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A few years ago, the Internet experienced a video revolution. As broadband access expanded and more people began uploading content, video became an expected resource for consumers. Businesses could get more mileage out of television commercials and engage users by linking to video reviews of its products.

A year ago, we saw evidence of small and medium-sized business increasing budgets for video content – to be used both on their homepages and in advertisements. In 2009, 19% of businesses polled were using video (up from 5% in 2008) and I’m willing to bet that number will be much higher in the 2010 report that should come out later this month.

Now, as technology has become more affordable and increasingly mobile, we’re able to experience virtually anything online. As such, local search engines are evolving into master content synthesizers to meet the needs of consumers and advertisers alike – offering video and photos, local advertising deals, user reviews, QR codes, maps and directions, etc.

Consumer expectations of local search engines have never been higher. Users want to see photo and video reviews of a company’s products, read what other people have to say, and even take a virtual tour of your store or restaurant before they visit.

The same is true of small- and medium-sized business owners looking to find a competitive advantage. Local search engines are offering more dynamic content than ever before to users and it’s up to search marketers to help business owners feed that content.

It’s interesting to see how video content has changed since the advent of YouTube. Instead of traditional video advertising, we’re seeing new technology that lets users look around your business from their own home. Soon, we’ll be able to find virtual creations of almost any environment online – and those virtual tours are being integrated with current deals and other advertising promotions to drive traffic to your business.

Recently, a company called EveryScape partnered with Bing and YP to offer digital advertisers a new local search solution – virtual tours. For example, YP360 will let a user step inside a restaurant in Baltimore while they’re still on the train. They can choose a place and even set a reservation, all within the same application on their phone.

Google Earth has gone indoors and local search engines are responsible for bringing this detailed and vivid content to users while keeping it simple and accessible. And the business case for offering this new content to users and advertisers alike is clear as local advertising is expected to grow to $16.1 billion this year, up from $13.7 billion in 2010.

Even more, mobile phone advertising spending is expected to be more than a billion dollars in 2011, up 48% from 2010. Local search engines like YP and Yelp! are seeing over 20 million visitors a month, many of them accessing via mobile phones.

This is a great opportunity for local search engines and advertisers to embrace this new technology and get ahead of the pack. Effective local advertising goes beyond building a social networking presence and listing in directories – you have to make sure your content is engaging. In the online world, the savviest local search marketers who use this technology well will have the most successful campaigns.

I recommend that any business owner or local search marketer read up on the latest digital advertising solutions and consider offering your customers virtual tours of your products or store. To set your business apart, you need to stay current with the best that local search has to offer.

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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A few years ago, the Internet experienced a video revolution. As broadband access expanded and more people began uploading content, video became an expected resource for consumers. Businesses could get more mileage out of television commercials and engage users by linking to video reviews of its products.

A year ago, we saw evidence of small and medium-sized business increasing budgets for video content – to be used both on their homepages and in advertisements. In 2009, 19% of businesses polled were using video (up from 5% in 2008) and I’m willing to bet that number will be much higher in the 2010 report that should come out later this month.

Now, as technology has become more affordable and increasingly mobile, we’re able to experience virtually anything online. As such, local search engines are evolving into master content synthesizers to meet the needs of consumers and advertisers alike – offering video and photos, local advertising deals, user reviews, QR codes, maps and directions, etc.

Consumer expectations of local search engines have never been higher. Users want to see photo and video reviews of a company’s products, read what other people have to say, and even take a virtual tour of your store or restaurant before they visit.

The same is true of small- and medium-sized business owners looking to find a competitive advantage. Local search engines are offering more dynamic content than ever before to users and it’s up to search marketers to help business owners feed that content.

It’s interesting to see how video content has changed since the advent of YouTube. Instead of traditional video advertising, we’re seeing new technology that lets users look around your business from their own home. Soon, we’ll be able to find virtual creations of almost any environment online – and those virtual tours are being integrated with current deals and other advertising promotions to drive traffic to your business.

Recently, a company called EveryScape partnered with Bing and YP to offer digital advertisers a new local search solution – virtual tours. For example, YP360 will let a user step inside a restaurant in Baltimore while they’re still on the train. They can choose a place and even set a reservation, all within the same application on their phone.

Google Earth has gone indoors and local search engines are responsible for bringing this detailed and vivid content to users while keeping it simple and accessible. And the business case for offering this new content to users and advertisers alike is clear as local advertising is expected to grow to $16.1 billion this year, up from $13.7 billion in 2010.

Even more, mobile phone advertising spending is expected to be more than a billion dollars in 2011, up 48% from 2010. Local search engines like YP and Yelp! are seeing over 20 million visitors a month, many of them accessing via mobile phones.

This is a great opportunity for local search engines and advertisers to embrace this new technology and get ahead of the pack. Effective local advertising goes beyond building a social networking presence and listing in directories – you have to make sure your content is engaging. In the online world, the savviest local search marketers who use this technology well will have the most successful campaigns.

I recommend that any business owner or local search marketer read up on the latest digital advertising solutions and consider offering your customers virtual tours of your products or store. To set your business apart, you need to stay current with the best that local search has to offer.

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

In an open letter to users, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave several reasons why he didn’t want Flash on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. They are: Flash isn’t open; the full web; reliability, security and performance; battery life; and touch.

Adobe began shipping Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile last June, but even Laptop magazine admitted that “Steve Jobs was right,” and that “Adobe’s offering seems like it’s too little, too late.” Granted, that report was from six months ago, but it still doesn’t bode well for the technology.

There is no doubt that Adobe is making advances with Flash on mobile devices, but I don’t believe future changes will be enough to get Apple to adopt the technology.

