DSL Availability Tips

Getting DSL in Your Area
In many rural and suburban areas, DSL service availability is rare. It is important to note that DSL availability is driven largely by profits. Though you may not currently be able to find DSL service in your area, this does not mean DSL will never be available. Distribute a petition amongst your neighbors, and try to generate interest in broadband access. If you think your area will provide enough subscribers to justify building a new telephone exchange from which to provide DSL access, you may be able to get DSL service.

About DSL Availability
Learn about DSL Availability: The Achilles’ Heel of DSL is availability. Because the signal deteriorates rapidly as distances between the provider and the user exceed three miles, DSL availability is currently fairly rare in rural areas. However, most DSL providers realize the demand for broadband access is high across the country, and are expanding to meet this need on a daily basis. Check your local yellow pages to try and find a provider in your area, and ask them if DSL service availability can be extended to your location.

Other Factors Affecting DSL Availability
DSL availability is also dependent on a variety of other factors. For example, repairs or damage to phone wires can interfere with service. DSL availability can also be affected by the number of people using a particular line at a given time. However, DSL is far less susceptible to lowered performance due to overuse. Other popular forms of internet access, however, are.

Extending Existing DSL Availability
If you do not currently have good DSL availability, but are very close to effective DSL service availability, you still have a few options. You may want to consider contacting a friend or neighbor who is inside the DSL service radius. You may be able to convince him to split the DSL fees with you, and then set up a local network that gives you access. This would probably be best attempted with DSL router and long Ethernet cable, as using a wireless signal would have shorter range, and be available to many other of your neighbors.

Keeping Good DSL Availability
The more you learn about DSL availability the better off you’ll be. Consider yourself lucky to have good DSL availability. It is an excellent service to have, and there are many who do not have DSL service availability. Encourage your friends and neighbors to look into getting DSL. A larger customer base in your area may result in more diverse and faster services being offered. Also, this large localized customer base will result in less reduction in connection performance than with other internet services.

Checking DSL Availability
Generally, after you find DSL service companies, you will need to provide them with two pieces of information for them to perform a DSL availability check. First, your full phone number at the location at which you wish to install DSL, and then your current street address. After a quick search, usually only around 30 seconds, they will let you know if you are with their service range. If you are inside their range of DSL availability, they will also inform you of what sorts of services you may receive.

9 Ways to Keep Google Happy

A recent Google patent application has the SEO community buzzing. At a bare minimum this document reveals the direction Google is taking its future search criteria. Changes in the way Google will be evaluating pages for search rankings are intended to address two major problems:
- Search engine spam, and
- Ensuring that “fresh” documents score higher than “stale” ones
Here is a summary of some of the general principles outlined in the document. Most SEO specialists agree these are reasonable principles, and it is only a matter of time before they are adopted.
1. Anchor text of links is still very important. Focus on your anchor text. It should contain your most important keyword.
2. Google expects that anchor texts will vary. A lot of identical anchor text suggests an “unnatural” linking pattern. Anchor texts should vary, but contain related phrases.
3. Google will record when specific links were first discovered, and watch how they change over time. Links with a long life span are considered more valuable than links with a short life span. This adds support to the link delay theory — that links do not start “counting” until they have been in place for a few months. So get working on those links right now, but don’t expect immediate gratification from Google.
4. If a new website gets a flood of new inbound links, this will be an indicator of possible spam activity. Links should be introduced gradually and according to a consistent pattern.
5. Google acknowledges that there may be link “spikes”, and so an influx of new links will be interpreted as legitimate if some of the links are from “authoritative” sites. Go after links from authoritative sites.
6. If a stale webpage continues to receive new incoming links, it will be considered fresh. Keep adding links pointing to important pages.
7. Links from fresh pages will in some cases be more valuable than links from “stale” or old pages that have not been recently updated. Get links from pages that are active. If you have high value links from important sites, develop a strategy for keeping those links fresh.
8. Google places more value on a site where link growth remains constant and slow. Slow and steady wins the race. Keep getting those links.
9. Pages with many inbound links will require proportionately more new links in order to remain fresh. The assumption is that the more links a page has, the more it should be getting in the future. Otherwise it starts slipping into the “stale” category. Focus more attention on your most important pages.
Regardless of whether of not Google implements all of these criteria, the general direction is clear. More importantly, these points make good SEO sense, and provide a very good place to start when planning a link strategy.

