لص يتقدم بشكوى للشرطة بعد تعرضه لعضة كلب اثناء سرقة منزل

تقدم لص بريطاني في الخامسة والثلاثين من العمر بشكوى رسمية بعد تعرضه للعض من كلب شرطة  اثناء قيامه بسرقة أحد المنازل. وزعم اللص كارل لازنبي أنه عانى من فقدان القدرة على استخدام يده اليمنى بعد أن غرس كلب الشرطة أسنانه فيها حين حاول الاختباء بحديقة واشارت إلى أن بيتر هامبتون محامي اللص لازنبي جادل بأن كلب الشرطة انتهك العدالة. وقالت صحيفة "دايلي ميرور" أن محكمة التاج بمدينة شيفيلد أمرت بحبس اللص لازنبي ثلاث  سنوات وأربعة أشهر بعد أن اعترف أمامها بجرم التسلل إلى منزل بقصد السرقة  رغم عضات كلب الشرطة. ونسبت إلى متحدث باسم شرطة مقاطعة جنوب يوركشاير قوله "تلقينا شكوى وفتحنا تحقيقا بشأنها".

صـورة الـيوم

صـورة الـيوم

رئيس البرازيل المحبوب من شعبه جدا الذي حكم ل 8 سنين انتهت ولايته الثانية وهكذا أصبح لا يمكنه الترشح للرئاسة مرة أخرى. "دي سيلفا" ألقى اليوم خطابه وبكى وأبكى الناس .. هذا الرجل كان عامل في مصنع وفقد أحد أصابعه وهو في سن 19 وعاش طول حياته بيدافع عن حقوق العمال .. ساهم بإنجازاته في معالجة الفقر في البرازيل وتمكن من جعل بلده قوة اقتصادية بعد ما كانت تعاني من أزمة مالية طاحنة وكان من أكثر الرؤساء المحبوبين في بلاده .. ما أروع الديمقراطية الحقيقية غير المزيفة



من كلماته في خطبة الوداع: "أنا أغادر الرئاسة. لكن لا تعتقدوا أنكم ستتخلصون مني

لأنني سأكون في شوارع هذا البلد للمساعدة في حل مشكلات البرازيل".

Celine Dion ►Pour que tu m'aimes encore par marylyn0514

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عمر سليمان الرئيس القادم لمصر

"عمر سليمان الرئيس القادم لمصر" هكذا
راهن مائير داجان، رئيس جهاز الموساد الإسرائيلى السابق أمس، حيث نقلت
وسائل الإعلام الإسرائيلية عن داجان قوله خلال محاضرة ألقاها فى أحد
المنتديات الإسرائيلية إن اتفاقية السلام بين القاهرة وتل أبيب لم تمس بعد
قيام الثورة وإن أى قرار مصرى بإلغاء الاتفاقية سيكون بالنسبة إلى
القاهرة «عملية انتحارية».

داجان
أوضح أن المصريين يعرفون أى ثمن باهظ سيدفعون إذا ما انتقلت السلطة إلى
الإخوان المسلمين، معتبرا فرصة الإخوان فى الوصول إلى الحكم غير قائمة.

مشيرا
إلى أن «سيطرة الإخوان على الحكم إذا تمت ستضر بالاقتصاد والسياحة وبقناة
السويس وكل ما يدر دخلا، كما سيوقف الأمريكيون معونتهم عن القاهرة».

رئيس
الموساد السابق قال: إن السلام بين الجانبين لن ينتهى، وسيبقى باردا
مثلما كان فى عهد الرئيس السابق حسنى مبارك «مختتما تصريحاته بقوله: أراهن
على أن الرئيس القادم لمصر هو عمر سليمان (نائب رئيس الجمهورية السابق)
مضيفا أن ربيع الثورات العربية سيستمر ولكن بشكل أقل حدة، لافتا إلى أن
مصر لن تشهد تغييرا دراميا، لكن هناك خوفاً من الفوضى كفقدان السيطرة على
سيناء».

داجان انتقل إلى الحديث عن جلعاد شاليط، جندى تل أبيب المفرج عنه من قطاع غزة، إذ إنه لا يعتبره بطلا كما يصوره الإعلام الإسرائيلى.

