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Jalopnik's comments have long stood out amid the illiterate abuse and empty-headed faux-wit of the internet automotiverse. We're going to make sure it stays that way — by putting you in charge. Also, the ability to edit comments. Seriously.
It's been a source of pride for all of us here at Jalopnik that we're known as the place for smart, witty and even thought-provoking car culture-obsessed content. For a long time our comments were of the same caliber. Lately, however, thanks to a 93% growth in readership over the past year, things have gotten a tad juvenile in the comments. Not all of them, but it's clear that, for many, the comments have become less about adding to the story than about the off-topic, the trolling and the inane chattering. Consequently we've found here's two different types of commenters — the type that want to add relevant content to the stories and the kind looking for a social atmosphere to talk to friends, talk about life and in general, just talk. Unfortunately, the second kind is beginning to out-pace the first. No longer. We're aiming to make both easier with our new commenting system. Let's call it Jalopnik Commenting 2.0.
We're going to introduce another level — the power commenter — to the hierarchy. We used to refer to our comment environment as a club — with a velvet rope to keep the riff-raff out on the street. Well, now the club is too busy. Now we need a the equivalent of a VIP room. We'll populate the VIP room by giving special privileges to star commenters. They'll get prominence and space — as will their guests. And — we hope — it will be this salon that sets the tone of discussion.
This doesn't mean you non-starred commenters won't have their place — you will — it's just that place will be where all off-topic comments should be — off the story page. In fact, although we'll have more on it shortly, everyone will get a set of new privileges — like the ability to edit your comments for a short period of time after you've written it as well as the ability to auto-insert images and youtube videos. Yes friends, it's morning in Jalopnik America. Embrace the change.
We've even brought in long-time commenter advocate and Se7en stud Al Navarro to help explain some of the details — as an example of what we mean by "good commenters" who deserve a star and what power those starred commenters will have. Yes, that's correct, the stars are changing roles. Now they'll signify power commenters — so if you want one too, you'll have to up your commenting game. Without further ado, here's Al:
Someone's got to be Minardi
I've been a big fan of Formula One racing since the days of Piquet, Prost, Mansell, and Senna. I remember excitedly reading the race reports in the "buff books" before F1 was commonly televised here in the U.S.
I even remember what I was doing on that dark first day of May 1994. Heading out to have brunch with my parents and future in-laws to celebrate my recent engagement to the most patient woman in the world (TMPWITW, who also goes by the name Laura). As we were leaving our apartment, the race was on the TV - stopped for Ayrton's crash. I said to TMPWITW something to the effect of "He's not moving and they're not getting him out of the car. That can't be a good sign."
Years later, during the reign of Herr Schumacher, I remarked to Laura that I didn't understand why the teams of the perennial back markers even bothered to race. To which TMPWITW uttered, for the first time, the now common (at least in the my household) aphorism "Someone's got to be Minardi".
All of this is a long way of saying that, for the Jalopnik commentariat, it's time for a whole lot of you folks to embrace the role of Minardi.
You see, starting today, there will be two levels of commenters - and commenting.
The people (and not just those sporting stars) who have exhibited their wit, knowledge, general adherence to accepted rules of grammar, and overall good conduct have earned the privilege of having their comments appear front and center on the post pages.
As for the rest of you Minardians, fear not. Your comments will still be posted to the site as they have always been. What's more, there is a possibility that you could jump up to the podium if you play your cards right. (Required reading on playing said cards: "A Commenting Class on Commenting Class"; Jalopnik.com, 30 April 2008.) Because the A-list commenters have the power to promote your comments to the big dance (yes, I know I'm introducing non-car metaphors now), and even recommend you for a star.
Another carrot: Remember that even Minardi F1 itself became Scuderia Toro Rosso not so long ago. Toro Rosso was the launch pad for current F1 wunderkind Sebastian Vettel, who now runs with Dietrich Mateschitz's A-team, Red Bull Racing. And of course, there is the Brawn GP story.
It cuts both ways too, as Featured Commenters who exhibit conduct unbecoming can be demoted to Minardi. The Lewis Hamilton story, as it were. As you were.
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Since we periodically have discussions about braindumps and other activity that has an impact on certification test validity, I thought this article came along at the right time. -Trip
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Recently, the world said goodbye to the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. This hardly contributed to stability. Now another important document is at stake – START III. This agreement between the United States and Russia regulated the reduction of strategic offensive weapons. In less than a year, its action will cease, but renewal has not yet been counted on.
As you know, START III is a bilateral treaty, but it affects the fate of the whole world. Not surprisingly, the agreement is being discussed in other countries. Let's look at the position of the parties.
The rhetoric of Russia boils down to the need to renew the contract. This is said at all levels. In particular, Vladimir Putin recently promised to raise this topic at a meeting with Donald Trump.
"It is necessary to extend the START III treaty", – the Russian President said.
This view is shared by Germany, as Foreign Minister Heiko Maas spoke about:
"We are joining forces to protect and strengthen the crumbling arms control architecture. We urge Russia and the United States to show leadership by extending START-3. The agreement remains critical".
The French Foreign Ministry commented on the situation surrounding the agreement as follows:
"The United States and Russia, which still own almost 95% of the world's nuclear stockpiles, are primarily responsible for maintaining existing instruments of control over conventional and nuclear weapons".
