No one who directly or indirectly relies on the World Wide Web for one thing or the other, e.g. advertising, publishing, writing content for cash, etc, can come across the two-word phrase “search engines” and pass by without giving a deep thought or throwing a second look. Everything on the World Wide Web revolves around search engines. Everyone who publishes information wants to be indexed by, and found through search engines. This has pushed people to go as far as trying to optimize their websites for search engine so as to improve on their ranking and possibility of easily being found.

I am a fan of article directories because the good ones are priceless vaults of information. Whenever I visit an article directory, take one category I can’t fail to check out is the search engines category. Under this category in the www.web-articles.info article directory features very interesting articles related to search engine optimization, search engine submission, Google and Google Page Rank, getting a site online, Google Search, Adsense, Adwords, advertising, web hosting and domain names.

Still on this article directory, I found a certain article that discusses the issue of Finding a domain name for your client. This is very useful information for newbie webmasters like me. Most clients come up with a site but know nothing about domain names, thereby allowing me to shoulder the responsibility of searching for the best one possible for their site.

Not every article has to be high tech or on some very serious/intense topic. Some, such as the most recent I found on the homepage, Dutch fishing village called Volendam, is more of leisure and personal experience. This is the type of article I refer to as freeform.

Contributing articles to article directories is equally as important as reading and collecting information from them. Come to think of this; your ideas and opinions get read by hundreds of people plus you get a backlink and lots of traffic. Try it!

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If you don’t know Aion, then you are probably new to the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) world. MMORPG is a genre of computer role-playing games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world. A player creates a character and control’s the character’s actions.

There are several MMOs but Aion truly stands out of the crowd. Though the game is relatively new, its popularity is very high and its community keeps growing at a very fast rate. This is principally due to the fact that the game beats the imagination of the player as far as character customization and artificial scenery is concerned.

AionAlliance, the aion forum, is Aion’s official fansite community board. This community board is packed with many forums, sub forums and posts contributed by registered members. Registration is easy. Just a few steps and you are in. on the fansite; a player can read posts, answer posts and exchange knowledge about Aion with other fans and players. Members can even interact at a more personal level with greater privacy through messaging.

Back to the Game, Aion offers a great deal of character customization, which is the dream of every MMO fan. First, you have a choose a fraction, Elyos or Asmodian; choose wisely and stick to one since a player can’t play both sides on the same server. After choosing a side, proceed to character customization. Aion offers a player the ability to fully transform a chosen character by changing the character’s facial features, body features or even gender.

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A have a few blogs I author, some projects I undertake and some social networks I participate on, scattered here and there all over the web. I have chosen An Angel’s Blogmate (www.uncleche.net) as my primary home on the internet.

An Angel’s Blogmate runs on wordpress and is supported by a number of wordpress plugins. It uses a theme called Evidens, by Design Disease. This theme is pretty nice but I was bent on making it stand out of the crowd. I have carefully customised it to work the way I want.

Instead of the usual content area and two sidebars of different sizes, it is now just three sidebars for display of widgets. Why so? An Angel’s Blogmate works like a “feed aggregator” that collects updates from all of my blogs, projects and social networks, and displays them on a single page for easy accessibility.  This means just by visiting www.uncleche.net, you will know everything I have been on…

My Blogs

AZ BLOGGING

NOVICE MASTER

THE CREATIVE UNCLE

DR. LUV ONLINE

BLACK AMPHI

LAINY’S MUSINGS

My Projects

CIWABA

QWERTY CLICK

PEN 2 NET

My Social Networks

TWITTER

FACEBOOK

FLICKR

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I never knew about this great service when I started out on the web, As a result, I had to go through tens of web host, reading all sorts of things they said about themselves and their service and I was caught in a confusion, not knowing who or what to trust. Now, you don’t have to face the same problem because the Web Hosting Geeks (WHG) are there to tell you which are the best webhosting services.

Are you looking forward to host a new site or to transfer your site to a new host? Never you trust a hosting company with their own reviews. You need to look at a third party like the web hosting geeks. They will tell you which hosts are the best in all domains, ranging from budget hosting, blog hosting, forum hosting, domain hosting, windows hosting, php hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting..etc Web hosting geeks also keep records of the top ten hosts and hosts who have taken various types of awards.

The Web Hosting Geeks are good in what they do. This service has been running since 2004. They are not like some other rating services that demand commissions for reviews. They are very transparent. Their ratings also take into consideration customer reviews, web master reviews and RealMetrics reviews.

