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Posted on Jan 07, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Your website or products profitability and success is directly dependent on how much targeted traffic you get. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) increases the quantity and quality of traffic to your website and web promotion received from organic ranking in search engines such as Google, Yahoo or MSN.
Unfortunately, website promotion and generating traffic are probably the most frustrating areas that most website marketers have to deal with, it’s sort of like a dog trying to chase his own tail, you go round and round and round, but eventually end up in the same place you began.
It doesn’t have to be difficult, frustrating or confusing. The days of pulling your hair out while trying to figure out how to get the right kind of visitors to your website, could be over with the help provided by the proven specialised search engine optimization software now available.
A properly optimized website, is like a magnet to search engines and attracts website visitors in the same way that bees are attracted to a honey pot. This sort of traffic that you get from the Search Engines is called “Organic Search Engine Traffic”.
Organic Search Engine Traffic is simply put as, “type-In traffic”. Visitors arrive at your website because they typed in a keyword or keyword phrase that is relevant to your website, and because your site has the proper website optimization, your site is shown in the first few positions of the search results and therefore gets the click-thru from the searcher.
Search engines are responsible for driving enormous amounts of traffic to websites. It depends on which sources you read, as the data varies. But search engines receive billions of searches each day, by users who are searching for a variety of products and services. You need to get your business at or near the top of search results, if your serious about getting traffic from search engines. It is an established fact that most search engine users only check out the results displayed in the top 10 listed positions and don’t go beyond that.
The specialised software tools not only help to fine tune your web pages, but can also save you many hours a week and turn you into a better search engine marketer and link builder.
So use the specialized software available to help you increase your page ranking and search engine optimization for your website. Make sure you choose well, the software should be simple and easy to use, be a one-time investment, pay for itself very quickly and ‘do what it says in the blurb’, It Must Work.
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High Pagerank - SEO
Posted on Jan 07, 2009 under Uncategorized |
The world of search engine optimization (SEO) can be a big scary place for newbies. Most SEO professional companies charge astronomical prices that may or may not guarantee success.
The search engines are forever changing the way they rank websites and what is important to achieve a higher ranking. Even with these everchanging factors, there are 8 important points that you must use with your website that are not likely to change any time soon.
1. Domain Name
It is better to register a domain with a keyword in it, unless you are trying to brand yourself (think Coca Cola or Ebay). For instance, if your name is John Smith and you sell golf items you would be better off by registering a name like www.golfproducts.com instead of www.johnsmith.com.
Unfortunately with millions of website domain names being purchased all the time, finding a related domain name not already taken can be a daunting task. Still it is worth it in the end because it will carry more significance with the search engines.
2. Title Tag
This is an often overlooked place to input keywords. Have you ever been to a website and the bar at the top of the page just said ‘untitled’ or ‘homepage’? That reflects how little the site designer knew about SEO. Always put a descriptive title on EVERY page of your website. Put something like ‘Find golf clubs, golf clothes and the latest pro golf tips’, instead of ‘John’s golf shop’.
Make sure not to go overboard and just list 10 or more keywords or long sentences in a row or the search engines will think you are trying to spam them. Think quality over quantity. The title tag should contain one keyword rich descriptive sentence.
3. Meta Tags
The importance of meta tags in today’s SEO world is still being debated. It is still advisable to include a meta tag keywords and meta tag description in your code. A lot of times the search engines will pull your description tag to show in your websites search result. If nothing is there it may not show anything at all or it may pull the first sentence off of your page which might be completely irrelevent to your intended audience.
Do not, I repeat do not list 100 or more keywords in the keyword tag. This technique used to work years ago, but the search engines recognize this technique and will consider it spam. Place no more than 10 keywords in the meta keywords tag.
4. Link Strategies
Another important tip is to include keywords when linking to other websites or pages within your own site. For example it is better to have a sentence like this ‘Find out the latest professional golf tips.’ then to say ‘click here for the latest professional golf tips.’ This also applies to any outbound links to other related websites. Include keywords on the part you want the visitors to click on.
