In an update of how Google assigns ranking, many web sites were assigned a reduced rate based on Googles Page Rank system. Google assigns an authority scale of 0 – 10 as a form of reputation for a web page. PR can be found by the use of the Google toolbar.

Remember that Google ranks individual pages not sites. This is why I always recommend a clean design, which gives every page the same chance. Some database driven web sites don’t allow for this and even some marketing people don’t agree. When you are looking to win in competitive markets you need to apply this.

This change occurred after Google has voiced its dislike of the purchase of paid links for the reason of influencing natural search results. Business models have been based on the buying and selling of links for the purpose of gaining rank. Many opinions had been made that these two events are connected and they effect the ranking of web sites. This is common opinion in the internet marketing area and provides a distorted view of the world. Only an assessment of a specific site can provide us real, measurable information.

One site that lost a large measure of its PR (Page Rank) from a rating of 10 to 6 is statcounter.com In a keyword count statcounter has over 3129 to keyword ranking listings. One of the No 1 ranked keywords, is “web stats”.

Based on the Gtrends tool from the keyword research site, Wordtracker.com, this word receives 18750 estimated searches per month in Google. Statcounter has maintained this top ranking both before and after the update.

This brings us the conclusion that the reduction of page rank change was more of just a reshuffle of authority, rather than a change of how Google ranks web sites. Other sites that sell paid links have had similar results. It’s important to have measurable, real information based on facts rather that the guidance of a vastly out of date tool, like page rank. I make it my goal to educate on numbers rather than opinion of the masses.

Online their are many sites who state they are on SEO, however they is such opinion floating around that you never know where the truth comes- beware the opinion it will drive you crazy. Numbers don’t lie, if its your bank account or in your traffic and sales conversion.
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We’ve all heard of economic enslavement and in a way it really is a form of slavery, as the individuals work and work, never to get ahead, save, or enjoy the quality of life they believed they are entitled for the fruits of their labors. Some involved in such a game or in a nation where this is taking place, ask themselves; what is the difference between economic enslavement and straight out slavery? Some say none. But being enslaved to money is not the only thing that happens.

Becoming enslaved to authority can be worse, as you build barriers to thought in your mind, believing that the authorities know it all, and you are not wise enough to even answer the question. If you find this happening to you in college, then you know what I am talking about and you need to free your mind to get to the next level. You can start by Questioning Authority at every turn, and if your questions are in turn turned down, then you need to jump ship or realize the limitations of the information that you are receiving.

If you’d like to explore this thought in greater detail, I’d sure like to recommend a book to you; “Mindset” by John Naisbutt, where you will find an interesting chapter on this topic; Chapter # 4. “Authority Slavery is one of the biggest enemies of truth,” is one of the topics that John Naisbutt includes, and gives examples of such in Einstein’s college days.

You must always realize that just because someone is wearing a shirt and tie, have a higher rank, has more letters next to their name, it really has not much to do with their intelligence, abilities, or their knowledge, indeed this has been my experience and so I thought you should know too. Please consider all this.
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The women of Pakistan have a varied profile that stretches across topography and classes. The urban and rural divide has been widening now; more so with the irregular socioeconomic developments in the country. Moreover, the religion, tribal, feudal, and socio-capitalistic divides further hamper the growth of women in Pakistan.

Arguably, a Pakistani woman enjoys much more freedom and better health and education facilities. Fortunately, Paki women also enjoy better status than their Middle Eastern and Islamic counterparts. The government has been trying to uplift the status of women in Pakistan, but it’s an uphill task and requires a paradigm shift in the way society (man-made rules) perceives women. Still considered as inferior or subordinated to the male dominated society, Paki women have to do much to find their own place under the sun. Almost 90% of the households in Pakistan have a male member as the head, while most household with women heads belong to the lower strata of the Paki society.

But Pakistani woman also has to follow certain practices as demands of a religious and male run society. Some of these practices are elaborated below.

1. Purdah – It’s a norm that is followed by a majority of communities in the country and is practiced in many different ways depending on the region, class, area of residence (urban or rural scenario) and family values.

2. Child Marriage – Even though it’s illegal for girls below 16 years of age to be married (As per the Child Marriages Restraint Act), there are frequent instances of child marriages, especially in the rural areas. The tribal clans of the Punjab province practice a child marriage ritual called ‘Vani,’ where young girls are married forcibly in order to settle feuds between warring clans. Interestingly, if the girl’s clan agrees to pay up money or ‘Deet’, Vani is avoided.

