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03
2011
PUT ON THE WHITE HAT White hat SEO involves doing SEO by the book. It places integrity (or, at least, “legality”) first and foremost when one is engaging in SEO writing. So, the content is written primarily for web surfers, and only secondarily to get the notice of search engines. Links and keywords and keyword phrases all happen “naturally” within the content; there’s no scheming, no conniving, no forcing. The information is clear, accurate, and website-unique. When there are link backs, they are usually gained through mutual link exchange with another website that has agreed to it. White hat SEO writers believe the content is king and that people who are looking for content should find quality content, not content that is loaded to draw their attention like webs for flies with a hidden sales purpose behind it. So, if they post a blog, for instance, they won’t try to overload it with a well-researched keyword phrase; they will write from their heart (or creative intellect) and hope that they create enough quality–and just so happen, by chance, to get to fit in some keyword phrases to get up in the search engine results–that they’ll attract a following and thus make money.
In short, white hat SEO involves almost no calculating, although it might involve keyword research. This sounds great from a websurfer’s point of view, and it truly does avoid the problem of getting flagged by webcrawlers as a spammer. Unfortunately, due to the structure of the Internet and the way search engines and webcrawlers work these days, white hat SEO can take quite a long time to work–and that’s if it even does. It could take years for an article or post to attract attention. Meanwhile, where is your Internet content writing career going? You may sink to the bottom and have to become an indentured servant with a j-o-b. PUT ON THE BLACK HAT On the other hand, there’s black hat SEO. As you might imagine, black hat SEO is the polar opposite of white hat SEO. Those who write black hat SEO do all they can to manipulate and structure their content so that it’s really all about getting to the top of search engine results pages and drawing in as many people as possible for a hidden agenda’s purpose (selling them something). Quality of the content is a distant second to utility. The writing itself may be hackneyed and of a quality so poor that it would never, ever be published anywhere beyond the virtual reality of the Internet–and even then would be rejected by some sites. It does not necessarily inform a websurfer about anything and it might be way off topic from the website where it is placed. The writer of black hat SEO does not care if the content is murky–all that he cares about is weaving his tangled web to lure in potential buyers of some product. Writers of black hat SEO are coldly calculating. They try to fit in as close to an overload of keyword phrases as they possibly can. The whole piece they write may amount to little more than a contrived pile of keywords and keyword phrases. The jam in as many links back to their splash pages and squeeze pages as possible in a grand display of shameless self promotion. The black hatter finds vulnerable places on the Internet where it’s “safe” to warehouse links. They also use sleight of hand to dupe white hatters out of supposedly agreed upon mutual link backs, so they get a link while white hatters don’t. Black hat SEO is a content producer’s get rich quick scheme. The black hatters are willing to risk being kicked off of search engines as spammers by skirting the edge of legality and integrity in order to make fast, potentially big money. While less than 1% of white hat SEO websites make money, over 90% of black hat SEO websites make money. Black hat SEO writers, like the computer hackers of the 1980s, are becoming more sophisticated to get around the increasingly effective webcrawler algorithms that can spy out their dirty tricks. Black hat SEO e-books and blogs already exist to aid these shameless marketeers. CONCLUSION It all depends on what you are about as a webmaster or content producer whether you wear the white or the black SEO hat. If you care about the quality that gets published on the Internet and your own reputation for quality, you’ll be a white hat SEO writer–and you will likely suffer financially. If you want to write for the money, honey, and you are willing to risk search engine flagging and a bad reputation, do the black hat SEO. Hopefully, though, you can learn to strike a balance between the two and flourish with a touch of gray. The Author enjoys working from home and making money online through internet marketing.
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May
18
2011
Chat rooms or “chats” are one of the most interactive
areas on the Internet and they are regularly visited by children and teenagers. Putting it plainly and simply, a chat room is a place on the Internet where people meet to talk about various subjects. Conversation is simultaneous,synchronous and written. A user writes a message onto the computer and the message is immediately displayed on another computer. From a teacher’s point of view, chat rooms may turn out to be one of the best places to engage our students in real and meaningful language practice. From a student’s point of view, chats are an exciting means of communication and an enriching opportunity to communicate with native or non-native speakers in English.
