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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Best SEO Strategy for Google Search Engine Rankings
Best SEO Strategy for Google Search Engine Rankingswhen we come to talk about search engine rankings, before anything else we want to rank on Google. The reasons for which are quite self explanatory, Google takes almost 47% traffic of the search engines and ranking on Google guarantees traffic.
The Old SEO Way's
Google has grown and so have their search engine ranking algorithms, gone are the days when one could spam their way to the top of the Google search engine rankings by you keyword stuffing, building outrageous amounts of links and so on. I am quite sure that most of the colleagues of the SEO fraternity are well aware of this.
So Where is SEO headed?
With complex search engine algorithms in place to bring up the most relevant webpage for a query, and a variety of spam detection techniques to keep the spammers at bay, Gaining top rankings on search engines has become increasingly difficult.
Difficult for those who have always followed the wrong path, and a boon for the one who have been taking SEO the ethical way. With my personal experience I can now say that search engines like Google, are giving a lot of weight-age to websites that serve good and ethical content and are built keeping the visitors interest in mind.
3 Golden Rules of SEO
For a brainteaser I would like to mention the terms which can be few pointers as to how you should conduct your search engine optimization.
I feel will use the sick concepts you can will conquer Google and as we all know the rest of the search engines will follow.
- A great navigation structure is one of the basic blocks of the search engine optimization array. It not only helps the search engines to collect information (index) from your website could also helps visitors to get to what they're looking for.
- LSI-based SEO content writing is the next building block, if he website and enough information on a topic that is no reason why a search engine will not give you the credit for it. Make sure that your content is unique and explains the topic properly. it is also important that the information on the website is frequently updated for the search engines to be the that it is not a redundant website and is being properly looked after.
- off page optimization basically involves creating a buzz of your website in your online community, which may involve link building, social media optimization, blogging, foruming, press release distribution etc. This helps a search engine to understand that you all your website belongs to the specific community, Thats how you can get a feather in your Cap.
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Obama reports income of $4.2 million in 2007 tax returns - Yahoo! News
Obama reports income of $4.2 million in 2007 tax returns - Yahoo! NewsPHILADELPHIA - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, made $4.2 million last year as widespread interest in the presidential candidate pushed the sales of his two books.
In tax returns the campaign released Wednesday, the Obamas reported a significant jump in their income from the previous year as profits from the books "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope" accounted for some $4 million. The Obamas paid federal taxes of $1.4 million and donated $240,370 to charity.
Their salaried income was $260,735, which included his $157,102 salary as a U.S. senator and hers of $103,633 as vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
For part of 2007, Michelle Obama collected a salary for serving on the board of Westchester, Ill.-based TreeHouse Foods Inc., which produces pickles, nondairy powdered creamer and other products. She resigned in May after two years on the board.
The position had generated some complaints because TreeHouse is a supplier to Wal-Mart, and Barack Obama has criticized some of Wal-Mart's policies and treatment of employees.
The Obamas reported $29,443 from Treehouse Foods.
In 2006, Obama and his wife reported income of $991,296. The sum included Obama's Senate salary of $157,082 and his wife's earnings of $273,618 from her position as an administrator at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle Obama also earned $51,200 in director's fees from TreeHouse Inc., a food distributor.
They paid $277,431 in federal taxes — an overpayment of $40,856, which they designated for estimated tax payments this year.
Among the charitable donations in 2007 was $26,270 to Trinity United Church of Christ, where the incendiary sermons of Obama's former pastor have created problems for the candidate. The Obamas' largest charitable donation was $50,000 to the United Negro College Fund. They also gave $35,000 to CARE.
The campaign released the returns just hours before a candidate debate with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
By comparison, Clinton and her husband, the former president, reported $20.4 million in income for 2007. Almost half the former first couple's money came from Bill Clinton's speeches. The Clintons made nearly $109 million since leaving the White House in 2001, capitalizing on lucrative business ventures and his speaking engagements.
Likely Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has not released his tax returns for 2007. McCain is routinely ranked among the richest senators, but a prenuptial agreement has kept most assets in his wife's name. As heiress to her father's stake in Phoenix-based Hensley & Co., a beer distributor, Cindy McCain is an executive whose worth may exceed $100 million.
The release of the returns comes as Obama has fought criticism that his comments about bitter voters in small towns smack of elitism. Campaigning in Indiana on Wednesday, Michelle Obama rejected that characterization, pointing out that the couple were fortunate enough to pay off their academic loans because of her husband's two books.
Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University, Michelle Obama from Princeton. Both attended Harvard Law School.
"I am a product of a working-class background, I am one of those folks who grew up in that struggle. That is the lens through which I see the world," Michelle Obama said, referring to her family that lived on the South side of Chicago on her father's city salary.
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