In this edition to OK to Make Money Online, getting your site or blog indexed in the Google search engine is our main task. No one can guarantee that Google will index your site but if we following the practices used online we will have a good chance to getting you indexed.

So, look at the best practices outlined so far:

1) A proper Blogger account or domain name has been set up and Blogger, Wordpress or Joomla is your blog software.

2) Make sure your long tail keywords are in your title and first paragraphs.

3) You have made a proper About Page that includes your keyword(s).

4) Using Google’s Privacy Page example, you have modified it and posted the page.

5) Make sure your sitemap is installed and has the right links to your site and Google logged no errors.

6) You have written at least two or more original articles and posted them on you site.

7) You have 10 tags for each article you have created.
When using WordPress, you have multiple categories.

9) You have installed your Technorati link and claimed your site.

Getting indexed in the Google search engine is our next task. If you are not indexed, it will be very difficult for someone to find you using the Google search engine. So how are you indexed? After you have polished up your Blog and have registered with Adsense it’s time to get you indexed.

Remember that Adsense account we just created in “Make Money - Adsense”? Log in to that account and click on the “Resources” tab. On this page, under References, find the “Webmaster guidelines” and click it. On the next page, about half way down the middle column will be “When your site is ready” and under the title you will see a hyperlink to addurl.html. Click on this link.

On the page titled “Add your URL to Google,” enter your blog’s URL, making sure to add a comment and your keyword. Next, enter the squiggly letters and press the “Add URL” button. Don’t worry, if you get the squiggly letters wrong just re-enter the text when the screen is redisplayed.

Google will display a confirmation message to notify you that you did everything correctly. Now be patient and wait for the GoogleBot to crawl your new site. Meanwhile, get started writing and posting your next article.

Next time on OK to Make Money online we will look at SEO for your blog.

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If you’re like many others, you’ve most likely shifted to getting your news from online sources .The problem is, there is tons of information available online and navigating all of the different news sites you like may be difficult. If this is the case, you may be interested in a way to simplify your news gathering process. Luckily, there are solutions tailored for just this problem.

Many people have several sites (such as news sites and blogs) that they visit regularly. These pages often have frequent updates, making it necessarily to keep checking back to see if any new updates have been posted. Unfortunately, this quickly becomes tedious. It’s much more convenient to be automatically notified of any new updates. This is RSS’s role.

RSS, also known as really simple syndication, allows a site to publish feeds. Feeds consist of a stream of updates made to a site that are published in XML, a language easily read by machines. With RSS, you can subscribe to a number of sites in order to browse headlines, descriptions, and other information from all of your favorite news sites in one place, so that you can pick and choose which you want to fully read.

The beauty of this is that you can stay on top of a very large number of news sources from one place and you do not have to worry about forgetting a source. You simply add the address of your site to your feed reader and it will aggregate all the news for you. Many options exist in terms of feed readers and you can either pick a piece of software you install on your computer or you can use a web-based reader.

If you publish comment you will also want to learn how to publish your feed so that your audience can stay on top of your site. Most modern blogging software will provide you with the needed extensions to publish your feed. Little or no work should be required on your end besides simply enabling this functionality.

The information overload is a very serious and genuine problem. Aggregating your news like this can assist you greatly in managing the information overload as it will allow you in receiving the news you care about at one place and you can scan your incoming news very quickly for the articles you want to explore in greater details.

It seems that more people are spending more time online each day. The Internet has become not only a great resource for finding information, but with instant messaging and message boards, its also a fun way to pass the time.

The internet has opened new ways to make a few extra bucks. Some people quit their day job to pursue an internet home business, as others fill out quick surveys on the side while they have some free time. There are many websites that have sprouted out on to the internet promising you money for your time spent filling out surveys.

The internet has created many great websites allowing for people to make money online. However, on the other hand, the internet also has created many shady websites allowing for people to scam unsuspecting patrons.

If it sounds too good too be true, then it may in fact be. Do not give up on making money on the internet altogether. There are many honest websites out there wanting to pay you for your time on filling out surveys. The key here is to read the fine print and to take your time before signing up for any website.

Follow your gut instinct, if a website doesn’t seem to honest or too shady, look into it more. There are ways you can find out about a specific website to see what other people have experienced with the site. Do a search in Google about a site’s review. When a site asks for you to put money up front, this is a sign for you to do your research. Make sure you know what you are paying for and how they intend to make you more money than you invest.