Even ex-deputy secretary general of NATO Rose Gottemoeller at a hearing in the committee on foreign affairs in the House of Representatives of the US Congress openly stated that America's security depends on START III.
"NATO allies, as well as our allies in Asia, support the extension of START III", – she said.
Washington's position is less clear. Officially, the US is showing a willingness to extend the contract. Except for the fact that here a large American contradiction arises.
"The president puts forward, and you are probably observing this, a proposal for tripartite discussions: negotiations with Russia and China regarding replacement, a larger arms control agreement that limits the growth of these arsenals in China and Russia", – John Rood, the US Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs commented on the situation.
The US sees China as one of its strategic opponents, and therefore wants to see it among the parties to the deal. At first glance, this approach may seem reasonable. But all logic begins to crumble if you delve into the details.
According to the International Campaign for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, there are 6,500 nuclear warheads in Russia. The United States has 6185. The arsenal of China has only 290 nuclear weapons. China is not even in third place – France was ahead of it, which has 300 nuclear warheads. Naturally, official Beijing appeals with this fact.
If China makes a deal, it will deprive itself of the opportunity to develop this industry. Washington is well aware that there will be no tripartite agreement. Moreover, Donald Trump already wanted to conclude with the Chinese an analogue of the INF Treaty.
"China is not part of this agreement, but they should be included in it", – Trump said in October 2018. As you know, less than a year later the contract ceased to exist.
But is there really a problem in China? Does this mean that the treaty should include France and Britain? Yes, these are NATO countries. They do not pose a threat to the United States, but could balance the situation. Only even negotiations on this subject are not conducted. But in February, Donald Trump made a budget proposal for 2021 in the amount of 4.8 trillion dollars.
It is important to recall that obligations under START III may end as early as February. What does the White House offer? – $ 705.4 billion to the Pentagon, with particular emphasis on financing the creation of new types of nuclear weapons.
The National Nuclear Safety Administration will also receive a lot of resources. This federal agency has already reported that they want to spend $ 15.6 billion on nuclear weapons programs. Although Congress will decide on budgetary issues, Trump's actions make it clear that the United States does not count on an extension of START III. Moreover, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is also in jeopardy.
If you look at the numbers above, you can see why the United States is not interested in maintaining START III. China is an excuse, like the 9M729 missile in the case of the INF Treaty. Restrictions will disappear, and a multibillion-dollar flow of money will sweep over the US military-industrial complex. The Pentagon has something to strive for given the new Russian developments. Unfortunately, this situation will result in an unprecedented arms race. The Cold War of the last century will seem like babble, given how much technology has evolved since then. One can only hope that the parties will reach an agreement before the world pays for the heedlessness of the catastrophe.
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I'm a dad.
Of teenagers.
I help out in my church with teen youth groups. And despite what my teens believe, I actually was a teenager at one time back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
The teen years represent that magic threshold (some would say precipice) of adulthood. It reminds me of the toddler years when they discover new freedoms like walking (falling) and unearthing new things to put in their mouths like watch batteries and loose change. The difference is you were usually around to try to avert the really bad stuff from happening.
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You can't ride shotgun forever.
So when I read on Cars.com that half of all teen drivers will be involved in a crash before graduating from high school I did what any good parent of a teen driver would do.
I panicked.
Teens are notorious for being accident prone behind the wheel.
Especially younger teen drivers. Esurance.com says 16-year-old drivers are more than 2.5 times more likely to be in a crash than drivers ages 20 to 24. It gets worse when teens are carrying passengers. They report that the likelihood of teen driver death increases with each additional teenage passenger. And, unfortunately, I get calls with that exact scenario far too often. Those are the cases that truly make me cry. And then I spend some extra time with my kids.
Distracted Driving Apps Might Help Curb Teen Car Accidents and Deaths
Smartphones have put the world at our fingertips - particularly our social world. And that's hard for teens to ignore. That ping you hear which signals you to reach for your phone? It's addicting. Physiologically addicting. Read this fascinating blog to find out why our brains will not allow us to ignore the ping.
New distracted driving apps can help us ignore the ping.
By incentivizing safe driving, or even directly blocking you from using your phone while driving, these apps can help keep your attention on the road instead of the phone. According to DMV.org, these apps offer safety features that can:
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I admit that as a parent, I sometimes get frustrated if my kids don't answer my calls, especially when I don't know they are driving. But I'd rather them get to their destination safely and then respond rather than try to answer and wreck on the way.
With numerous apps that can help curb distracted driving, we cannot review them all. Here are some which offer more (and more interesting) ways to cut distracted driving than simply a locked phone.
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PADD (People Against Distracted Driving) has approved two unique apps that offer positive reinforcement to ignore your phone while driving.
Drive BeeHive is a unique peer-to-peer app. You pair with a sponsor to earn rewards points for not using your phone while driving. It is enabled when the driver opens Drive BeeHive and begins driving. A lock screen appears and will count the driver's "safe miles." All it takes to earn those miles for that trip is to not use the phone behind the wheel. If you do, your miles are reset back to zero. Once the driver reaches their goal, their sponsor will be notified to release their reward. PADD is working with consumer sponsors to offer actual rewards in the form of discounts, coupons, and freebies.