موضحا
أنه سعيد بعودة شاليط، لكنه يعارض الصفقة التى تمت لاستعادته متسائلا:
«كيف نطلق سراح إرهابيين فلسطينيين ونعيدهم إلى منازلهم؟ الثمن سيكون
قاسيا» لافتا إلى أن «جلعاد عانى كثيرا وكان لا بد من أن يعود إلى عائلته،
لكن وصفه بالبطل اعترض عليه، واحتفال بنيامين نتنياهو، رئيس الحكومة،
بعودته كان مبالغا فيه».

هيفاء وهبي

تناقلت وسائل إعلامية نفي الفنانة اللبنانية هيفاء وهبي إن كانت هي التي ظهرت مع معتصم القذافي نجل الرئيس الليبي الراحل معمر القذافي في فيديو، وهي تقبله في في أحد النوادي الليلية.



وذكرت الوسائل على لسان هيفاء: "هيدي مش أنا اللي بالصورة، مش إذا واحد بالفيديو قال هيدي هيفاء يعني صارت هيفاء.. كلّن شعرن أسود".



وكان انتشر مقطع فيديو على المواقع الإلكترونية تظهر فيه شبيهة هيفاء وهبي، وهي تطبع قُبلة ساخنة على خد المعتصم القذافي في النادي الليلية، وكأنهما مرتبطان أو بينهما علاقة ما، الأمر الذي أثار جدلاً والعديد من التساؤلات إن كانت هيفاء هي التي ظهرت بالفيديو أم لا.



وقد ظهرت شبيهة هيفاء بالفيديو وهي تضع يدها على كتف المعتصم القذافي وتقبّله على خده، ويبدو من الصورة أنها لم تلتقط في سرية، ولكنهما على علم بها وسمحا لملتقطها أن يصورهما دون أي رفض منهما.



جدير بالذكر أن هيفاء وهبي تواجه الكثير من الشائعات في المرحلة الأخيرة، والتي كان آخرها ما تردّد حول تصويرها عارية داخل غرفة خلع الملابس في أحد المحلات التجارية المعروفة التي تتردّد عليها، إلا أنها نفت الأمر، مشيرة إلى أنه ضمن الشائعات الكثيرة التي تلاحقها منذ احترافها الغناء

Rihanna - California King Bed

 

ليلى غفران: الحكم النهائي بإعدام قاتل ابنتي وصديقتها اثلج قلبي

أشادت الفنانة المغربية ليلى غفران بنزاهة القضاء المصري بعد الحكم النهائي بإعدام قاتل ابنتها هبة العقاد وصديقتها نادين خالد، مشيرة إلى أنها عقب سماع الحكم لم تتمالك نفسها من البكاء، وسجدت لله شكرا. وكانت محكمة النقض المصرية قد قضت الأربعاء 26 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول برفض الطعن المقدم للمرة الثانية من محمود عيساوي، المتهم بقتل هبة العقاد، ابنة الفنانة المغربية ليلى غفران، وصديقتها نادين، في حي الندى بمدينة الشيخ زايد، وتأييد حكم الإعدام الصادر ضده من محكمة الجنايات. ليلى غفران وابنتها وقالت ليلى غفران في تصريح لـ"ام بي سي" إنها لم تشك لحظة واحدة في نزاهة القضاء المصري، وكانت تدرك جيدا أنه سينصفها، وسيأخذ بثأر ابنتها من قاتلها الذي استباح دمها البريء. وأضافت ليلى: إن الحكم النهائي بإعدام هذا المجرم أثلج قلبها، وبالتأكيد أراح ابنتها هبة العقاد في قبرها. وأوضحت غفران أنها وعقب سماعها الحكم شعرت بانفراجة في القلب، وبكت بشدة، وسجدت لله شكرا على هذا الحكم القضائي العادل. هذا وكانت محكمة النقض قد أيدت يوم الأربعاء الحكم بإعدام محمود سيد عبد الحفيظ العيساوي الذي سبق وصدر من محكمة جنايات الجيزة المتهم بقتل ابنة المطربة المغربية ليلى غفران، وصديقتها نادين خالد. وتعود أحداث القضية إلى 26 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني من عام 2008، عندما تم العثور على جثتي الضحيتين داخل شقة نادين في حي الندى بمدينة الشيخ زايد، وبعد ستة أيام ألقت أجهزة الأمن القبض على "عيساوي" واستمرت التحقيقات معه أكثر من شهرين، شهدت خلالهما العديد من التفاصيل والروايات المثيرة حول الضحيتين. كان النائب العام المستشار عبد المجيد محمود قد قرر في أوائل شهر يناير/تشرين الثاني 2009 إحالة العيساوي للمحاكمة الجنائية في ضوء اعترافه التفصيلي أمام النيابة العامة بارتكاب الجريمة. كما قام المتهم بمعاينة تصويرية توضح كيفية ارتكابه الجريمة بعد أن اختبأ للضحيتين، ثم دخل إلى الفيلا التي كانتا بداخلها في حي الندى بمدينة الشيخ زايد بمحافظة السادس من أكتوبر؛ حيث قام بقتلهما، وسرقة هاتفي محمول، ومبلغ 400 جنيه.