It is best to stick with sites that do not has for a credit card number or for any money upfront. This way you really don’t have much to lose except for your time. Join sites that ask only for your name, email address, and anything else not as invasive. There are many sites like these that do make an honest living paying people for their time filling out surveys.

You may be asking, why would a website pay you to fill out a survey? Well, the answer is simple, companies are paying the website to get their surveys filled out. This information is important for companies to figure out which demographic to target and to project the success of a product. The money the company pays out the website is then brought down to you, the one filling out the survey.

Then this survey will be administered to individuals who fit the companys profile of a potential customer for their product or service. As an incentive to take the surveys, some form of reward is offered. Some of the paid online surveys offer money or gift certificates.

Finding the right paid online survey website is fairly simple. It just takes some time and effort going through search engines searching for them and through forums to find out which ones people are raving about and which ones are a must avoid.

Paid online surveys can definitely earn you some extra pocket money to go out to dinner or to a movie, but is not a way to quit your day job. Nonetheless, it is a simple and easy way to make some extra cash on the side.

Swimming is a summertime activity that children and adults look forward to alike. To get into the pool you need to have a swimsuit.

A Swimsuit is the slice of fashion that is purposely fabricated with textiles that are made to stand up to chlorinated water.

Typically, a ladies swimsuit is formfitting and designed to cover the body in some of the more private areas.

There are some different modes of swimsuits which women may take from. possibly the most common is the one-part swimsuit.

This is a suit that is all in one piece so that it covers a ladies midsection as well. Another type of ladies swimsuit is the bikini. This is a two-piece suit that has a bottom and a top that are not attached in any way.

The new evolution in the swimsuit is the tankini. The tankini is a two-part suit, but the upper is a tank top so that it coats more of the women midsection.

A men’s swimsuit is also existing in a pair of styles. A speedo or thong swimsuit is more form fitting outfit that coats only the guy’s lower spot.

Another style is the trunk style. This swimsuit basically looks like a pair of shorts. This silhouette is far less formfitting, but it is just as comfortable.

The best free email servers will not count spam or deleted messages in the amount and should offer you at least 100MB of storage for it to be worth your time. There are, though, free email servers available that are offering as much as 1GB of space. That should be plenty for virtually anything you would need to do via email.

Search for a great free or paid information product to sell and get them. You now get the idea of where I’m driving at-Information Product Marketing. There are many free products you can get online.

You can also use a roundabout method of finding old friends, as well. Let’s say that you have an old email address that you know isn’t valid any longer.

Finally, if the person you are looking for is attending school, they likely have a secondary email address through their college, university or maybe even their high school. Check the school website for an email directory and you may be able to contact them through that address.

Many of us have been scammed at one time or another and, well, no one likes it. It often leads to skepticism when you are looking into something new and examining the possibilities. This is definitely the case online these days as it should be. There are so many websites and ads that you come across with get rich quick claims.

You can use Sendfree and sign up for a month free trial to get the full autoresponder feature. Then create some sales letter messages and load them in the new autoresponder and space them 2 to 3 days apart.

The probability that your mail will be read is higher compared to other mails that boasts of every detail in their subject lines and mail body. Give simple details, offer the advantages and be direct in the most possible way. Of course, do not forget to put a commanding line in your message. It is one of the oldest and most useful ways to lure customers to your business

No matter how organized we try to be, there comes a time when we lose our little black book or we have our online address book deleted. We may drop our personal organizer in the bathtub or we may forget to take our hand written version out of our pants pocket before we wash our pants.

Stand-alone filters are by far the most extensively used spam filters for client-based mails, as they not only offer the best spam removal rates, but also do not require the user to alter or switch the email clients.

Secondly, when choosing the best free email server available on the internet, look for storage. Storage, generally measured by bytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, is the total amount of information your email can hold at any time.

show the country’s economic slowdown is entering a new and more serious phase, exacerbating the global slump while jolting Chinese companies and workers used to years of soaring sales and salaries.

The surprising reversal adds to concerns over whether the Chinese economy - on track to surpass Germany this year as the world’s third-largest and the only one in the top tier still expanding - can help support growth and stave off deeper financial pain elsewhere around the world. [china economy] Associated Press

Fervor for electronic devices is fading in China’s once-dynamic market.

China’s customs agency said Wednesday that November’s exports fell 2.2% from a year earlier, the first decline since June 2001. That marked a major shift from a 19.2% gain in October and a nearly 26% rise in 2007.