Pay a visit to the Web Hosting Geeks’ article section and get a load of fresh information on web hosting basics, CMS, control panel, SEO/SEM, etc…

Trust the web hosting geeks, and your choice of hosting will be a positive testimonial about their great service.

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For the benefit of those who don’t know, Eye Twitching (also known as Blepharospasm), is an abnormal involuntary blinking or spasm of the eyelids. For most people eye twitching is not a serious condition and typically results from excessive fatigue or stress so all they may require is some little rest or relaxation. For others, however, this can lead to chronic irritation or vision problems.

If you are constantly being attacked by eyelid twitch problems, then it is absolutely necessary for you to know eye twitch treatment, cures, and remedies that actually work. Most solutions basically contain and provide vitamins needed for the eyes. I do believe ICaps Lutein & Zeaxanthin and PreserVision Vitamins & Minerals should work very well with any common case of eye twitching. If the above recommendations don’t work for you, you should consider contacting a qualified medical practitioner.

Some severe cases of eye twitching may require eye surgery to get everything back to normal. Hey, pray your case doesn’t get to that critical level.

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I love time traveling. Everyday, I travel at least once to the past and observe something new. Too bad I can’t travel to the future because my time travel machine won’t allow me. May be it is strictly observing the fact that “the future hasn’t happened yet”.

Anyway, while going back to July 2008, I stopped at July 2009 to see what my favorite Cameroonian Web Developer and Blogger, Mambe Nanje Churchill, CEO of AfroVisioN Group, has in stock for me concerning the GCE 2009 Results. He didn’t talk much on the July 2009 post (Cameroon GCE Results 2009 Released) but directed me to the July 2008 post to have a re-read of what he previously said.

This post, Cameroon GCE Results 2008, addresses many key important issues which are being overlooked by the Cameroon G.C.E. Board. I am so mixed up about the whole issue, so much that I really don’t know what to think, say or how to contribute to make it better.

Why is information that is being released for public consumption being held back from the same public that needs it, and worst of all, no plans are being made to one day make it available to people who may need it. Even if that information is not free (for sale) why will something be very contented selling just a little bit of it. I know not everything on the planet is about the money. Yeah! But I still believe if you don’t want the money, then help the people have for free what they are ready to pay for.

Who can help me answer the question why publishing the Cameroon GCE Examination Results online be prohibited and such act considered criminal? Mambe Nanje points out a few disadvantages of publishing the GCE Results online. The points he raised are all true, but we all understand that everything in life is a risk. I am happy he points out that “…these disadvantages don’t weigh more than the advancement it will bring to the Cameroonian people..“.

Besides making more money on the part of the GCE Board, the Cameroonian community will greatly benefit if results are published online. Not publishing the results online limits access to it and deprives the public of what they stand to benefit if the results are made available online.

If the GCE Board claims that having the results online is a means of extorting money from people (honestly, I really can’t understand how), then they should be rest assured that they are seriously promoting such extortion in two ways;

1 – Newspaper distribution is very slow and people who are very anxious for the results don’t have the time to wait and purchase one.
2 – Listening over the radio is equally slow and tedious, worse than waiting for newspapers.

As a result of the above two factors, individuals with soft copies of the GCE Results tend to put a very high price tag on it. I can’t believe someone being asked to pay more than a dollar just to view a single name, passed or failed. If we can’t have the results here with ease, then no need even mentioning our brothers and sisters in Bush (the bush of www.bushfalling.com). They will have to patiently wait for a phone call or an email.

One factor Mambe Nanje seriously strikes on is Computer Literacy in Cameroon (Check out the CIWABA Foundation). People not yet exposed to computers still consider them myths (white man’s witchcraft) until they are given a single (magical) push. I was given that push in Dec. 2003 just by someone creating an email address for me and teaching me how to type www.yahoo.com and www.google.com on a browser’s address bar. That’s it! The publication of the 2010 DV Results online gave me an opportunity to give at least 50 people that magical push. I saw people who have never touched a mouse coming to check their DV 2010 results online and since they were very anxious to have them, they had no option when I insisted on them learning how to do it.

Publishing the GCE Results online could be a magical push for many. I believe through it, about 1000 Cameroonians can touch a computer for the very first time and about a million will learn someone new. Exaggerated figures? I interact everyday with at least 50 internet users with varying degree of computer/internet expertise so I believe in what I am saying.

Anyway, there is nothing to mourn over. I guess the GCE Board won’t change their stiff and inconsiderate policies. If you try to interfere, they will probably ask you to mind your business.

It seems however that some people are giving a deaf ear to the warning and they still go ahead to publish the results online. I haven’t noticed any website with the compete results yet though rumors have it that they do exist. I stumbled across a site with partial results and from what I have observed, the person in charge seems to be adding the results hourly.