non-union representation

Non-union employee representation is an area which has attracted much interest in the voice literature. Much of the literature has been shaped by a dialogue which considers NERs as a means of union avoidance. More recently however scholars have suggested that for NERs to work in such contexts, they may need to be imbued with a higher set of functionalities to remain viable entities. Using a critical case study of a union recognition drive and managerial response in the form of an NER, this article contributes to a more nuanced interpretation of the literature dialogue than hitherto exists. A core component of the findings directly challenge existing interpretations within the field; namely that NERs are shaped by a paradox of managerial action. It is argued that the NER failed to satisfy for employees because of a structural remit, rather than through any paradox in managerial intent.

فيلم المش مهندس حسن - كامل

How does retail business management have an impact on the world

Information Tech has revolutionized the phase of business around the world. Local businesses have become international due to a simple website. I.T. has helped businesses in advertising. People who check their email may suddenly have a pop up at their page ends with sales up to 60% at JC Penny's!



I.T. has helped in customer service, huge corporations like Microsoft attend to customer needs through email and chat services. Networking internal and external in organizations has improved the working of businesses. Staffs and clients likewise can get in touch with the managers for feedback, progress reports and extensions.



Communication has bloomed, two business organizations if they need to work together can easily do so. Hotmail, when merged with MSN was easy since the service was online. Business these days require a lot of planning, due to high tech organization systems on computers, planning can be done on an organized pattern, with schedule formats, grant charts etc. Huge databases can now be controlled and stored on network and back up drives.





Accesibility of files also has become an easy task with series of password keys and shared folders. Cash transactions are easily made, delay in reduced hence giving liquidity to business.

how to make money online

Making money online used to pretty much require you to have your own Web site, products to sell and some marketing savvy. But a new generation of dot-coms have arisen that will pay you for what you know and who you know without you having to be a web designer or a marketing genius.

But it's hard to tell hype from the real deal. I did a search on "make money online" and "making money online", and much of the information out there is just promoting various infoproducts, mostly about Internet marketing. I see why people sometimes ask, "Is anyone making money online besides Internet marketing experts?"

So I put together a list of business opportunities with legitimate companies that:

• Pay cash, not just points towards rewards or a chance to win money


• Don't require you to have your own Web domain or your own products


• Don't involve any hard-selling


• Aren't just promoting more Internet marketing


• Give a good return on your time investment

In the interest of objectivity, none of the links below are affiliate links, and none of them have paid or provided any other consideration for their presence here. These are legitimate companies with business models that allow you to get paid for a wide range of activities. Help friends find better jobs.

Sites like ReferEarns, Zyoin, Who Do You Know For Dough?, and WiseStepp connect employers with prospective employees, many of whom are already employed and not actively job-hunting, via networking - the people who know these qualified candidates. Rewards for referring a candidate who gets hired range from $50 on up to several thousand dollars - not chump change. If you know a lot of job-seekers (and who doesn't these days?), this is a great way to break into the recruiting business with no overhead.

Connect suppliers with buyers.

Referral fees are a common practice in business, but they haven't been used much in online networking sites because there was no way to track them. Sites like Salesconx, InnerSell and uRefer now provide that. Vendors set the referral fees they're willing to pay (and for what), and when the transaction happens, you get paid. uRefer also allows merchants to set up referral programs for introductions and meetings, as well as transactions.