Imports suffered an even steeper drop, down 17.9% in November from a year earlier. They had risen 15.6% in October and more than 20% last year. The import figure signals weakness in domestic consumption, bad news for companies that export to China, and also falling demand for manufacturing components - which spells trouble for China’s future exports as well.

Chinese producers of low-end goods such as toys and textiles have been struggling all year. But now, sales of higher-end machinery and electronics are declining as the U.S. economy has deteriorated sharply.

China is the third-largest export market for the U.S., and has been a major buyer of commodities. But its imports of iron ore fell 7.9% in November. Crude oil imports were down 1.8% to their lowest level this year, contributing to weakening global oil demand.

“The most striking real economic fact of the past several months is not continued U.S. economic weakness, but that China’s economy has slowed much more quickly than anyone had forecast,” Australia’s central bank Governor Glenn Stevens said this week. [On the Decline charts] Stimulus Package

China’s leaders last month announced a 4 trillion yuan ($584 billion) stimulus package, and on Wednesday wrapped up an annual economic-policy conference by reaffirming their determination to support growth by any means available. But some economists think China could be entering a sustained period of falling export orders, with the U.S., European and Japanese economies all now contracting. The World Bank expects the volume of global trade to shrink in 2009 for the first time since 1982.

That poses an especially difficult transition for Chinese firms and consumers. In the coastal city of Yuyao, Ningbo Wanglong Group says that years of rapid expansion have made it one of the world’s largest producers of preservatives for food and feed. But export orders have declined rapidly since September.

“We’ve never experienced this before. We don’t know what happened,” said Zhou Hong, a sales manager. He said shipments to overseas distributors have plunged by roughly 50% to 60% in recent months. The company hasn’t yet laid off any of its 1,500 employees, but has had to halve production and offer clients discounts of around 50%. “So far we don’t know what else we can do,” Mr. Zhou said.

China’s economy is slowing particularly sharply because the export decline is combining with slackening domestic demand. Housing sales have dropped and prices are declining in most major cities. New construction has dried up, which saps demand for steel, cement and copper.

Consumers are holding off on other big purchases: Car sales dropped 10.3% from a year earlier in November, the third monthly decline this year.

Many economists are forecasting China’s economic growth to slow to around 7.5% next year, which is below the government’s traditional 8% target and would be the lowest since 1999. Growth this year is likely to average just over 9%, ending five straight years of double-digit gains.

Economists’ worst-case scenarios for China involve a quarter or two of growth around 5% next year, far from the outright contractions typically associated with a recession in the U.S. and other advanced economies. But it does looks like China is headed for what some economists call a “growth recession,” a period of weak expansion and rising unemployment.

The slowdown is translating into fewer jobs, and increasing strains between workers and employers. China doesn’t publish reliable data on unemployment; few economists take seriously the official jobless rate of 4%. But there have been growing numbers of layoffs and factory closures. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers have returned to their hometowns to wait out the slowdown. Zhou Tianyong, an economist at the Central Party School, a Communist Party institute in Beijing, estimates that the actual unemployment rate this year is around 12% and could rise to 14% next year. [China Economy photo] AFP

China’s economic slowdown is manifesting itself in fewer jobs, growing numbers of layoffs and factory closures, and concerns about widening social unrest.

For most of Geely Group’s short history as an auto maker, its biggest challenge was figuring out ways to expand quickly enough to meet exploding demand from China’s increasingly affluent middle class. Now Geely managers are negotiating an abrupt U-turn.

Zhang Xiaodong, a company spokesman, said Geely has suspended plans to start mass production of a sports car and halted development of two large sedans. Geely’s sales were down 6% in October and up 1% for the first ten months of the year, after growing more than 40% in 2005 and 2006 and 7% last year. Survival Rate

Yale Zhang, a Shanghai-based auto analyst with CSM Worldwide, said China’s auto makers “are used to a high-growth environment. They don’t know how to survive at a single-digit growth rate.”

Although the slowdown is taking the sharpest toll on low-paid manufacturing workers, it’s also spreading concern among prosperous white-collar families. Well-educated urbanites have been able to hop from job to job in recent years, extracting steep raises once a year or more. Average urban incomes are up 14.7% so far in 2008, the seventh straight year of double-digit gains.

Li Hua, a 31-year-old human-resources executive with a Shanghai sports retailer, says she used to get calls from headhunters almost weekly. She changed jobs twice in the last few years. But in October, the job market started to change. Her own company canceled its recruitment plans, and a friend got laid off from a new job with little severance.