Jobs has been very clear that Apple supports HTML5, an open technology that is controlled by a standards committee, not one company. By building support for that technology into Webkit, Apple is ensuring that mobile Web browsers will be able to access what we’ve come to know as the “full web.”

Webkit is used by Google, Palm, Nokia and RIM, so it has a pretty solid base.

One of the arguments often bantered about when the discussion of the “full Web” comes up is video. There is no doubt that Flash made huge strides over the years in having sites like YouTube encode their videos in Flash. But that’s for the desktop.

As Jobs points out, almost all of this video is also available in H.264 format (a format Flash also supports), so it’s viewable on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

“Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video,” wrote Jobs.

You may ask why other companies adopted Flash for their mobile devices when Apple won’t. That’s easy, they are looking for something they have that Apple doesn’t. Considering how hard it is for tablet makers to compete with Apple, any perceived advantage will work.

I’m not an Adobe hater—I know quite a few people that work at Adobe and I think they’ve done some amazing things over the years. Flash for mobile devices isn’t one of them.

Chris Dawson said he gives “Apple a year until they cave [and adopt Flash]. Android tablets will just be too cool and too useful for both entertainment and enterprise applications if they don’t.”

I have been using my iPhone for years and my iPad for one year. I honestly can’t remember the last time I went to a Web site that wouldn’t load because I didn’t have Flash installed. I can load videos from YouTube and a host of other sites too, no problem.

Apple has sold more than 160 million iOS devices and there are no screaming, angry hordes of users breaking down the doors at 1 Infinite Loop demanding Flash on their devices.

In order for Apple to change its mind and adopt Flash, the technology has to be proven to be indispensable and that it will benefit its users. Apple has proven just the opposite is true.

Editor’s Note: Jim Dalrymple has been writing about Apple for more than 15 years. You can follow him on Twitter @jdalrymple and on his Web site at The Loop.

Apple advertises its products as magical. They’re at the intersection of “technology and the liberal arts,” Steve Jobs said today. Something that moves your heart, not just your lust for technology. Will consumers still buy that in 2011?

The big picture question of the day is whether Apple has done it again. With the original iPad, Apple crushed its rivals, taking more than 90 percent of the tablet market in 2010 and selling more than 15 million units. Jobs predicted today that 2011 will be the year of the iPad 2. Based on what I have seen today, I think he’s mostly, but not entirely, right.

Competitors will discover that Apple has a lot of inherent financial advantages, including being a low-cost leader. That may not sound intuitive, but I believe it has to be true. It is selling so much volume of its products that it can get discounts on parts and manufacturing services that no one else can get.

When it sells its products in stores, it also doesn’t have to give away 20 percent of the margin to a retailer. That is a huge financial advantage. Carriers are also willing to subsidize the costs of Apple products in a way that they won’t with other tablet vendors. All of these things may explain why the Motorola Xoom, a very cool product, is selling for $800 while Apple has priced its new devices at $499 to $829, (and dropped the price of the old iPad to $399). Apple has also left very little room for rivals here, since it has signed up both AT&T and Verizon. Perhaps there is room for rivals to sell $199 machines, but users probably aren’t going to like them.

Those are reasons why any cool Apple mobile product could beat other rivals. But Apple has also done some smart things with the iPad 2. It has created another rev of its microprocessor, the A5, which has two cores, or computing brains. And it has nine times faster graphics than its old A4 chip. Since Apple designs this chip itself, it doesn’t have to give away much margin to a chip design firm. It only has to give a small margin to a chip manufacturer such as Samsung to make the chips.

Apple has also custom-designed the A5 to run Apple applications on a device with a 10-hour battery life. Apple should have an edge there, as it won’t sell the A5 to rivals. But if this is an advantage, it isn’t likely to last long, as Nvidia is being very aggressive with a new quad-core chip that it could sell to any Android rivals.

The design of the iPad 2 is where Apple has more advantages. The iPad 2 will have faster web-browsing with a new version of Safari. It has two cameras that will inspire a lot of video and photo-related apps. The availability of the Mac applications — iMovie, Garage Band, and Photo Booth — on the iPad 2 will make a lot of users happy. More interesting features will come with new releases of the iOS, or Apple’s operating system in the fairly near future.

There are some users who won’t like the restrictions of Apple’s ecosystem. If they want universal serial bus (USB) and SD card ports, they are out of luck. Apple didn’t change the resolution of its screen either, leaving it at 1024 x 768. Competitors could add these options and put emphasis on them as selling points. (Critics are disappointed that Apple did not improve the display, but that’s a big cost issue others have too).

Apple has also made great improvements in the feel of the product. It’s 33 percent thinner, 2 ounces lighter, and it has a wonderful new screen cover that doubles as a stand for the device. (It wakes up the device when you peel it back and it has micro-fibers that clean the screen when the cover is on).

Now here is why Jobs is not entirely right. Apple has come up with a stunning machine at prices that the competitors will have a hard time beating. But it is almost inevitable that Android-based tablets will gain market share on Apple.

So far, I don’t see the Android machine that will beat the iPad 2. But the potential is there, given ingredients such as Android 3.0, Nvidia Tegra 2 chips and other fast microprocessors, and 4G LTE. The latter is the main weakness in Apple’s armor.

LTE is fast, with a minimum speed on Verizon at around 12 megabits a second and actual speeds running much higher than that now. Getting access to 4G LTE is as big a benefit as having access to lots of cool apps, from my point of view. Right now, the timing of the still-young LTE technology means that Apple cannot yet put it into its mass-produced, lowest-cost tablet computers.

