp behind the house was considered normal. My parents told me I could do anything. I believed them.

Irene: Do you have children? If so, do you give the same encouragement your parents gave you?

Peter: I have two children. And no, I don’t give them the same encouragement my parents gave meI give them more. My typical response to “Daddy, can I?” is, “YES!” I only say no if something is truly dangerous or unethical or would hurt someone else. The pat answer that most parents give their kids is “no.” They often do this because “yes” would inconvenience them or make them look odd to their friends and neighbors (or both). I think that’s sad. Lest you think our home is chaotic, let me reassure you that it is not. Both my kids are respectful, studious, well behaved, and motivated to succeed in life. They have been encouraged to learn the value of initiative and hard work and they know where life’s real boundaries lie.

My son is a junior at a prestigious engineering school and will likely go on to get his master’s degree in nuclear engineering (he wants to work in the field of marine architecture). He is my best friend and when I get older I want to be just like him. My daughter is tall and lovely, reads several books a week, and is about to help me renovate our barn just in time for her new horse. She’s only 13 so she’s not sure what she wants to be when she gets older (notice I didn’t say “when she grows up”), but she’s already talking about college. (By the way, both kids are home schooledall the credit goes to my wife, Karen.) Karen is the rock in the family. She’s German, and very pragmatic. Without her we’d be completely out of control. She doesn’t climb trees or keep snakes in her pockets, but she does cheer us on. Occasionally she says “no” and it’s always a good thing when she does (it saves us trips to the emergency room). She’s wonderful and the love of my life.

Irene: T.B.R. Walsh is the illustrator. Tell us a little about Mr. Walsh and how he became part of your book.

Peter: Ted is my friend, business partner, and a craftsman and artist. He helped conceive of and build the treehouse, and his artistic talent helped make the book truly special. He grew up in northern Massachusetts and on the Maine coast and his artistic bent showed up early. Before he turned four, he drew a three-dimensional cow.

“There’s something wrong with this kid,” his dad said. “We’ve got to get him tested.”

He has studied the history of art in New England and Italy, dabbled in experimental archeology and comparative ancient languages, once built a Celtic wheelhouse, and restored a 37-foot wooden sloop (which he sails on the coast of Maine). After college he taught art history, history, and architecture design at a private secondary school for nine years where he slowly lost his mind. He taught wilderness and leadership skills at a prestigious wilderness medicine school in New Hampshire for many years, and lives in a cottage in the woods with a wolf.

Irene: When you were trekking with your camera and journal, were you aware at that time your findings will end up in a book?

Peter: Very early on, as I was tinkering with design ideas for the treehouse, it occurred to me that this was going to be a series of mishaps that many people would find interestingI can’t imagine not deciding to do the book. I’m always looking for the extraordinary in ordinary things, so writing a book about my little adventure hanging a cottage in the sky was inevitable.

Irene: Much of your book is about nature. From this, I gather that you bond with nature and the creatures in it. Tell us about your experiences.

Peter: Again, this stems from the early years of my childhood. I grew up in the woods, spent much of my free time exploring the local hills and swamps, and frequently snuck wild things into my room (logs full of ants, snakes, big rocks, bird’s nests, bee’s nests, turtles, leaves, live squirrels, etc.) My parents encouraged all this (except for the ants, which my mom had to vacuum up). We spent summers deep in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York on a lake where we had to take a boat to get to our camp. I thought it was paradise and I spent much of my time fishing or knee-deep in muck bonding with frogs. I went on to get a degree in forestry, and though I never worked in that industry, my love for wild places has never waned, (e.g. I spent twenty years on-and-off as a professional mountain guide). I feel most at home in the forests and mountains and streams.

Irene: The book is about fulfilling a dream. In reality, whose dream is this?

Peter: It’s certainly my dreamat least in the sense that I was the guy who first had the nutty idea. But, there were many conspirators, and, if this project was anything, it was a magnet for people who don’t take life too seriously (my father and my son in particular). I would have friends call me up and say things like, “Hey, I’m not busy on Saturday, can I come over and help you lug heavy timbers up a ladder? Please?” So, at least in a sense, this dream of mine was contagious and when it was over there were dozens of people whose lives had somehow been enriched by it. And perhaps it wasn’t even the concrete dream itselfthe indisputable fact that we were hanging a three-ton house in the skybut rather the idea that this sort of thing was not only possible, but should be encouraged. I’ve had many readers tell me that this book has inspired them to throw convention to the wind and follow their own dream. I love the way that makes me feel.

