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Has Microsoft Goofed?
Microsoft has clarified what it's doing in some of the most controversial issues surrounding the Xbox One. However, the problem is that this news is mostly bad or confusing news. So lets try to see exactly what Microsoft is on about and if they've screwed up.
Used Games and Trade-Ins
Microsoft will be allowing Xbox One owners to trade in used games and to buy used games. Once a game is installed on your harddrive you'll get a digital copy of that game regardless. Once you have that game you'll be free to sell it or give it to a friend. The Xbox One will allow you to share a used game with a buddy but that person will have to have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and you can only share it with them once.
Microsoft has also said how it won't charge users to trade in games. Instead, (and this is where it gets ugly for those of you who love your trade-ins) it'll be up to third-party publishers whether you can trade a game in at all or whether you'll have to pay a fee. Seeing as publishers are getting a rough deal with used games with this generation of consoles, it's unlikely they'll nip it in the bud whilst they have the opportunity.
Always Online
The Xbox One will require a constant Internet connection but as previous fears had indicated, it's won't be 24/7. However, you will need to have your system connected to the Internet at least once every 24 hours. This, says Microsoft, is because the Xbox One will need to check if you've shared a game, traded it in or are still playing it.
It'll also need to check for updates. The problem here is that there are people who don't have steady Internet connections. Microsoft is already aware these people (thanks Adam Orth!) but it has yet to further clarify how it'll affect people living in rural areas, students or military personnel.
There's also the "what-if" scenario of Microsoft's servers crashing. What will happen to our consoles then? If Microsoft suffer a Sony-like hack where its servers are down for two weeks for example, then things are going to get hairy.
There have been worries on whether the always online Kinect will be spying on you. People are worried it'll watch you in the shower, people are worried it'll watch you when you're walking the Dog and people are worried it'll look into other private business. You ever see 2001 A Space Odyssey with the spaceship's spying computer? People are afraid it's that.
Microsoft has confirmed that users will be able to manage what information the Kinect stores. You'll also be able to pause the Kinect if you don't want it to look at you all the time. However, since the Kinect needs to be on all the time for you to give voice commands to the console, it's always going to be on regardless. But fear not! Microsoft also said that you can actually turn it off.
However, the problem here is that you'll have to turn it back on again to get the Xbox One back on. Hmm.
Are third-party publishers going to let us trade in their games? Probably, but not for free. Third-party publishers get none of the money from trade-ins. All of that money goes to the middleman. It goes to your CEX's, it goes to your GameStops, it goes to your GAME's. It's due to this issue that studios close down and sequels get cancelled or never made so it looks like publishers like Activision, Ubisoft and EA are going to be be able to make some money which is great for them but for all of you who love your trade-ins, it's probably not going to do you any favours.
Is the Xbox One going to be friendly to poor Internet connections? It doesn't look like it will. The console won't be constantly online but you'll have to have it online at least once a day. Microsoft hasn't said what will happen if people fail to get it online once a day however.
With Kinect, no matter what you do with it, it looks like it's always going to be online. Sure you can pause it and control what it does and doesn't see but there are mandatory functions for the Kinect such as games having to have it on so real question is how far we can assure our own privacy with the Kinect. The good news is that it won't always be watching you. No murderous computers lying in wait for us then.
With all of this in mind and summarised it looks like the questions we were originally asking were answered but in their places are new questions, questions that may be answered at E3 and the following fallout of news but right now, we're still scratching our heads.
So has Microsoft goofed? We'll have to wait and see but right now, they've answered what needed answering but in turn have given us new questions to ask.
George Sinclair is an editor for Analog Addiction, the home of the latest news, reviews and previews. You can follow George on Twitter and IGN. Be sure to follow us on the OFFICIAL Analog Addiction Twitter.
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I don't mind the used game policy, I love to support developers so if I enjoy a publisher or developer I will buy their game new. If I hate the developer or publisher I'll buy their game used so I can still play the game but they don't get a penny ;) I know its childish but hey.
I don't like the always online, my internet is terrible and goes down alot (I've been up to almost a month without internet at hom) so I love the fact that I can play my PS3 while not being online. I feel like microsoft is saying, "Xbox 1 doesn't always* have to be online"
*once per day isn't always :P
As far as sony being quiet about this I think this is due to the fact that all PS4 games will be digital and few will be disc based (this is what I got from during their conference) so they don't feel they'll have that issue per se; however if I'm a game maker I'm going to go with xbox1 because they help me make more money while sony (as of right now) doesn't help me [the developer] with the trade in and sale of used games.


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Men's basketball: Purdue faces another Big Ten bubble team
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Purdue center A.J. Hammons (20) is checked by Michigan forward Mitch McGary (4) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Ann Arbor, Mich., Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Somewhere along the line, Purdue probably is going to have to win a game or two it's not "supposed" to win in order to achieve any bigger-picture goals.
But in between their loss at Michigan and their upcoming game against Indiana, the Boilermakers play like-positioned Iowa on Sunday afternoon at Mackey Arena, another game they have to avoid losing.
"Games like this, with two teams that are battling to stay in it, who plays harder and who plays smarter — I know that's a pretty profound statement — but I really think that's going to be true," Purdue coach Matt Painter said.
The Boilermakers (10-9, 3-3 Big Ten) have won 10 of their last 11 games against the Hawkeyes (13-6, 2-4), including last season's sweep. Purdue has won its last five home games in the series, last losing in West Lafayette on Feb. 1, 2006.
But Iowa seems to be developing under third-year coach Fran McCaffery.
The Hawkeyes' conference losses have come to Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State, with wins at Northwestern and against Wisconsin.
Junior swingman Roy Devyn Marble averages 14.5 points per game, and sophomore forward Aaron White 13.5 and 6.2 rebounds. Like the Boilermakers, the Hawkeyes have been starting three freshmen in guards Anthony Clemmons (5.0 points, 4.1 assists) and Mike Gesell (8.8 points), and 7-foot-1 center Adam Woodbury (5.6 points, 5.3 rebounds).
"(Former starter Melsahn) Basabe comes off the bench for them — that speaks volumes in terms of their talent," Painter said of the junior forward who averages 7.0 points.
The Boilermakers will try to get their freshman big man, A.J. Hammons, back on track after a poor game against the Wolverines.
"It's one of those things where it's time to play a basketball game," Painter said when asked about the possibility of Hammons having been ill. "I promise you there were people on Michigan's team that were sick or were hurt or things were going on. You have to be mature enough to go out there and just play hard and lay it on the line.
"Just your approach, your daily approach. ... Be ready to practice every day, be ready to focus in the games. It's just a habit. If you just try to turn that switch on on game day, that switch isn't always going to go on for you. We have to get him to do a better job of just being ready to play and having a focus, and understanding what he has to do. You have to play hard. You have to sprint both ways."