AT&T DriveMode is also piggybacking on the positive incentive wave. This app allows you to set up your own prizes for a private group of drivers or for the public. The device works by blocking any phone calls or texting and driving. DriveMode can be set up to automatically start when you are driving over 15 MPH. You can even have it notify you when your teen driver has the app deactivated or if certain settings are changed.
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Remember when your driver's ed instructor would ding you for making "jack rabbit starts and stops"? You got dinged a few times and eventually learned how to start and stop smoothly. Some apps can now reinforce this in your teen (or any) driver.
Consumer Reports favorably reviewed the Cellcontrol DriveID. It can record braking, acceleration, speed, cornering, and key driving events showing the scores on the app for the driver - or the driver's parents - to view. This Bluetooth technology device attaches under your rearview mirror and pairs their app with your cell phone to help curb impulses to check, chat, or text. Your phone screen goes into screen-lock mode when the car starts moving, and only 911 or designated phone numbers are accessible. This technology also has the capability to rate driving patterns and phone usage on a scoring system.
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The beautiful Rosalie was nice enough to come back from her wedding and answer all of our questions! She and her partner stayed at the Iberostar Playa Mita in Puerto Vallarta. This interview is short and sweet and may help future brides when it comes to picking a resort for their future destination wedding. So, without further a due, let's read an Iberostar Playa Mita Bride Review!
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The resort was absolutely fantastic. Beautiful beach, pool! Service was amazing. Rooms and resort are clean and comfortable.
We got married at the oceanfront gazebo.
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" I think I learned that language before I learned English. It was just a part of my DNA."
—Daniel Clowes
Years ago, legendary cartoonist Daniel Clowes, LAB'79, used to make a sketch, crumple it up, and throw it in the garbage. One day a friend watching him threw a fit. "He said, 'What are you doing? Why wouldn't you save that?'" Clowes recalls. "He told me, 'That's even better than the actual artwork; it's your process.'"
So Clowes began dutifully filing away those drawings. "At first, I did it just so he wouldn't yell at me," he says. "But once I had accumulated enough of it, I saw what he was saying—it's actually interesting to see it all build from the sediment, from the very beginning of the idea."
That artistic trajectory is now on display at the Special Collections Research Center in the Regenstein Library exhibition "Integrity of the Page: The Creative Process of Daniel Clowes," which runs through June 17.
The exhibition features notes, outlines, narrative drafts, character sketches, and draft layouts for three of Clowes' award-winning graphic novels: The Death-Ray (2011), Ice Haven (2005), and Mister Wonderful (2011). "This is all the behind-the-scenes stuff that I never wanted to show anybody," Clowes says of the work, all of it done by hand using paper, pencil and ink. "It represents a lot of trial and error and days spent working on stuff that doesn't work out at all."
Clowes' work has appeared in Esquire, Time, Newsweek, and GQ, and he has contributed numerous covers to The New Yorker, including the February's "Privileged Characters," about the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony.
Mapping the creative process
The material featured in the exhibition is drawn from the Daniel Clowes Archive, which the University acquired in 2015 as part of the library's interest in collecting contemporary comics and zines, particularly those with a Chicago theme. "Visitors will get a great bird's-eye view of the work and of Clowes' creative process while simultaneously being able to zoom in up close on the details of that work," says archivist Ashley Gosselar, who curated "Integrity of the Page."
The exhibition demonstrates the extensive research Clowes undertakes to reach his final product. "I need to know the characters and the world intimately," he says. "I need to know all these facts about them that would never actually make it into the story for me to feel like I'm comfortably writing their dialogue and speaking in their voice."
The progression that led to the creation of Mr. Wonderful—Clowes' "middle-aged romance" that began as a serialized comic for The New York Times Magazine—for example, runs the length of the Special Collections gallery's south wall. It begins with notebooks of black-and-white sketches and ends with the finished, full-color product.
The Clowes Archive supports the interdisciplinary interest in comics for research and teaching, Gosselar says. It also pays tribute to Clowes' strong ties to the University of Chicago. Born in Chicago, Clowes grew up in Hyde Park and attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools before moving to New York to study at the Pratt Institute. His grandfather, James Lea Cate, was a history professor at the University from 1930 to 1969, and his stepmother, Harriet Clowes, worked in development at the University of Chicago Library from 1976 to 1980.
From conception to publication
Clowes' comics, graphic novels, and anthologies have been translated into more than 20 languages, and his work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions. His first professional work appeared in Cracked magazine in 1985. Four years later, he created the comic book series Eightball, which ran for 23 issues through 2004 and earned him a large following and multiple industry awards. Eightball generated several graphic novels, including two of the three featured in the exhibit—Ice Haven, an intricate tale of kidnapping and alienation in a small Midwestern town; and The Death-Ray, the unlikely story of a teenage superhero in the 1970s.
Clowes is also a scriptwriter. The 2001 film adaptation of his graphic novel, Ghost World (1998), based on a script by Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff, was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. The two also collaborated on the 2006 film Art School Confidential. Currently, Clowes has several film projects in development.