3. Honor Killings – Almost 99% of the victims of honor killings in Pakistan are women. The punishments given to those who kill women under the pretext of honor killings are often punished leniently and sometimes, go unpunished even. Honor killing is a term described for killing of a person who is suspected of having an illegitimate relationship (or ‘karo kari’ in Baluchistan/Sind provinces). Typically, honor killings have been reported against those women who have married against their family’s wishes, or want a divorce, or have been raped.

Cultural Norms for Pakistani Women

Women in Pakistan wear different dresses again depending on the classes, regions, and event. The common dress is the Shalwar Kameez. The Gharara or a loose divided skirt is often worn with a blouse and was very common until some years ago, but now rich and embellished variations of it are worn at special occasions such as marriages. Sari is another dress donned by the women in urban milieu. It is worn on regular as well as on special events.

While it is true that women in Pakistan don’t enjoy the same lifestyle, freedom, and status as that enjoyed by women in the West, it’s also true that Paki women are increasingly breaking barriers and making a name for themselves rather convincingly!
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I have no doubt that the majority of people who have taken the time to read this article are aware of the difficulties and complexities of trying to go about effective search engine optimization for their websites. Due to the ever increasing competition of websites in the popular niches it has now become more important than ever to make sure you are 5 steps ahead of your competitors to reap the rankings you believe your websites deserve. Lets take a look below at some helpful link building tips to help you with your website optimization

Link Building and Advertising Techniques:

1. Directory submissions: This is probably the most effective and known method of achieving a high quantity of backlinks to your website. By submitting your website to search engine friendly directories and related categories can increase the ranking of their website over time. It is very important to alternate up to 3 different titles and descriptions when submitting of your website to directories for SEO reasons. It may take a long time for submissions to be accepted but this method of gaining backlinks is essential.

2. Forum and Blog Posting: These two ways of building up backlinks can also be effective but most people just end up spamming other blogs and forums for the main aim of trying to obtain immediate traffic and sales. Having said this, don’t bother submitting poor affiliate based websites in your posts as the chances are high that you will get banned. However if you have a blog that advertises a link to a product or service then it will most likely be okay, and in that case can largely help the ranking of your website after time provided the post is on a forum related to your niche.

3. Submission To Article Directories: Going about writing quality articles with niche related content and submitting them to top ranked article directories can help you receive good amounts of web traffic and also help build quality backlinks. Be sure to include a backlink to your website in the resource box using anchor text for a good keyword in your niche.You may even discover that if related websites in your niche find your article, they will probably put a link to it on their website which will give you more exposure and traffic.

4. Link Exchanges: Exchanging links with websites in your niche is also an essential technique which will once again get you very high quality backlinks, which can sometimes be more effective than doing a couple of hundred submissions to directories. Take a look around at the many SEO forums which have link exchange rooms and post a message about the type of website you wish to exchange links with. There is always someone willing to exchange links.

5. Pay Per Click:For those of you who have commercial websites or any websites for that matter, using pay per click programs like adwords can provide immediate targeted traffic to your website. You just need to work out a good budget and make sure you don’t waste too much money as one can get addicted to this easy traffic method.
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Different companies have different criteria for loan application but there are some requirements, which remain the same even across the geographical boundaries. Credit Score is one such criterion and lenders use the score to determine whether they should give the loan to a person or not. Lenders will also carefully assess a borrower’s merit by checking the track record for debt repayment. Because of the assessments that are required to be made by a lender before accepting a loan application, it is often difficult to quote a particular interest rate on the spot. The rates provided by lenders when you call them up are the standard or basic rates and the structure might change when you actually apply for the loan.

Lenders will primarily look at the following criteria while making your risk assessment:

• Status of Employment

• Your current income

• Your overall credit history

• Your previous and current repayment record, which is normally over the past 12 months

Joint borrowers

There are times when home loans have joint borrower’s i.e two people apply for the same loan like husband and wife. In such a case the lenders will assess the above criteria for both the borrower’s and weight will be given to the annual gross income of each of the borrower.

Alternative loan market

In the last couple of years, new players have entered the Australian lending market and are offering home loans to borrowers who have not qualified for any of the standard home loans. These lenders form what is called the alternative market or even the sub-prime lending market. Due to the sub-prime lending market, borrowers now have plenty of choices and above all borrowers with bad credit history can also apply for and get home loans.