Freshman Rapheal Davis has continued to solidify his spot in the lineup. He had 10 points and a career-high eight rebounds at Michigan, averaging 10.3 points and 6.3 rebounds in four straight starts.
"The guy who's really stood out for me is Rapheal Davis," Painter said. "Instead of dwelling on some guys that maybe aren't ready to play or not playing hard enough, I'd rather talk about a guy like that who when things didn't go his way, he didn't pout. He just kept working, stayed positive and tried to do what he was supposed to do. Good things happen when you have those attributes. That's what winning basketball's all about."


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Jack In The Box Founder, Jack Box, And His 1980's Hair Band, Meat Riot. (Photo: Business Wire)
It's been more than 20 years since Jack Box, founder of Jack in the Box®, had a one hit wonder. While the song, Hot Mess, may have only topped the charts for two weeks in 1989, it was the inspiration for his newest burger creation -- the Hot Mess Burger. The burger features a jumbo beef patty loaded with spicy jalapeños, onion rings, and gooey pepper jack cheese, all served on Jack's classic Sourdough bread. Just like Jack's days with his 80's hair band Meat Riot, the burger is fiery and awesome.
Jack in the Box Founder, Jack Box, and his 1980's hair band, Meat Riot. (Photo: Business Wire)
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Balance shifts on health care committeeBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | December 14,2013MONTPELIER The balance of power in the House Committee on Health Care will shift in favor of Democrats next year when House Speaker Shap Smith drops a Republican from the 11-person panel and replaces him with a member of the ruling party.
Gone from the committee, Smith said late Friday evening, is Rep. John Mitchell, a Republican from Fairfax now headed to the House Committee on Education. Replacing him is incoming Democratic Rep. Kathy Hoyt, appointed by Gov. Peter Shumlin earlier this year to replace the seat vacated by Margaret Cheney.
House Speaker Shap Smith said the move is designed to make way for a newly minted lawmaker whose breadth and depth of experience are critically important as we move forward with health care reform.
House Minority Leader Don Turner, however, said the shake up amounts to partisan maneuvering designed to undermine the influence of the GOP as the Democratic supermajority prepares to face tough questions over the troubled roll out of the new health insurance exchange.
Im very concerned and Im very disappointed, Turner said late Friday evening. I think Vermonters will see through this that Democrats dont like tough questions when it comes to health care, and that by taking away a person who is asking those like tough questions may make it easier for them.
The personnel change comes during the middle of the two-year biennium, and isnt the only reassignment Smith confirmed Friday.
Rep. Patti Lewis, a Berlin Republican, will move from education to the House Committee on Government Operations. Incoming Democratic Rep. Margie Ryerson, who filled the Randolph seat opened up by the death of Larry Townsend, will be assigned to the House Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Rep. Rebecca Ellis, a Waterbury Democrat, will take over as vice-chairwoman of energy and natural resources, a position formerly held by Cheney.
Hoyt, who lives in Norwich, has a long career in government that includes stints as secretary of administration under former Govs. Madeline Kunin and Howard Dean. She was a also a member of a three-person panel that spent more than a year examining ways to overhaul the states tax structure.
With his direct appointment of Hoyt in September, Shumlin bypassed the conventional nominating process in which the local party committee forwards three names to the governors desk. Hoyts predecessor left when she accepted Shumlins appointment to a seat on the three-person Public Service Board.
(Hoyt) is someone who has seen state government from every angle, and her experience will be invaluable on that committee, Smith said.
Turner said that if Smith wanted to find room for Hoyt on the committee, he could have done so without eroding what little representation the GOP has on a panel that will be dealing next year not only with the exchange, but with the seeds of a public financing system for the single-payer system Shumlin has said will come online by 2017.
I think its wrong, Turner said. I just dont like that were going to have only two Republicans on one of the most important committees in the House right now.
Smith said the composition of the Health Care Committee during the last session wasnt reflective of the partisan make-up of the body. The six Democrats, one Progressive, one independent and three Republicans, Smith said, didnt mirror the near super-majority status of his party.
Its 6-5 committee right now, and the balance is different than most of the other committees, and that plays a role in the decision, Smith said. And its not an easy decision.
That narrow margin led to some very public setbacks last session for the committees Democratic chairman, who saw his committee go against him on at least one high-profile vote.
Rep. Mary Morrissey, who will be one of two Republicans left on the Health Care Committee, said the change disrespects the work that Mitchell and the committee have done over the first half of the session.
Turner said he appreciated that the speaker called him earlier this week to inform him of his plan, and that Smith was willing to work with Republicans in determining which of the three would be sent to the education committee.
Turner said he thinks Hoyts experience on the Blue Ribbon Tax Commission, the panel that worked in 2009 to try to reform the income and sales tax, is one of the reasons Smith wants her on health care.
From my perspective, I think theyre trying to figure out how theyre going to do single-payer, Turner said. And being a former member of that commission, Im sure she has a lot of information about taxation.
Smith said Hoyts facility with the tax code is one reason among many shell be a good fit on the committee.
Certainly it helps that she was on the Blue Ribbon Tax Commission, Smith said. But it really is the breadth and depth of her experience.
Darcie Johnston, head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, which working to stymie progress toward single-payer, said the committee reassignments underscore the urgency of the opposition.
This is a clearly partisan political move to rearrange the deck chairs to get the political result they want of moving single payer health care forward, she said.
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Blue & Green Tomorrow is run by ex-media (Northcliffe Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Auto Trader and Emap) and financial services (Abbey, Barclays, AXA, Prudential and Fidelity) chap, Simon Leadbetter. He founded the digital magazine Blue & Green Tomorrow to merge his media and financial services experience with the aim of promoting a step change in sustainable investment.
We are staffed by recent graduates providing experience for those with the fewest opportunities in the current economic climate – ably supported by talented and experienced journalists. Leading them is first class honours graduate and Blue & Green stalwart and Editor, Alex Blackburne. The 'all-I-want-to-be-is-a-sports-journalist' when he joined, soon became an expert and quoted writer on sustainable investment and clean energy.
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Sir Winston Churchill once said, "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm". We didn't hit our ambitious crowdfunding target, but we underwrote the team until the end of the year and for that we are indebted.
Earlier this week, we described the genesis and evolution of Blue & Green Tomorrow. We also closed our Sponsume crowdfunding campaign, raising enough funds to allow the team to sleep in their beds knowing that they'll be paid until Christmas, and to help the production and distribution of two more in-depth reports before this year's out – The Guide to Ethical Shopping and The Guide to Responsible Media.