Write.

A growing number of sites will pay for your articles or blog posts. Associated Content and Helium will "pay for performance" based on page views for just about anything you want to write about. Articles on specific topics they're looking for can earn direct payments up to about $200. The rates are probably low for established writers, but if you're trying to break into the field and have time on your hands, they're a great way to start. Also, a lot of companies are looking for part-time bloggers. They may pay per post or on a steady contract. Our Weblogs Guide posts blogging jobs weekly in the forum.

Start your own blog.

You don't have to have your own Web site, or install blogging software, or even figure out how to set up the advertising. At Blogger you can set up a blog for free in less than five minutes without knowing a thing about web design, and Blogger even automates setting up Google AdSense so you can make money off your blog by displaying ads and getting paid when people click on the ads. To make even more money from it, set up an affiliate program (see below) for books, music, etc., and insert your affiliate links whenever you refer to those items. You'll have to get a lot of traffic to become a six-figure blogger, but pick an interesting topic, write well, tell all your friends, and you're off to a good start.

Related: Monetizing Your Blog

Create topical resource hubs.

Are you an expert on a particular niche topic? Can you put together an overview of the topic and assemble some of the best resources on the topic from around the web? Then you can create topical hubs and get paid through sites like Squidoo, HugPages and Google Knol. Payments are based on a combination of ad revenue and affiliate fees. You'll get higher rates doing it on your own, but these sites have a built-in supply of traffic and tools to make content creation easier.

Advertise other people's products.

If you already have a Web site or a blog, look for vendors that offer related but non-competing products and see if they have an affiliate program. Stick to familiar products and brands - they're easier to sell. To promote those products:

• Place simple text or graphical ads in appropriate places on your site


• Include links to purchase products you review or recommend in a blog, discussion forum or mailing list you control


• Create a dedicated sales page or Web site to promote a particular product

They all work - it just depends on how much time you have to spend on it and your level of expertise with Web design and marketing. Related: How to Really Make Money on the Internet With an Amazon.com Affiliate Site

Microstock photography.

You don't have to be a professional photographer to sell your photos for money. People are constantly in need of stock photography for websites, presentations, brochures and so on, and are willing to pay for the right image. People generally search for images on stock photography sites by keywords, not by photographer, so you have the same chance as anyone else of having your image picked. Just be careful that you don't have images of trademarked brands, copyrighted art or people's faces that are readily identifiable (unless you have a model release), but just about anything else is fair game, and I promise - you'd be amazed what people need pictures of, so don't make any assumptions. If it's a decent photo, upload it. Some sites to get you started include Fotolia, ShutterStock, Dreamstime and iStockphoto. The great thing about this is that it's truly "set it and forget it".

The above list is by no means comprehensive, but it highlights some of the new and interesting ways to make money online without investing any money, without having a product of your own, and without having expert sales and marketing skills. Most of all, unlike taking surveys or getting paid to read e-mail, the potential return on your time investment is substantial.

Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided. So, rather than charging $400 an hour to give advice on the subject, I thought it would be valuable to share many of the most common pieces of advice here on the blog (business part of Rand fights with open source Rand, but loses, as usual).

1. Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)
   
   The right blog CMS makes a big difference. If you want to set yourself apart, I recommend creating a custom blog solution - one that can be completely customized to your users. In most cases, WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Typepad will suffice, but building from scratch allows you to be very creative with functionality and formatting. The best CMS is something that's easy for the writer(s) to use and brings together the features that allow the blog to flourish. Think about how you want comments, archiving, sub-pages, categorization, multiple feeds and user accounts to operate in order to narrow down your choices. OpenSourceCMS is a very good tool to help you select a software if you go that route.
   
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2. Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain
   
   Hosting your blog on a different domain from your primary site is one of the worst mistakes you can make. A blog on your domain can attract links, attention, publicity, trust and search rankings - by keeping the blog on a separate domain, you shoot yourself in the foot. From worst to best, your options are - Hosted (on a solution like Blogspot or Wordpress), on a unique domain (at least you can 301 it in the future), on a subdomain (these can be treated as unique from the primary domain by the engines) and as a sub-section of the primary domain (in a subfolder or page - this is the best solution).
   