Same goes for incoming links to your site. If someone wants to link to your site give them the code to paste in their website instead of leaving them to do it on their own. Have something like ‘Check out John’s Golf shop for the best golf clubs, golf info and golf tips.” This is much better than ‘Click here for John’s Golf Shop’. Search engines also like longer more descriptive links than just one or two words.
5. Relevant Content
Make sure that you provide only relevant information to what your actually offering or selling. If you have a bunch of unrelated info on a wide range of topics than the search engines will have a harder time pinpointing exactly what it is your site is about. So if your selling golf stuff stick to golf content, don’t throw in articles or links about scuba diving.
6. PageRank
This is still a relatively new term and applies to an algorithm that google’s search engine uses. Other search engines use similar strategies to google’s PageRank also.
Basically PageRank is used to define how popular your website is. The more relevant inbound links you have coming into your website the higher your PageRank will be. Google also has a toolbar that you can download for free that will show you a site’s PageRank. The best way to go about getting inbound links is to find related websites with a PageRank of 5 or higher. Then asking them to include a link to your site (giving them the proper code to paste in).
Another way you can receive a higher PageRank is to have a ton of content on many different pages and then linking all the pages together in a way that will raise your PageRank. With that said this type of strategy will not boost your PageRank tremendously, so if your site doesn’t contain thousands of pages don’t stress over it. It is important though to link strategically with keywords between the pages of your site.
You can download google’s toolbar at http://toolbar.google.com/
<![CDATA[ 7. <H1>]]>This is an HTML header tag used to define size of text within the tag. Search engines place more importance on text that is placed within the H1 tag. It’s like telling the search engines that ‘hey this text is important to my site’. The problem is that it can look unsightly. There are ways around this if you know about CSS styles, but for this basic intro article just know that in the end most people won’t be bothered by how the heading looks, and it will make the search engines like you more.
8. Creating Credibility
An often overlooked part of free publicity for your website is writing free articles like this one that relates to your intended audience. There are many websites on the internet where you can submit your articles for other people to place on their websites. I even employ this same strategy for my website. It’s really a win win situation. They win because they get quality relevant content for their site and you win because your name and website info is included at the bottom of the article, driving traffic to your site.
You increase your inbound links (PageRank) and provide free publicity for your website. It gets your name out there branding you an expert in your field of expertise and provides free web traffic to your site.
Leah West
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High Pagerank - SEO
Posted on Jan 07, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Article Marketing on the Internet is a whole different story because of the way your articles reach humans who have an interest in them. Article Marketing will help you increase your link popularity, search engine positioning for your keywords and phrases, and it helps you reach more potential customers for your products or services. Article marketing is the most powerful skill you can learn for the promotion of your online business. For marketers who know the pages on their sites that convert as well as the keywords these pages target in paid and organic search campaigns, article marketing can be far more. Content articles are an essential part of search engine marketing and when done properly they can have a tremendously positive and long term effect to your web site business. It’s a well established fact that writing articles is a powerful method of advertising online. Articles that are interesting and informative will act like a magnet to draw targeted traffic direct to your website in both the short term and the long term.
Article
If you want to really make your article “SELL” then you’ve got to craft the perfect RESOURCE BOX. Keep the size of your resource box so that it’s no larger than 20% of your total article size. Success can only be had when you create keyword rich titles for your articles that match the most commonly searched keywords for your topic.
Marketing
In popular usage, “marketing” is the promotion of products, especially advertising and branding. A relatively new form of marketing uses the Internet and is called internet marketing or more generally e-marketing, affiliate marketing, desktop advertising or online marketing.
Business
Marketing is fundamental to any businesses growth. The process for base management shifts the marketer to building a relationship, nurturing the links, enhancing the benefits that sold the buyer in the first place, and improving the product/service continuously to protect the business from competitive encroachments.
Traffic
Most authors are wasting their time producing dozens to hundreds of high quality articles that never reach a fraction of their traffic potential. Applying an 80/20 approach I figured if I was going to submit articles manually, as opposed to using automated software, then I should work with the service with the most traffic.