Now based in Oakland, Calif., Clowes says he visits Chicago fairly frequently. In 2012, he participated in the University's "Comics: Philosophy and Practice" conference sponsored by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, an event that brought together 17 world-renowned cartoonists for three days of public conversation. The following year, a major retrospective of his work, Modern Cartoonist, was featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Back in Hyde Park in late March for the opening of "Integrity of the Page," a conversation with Daniel Raeburn, UChicago lecturer in creative nonfiction, and a book signing of his newly released and longest work yet, Patience, Clowes reflected on his early years growing up just blocks from the library. He says he began drawing comics before he knew how to read, using cardboard his father brought home from a dry cleaners on 57th Street as his canvas.
"I would draw the word balloons and little scratches because I didn't know what letters were," Clowes says. "I think I learned that language before I learned English. It was just a part of my DNA."
Originally published on May 2, 2016.


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SmartLipo – female patient (29 years) – before (left) – 3 months post op (right)
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SmartLipo recovery can be fast – you can experience some swelling in the treated areas.
The immediate candidate of SmartLipo therapy should take a balanced diet food. Most importantly, the food must have a high level of proteins to enable faster building up of the affected body tissues. Such food includes white meat, cereals, and cabbages. Also, they should take a lot of fruits and the food that supplement minerals into the body.
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You might not experience any swelling when you use SmartLipo for treatment. However, you can get some swelling depending on the areas that were treated. This should not cause any alarm as the swellings will quickly disappear after some time.
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SmartLipo results – 34 year women – before (left) – 4 months after surgery (right)
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By: Jeffrey Rothstein
Many of us have unwaveringly embraced the philosophy of differentiation. We differentiate instruction according to student readiness, interest, and preference. But what about the other parts of a young adolescent's school experiences—the programs outside the classroom?
Topping the list of programs that continue to follow traditional models are middle school leadership programs. If we walk into the majority of independent middle schools in this country, we likely will find student government structures whereby each class votes students into office. These cabinets hold meetings with members to plan dances, fundraisers, and other events.
Certainly, the officers are getting a good taste of civic process and some basic leadership experience, but by differentiating student leadership programs, we can provide civic and leadership opportunities for more of our students.
We implemented a steering committee program at our PreK–8 school, so more students can get involved in community leadership initiatives based on projects that are interesting to them.
First, we encourage all students to share ideas for projects that are both fun and beneficial. After we determine that the projects fit with our school's mission, we ask for volunteers from the grade level from which the idea evolved to form a steering committee. With the help of an adult project sponsor, this committee steers the project.
Within the steering committee, students choose their roles based on their strengths and interests. The experiences are meaningful because the projects are student-generated, student-led, and student-executed. Further, participation is voluntary, so students choose projects about which they are passionate and for which they have a particular acumen. As a result, students are able to lead in areas of choice and skill.
For example, nine sixth graders are working with the Red Cross and a local hospital on a blood drive. The students created subcommittees for digital media communication/advertising, in-house advertising, day-of logistics and communication with the Red Cross, and schedules/appointments. The subgroups work collaboratively to reach their goals.
By differentiating beyond the curriculum, all students have the opportunity to create and cultivate, lead and serve, and choose and execute in a community-minded way. We are developing creative, process-oriented, collaborative, and benevolent leaders.
More on these topicsFamily and CommunityStudent Leadership
Article tags Student Engagement
The idea to provide differentiated leadership opportunities that extend beyond student government beginning at the middle school level (instead of waiting until high school or college) is a fantastic idea because not only does it allow students to begin cultivating skills that will make them good leaders, it gives them confidence from a young age to pursue matters that interest them and can benefit the community. Putting emphasis on something that is both fun and beneficial allows the students to have intrinsic motivation, which is another good characteristic to encourage from a young age. As someone who was always too shy to become involved in student government, I think having differentiated leadership opportunities is a great way to involve all students and develop critical leadership skills.
Differentiating leadership roles outside the classroom is important; it is something that isn't the first thing I think about when it comes to differentiation. Like you mentioned though, doing it not just in the classroom, but outside of it as well is just as crucial for students to be a part of. When students are connected to their communities, they tend to learn more and understand that they can make a difference. I agree with what you are doing and I think it should be implemented at more schools.


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My Hubpages Traffic Doubled in One Week
Hub Table of Contents
1. Quantity and Quality
2. Keyword Research
Intermission: Poll (Please take a moment to vote)
3. On-page Optimization
4. Optimization Isn't Everything
5. The Niche
How My Hubpages Traffic Doubled In One Week
I deliberated for a long time about whether or not to write this article. After all, I've only been on Hubpages a relatively short time, and the traffic to my pages, though it indeed doubled last week, is still relatively puny compared to that of the seasoned Hubpages veterans. Plus, I wanted to make sure that my spike in traffic wasn't just some chance fluctuation which would vanish at short notice. It hasn't. My traffic this week has not only stayed at that higher level, but continues to increase.
So I decided to write this article. Although my aim is primarily to give relative new-comers to Hubpages a perspective on how how to succeed, I think that some of the things I'll say can be appreciated by new-comers and veterans alike. I will also point newcomers in the direction of some of the best advice I've seen from the veterans about success on Hubpages.
Venerable veteran Hubpages user Chuck, in his excellent article found here (opens in a new window), names three strategies for success on Hubpages: 1. The quantity approach, 2. The niche approach, and 3. The keyword approach. I would say that I use a blend of all three approaches.