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2013 is going to be an interesting year if we survive the end of the Mayan long count calendar on December 21. We will, by the way. It's superstitious hokum, described by one leading academic as, "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in".
In January, we will see the inauguration of the next US president. There will also be an international academic conference in June to celebrate 200 years of peace between the US, Canada and Great Britain.
In January, Israel elects a new parliament and Iran elects a president in June, which could affect us all and be one of the first big international headaches for the new US president.
China's new leadership will be settling into the start of their 10-year rule, while attempting its first unmanned Moon landing. India will launch its Mars probe.
It's the UN's International Year of Water Cooperation, which seems apposite if you consider the words of Ismail Serageldin, former vice president of the World Bank, in 1999, "If the wars of this [20th] century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be about water."
Amidst all this, Blue & Green Tomorrow will be here to report on how sustainable investment has the potential to create a better world and unsustainable investment risks wrecking it.
Just as the first words went to Churchill, so do our last, "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
Blue & Green Tomorrow was two years in the making and today we're two years old. The simple idea was to write about the connection between investment and the world we live in - without jargon. With our crowdfunding campaign ending at midnight tonight Simon Leadbetter looks back at the four-year ebb and flow of a fledgling publication.
Remember, remember the fifth of November
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Onwards & upwards
With six days to go until our Sponsume campaign ends, we're exploring tenuous numerical links to the number of days left. This one isn't overly tenuous, as there are six core 'untouchables' in the ethical investment universe. Simon Leadbetter explores the sordid, slaughtering end of investment.
Alcohol kills an awful lot of people
Smoking kills an awful lot more people
Freedom and choice or brainwashing and exploitation
Heads the gambling industry wins, tails you lose
Sex sells, so sell sex
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Nuclear power is an explosive issue
All's well that ends well
Our Sponsume campaign ends. In the final countdown to the campaign deadline on Bonfire night and our two-year anniversary, Simon Leadbetter explores a relevant theme. Today, it's lucky number seven.
We're five reports into our 'Guide to…' series, which began with the inaugural Guide to Sustainable Investment back in April and continued most recently with a report published to coincide with National Ethical Investment Week.
We've got two more coming up in 2012 – The Guide to Ethical Shopping and The Guide to Responsible Media – but here's a round-up of all the reports we've published so far – all of which you can download for absolutely free. These reports are what the money we raise through Sponsume will pay for.
April 2012 – The Guide to Sustainable Investment 2012
The Guide to Sustainable Investment endeavours to take you on a journey of discovery—embarking at ethical origins, travelling through the green and growing fields of sustainable and socially responsible investment and disembarking at a new, enlightened destination.
Standing there, surveying the future with a fresh perspective, it is our hope that you will feel able to make better-informed decisions about where and how your money is invested so that you can proudly say, "I played my part—I balanced the needs of the planet, its people and prosperity. I succeeded".
Take time to read and digest the wise words of Mike Scott, Penny Shepherd, Sarah Pennells and a host of others; realise that you are not alone and then, better still, realise there are people who have devoted their working lives to help you understand and change the impact of your money on the future.
Click here to visit The Guide to Sustainable Investment 2012 download page.
May 2012 – The Guide to Sustainable Tourism 2012
The Guide to Sustainable Tourism 2012 aims to open your eyes to a new way of experiencing the many wonders of the world. What we hope you will ask yourself after reading it is: how can I reduce my impact and ensure my holiday actually benefits others?
It is totally unacceptable that the time we enjoy so much should be to the detriment of the environment and the people in the places we visit. And we believe that most of us would not enjoy our holiday if we realised that was the case.
Sustainable tourism is on the right pathway to becoming the only kind of tourism. It is starting to feature in the mainstream media and we feel confident that the excellent work being done by so many in the industry will continue to ripple outwards.
Click here to visit The Guide to Sustainable Tourism 2012 download page.
July 2012 – The Guide to Limitless Clean Energy 2012
Inside our Guide to Limitless Clean Energy, you'll find everything you need to know about one of the world's most stimulating and fastest-growing industries, directly from the mouths of some of its leading lights.
We cover the whole landscape: the (former) minister, the supplier, the developer, the investor, the trade body, and of course, the customer. All of which ought to inspire you to make the switch to, invest in or simply support the renewable energy sector.
The reaction that we hope radiates out of our Guide to Limitless Clean Energy is one of amazement and wonder, through the incredible stories of some incredible people and companies. Before long, an increased adoption of renewable energy will seem obvious, necessary and exciting.
Read our guide and be inspired to make a difference.
Click here to visit The Guide to Limitless Clean Energy 2012 download page.
October 2012 – The Guide to Sustainable Banking 2012
The Guide to Sustainable Banking is a rundown of the best, ethical, sustainable and responsible banking options in the UK, containing inspirational interviews with the leaders of the biggest names in this vibrant sector.
Scandal after scandal in the mainstream banking world is, quite simply, not good enough. We have set out to present you with just a few of the better choices for your savings and day-to-day banking. With the five major banking groups controlling 85% of personal current accounts in the UK, there has to be an alternative.
We are genuinely confident that if presented with a sensible, balanced argument for the sustainable banking options – which the interviewees in our Guide deliver eloquently and powerfully – people will do the right thing and move away from those banks that have done so much harm to our society and planet.
So we really hope you enjoy our Guide. Who you bank with probably seems like a minor decision, but it might be one of the most game-changing things you've ever done.
Click here to visit The Guide to Sustainable Banking 2012 download page.
October 2012 – The Guide to Sustainable Investment 2012 (NEIW edition)
The second Guide to Sustainable Investment was written and published especially to coincide with National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) 2012.
Now into its fifth year, the event serves as a focal point for proponents of this enlightened investment sector, and we're genuinely delighted to have had a chance to do our bit in making a difference.
We managed to secure some of the sustainable investment sector's biggest names, including James Gifford, Penny Shepherd and Raj Thamotheram, and it's their inspirational words that we hope will encourage you to invest sustainably.
We urge you to open your mind and join the sustainable investment movement early. It's a journey of discovery with infinite tickets available; but the best seats, as always, are at the front.
Click here to visit The Guide to Sustainable Investment 2012 (NEIW edition) download page.


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New Blood Gas Guideline Available
April 9, 2009
A new edition of a blood gas and pH analysis guideline has been released and AARC members had input into its development.
AARC reps Carl Mottram and Susan Blonshine served as advisors to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, which has released the second edition of Blood Gas and pH Analysis and Related Measurements: Approved Guideline (C46-A2).
The guideline address blood gas, pH, and related measurements such as hemoglobin and hemoglobin fractions, oxygen content, hemoglobin-oxygen saturation, electrolytes, hematocrit, glucose, and lactate as measured in blood. It covers appropriate specimen collection, terminology, performance characteristics, preanalytical variables, analytical considerations, calibration, and quality control issues.