If LTE costs come down sometime soon, then Apple can launch a new version of the iPad to incorporate the technology. But it’s not a simple upgrade, as it means that the hardware of the machine — including the radio chip — has to change. And for now, LTE chips are larger than their 3G equivalents, so the heat dissipation and product size are affected. In other words, LTE can force Apple to redesign the iPad.

Apple can do that. But Android tablet makers might be able to move faster than Apple directly into the 4G LTE tablet market. If they do that, then they will have found a scenario where they could steal a march on Apple. Apple is not likely to let that gap last for a long time, but it might be enough for Apple to lose some share this year.

Apple’s leadership position in this market will be hard to beat, but the collective weight and reach of Android rivals could erode it. And here’s a sobering thought: If Apple eventually winds up with only 30 percent of the tablet market, it could still be No. 1, and its place as the largest technology company in the world will not be at risk.

Check out Apple’s overview video on the iPad 2 and Jobs’ comments on technology and the liberal arts below.

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The major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493).  Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill.  Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week:

• Senator Mitch McConnell is offering an amendment (S. AMDT 183) to prohibit the EPA from promulgating any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.  There is perhaps no force that is more destructive to our prosperity, consumer freedom of choice, and job creation than onerous cap and trade schemes.  There are many red state Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012 and will be hard pressed to go on record as supporting policies that are an imprecation to the interests of their states.  Make sure to call Senators Claire McCaskill, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Jon Tester in particular.

• Senator David Vitter is offering an amendment (S.AMDT. 178) forcing the federal government to sell off unused and underused property.  This is a serious issue.  The federal government owns over half of the land in some western states and has been using it to stifle energy development.  Selling unused federal lands would also serve as a prudent means of generating revenue without raising taxes.

• Senator Rand Paul is using the SBA bill as a platform to offer his signature budget bill (S.AMDT 199) which would slash $200 billion in spending for fiscal 2011.  Paul’s plan slashes funding by 50% to the Departments of Energy, Education, and HUD.  This amendment represents real limited government and budget austerity and will separate the men among the boys in the ranks of the Republican Conference.

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is forcing a vote (S. AMDT 197) to delay the implementation of ObamaCare until a final resolution is reached in pending lawsuits.  Unlike other bills that are designed to merely ameliorate ObamaCare, this amendment would completely halt it during the ensuing legal battles.

• Senator Tom Coburn has filed an amendment (S.AMDT.184) to force federal agencies to compile comprehensive lists of all of their programs

Make sure that all of your Republican senators are on record supporting these amendments, especially Rand Paul’s budget proposal.  Also, let’s see which faux moderate Democrats will commit to supporting anyone of these commonsense initiatives.  Needless to say, I didn’t waste time calling my senators; Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin!

Ask yourself, what are my company’s core capabilities? If your answer is simply, restating the product you sell, you are most likely incoherent. The coherence premium is a high level strategy used by some of the largest (and most profitable) corporations in America. Companies that are “coherent” can define 3-6 capabilities internally that differentiate them within their industry, build a deep workable strategy focused on “winning,” and develop product portfolio based around their capabilities.

What makes the coherence premium such an interesting topic? The fact that companies who are “coherent” are healthier, more profitable and better set up for long-term growth. Coca-Cola, a poster child for coherence, (almost 100 on the Coherence Capabilities Score) sees on average 20% higher earnings before interest and taxes than profiled companies with a Coherence Capabilities Score of less than 20.

Take Wal-Mart for instance, they’ve aligned all of their capabilities:

• Aggressive vendor management


• Expert point-of-sale data analytics


• Superior logistics


• Rigorous working capital management

Simple, but to the point, Wal-Mart understands their internal capabilities, which stretch from logistics all the way to IT. Capabilities should be specific enough that they exact a point of where you stop competing and start excelling your industry. A more thorough example of a capability would be, “A company’s ability to use customer-data mining to develop new products.”

Benefits

1. Strengthens a Companies Competitive Advantage


2. Companies are Better Prepared For The Future


3. Produces Efficiencies of Scale


4. Aligns Strategic Intent and Day-To-Day Decision Making

Steps

1. Ways to Play- learn how your company provides value and the way you will face the market.

• Are we investing capabilities that matter to the way we play?


• Are we clear about the way we choose to create value in the marketplace?

2. Capabilities System -determine your 3-6 core capabilities.

• Have we defined how these capabilities work with our system?


• Do all of our businesses draw upon this superior system?

3. Build a Strategy For a Balanced Portfolio – Build your future growth and product initiates to maximize your core capabilities.

• Have we found our product and service “sweet spot”


• Are new products and acquisitions determined on the way the fit within our capabilities system?

Understanding your core capabilities and becoming coherent is not necessarily the easiest thing to do. Your capabilities should be assessed with a healthy mix of both internal and external information and careful thought. All of this is worth the hassle; coherent companies consistently reap more profits, are better prepped for the future and place themselves atop their industries by innovating.

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The biggest names in the tech industry seem to have collectively decided it's time to make the billions. Sure Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have sold some ads and Foursquare brokered some promotional deals. But with the second wave of IPOs on the horizon and investors' eyeballs getting as round as the tech bubble, the time is nigh for tech demigods to show that they can make money off all those users they've spent years accumulating. And hopefully not alienate them in the process. Today, Mark Zuckerberg inched closer to that dream of a trillion dollars by offering streaming movies — and tanking Netflix's stock. Meanwhile, YouTube closed a deal on a production company presumably to make its very own content. Intel cast a wide net to examine tech companies' latest money-making ventures. Then we looked into our CrystalBall app to see what they might try next.