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3. Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
   
   First and foremost, you're writing a title tag for the people who will visit your site or have a subscription to your feed. Title tags that are short, snappy, on-topic and catchy are imperative. You also want to think about search engines when you title your posts, since the engines can help to drive traffic to your blog. A great way to do this is to write the post and the title first, then run a few searches at Overture, WordTracker & KeywordDiscovery to see if there is a phrasing or ordering that can better help you to target "searched for" terms.
   
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4. Participate at Related Forums & Blogs
   
   Whatever industry or niche you're in, there are bloggers, forums and an online community that's already active. Depending on the specificity of your focus, you may need to think one or two levels broader than your own content to find a large community, but with the size of the participatory web today, even the highly specialized content areas receive attention. A great way to find out who these people are is to use Technorati to conduct searches, then sort by number of links (authority). Del.icio.us tags are also very useful in this process, as are straight searches at the engines (Ask.com's blog search in particular is of very good quality).
   
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5. Tag Your Content
   
   Technorati is the first place that you should be tagging posts. I actually recommend having the tags right on your page, pointing to the Technorati searches that you're targeting. There are other good places to ping - del.icio.us and Flickr being the two most obvious (the only other one is Blogmarks, which is much smaller). Tagging content can also be valuable to help give you a "bump" towards getting traffic from big sites like Reddit, Digg & StumbleUpon (which requires that you download the toolbar, but trust me - it's worth it). You DO NOT want to submit every post to these sites, but that one out of twenty (see tactic #18) is worth your while.
   
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6. Launch Without Comments (and Add Them Later)
   
   There's something sad about a blog with 0 comments on every post. It feels dead, empty and unpopular. Luckily, there's an easy solution - don't offer the ability to post comments on the blog and no one will know that you only get 20 uniques a day. Once you're upwards of 100 RSS subscribers and/or 750 unique visitors per day, you can open up the comments and see light activity. Comments are often how tech-savvy new visitors judge the popularity of a site (and thus, its worth), so play to your strengths and keep your obscurity private.
   
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7. Don't Jump on the Bandwagon
   
   Some memes are worthy of being talked about by every blogger in the space, but most aren't. Just because there's huge news in your industry or niche DOES NOT mean you need to be covering it, or even mentioning it (though it can be valuable to link to it as an aside, just to integrate a shared experience into your unique content). Many of the best blogs online DO talk about the big trends - this is because they're already popular, established and are counted on to be a source of news for the community. If you're launching a new blog, you need to show people in your space that you can offer something unique, different and valuable - not just the same story from your point of view. This is less important in spaces where there are very few bloggers and little online coverage and much more in spaces that are overwhelmed with blogs (like search, or anything else tech-related).
   
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8. Link Intelligently
   
   When you link out in your blog posts, use convention where applicable and creativity when warranted, but be aware of how the links you serve are part of the content you provide. Not every issue you discuss or site you mention needs a link, but there's a fine line between overlinking and underlinking. The best advice I can give is to think of the post from the standpoint of a relatively uninformed reader. If you mention Wikipedia, everyone is familiar and no link is required. If you mention a specific page at Wikipedia, a link is necessary and important. Also, be aware that quoting other bloggers or online sources (or even discussing their ideas) without linking to them is considered bad etiquette and can earn you scorn that could cost you links from those sources in the future. It's almost always better to be over-generous with links than under-generous. And link condoms? Only use them when you're linking to something you find truly distasteful or have serious apprehension about.
   
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9. Invite Guest Bloggers
   
   Asking a well known personality in your niche to contribute a short blog on their subject of expertise is a great way to grow the value and reach of your blog. You not only flatter the person by acknowledging their celebrity, you nearly guarantee yourself a link or at least an association with a brand that can earn you readers. Just be sure that you really are getting a quality post from someone that's as close to universally popular and admired as possible (unless you want to start playing the drama linkbait game, which I personally abhor). If you're already somewhat popular, it can often be valuable to look outside your space and bring in guest authors who have a very unique angle or subject matter to help spice up your focus. One note about guest bloggers - make sure they agree to have their work edited by you before it's posted. A disagreement on this subject after the fact can have negative ramifications.
   