Links
My goals are to build links and generate some reader interaction. I also know that the majority of those article directories out there accept marketing-related articles and so will be able to build lots of links to my article marketing site. Thanks to Ezine Article’s significant presence in search engines (high PageRank and lots of backlinks) web searches for your name will often pull up your author homepage. Your author homepage includes details that you can change anytime and you may include web links back to your own website or blog.
Advertising
Unfortunately, with millions of websites up and running each day, it is difficult to actually see the result you want, without doing a bit more advertising and work on marketing your website. There are many free methods of advertising on the Internet that are not very effective, but writing and distributing articles is a surefire way to get your website noticed and a great way to generate income online. Viral marketing is a unique way of advertising that is appealing and useful to the consumers who see it. “Writing and publishing articles across the Internet is the absolute best way to not only build your credibility and drive traffic to your site, but also to gain a massive amount of free advertising.
Conclusion
Keep in mind that article marketing is a timeless strategy and you may not have an easy ability to retract what you put in your article once it hits major distribution. If you want to maximize your results from any article marketing strategy, you must master keyword research so that you can create keyword rich and intelligent article TITLES. One of the most powerful benefits of article marketing is the ability to build highly qualified and highly responsive lists. Make the most out of Article Marketing by exposing your articles through an article submission tool. I’ve yet to notice any penalization but there are a lot of forces in play here so if you are really worried, take the time to modify your articles or only submit original content. The other thing I like about Article Marketing, which is one of the main reasons I like blogging as well, is that it contributes to your overall exposure one little bit at a time.
If you want to know how to build a real money making internet business and squeeze it for every penny you can, blog resources and news that you can use from the best internet marketing tools and the best advertising techniques for your blog site promotion.
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The best Way to Get High Google Pagerank
Posted on Jan 07, 2009 under Uncategorized |
As search engines become more expansive and continue to offer more options for searching specific sets of information (products, businesses, entertainment, etc) this also means that there are more ways for you to get your website included in search engine results. Yahoo! lists nine ways to submit your websites and content to be included in their index.
The easiest way to submit to Yahoo! is through their free submission page. While this is extremely easy and quick, there is little evidence that this actually provides a quick inclusion into Yahoo’s index. In the event that your site is compatible with mobile browsers, there is also a special page to submit your mobile website to Yahoo!. Yahoo! also provides a resource to submit media content (audio, video, etc) although this requires a specially formatted RSS feed.
In addition to the free submission options, you can choose to essentially bribe Yahoo! into giving your website preferential treatment for a mere $50. This gets you a guaranteed inclusion within 48 hours and a more frequent revisit rate. For those that have a larger marketing budget and want more control over their site placement in results pages, they can opt for the sponsored inclusion. This is basically a parallel to Google’s Adwords program in that each allow you to control your position depending on your top bid for specific keywords.
Finally, there is also the Yahoo! Directory. At one time, being included in the Yahoo! Directory was thought to give websites tremendous boost in all search engine rankings. Lately there has been much speculation that this has been heavily devalued in other search engines like Google and MSN. The request for inclusion requires an annual $300 application fee that does not guarantee your acceptance. And if your website is denied, there is no refund. If that wasn’t enough to discourage website owners from submitting, Yahoo! also reserves the right to place you into whatever category they see fit and change your title tag and description too.
For most websites, the free submissions and good search engine optimization practices should be sufficient. But for those that have the budget and want the fast track there are some other options available although their effectiveness has been highly debated.
Zach Brown has been involved with multimedia and web development for over 5 years and is currently the project manager for BuzzSEO, a full service internet marketing and website optimization firm. BuzzSEO provides complete internet marketing capabilities including web design, search engine optimization, and email marketing.
Pagerank
Posted on Jan 06, 2009 under Uncategorized |
If there is one truth about search engine optimization that one would not dare to contest is the fact that Search Engines are the ones creating the visibility of any web site to the net users and to the Internet as a whole. When one wants to make their web sites gain accessibility to search engines like MSN and Google, then they have to make sure that they are getting an optimized search engine. There are a few tricks one can use to achieve this.
1. Make sure that you optimize the use of the site title. The title of the site is usually the first thing that search engines and net user look into. In fact, when a search term is used with a search engine, the search engine looks for that similar term if there is similar presence on your site either on the body context or on the title itself.