Massive Quantities of Non-garbage
First things first. If you don't have anything to write about, or can't find anything to write about, you probably won't get much traffic on Hubpages. I am quite convinced that for most writers on the internet, success will be a matter of producing a sufficient quantity of real content, which is interesting and relevant. Hubpager Chuck, who I mentioned already, says that his own success has resulted from his focus on quantity. What is a sufficient quantity? As much as possible. Since many of us, myself included, still have jobs or school or family or other things that require time and attention, this limits the quantity we can put out. I have set for myself a required minimum of 2-3 hubs per week, although when I have the time, I prefer to do at least 4-6 hubs per week.
But sheer quantity, of course, is only half the equation. The other half is quality. A massive quantity of boring garbage is not likely to prove effective in the long run. Content must be interesting and relevant to readers. Otherwise, they will not stay on your page long enough to click on an ad, will not be likely to read other things you have written, and will not post links to your articles on social websites such as Facebook. That's right: Hubpages is not a get-rich-quick platform. To succeed, one must write quality content, and a lot of it. And this takes time. And effort.
The Results of Good Keyword Research
Keyword Research
Some of my readers, I predict, have mostly skipped the preceding section about quantity and quality. Why wade through all that, rather than skip right to the "good stuff"?
Hubpages user Misha has fewer than thirty hubs, yet has thousands of followers and makes "about $1500 [a month] give or take" from Hubpages. This would seem to contradict everything I just said about the need for writing a lot of content. And it does. But I think that Misha is the exception, not the rule, for success on Hubpages. It takes a considerable amount of genius and good fortune to discover key-phrases like "Google homepage", overflowing with monthly searches, but with a tiny amount of competition. And one cannot always rely on finding such perfect key-phrases. Kudos to Misha! His secret, which he discusses is keyword research.
I'm all about keyword research. That being said, be sure to read the section of this hub titled: "Optimization Isn't Everything".
I begin almost every article I write with keyword research, followed by "on-page" relevancy optimization. I'll explain. First, I go to the Google Keyword Tool and type in some possible key phrases.
Brief Intermission: Poll - Which best describes you?
The Google Keyword Tool
I look through the list that Google generates (not pictured above) for additional key phrase
ideas. I look at the competition and the global monthly searches. If a
key phrase has low competition, and at the very least, five hundred
monthly searches, I consider it as a possibility. Really, I rarely pick
something with so few monthly searches, unless I really care about the
topic, and feel the need to write about it regardless of potential
traffic. I usually look for a phrase with low competition and between
1,500 and 50,000 monthly searches. Anything over 50,000 usually has too
much competition. I always
look at the "exact phrase" statistics for the phrase as well. That is,
how many monthly searches are there for that exact phrase in quotation
But here's my real secret: After I identify a potential key phrase as I described above, I go to Google and search for my key phrase in two ways: 1. As a general phrase (not in quotations) and 2. As an exact phrase (in quotations). The reason I do this is to get a real idea about the competition I'm facing. The competition stats in the Google keyword tool have limited usefulness, as they are based on the estimated number of paying advertisers who are bidding for a placement with those keywords. So in reality, it more accurately measures competition for paying advertisers, not for those of us seeking "organic" advertising (that is, to appear on the natural search results).
When I do the two types of searches for my key phrases (general and exact), I look for several things:
- The number of results.
- The number of results on the first page which have my exact key-phrase in their title.
- The Google page-rank of the first 5-6 results.
The lower each of those numbers, the better. A magnificent tool called SEO for Firefox is available for free (you'll first need Firefox, which is also free), and will allow you to see stats such as the page-rank, and much more, for each result in the search page without having to actually go to any of those pages.
- For "number of results", I prefer under five million for general phrase (though under a million is excellent), and under 50,000 for exact phrase. It is not extremely hard to find under 10,000, and I have sometimes had success with results as high as 80,000.
- For number of results with my exact phrase in the title, on the first page of either general or exact, I like to see under seven. Under 5 is excellent.
- For page-rank, I like to see at least two of the top six results with a page-rank of three or less. Again, the lower the better, especially if these top results contain your exact key-phrase in the title.
In my "exact phrase" search, I do one more thing: I scroll to the bottom of the search results page, and click on page ten of the search results. I then scroll to the bottom of that page and click the twentieth page of results. I continue this process until Google gives me a message like the one seen in the following picture.
There is a simple reason why the number 48, emphasized above, is important: this represents the amount of unique competition for your key phrase. It cuts out the redundant competition. When you do an exact-phrase search, you might come up with thousands of results. But as you skip through the search-results pages, Google will stop you long before you reach the end of those thousands of results, letting you know that all those other results are basically so redundant as to be unimportant. For this number, anything under 400 seems to be pretty good. Anything under 100 is extremely good.
So from this perspective, let's see why my article about the movie Crash might rank so high in Google search.
- Search results for general phrase "crash movie analysis": 8,030,000 (not too bad).
- For the exact phrase: 2840 (extremely good).
- Unique results for exact phrase: 48 (amazing).
- Number of results with exact phrase in the title for general search: 1 (perfect).
- Results with exact phrase in the title for exact search: 6 (not bad).
Hopefully this illustrates a good point: my techniques and guidelines are far from perfect formulas, and there are plenty of exceptions. For example, although the number "8,030,000" above may be a little bit higher than my ideal, it obviously didn't prevent my page from ranking high. In fact I have pages that rank high with far more search results than that in the general phrase search. One statistic alone can never give a complete picture, and one can never perfectly predict results. So don't refrain from using a key-phrase just because one of the numbers looks a bit high.