Generally speaking, chat rooms provide students with a stress-free and uninhibited language practice but most importantly they foment linguistic interaction. Much has already been said and written about the utter importance of interaction in the learning and acquisition of a second language. It has already been proved that the more the student (meaningfully) interacts, the more opportunities he/she will have to learn language and the more language the student learns, more input can he/she can solicit in order to learn more language
So, in order to increase students’s interaction in the English language, we can include chat rooms in our lessons. Students’s active participation will allow them to experience and experiment language as a real thing. This type of interaction, although written and not face-to-face, will prove more authentic than a conversation with the teacher, especially because in a chat
room language is no longer a goal but an instrument to pursue other (real) goals
Precautions
However, despite the inherent advantages of using chat rooms for educational purposes, one must be conscious of some dangers:
Students often have a difficult time using computers, which might endanger the activity. A good solution is to provide students with the basic computer skills (using the keyboard, reading from the screen) Chat rooms users often use acronyms and slang that students may fail to understand. A good way to solve this problem is to introduce students to those particular expressions (for instance, prepare a lesson based on Netiquette, which includes specific vocabulary items used on the Internet). Students may be confronted with harassment situations and/or verbal confrontations. This is why it is of utter importance to develop your activities in a moderated chat room and to create your own chat room. A chat room for educational purposes should have published a list of main topics and subjects currently under discussion.
Activities
As an activity, the use of chat rooms has to be considered fluency work; thus, the teacher should only intervene if the students’ mistakes jeopardise communication. It is also necessary to keep in mind that the teacher should only act (during the activity) as a prompter and a resource, in order to allow real interaction.
Activity 1: Who’s who?
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should have:
acquired the necessary knowledge about the basic functioning of a chat room (log in, write and read a message, log out); used the English language in a communicative way; demonstrated the necessary skills to make and answer questions; demonstrated their understanding of the dialogue; reflected on their use of the English language.
Procedure:
Students will be told that they will dialog with their classmates in a chat room and that they will play a game called “Who’s who?”. Each student will have a nickname, e.g., a fake identity, and that the objective of the game is to guess the true identity behind the nick. Students must also be instructed to keep their nicknames secret. Students will then be told the address of the chat room they’ll be accessing and, individually, their nicknames. The teacher should help students to log in and make sure everyone is able to send, read and write messages. Students should then approach their colleagues and try to find out who is behind the nicknames. In the end, students will be asked to come to the blackboard and write down the names behind the nicks. It is also very interesting to print and hand out the transcript of one or two dialogues and lead a brief reflection on how students used the English language.
Tags: Acquisition, Best Places, Chat Room, Chat Rooms, Chats, Educational Purposes, English Language, Good Solution, Interactive Areas, Language Practice, Linguistic Interaction, Meaningful Language, Means Of Communication, Native Speakers, Participation, Point Of View, Second Language, Stress, Teenagers, Using Computers
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Nov
20
2010
In the field of FOREX trading there are two main approaches dominating the technical analysis method: indicators and chart analysis. The questions, which is better and more efficient in generating trading signals, is often asked. After reading this article, you would have a better point of view over this subject.
Fact #1: Indicators are objective
While chart patterns are obscure in their identication, interpretation and trading, Indicators are very objective in generating trading signals and are usually understandable for beginner traders. Chart analysis requires years of experience to be done properly and with profitable expectancy. On the contrary, indicators need not such experience and are easy to understand and trade.
Fact #2: Indicators produce more signals
Indicators gives signals very often and produce many profits opportunities for traders, while patterns are relatively rare. Chart patterns occur every few days or weeks while indicators gives signals in any timeframe and any currency. Even the most popular pattern, the Double Top, occurs every few days and the trader which trades it is passive in most of the time.
Fact #3: Indicators can be confirmed
Chart patterns are stand-alone analysis tools which are hard to confirm using other tools. Once a trader has identified a pattern, there are very few tools which help him increase the win rate and profitability. On the other hand, indicators can be confirmed by many other technical tools and by this their signals become more powerful and profitable.
Fact #4: Indicators can be automated
Prudent traders can create a trading system that automatically trades their indicators. This cannot be done with Chart Patterns as they are hard to identify and trade automatically. This allows the trader to save time and effort while a robot trades automatically, instead of waiting for days for illusive chart patterns.