2. Make sure that you make good contents. Web sites are known to be sources of information. People go to the net primarily due to relevant and fresh information that they can dig. It is of essence that you contain your website only to relevant and up to date information so that people may see your site a worth while site to be visited.
3. Build links on your site. Search engines see attached links on a site as indications of a site being a well-visited site. In fact, the more site links a site has, the more it would be seen by search engines as an essential site on the net, thus will be given a priority in ranking and indexing.
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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 9034 articles in print and 14 published ebooks.
page rank
Posted on Jan 06, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Let us begin with understanding the true meaning of the term ‘SEO Services’. There are many who mistake SEO Services with SEM (search engine marketing). As a matter of fact, bout SEO and SEM are the part of the same service. The only difference is that SEM is actually the term used for the whole process while SEO is a part of it.
SEO or search engine optimization, also known as organic search listing is an important part of the search engine marketing process of anything that is willing to become popular on the web. We know that the most loyal source of traffic can be obtained through the search engines. And this is exactly the reason why most people who have a website wish to get listed in the search engines, and those who are looking for a certain website prefer to get it through through the search engines.
Search engines are a plethora of traffic. They receive a whole sea of visitors from all across the world. But your site can benefit from this swarm of visitors, only when you know how to target them. Hence the art of targeting the traffic is something that you need to learn.
Keywords are your guiding star when it comes to attaining targeted audience for your site. Every website needs to optimize themselves with the most applicable keyword in order to obtain a good ranking in the search engines. There are different ways in which this search keywords can be optimized in the search engines.
Article marketing, web page linking with other high ranking pages, web page optimization with the most applicable keywords are just a few of the ways in which, search engine optimization is done online. All techniques of search engine optimization collectively contribute towards the success of the website in the search engines and help to attain prospective customers.
Last but the not the least, it is also essential that your SEO services are of the most refined technique. It is not necessary that you only restrict to keywords and key phrases optimization. These days the use of video marketing, sms marketing, viral marketing, blogging, and other social media optimization techniques are also gaining popularity too.
Naman Jain is an Online marketing professional, presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading online marketing company offering expert SEO services, pay per click, Affiliate marketing services, UK web development services and website designing solutions over the globe.
Get High Pagerank
Posted on Jan 06, 2009 under Uncategorized |
When understanding how Google indexes webpage’s is to think of the web as a large book and which has an impressive index which identifies where everything is located. When you query a search on Google, it checks their index of webpage’s they have compiled and determines the most relevant search results to be returned back to the user.
The three key processes in delivering search results to you are:
* Crawling: Does Google know about your site? Can we find it?
* Indexing: Can Google index your site?
* Serving: Does the site have good and useful content that is relevant to the user’s search?
Crawling
Google use a process where automated software known as Googlebot skewers the internet for new and recently updated paged to be added to their index.
Google use a vast set of computers to fetch (or “crawl”) billions of webpage’s. The program which performs this amazing job is known as Googlebot. Other terms it’s also known as are robot, bot or spider. Googlebot uses an algorithmic process: computer programs determine which sites to crawls, how often, and how many pages they fetch from each site.
When Googlebot begins to the crawl the internet it starts with a list of URL’s from previous sessions, and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters. When Googlebot lands on a page it takes the links from that page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New websites or updates to new ones are noted and updated on the Google index.
The good thing to note here is that you cannot pay Google to crawl a site more frequently and is not part of their revenue generating services.
Indexing
Googlebot processes each of the pages it crawls in order to compile a massive index of all the words it sees and their location on each page. In addition, Google processes information included in key content tags and attributes, such as Title tags and ALT attributes. Googlebot can process many, but not all, content types. For example, we cannot process the content of some rich media files, dynamic pages or iframes.