Facebook

Moneymaker: Warner Bros. just became the first Hollywood studio to stream movies directly on the social network. Facebook has been making a big move toward e-commerce lately, and the fact that you have to use Facebook Credits to buy movies and TV shows could be the tipping point to get users to hand their credit card info over to Mark Zuckerberg. Plus, studios looking for a way to stop Netflix's growth might not make Facebook suffer the same 28-day waiting period for new content.

Downside: At 30 credits (or $3) for a 48-hour rental for The Dark Knight, it will cost you. Plus, you have to "like" the movie or the director to get the privilege. Do you really want hundreds of your Facebook friends to see you "liked" and watched Valentine's Day on Valentine's Day?

What's next: Why should you use a credit card to buy Facebook Credits when you can use Zuckerbills (coming to a U.S. Treasury in 2020)?

Twitter

Moneymaker: In order to make money off its free iPhone app, this weekend Twitter introduced a number of new features, including Quickbar, a "forced trending topics bar" that includes promoted tweets — negating the idea of a service that quickly shows you what's actually trending.

Downside: Pundit John Gruber quickly dubbed the feature "Dickbar" after Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, but Gruber issued the unfortunate nickname on Twitter and it was widely retweeted. Advantage Costolo.

What's next: Can we pay someone to monitor our Twitter feed for us? It's getting overwhelming. Either that or design personalized lists of the best people to follow based on what's important to us, like updates on Libya and breaking bear-cub news.

Foursquare

Moneymaker: At SXSW this week, Foursquare is set to announce a partnership with American Express that will link users' credit cards with their Foursquare accounts. The incentive to consumers? Deals like "spend $5, save $5" at participating merchants. Although Foursquare said its motivation is to increase membership and loyalty and that it won't charge Amex for the privilege, it's hard to believe that will stay the case if it catches on.

Downside: We don't have an Amex card. And (confession) although we use the app for recommendations, we've never actually checked in anywhere. Sorry, Dennis and Naveen! But if they add other credit cards, we would.

What's next: How about a service that warns you beforehand if you're about to friend one of those compulsive people who check in with handfuls of people at name-dropping locales?

YouTube

Moneymaker: YouTube just closed a deal to buy Internet video company Next New Networks, the producers behind Auto-Tune the News, for less than $50 million. Although rumor had it that Google was trying to get into the video-production business, Business Insider reports that the move is actually designed to help existing YouTube partners make "more and better content." Which then leads to more users and, subsequently, more expensive ads.

Downside: Isn't YouTube's strength either grainy weird viral videos or pirated television, movie, and music content? The second could definitely use better quality, but does it even matter for the former?

What's next: How about veering into Hulu territory?

Skype

Moneymaker: Just regular old advertising on the Windows version of its paid video communications service.

Downside: Although Skype says it won't show ads during the video conferencing yet, this could devolve into a Minority Report-style advertising assault.

What's next: Would it be possible to embed microphone/receiver in our brain so we don't have to use the special headset? Just curious.

Update: TechCrunch makes an important clarification. Facebook hasn't announced its own streaming movie service. Rather the movie offering comes from Warner Brothers app that uses Facebook Credits' payment system. But if it proves successful and other studios follow suit, Zuckberg can still count on more personal credit card info coming his way. Someone better go tell Netflix's shareholders.

The biggest names in the tech industry seem to have collectively decided it's time to make the billions. Sure Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have sold some ads and Foursquare brokered some promotional deals. But with the second wave of IPOs on the horizon and investors' eyeballs getting as round as the tech bubble, the time is nigh for tech demigods to show that they can make money off all those users they've spent years accumulating. And hopefully not alienate them in the process. Today, Mark Zuckerberg inched closer to that dream of a trillion dollars by offering streaming movies — and tanking Netflix's stock. Meanwhile, YouTube closed a deal on a production company presumably to make its very own content. Intel cast a wide net to examine tech companies' latest money-making ventures. Then we looked into our CrystalBall app to see what they might try next.

Facebook

Moneymaker: Warner Bros. just became the first Hollywood studio to stream movies directly on the social network. Facebook has been making a big move toward e-commerce lately, and the fact that you have to use Facebook Credits to buy movies and TV shows could be the tipping point to get users to hand their credit card info over to Mark Zuckerberg. Plus, studios looking for a way to stop Netflix's growth might not make Facebook suffer the same 28-day waiting period for new content.

Downside: At 30 credits (or $3) for a 48-hour rental for The Dark Knight, it will cost you. Plus, you have to "like" the movie or the director to get the privilege. Do you really want hundreds of your Facebook friends to see you "liked" and watched Valentine's Day on Valentine's Day?

What's next: Why should you use a credit card to buy Facebook Credits when you can use Zuckerbills (coming to a U.S. Treasury in 2020)?

Twitter

Moneymaker: In order to make money off its free iPhone app, this weekend Twitter introduced a number of new features, including Quickbar, a "forced trending topics bar" that includes promoted tweets — negating the idea of a service that quickly shows you what's actually trending.

Downside: Pundit John Gruber quickly dubbed the feature "Dickbar" after Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, but Gruber issued the unfortunate nickname on Twitter and it was widely retweeted. Advantage Costolo.

What's next: Can we pay someone to monitor our Twitter feed for us? It's getting overwhelming. Either that or design personalized lists of the best people to follow based on what's important to us, like updates on Libya and breaking bear-cub news.

Foursquare

Moneymaker: At SXSW this week, Foursquare is set to announce a partnership with American Express that will link users' credit cards with their Foursquare accounts. The incentive to consumers? Deals like "spend $5, save $5" at participating merchants. Although Foursquare said its motivation is to increase membership and loyalty and that it won't charge Amex for the privilege, it's hard to believe that will stay the case if it catches on.