Other things I often search for when analyzing competition are "allintitle" and "allinurl". These can be helpful, but they are beyond the scope of this article. For an excellent and exhaustive tome on keywords, check out this hub by Peter Hoggan, who has actually published a virtual hub-cyclopedia on all things SEO.
On-page Optimization
After I decide what my "killer key-phrases" will be, I try to include that exact phrase in my page's title, the URL, the first header on the page, and the first paragraph on the page. Also, I make sure that phrase is in my page summary. The page summary is important for several reasons, and Hubpages, if you don't override it, will calculate your summary automatically. Always replace the Hubpages-generated summary with one of your own.
Other than that, I make sure my phrase occurs at least several times throughout the article, but I don't overdo it. Key-word "stuffing" is counterproductive. And that is the full extent of my on-page optimization process. There is no reason to over-optimize a page. If your content is relevant to the key words, then beyond the few on-page optimizations I've just mentioned, it will optimize itself. If the content is not relevant to the key-words, then choose different key-words or write different content or just don't write the hub at all.
Optimization Isn't Everything
Keyword research and on-page optimization are only a small part of the traffic equation. The more important part, I think, is quantity and quality. Quality is especially important, both for the sake of your readers and for the search-engines. Google weighs "off-page" factors at least as heavily as it does "on-page" factors. These off-page factors are simply measures of how searchers respond to your page, and play a very important part of where your page is ranked in the search results. Just a few examples:
- How many searchers choose to go to your page, rather than to a different page listed on the same page of search results? Here, your title and description (summary) are crucial for drawing the reader in by letting her know that your page has the information she is looking for. Yet another reason not to let Hubpages write your summary for you.
- Once at your page, how long does the reader stay there? If you have interesting, relevant content, they will stay longer, and Google will notice.
- Do they like your page enough to come back later? Google knows. Do they like your page enough to post a link to it on their own blog? Once more, Google knows.
There are tons of such off-page indicators of people's responses to your page. Many people focus on just one, such as incoming links. They then try to get as many incoming links as possible, regardless of the quality and relevancy of the sites linking to them.
Don't do this.
Search Engines are designed to provide their users with quality, relevant information. When I found myself linking to my article about a bible verse on a forum about chicken breeding, I suddenly realized that this was just absurd. What does chicken breeding have to do with the bible? So don't pay for services that sell you lists of places you can put your "do follow" links. Search engines want reality, not simulation. It may seem that the only way to get ahead is to outsmart the algorithms, or "cheat" by purchasing lists of non-relevant places to spread your links, but this is simply not true. Search engines are getting smarter all the time, and can certainly detect when your incoming links have nothing to do with your page's topic. In the long run, quality, relevant content is what the search-engines want, because that is what their users want. Simply give them what they want, and the rest will fall into place. In the short-term, you may lag behind people who are simply trying to "beat" the search engines, but in the long-run, as the search engines continue to get smarter, you will leave the competition who uses such tactics miles behind you.
The Niche
One should write about what they know, and about what they are most interested in. Since I know more about religion and philosophy than anything else, I write more or less in the religion/philosophy niche. When you create a new hub, Hubpages asks you what category to put it in. When I first started, I thought a broader category was better, as it seemed this would mean more potential readers. But in fact, you should choose the narrowest category possible. When people look for pages by topic on Hubpages, what they see first are the "hot" hubs on each topic page. If your page is categorized in a broad topic, it faces more competition for a spot in this hot-list. If you put it in a narrow category, you will be more likely to appear on the hot-list for that narrow category, as there is less competition. This is free advertising that you wouldn't get otherwise. And don't worry, if your hub is hot enough on a narrow category, it will also appear on the hot-list for the broader category of which the narrow category is a sub-category. That is a win-win situation.
In a nutshell, my approach to getting traffic on Hubpages has been: First and foremost, I write as many hubs as possible, and make them as relevant and interesting as possible. Second, when I get an idea for a hub, I begin by researching the best key-phrases for the hub (the phrases with the most global monthly searches and the least competition). Third, I quickly optimize my hub for those key-phrases. Fourth, I write in a niche; that is, I write about what I know, and I choose as narrow a category as possible when creating a new hub. And apparently, my approach is working. My Hubpages traffic has doubled in a week, and continues to rise!
Amazing bro.
Wow. Period.
This is an excellent article japtaker!
It is filled with very useful information and I appreciated reading it.
This is by far the best article I have read on keyword research. You see jap, what i actually did was to list down all the tips you mentioned in the hub and then tried it out on one of my hub I did on personal budget. At first I gave the hub the title "How to improve you personal budget with Vertex 42". Then when I search for the term exact key phrase "Personal budgeting" the search result was so high. So I went back to the keyword tool and punched in Vertex 42 (exact key phrase) and ended up 1800 monthly searches. When I Google that as exact phrase for page rank, I got less than five titles showing my exact key phrase. Number of results was under 50 000. fair enough.
Then I went on clicking the next button under the page until I reached 48 and found the notification from Google that you mentioned in your hub. To cut the story short, I just typed in Vertex 42 and added sub title and that its. I have to wait and see. My point is that for a long time I have been trying to learn this skill and most hubs I have read only confused me. I don't claim to have increased my traffic doing this. Not yet. Its going to happen or not but the fact is I have gone through the whole process following your hub and done all that you mentioned and now I am confident to do more keyword research, write high quality hubs and earn few bucks and if not many.
