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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

6 AMAZING SEO Strategies For Effective Guest Blogging Posts!

Hey All,
I originally started this as a reply to anoter related post, but then figured I'd just start a new thread! Hope this helps!
Original Post:
Is Guest Blogging Effective For SEO
My Answer:
HECK YES!!
Here are some things to go after if you want to really see a JUMP IN YOUR WEBSITE RANK using guest blogging as your backlink source.
1.) Relevant Content
Make sure the THEME content of the blog you are posting on is RELEVANT! If your blog is about music, get guest posts on music sites, not gardening sites! DUH!
2.) Page Rank.
One particularly important thing to note, is that just because a website has a PR7, doesn't mean the link juice will translate through your link.
PR is short form for PAGE Rank, the rank of the page. Not Site Rank! So a new page will have a PR of 0.
On blogs, you will only take the maximum PR if your post appears on the main page of the domain. This would be in the form of the RECENT POSTS in the side bar, and the POST SUMMARIES or RECENT POSTS on the main page. Many WP Blogs will show the most recent 5-10 posts. That's when your link juice will really count. You can always ask for a 'Sticky Post' for an extra boost!
Obviously the higher the PR, the better. I'd personally aim for PR of 3+.
3.) Backlink Profile Of Blog
It's also really helpful to use Majestic SEO (Free tool!)to get a good look at the backlink profile of the Blog you will be guest-posting on. Try to keep Trust and Citation Flow above 10. A good amount of backlinks is well over 100. If you find something with over 1000, even better! Over 10,000 UNREAL!
Here's a screen shot of a decent looking site in Majestic SEO. Over 100 backlinks from 40 domains, and Citation and Trust Flow's of over 10.
4.) Link Placement in Post
Contextual links (links inside the post itself) are by far the greatest type of link when the first 4 criteria are met. Now if you can get your contextual link into the VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH of your post, that's even better!
5.) Page Rank ValidityThis one's fairly simple. Just make sure the Page Rank of the blog you are going to guest post on is valid. Do this by checking at CheckPageRank.net
6.) Low Outbound Links(OBL)
Obviously you don't really have control over this, but if you happen to find a good blog that matches all the above criteria, then it's just a really great bonus if you have a low OBL count. Less than 100 is nice, less than 50 is nicer, less than 10 is awesome!
Ok, so if you put it all together:
This is an ad that I inserted!
If you find a PR4 blog, with 350 backlinks in Majestic SEO and Citation/Trust Flow's of 15, and it matches the category/subject your link is pointing to; you have yourself a GREAT blog to submit a guest post to!
Hope that helps!
Herc

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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Elise Doganieri: Taking 'The Amazing Race' To Africa

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There is something very special about the continent of Africa. The show I work on, The Amazing Race, has gone to nearly 20 African countries in the past 22 seasons and the diversity of geography and culture is like no other place on Earth.

This particular leg of the Race we went to Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa that is 70% covered by the Kalahari Desert.

For this episode, we spent time at the Royal Tree Game Reserve outside the city of Maun. It's easy to feel at one with nature when you're sleeping in a wonderful tent under the stars on a private reserve on the banks of the Thamalakane River. The night sky is vast and mesmerizing; and due to the remote location we were in, every star and constellation in the Southern Hemisphere was clearly visible like tiny diamonds dancing across the sky.

Africa awakens your senses; the sights, sounds and smells are unique. This happens when you fly on a little bush plane, land and take that first step. It's something I look forward to when I return; it's welcoming and warm and there is something very pure about the experience. There is a silence and calm and you are instantly transported back in time.

At night at the safari camp there is such peace -- no sirens, car horns or radios blaring -- but what you do hear are the sounds of the animals around you -- like a lion walking by your tent! And hearing the sound of his roar for the first time can be a bit unnerving. In the morning, you'll see their tracks right outside your tent.

Botswana is home to The "Big 5" -- the lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard, and rhinoceros. Seeing animals roaming unrestricted in their natural environment is a spectacle. Most of us are used to seeing them in cages in zoos. Here, you're in the cage -- your vehicle -- while they wander around freely; it's amazing. In fact, I always have to fight the urge to get out of my safari vehicle when I see an animal close by because they are so beautiful, you just want to get close. Obviously, they're wild animals and you should never do that, but it's hard not to feel a connection when there's so little separating us.