Irene: As humans, one of our greatest needs is to belong – be needed. You filled that need for your friends. Do you believe that your dream became your friends’ reality?

Peter: I hope not. I hope this dream we all shared will motivate my friends to go out and do their own great (if offbeat) things. And I hope they invite me over when they need help.

Irene: There is a deep message in “Treehouse Chronicles.” Please tell us what it is that you hope your readers will “get”?

Peter: I’ve probably already answered this:

• Dreams need feet. They’re no good stuck between your ears.

• Childhood never really has to end.

• Don’t take life too seriously (and don’t worry if people think you’re a nut).

• The natural world is a wonderful place; spend more time there.

• Creativity and hard work have their own rewards.

• You don’t have to travel to some far-flung corner of the world to have an adventureI had my greatest adventure in my own back yard.

Irene: Why this message, and not some other message, like hiking is fun.

Peter: Because this message (described in the bullet points above) can be applied to anybody, anytime, anywhere, doing anything. It is not bound by social status, or financial security, or cultural convention, and is not limited to any one activity.

P.S. I’m not sure hiking is fun; my knees hurt (unless I’m running).

Irene: Explain to us about the squirrel – the squirrel with an attitude.

Peter: Vinny (Vincent R. Thugrat) is a red squirrel whose great grandfather came over on the boat from the Old Country. He is the principle antagonist in the book and my archenemy. He owns the tree (and, he thinks, the entire forest), and sees me as both a trespasser and a vandal. He is loud, obnoxious, and leaves cigarette butts and turds everywhere. He chews on woodwork, steals insulation, parties until the wee hours of the morning, and is just an all-around grouch. We constantly bicker and he always wins because he’s louder. I’ve often thought of killing him, but he has bigger, more thuggish cousins (all named Vinny) who swing baseball bats.

Irene: Does Vinny’s character resemble anyone you know?

Peter: Danny DeVitto in the sitcom Taxi.

Irene: What was your purpose of including the squirrel?

Peter: I had no choice. He threatened my family. Besides, he offers a kind of Mob-style comic relief.

Irene: It sounds like Vinny has a deeper message than just being a nuisance. What message does he give?

Peter: Don’t give Vinny too much credit. He’s just a squirrel (and not an overly bright one at that). He’s made up of equal parts angst, opportunism, and territorial imperative. He gets far more press than he deserves. Vinny does not represent some deep and repressed feelings of anger or inadequacy that I have. He’s just a common thug and we play him up in the book and in interviews because he makes people laugh.

Irene: Thank you Peter. I can’t help but smile thinking of how much fun you had writing this book. And, needless to say, your readers will get a charge out of it too. Is there anything else that you would like your readers to know about your or your book?

Peter: Making the book was as fun and creative as making the buildingand it was inside work with no heavy lifting.

Irene Watson is Managing Editor of Reader Views
http://www.readerviews.com

The WWW Bingo World
September 24th, 2008

Internet bingo is growing progressively accepted in the English speaking world. Ever since the public ban on smoking, hundreds conventional bingo haunts shut down — of course, this has initiated hundreds firms proffering world wide web bingo as by way of an alternative.

Big shot promo by people like S. and J. Osbourne etc. have been beneficial in upgrading the popularity of online bingo — comprising roughly three million contestants at present having a regular game at their computer.

At the moment there are a few world wide web bingo online pages, all of which submitting to their patrons sensational winnings and a heap of other exclusive prizes, for example sparkling new cars, concert tickets and luxury holidays.

What’s specially good about world wide web bingo is that anyone can have a bash at it 24/7, if there’s an access to an Internet hub. In view of games taking off steadily, you can opt to organise bingo to dovetail it with your ordinary life.

People thought that the group aspect of bingo gaming would feel the pain thanks to the closing of the conventional bingo haunts — but in point of fact British bingo enthusiasts have proven these forecasts wrong… A swelling number are copiously utilising the chatrooms made accessible by a horde of world wide web bingo firms.

Here everyone can forge new friendships, gain access to exclusive contests and engage with an online bingo group.

Besides, lots of studies have shown that players are more likely to gain £1million when taking a stab at online bingo in comparison to other styles of laying bets for example the draws and sports betting.

