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Creating Killer Website Content - What You Need to Know
If you intend for your target market to become repeat visitors to your website, then your content must always be very attractive and alluring. There are plenty of things that can be done with your website if you continue to produce awesome content that your customers will find enjoyable. So, how does one go about creating awesome content? In this article, you will find plenty of things that you can use to help you.
Crystal Clear Navigation One of your priorities for your website's content should involve making your menu easy to navigate. Making things inconvenient for people to move around your site, will make it hard for people to find, read and like your materials. This is why this is the factor that you need to figure out before even starting to work on your content. You will lose your website visitors as opposed to their wasting time looking for content. Don't make it too hard to move around your website. Do this because you want your content to always be simple to navigate. For the sake of this article, let us state that your dog training website is going to be arranged by article category. Don't you think that a website that does not have a systematic menu will lose page views? Yes, it will. Do all that you can to help your visitors find what they are looking for.
Quality Is More Vital than Content Number: Just because you can write more and more articles, don't do it. When you're creating content for your website, quality should be your first priority. There are plenty of websites that push out articles after article when they are trying to get a large number of articles to make themselves look good. However, this is not the way to do things. Continue writing good articles if your goal is to get customers coming back over and over again. This is the way to get your clients to like you and also become more exposed at the same time. You may have a hard time believing this, but you do not have to put much effort into producing articles that are very good. You only have to know how to do the research, outline and organization of the project that is all.
Do not Copy the Work of Others: Although everyone knows that this should not be done, there are others that will not listen. Taking information from others kills your intention of creating original content. Not only will your customers not believe in your content, but neither will the search engines who rank your site.
If your content is awesome, you will discover that your visitors will acknowledge your call to action more readily. When your website's content is immaculate, you can really use your website to your benefit.
Hunt for double murder suspect spreads south - Crime - UK -
In a joint appeal, Cleveland and North Yorkshire police warned that Mr Allen, who is predominantly bald, is likely to try to change his appearance by growing his hair at the sides. He is described as 5ft 7in (1.74m),, and has tattoos on both arms.
Detectives also revealed that Mr Allen, originally from Blackpool has previous convictions for violence and has served a prison sentence. He is on court bail for a violent offence.
Sightings of Mr Allen have been reported across the Cleveland and North Yorkshire areas,, and he was said to have been spotted in Leeds on Thursday and Friday. His last confirmed location was when he stayed in a bed and breakfast in Scarborough on Wednesday night.
More than 100 detectives across the region are working on the case. Addressing the public, Detective Chief Superintendent Gordon Lang said yesterday: "Two innocent people have lost their lives, and it is absolutely vital that we catch James Allen as soon as possible. If you know where he is now, call us. James,, if you are reading this, give yourself up. It is only a matter of time before we find you."
Mr Allen knew Mr Dunford, who was last seen alive at 5pm on Sunday and was discovered bludgeoned to death at his home in Leven Street, Middlesbrough,, on Monday. Mr Allen lived next door to Mr Dunford until about a year ago. Detectives said there was no sign of forced entry to the home.
It is not thought Mr Allen knew Ms Davison, who was found dead by her sister in Whitby on Wednesday. She had suffered serious head injuries. Detectives said robbery was a possible motive for both attacks,, but they stressed that investigators were keeping an open mind.
Police warned members of the public not to approach Mr Allen, whom they described as "dangerous".
Det Ch Supt Lang added: "I would repeat our message in urging members of the public, if you see James Allen, to call 999 immediately."
The Best and Worst Jobs for 2012 - Forbes
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You may think you have the worst job in America, but unless you routinely work outdoors on the hottest and coldest days at constant risk of severe injury or death for very little pay, you shouldn’t complain.
The career guidance website has evaluated 200 professions across a wide variety of industries, skill levels and salary ranges to determine the best and worst jobs of 2012. To measure each job CareerCast used five core criteria: pay, outlook, work environment, stress and physical demands. It gathered data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, trade association studies and other sources.
CareerCast broke each category into elements and gave each element points. In the final result, a higher point total means a less desirable job,, and a lower score reflects a more desirable one.
Despite the risks,, low pay and adverse conditions of the worst jobs in America, desperate job-seekers are applying for any open position in these tough economic times. But they might want to think twice before trying to get some of these jobs, which can be not only physically draining but life-threatening.
Lumberjack ranks as the worst job of 2012, thanks to ��hazardous working conditions, a likelihood of breaking or losing a limb on the job, and poor hiring prospects because of low demand for lumber due to less construction,�� says Tony Lee,, publisher of CareerCast and its sister site, JobsRated.