This is a very useful hub and I thank you so much for sharing this valuable information in a manner that is easily comprehended.
Useful and voted up
Great information, and I love the idea of TOC at the top. Do you mind if I "steal" that? It's great!
Up, useful.
On the other hand --- please excuse an old lady who grew up in an analog universe --- I really have no clue on this SEO and keyword and backlinks stuff. I was trying to study it, but just decided that my time would be better spent doing other things --- like, perhaps, writing.
But, thanks. This is still good information, and a very nicely-written Hub.
This was a very useful and informative article. I'll have to keep some of your techniques in mind.
Great information and great tactics! I hate doing all that keyword searching stuff but it pays off in the end.
I may need to read it again to get the tips down.
Great Hub!
My Traffic more the doubled today when I started editing to include keywords.
Nice work, great advice! My problem is getting out of the "Make Money NOW" mode and taking the time to submit more often... I have so many upfront paying gigs that it's hard to take time away and write for myself--even though I know that it's best in the long run.
This article was interesting and very useful. I am new to the hub world and it was nice to read a very simple yet detailed description of how I can be successful. I will use some of your tips. Thanks again!
I read your hub with great interest. It's clear to me your on the right track with most of it and your'e certainly asking the right questions.
I don't however agree 100% with the quantity theory, I have read Chuck's hub and the reason why writing 'quantitively' over time will results in success is that you will break through a number of micro niches by chance and also the hubs that do break through you can place at the top of a hubpage linking pyramid by linking all your mediocre hubs to the few successful ones.
What I think you may be missing is how to more accurately perform longtail keyword research and competition research.
Using the Google Keyword tool is somewhat old school and hit and miss at the best of times. Also competition for a given longtail keyword phrases quickly steepens and become so much more competitive once you get to the first page of Google search results. So number of webpages with your chosen keyword doesn't give you a crystal clear picture of competition right at the top of search.
Basically getting a page 2 position counts for almost nothing whereas traffic is concerned.
Page 1 is where it all happens!
To more accurately gauge competition for a longtail keyword and therefore your chosen micro niche you have to take into account all on page SEO elements, URL, Title, Sub Titles, image tags/descriptor, SEO HTML, heading and meta tag (description)and even outgoing hyperlinks.
Off page SEO you have to look at the number of links to the page, the keywords used in the links and the page rank of the linking site as well as internal links of the site itself and linking keywords once again as well as total links to the domain of the site.
My view is that very few people really master keyword and competition research.
Mishka on the other hand knows keyword and competition research back to front and inside out!
When you have mastered keyword/competition research to the point that you 'know' you can get to the first page for a given longtail keyword within a micro niche and you can do it pretty well consistently, this know how is immensely valuable.
But to actually teach someone to do it is one thing, mastering it takes a lot of practice, patience and still a lot of work as I'm sure Mishka will agree.
P.S. Hope you don't take my comment the wrong way, keyword and competition research are my bread and butter.
Good luck and keep asking questions!
Excellent hub with lots of useful info. Too much in fact to pick up on it all in one read (that's a compliment!) so I will be back.
Wow, you shared a good keyword analysis technique for Free...
If I were you I would charge for this kind of tutorial... Just kidding... :)
Voted up, bookmarked and following. Great stuff, well written and thanks.
I will try your trick and see whether it works for me.
Thanks japtaker
Some great tips there. Have it Bookmarked for future reference:
Well done and thank you for sharing..
Garlic Angel :-)
Great info. Thanks.
I like your hub. It is to quote a buzz word "content rich" and makes a good point of reference for hubbers wanting success for their hubs in the future. Thank you for posting. I will certainly wish and need to refer to your work again. From Safiq.
actually..i really like this hub even i couldn't really understand...tq
You are very systematic and precise in your writing, and I like that. Voted up, awesome and useful !
Hi japtaker thank you for all this awesome and valuable information, it will help many hubbers . I know i learned a few thing reading your hub !
Awesome hub, thumbs up !!!
very well observed, attempted, detailed and described. I will love to follow all the instructions that are mentioned. Thanx dude.
Thanks for replying to my questions in so much detail Japtaker. Your advise is much appreciated and invaluable to a novice like myself.
Definite great hub. I can see the time and effort you have put into sharing and it is much appreciated! I am a fairly new hubber and these techniques will hopefully help and increasing my traffic.
Searching for the exact keyword phrase is an excellent idea. I agree with "writing for quality," as the hubs with poor grammar and spelling errors drive me crazy! I'm still figuring out the SEO aspect of hubpages, but I am making some money with Adsense (enough to feed the family at McDonald's right now, lol).
Iam new to hubpages and find your hub very informative for me.thanx
Being quite new to hubpages I found that very interesting and helpfull. Thanks very much.
Excellent hub - well thought out and well laid out with some really useful information on SEO and keywords. You will do well on HP, I'm sure. I look forward to reading more of your hubs.
Glad you point this out because a lot of folks fail to realize this about the Google Keyword Tool: "So in reality, it more accurately measures competition for paying advertisers, not for those of us seeking "organic" advertising (that is, to appear on the natural search results)."