In many ways, Botswana is a country frozen in time. We had our contestants meet with the local bushmen and learn how they live their everyday lives. The things we take for granted are tasks they have to perform every day to survive -- from things as "simple" as starting a fire and getting water from a well to hunting for food.

What the bushmen can do in minutes took an hour or more for many of our contestants.

We take pride in the fact that the Race takes contestants and viewers to places they've never been, or even seen, before. In fact, most of the contestants had no idea where Botswana was. It's fascinating how the contestants and the African bushmen were awed by each other's cultural differences.

That's really what we strive to achieve with the show: treat viewers to a cultural experience, not just bombard them with tourist landmarks. We want the contestants -- and, by proxy, our viewers -- to really get a sense of what it's like to live in the places we travel to.

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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Kobe Bryant: Raptors Fall Victim To Lakers Amazing Overtime Victory

LOS ANGELES _ The media dining room at Staples Center erupted in a collective roar early Friday night when those affiliated with the Lakers watched on TV as Chicago's Marco Belinelli sank a clutch three-pointer that wound up beating the Utah Jazz.

The door was opened for the Lakers, gearing up to play Toronto, to pull to a half-game behind Utah for the eighth and final Western Conference playoff berth by going above the .500 mark at 32-31 for the first time since they were 6-5.

There's Marco Belinelli.

And then there's Kobe Bryant.

Playing through a sore right elbow, Bryant made three remarkable three-point shots down the stretch including the most clutch one with 5.5 seconds left in regulation to tie the score _ and the Lakers rallied for a 118-116 overtime victory.

The Lakers were down by five points with 1:42 left in regulation when Bryant hit the first of his late 3-pointers, leaning the wrong way and flat-footed from the right wing. Even though the Lakers' defense couldn't stand up nearly as well as it did in its rally from 25 points down in New Orleans last game, Bryant just scored more.

Dwight Howard fouled Toronto point guard Kyle Lowry on a drive with 8.4 seconds left, and Lowry sank both free throws for a 109-106 Toronto lead. Steve Nash and Bryant did successfully lobby referee Bennie Adams not to call a technical on Howard, who spiked the ball in frustration at his foul call.

Bryant kept it up in overtime, with help from a key Nash 3-point shot. Bryant's dunk with 10.6 seconds left in overtime broke a 115-115 tie and meant after never having any game with at least 40 points and 12 assists, he did it in consecutive games Nos. 1,223 and 1,224.

Bryant finished with 41 points and 12 assists. Howard had 24 points and anchored the defense again.

___

GASOL START TO RUN

Pau Gasol isn't plotting out a return date yet, but it's probably safe to say he won't be back in the next week for the Lakers.

Gasol reported on his Twitcam video chat Thursday that he ran for the first time in his recovery from the torn plantar fascia in his right foot. Gasol used the Lakers' Alter-G anti-gravity treadmill to run at 65 percent of his body weight and reported that "discomfort was minimal. ... Very encouraging."

The Lakers' plan is for Gasol to ramp up his running gradually, and barring any setbacks, he should be running on the court next week. The plan does not include him beginning basketball activities yet, however, so he is unlikely to return to game action until at least two weeks pass.

Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni knows he'll have another playing-time challenge on his hands when Gasol comes back, considering D'Antoni has de-emphasized Gasol's role this season. Asked about it Friday, D'Antoni smiled and said: "We don't have to go there yet, do we?"

D'Antoni has said repeatedly that he looks forward to Gasol's return, however, as it will certainly improve the team's depth with Gasol offering an outstanding option as Dwight Howard's backup at center.

BRYANT'S OUTPUT

Kobe Bryant has had a lot of great games for the Lakers, but even by his standards his output in the victory in New Orleans on Wednesday night was unique.

Bryant had 42 points and 12 assists and no Laker had put up at least 40 points and 12 assists since Gail Goodrich in 1971. Jerry West had six such games in the regular season and another in the playoffs.