If you become a little bit jaded with bingo, plenty of world wide web bingo online pages will present a huge array of alternate games. These will be anything from slots or numbers games, through to caption competitions and multiple choice exercises.

In view of so many opportunities, it can be a bit tricky to make out which Internet bingo firm will be the right one. It will pay out to have a crack at some extensive research and analyze who is presently advancing the most attention grabbing promos. A good number of world wide web bingo online pages will let anyone play a certain number of free bingo games or match your cash deposits at 1:1 or more.

If some of your cronies are already registered at a particular world wide web bingo Web page, you might want to consider teaming up as the social chat side may considerably add to the overall recreation.

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What We Have to Know re On Line Sports Results Bets
September 23rd, 2008

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Connect the two of everybody’s dominant leisure actvities and you’ve got is a craze known as a sportsbook gambling website. Really, what could possibly be more inventive… See a large assembly of men cheering to support any given favorite local players, and all the time antes are assured to be advertised tied in to the rumpus. Because they want to catch a bit of the action, on-lookers will regularly endeavor to augur who will win in the coming meet. All this finally turns into a good-humored meet termed sportsbook gambling website.

In order to wager, you’ll probably want to look up a sportsbook gambling website, that’s to say a place which takes in sportsbook gambling website. In the US, we currently have no less than four states where to do wagering sportsbooks lawfully, but inofficially you may do it anywhere you like assuming you pinpoint a bookie *and* you’re a legal adult. Included sports events you can choose to risk some money on are pro plus, to boot, college basketball + football, professional baseball, professional hockey, plus, to boot, wagers on both horse and dog racing. Clients can choose to bet on the overall score of a competition, in what round one of the contesting parties will be defeated, and even if a coin toss in a competition will land either heads or tails.

We can select many varieties of lays: straight bets, teasers,parlays i.e. combined bets on multiple sports events and, to boot, over-unders, the straight bets being the most common in wagering sportsbooks.

Well, why not take a stab at it and enjoy the excitement simultaneously… Simply safeguard you won’t get gripped and squander your complete social security checks capriciously. If you don’t there’s a strong probability you’ll end up ruing it all life long.

Thank You Rich Jerk E-Book Review
September 21st, 2008

I purchased Thank You Rich Jerk and was AMAZED AT THE AMOUNT OF INFO PACKED INTO 31 PAGES. Holly Mann gives a full blown explanation of how to make a lot of money on the internet by doing a lot of different things, step by step that are all part of a package THAT WILL MAKE YOU A LOT OF MONEY!

Holly Mann begins her book by detailing how a newbie can get started without a website. In comparison to the Rich Jerk, she takes a lot more time laying out steps that newbies can use to become effective. Her approach is engineered to take a person who does not know anything about making money on the internet step by step through a process that I believe was the same process she went through herself to get her to where she is today, very successful.

Holly then outlines how you can get a website created for you if you don’t know how, and for those who want to know how, she specifies software you can purchase to create your own website easily. Holly then outlines how to optimize the site you just created. She then gets into how you should pick the keywords for your new site, domain name(s), and then eventually promote the website(s) to get a top search engine ranking for FREE! Thank You Rich Jerk is priced too low in my opinion.

After all the detailed SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tips, she then gives you places that you can go to promote your new website to get traffic to it. She even gives you tips to improve the traffic to your website. She had less than 100 visitors her first month to over 10,000 visitors to her site just THREE MONTHS LATER!

Holly Mann then shows you websites you can sign up on for FREE, and promote products that you WILL get paid commission on! She then lists easy ways to make extra money on those sites in five minutes!

She then gives tips for wholesaling goods and special tips for selling goods on EBAY. Like I mentioned earlier, Thank You Rich Jerk is priced way too cheap in my opinion and she could sell this for at least three times more. I would buy this info because its a steal!

“Thank You Rich Jerk” has been reviewed and I give it two thumbs up!! This book is a steal for $14.95!

Tony Paul is an internet entrepreneur who reviews money making programs on his website

http://www.cheggitout.com

Cheerleading Uniforms Perform in Any Weather
September 19th, 2008


Cheerleading Uniforms perform in any weather. It used to be that Cheerleading Uniforms were just skirts and tops like those worn by the famous Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. However with many teams playing in inclement weather, cheerleaders needed to have more diversity in their Cheerleading Uniforms.