The second edition was enhanced to contain the latest information on analytical interferences, calibration traceability, and approaches to alternative quality control. In addition, a discussion of essential recommendations for cooximetry and measurement technologies is included.
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|Dividend Miles (US Airways)
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|Republic Airways Holdings
|Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
|Key people
|Bryan Bedford (CEO)
Republic Airline, Inc., operating as Republic Airlines (IATA: RW, ICAO: RPA, Call sign: BRICKYARD)[1] is a regional airline subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings that operates service as US Airways Express, Frontier Airlines and United Express using a fleet of Bombardier Q400NextGen, Embraer 170, Embraer 175 and Embraer 190 aircraft. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.[2]
Republic Airlines was started as Chautauqua Airlines in 1973 in Jamestown, N.Y., by Joel and Gloria Hall. It changed ownership to GAC, and then to Wexford Capital, LLC of Greenwich.
US Airways' pilots had a "scope clause" prohibiting the airline from operating large regional jets such as the Embraer 170. The airline negotiated around this clause by offering flight deck jobs to laid-off US Airways pilots, in a program known as "Jets for Jobs." This agreement created a subsidiary, MidAtlantic Airways. As part of US Airways' bankruptcy restructuring, the 25 Embraer 170s delivered to MidAtlantic were bought by Republic to help US Airways to come out of bankruptcy, which operates them along with additional newly-delivered aircraft on order under a conventional Express carrier contract.
On January 11, 2007, Frontier Airlines announced it had signed an 11-year service agreement with Republic Airlines. Under the agreement, Republic would operate 17 Embraer 170 aircraft for the Frontier Airlines operations. The first aircraft was placed into service in March 2007, and the last aircraft was expected to be placed into service by December 2008. On April 23, 2008, Republic Airways Holdings (parent of Republic Airlines) announced the termination of its service agreement with Frontier Airlines, which entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early April 2008. The terminations of services was made moot as soon after it was announced that Republic Airlines would take over Frontier Airlines.
On February 1, 2008, Republic Airlines opened a base at Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus Ohio.
Republic also operates 38 Embraer 175 aircraft for US Airways Express.[3]
On September 3, 2008, Republic announced a new 10 year codeshare agreement with Midwest Airlines. The aircraft will be based at Kansas City International Airport beginning October 1, 2008. Twelve aircraft will be placed in service with Midwest. On June 23, 2009, Republic announced it is acquiring Midwest Airlines for $31 million. The name Midwest will disappear and flights will be rebranded Frontier. Before the removal of the brand, Republic or Frontier crew fly the Midwest brand flights.[4]
As of May 2012 the Republic Airlines fleet includes the following 81 aircraft:[5]
|In Service
|Embraer 190
|Embraer 175
|Embraer 170
|Bombardier Dash 8 Q400NextGen
|Bombardier CS300
The Embraer 175 made its United States domestic debut when the first aircraft was delivered to Republic Airlines in March 2007. Total orders were for 36 aircraft, which are operated in an 80-seat configuration under the US Airways Express brand name.[6]
In July 2010, Republic announced an order for a further 24 Embraer 190 aircraft.[7]
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BGC Partners Receives HSR Approval For Proposed Transaction With NASDAQ OMX
NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or "the Company"), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets, today announced that it has received regulatory approval for the proposed sale of certain assets comprising its platform for the fully electronic trading of benchmark, on-the-run US Treasuries to NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) ("NASDAQ OMX"). As previously disclosed, total consideration for this transaction is up to $1.234 billion.
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On May 13, 2013, BGC received notice of regulatory approval with respect to the proposed transaction under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. The Company currently expects the transaction to close before the end of the third quarter of 2013.
About BGC Partners, Inc.BGC Partners is a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets. Products include fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commercial real estate, commodities, futures, and structured products. BGC also provides a wide range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back-office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. Through its eSpeed, BGC Trader, and BGC Market Data brands, BGC offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to select financial instruments and markets. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is a full-service commercial real estate platform that comprises the Company's Real Estate Services segment, offering commercial real estate tenants, owners, investors and developers a wide range of services, including leasing; capital markets services, including investment sales, debt placement, appraisal, and valuation services; commercial mortgage brokerage services; as well as consulting, project and development management, leasing and corporate advisory services and property and corporate facilities management services. BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, corporations, property owners, real estate developers, and investment firms. For more information, please visit www.bgcpartners.com.eSpeed, BGC, BGC Trader, Grubb & Ellis, Grubb and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank are trademarks and service marks of BGC Partners, Inc. and its affiliates. Knight Frank is a service mark of Knight Frank Limited Corp., used with permission. Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements by BGC Partners Statements in this document regarding BGC Partners' business that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Except as required by law, BGC undertakes no obligation to release any revisions to any forward-looking statements. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see BGC's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors set forth in our public filings, including our most recent Form 10-K and any updates to such risk factors contained in subsequent Form 10-Q or Form 8-K filings. These risks include those related to the possibility that the proposed NASDAQ OMX transaction does not close in a timely manner or at all; the possibility that any conditions to completion of the proposed transaction are not satisfied; the possibility that any of the anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction will not be realized; the effect of the announcement of the proposed transaction on BGC's business relationships, operating results and business generally; general competitive, economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations; and actions taken or conditions imposed by regulatory authorities. SOURCE BGC Partners, Inc.
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Blog SEO Tips for Non-SEOs: 3 Things Bloggers that Aren't Search Nerds Forget to Do
Here's your "duh" of the day: You don't have to be an SEO to be a good blogger. I bet 90% of search marketers read a blog or five that has nothing to do with search marketing, whether it's a cooking blog, nail art porn or Andrew Sullivan.
Some of the best and most popular blogs in any given niche get high rankings and lots of links without thinking too hard about SEO. Instead, they focus on:
- Great content: Popular blogs develop huge readerships primarily because the content is awesome; it's that simple. (Here's a reminder of the eight qualities that make great content great.)
- Great design: Almost as important as great content is great design – your business blog needs to be both attractive and usable. High-quality photographs or illustrations are a big plus.
- Community building: The best bloggers nurture an active, devoted following. New search engine traffic is nice, but they put most of the focus on the readers that keep coming back.
- Social sharing: Good bloggers love their own content, so they're not shy to share it around when they create something new. They put it up on Twitter, Facebook, etc. post haste. This gets the chain going so people can start reading, sharing, and commenting.
When you're nailing it in all four areas, you're doing a good amount of SEO as a matter of course. That's because Google knows that by serving up your blog in the top of the results, its users are going to be happy.