Serving results
When you query a search on Google, it takes your query and matches to relevant pages within their index and then displays the results in the order Google feels most benefits your query. Relevancy is determined by over 200 factors, one of which is Pagerank. Pagerank is based on the importance if the incoming links from other sites. Each link from another site your own contributes to how well your page will rank. But don’t think you can go out and get 1000’s of incoming links by automatically submitting to sites. Not links are equal in Googles eyes. Google is working hard to ensure that you the user are provided the best result for your search by identifying spam links and other practices that have a negative impact on search results. What this means in simple terms, if you have a site which provides information on pet care and products, then your page rank will increase when getting incoming links from websites with similar interests and content.
Before Google can index and rank your site well in search results, you need to ensure that Googlebot can crawl and index your site properly. Broken and dead links will have a negative impact on how your site ranks. It’s important to ensure that you use Google webmastertools to not only ensure your site can be crawled but to also ensure you comply with Googles guidelines and improve your sites ranking.
Caching your Site
One of the major advantaged I find with Google caching the content of your website is that if you ever mistakenly save over your index.html page on either your main website or one of it’s subfolders your can retrieve that data without to much hassle through Googles Webmaster Tools.
1. Log into your Webmaster Tools Account.
2. Click on Statistics on the left hand side panel.
3. Click on Index Stats.
4. Then on
cache: The current cache of your site cache:yourdomain.com
From here it will show you a screen shot of the last time Googlebot crawled your webpage.
What you want to do from here is save that page.
1. Go to ‘File’ at the top right hand corner of your browser.
2. Go down to ‘Save As’ and save it as index.html or index1 whatever you choose.
3. Use your FTP program to transfer it over to your Hosting Folder.
4. Using your Website Design Tool modify it from what Google has Cached then save back over your index.html file.
By this point you should your original Website which was lost should now be restored. At this point you may want to make a back up of it.
Norman McIver, iNet Products
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Posted on Jan 06, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Dubai’s Dramatic Transformation: A Front Row Seat
In 2000, I arrived in Dubai the morning after Ramadan had started. There were giant photos welcoming their much beloved leader H. H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan back to the United Arab Emirates. (He was returning from having a kidney transplant in the USA.) Dubai was beautifully decorated with the same lights we use for Christmas trees in the west, however this was for Ramadan. This created a dreamlike quality and I remember thinking “A futuristic Arabian Nights fantasy.”
My first trip to Dubai was short. It was just a few glorious days of truly memorable experiences including my first desert safari and an enchanting Dhow dinner cruise on the Dubai Creek. I was mesmerized by the view as I floated past the Dubai Heritage Village while nibbling on chocolate delicacies. I was certain it was so certain that this was a dream that I kept pinching myself. After I returned to Canada, I never stopped talking about my incredible journey.
One incident that stands out in my mind happened after a riding lesson at the Dubai Polo Club. I relaxed and watched some polo. When I was ready to leave, I went to call taxi. A handsome polo player from Rajasthan offered me a lift back to the hotel. My father’s words “Never take a ride from a stranger echoed in my mind”. I politely declined with my usual “Oh I wouldn’t want to take you out of your way.” His response was “Out of my way? The whole place is about 5 miles wide.” I laughed accepted his offer and he safely took me to my destination in no time flat. At the time, I had no idea how dramatically Dubai was about to change.
On that trip, I met an elderly couple from the UK. The husband told me that when he had been in Dubai to help put in the infrastructure for electricity, the area around the clock was desert. At that time, the clock tower was a prominent landmark. When I went to Dubai in 2007 and 2008, I couldn’t even find the clock. It had been dwarfed by all of the new developments. In January, 2007, as I travelled downtown from the beach where I was staying, I counted 100 mega high rises under construction before I gave up and stopped counting. This was an area that, at the time of my first trip was just desert and beach. On that same trip, as the taxi took me out to Bab Al Shams to go riding, I noticed huge displays in the desert showcasing the shape of things to come. That part of the desert is slated for development and 40 upscale luxury resorts will soon be springing from the desert sands.
Dubai: An Incredible Incentive Travel Destination
They say that the Dubai skyline changes every 6 months. I had a chance to actually put this to the test in 2007 and 2008 by visiting every few months and it’s true. I like to think of Dubai as not one but 3 dramatically different incentive travel destinations, the Dubai of the past, present and future.