Low docs

Another interesting type of home loan in Australia’s non-conforming loan market is the low-doc loan. This loan is normally offered to only self-employed people and those who are unwilling or unable to furnish complete documentation or details of their income. There has been an explosion of low-doc loans in Australia since 2003. These loans are available with non-conforming lenders as well as some of the mainstream lenders and this has considerably increased the type of loans available. Some of the other categories of loans being offered by the non-conforming market consist of loans that have been specifically targeted at retired borrowers in Australia as well as non-residents.
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Las Vegas Top 10 Pools

What do you do in Las Vegas during the daytime after an evening in the Casino? Enjoy a buffet breakfast in your favorite restaurant, take a walk, see some attractions, then…
a must do…relax, take a Swim and get a tan.

Here are the TOP TEN POOLS in Las Vegas with a brief description of their offerings and themes. Did you know many visitors to Las Vegas book their Hotel based on their favorite pool? Seems like most first time visitors to Las Vegas have the impression that it is at least 100 degrees here year round. Well, it isn’t. Most outdoor pools are open from March/April to October/November! We’ve listed Hotels that have year round indoor pools or heated outdoor pools.

THE TOP 10 POOLS IN LAS VEGAS
10. The Palms Night Time Fun! Be Cool! Hang out! 75,000 square feet of pool, 21 Cabanas, The “Skin Pool Lounge”, music, dance by the pool, enjoy “Wet N Wild” after dark!

9. Luxor – The Luxor has created a 7 acre, Egyptian theme complex that is nothing short of spectacular! Outstanding poolside service, open year round! Be treated like King Tut!

8. Venetian – Known to be the ultimate romantic destination for couples. 5 full acres of pools, fountains, flower gardens and statues. Relax, get a tan, be in love. Even get married. That’s AMORE’!

7. Bellagio – What can we say? Prestige, Ritzy, Swanky just what you would expect from
a Billion Dollar setting! 85,000 square feet of 6 pools, beautiful fountains, colors, flowers and Premier service. Be pampered in an elegant refuge for the rich!

6. MGM Grand – A longtime favorite of Hollywood Movie Stars, a 27,000 square foot complex of beautiful pools, spas and “Backlot River” where you can have a drink and take a leisurely 3 MPH float around the complex! Get a tan where the stars of “Le Femme” hang out!

5. Flamingo – From the dreams of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel in 1947 to the posh pool fun of today. Enjoy the lush Hawaiian theme with water slides, stone water falls, even shade! Luxury at it’s finest. Try their specialty drinks!

4. Caesar’s Palace – Roman decadence in the Garden of the Gods! 3 pools covering 5 acres of Italian opulance! Have a drink by stone pediments and be served frozen grapes by Goddesses (weekends only). Or, have your photo taken by the pool with Caesar and Cleopatra! Very cool!

3. The Mirage – A Polynesian tropical jungle lagoon. Amazingly beautiful foliage amidst waterfalls, 3 waterslides, hidden alcoves covering 5 full acres of jungle. An afternoon of sunshine and cool fun you will remember for years to come.

2. Hard Rock – Want to party? This is the place you want to be! Vegas’ party central. The Pool Party runs from 10:00 AM to Midnight 7 days a week! Hang out with Rock Stars, Movie Stars and the “Beautiful People” or play Las Vegas’ only blackjack tables in the water! Pools, hot tubs, 37 cabanas, a float river and Party, Party, Party!

1. Mandolay Bay – Mandolay Bay went all out in creating an 11 acre lagoon of lush greens. They hauled in 1,700 tons of sand to create Vegas’ only Wave Pool with 6’ waves of bodysurfer paradise. 4 pools, waterfalls surrounded by a jungle atmosphere where you can take a ¼ mile RiverRide or relax the day away and come away with a Las Vegas tan!

We give full credit for the Pool Rankings to the kind folks at The Travel Channel. The comments are from the editor of Las Vegas $Discount$.

Hotels with Pools Open Year Round
Bellagio (1) Wynn (5) Venetian (1)
Las Vegas Hilton (1) Monte Carlo (1) Paris/Bally’s (1)
Rio (1) Mandolay Bay (1) Luxor (1)
Flamingo (1) Caesar’s Palace (1) Red Rock (1)
Green Valley Ranch (1) Tropicana (1) Ritz Carlton (1)
Stratosphere (1) MGM Grand (1) Hyatt Lake Las Vegas (1)

During the winter months all of these pools are maintained at 74 to 82 degrees and nearly all offer one or more Jacuzzi’s.