Bryant tried to balance the scoring and passing roles again Friday night against Toronto and succeeded.

He fell off that tightrope more than once. He had eight turnovers in the first three quarters although none in a fourth quarter that saw him dominate the ball again.

Toronto wasn't going to relive Bryant's 81-point game, when Raptors coach Sam Mitchell wasn't aggressive enough in double-teaming Bryant to take the ball out of his hands. Current Toronto coach Dwane Casey, one of the top defensive tacticians in the NBA, had the Raptors double-teaming Bryant hard even on the perimeter when he made any move toward scoring.

Bryant still found cracks to reach the basket at times with his craftiness, though helped by D'Antoni's late-game plan to spread the floor with shooters and let Bryant use Dwight Howard's body to get openings.

After Antawn Jamison missed a 3-pointer created by the double-teaming of Bryant, D'Antoni went with the same unit that closed the game in New Orleans so well: Jodie Meeks, Steve Nash and Metta World Peace with Bryant and Howard.

But Bryant shot over Toronto's gathering defenders down the stretch. He finished regulation with 37 points and 12 assists.

RETIREMENT TALK

Bryant appeared on the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" TV show Thursday and was asked when he's going to retire.

Bryant said it'd be "soon," without specifying. When the crowd groaned, Bryant smiled and said it has been a long time, rounding up to 20 years, and noted how he came into the league with a big Afro and now couldn't grow one if he tried.

Bryant, 34, is in his 17th NBA season, all with the Lakers and he said any future seasons will also be with the Lakers. Bryant said he won't go to another club. He is under contract for one more season after this one, and if Bryant plays beyond that there would be finances to figure out given how the Lakers intend to lower their payroll below the luxury-tax plateau at least in the 2014-15 season.

Bryant was wearing some sort of visible protection over his sore right elbow, which he said felt improved in the Lakers' Wednesday victory in New Orleans.

SEEKING .500

It's been awhile since the Lakers have rested above the .500 mark. How long exactly?

"Uh, OKC?" Dwight Howard asked Friday. "Uh, man, were we ever?"

Actually, the last time the Lakers were better than average was Nov. 20, when they beat the Brooklyn Nets in Coach Mike D'Antoni's debut at Staples Center.

"Yeah, that was a long time ago," Howard conceded. "It's OK. We're playing a lot better, even though our record doesn't show how well we've been playing. We're doing a lot of great things.

"We just have to continue trusting each other and build this chemistry. As long as we do that, the better we will be."

The Lakers showed continued signs of their new-found bonding in their season-saving victory against New Orleans on Wednesday, coming back from 25 points down to once again even their season record at 31-31.

"Games like that are like playoff games, games that when everything is not going your way, you have to find a way to win," Howard said. "We stuck together. Offensively, we found a couple of plays that were working the two-man game with me and Kobe (Bryant) and that got everyone else open. Jodie (Meeks) hit some tough shots, then we ran back and played some great defense."

The Lakers have another shot at inching above the .500 mark and moving up in the standings with a victory against Toronto on Friday. The Lakers were 11/2 games behind No. 8 Utah in the Western Conference standing heading into Friday's game.

"We've been above .500 before and I thought we did things good," D'Antoni said. "Then there was four or five games where we reverted back to where you could see the spirit and energy weren't there.

"I think we've sustained it now for 20 games; we've played well. ... A little bit of that, a little bit of this and I think we're in a good spot. We should be able to keep going forward. It should be a sprint the last 20 games."

Steve Nash took a more bleak view of their on-again, off-again record.

"We have to win three out of four games the rest of the way. There are 20 games left and if we win three out of four, it would keep us above .500," Nash said. "If we hover around .500, we won't get anywhere.

METTA THE LEADER

Few would ever expect Metta World Peace to step up and lead. Yet, the oft-times often-embattled Lakers forward is sharing with Howard the leadership skills he learned from a former Laker.

"He's not yet a vocal leader because he hasn't been in that situation enough to lead by example, so I have to really step up and lead more vocally and by example and I try to teach Dwight a little bit about what it takes to lead," World Peace said in an interview Thursday on KSPN/710.

