Online Facebook Market: May 2012

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Setting Up Blogger Is Easier Than 1-2-3

The set up for Blogger is very simple. And back in 2007 when I was approved for Adsense, it was cool to include info on how to set up Blogger in this lens, but today it takes a third row seat to what really matters in getting approved for Google Adsense: choosing a niche topic with good commercial value, and writing unique, high quality content that's helpful to someone searching for information on your niche topic. So I've removed...

How to Use The New External Keyword Tool For Keyword Research

Now that you have generated some ideas for commercial search terms that you believe would make a great topic for this project and you've analyzed the trends for these search terms, it's time to create a list of keywords that you can target. This YouTube video will show you how to use Google's External Keyword Tool to create a list of keyword...

How to Use the Google Trends Tool for Niche Research

This YouTube video shows you how to use the Google Trends tool to gauge behavior for the keywords you generated with Google Insights for Search. This tutorial, unlike a number of the Google Trends videos on YouTube, is current for 2012. That means it shows how the tool works now (in terms of hot trends results, which are limited to the top 20), NOT how it used to work (it used to give you the top 100 hot trends for any given ...

3 Powerful Google Research Tools You Can Use to Uncover High Commercial Value Niche Topics

Tools. When it comes to tools to help you research potential niche markets to target, there is an overabundance of them in my opinion. So many that you need a tool (or at least a "how to" guide) to help you pick the right one for your online projects! But for the purpose of finding niches that have high commercial value, Google offers 3 excellent tools you can use. They are easy to work with, provide you with info based on Google's...

You MUST Get These 2 Things Right If You Want to Succeed

I believe The Keys to me getting approved for my Adsense publisher ID on the very first attempt were: (1) choosing a niche topic that had commercial value, and (2) creating unique, high quality content that was relevant to my niche. What does "Commercial Value" Mean? Here's what I mean by Commercial Value: the niche topic or related search terms are attractive enough for advertisers with a product or service to sell, to run pay-per-click...

Clueless About Getting Approved for Adsense? Read this Lens

I was approved for my Google Adsense publisher ID on 4/7/07. It'a true! It took me just 6 days total time to get approved. That's 6 days from 4/1/07 the day I began the project, until 4/7/07 the day I received my welcome email message from Google Adsense. All I did was to follow the same exact 5 steps I'm revealing here on this lens page.NOTE: As I mentioned in the introduction a few things have changed since April 2007. Google...

Get Approved for Google Adsense - My Easy 5 Step Guide Reveals EXACTLY How to Do It Do you want to get approved for Google Adsense, BUT you don't have a single clue about how to go about getting your Adsense publisher ID? It's been a while - a little more than 4 years since I was approved for my Adsense ID, but I remember the frustration...

UAE face Kazakhstan in crunch A5N rugby tie Hosts aim to bounce back after two losses

UAE Rugby face a battle for survival in the HSBC Asian 5 Nations (A5N) Top 5 competition when they take on Kazakhstan at The Sevens on Friday.Kick-off is scheduled for 4pm in what is billed as a relegation battle particularly after South Korea pulled off a 21-19 victory against Hong Kong last week.UAE are aiming to bounce back from the battering...

Cycling: Cavendish wins stage five of Giro d'Italia

World champion Mark Cavendish of Britain won stage five of the Giro d'Italia from Modena to Fano in a bunch sprint on Thursday.Second behind the Sky rider, who claimed the ninth Giro d'Italia stage of his career, was Australian Matt Goss with Italian Daniele Bennati in third.Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas continued to lead the race overall for a second day.The Giro d'Italia finishes on May 27 in Mil...

The United Arab Emirates staved a frenzied second-half assault to beat Kazakhstan 46-31 and keep alive their hopes of remaining in the Top 5 of the HSBC Asian Five Nations (A5N) rugby clash at The Sevens on Friday.After trailing 29-nil at half time, Kazakhstan posted 31 points in the second half to close the gap to 10 points in the final...

Lewis Hamilton's spectacular but often controversial career suffered a new twist on Saturday when he was stripped of pole for the Spanish Grand Prix because his McLaren team failed to give him enough fuel.As a result, Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado of Williams will start from pole position for the first time after being promoted from second...

Miami Heat forward LeBron James was named on Saturday as the National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player for the 2011-12 season, cementing his place among the game's greatest players. It was the third time in four years that 'King' James has won the game's most prestigious individual award, elevating him alongside the sport's biggest...

RugbyU: New Zealand clinch world sevens crown

New Zealand clinched their 10th IRB world sevens series crown in 13 years on Sunday after downing South Africa 36-0 to advance to the semi-finals of the final leg of the championship at Twickenham.The New Zealanders needed only one more win to be assured of clinching the crown after victories over Russia, Kenya and Argentina on Saturday.The men in black had looked vulnerable during their win over Argentina, trailing 10-0 before...