But there's still more you could do to make your blog even better. Here are a few blogging tips and tricks that search engine optimizers know and non-SEO bloggers frequently forget.
Add Internal Links
Don't think of internal linking as "PageRank sculpting" or some shady-hat SEO thing. The main reason to practice regular internal linking is that it makes your site stickier.
If you write for CinemaFunk, you rank on the first page for "movie review blogs." Good job! But let's say, for example, that someone lands on your blog after googling "Ain't Them Bodies Saints Review." They find your movie review and read it with interest … but do they stick around and read anything else?
They might, if they really like your writing style – luckily, CinemaFunk has a sidebar with links to recent reviews and most popular reviews. This is a great tactic to reduce bounce rate, since new visitors might want to see other content that best represents what you do. There's a problem with relegating all your links to the sidebar, though – they're not clearly relevant to the article the visitor landed on, since they're the same links site-wide.
This blogger missed an opportunity when he compared this movie to another movie that he has reviewed, Upstream Color, but didn't link to that review:
Since this would clearly be relevant to the reader, it should really be a link. Don't make the reader use your site search to find that review! And you know your own content better than anyone, so it should simple for you to find older posts to link to while writing.
Internal linking do's and don'ts:
- If you write a new post and realize you have nothing relevant to link to, do let that serve as a map for your next content pieces. For example, CinemaFunk compares Gravity to 2001, but the site doesn't have a review of 2001 to link to. Why not post some reviews of classic films?
- Do use descriptive anchor text when linking internally. Hyperlink the words "Upstream Color review," not arbitrary words like "reviewed last week." This tells readers what they'll get when they click the link. There is, theoretically, a risk of over-optimizing your anchor text, but that's unlikely to happen if you're not abusing automation or buying links.
- Don't overdo it, obviously. Text with too many links is hard to read, and readers will just ignore them.
- Don't get so excited about internal links that you never link externally. Sometimes an external link will be the best resource for your readers. Also, when people click that link, you'll show up in the referring sites list for that external site's analytics – and that's a great way to make relevant site owners aware of your existence.
Optimize Images for Search
Often, popular blogs in non-SEO niches will have really beautiful images and photography. For example, take Michelle Phan, who has one of the most popular beauty blogs. She has plenty of pretty sparkly images, like this one:
If you right-click this image in Chrome and select "Inspect element," you can see what kind of optimization was done on this photo:
You can see that the image has been made easily Pinnable – hover over the photo, and the words "PIN THIS" appear in an overlay. That's great because Pinterest is huge for driving traffic to this kind of beauty/lifestyle blog.
But more could be done here to optimize the image for search. The file name is a string of random letters and numbers. This isn't readable by humans or search engine spiders. Further, the alt text doesn't tell us what the image is either – it just refers back to the name of the post ("My Week in Photos").
Blog image optimization do's and don'ts:
- Do use descriptive words in your image file names. Instead of 662gf…., this photo should be named something like purple-lips.jpg.
- Do use your alt text to describe the photo. Use words that will tell Google what's in the image. This will help it rank in image search results.
- Do choose photos that are relevant to the topic of your post. That way, you can describe what the photo is using keywords that will help your post rank in the regular search results too.
- Don't use image file names and alt text as an opportunity for keyword stuffing. Cramming 20 words into your alt text ("purple lips sparkly lips purple lipstick purple glitter lipstick" etc. etc.) is unnecessary.
Long-Tail Keyword Research
Great bloggers tend to be really good at intuiting the topics their readers want to hear about – that, and/or they pay close attention to what their readers request in the comments. Often, blogging naturals just stumble upon great keywords. They might not even be using keyword tools; can you imagine?!
If you're just that good at giving the people what they want, I support you. But even if you don't use keyword tools to get your initial content topic ideas, it's a good idea to use them to find long-tail keyword variations on your topic of choice. Using those long-tail terms in your content will help you rank for a wider range of keyword searches.
Unfortunately, Google no longer offers an external keyword tool to people who don't have an AdWords account. But there are lots of other ways to find long-tail keywords – for example, by using Google suggest:
Here's a random blog post that I grabbed from my Feedly reader: "Five Books on French Cuisine." Taking a quick look at Keyword Planner, we can see that "French food" has almost three times the search volume of "French cuisine."
So "French food books" or "books on French food" or "books about French food" would be good keyword variations to include here. (The phrase "French food" appears once in the post, but that's not a long-tail term.)
There are lot of other ideas here too: "traditional French food," "French food recipes," etc. Seeing these terms before you start writing might change the way you approach the post – you might decide to write a few different posts, one on books about traditional French food or the history of French cuisine, another on new French cookbooks, and so on. Or you might decide to write a longer list, divided up into subcategories. Then you could put all those long-tail keyword variations, like "Easy French Food Cookbooks," into subheadings on the page.
Long-tail keyword do's and don'ts:
- Do use long-tail keywords as a way of building out your content. Doing long-tail keyword research may make you realize that you can expand on a point you had forgotten.
- Do use long-tail keywords in subheads, image file names, your meta description … not just the regular text.
- Don't long-tail-keyword-stuff. You can use long-tail keywords in your content without making it obvious that you're doing it for SEO purposes, as in this old joke:
BONUS: A Few More Blog SEO Best Practices You May Be Forgetting
Do you optimize your URL structure, so that the URL clearly communicates what the post is about? Some blogging software just assigns a random URL string, rather than keywords, as in this URL:
Do you moderate comments, and respond to all the legitimate ones?
Do you make it easy as cake for people to share your content? We're talking prominent social buttons!
If you're in the business of blogging but not in the business of SEO, take a good hard look at your blogging practices. You might be under-optimizing your content.
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Tuesday October 22, 2013
Thank you, your opinion is very straightforward and raised serious issues that blogging always have. I have applied many different ways, including the procedure you have said, but have not found very effective. Looking forward to learning more from you.
Tuesday October 22, 2013
Great informative article! Guest bloggers are a good way of increasing the popularity of your blog. A guess can post something on your site and you can in return post something on their site.
Tuesday October 22, 2013
Thanks, Daisy and Danny! Just remember that Google is cracking down a little bit on guest posting ... as with most things in SEO, go for quality, not quantity.
Tuesday October 22, 2013
Great tips Elisa. All of these techniques are great best practices to help ensure that bloggers can find the demand. Your example with French Cuisine and French Food was a particularly good one. We use The Yoast SEO plug-in which helps users adhere to many of the best practices you outline. Also, making sure that posts are substantive, including images and videos can help, especially post hummingbird. Recency is also super important, especially in certain niches where there is high demand for fresh content in certain contexts that change often such as features/functions of social networks that are continually evolving. Thanks for sharing.
Tuesday October 22, 2013
Great points, Rick, thanks! In a lot of niches, content goes out of date after a few years anyway, so you can address the recency question by giving older content a refresh and update.