“Now what I’m thinking is to just work hard. No complaints, no asking for a raise,” said Ms. Li. “We should all feel lucky we still have a job and are doing fine.”

When the Stun-Gun was discovered in 1974, most law enforcement departements and civilians have started using them as self defense tools. Stun-Guns are coming in different shapes and sizes but all of them cause the same effect, a high voltage electroshock that neutralizes an attack without causing death or severy injury to the attacker.

When taking self defense tools into considerations, knives and firearms are what comes to mind to most people but you should consider that these weapons can be used against you too when thay are captured by an attacker. Non-Lethal self defense tools like a stun gun however will not cause severe injury or death.

How does the law look upon Stun-Guns for Self-Defense ?

In states like New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Hawaii the use of Stun-Guns by non-police and non-military personnel is completely illegal but the laws regarding stun-guns and other non-lethal devices are constantly changing. In some states the law regulates the types of stun-guns that are considered to be legal. When you are thinking about buying a stun-gun make sure to consult your local laws because even if they are allowed in your state it is very possible that your city doesn’t allow them unless you are a police officer

Many stated don’t allow you to own or use a stun-gun if you are a convited criminal or when you are under 18

How does a stun gun work ?

Stun guns work as a tool for self-defense by incapacitating the person receiving the shock. By using a high amount of volts in combination with a low amount of amps, stun guns send massive amounts of energy into a persons muscles, immediately converting blood sugar into lactic acid, which locks up the muscles of the person receiving the blast from the stun gun. Once the attacker has been incapacitated, the victim is able to flee and seek safety. As a self-defense tool, stun guns are not designed to be used for prolonged exposure, which can be risky for the person receiving the shock.

The Different Types of Stun-Guns that can be used for Self-Defense

Stun guns can refer to a variety of electroshock weapons, including tasers and cattle prods, but the conventional stun gun is the type most readily available to ordinary citizens looking to purchase items for use as self-defense tools such as stun guns. Conventional or standard stun guns are usually pocket-sized and powered by a simple, nine-volt battery. A series of tiny transformers increases the voltage in the current, which can run up to 150,000 volts.

In order to employ a stun gun for use as a self-defense tool, the victim needs only to touch both prongs of the device anywhere on the attacker. Parts of the body most sensitive to electroshock include the upper shoulder, below the rib cage, and the upper hip. Even if the attacker is touching another person, such as his victim, the shock is restricted to the person on whom the prongs of the stun gun are directly placed.

Once the attacker receives the shock from the stun gun, he cannot help but fall to his knees. The attacker is thus disabled for up to five minutes, yet suffers no permanent damage or serious injury, meaning he cannot usually come back and sue the victim for using undue force, as long as the stun gun was used legally, yet another reason why stun guns are viable for use as self-defense tools in many cases.

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The way to bodily fitness is the length of one which indispensable work. Fitness Equipment can support you on that method by make available brilliant plus effectual ways for you to act out. Diversity is key in every perform out strategy plus by utilizing plentiful of the unquestionable Fitness Equipment which is on the market you afford be sure to acquire yourself into the top shape probably.

above all, Fitness Equipment afford be something that you use in your exercise scheduled conversely, there are definitely more than a few pieces of Fitness Equipment that are more famous than others.

Perhaps one of the generally identifiable pieces of equipment is a treadmill.

by a treadmill, you are shall run or walk for miles though within the comfort of your own home. Treadmills also permit you to adjust the settings to raise the difficulty of your walk or run. a new fantastic piece of Fitness Equipment is a weight lifting bench. These are very useful for you to tone up your body when using it in conjunction with free weights. With a weight bench, you can control it to help yourself act several styles of weight lifting training.

Perhaps the newest addition to the list of popular fitness equipment are instability balls. These balls will help you challenge your core by requiring you to maintain your balance while you are performing a certain exercise.

There are so many types of fitness equipment out there that it is truly just a matter of which one will help you in your workout. The important thing to remember is that with the help of your favorite fitness equipment you will be able to become the new you that you have dreamed about.

In era of a medical emergency, it is extremely common that a patient can need a blood transfusion. Actually, it will be a situation where the blood is actually a lifesaving source.

Have you ever known where the blood comes from? Well, in most issues that blood really comes from a blood bank.

A blood bank is where the blood that has been collected is stored. In many cases, there are outside agencies that actually do the collection of the blood. This is then transferred to the blood bank where it is held and stored until it is needed for a transfusion.