Dubai of the past includes Deira and the area around the Dubai Creek.
In Dubai of the present, an area of explosive growth, you’ll see glistening skyscrapers under construction and modern shopping centres. It can best be seen from the upper floors of any of the beach hotels.
Dubai of the future includes the Palm Island trilogy and The Map. It also takes in the part of the desert slated for development that I described earlier. You’ll pass this area on your way to the Bab Al Shams resort.
It has been a pleasure to watch the new Dubai take shape and each time I return, I look forward to seeing the dramatic transformation that has taken place.
Surefire Tips for Amazing Incentive Travel in Dubai
If you’re considering Dubai as the destination for your next incentive trip, I hope that you will find some of these suggestions based on what I have observed during the last 8 1/2 years to be of value. Keeping these guidelines in mind will ensure your comfort and help you spend an enjoyable and memorable time in Dubai. It will be a unique incentive trip that your group will talk about for years.
1. Plan well ahead for lowest airfares and best accommodation in Dubai.
The most important thing to remember is that it is important to plane WELL ahead, especially if your group is large. As hotel space becomes scarcer, prices do go up for accommodation and airline flights. Popular hotels like the One and Only Royal Mirage and Madinat Jumeriah’s Al Qasr sell out really fast. To avoid disappointment, some of the most popular attractions must also be reserved well ahead of time to ensure availability for groups.
2. Schedule your trip between October and April.
The best time to travel is between mid October and the end of April. At that time the temperatures are more comfortable and you can spend more time outdoors. Be flexible with your dates and don’t lock them in until you have given your incentive travel planner an opportunity to confirm availability of hotels and attractions. It would be a shame to lose out on an incredible location that could have been available if your dates had been more flexible.
3. Build in enough time for your group to experience the local culture.
Add an extra day to your group’s itinerary so that you can have a chance to explore the heritage section and get a sense of Dubai’s rich history and culture. Why go to Dubai and not see it? Why travel to a foreign destination and learn nothing about the people and their culture? If you just plan to sit in meeting rooms, lie on the beach, and get drunk, you may as well stay home and save yourself some money.
4. Double check visa requirements.
Visa requirements changed dramatically as of August 1, 2008 so make certain that you carefully verify what is required. Upon arrival, you will fill in an immigration and customs form. A portion of the card will be retained and you will be required to surrender it upon departure so don’t lose it.
5. Stay out of trouble.
Remember:
- Illegal drugs are a definite no-no and penalties are STIFF. Remember that American TV commercial from a number of years ago? “When you’re busted for drug over there, you’re in for the hassle of your life.” My advice is don’t even think about it.
- Even some prescription medication that is perfectly legal in North America and Europe is prohibited (e.g. codeine).
- Some drugs that are over the counter in other countries are controlled substances in UAE. It is always best to check ahead of time and to carry your prescription and the original container.
(Check with your nearest United Arab Emirates consulate for updates before departure)
- Pornography is prohibited and possession carries stiff penalties.
6. Take precautions for the climate.
Dubai is ultra modern. It’s easy to forget that you are in what was up until recently a desert:
- Wear a scarf or hat to protect your head from the sun and avoid sunstroke.
- To avoid dehydration, ALWAYS carry a bottle of water with you and drink plenty of it.
- Apply sunscreen liberally and often.
- Be sure to pack cotton shirts, dresses, and blouses to ensure comfort.
7. Plan around the traffic.
Until the LRT is ready in September 2009, traffic congestion will continue to be a problem. Plan your itinerary and then book your accommodation so that you are close to the attractions you want to see on certain days. For example, if you want to explore the heritage area, stay in Deira for a night or two. Arrange a late check-in at your beach hotel and travel at night after at night after your Dhow cruise. This will be much more comfortable than sitting in gridlock for hours at time during the day.
8. Respect traditions.
The lifestyle in Dubai is opulent. I’ve never seen so many Ferraris and custom made Mercedes Benz’s in my life. You will find that the architecture and technology is even more advanced than what you’re used to back home. It’s easy to forget that you’re in a Muslim country with a vastly different culture from North America or Europe. Remember that the United Arab Emirates is rooted in tradition and a proud history.