Downside: We don't have an Amex card. And (confession) although we use the app for recommendations, we've never actually checked in anywhere. Sorry, Dennis and Naveen! But if they add other credit cards, we would.

What's next: How about a service that warns you beforehand if you're about to friend one of those compulsive people who check in with handfuls of people at name-dropping locales?

YouTube

Moneymaker: YouTube just closed a deal to buy Internet video company Next New Networks, the producers behind Auto-Tune the News, for less than $50 million. Although rumor had it that Google was trying to get into the video-production business, Business Insider reports that the move is actually designed to help existing YouTube partners make "more and better content." Which then leads to more users and, subsequently, more expensive ads.

Downside: Isn't YouTube's strength either grainy weird viral videos or pirated television, movie, and music content? The second could definitely use better quality, but does it even matter for the former?

What's next: How about veering into Hulu territory?

Skype

Moneymaker: Just regular old advertising on the Windows version of its paid video communications service.

Downside: Although Skype says it won't show ads during the video conferencing yet, this could devolve into a Minority Report-style advertising assault.

What's next: Would it be possible to embed microphone/receiver in our brain so we don't have to use the special headset? Just curious.

Update: TechCrunch makes an important clarification. Facebook hasn't announced its own streaming movie service. Rather the movie offering comes from Warner Brothers app that uses Facebook Credits' payment system. But if it proves successful and other studios follow suit, Zuckberg can still count on more personal credit card info coming his way. Someone better go tell Netflix's shareholders.

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As a result the SEO company can not only improve your traffic, but also make sure that your website is fully optimized for that internet search engine spiders that'll be introduced to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your website and place it in certain positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to use the Search engine optimization Vancouver then all you've got to complete is discover the top companies. It is through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you need to be sure that the one you're going for is reliable. You should be in a position to request a failure of what you need, and the company also needs to have the ability to let you know know long they have been operating for. This can narrow down the list to reveal the very best ones.

 

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The Vancouver SEO company services are extremely good for business growth because they provide quality services. If you're planning to create a website for the online business, then you have arrived at right article as I is going to be explaining below how Web optimization Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you need to know what Search Engine Optimization is. It is not that complicated and i am sure you're going to get a grasp of it after reading my article. The primary goal of SEO is to have increased traffic to your website and target audience. It's a good decision to choose a Vancouver SEO company that are experts in this sort of work, so that your website could be listed in search engines.

There isn't any reason for you using a website with no website ranking at all while you won't get any business and profits to outlive. It's a very tough atmosphere available because there are a lot of online business people exactly like you, who want their share of pie. You have to be familiar with the fact that nearly 85% of online traffic can be got from internet websites.

When a user types inside a keyword or keywords for which he/she really wants to know in various sites, these use crawlers to get websites with the relevant content and index them according to algorithms. You don't have to worry about the algorithms which these websites use as that isn't important.

To appear in the first page from the search result, you will have to hire professionals and pros who can perform the needful to keep your website among the good books during these websites. These professionals can optimize your website content to ensure your website gets increased traffic.

Once the traffic gets high, it is a sign that you are getting a service that will get you more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the next to create your site appear within the first page of search engine results.

Use keywords that are popularly used on search engines like google on your website content.
Possess a web design for the website which is simple because top sites are allergic to flash and weird designs.
Submit your website to directories.
Submit your website to directory websites.
Postings on blogs and forums with back links to your websites. This is considered as an effective way to get increased traffic to your website as numerous online users use blogs and forums.

SEO Vancouver company also perform site diagnostics that is a significant part in online optimization as research and analysis on finding keywords may be the way to begin a SEO campaign. So, make sure you select the right SEO Vancouver company.

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What to Expect Whenever Hiring a Roofing Contractor

When it comes time to correct or even substitute your roof, it can be a daunting task to find someone who is actually competent for the job. There are many roofers out there, but the ones who will perform a great job for a sensible price are not frequently simple to find. If you are in the marketplace for a contractor, make use of the ideas beneath with regard to interviewing as well as employing the right one.

Interview and Discussion

Most roofing companies offer free consultation services. This is especially essential, since it provides them an opportunity to assess what your roof needs, and it gives you an opportunity to evaluate them. As with all companies, trust your instincts concerning the individuals a person let upward onto your roofing. No issue exactly how good the contractor's reputation or even suggestion, he or she should begin by showing a person having a business greeting card. If the contractor arrives looking and speaking in an less than professional manner, most likely the task he's going to perform may also be unprofessional. This isn't to express that you ought to expect contractors to arrive within fits. They is going to be hiking on your roofing, so most will be dressed up in denim jeans and function footwear or sneakers. If the contractor appears to be more interested in talking on their cell phone while on your roof than he is within evaluating your own roof's requirements, that may be another sign that he's not the one to do the job. For your lawful protection, be certain that the actual service provider offers sufficient legal responsibility insurance coverage.

Roof Evaluation

Expect the contractor is going to be rising in your roofing. Actually, any service provider who not want to go up in your roof to judge the issue should be immediately reduced. Those who are serious about their own work will possibly make a drawing of the roof's surface area as well as mark trouble spots onto it because they go through their assessment, or they'll consider pictures or video from the surface area while they're available online for. This is an extremely important action, since it allows you to see just what the troubles are as well as understand how they'll be set.

Estimate

The next phase will be the created estimate. The service provider will require out their loan calculator and come up with an itemized estimation. Some contractors will go out to their own truck or even truck and write down the actual proposal, while others will crisis the amounts for the job in front of you. Once you are because of the suggestion, make sure that you comprehend exactly which items is going to be used, how long the task will require and when there are any additional or hidden expenses that could arise throughout the restore from the roofing. The contractor should be able to answer all of these concerns with ease and forewarn a person associated with a additional expenses that could be sustained if the roof's ethics be broken inside.