The blood that is typically held in a blood bank is technically called “whole blood.” This is basically blood that is not separated and actually treated with an FDA approved preservative. Once the blood is collected, the blood bank actually spins the blood so that it will separate.

So it is chemically cared so that it has a shelf existence of 42 days. Furthermore, the blood bank will also set the stockpiled blood through a viewing method to make sure that it is free of any virus or disorders. This can cause the patient plus their family great peace of mind during a moment that could be quite trying.

Apart from the chat rooms, instant messengers and electronic mails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the emerging innovations that help man build opportunities for interaction. The need for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological landscape of the Internet.

Blogs / weblogs or blogging are the newest gift of Internet technology to people all over the world. These are updated posts, crop up entries or personalized life snippets, of mundane or bizarre in nature. For most, a blog is a personal, unedited journal meant to be shared in an online community. A blog site is a place where bloggers can publish anything; his thoughts, feelings, photos, special events, experiences, comments on issues and so on. It is more of an online diary with videos, links, documents, newsletters and opinions on just about any topics you are interested.

Blogs are made to welcome the insights and opinions of all and therefore, should not be written to sound intimidating and too formal. This kind of blog is a sure way to put off your audience. In the basics of blogging, conversational tone would be more appropriate to reach the desired audience.

Blogging is all about individuals reaching out to other individuals. Having a blog has its own set of advantages:

* Freedom of Expression. If you want people to hear you out and give their own opinion, this is the best way to create a line of communication; * Networking is at its best. Having a blog is a good platform for exchanging genuine ideas from consumers to you as marketer of a certain product. Sound opinion and point of view is better than just showing the price quote; * Excellent advertising platform. Blogging is a new way to advertise products, a refreshing change from the traditional advertising outlets and it is cost-effective. * Gauging public opinion on products and services. The key is nice and catchy titles with new ideas presented in your content. This is an assurance of quick and repeated responses from your readers. Blogs is an excellent spot for the exchange of ideas between the seller and the consumer. Good for measuring public opinion regarding services and products, even political and business matters alike. * Useful tool for internal communication. This will help your company to build a knowledge-based community of employees. * Other benefits like search engine optimization (SEO) will help your blogs to be seen often by as many people as you wish. This is very good exposure for your products and services.

Many blog hosting services are available on the Internet. Which of the services will be the best to start off your business blog program? Business people are usually clueless to recent technological innovations which would help them maximize their marketing potentials. For these beginners, it is best to study first the services offered by blog hosts. An ineffective business blogging program may damage marketing opportunities instead of enriching them.

For business blogs, they are required to have the latest blogging features; if not, this will prevent them from maximizing their marketing, public relations and SEO potentials.

Keep in mind that blogs should have the following basic essentials:

COMMENTS. Welcoming comments provide opportunity for dialogue. In business blogs, they are a good customer feedback mechanism. This helps develop better customer relations based from loyalty and trust. Blogging is an innovative way to converse with your customers. TRACKBACK. This helps in maximizing company and product exposure. Through this service, consumers can get back to you for more posts and updates without the difficulty of locating you. If your blog is popular in a specific online community chances are links going back to your blog site are everywhere online, other blog sites or even websites. CATEGORIES AND TAGS. These both help in classifying blog searches for ease of navigation and on site search. Categories act as libraries because it classifies posts by subject matter such as business, distance learning, e-commerce, online auctions, etc. Tags, help in the classification, especially in the blog search engine Technorati. Possible customers and new clients locate blogs about certain topics of interest by just clicking the tags. RSS FEED. Really Simple Syndication is the feed from your blog that is sent out over the internet, and collected through the various newsreaders and aggregators.

If your company is to establish a business blogging program, considerable options should be made available by the hosting companies shortlisted for the services. Free blog hosting services are popular but they are much appropriate for individual online journals. Paid blog hosting services offer unlimited packages best for your companys needs. You may want to suggest checking out some blogs that use the host first, read and examine their layout and design. Another important thing to consider is a reliable technical support the host has.

After choosing the blog host, a team should be ready to plan the design and structure of the blog: The team should: * create a style that meets the needs of the audience; * establish an open tone; * schedule weekly updating of blog - ideally, a few times a week; * include weblinks of other website and blogs; * blog post should be in the first person; * focus on the business blog objective; and, * maintain an honest, engaging conversational quality.

Remember, whatever the look, style and content found on your blog is a reflection of you and your company.