Now on many cold Friday nights at high school football games, Saturdays during the college football season, and Sundays during the NFL you see cheerleaders wearing all weather gear including Cheerleading Shells designed to keep the rain and snow off of the cheerleaders.

Cheerleading has become so much more than what it once was. Many of the moves are choreographed down to every step and the Cheerleading Uniforms are a big part of the routines as well. For many indoor sports, cheerleaders have traded in their skirts for Cheerleading Shorts that can be worn underneath the skirt or instead of wearing a cheerleading skirt.

Cheerleaders now support many different sports that are played in various types of weather. Cheerleading Uniforms include the sweater top, skirt, Cheerleading Shorts, and Cheerleading Shells, as well as coats and pants to protect cheerleaders from the elements.

Whether the sport is football , basketball, soccer, or volleyball, the cheerleaders need to have the correct type of Cheerleading Uniforms to support their team and its fans in style. Check out the cheerleaders at the next sporting event you are at and take a minute to think about how much work and effort they put in to their sport as well as supporting the sport and its fans they are cheering for.

Why Selling EBooks Cheap May not be a Bad Idea
September 19th, 2008

Selling eBooks on eBay offers a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity. Often, eBooks can be purchased inexpensively with resell rights intact and then re-sold the eBay buying public at a price that generates a significant profit.

There are, however, those who are selling eBooks on eBay for incredibly low prices. Sometimes it does not appear as if the price requested would even cover a listing fee! Considering eBooks are generally digitally delivered, there is no room for profit via shipping, either. Why are eBook sellers doing this?

There are a few potential answers to why so many eBooks are available on eBay at very low prices. First, many sellers are generating profit simply through volume. Though it may look like the cost of the auction approximates that amount of money generated by the sale, some sellers are actually operating in a way that provides them with a slight profit margin on these sales. These people are often working with digital delivery systems and other automated tools and have discovered that a “robotic” eBook selling presence on eBay is a nice way to earn some extra revenue with very little personal attention required.

The second reason for low-priced eBooks on eBay has nothing to do with making a profit on the book sales. Instead, marketers are attempting to build a list of people interested in the topic matter of the eBook. This is particularly true in many cases where the subject matter of the eBook is related to online moneymaking strategies. Successful internet marketers will tell you that “the money is in the list.” They use the emails gathered from the sales of the cheap eBook as a list of potential prospects to whom they can send future, more lucrative offers. This may involve sending a “miniaturized” eBook for a few pennies from an eBay sale and then following up with an offer for a more comprehensive look at the subject (which is more lucrative for the seller). Others may simply “pitch” future offerings at those who have bought the cheap eBooks via eBay.

Another potential rationale for cheap eBook sales stems from the actual contents of the eBooks. One can author an eBook that includes affiliate links for products. An eBook seller may sell a title for a few pennies that includes a series of links to sites where supporting products may be purchased. If anyone makes a purchase from one of these links, the eBook provider generates a commission on the sale. This strategy has been used with some success by many eBook sellers.

Many of those who enter the eBay marketplace to sell eBooks view the sale of eBooks at a healthy margin as the recipe for success. However, as these three examples demonstrate, there are other ways of taking eBook sales and transforming them into moneymakers even when the per-sale profit margin is slim (or in some cases, nonexistent). By using eBooks as a way to a financial end, a smart eBook seller can find a way to make cheap sales a profitable venture.

Copyright 2006 John Thornhill

John Thornhill is an eBay powerseller and trades on eBay under the username planetsms. For more advice on how to succeed on eBay visit http://www.planetsms.co.uk.

Anatomy Of A Top Ranking Web page
September 18th, 2008

Optimizing web pages for high rankings in the search engines involved two main processes. Firstly there is the on-page factors which include what keywords you place where on the page itself. The second, and more important process is getting the off-page factors right – incoming links.

This article explores mainly the on-page factors. As the competition for a keyword phrase increases, off-page factors become more important to good rankings and these often mask the effects of on-page factors making it impossible to see what on-page factors are important. For this reason, I am going to look at a high ranking page with low levels of competition in Google.

First, let’s consider what we mean by competition.

There are two ways to look at competition in Google. There is the competition a page has when you type the phrase with quotes, and the competition when you type the words without quotes. The number of results returned by Google in each case is YOUR competition.

The main differences between these two types of search are as follows:

Search with Quotes – this returns only those pages that have been “optimized” for the exact phrase.