"Some guys look at my stats and they don't see extra defensive player of the years and extra All-Stars because I've been in trouble my whole career. So sometimes I lead by example and make big shots and gain these guys' respect. Everybody leads in different ways. We have a lot of different leaders."

World Peace said Derek Fisher taught him about being a leader.

"I didn't know Metta (before I got here)," D'Antoni said. "But just watching him and appreciating the things he does, I've found out he's a great teammate, and good to have on the team."

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Ashlee Arnau, Cheerleader At William Carey University, Makes Amazing Front-Flip Half-Court Shot (VIDEO)

Cheerleader Ashlee Arnau usually spends her time on the basketball court raising the spirit of the crowd. On Thursday night, she raised the roof at William Carey University in Hattisburg, Miss., by performing a front-flip half-court shot.

A basketball was placed in the middle of the court. Arnau ran toward it, did a front-flip, grabbed the ball while upside-down and tossed it toward the basket as she righted herself.

The ball went through the hoop, and the crowd went wild.

According to The Associated Press, the 21-year-old nursing student had spent months trying to make the halftime shot during home basketball games, but this was the first time she succeeded. As luck would have it, Arnau completed the amazing feat during the last home game of the season.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Roberto Bernardi Hyperrealist Paintings: Amazing Still Lifes Of Chrome, Plastic, Candy (IMAGES)

Italian-born artist Roberto Bernardi describes his work as hyperrealism, a meticulous branch of painting closely related to photorealism.

Going by the examples available in his online gallery, Bernardi is an expert in painting still lifes of chrome, plastic, glass and candy -- glossy textured objects that generally don't lend themselves to being captured realistically in oil on canvas.

Ben Dahl of men's shopping blog Cool Material may have compared Bernardi to a "human Kodak camera," but in the age of Instagram, to be a mere collector of life scenes doesn't carry much weight. Consider all the similar scenes you may have browsed on your feed.

What makes Bernardi's work interesting is his ability to elevate the mundane to the fantastical through intricate attention to detail, giving "weight and depth to translucent objects, creating drama in the overlapping forms and infinite reflections that they create," as Cuded noted. There's no schmaltzy retro filter applied, just an exacting eye for the interplay between textures and colors.

But the physical presence of the objects is just part of the intrigue. The juxtaposition of clutter and order, the organic and inorganic, become comments on postmodern life and the technology that facilitates it.

A selection of images of Bernardi's work was posted to a Reddit forum devoted to photography Jan. 16. While the post was wrongly categorized, most users didn't seem to mind. Some inquired about the artist's method, and others commented on the historical context of hyperrealism.

"I guess the hyperrealistic movement, as it relies a lot on precision and control, it's just a product of technical improvements on the medium (besides the social critique aspect of it)," wrote user "howlinpete." "I have no doubt that painters from earlier centuries could accomplish the same results given the same tools (Vermeer comes to mind), but they hadn't."

Bernardi's paintings are currently on display as part of group exhibits around the world. In May 2013, he will exhibit new work in a solo exhibition at the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York.

Click through the gallery (above) to view samples of Bernardi's extraordinary work.

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

6 AMAZING SEO Strategies For Effective Guest Blogging Posts!

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Elise Doganieri: Taking 'The Amazing Race' To Africa

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Kobe Bryant: Raptors Fall Victim To Lakers Amazing Overtime Victory

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Ashlee Arnau, Cheerleader At William Carey University, Makes Amazing Front-Flip Half-Court Shot (VIDEO)

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Roberto Bernardi Hyperrealist Paintings: Amazing Still Lifes Of Chrome, Plastic, Candy (IMAGES)

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

6 AMAZING SEO Strategies For Effective Guest Blogging Posts!

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Elise Doganieri: Taking 'The Amazing Race' To Africa

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Kobe Bryant: Raptors Fall Victim To Lakers Amazing Overtime Victory

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Ashlee Arnau, Cheerleader At William Carey University, Makes Amazing Front-Flip Half-Court Shot (VIDEO)

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Roberto Bernardi Hyperrealist Paintings: Amazing Still Lifes Of Chrome, Plastic, Candy (IMAGES)

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