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| Chemical Company Huge Profits - Fluoridated Water.
by Bubba Priaulx
Most people with any awareness of anything other than what's in their iPods are aware that the fluoride compound added to public drinking water supplies is a toxic waste. They know that it is superflous and dangerous as there is already fluoride in toothpaste which is more than sufficient.
But, the reason it is to be added to the water supplies, the boosters say is, it's "for the children". Give me a break. The kiddies are already getting fluoride in their toothpaste. (In fact, because of the fluoride content, parents are warned NOT to let them swallow the toothpaste.)
Aren't you tired of bleeding hearts trotting out that old tired horse, "for the children (sob, sniffle)", for every cause du jour or for justification for ever more government power? I sure am.
THE ACTUAL REASON for fluoridating local water supplies is simply chemical company PROFITS.
The fluoride compound is a toxic waste compound resulting from various mining and manufacturing processes. To dispose of that waste properly - safely - to prevent even more environmental pollution - COSTS the companies MONEY.
How sweet, for them, that they discovered (maybe financed??) some bogus medical reports touting the benefits of adding the toxic fluoride waste to the public drinking water supplies.
Then the plan was to get corrupt local officials on their side. Does money sound like an incentive? The officials then get the local water districts to actually PAY the chemical companies to take the toxic waste off their hands.
Voila, a burdensome expense has now become a nice profit center.
Another source of income for the public officials greenlighting fluoridation of the public water supplies is that from the various companies manufacturing water treatment and adulteration equipment.
Why aren't the major media doing some investigation? Why aren't they "following the money"? I think you know the answer: They are also on the take.
For more about the dangers of fluoridation, look up http://www.fluorideaction.net/ or http://www.fluoridealert.org/
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Enhancing the Munius Article Moderation Script.
by Michael Umbra
The Munius Article Directory Software PHP scripts from James D. Brausch help you get content from others for your internet business or other website. The scripts generally work well but there are some minor things that necessitated a few tweaks to make it a bit more user-friendly.
One of them was derived as follows: When contributors submit articles, they are supposed to select an appropriate category from the drop-down "Article Category" select menu on the submission form. But they usually just leave it at whatever the default is -- which is usually just "General".
Now, when you go to moderate an article, and you want to accept it, but you want to put it into a more appropriate category, you have to type in a category. Because they are not shown to you, you have to remember them and their exact spellings. Now if you enter in a category not in the data file, the article won't show to users; only you will see it when you are in moderator mode. This means that you have to go to another page to see what the valid categories are so that you can type one in. Because of that minor inconvenience, a drop-down select menu in the moderating (article reviewing) page was added.
Browsing around the Munius scripts, you can find the menu for contributors in "submitarticle.php". (Lines 21-37 of the original Brausch script.)
Copying that code into "reviewarticle.php" and making a few modifications to that gets and displays what the contributor originally selected, then allows the moderator to select either that or a new category. (The code linked to below replaces lines 42-45 of the original Brausch script in "reviewarticle.php".)
For the PHP script code, see http://www.e-commerce-biz.com/code/munius-select-menu.txt More related at http://www.e-commerce-biz.com/ Munius PHP
Michael Umbra wants quality content for his sites, not junk. If you do, also, the Munius traffic generator script is for you. Visitors can create articles for you which you can just accept and add to your site in an instant, or edit them first. Or, if not suitable, you can reject them in an instant. Check out Munius here: http://www.bean-d.com/ab/munius.htm Munius Article Directory S
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Serious About Page Rank? Put up an Article Archive
by Art Sipros
When you submit promotional articles to ezines or newsletters using Artemis Pro ( http://www.bean-d.com/ab/artemispro.htm ) or some other service, you should also make sure to archive the articles on one or more of your information sites. You should archive each article on a separate page. And, on each page, in the navigation bar, you should include a link to an index page which lists and links to all your archived articles.
Here are six reasons to do this:
1. It beefs up the content of your site. Search engines love content. More content means it will be more likely that visitors will be directed to your site. Your navigation bar will then let those visitors see what else is on your site to visit, including the part that has your advertisment to your sales site.
2. It gives people a reason to bookmark your site and return often.
3. It gives people an idea of what they will receive if they sign up for your newsletter. A higher percentage of people will sign up if you have an article archive.
4. Your articles can be a source of more publicity for you if you have a large selection of articles that you can encourage others to reprint... giving you credit. Use a notice similar to this: "This article is furnished courtesy of http://www.e-commerce-biz.com/ - Reprint permission is granted on condition that you kindly include the author information and this notice."