Search without Quotes – this returns all pages that have been “optimized” for the words making up the phrase.

e.g. (in simple terms)

a) If you search Google for

alsatian dog

Google returns 41,000 competing pages.

b) If you search Google for

“alsatian dog”

Google returns 6,390 competing pages.

In (a) above, there are 41,000 pages that refer to alsatian AND dog, but not necessarily to alsatian dog.

In (b) above, there are 6,390 pages that refer to the exact phrase alsatian dog.

Now, if you want to rank well for the term “alsatian dog” on Google, you only have to compete with 6,390 other pages for this exact term.

However, there are 41,000 – 6,390 = 34,610 other pages that are related to this search, and might still beat you if Google sees them as more relevant than your page.

We have discussed before the importance of link reputation and PR in ranking. It is possible for a high PR page to rank well for a term like alsatian dog, even if it does not have the exact phrase on the page.

This fact clouds the issue somewhat, and so although I recommend searching with quotes to find the real competition, I also recommend that you look at the top few results in Google (as searched without quotes) to determine how important those “partial match” pages are.

A quick search at:

http://www.prsearch.net/

for alsatian dog, shows me that the top pages for this search without quotes have a low PR (0-3) and many of those pages have 0 incoming links.

The same search at PRSearch.net using quotes around the phrase show very similar results. The competing pages for the exact term have low PR and low incoming links.

This phrase should be easy to target and get top rankings if done properly.

A word of warning: Because the PR reported on the Google toolbar is out of date (see earlier), you cannot be 100% sure of the PR of the pages, even using a site like PRSearch. They will use the same formula that the toolbar uses, and so will be equally out of date. Only Google knows the exact PR it is using in its ranking for any one page.

A second check I often do is to check what the PR of the homepage of the site that is ranking well, as this gives me an indication of how important the site as a whole is. For the phrase alsatian dog (with or without quotes), the top page is:

http://www.castleofspirits.com/stories02/alsatian.html

The homepage

http://www.castleofspirits.com

has a PR of 6 – quite an important site.

However, there is no link to the alsatian page on the homepage, so the PR 6 homepage wont directly help towards the high ranking of the alsatian dog web page.

Doing a backward links check on Google does not help since there are no backlinks listed for this top ranking page.

OK, putting on my detective hat, I see a link at the bottom of the Alsatian page called “March 02 Ghost Stories”. There is another link to “Ghost Story Page”.

Clicking on the link to Ghost Story Page, I am taken to a PR 5 page:

http://www.castleofspirits.com/storypg.html

where I find a link to March 2002 Ghost Stories. Clicking that link takes me to a PR 3 page:

http://www.castleofspirits.com/stories02/mch2002.html

And on this page I find a link to Ghostly Alsatian dog.

So, the top ranking alsatian dog page has one link I know of from a PR 3 page. I might assume that this site also has a sitemap (although I cannot find one) where it contains a second link to the alsatian dog page. That means a total of 2 links, both internal.

I can assume from this that the alsatian page with a PR 2 is probably the correct PR, and the page itself has very few incoming links. I am confident that if I targeted the phrase alsatian dog, I would easily get a top ranking.

The phrase alsatian dog is therefore an EASY phrase to target.

As a final check I went to the searchguild difficulty tool mentioned in section 6 of this newsletter and typed my phrase into that. The Search Guild rates this term as EASY.

With relatively few off-page factors contributing to the high ranking of this page, I can only assume that the on-page factors are what makes this page stand out from the rest and rank at number 1 on Google.

There are a variety of tools available for calculating density, but I use a tool I wrote for myself and is not available for purchase.

Running this URL through my tool tells me a lot of useful information.

Density of the phrase “alsatian dog” on the page is 0.49%

The keyword is found ONCE in the title (11.11%), and TWICE in the main text on the page (a density of just 0.34%).

The keyword is not found in any header or meta tag!

As a second check I always look at what I call the partial density. That is the sum of the densities of all words that make up the phrase.

e.g. the phrase “alsatian dog” is made up of two words – alsatian AND dog. I look at the density of alsatian, and the density of dog, and combine the two densities.

This is useful because it tells me the density on the page of the words that make up the phrase (remember it is possible to rank well without the exact phrase on the page) – a kind of simplified page reputation.

The partial density of this page is 3.09%, made up of 7 occurrences of alsatian, and 12 occurrences of dog. This page is obviously about alsatians and dogs!