Tuesday October 22, 2013
Great article, Elisa. Since this article is written for non-SEOs, I would also recommend one of my favoraite free keyword suggestion tools - ubersuggest.
Wednesday October 23, 2013
Great post. Thanks for such nice and detail do's and dont's tips about SEO. The blog having good and interesting content will definatly get more hits and helps in increasing the ranking of website.
Wednesday October 23, 2013
Excelleng post Elisa, All the points are very informative and breifly expalined here. I also do blog commenting beacuse this is one of the best way to get traffic and share information among related people or communities.
Wednesday October 23, 2013
great post Elisa you mention all good points its very helpful for all of us and I say you all follow these points
Wednesday October 23, 2013
Great article and I particularly like the internal links to make the article sticky.
I normally try and reference back to earlier articles too as this seems to help.
Wednesday October 23, 2013
That's just what Google likes to be - To forget about SEO when we're working on a site. We should work on it to be user-friendly, not Search Engines friendly.
Thanks for sharing it, well said.
Friday October 25, 2013
Wednesday October 23, 2013
Targeting long tail keywords should be a part of any quality SEO strategy as it helps to achieve quick wins and is great for creating a solid content marketing strategy.
Thursday October 24, 2013
"You don't have to be an SEO to be a good blogger." You are right so I concur with you.
There are lots of reasons why people generate a blog. Some just wanted to share their list of poems, wants to share their pieces of arts and craft, share informative tutorials about certain things and yes! You are right that ever bloggers read some of them. Why? Because they are information, fun, amazing and helpful.
To wrap this up, this pillar is revealing.
Thursday October 24, 2013
I find improving my internal linking structure of my website a good way to boost my traffic since I can put keywords in it on my site to make other pages indexable my search engine bots.
Sunday October 27, 2013
Great design is a great point, Google does look at that and it impacts the rankings heavily if done incorrectly. Nice post.
Monday October 28, 2013
Hi Elisa,
Great pointers, you have disscused some new aspects of SEO, your methods are quite different especially your explanation about using image tags for SEO purpose and way to find the right keywords which satisfy the user query on google, these tips works for any blog or website regardless of their niche. Thank you for your wise post.
Tuesday October 29, 2013
That's a lovely post! I stopped by when i was researching for optimizing my blog and your presentation was so useful. Keep going. Awaiting to hear more tips from you Elisa!!
Thursday October 31, 2013
HI Elisa, thanks for sharing this useful article. I am not a Seo expert but by reading this I can see the essence of seo and the proper things to be done. I believe that placing a certain website on the top rank is not an immediate process that will take a series of steps.
Friday November 01, 2013
Great post, Elisa. I would like to add that it is not only advice for non-SEO bloggers, but also a kind reminder to those that DO usually those things!
Tuesday November 05, 2013
Great nice piece of information for better seo.Thanks for sharing valuable tips.
Tuesday November 05, 2013
It's very truth that first four aspects are becoming more and more important for high ranking. Google set his algorithms in such way that this aspects are very relevant for better ranking. A serious blog gives importance naturally to those aspects. Also, is really good, after the building of the blog is finished, to make a little SEO research and see other aspects that could led our website among the first. So, I believe, especially for beginners, your article will be very useful. It points to very important aspects but also to details and I loved to see that you underlined the "internal links" problem, witch I also find very interesting, as visitor and as content writer. As a visitor, because when I find something interesting to read, I could follow internal links to find other usefull informations and as content writer, because I like to share with my readers interesting information.
Wednesday November 06, 2013
Great post I loved it I now know much more about eventbrite! Very well written keep up the good work.
Wednesday November 06, 2013
Before you even begin writing an article, ask yourself, "What are the
relevant keywords for this post?" It's important to know what words or
phrases you want people to enter into a Google search to find your
Thursday November 07, 2013
your article very helpful but what my problem is is post any comment that side not accept my comment really i don't know help me elisa
Thursday November 07, 2013
Great informational !!! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thursday November 07, 2013
Good information for me
Thursday November 07, 2013
Better ranking means to comply with Google good SEO practices. Quality content, a very appealing but technically optimized design, a very organized structure of the website, an existing community and social interaction are some imperative aspects of SEO process today. There are some other aspects that may help in better ranking. Everything depends on competition for the keyword that we wan to optimize.
Thursday November 07, 2013
Great post. i feel very happy after reading this.. great work.
Thursday November 07, 2013
It is usually the simple actions that lead to big outcomes when it comes to web and SEO, your post clearly shows the things we can do to improve SEO, thanks!
Thursday November 07, 2013
Definetly we have to improve SEO, because otherwise we have to change our field of work. We have to follow Google's rules and as I see, content has became one of the main preocupation of this search engine. So, we have to pay very much attention to content, to generate good content, in order to rank well in Google.This article was very helpful in this direction.
Friday November 08, 2013
Informational! As one whose building a new website and struggling, I consider this really helpful in marking and making a website successful. Thanks for sharing a great article.
Saturday November 09, 2013
Very good writeup and interestingly educative. I totally agree with most of your points.
Sunday November 10, 2013
You've nailed some of the most overlooked tools at any bloggers disposal - interlinking and anchor text. By overlooking your own internal link structure, you're not only missing out on a chance to drive website visitors through the sales and marketing funnel, but you're ignoring one of the most controllable SEO elements at your disposal - and one that works regardless of your success at sharing and link-building with other relevant websites. If you've got the ability to build your own link profile, do it - and at the very least, you'll be helping your visitors to get more out of your site.
Sunday November 10, 2013
Very informative article, very helpfull indeed some more SEO tips
Monday November 11, 2013
Tuesday November 12, 2013
These are very helpful tips about SEO blogging. The information you provided are really beneficial. Thank you for sharing.
Tuesday November 12, 2013
Great article! Thanks for sharing your SEO experience with us.
Tuesday November 12, 2013
Blogs are very beneficial to increase the knowledge regarding any topic.
Wednesday November 13, 2013
I like these tips, you've broken down SEO very well for beginners. I'm surprised how many people in the business hubs of San Francisco don't know how it works. I'll definitely be sharing this around with them.
Thursday November 14, 2013
Friday November 15, 2013
Great post, Thanks for sharing the vital information !! Totally agree with you.
Monday November 18, 2013
It's almost impossible to find such helpful articles these days.
Great effort.
Tuesday November 19, 2013
Vey Well said. Simple things like putting a relevant page title, meta description, adding at least one relevant image with alt tags can make a lot of difference to your blog's Optimization. Also, a very important factor - DONT be shy of shraing your content with your contact on Social Media platforms. If you have taken a lot of effort in writing a genuine piece of content, why not share it with relevant groups on Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterest. Also, dont forget to put Social Share buttons for each of your articles. The more shares you get, the better it is for your blog's popularity with search engines!