5. You should also solicit articles from other authors. More authors will submit articles if they know you will be archiving them on your site.
6. As mentioned above, search engines like lots of content. It is possible that some search engines will drop sites that are low on content. Your article archive will better assure your status as a content site and to stay indexed.
A highly recommended article is "A Tale Of Two Sites" by James D. Brausch (jamesbrausch.com). It explains the difference between sales sites and information sites. Your sales sites should be optimized to sell, and your information sites should be optimized for traffic. You especially want traffic to your information sites from search engines. Then he explains how to get the traffic from your information sites to your sales sites without compromising the mission of either type of site.
It looks to Art Sipros that James D. Brausch has a good claim for an 1875% improvement in the number of search result links to articles that you send out, when you use his Artemis Pro article submission software. Check it out here: http://www.bean-d.com/ab/artemispro.htm Artemis Pro Sof
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Marketing Research in 5 Minutes.
by Mark Reserfol
My Internet market research methodology takes about five minutes. Here's the step-by-step plan:
1. Boil your idea down to a single word.
This gets pretty easy with practice. Almost any product or service can be boiled down to a single word. Yes, it will be too broad for what you actually want to sell, but give it a go anyway. Come on! Are you stuck at TWO words? Probably one is just an adjective and the other is a noun. Cut the adjective. The noun is your single word to work with. This probably has used up your first minute. On to the next step.
2. Determine a "demand number" for your word.
The goal of this five-minute exercise to come up with a number that expresses the supply/demand characteristics of the general market you are considering. This first number is going to express the amount of "demand" there is for the idea expressed by the word you picked. How do we assign this number? What if we can find out how many times a keyword has been searched on a major search engine in the prior month? Well; of course we can do just that. There are several PPC search engines that have keyword suggestion tools. These tools tell you how many times a particular word has been searched in the prior month. Pick your favorite PPC search engine and go enter the above word into the keyword suggestion tool. Write down the number of searches for your word. Do the same for the word you came up with to describe your successful site. We'll call this the "demand" number. Only three minutes to go... better hurry to the next step.
3. Determine a "supply/profitability" number for your word.
Say that in step 2, you picked "joke" as your word. ("Joke" has been the fifth most popular keyword search on the Internet at times.) You can assume that people looking for jokes aren't really interested in buying anything at the moment. "Joke" may or may not be a good word for supply/profitabilty. Probably not. But you need to see if it -- rather, your word -- is or not. You need another number to express keyword supply/profitability. Go back to your favorite PPC engine for this step. From their main page do a search on your word. Most of these PPC search engines show a "bid" price for each site next to each paid listing. Scroll down to about the #10 listing and write that number down. That will be the supply/profitability number for your word. The rationale for that is that at least ten of your potential competitors think this word is worth more than that amount. (If there is no #10 bid, you should probably pick another idea -- another word.) Don't pay much attention to the bids above the #10 bid, because every market deserves to have 5 or 10 idiots who are wasting money because they see 5 or 10 other idiots doing the same thing. 'Nuff said. Time's a wastin'; we have only two minutes left.
4. Determine the "magic number" for your word.
No; this isn't a trick IRS form. By multiplying those two numbers together, you have come up with a new number that is completely meaningless all by itself, but it somehow encompasses all the important marketing information for your word. It has the supply, demand and profitability indexes all rolled together in one number. Be sure to do this for the word you came up with for your successful site too. Did that take a full minute? Don't worry... I won't tell.
5. Compare the meaningless numbers and find meaning.
The numbers you came up with have no meaning by themselves, but you can use them to compare with other meaningless numbers derived in the same way. Now you can tell if "widgets" or "waggets" is a better market to tackle. Let's say your successful site makes $100 profit every day. Let's say it's magic number is 50. Let's say you just evaluated a word that has a magic number of 100. In general, you can expect that if you put the same kinds of marketing efforts and time into promoting the new site as you did the old site... that you may be making $200 profit every day after a similar amount of time.
The number does a lot more that it may appear to do on the surface. You will find that it predicts the ease you can find free content for your site, engage in link exchanges, find topical ezines and discussion lists, etc... All while balancing that with the ability to find profitable affiliate relationships, sell advertising, find complementary products, etc. Have a little faith and give it a shot. After a couple of sites, you'll be a believer once you start seeing things fall into place just about where the magic number predicted.
If you want more details on the subject of this article, and more about creating your own products, Mark Reserfol says get the Brausch Information Product Creation course: http://www.bean-d.com/ab/createprod.htm Create Pr
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