I found no contact details on the website so I guess the author knows that what he/she is doing is illegal.

Check out an incomplete publication of the Cameroon G.C.E Results at http://cameroon-gce-results.blogspot.com/

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If you demand one simple clear cut answer to this question, Uncle Che will say “No”. I strongly stand for the opinion that a Hot Tub cover is an indispensable accessory and if you have a hot tub without a cover, better get one right away.

Hot tub covers have two principal functions

1 – Protecting your hot tub from environmental dirt and air pollutants
2 – Maintaining the heat within your hot tub and preventing it from cooling down rapidly

If you hot tub is external, then it is definitely open to dirt. Such dirt may include falling leaves, dust and paper blown by the air, and even dirt thrown in by kids or pets. Such exposure will mean that you will need to constantly clean your hot tub. This demands lots of time or finance (if you pay someone else to do it).

A hot tub best serves its purpose if it is kept hot. When exposed, the heat rapidly escapes. This situation is even worse in windy areas since the rate of escape of heat will be very much affected by high wind speed. This is economically disadvantageous since you will have to constantly heat the hot tub to compensate for the heat loss.

Having a hot tub cover therefore saves you time, energy and money as well as keeps your hot tub clean and hot.

Don’t have a hot tub cover yet? Hot Tub Works offers lots of hot tub accessories including hot tub covers. They are relatively cheap. Consider for example. This is normally sold at $399.00 but they give it out for just $299.9

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Most WordPress Related Posts Plugins (search the in WordPress plugin directory or on Google) automatically display related posts based on tags and categories. I find lots of faults in this automatic display of related posts. Posts belonging to the same category or having one tag in common must not necessarily be related. The best list of posts related to a particular post can only be gotten if manually assigned.

Manually assigning posts as related to one can be a very tedious method. This will mean that one has to search the entire blog, collect post titles and manually link them at the end of each post. What about a plugin that can automate a manual process? The Microkids Related Posts is the answer.

Microkids Related Posts plugin gives you the option of manually displaying posts you think are related to the one you are writing, right on the post writing page. I have tested this plugin on Noela’s second blog (Blogress) and I bet it works just fine. You can see an example on Post A and Post B.

The best features of this plugin are:

• You can display related posts with editing template files
• You can search related posts by titles, content or both
• Everything is ajax; no page reloads or popups
• You can select any number of the retured results with just a single click

Display of posts can be reciprocal if you wish. That is, if you say Post B is realted to Post A, Post A can be automatically defined as also related to Post B.

Sincerely, this is the best related posts plugin I have ever known. I will install it on this blog immediately I hit “publish”.

I also learned about the Search Engine Related Posts Plugin. Sounds very interesting but I haven’t tried that out yet.

One aspect of Microkids Related Posts plugin I didn’t really enjoy (maybe it is an issue with the theme at Bloggress) is that the list of related posts is displayed only on the post page. This is good for blogs using excerpts. However, if you are displying full posts on the homepage and a reader gets to your homepage, the reader will not see the list of related posts if he/she does not navigate to the post page.

This can be solved by deactivating the option that automatically displays the list at the bottom of the post and choosing the option that says the template will be edited. On your template, add the following code on both the main index and the single php files;

<?php MRP_show_related_posts(); ?>

Good Luck!!!

Aside:
Cameroon GCE Results
GCE Results 2009
GCE Results

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From where do you get your football picks? Have you been to the AddictSports? Take the advice of Brandon Lang and his team of professionals, the best known handicapper in the world.

At AddictSports, you can subscribe by email and get free sports picks (NFL Picks, NCAA Picks, NBA Picks) delivered directly to your inbox or visit the forums for links to very valuable information.

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Every time there is a new release of WordPress, Noela will ask me “What’s new”. I bet she must have been puzzled many times since she upgrades and doesn’t find any changes on the Dashboard.

I asked myself the same question today when I upgraded from wordpress 2.8 to Wordpress 2.8.2. You may be asking me why I never upgraded to 2.8.1 when it was available. Well, I did so for Elvizy’s World and found many bugs that interfered with some plugins and the visual editor. I was scared messing up this blog in a similar manner, so i had to wait for the next stable release.

It should be noted that most new releases of wordpress basically introduce more bug fixes than new features. That’s why most often, when you upgrade, you seem not to find anything new. I bet you there are tens of new things, which only the techy guys will understand.

Personally, I advise you to always upgrade. Thank God automatic upgrade has been added to the wordpress core so ever Tom, Dick and Harry can now update without any fears.

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