Once you have received a few created estimations from roofers, assess what every company or contractor is willing to offer you for the cost. Do not always discount the greatest bet, because occasionally the greatest bet will in reality be the service provider who the task correctly. Additionally, be skeptical associated with bids which are significantly less than other people. They might be utilizing inferior products or perhaps be unethical concerning the chance of hidden expenses. Most importantly, believe in instincts and opt for the contractor that makes you feel quite comfy regarding handing more than your money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

 

AFP

A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

 

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

 

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

 

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

 

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

 

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

 

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

 

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

 

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

 

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

 

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

 

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

 

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

 

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

 

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

 

Earlier cases

 

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

 

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

 

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

 

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

 

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

 

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

 

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

 

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

 

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

 

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

 

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

 

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

 

New training scheme

 

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

 

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

 

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

 

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

 

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

 

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

 

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

Copyright © 1998-2011 Radio Free Asia. All rights reserved.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghur

through henry on December 20, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were actually uncertain, information obtained through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese government worries more than its ongoing control of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked wires through U.S. diplomats demonstrate the extent that Chinese authorities attempt to convince governments globally to adopt its stance on problems affecting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the U . s . States' issues and sights regarding the on going repressive steps in the region.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese government pressure are the cables pointing to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third countries. A December 29, 08 cable television applies how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.S. Ambassador to The far east in order to tone of voice Beijing's strong opposition associated with release in order to any nation other than China, and that when the Ough.S. do certainly accede to this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb 2009 cable describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly act towards us" and a "slap in the face". The U.S. government stood firm in not releasing the actual detainees in order to China demonstrates the extent from the politicized character from the Chinese language judicial program. Genuine issues more than terrorism are understandable, but in the U.Utes. government's observe the detainees might probably encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as delivery when they returned to China

Chinese language government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the Ough.S. federal government, but also to New Zealand along with a handful of European governments which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member says all have the symptoms of borne the actual brunt of Chinese language federal government unhappiness. Regarding Germany, which was initially willing to think about 2 Uyghurs on purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were less better than other detainees because of the negative effects accepting Uyghurs might have upon relationships with China. A Might 8, '09 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported which Indonesia had knowledgeable China of the U.S. ask for to accept a few Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with been subsequently warned by China associated with ‘a heavy load on bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia had been to accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires also talk about the unrest in Urumchi, the local capital, within This summer '09. The July Thirteen, 2009 cable television talking about mass incidents within The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet in 03 associated with 2008 vary markedly in origin as well as nature through bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious problems for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Party leadership would not wait to spread out fire on Uighurs or Tibetans if they considered it essential to recover purchase. Bulk incidents pose a different type of threat, he said, as the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters with regard to anxiety about sparking huge public outrage that will turn from the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when 1 considers evidence presented in two reviews released this year by the Uyghur Individual Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International which fine detail eyewitness accounts from the use of deadly reside fire against Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. Additionally, the actual declaration which fire wouldn't be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the various approach used through Chinese language security causes in Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders in September 2009. During those direct orders, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, that experienced demanded he inform them about federal government reactions to security concerns. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Party Assistant through Uyghur protesters in This summer wasn't met.

The broader repercussions of the unrest additionally noticed a short discussion on the impact it might possess on Iran-China relations, as well as on relationships with Australia after Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the National Press Club in Canberra in August '09. Within the second option situation, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution which vendors the nation's Press Club to use it's influence to bar the Kadeer talk there".

The U . s . States' concerns concerning the scenario within the Uyghur area are available through in the wires. In a dialogue on plan path within Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials clarify that it'll end up being impossible with regard to Chinese language frontrunners to consider the softer line "if they appear like they are doing so below worldwide pressure". The actual cable dated April 16, 08, one month after the episode of unrest in Tibetan regions, also relayed the actual observation "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no relaxation from the current hard collection upon Tibet or perhaps in locations like Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable television additionally storage sheds gentle about the extreme level of sensitivity with which the Chinese government views territorial ethics, and the feasible spill over of unrest from Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to tensions within Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from civil society are discussed in a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable. While suggesting which China's economic achievement will increase its potential to deal with democratic reform, the actual cable also talks about exactly how Chinese language leaders begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted growth associated with civil society, including enhancements within the rule associated with law and a more powerful part for approved beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other stars in places that contribute to sociable balance and do not challenge Communist Party guideline." This can be a significant change in thinking, which has observed Ough.Utes. authorities promote the notion which Chinese language economic development, and economic relations with The far east will bring about a progressively democratic society; nevertheless, much more belief seems to be placed in a grassroots movement compared to one that starts from the top levels of the Chinese language federal government. Nonetheless, the cable concludes that "[i]n places such as Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tight restrictions about the growth of civil culture." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the recognized, who suggests that the actual Ough.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns over Beijing's human privileges report and appeal to China's developing awareness which higher respect for individual privileges, religious independence and the rule associated with law assists to promote the very improvement and sociable stability which China looks for as well as to improve China's worldwide image." This type of strategy would take substantial diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid fear that the United States privately promotes routine change as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide insight into the every day business associated with diplomacy that's rarely owned by everyone, and it is fascinating to notice the amount of function done behind closed doors upon Uyghur issues. The importance of the actual part of the United States as a monitor associated with Uyghur human rights problems in private conversations is created clear, as well as contrasts using its sensible public position. The staff from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually comfortable with the pressure the Chinese federal government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese language federal government pressure on it's counterparts is actually illustrative of the diploma that Chinese language authorities make an effort to suppress contradictory stories. With more revelations in the future through Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs might not get the headlines, but the wires have shed brand new gentle about the paperwork of human privileges problems within the Uyghur region.