Tags: Analysis Tools, Beginner Traders, Chart Patterns, Currency, Few Days, Forex Chart, Forex Indicators, Forex Trading, Point Of View, Profitability, Profits, Robot, Technical Indicators, Technical Tools, Timeframe, Trading Signals
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Oct
29
2010
If you are a technology-savvy person, you will benefit greatly from depression chat rooms that serve as a haven for people who are seeking for a group to understand their feelings and emotions, and join them as they walk through a difficult phase in their lives.
The people who started these chat rooms intend to help others who are suffering from anxiety, depression and other types of mood disorders. They provide information materials, stories and news that can widen a person’s perspective and help him achieve and develop a healthy mindset.
Spill It Out
People who are get into depression are usually those who are always quiet and do not have a healthy and open conversation with other people. Having constant conversation with others is one way to avoid depression. Talking it out and spilling what is on your mind is like liberating yourself from thoughts and situation that can trigger the onset of this unhealthy condition.
It is also good to collect people’s point of view about certain situations, events and circumstances, especially those that weigh heavily on your mind. Knowing what other people think about it can help you feel better about it.
Depression chat rooms provide one form of therapy that can help: a talk therapy, as members of these chat rooms would say. Members from these depression chat rooms extend a helping hand for the healing of depressed people.
Nonetheless, it is not a substitute for a professional medical assistance or psychological therapies. It is only an alternative solution or another avenue to which a depressed person can widen his perspective about the situation that he is into. The person should also seek help from professionals.
Ask Questions
In a depression chat room, you can help yourself feel better. Depression chat peers will talk to you and can provide answer to your questions or give you tips on how to clear your mind from confusing thoughts.
There are websites that provides comprehensive listing of different chat rooms available, along with a description of what you can expect from such chat room. You can see that even chat rooms were designed for specific needs of a person.
Hang-out Sites
Some websites serve as discussion forums that cater to people with mood and personality disorder. These forums are good places to hang out. If you want to know the depression issues that the community has tackled, it can be provided to you for download. There are also sites that can serve as your support group. You open up your problems, just like in a group therapy session and they will give their advice about your current dilemma.
Post Messages
You can post messages in depression chat rooms directed to people who want advice on how to attack their anxiety or depression. If you have any advice to give via these messages, you can help ease the pain, sadness and hopelessness of another member.
Inspire Others
You can give back to other people what they have given freely to you. In the depression chat room, inspire people by telling them the battles you have fought with depression and how you defeated this debilitating mental disorder. Share with them the method of treatment that have worked for you, the depression treatment center that has been a big help in your recovery and the medication that you took and how you experienced its side effects, adjusted to it and reap its rewards.
This way, you reveal a part of yourself, a very vulnerable spot in you that can make a difference in the lives of other people. You might ask: in doing so, am I not opening myself to invasion of privacy?
The answer is No. You can retain your anonymity while surfing depression chat rooms. You can name yourself in codes. And when you do tell your story, you can replace names to protect the privacy of those who are close to you. In fact, depression chat rooms encourage people to remain anonymous. This is a way of providing protection to their members.
Tags: Alternative Solution, Anxiety Depression, Chat Room, Chat Rooms, Comprehensive Listing, Confusing Thoughts, Constant Conversation, Depressed Person, Depression Chat, Depression Help, Helping Hand, Information Materials, Medical Assistance, Mindset, Open Conversation, Peers, Point Of View, Psychological Therapies, Savvy Person, Types Of Mood Disorders
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Aug
22
2010
Some of you may think that exhaust system is not an important part of your car’s engine. Well, from now on you must change your point of view because believe it or not the exhaust system is one of the way your engine to spread out all of the dirt inside your engine.
Maybe you are wondering what the dirt in your car is. Let me explain it to you. Emissions or smoke are produced to control the explosion in your car engine, but this emission must be removed before it is spread out outside. If the exhaust system doesn’t remove this emission, it will harm the environment because it is poisonous. Like you see, the air pollution that happens nowadays is because many people doesn’t take care their car’s exhaust system.
Most people who has problem with their exhaust system usually replace the engine with fake spare part, they choose it because they say it cost cheaper than the original spare part one. I must say that this is wrong, because the fake spare part will easily broke and you need more money to replace it again, while the original one which is more expensive but you can save more money because you don’t have to replace it again and again.
Tags: Air Pollution, Car Engine, Car Exhaust, Car System, Dirt, Emissions, Exhaust System, Explosion, Many People, Money, Point Of View, Spare Part, System Doesn
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