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10. Eschew Advertising (Until You're Popular)
    
    I hate AdSense on blogs. Usually, I ignore it, but I also cast a sharp eye towards the quality of the posts and professionalism of the content when I see AdSense. That's not to say that contextual advertising can't work well in some blogs, but it needs to be well integrated into the design and layout to help defer criticism. Don't get me wrong - it's unfair to judge a blog by its cover (or, in this case, its ads), but spend a lot of time surfing blogs and you'll have the same impression - low quality blogs run AdSense and many high quality ones don't. I always recommend that whether personal or professional, you wait until your blog has achieved a level of success before you start advertising. Ads, whether they're sponsorships, banners, contextual or other, tend to have a direct, negative impact on the number of readers who subscribe, add to favorites and link - you definitely don't want that limitation while you're still trying to get established.
    
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11. Go Beyond Text in Your Posts
    
    Blogs that contain nothing but line after line of text are more difficult to read and less consistently interesting than those that offer images, interactive elements, the occasional multimedia content and some clever charts & graphs. Even if you're having a tough time with non-text content, think about how you can format the text using blockquotes, indentation, bullet points, etc. to create a more visually appealing and digestible block of content.
    
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12. Cover Topics that Need Attention
    
    In every niche, there are certain topics and questions that are frequently asked or pondered, but rarely have definitive answers. While this recommendation applies to nearly every content-based site, it's particularly easy to leverage with a blog. If everyone in the online Nascar forums is wondering about the components and cost of an average Nascar vehicle - give it to them. If the online stock trading industry is rife with questions about the best performing stocks after a terrorist threat, your path is clear. Spend the time and effort to research, document and deliver and you're virtually guaranteed link-worthy content that will attract new visitors and subscribers.
    
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13. Pay Attention to Your Analytics
    
    Visitor tracking software can tell you which posts your audience likes best, which ones don't get viewed and how the search engines are delivering traffic. Use these clues to react and improve your strategies. Feedburner is great for RSS and I'm a personal fan of Indextools. Consider adding action tracking to your blog, so you can see what sources of traffic are bringing the best quality visitors (in terms of time spent on the site, # of page views, etc). I particularly like having the "register" link tagged for analytics so I can see what percentage of visitors from each source is interested enough to want to leave a comment or create an account.
    
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14. Use a Human Voice
    
    Charisma is a valuable quality, both online and off. Through a blog, it's most often judged by the voice you present to your users. People like empathy, compassion, authority and honesty. Keep these in the forefront of your mind when writing and you'll be in a good position to succeed. It's also critical that you maintain a level of humility in your blogging and stick to your roots. When users start to feel that a blog is taking itself too seriously or losing the characteristics that made it unique, they start to seek new places for content. We've certainly made mistakes (even recently) that have cost us some fans - be cautious to control not only what you say, but how you say it. Lastly - if there's a hot button issue that has you posting emotionally, temper it by letting the post sit in draft mode for an hour or two, re-reading it and considering any revisions. With the advent of feeds, once you publish, there's no going back.
    
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15. Archive Effectively
    
    The best archives are carefully organized into subjects and date ranges. For search traffic (particularly long tail terms), it can be best to offer the full content of every post in a category on the archive pages, but from a usability standpoint, just linking to each post is far better (possibly with a very short snippet). Balance these two issues and make the decision based on your goals. A last note on archiving - pagination in blogging can be harmful to search traffic, rather than beneficial (as you provide constantly changing, duplicate content pages). Pagination is great for users who scroll to the bottom and want to see more, though, so consider putting a "noindex" in the meta tag or in the robots.txt file to keep spiders where they belong - in the well-organized archive system.
    
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    The best URL structure for blogs is, in my opinion, as short as possible while still containing enough information to make an educated guess about the content you'll find on the page. I don't like the 10 hyphen, lengthy blog titles that are the byproduct of many CMS plugins, but they are certainly better than any dynamic parameters in the URL. Yes - I know I'm not walking the talk here, and hopefully it's something we can fix in the near future. To those who say that one dynamic parameter in the URL doesn't hurt, I'd take issue - just re-writing a ?ID=450 to /450 has improved search traffic considerably on several blogs we've worked with.
    