Make sure that your group is aware of local customs and that you respect them. Here are some examples:
- Show respect for your hosts and keep noise level to a minimum during prayer time.
- When eating, be sure to remember to avoid using the left hand as this is reserved sanitary functions and it is considered to be unclean to use the left hand at the dining table.
- Consumption of alcohol is permitted at some hotels, restaurants, night spots, and tourist attractions. Other than these venues, alcohol should never be consumed in public. You can actually be charged for being drunk in public.
- Neighbouring Sharjah is a dry Emirate and penalties for possession or consumption of alcohol are STIFF. Don’t even think of taking it there.
- Kissing, holding hands or making out in public are not considered to be appropriate in public.
- Don’t even think of having sex in public. (Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors recently learned this the hard way after their arrest on Jumeirah Beach.)
- Sex between unmarried couples is illegal and you are unlikely to be permitted to check into a hotel with someone who is not your spouse.
- Women should not even think of topless sunbathing.
- Nude sunbathing and changing of clothes in public is to be avoided by both sexes. (Authorities have recently cracked down on this and there have been numerous arrests.)
9. Dress modestly.
While Dubai is more tolerant than some other Muslim countries and you will see some tourists wearing bikinis on public beaches, out of respect for your hosts, it is best to opt for a modest swimsuit.
- Long walking shorts are fine for the beach, resorts and desert safari but, other than that, they should be avoided.
- Women should be sure to wear blouses and dresses with sleeves that come to just above the elbows or longer.
- Sleeveless tops are frowned upon for men and women but especially for women.
- Skirts and dresses should be to the knees or longer.
- Showing cleavage is a definite no-no.
10. Include attractions that are unique to Dubai in your group’s itinerary
- A MUST: A tour of the heritage section including Dubai Heritage Village, the Dubai Museum, the gold and spice souks, lunch at Al Dawaar Revolving Restaurant at the Hyatt Regency, and a Dhow Dinner Cruise
- A desert safari (overnight for a special treat)
- Jumana Desert Show
- A day trip to Al Ain
- A Day trip to Abu Dhabi
12. Don’t Pack Your Itinerary. Give your group some free time.
It is important to give your group some time to relax, unwind and see Dubai their way. Some members of your party may want to play golf. Others may prefer to go horse riding in the desert or skiing at Ski Dubai. Others may want to relax on the beach or book some treatments at the spa. Provide your group with a list of options and give them an opportunity to customize their experience.
Shopping is an important par of any trip to Dubai. People look forward to it.
Best Shopping: Souk at Madinat Jumeirah, Mall of the Emirates, Ibn Battuta (named after the great Arabian explorer), Gold Souk, Spice Souk.
13. Build at least one luxury excursion into your budget.
There will be no shortage of options but here are a few ideas:
- Upgrade your Desert Safari to 5 star
- Dinner in the Sky
- Afternoon tea at the Burj Al Arab
- A helicopter tour of Dubai
- Hot air ballooning over the Desert
Anne Thornley-Brown is the President of Executive Oasis International, a Toronto based firm that regularly organizes incentive travel, executive retreats and team building in Dubai, Oman, Jamaica and Canada. Their clients have included a number of Middle Eastern and gulf companies. Executive Oasis Internatinal provides a one stop shopping service with a personalized approach to incentive travel for corporate groups of up to 25. Customized itineraries include travel, transfers, hotel, tours, team building activities, business facilitation, and event planning.
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Jobs are an important factor when looking at a real estate investment. You want to buy in an area where jobs are common because no one wants to move to a place where they cannot find work. Looking at the U.S. Payroll Survey, the greatest job growth percentage during 2006 occurred in Phoenix, Arizona; Austin, Houston and Dallas, Texas; and Las Vegas, Nevada. Notice something? The greatest growth percents all occurred in Sun Belt states, where the cost of living is lower.
Let’s single out one of these high job growth areas, Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW). DFW Metroplex is the leading market in the South and the ninth largest in the nation. It has one the largest concentrations of regional or national corporate headquarters and is known as Silicon Prairie because of the great numbers of electronic, computing and telecommunication companies.