Also, although SEO is powerful and can attract hundreds, thousands - even tens of thousands of visitors - I do believe that viral marketing is more powerful than SEO which is why I wrote a hub about it today. https://hubpages.com/hub/viral-marketing-vs-seo Don't get me wrong, I do practice SEO too, but I have seen great results with viral marketing as well - and minus all the search engine politics.
What a helpful hub! I have been writing more to the "niche" variety but am going to try using the Google Keyword Tool. It would be fabulous to write about what I like, that others like, too, AND make money!
Hi Japtaker,
Excellent hub and great introductory guide to SEO. I've filled an entire side of A4 paper taking notes. Just by reading this article I've probably enriched my entire knowledge of assessing the competition by 50%. I also found that your style of writing was very effective in maintaining my concentration on the content.
I'd like to ask you a few questions relating to your Crash Analysis hub that you gave as an example when discussing 'exact' and 'general' keyword phrases, and also assessing the competition.
Your keyphrase was 'crash movie analysis'. In the article you advise that the keyphrase should appear in the URL, title, first header and first paragraph. Can I clarify here if you are referring to the exact phrase "crash movie analysis" or just the three words "crash, "movie" and "analysis". If it will be just as effective, from an SEO perspective, to only include the words within your phrase, rather than the exact phrase itself, then you have room to be far more creative with your title and opening paragraph.
'Exact' and 'general' keyphrases are something I still need to research in more depth. The reason I raise the question here is that the URL to your Crash Analysis hub only contains two words from the keyphrase; the title contains all three words but not in the exact order; there is no opening header; the first paragraph contains two of the words in the keyphrase. This doesn't seem to be as highly optimised as you advocate. Yet you have still achieved an excellent google ranking.
If I discovered that the google search term 'twitching neurotic scarecrows' (broad rather than "exact") was generating a lot of searches with low competition, and then decided to write a hub, which title would be more effective in boosting the SERP ranking of the article:
A beginner's guide to twitching neurotic scarecrows.
How to spot a scarecrow of the twitching and neurotic variety.
I feel the distinction between 'exact' and 'general/broad' search terms is something I still haven't managed to grasp.
Thanks again for the very informative hub.
Thanks Japtaker,
Nice & informative hub
many times I have no content for write but I will try my best.
Mostly I face problem for choosing good title for my hubs. Please give your valuable advice & suggestion for me.
I'm new to hubpages. Just going through the hubs and I felt this hub is excellently phrased.
Great Writing my friend.
Bookmarked for later reference. Excellent hub!
Thanks for the information, we are all trying to find ways to get more traffic to our websites,
Good Job Congrats, I have seen an increase in my hits as well, guess that means we have very interesting hubs!
Great post! Very informative. I'm a new on hubpages and am still figuring out how it works.
Hi Japtaker, thank you for your post, this will be my guidance!
I'm fairly new to Hub Pages as well and although I'm focusing on technique rather than traffic, this was a great and inspirational hub and one I can refer back to. Many thanks.
you did a great job on this hub, I am really happy that you did this hub after all.
very good point about quality vs. quantity. i've noticed that a lot of hubpage writers produce a massive amount of hubs, but their hubs aren't necessarily written well...some of them being quite boring with many mispellings and grammar errors...which is my pet peeve! if you are going to write, please check your spelling and make sure your sentences make sense! (this is by no means ranting at you, i am supporting what you are saying). thanks for being upfront and proving that quality beats quantity. :)


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MONZA, Italy (Reuters) - Ten video gamers will take on Formula E racing drivers in a virtual 'ePrix' in Las Vegas in January with $1 million in prize money to be won, organizers of the electric series announced on Thursday.
Alejandro Agag, chief executive of the electric racing series, told Reuters the 10 members of the public would secure their places through online qualifying races dubbed the 'Road to Vegas Challenge'.
All 20 regular drivers will join them for the virtual race on a specially designed track that will incorporate the famed Las Vegas Strip.
"The maximum any one person can make is a quarter of a million dollars," said Agag. "And it's probably quite likely that a gamer wins that."
Agag said an original plan to offer one $1 million jackpot had been modified to broaden out the prize money.
"It's good to split the prizes quite a lot because that motivates the gamers more and we want to maximize the participation," he said.
The event will be held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel as part of a Jan. 5-7 sport business and innovation summit within the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Formula E said competitors will use Playseat simulators with technical systems provided by Cloud Sport who are also organizing the qualifying races. (http://roadtovegas.cloudsport.club/index.aspx)
"We believe eSports offers a new level of fan interaction and participation in sport and we want to be at the forefront of this gaming revolution," said Agag.
Many sports, including Formula One which raced in Las Vegas in the 1980s, are experimenting with virtual reality (VR) technology to engage fans and attract new audiences.
Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Samsung are investing heavily in VR with some predicting the immersive technology will have the same effect on television as the internet on newspapers.
Formula E has also mooted the possibility of a virtual race eventually being incorporated in the championship with gamers challenging for points and prize money.
"I think this is probably an experiment," Agag told Reuters in June when the Vegas event was first outlined.
"Depending on how it goes I could envisage that some of these virtual races could give points for a championship in the future but not now."
The third Formula E season starts in Hong Kong in October.
(Editing by Tony Jimenez)