Donald surrenders No. 1 spot to McIlroy

England's Luke Donald will surrender golf's World No. 1 ranking to Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy on Monday after a poor showing at the US PGA Heritage tournament.Donald fired a level-par 71 on Sunday to finish on two-over par 286 for 72 holes, sharing 37th place, 16 strokes behind winner Carl Pettersson of Swed...

Shaikh Fahim bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Arab Golf Federation and the Emirates Golf Federation, Mohamed Juma Buamaim, Chairman of the Mena Golf Tour, and Khalfan Al Kaabi, a board member of the Emirates Golf Federation, with the Mena Golf Tour trophy. (FILE)The Mena Golf Tour fits perfectly into the larger scheme of things if the...

Lee Westwood played an "exhausting" 32 holes on Sunday to successfully defend his Indonesian Masters title and pick up his first win of the year.The world number three secured his 38th career victory after he returned early in the morning to complete his third round before closing with a final round two-over-par 74 at the Royale Jakarta Golf...

Meydan Golf today launches The Track - a unique new pay-and-play golf course at the world famous Dubai racecourse.Challenging enough for even the best players, it is also extremely welcoming for novices looking to take up the sport and those with limited experience.There is no membership fee at The Track with players simply booking a tee...

Her Royal Highness Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has extended her patronage to the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters (ODLM) for another two years, reaffirming her support of the premier women’s golfing event in the region.Promoted...

Tiger Woods returns to PGA Tour action at this week's Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, confident he has solved the ball-striking problems which plagued him at this month's Masters. The former world number one failed to break 72 in any of his four rounds at the year's opening Major, completing his worst performance at...

Rickie Fowler delivered on his vast potential by claiming his first PGA Tour win at the Wells Fargo championship with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff against Briton Rory McIlroy and fellow American D.A. Points at Quail Hollow on Sunday. The 23-year-old Fowler finally justified his billing as one of the game's top young players when...

The 2011 Omega Dubai Ladies Masters, won by US teenage sensation Alexis Thompson, generated a massive global media exposure giving ‘golf in Dubai’ and ‘Brand Dubai,’ in particular, a massive boost.Held under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Haya bint Al Hussein - wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President...

Donald hopes for duel for top spot with McIlroy

Luke Donald believes golf fans could be in for a treat in the coming months as he and world number one Rory McIlroy battle it out head-to-head for top spot in the world rankings.Donald and McIlroy have exchanged the position throughout the season but the sense of drama has been lost given the way the rankings changes have come about, with the two players taking advantage of each other's off-weeks.McIlroy is enjoying his third...

Most of the stories I cover involving my home stomping grounds of New York are uniformly negative, I’m sorry to say. (And yes, that includes the New York Jets.) But the state is what it is. What’s a guy to do? This fact makes it all the more pleasant for me, though, when I come across something positive to report, and it seemed as if I’d...

You’ve come a long way, baby. The old advertising motto that targeted women who thought of themselves as liberated in the 1970s came with no small measure of irony, since the point of the ad was to get women hooked on Virginia Slims cigarettes. Jessica Gavora sees a similar kind of irony in the Barack Obama campaign’s rollout of “Julia,”...

Is justice blind? Sometimes. And so is New Jersey resident Stephen Hopler, a gun collector and enthusiast from the Garden State. (Hat tip to Warner Todd Huston.) Or at least he was until the local authorities decided that a blind guy shouldn’t have weapons. Then things began to look ugly, at least for those who could see.A blind gun collector...

Video: Get off of Jonah Goldberg’s lawn, you darned kids

I love a curmudgeonly rant, and so this interview of National Review’s Jonah Goldberg is right up my alley. This excerpt of a longer interview with the Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas focuses on Jonah’s issues with the “youth culture,” the obsession with the worldview of the least experienced of our citizenry. Goldberg notes that “we’re all born idiots,” and that some people are a lot closer to that point in time than most of the...

Quotes of the day

Former President George W. Bush’s pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggesting a shift in the way the GOP discusses same-sex marriage…“Recommendation: A statement reflecting recent developments on this issue along the following lines:“‘People who believe in equality under the...

Disneyland Paris turns 20, with mixed results

FRANCE, MARNE-LA-VALLEE: Disneyland Paris fetes its 20th anniversary Thursday, but while Mickey Mouse now draws nearly twice as many visitors as the Louvre's Mona Lisa, his fantasy park is not yet out of the financial woo...

A rare glimpse of North Korea by train

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Pyongyang: For those who have the rare opportunity, the train linking Dandong in China to Pyongyang in North Korea offers a unique glimpse of the most closed country in the wor...