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1. Optimise every page on your website

The major search engines are not looking at individual websites and ranking them, they are ranking pages from every website in the world. This means that if your website contains more than one page you should optimise for the specific content that is found on each page.

Optimising each webpage is overlooked by so many websites and this can be the difference between competing for a highly competitive keyword phrase such as “Irish Hotels” and competing for a much less competitive keyword phrase such as “Hotels in County Offaly ”. After that they can check out the rest of your website that is all about “Irish Hotels”.

2. Pick appropriate keyword phrases

This is the single most important thing to do when it comes to optimising your website for search engines. The keywords that your potential customers type into Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves are the keywords that your site should be using within the specific areas of your webpage (see below; Optimising your Page Titles and Optimising your Content). There are a number of useful keyword research tools available on the web. The most recommended and user-friendly are Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery. Both offer trial versions.

3. Optimising your Page Titles

All of the major search engines have 100’s of different algorithms that compute where your webpage should be listed for different keyword searches. Putting your keywords within the Title description (the blue bar you will see at the top of your screen) of your pages is one of the most important SEO techniques and will help your website climb through the rankings and allow your visitors to remember exactly what your page is all about when they save it to their “favourites”.

4. Optimising your Page Content

It is sometimes very difficult to write content for your website. Not only do you need put the information that you want the visitor to see in front of them in an easy-to-read style, you also have to keep in mind the keywords or keyphrases that your page is targeting so that you can rank better within search engines.

One of the best pieces of advice that I have come across is to write for your visitors and include the keywords and keyphrases as much as makes sense. Read what you written out loud to yourself and a few others. If it sounds stupid… lather, rinse, and repeat.

5. Create an inbound linking strategy

Submitting your site to online directories is a very beneficial way to drive targeted traffic to your website. People will find your listing in a directory and click on the link to go directly to your site.

This not only brings visitors to your website, but it also creates links for search engine “spiders” or “robots” to find your website and index your pages within their results. If your site doesn’t have a link pointing to it on the World Wide Web the search engines will never find it and you will never see any traffic from Google or the other big ones.

6. Descriptively labeling your links and images (aka the anchor text)

This technique is both common sense and good practice. Telling your visitors what the link that they are going to click on allows them to know exactly what they are going to be directed to. Saying “click here” is not enough to help them understand what they’re going to find once they click through. Be as descriptive as possible with every text and graphical link on your site. The cool thing about writing your anchor text and alt attributes to be descriptive is that you can almost always describe the page you’re pointing to by using its main keyword phrase which is another one of those many factors search engines that into account when it comes to ranking your web pages.

7. Make sure your site is spider-friendly

Your website may look fantastic. You and your web designer may be talented graphic designers that can make Flash and Javascript dazzle your visitors with a show that would put RiverDance to shame. However, if your website contains Flash and Javascript it’s important to know that search engine spiders can’t read this code (or appreciate the effort you put into the design). The way around this is to provide navigation alternatives to allow the spiders crawl deep within your website and index the web pages within their results.

8. Create Fresh Content

When you are optimizing your website properly you will see a trend. If you are doing something that benefits your websites visitors then the search engines will reward you for it.

Search engines do tend to like websites that create fresh content regardless of the format. If they know any given site is adding new articles on a frequent basis, they will come around often to index it.

Blogs and forums are effective and easy ways of adding new information to your site on a regular basis.

However, if your only purpose of setting up a blog or a forum is for better search engine rankings then there really is no point in doing it. Only add a forum if it contributes something beneficial to your website and if you have the traffic to make it interactive enough for visitors to return to it. And, only add a blog if you have something of interest to say on a regular basis.

9. Do not think that you can trick Search Engines

As noted before, “ If you are doing something that benefits your websites visitors then the search engines will reward you for it”.

If you try to trick the search engines by hiding keyword phrases in your pages by making the text colour the same as the background colour, hiding keyword phrases in tiny font, joining link farms, or any other sneaky practice your sites will be removed from the search engines and it will take you a long time to get back in (and you will also have to spend more time cleaning up your website before they will accept you).

10. Offer something unique

If your website offers something that is unique and interesting to your target market and it is properly optimized (by applying all of the techniques that are listed above) you will not only rank well within the major search engines, you will also get the added benefit of people linking to your website in forums, blogs, and through other websites which will send your site more visitors and create more inbound links which will help it rank higher.
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