Also known as loggers, lumberjacks typically harvest, cut and transport timber to be processed into lumber, paper and other wood products. Lumberjacks perform strenuous labor in hostile environments, and the work is often intermittent and low-paying. The profession, like others on the list, has a history of high unemployment. Midlevel pay for lumberjacks totals $32,114.
Dairy Farmer is the second worst job of 2012, followed by enlisted military personnel.
��Dairy farmers work outdoors in all weather conditions and all hours,, with very large animals that step on their feet and break limbs,�� Lee says. ��Plus, they compete with corporate dairy producers so earnings are down.��
Military personnel rank third because ��their lives are on the line, daily,�� Lee says. ��They are away from home for long stretches of time and with the draw-down, many are being pushed out of the military even though they want to make it a career.��
Oil rig worker, which was the worst job of 2011,, is now in the No. 4 spot. They put in long, brutal hours, often isolated from family and friends for weeks at a time.
Michael Pento - Pento's Page - Forbes
The prevailing notion among the main stream media and economists is that interest rates are rising because of improving economic growth. But like many of the readily accepted tenets of today’s world of popular finance, this too has its basis in fallacy.
Interest rates have increased by nearly 40 basis points on the Ten year note since the first week of March and that is being offered as proof that the economy has healed and GDP growth is about to accelerate. But in truth, the recent spike in Treasury bond yields is only the result of a temporary ebbing in the fear trade that brought about panic selling in Euro denominated debt, which had previously caused U.S. Treasury prices to soar.
The head of the European Central Bank, , just finished printing over a trillion Euros in an effort to calm the bond market. This new liquidity predictably found its way into distressed Eurozone debt and has mollified bond investors; for the moment. Since a Greek exit from the Euro in no longer perceived an imminent threat, investors have sold their recent purchases of U.S. Treasuries and piled back into Eurozone sovereign debt. For example, the yield on the Italian 10 year note took a roller coaster ride above 7% at the start of this year, before plunging south of 5% by the beginning of March.
However, in contrast to what passes for the economic wisdom of today, an increase in the rate of sovereign bond yields would be a function of deterioration in their credit, currency and inflation risks. But it would never be because of an increase in the prospects for growth. An economy that is experiencing a healthy growth spurt would experience a reduction in all three of those factors that would cause bond yields to rise. Strong GDP growth―which results from increased productivity–serves to improve credit risk, due to a bolstered tax base, while it also lowers the rate of inflation by increasing the amount of goods and services available for purchase. Therefore,, it also tends to boost the currency’s exchange rate as well.
Economic growth that is also accompanied by a sound monetary policy tends to lower the rate of inflation and thus increases the real rate of interest. But it does this without increasing nominal interest rates. It instead serves to provide a higher real rate of return on sovereign debt ownership.
This is precisely what occurred in the U.S. during the early 1980’s. After Fed Chairman Paul Volcker fought and won the battle against inflation, economic growth exploded while the stock market soared in value. And nominal bond prices began to fall, not rise. At the start of the 1908’s,, GDP fell by 0.3%,, the Ten year note was 12% and the rate of inflation was 14%. Therefore, real interest rates were a negative 2% at the start of that decade. But by 1984 GDP had accelerated to 7.2% in that year. However, the nominal Ten year note fell to 11% and inflation had plummeted down to 4%. In this classic example that illustrates clearly how growth isn’t inflationary; real interest rates soared by 9 percentage points to yield a positive 7% return on sovereign debt,! In a healthy economy; stocks, bond prices and the currency should all rise together as nominal yields fall and real interest rates rise. The simple truth is that the rate of inflation should fall faster than the rate nominal yields decrease.
However, what the Fed,, ECB and BOJ are doing now provides a prescription for soaring nominal interest rates in the not too distant future. These central banks are violating all three conditions that lead to low and stable interest rates for the long term. By massively increasing the money supply, they have caused inflation to rise and reduced the purchasing power of their currencies. And by creating superfluous money and credit, the central banks have given the cover needed for their respective governments to run up an overwhelming amount of debt. The currency, credit and inflation risk of owning those three sovereign debt markets has soared. Therefore, they have created the perfect conditions for a collapse of their bond markets.
Central bankers believe they have more power and influence over the yield curve than what they indeed posses. The fact is they can only control interest rates for a relatively short period of time. By not allowing interest rates to function freely, the Fed, ECB and BOJ are facing the eventuality of a bond market debacle that will also crush their currencies and stock markets. Recent history has proven that these central banks will fight the ensuing run-up in yields with QEs III, IV and V in an effort to postpone the pain. This failure to acknowledge reality will cause the eventual collapse to become significantly more acute.