 

Seo And Marketing with articles Will Place You On The 1st Page

Seo and marketing with articles are a couple of the most powerful strategies that you can use to promote your website and get the revenue and success that you desire for your internet business. These two things have been around for any really very long time already however they still still be really effective. Actually, these have helped lots of people free themselves from the traditional means of money-generating options of society.

In this post, I will be showing the ways how you are able to properly execute search engine optimization and article marketing for the betterment of the business web site. Additionally, I will be also discussing the various points that you have to consider when you're using these two online marketing strategies to promote your website and acquire customers. Even though article marketing and Search engine optimization have been established for a long time already, you need to know that the trends and choices as to how they are carried out are continually changing, and that's why you should keep yourself up to date with this stuff through the help of Seo forum sites so that you can quickly adjust and learn to make your strategies more efficient.

In the past submitting articles to various web sites used to be so simple yet the effects that they produce for web-sites was really powerful. However, everything has changed a whole lot today. Currently submitting the identical article to different websites has stopped being recommended because search engines have now changed with a huge extent in the way they rank pages. They will no longer rank contents which are identical like they used to in the past. This is among the best types of changes that happens to web marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that internet marketers are using today. Most of online marketers now produce articles and submit them in really popular article directories and await targeted visitors to come to their pages. This is perhaps that most reliable Seo strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, and also this provides positive benefits regularly. The only issue with this particular technique is that the caliber of traffic that you will get using this won't be that good if you do not do proper keyword research beforehand and rehearse in-links. You first need for carrying on these two things prior to deciding to submit your articles so that you won't wind up losing large amounts of targeted traffic. Because of this you must practice good levels of diligence if you would like your advertising initiatives to be effective.

In addition to articles, you can even use blogging, that is another really powerful form of online marketing strategy today since it is highly well-liked by google and yahoo. In this technique, you can choose to develop a single weblog that specifically targets your best market or you can give rise to other weblogs which are called experts in your niche.

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Roofing Companies Vancouver BC

There are many things to take into account when looking for any roofing contractor. Price tag, experience, as well as referrals are a few of the things you will likely be concerned about. Continue reading for even more ideas.

• Finding a Roofing Contractors

Before looking for a roofing contractor, be sure you have a general idea of the task that you need to do. By no means is it necessary to be a specialist. If you have the Roof Certification, read it thoroughly to find the details about your existing roof. Should you not have a Top Certificate, reference documents authorized during shutting to locate your Roof Inspection bed sheet. These documents should provide you with everything you need to be familiar with your roof. Prior to contacting the roofing contractor, you ought to have a list of needs and requirements to help you determine exactly who works for your roof covering project. Be sure you write down each and every potential roofer contractor's answers along with check them against each other. If you will find any differences, be sure to note this as well as take this into consideration when coming up with a final decision. There are no uncomplicated ways to pick a roofing contractor, in case you take heed to the information provided, your odds of a successful roofer project are greatly improved.

One of the best ways of finding a roofing contractor is by person to person. Try asking a friend or relative who has had roofer work completed, and was satisfied with the task. Get the name of the organization and their own contact info. If you have not sure of oral cavity referrals, test first searching in the cell phone book and online. A large advert or elegant website just isn't necessarily a sign of the quality of work, but tend to be a great tool regarding measuring how long and commitment they have used in their particular profession. In addition, try finding current worksites and search at the roofing work which is done or perhaps in the process of becoming finished. In case you are visually amazed, ask the house manager to the name from the roofing contractor as well as their make contact with information.

• Research

When looking for a roofing contractors, it can be imperative to initial do your current background research. Costly in the phonebook or on the Internet is a suitable place to find a builder, finding relevant information on these kinds of businesses will likely be found in other areas. 1st, check with places like the Bbb, city, condition, and county public records, along with local certification agencies. Inquire your roofing contractor if they are an associate of any roofer associations. These kinds of precautions may mitigate the risks. Furthermore ask them what sorts of roofing these people specialize in. Also ask your own roofing contractor concerning any extended auto warranties they offer on his or her installed roofs. Find out what safety measures they decide to use avoid damage done to other parts of the home through workers. Products such as gutters, siding, and fireplaces are close in proximity and for that reason susceptible to random damages.

Make certain all of this facts are included in your written contract. Determine if you need a roof covering permit and/or permission from your property owners association beforehand. These agencies will let you know who's responsible for obtaining these enables and permissions. If it is the obligation of the roofing contractor, also have that included inside your contract. If it is your duty, get said permits as well as permissions collated using the estimated covering project and still have it plainly posted or readily available.

• Licensing and References

Roofing Contractors are not forced to be certified in all says. Contact local licensing organizations that rule general development contractors for any list of specifications. Once you have acquired the requirements, build a list of in depth questions to ask your own potential roofer. This simple checklist should right away help you to get rid of the competent from the unqualified roofing contractors. Qualified companies should be able to very easily answer questions or tell you that they need to do additional research before giving the definitive answer.

Even if a new roofing contractor features all necessary licensing, you should ask to see pictures involving completed covering jobs and speak to satisfied clients. Use a list of inquiries handy ought to recent customers, such as the mother nature of the career, timeliness, and all round satisfaction. Be sure these are recent clients along with cross reference point if possible. Regarding commercial roofer, make sure that the actual roofing contractor is bonded. Checking these referrals is another included measure of safety to define the list regarding potential roofer contractors.