Tuesday November 19, 2013
Thanks... All the tips you have mentioned above are helpfull.
Wednesday November 20, 2013
Good work Elisa,
I liked the way you emphasized over focusing on minute details and the way you explained all crucial areas which can make the blogs more appealing for fellow readers. However constantly blogging relevant information for the internet users can be a great sharing tool. It helps us reach out can develop loyal connections with readers worldwide. I shall consider following your tips to make my write-ups more appealing for the readers.
Wednesday November 20, 2013
Your information about blog is nice. Especially I like image optimization, it is useful.
Friday November 22, 2013
For better keyword research, this is a great guideline. This guideline help me a lot.
Tuesday November 26, 2013
Good article
Thursday November 28, 2013
hey Elisa,
the all steps are beautifully categarised by you, it's good.
But, i think you forget to add one thing in it, that is "user friendly website".
This is also the part of the seo.
Saturday November 30, 2013
Thank you for this.. this is a big help.. specialy seo beginners like me..
Saturday November 30, 2013
Monday December 02, 2013
most of the time i did not care about the image titles and alt tag. but this article make e to do it. thank you for grate post. keep it up.. good luck
Monday December 02, 2013
Its very thought full tips which surely helps to increase traffic.
Tuesday December 03, 2013
Hi Elisa,
The article is really innovative and informative.It provides a lot of information.SEO is an important tool to make your site get good rank in search engine and optimize the chance of visibility towards your targeted customer.Thanks for the update.
Wednesday December 04, 2013
Hi Elisa. Great post! I think image optimisation is something people still dismiss- speaking from personal expereinece far too many websites hardly acknowledge image optimisation. I think a post like this is a great way to get clients listening!
Wednesday December 04, 2013
This is very good content I really appreciate I am here. Yeah content, design and social sharing is the best way to increase traffic and sales.
Thursday December 05, 2013
These are excellent tips. I am going to add images to my blog posts and also work on redesigning the blog.
Thursday December 05, 2013
Really great stuff !!
Tips are really awesome with do`s and don`t .
Although i m using internet links wherever necessary and image optimization since i started my blog.
But the good stuff like this attracts to read complete....Nice!!
Saturday December 07, 2013
Wow!!! Lots of great information in the post. I am glad I came here. Thank you for the info.
Monday December 09, 2013
Hi Elisa,
Your blog is really good.Very thoughtful and excellent tips.Thanks for sharing this helpful guideline.
Friday December 13, 2013
Really, informative article it will help us to improving our SEO knowledge. Thanks for sharing this post.
Friday December 13, 2013
Great post and very useful tips one must adapt.
Monday December 16, 2013
This blog is really helpful for a blogger who don't know anything about SEO. Bloggers can learn here How to optimize your blog and images on it? This is guiding article for newbie blogger.
Tuesday December 17, 2013
Great post! The fact that you means someone is reading and liking it! Congrats!That's great advice.
Tuesday December 17, 2013
Thanks... All the tips are helpfull. Keep up the good work
Wednesday December 18, 2013
Thanks for your tips. I i ageed that Great content,Great design,Community building,Social sharing will have great role in SEO.
Thursday December 19, 2013
Popular blogs develop huge readerships primarily because the content is awesome; it's that simple.
great post this blog content.
Thursday December 19, 2013
Sounds like I have a lot more work ahead of me. Thanks for helping me stay on track with my SEO!
Friday December 20, 2013
Hi,I do think this is an excellent blog. thanks for sharing this information i will consider these points while doing SEO.
Friday December 20, 2013
Tuesday December 24, 2013
i am new to the game! what is the best way to go about getting links?
Tuesday December 24, 2013
hi, i just want to ask a question, as a beginner, if i have to decide what tool to buy first (because of short budget) The Best Spinner or ScrapeBox, which one would you reccomend to buy first? which one would be more useful when starting from scratch a website? i know they are for different thinks and they make different tasks, but as a beginner, which one would be more useful?
Thanks for your support
Thursday December 26, 2013
It is really a great post and i have learned so much from your post. I will work on my blog well and wish it will help me a lot.
Friday December 27, 2013
Thank you for sharing this. I am a beginner to SEO thing and there are so many things I have to learn and this is avery quick start of learnings for me. The Do's and Don'ts really gives me more informations.
Monday December 30, 2013
I'm glad I read that just for the idea of adding 'Pin This' to my images - just have to figure out how to do it!
Do I need to do it from within Pinterest or just add a snippet of code?
Monday December 30, 2013
is there any one who can guide me about me why page ranking is very low
Wednesday January 01, 2014
This is a great topic that you have covered here and i really enjoyed the Tips. Thanks for posting this informative post. Keep writing and happy new year.
Thursday January 02, 2014
do you think i need to publish blog in my business site ?
it's locksmith site, so i dont know what to write thier...
Wednesday January 08, 2014
However I still see a lot of stuff being ranked based on junk links and no guest posting or social sharing...etc.
Monday January 13, 2014
Nice article..thank you for sharing...
Thursday January 16, 2014
Good post, Anyone can use all tips to blog.
Friday January 17, 2014
Great tips one must adapt.
Saturday January 18, 2014
Some people just focus on quality contents and don't pay attention towards the design of website. Your information about content and design of website is very helpful to understand the value of design. I am happy to read your tips for optimization of website. Quality contents is the priority and good design is very necessary to attract readers and allow him to share on social medias with friends. In 2014, stop doing irrelevant spam linkbuilding and focus on the contents leads to top position.
Tuesday February 04, 2014
Fantastic tips Elisa,
Adding a compelling page title, synonyms in meta description, and some eye-catching image with alt tags can make a lot of difference to any websites's search engine optimization.
Monday February 10, 2014
Thanks for the great suggestions! I'll be using some of this information! Much appreciated :)
Monday February 10, 2014
I think the long tailed keyword is key. I have met writers that just flow the work out, and I do not want them to change what works for them, but to have a bit of method in their madness. Knowing before you start the creative process what terms are key and crafting your work to include those in a way that does not detract from your talent is the balance. You want to open as many doors as you can with your content marketing, and each long tail is a new possability for traffic from a pre-determined "in demand" term from search.
Monday February 10, 2014
Informative article, discusses how the long tail works for SEO.Helpful for bloggers who don't know how to optimize their blogs.
Thursday February 13, 2014
i wouldn't go as far as renaming all the image files. the gain is tiny (if there is any) and the work can be huge. the best tip for images is to use a short descriptive alt text on ALL images.
urls should be as short as possible. normally something like websitename.com/max-four-words-here/ and for categories something like /cat/shortnameofcategory/
Friday February 14, 2014
Great post admin! i lilke post and appriciated to your thoughts on this topic ...keep it up !