Let’s look at the prominence of this phrase on the page. First an explanation of what prominence means.

Prominence is a measure of where on the page a word exists.

A prominence of 100 would mean it was the first word on the page.

A prominence of 1 would indicate it was the last word on the page.

A prominence of 50% would indicate it was the middle word on the page.

If the phrase was the first word (100% prominence) and the last word (1% prominence) on the page, the average prominence on the page would be about 50%. That means the keywords are well spread out on the page. As prominence increases, the keyword is found higher up the page, as it decreases, it is found lower down the page.

For analysis of top ranking pages, I look at not only the average prominence of ALL occurrences of the phrase on my page

i.e. how the keywords are spaced out on the page,

but also the prominence of the first occurrence on the page.

i.e. how close to the start of the document is the phrase first found?

The prominence of the first occurrence of the phrase alsatian dog is 99.67%. That means it is almost the first phrase on the page (only the word ghost comes before it).

The average prominence of the whole page for this term is 62.62%. That means that the keywords are distributed more in the upper portion of the page. Haven’t I always told you that it was important to get your main keyword in the top one-third of the page?.

This page is a good one to study. It shows a top ranking page for a low competitive keyword phrase. Because of the low competition, incoming links and PR are less important (though if you have both, you could dominate this phrase), while on-page factors will make or break the ranking.

Even though the exact phrase is only found 3 times on the page, the fact that the phrase is in the title of the document and in the body text seems to be enough. This low density is backed up by using the words that make up the phrase several times on the page. Google will be in no doubt what this page is about.

A final help to the ranking of this page is the filename. Notice that part of the keyword phrase is found in the filename – alsatian.html

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Are you a dynamic kind of guy?
September 12th, 2008

I have found that there is an increasing fashion in web design – among clients – to seek dynamic solutions to their web design needs.

What does all this mean?

Recently I had the following conversation with a client:

“I want a dynamic site because they are better.”

“Oh,” said I, “Why do you find them better?”

“I don’t know. I was just told that they were.”

I would argue most people have a simple emotional response to the terms “dynamic” and “static” that is a basis for this “better”.

Dynamic is a synonym for lively, go-ahead, active and vibrant. Static sounds pedestrian, stale and even stagnant.

With this in mind, the terms I personally use are the less emotive “Content management site” alias dynamic and “HTML site” otherwise not entirely accurately described as static. This article is an approach to demonstrating when dynamic is in truth better – and when it is not.

Dynamic websites are a powerful tool in the hands of the experienced web site developer and the computer literate customer/user. They allow the owner to modify and update the site’s content without using any third parties such as the webmaster provided they have the ability to utilize the system.

(As a general rule, I suggest that if you can use Microsoft “Word” effectively, you should be OK. The computer phobic regrettably need not apply!)

If you plan on frequent updates, this is in truth clearly better. Our Lookers homepage is dynamic and it will not be changing any time soon.

Content management – (CMS) poses certain specific challenges, though. To quote the notoriously enigmatic Google from their page http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

“If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system can export your content so that search engine spiders can crawl your site.”

Here is Google saying it cannot index dynamic content unless it is exported – presumably to some non-dynamic format. Previously Google stated that it indexed dynamic content “more slowly”, but lately this negative attitude appears to have hardened. HTML is not treated in this harsh fashion and can be crawled (read by the search engine) without additional issues.

Another point from the big G;

“Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index.”

Again this is a dynamic phenomenon; here is an example of a page address from a dynamic site chosen at random

http://www.nameremovedbyme.com/article.php?id=23

The bottom line for all this is that for the freedom to modify your own page you may have to pay a price in search engine compatibility. If search engine success – that most fickle of all goals on-line – is a mission critical consideration, then consider very seriously where your design priorities lie.

An option you can consider is a hybrid site – hopefully the best of both worlds.

Non changing areas of the site stay in HTML; most likely your address, product descriptions, mission statement and company history are not altered on a monthly basis. Why do you need these items dynamic, then? Leave them open to easy spidering and help your search engine performance on that basis.

Your photo gallery, blog, message from the Managing Director and “this week’s specials” are indeed liable to modifications so leave these dynamic and play with them at will.

As always in web design, or design in general, keep informed, look at function over fashion and consider your options carefully.

To me, that is how your dynamism will be best demonstrated on-line.

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September 9th, 2008

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