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How To Make An Ad Believable?

Starting an online business is easy depending from which corner you look at it. But take out the word of your business to the mass is harder than most people tell you. When you hear the lies which what they offer you their products or services on the net your ‘hair stands up straight’. Some people might think that’s advertising. But let me ask you a question, “Would you buy a second time from an advertiser telling lies”? Frankly spoken, I wouldn’t.

What is the purpose of advertising?

The advertiser’s task is not always an easy one. You can have the best product but without a good advertising campaign nobody will buy your product or won’t come to your business.

On the other hand you can have a bad product but a good advertising campaign and you’ll sell your product like “hot bread”. But…you will sell only one time to a customer and he never will come back to your business again. And the worst…he will tell all of her friends that they should not buy from you. So, what is your result…you will have a front end sale but you never will have a backend sale. The most cash comes in with your backend sale.

The purpose of advertising is to get trusted. It doesn’t matter how clever your advertisement is, it has to attract the customer and he has to get trust in your advertisement to buy your product. You must get attention; explain your product and being persuasive. You must overcome the readers distrust and most important to get her to believe you.

Besides the techniques of building credibility through testimonials and research tests…the key to being believed is to tell the truth. To tell the truth about a product, you have to believe in the product you offer and you have to know it.

The reader of your advertisement has to feel your passion and enthusiasm you have about your product. This passion has to jump over to your reader or prospect. Only this way you will win a future customer to your business and his trust.

When writing ads you should always be telling the truth. Be ethical and professional, this way you will have your customer for a lifetime and not only for one sale.

You have to believe that the product you advertise will do a lot of good to your reader. If you are sincere with your ad-writing, it comes across to your readers and they believe what you’ve written.

Don’t burn yourself with unethical behavior. Never do to your customer what you wouldn’t like they do to you.

Studying for exams

Kelly Brown:
Studying for exams follows up to taking notes in class. A good way is to highlight the important notes you have taken. Turn those into questions which you should answer as a practice quiz. Don’t forget to take breaks and watch that those short 5-10 minute breaks don’t run into long two hour breaks.

Kamilah:
Study a little every day and make it fun. Do it with friends and order a pizza.

Belia:
After about an hour of studying I take a 10-minute break. You need to take a little break and relax, then go back to the books.

Manuel:
I like to study in the same location with a friend. About an hour into studying I check up on my friend or he checks up on me. We do this to make sure our minds don’t wander. We take a 10 or 15-minute break and then continue studying for another hour or so.

Terrell:
Get to know your TA’s because they can give you good study techniques. My art history TA gave me a study technique in which I used an outline to record important information about each work of art. It helped me to study for the quizzes and final.

Kira:
I like rice krispies treats, so before I go off to study I make a batch of treats and take them with me. After I’ve been studying for awhile I’ll eat one.

Brian:
After the first test you get an idea of what the instructor wants and so you change your study habits to what you think the instructor will ask on the following tests.

Priyanka:
Talk to your professors regularly. Exploring verbally what you learned during lectures helps you retain things.

M.:
Don’t just memorize; understand key facts. Try to remember things as stories to be retold, like the hottest gossip that you’re going to repeat. A lot of students study in groups, but I prefer to work on my own.

Prince:
The best way to prepare for an exam is group study, because two heads are better than one. Start studying at least three days before the exam. Also, don’t just memorize; that lasts only a few days and gives you limited knowledge. You really have to sit down and understand the concept, formula, or theory.

Erika:
I use note cards when studying for an exam.

Kesha:
I constantly quiz myself on the material and try to answer questions from the book.

Science Strategies

Dawn:
For chemistry, I read whatever is in bold face first and then I go back and read all the text, highlighting the most important information. To memorize chemical reactions, I use index cards. I can take them wherever I go and look at them whenever I have free time. I see a tutor twice a week.

Sandra:
When reviewing a chapter, make sure you understand the diagrams, pictures, and charts. Diagrams are the most important thing.

Miguel:
Do some looking around in the bookstore for good study guides and review books.

Sanobeia:
When reading science books, make sure you read the examples because that’s how you understand. If you don’t read the examples you’ll be lost during class.