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Will you vote for my friend

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Ah, it’s that time of year again. Yes, the Weblog awards are going on right now. In fact, they began on December 7th, and will end on December 15th. I believe that there are 45 different categories this year. I was nominated in a few categories myself but I didn’t make the final cut. Oh well maybe this year.

I was hoping that my readers would do me a huge favor though. Would you please go and visit the Weblog awards site and vote for my friend Mrs. Lifecruiser? She’s the sweetest lady and I just adore her site. Her posts are straight from the heart and if you let them, her stories will reel you in and take you to whatever place she happens to be talking about.

Please vote for Lifecruiser in the Weblog category best diarist?

You can vote everyday and there’s still five days left. Vote, Vote, Vote.

Thank you!





HD audio confrencing

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I’ve just been visiting a site called Lifesize and I suppose you could say they specialize in business communication systems from truly lifesize Video Conference in High definition to a product called Lifesize Phone which provides audio conferencing in high definition audio.

Now, probably not every business will be able to afford HD video conferencing at the moment but I wouldn’t doubt that most can and should make room in the budget to get HD audio conferencing. Compared to the old fashioned land line way of audio conferencing with static or being unable to hear all of the participants in the room clearly, HD audio is crisp and clear. HD audio uses 16 always on, circular array microphones with true CD quality sound.

It can be used on it’s own, or combined with the HD video conferencing equipment for extraordinary conferencing every time Lifesize’s products are used.

Are you looking for an internship?

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I know several people, who, when they’ve graduated from College or University end up having a hard time finding an internship so that they can begin their career. So I was pleased to see that there’s a website, UK based that puts companies searching for interns and people looking for internships together.

If you are looking for Internships Abroad then you need to check out this site.

The site is easy to use. Simply fill in the kind of internship that you are looking for in the quick search box, when you’d be available and what Country you’d like to work in (currently the UK and Spain are listed) and a list of available internships will come up for you to browse.

Increasing link popularity

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Have you ever wondered how you can increase the link popularity of your site? Or why it might be important to do so?

The main reason why you would want to increase link popularity is so that you site will climb higher in the search engines under keywords that are specific to your site. For example if you site is about roses and several people have linked to your site in a number of different ways – lists of links, links with texts in articles and posts etc with the word rose or roses in the link then your site will probably climb closer to the top of the search engines.

Google in particular is a good search engine to concentrate on getting improved ranking in. No one has quite figured out it’s complicated algorithm, but we know that one of the things that Google’s algorithm looks for is the number of links to your site from other sites. We’ll call them off site links. Google also gives higher importance to links that are on sites that are similar in genre to your own, as well as links that are with in posts in a contextual manner rather than just listed on a link page. You can get more information about increasing your link popularity and more in depth information on how Google’s algorithm works by visiting the link I listed earlier.

The methods that many people use to increase link popularity are to try to have their press releases distributed across the internet, purchasing links from link brokers, and trading links with other websites – preferably sites that are similar to your own in some way.

Shop and help a blogger at the same time

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Are you getting your Christmas shopping done?

I haven’t started yet, and as a result of our situation, with me not working at all due to illness, our families know that we won’t be giving out gifts this year. We just can’t afford it.

What I’d like to ask my readers though, is that if you are shopping online, won’t you please click on my Amazon store link? The link is in the top left sidebar and it’s labeled Gifts, Gadgets, Books and More!. I mean, if by chance you are planning on shopping at Amazon, why not help out a fellow blogger and shop there through my link?

I’d be eternally grateful and I’d be happy to help you out in some way if I can in the future. As of Monday I’ll have been of work because of my Crohns for a whole year. I don’t have any sick pay or any other kind of money coming in now and all we have is Chris’ part time income. I hate asking for help, but as I said if you are shopping anyway, then this is a way that you could help me out very easily. I’ll only make a small commission off any products you purchase through my store links but every little bit helps.

If you are shopping but can’t find the perfect gift for a picky friend or loved one maybe you might want to have a look at Amazon gift certificates? I have a link for those too in my left sidebar. With a gift certificate your loved one can get the gift of their choosing and in the long run it will end being just what they want.

Thanks in advance if you are so kind as to help me out by buying a gift or something for the holidays through my Amazon store link.

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