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    The blogosphere is in love with the idea of an open source world on the web. Sharing vast stores of what might ordinarily be considered private information is the rule, rather than the exception. If you can offer content that's usually private - trade secrets, pricing, contract issues, and even the occasional harmless rumor, your blog can benefit. Make a decision about what's off-limits and how far you can go and then push right up to that limit in order to see the best possible effects. Your community will reward you with links and traffic.
    
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    Not every post is worthy of making it to the top of Digg, Del.icio.us/popular or even a mention at some other blogs in your space. Trying to over-market every post you write will result in pushback and ultimately lead to negative opinions about your efforts. The less popular your blog is, the harder it will be to build excitement around a post, but the process of linkbait has always been trial and error - build, test, refine and re-build. Keep creating great ideas and bolstering them with lots of solid, everyday content and you'll eventually be big enough to where one out of every 20-40 posts really does become linkbait.
    
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    If you do have linkbait, whether by design or by accident, make sure to capitalize. When you hit the front page of Digg, Reddit, Boing Boing, or, on a smaller scale, attract a couple hundred visitors from a bigger blog or site in your space, you need to put your best foot forward. Make sure to follow up on a high traffic time period with 2-3 high quality posts that show off your skills as a writer, your depth of understanding and let visitors know that this is content they should be sticking around to see more of. Nothing kills the potential linkbait "bump" faster than a blog whose content doesn't update for 48 hours after they've received a huge influx of visitors.
    
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    When you're writing for your audience, your content focus, post timing and areas of interest will all become associated with your personal style. If you vary widely from that style, you risk alienating folks who've come to know you and rely on you for specific data. Thus, if you build a blog around the idea of being an analytical expert in your field, don't ignore the latest release of industry figures only to chat about an emotional issue - deliver what your readers expect of you and crunch the numbers. This applies equally well to post frequency - if your blog regularly churns out 2 posts a day, having two weeks with only 4 posts is going to have an adverse impact on traffic. That's not to say you can't take a vacation, but you need to schedule it wisely and be prepared to lose RSS subscribers and regulars. It's not fair, but it's the truth. We lose visitors every time I attend an SES conference and drop to one post every two days (note - guest bloggers and time-release posts can help here, too).
    
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21. Build a Brand
    
    Possibly one of the most important aspects of all in blogging is brand-building. As Zefrank noted, to be a great brand, you need to be a brand that people want to associate themselves with and a brand that people feel they derive value from being a member. Exclusivity, insider jokes, emails with regulars, the occasional cat post and references to your previous experiences can be off putting for new readers, but they're solid gold for keeping your loyal base feeling good about their brand experience with you. Be careful to stick to your brand - once you have a definition that people like and are comfortable with, it's very hard to break that mold without severe repercussions. If you're building a new blog, or building a low-traffic one, I highly recommend writing down the goals of your brand and the attributes of its identity to help remind you as you write.

how to increase traffic to your blog

1. Search engine optimization is about ways to get your website to the top of search engines. This cannot be stressed enough. You can do this by generating useful content like articles and blogs, by social networking and the development of multimedia. This sounds easy but it’s a lot of hard work. Still, you can also strategically spread your content in different websites while keeping your target niche in mind.
   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   


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   • Creating content that is helpful and useful. Simply cobbling together information from another website will not generate traffic. You need to offer visitors the information they need to achieve a goal, solve a problem, be entertained, find out quality news or have a good laugh.
   
   
   • Keep it fresh. For repeat visits, it is crucial to provide regular updates to the website, especially in frequently viewed zones. Add fresh content every few days if possible; at a minimum, weekly.
   
   
   • To have a fully functioning and successful website, you need to make sure your tags are in place and your links are not broken. You also need to submit a sitemap.xml file to Google to have your website show up in Google's search engines. There is a tool that inspects websites just in case you missed tags and links and it creates a free sitemap.xml file. It gives you results in minutes.
   
   
   • Outsource article writing. If you hate the thought of generating content yourself, or your team is not writing-savvy, consider outsourcing this end of the task. Depending on the length, content, specialization and quality required, prices can start as low as US$5 per article. However, don't neglect attempting to write your own work - who better than you knows your own business, hobby or club and can express precisely what needs to be said? Just sit down and start writing an article. You may be impressed when you're done!
   