Tuesday February 18, 2014
Thank you so much sharing valuable tips elisa. I have tried to build a links for my free wordpress blog in web directories. But some are rejected so plz reply whether it is possible to build backlinks in directories.
Sunday February 23, 2014
I understand the benefits of a good blog but lack the ability to sturcture for the best results. This has been very helpful and gives me some direction now. Thank you.
Tuesday February 25, 2014
Thank you so much for sharing this very informative blog...i would like praise you for writting for such a fabulous things..!
Friday February 28, 2014
Good post and nice information.
Friday February 28, 2014
Those are good SEO tips. original site
Saturday March 01, 2014
Great post,Thank you so much for sharing this very informative blog.
Wednesday March 05, 2014
Its a very excellent post. The points and tips included in this blog are amazing. It is really a very heloful blog for me. I like reading this post. Thanls a lot for sharing.
Wednesday March 05, 2014
Great post,you have shared very inspiring tips for blogging and from seo point of view these points will help in gaining traffic as well as gaining good backlin.As in blogging we should use an informative post through which we can easily pass some knowledge or information to the visiotr,if we help him in understanding the thing clearly than he willl agin visit our blog,from this we will have less bounce rate also,Thanks for sharing such an inspiring tips with us.
Friday March 14, 2014
nice informations. I will try to implement it. thank's
Wednesday March 19, 2014
Thank you for the auspicious writeup. This is one of the most incredible blogs Ive read in a very long time. The amount of information in here is stunning,
Tuesday April 08, 2014
I totally agree with you on the importance of page load speed for SEO. It's especially important for mobile users, as their internet connection isn't always reliable. Something
else to keep in mind is that the load time can be affected by the number of posts on your main page. According to Google, less than 10 posts is optimal to improve your blog load speed.
Wednesday April 09, 2014
Hi Elisa!
I find this article of yours very interesting. Just like you, I also do believe that we should use descriptive anchor text when linking internally. We should also need to remember that we must never optimize our anchor text. Anyway, thumbs up for this excellent article and I am really looking forward to read more of your latest articles.
Saturday May 03, 2014
Great article and I particularly like the internal links to make the article sticky
Sunday May 18, 2014
Elisa Gabbert, your post is providing the best techniques to write a blog post from a blogger who is not an SEO professional but love to write the things he like but your Do's and Don'ts are for both SEO and Non SEO because I have seen so many SEO professionals that do not know how to do these things what to do and what to avoid. Nice sharing and a great post you have so keep writing for the people who are still suffering in their techniques and strategies.
Thursday May 22, 2014
Amazing post, very informative and helpful. Great content is the most important for me. Peolple only shares great content.
Tuesday May 27, 2014
I'm very glad to come here and read this its inspiration post for every blogger and I'll keep mind your tips thanks for share with us.
Friday May 30, 2014
yeah so you got alot of interation with this post hhaa!. Nice. great tips I will have to get better at my long tailed key words research!
Friday May 30, 2014
Tuesday June 03, 2014
thanks for seo learning, i think a great post
Saturday June 07, 2014
very useful information.. thanks for sharing
Tuesday June 10, 2014
This is very true and practical. Great tips for all bloggers, Thanks for this. Cheers!
Sunday June 15, 2014
Tips about seo from this article can help to make my blog better. thank you
Saturday June 21, 2014
I liked the article very much. There are many useful information.
Monday June 23, 2014
Great post
I just want to ask you a question that how long will it take for any site to become successful??
Saturday June 28, 2014
This is my first time I visit here. I discovered a lot of interesting things. Thanks for the FANTASTIC post!
Sunday June 29, 2014
Great post! Thank you for sharing valuable information. Keep up the good work
Thursday July 03, 2014
Thank you, very userful article to me....
Thursday July 03, 2014
Very Good article thanx really very helpful!!! every blogger dream is to make his blog the first result in the search engine results page but they fail due to lack of knowledge about SEO or due to improper SEO so here is a Google SEO Guide with top 10 best SEO techniques that changes your life style in to a successful blogger.
Sunday July 13, 2014
that would be great lesson for beginners like me thanks for the brief explanation
Monday August 04, 2014
I have hear about over-optimizing your anchor text before and still hearing now. I have learn somthing about it is Search engine land.
But one thing, If I do it with my interal link how is this? will it also harm my site?
Thursday August 07, 2014
I found lots of interesting information here. The post was professionally written, I have learn something new from your blog. Elisa thanks for sharing such an useful seo tips...
Friday August 15, 2014
This is great Elisa and just what I was searching for to help with my blog's SEO.
I've copy/pasted your do's & don'ts list as a reference to make sure I put your tips into proper practice.
Thanks for sharing!
Wednesday August 27, 2014
I have seen so many SEO professionals that do not knows how to do these things what to do and what not to do. I am
very glad to come here and read this inspiration post for every blogger. Thanks for sharing such a nice article.
Wednesday August 27, 2014
Thanks... your post is providing the best techniques to write a blog post from a blogger who is not an SEO professional but love to write the things he like but your Do's and Don'ts are for both SEO and Non SEO because I have seen so many SEO professionals that do not know how to do these things what to do and what to avoid.
Wednesday September 10, 2014
This is very very helpful post for me,thanks a lot for sharing.
Monday September 15, 2014
This is really an awesome post. I would like to appreciate the admin of the site for posting this wonderful article.
Tuesday September 30, 2014
Nice articles for people who think that they have to be an SEO to be a good blogger. Great description about content , design, community building and Social sharing.
Thanks for posting!!
Monday October 20, 2014
Overall, I think the best way to get natrual traffic is the content. Using the title as bait and the header as an appetizer, the content will serve as the main dish.
Tuesday October 21, 2014
I been reading a lot of articles and blogs regarding this topic, top 10 tips, top 5 essential techniques for SEO, this article is the one I find it covered the most essential and yet not too difficult to understand tips for SEO leaner. Thanks!
Monday December 01, 2014
I justb went through your post it was realy good.Its my First visit to your site .I was always curious about this .This post is upto date i appriciate to this topic .Thanks for sharing .
Friday December 05, 2014
Simplicity always good, that can for a blog or a website. Simple navigation helps people to find their needed things. And the other thing should be the content that also attracts the visitors to your blog.
Wednesday December 10, 2014
And content should not only be abudent but also quality.
Wednesday December 17, 2014
As Humming bird updates and google panda affect a lot onPR of website. Because of those algorithm many websites page rank go down. Also Google is so conscious about duplicant content. Google wants 100% original and relevant content.


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