The past few years DFW has been one of the top areas in the U.S. for business and corporate expansion. In the last year or so, it landed new and expanded corporate facilities including Countrywide Mortgage, Del Monte, Home Depot, Pier 1, AutoZone, Radio Shack, D.R. Horton, Cott Beverages, Williamsoni-Dickie and Washington Mutual to name a few.
According to the Greater Dallas Chamber of Economic Development Guide (November 2006), the top 20 DFW employers, in order, with employee numbers ranging from 29,237 to 9,700 are as follows:
Wall-Mart Stores, Inc.; AMR corp./American Airlines; Dallas ISD; Texas Health Resources; Raytheon Co.’ Verizon Communications, Inc.; Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.; Baylor Health Care System; AT&T; U.S. Postal Service; HCA Healthcare; Albertson’s Inc.; City of Dallas; Countrywide Home Loans; Kroger Food Stores; Citigroup, Inc.; Brinker International, Inc.; TTI, Inc.; Fort Worth ISD and Texas
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You want to invest in a high growth, affordable area with a diversified job base, DFW being one example. With job loss there is an exodus of people to where the jobs are. If the town is heavily influenced by one job sector and that job sector has a problem or relocates from that city, your investment property will suffer. Some examples from our nation’s past are areas where jobs were heavily weighted in energy, defense or the military. If we purchased in an area that’s primary a military town and the base is the main supply of jobs for the people, and that base relocates or closes down then real estate in that town is in serious trouble. Jobs are the gateway to our future so use them to help with your decisions for future property investments.
To learn more about how Real Estate Investments can help secure your family’s financial future, go to Dr. Alan Rosenthal’s website at http://www.FinancialHealthRealEstate.com where you can find more great investment information. And while you’re there, please sign up for your FREE Financial Health Real Estate Starter Package full of tips, newsletters and much more. Plus, you are cordially invited to attend one of his real estate investment workshops by visiting http://www.FinancialHealthRealEstate.com/UpComingEvents.html
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Numerology is a system of numbers for measuring the vibration of the letters of the alphabet, so that human personality, desire, thought, action and experience may be easily understood in accurate mathematical values.
Numerology is not new, except as a new phase is always added to any subject by its revival from the past and its adaptation to modern needs. The philosophy of numbers condenses the wisdom and knowledge of seven thousand years, for in ancient times the same numerical values which we are using today were associated with the languages long since discarded.
As human intelligence expands and comprehends larger possibilities for the present and future, it gropes for and adopts new words through which to make its comprehension apparent. While dictionaries become larger, alphabets remain much the same and the exact values of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are not at all affected from generation to generation. Any alphabet is just a scale of letters capable of being collected and arranged into many different combinations, just as the keys of a musical scale can be adapted to express varying moods in composition; the letters and keys themselves however remain the same.
Letters considered apart from words describing a thought or from a name attached to an animate or inanimate object, are found to be sounds of a definite vibratory frequency which can be measured by number. Anything then that has a name has a number and this number found by the addition of the numerical value of the letters which are used to construct the word, is an exact key to the character of the thing named. By this same number can be found the proper relationship to all other words, all other names, all other personalities.
Numerology is so immediately useful as well as a fascinating pastime, that it has fallen into disrepute as merely a fad for choosing lucky numbers and changing names. There is much more than these elementary uses, in fact if the subject is seriously studied and applied it will be found a livable, workable science psychology and philosophy of life.
Every form of modern engineering is a method for analyzing, reconstructing, building, transmuting or reclaiming material and for accomplishing this according to some system of calculation, measurement or deduction erected from a mathematical premise. Numerology in its true sense is also an extension of mathematical principles, erected for the purpose of Human Engineering whereby human material may be analyzed, reclaimed, improved, character built and human experience understood.
The social philosophy of Numerology addresses the moral and spiritual limitations of unaided approach the problems of human living. Life must be understood in its character and living relationship to the individual, and each life-time must be seen as containing experiences not necessarily common to all other humans, and with the aid of numerology, you can be shown more of that unique path.
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