   
   • Add video to your landing pages (VLP - Video Landing Page) that is informative and relevant to your site. Respected studies show that good video can improve conversions and page ranking more than most any other item you can add to your pages.
   
   
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   • Get a proofreader. Poor spelling and grammar reflect badly on the services and information being provided; avoid unwarranted negative judgments by getting the writing in order prior to publication online.
   
   
   • Avoid content generators. While these were once the delight of a fledgling web industry, they are no longer useful. Putting your own team's creativity online is what is useful.
   
   
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   Improve your search engine ranking by focusing your content on keywords related to your topic. This is called search engine optimization and will help people find your website when they're searching the Web. Make sure the keywords flow naturally with the text and when you are brainstorming for good words, ask around for words that come naturally to people of all ages when looking for your type of site. To help you understand better, realize that the keywords not only go into headings and page names but also into "meta tags". "Meta tags" are the software code that website visitors do not see but search engines do. Finally, don't overdo the keywords; over-stuffing keywords will result in a very low search ranking for your website. Also, be very careful not to place key text inside graphics; search engines cannot pick up graphics.


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   Get linked. This is a very important part of website management. Exchange links. Trading links with other websites that are closely related to the subject of your website can bring you more website traffic. These are two-way links because you must provide a link to them, too, and linking to low-quality websites can threaten the credibility of yours. Only link to sites that are dead on topic, and truly help your visitors. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc.
   
   
   
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   • If you have money - consider pay per click. The big search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft provide schemes. But find out first how to limit your expenditure to the level you want.
   
   
   • Use e-zines. Make your own that relate to your website and form a regular reminder each issue for people to visit your website. Submit all the free e-zine directories on the internet.
   
   
   • Submit your articles to e-zines, websites and writing sites that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article. This is a good way to create one-way backlinks to your website. This is the most effective way to get listed on any search engine. Usually, the more relevant links you have pointing to your site the higher you will rank.
   
   
   • Go beyond the electronic medium and into the print medium. Advertise in local newspapers, business brochures, magazines, nationwide publications and mail-drop literature. And don't forget the perennial favorite, the good old Yellow Pages™ - printed version naturally!
   
   
   • Small business cards left in cafés, on signboards, exchanged at meetings etc.
   
   
   • Use local resources such as clubs, libraries and community centers for non-profit website awareness raising.
   
   
   • Participate on message boards. Post answers to other people's questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file containing your website's URL at the end of all your postings.
   
   
   • Start your own online discussion community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community, they will regularly return to communicate with others.
   
   
   • Use word of mouth. Tell everyone you know about your website, give out business cards to passers-by in the street, and so on. You might even want to run a guerrilla marketing program!
   
   
   • Use your car, especially if your website is area-specific (e.g. a website detailing local events or selling local services). Get some vinyl decals or bumper stickers created and turn your car into a moving advertisement, literally driving traffic to your web site!
   
   
   
   


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   Give freebies. Who doesn't like a freebie?! Online freebies are commonplace and they leave the visitor wanting more when they are well written and informative introductory materials. Consider such freebies as:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   • Giving away an eBook with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This'll increase your ad exposure and increase web traffic to your website at the same time;
   
   
   • Holding free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your website's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your website. You will become known as an expert on the topic.
   
   
   • Giving visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results.
   
   
   • Letting visitors download free software such as freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away.
   
   
   • Targeting specific groups who might worry about using the internet with free classes in using it on your site - senior citizens, busy workers etc. might find these convenient and alluring.
   
   
   • Offering free online services or utilities from your website. For instance, they could be search engine submitting, copywriting, proofreading etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience.
   
   
   • Giving free consulting to people who visit your website. You could offer your knowledge via e-mail or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive.
   
   
   • Offering a free start-up package that has a finite time; enough time for the customer to practice with your online product and like it enough to pay for continued use.
   
   
   • Sending out free CD-Roms, CDs, DVDs etc. that contain starter packs or teasers to encourage the customer to use your site more.
   
   
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   • Balance will not only make your page more visually appealing, but it will make your page easier to read and items easier to find. A good object will help the objects on your page flow.
   
   
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