Seo Through Article marketing

Article writing may be an extremely powerful form of Search engine optimization for the company website. Quality written articles manage to increase your websites SERP and add quality in your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is important in gaining new backlinks for a business website. Articles can and will be written on topics which can be unique to your business or industry. The articles can discuss a multitude of issues and ideas inside your industry. Articles that supply your reader using a resource are invariably one of the most popular and many likely types of articles which will cause backlinks to your site.

Focus your articles on your own potential readers or customers. Search engine optimization articles should address real questions which are asked by current or past clients. Each article you're posting for you company should include detailed analysis and Seo keywords that will help associate your internet site while using content present in your website. Focus your articles on approximately 3 keywords , nor stray from their website. Consistency is essential when writing Search engine optimization articles. If you're covering Vancouver Search engine optimization ensure your always reveal information strongly related the keyword.

Give every one of your Search engine optimization Articles an engaging Title that may persuade folks to read and bookmark your articles. Ideally, the articles you are writing can be as links from other websites which are similar to yours. This will help boost the power of each link and definately will help increase your SERP. Be sure to end each article having a keyword anchored link (see Easy Small enterprise Search engine optimization). This link will increase your rankings online and other major search engines like yahoo for the keyword attached to the link. Submit the articles to some free article directory and Voila! Before long, your internet site might be for the first page of Google.

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Vancouver Search Engine Optimization Company Aims For Google Places With Absolute Good results

When folks type in research online term looking for a business within their local area, they are going to find that Google places and Google maps is showing listings of local businesses. It is very eminent to allow them to be optimized and from this first page should they desire to generate business. Vancouver SEO companies need to be educated of this type for their clients.

There will be a great deal of new Vancouver SEO companies starting, simply because the requirement is there. Finding an SEO firm which has the client's best interest at heart can be tedious. What number of keywords will they optimize for? What are the keywords and also the corresponding amount of searches? Do they know how to optimize for Google places? And the like. Search engine optimization may be the business of landing at the pinnacle and Maxim Edge will get you there.

"My wife and that i started our Vancouver SEO company by accident. We've learned with the school of hard knocks and trial and error how to utilize the web to promote any business. We began with the website, then the competition, then of course building quality back-links to push an online site up inside rankings. It is not pushing some control and watching what goes on type of business. It will require a lot of effort, a lot of research and lots of commitment. We work hard for our clients and we are very happy with a high retention rate." Randy Neale says.

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Portraits of Uyghur People

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the land of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the least populated land whereas it covers close to a sixth from the nation's area. Having resisted while in generations the chinese domination, Xinjiang, or Old East Turkistan, fell within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mainly Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Muslim above all, the Uyghur people have a strong religious identity which usually, in particular, allowed them to preserve a strong difference towards the Chinese enemy. Certainly, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their history, the Uyghurs successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., therefore beginning the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

Under the effect of the beliefs which they adopted, Uyghur People used successively, and at times in a competing way, a large number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own graphic system.

The arrival of Islam was a great change since it was accompanied by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the enormous Turkic and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used nowadays.

If their writing, their own language and their religion mark a real difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, Uyghur People also differ from their aspect, so aspect of Central Asia's people. A shiny skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features pointing out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek roots of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only nine million population - a trifle for this kind of great region. So, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six ethnic minority groups having been known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This particular law allows these people a few privileges in a land exactly where their big difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is accepted as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, seems really illusory. The presence of natural sources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its proximity with nations recognised as sensitive, strongly urged the government to speed up the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the greater responsibility work opportunities.

In response to this true will to assimilate the Uyghurs into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Asserting more flexibility, but mainly the recognition of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The events of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghur population continues today to proudly continue to keep their identification and their tradition , though they become a minority on their own land.

For additional information and facts about the Uyghurs, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

ation|Web optimization|Website seo|Seo optimization|Seo optimisation} Expert Advice - Getting Ahead Using SEO

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managing personal finances

There are many ways to manage your finances online, but many of them handle only the paying of run-of-the-mill bills. A site starting in beta-test mode on Monday, called Manilla, is aiming for something broader.

Manilla, which is owned by the publishing company Hearst, wants to help people organize four categories of accounts: household bills, like phone and cable; magazine subscriptions; air travel rewards programs; and financial bills like mortgages and credit cards. Once users sign up for Manilla they can link their personal accounts to the service and are supplied with a simple and clean interface to manage them.

Jessica Insalaco, an executive vice president at Manilla, said people the company surveyed said they were constantly baffled by the bills, subscriptions and other programs they have to manage. People also feel overwhelmed by the piles of paper bills they face on a daily basis, she said.

I tested Manilla ahead of its introduction and found that the process of linking and managing a bill was simple. I linked my AT&T phone bill to the service and it took only a few seconds to hook up the two sites and begin managing my account from Manilla.

Manilla isn’t only trying to help people organize their household finances. The company is teaming with businesses, too, hoping to offer a less expensive alternative to paper bills.

According to the United States Postal Service’s 2010 Annual Report, businesses in the United States send 48 billion account notices, statements and bills to customers each year. That’s a lot of paper that ultimately ends up in garbage dumps and paper shredders.

“Right now, some companies can spend up to 75 cents on a single paper bill,” Ms. Insalaco said. “We want to work with these major companies to send us the bill, reducing the cost of the paper version, and we will act as the middleman to the consumer.”

To make this process even more seamless, Manilla plans to create “premier partnerships” with some companies. Manilla said in a company blog post that it was opening with Comcast as its first premier partner, where cable customers who sign up for Manilla will no longer receive a paper bill, but will instead be billed directly through Manilla.

The company plans to add several premier partners when it has its full introduction in coming months.

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