If the daily commute from home to office and back is becoming a bit of a drag for you, here’s some exciting news.At last week’s New York International Auto Show, US firm Terrafugia Inc. unveiled the Transition, a vehicle that can operate both as a car and, when push comes to collision, a plane. Until now, the flying car has been a subject...

Queen to re-open historic Cutty Sark ship

UNITED KINGDOM, London: The restored Cutty Sark will be re-opened by Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday, five years after the 19th century British tea clipper was ravaged by fi...

With vacations fast approaching, here are the top new destinations to include in the travel plansSummer holiday planning is already buzzing up the phone lines for local travel agents, as weary UAE residents plan their escape from the sizzling heat that’s fast approaching.Major local carriers such as Emirates and Eithad Airways have already...

French tourism spot faces car ban

FRANCE, Mont Saint-Michel: Cars have been banned from the foot of Mont-Saint-Michel in northwest France. People coming to the country's most visited tourist site now have to park their vehicles three...

Occupancy reaches 86.6% while revenue per available room surges 17.6%Tourism in Dubai is witnessing a massive surge as visitor numbers continue to climb. Dubai hotels are a direct beneficiary of this influx, with average room rates surging almost 9 per cent year-on-year during the first quarter of 2012 to close in on Dh1,000 per day, new...

Travel Trends: A golf course in Dubai’s World Central Airport…

A new report by one of world’s largest hotel groups says airport indulgances are at an all-time high, and that shopping and indulging in luxuries at airports worldwide will be a key global travel trend that will have potential impact in 2012 and beyond With over 153 million room nights booked by guests each year, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), says in its report that new global travel patterns are impacting local geographies,...

As the 381-room Fairmont The Palm readies to open in September, competition may just drive rates to be more budget friendly end of seasonAs the Fairmont The Palm readies to throw down its gauntlet in the populated hotel market that has sprung up on The Palm Jumeirah in recent years, insiders are saying that we could soon see a price war in...

Air travel could hit a high note this year if fuel prices continue to peak, said Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al Baker, adding that all airlines are equally burdened by the rising costs.This news comes just as Emirates Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum announced that Emirates’ fuel cost for the financial year 2011-2012 hit $2 billion.While...

Space tourism set for takeoff

UNITED STATES, Colorado Springs: Hundreds of people seeking the ultimate thrill ride are already signed up to be among the world's first space tourists. And several US states are in a breakneck race to set up space ports and cut out a slice of the future space tourism indus...

Solar powered boat's round the world trip

ITALY: In these days of environmental awareness a European venture has shown the possibilities of solar power. PlanetSolar is the world's largest solar powered boat and the catarmaran will complete its record-breaking round-the-world trip this week when it docks in Monaco after 600 days at s...

Best airlines for families... and yes, Emirates is on top

Travelling long distance with kids can be stress-free – no really! That’s what a new survey of international airlines found out.The study, conducted by US News Travel, reveals that Dubai-based Emirates is right on top when it comes to travelling long-haul with little kids. And there’s not one but two Gulf-based airlines that make it to the coveted Top 5 Airlines for Families, as short listed by US Travel.As any parent with kids...

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times resurrected the age-old debate about whether ugly buildings deserved preservation if deemed historically important. While the staff and travelers at online travel advisers Trippy.com may be undecided on that issue, they can certainly tell you which buildings they'd put on the list for consideration....

The ice cubes have been created using the exact measurements of Sir Richard’s headThe British-based Virgin Atlantic is giving passengers some extended face time with Richard Branson, the carrier’s billionaire founder, to celebrate the launch of the airline’s newly redesigned upper-class secti...

Casablanca's core crumbles

MOROCCO, Casablanca: Casablanca, Morocco's 'white city', hosts hundreds of architectural marvels. From art deco hotels and neo-classical ornaments to neo-Moorish detailing, the city bears witness to its sta...

Atte Miettinen blogs exclusively for Emirates24|7 as he climbs the world’s highest mountainWe returned from our last acclimatisation rotation about a week ago. Our plan had been to climb from Everest Base Camp (5365m) via Camp 1 (6150m) and Camp 2 (6500m) to Camp 3 (7400m), the highest we'd ever been on the mountain.However, heavy rockfall...

A restaurant using home-grown vegetables to achieve unique quality and taste wins its third Michelin st...

Tea to be declared India's national drink

Add captionTea should be celebrated as 'half of the tea industry labour comprises women and is the largest employer in the organised sector': official India is to declare tea as its national drink to celebrate the life of a pioneering tea-planter who was hanged by British colonial rulers for taking part in the rebellion of 1857.Planning Commission...

PHILIPPINES, ANGELES CITY: Claude Tayag sees himself as a food missionary, hoping to convert people at home and abroad to the secret cuisine wonders of the Philippin...

Danish restaurant "Noma" wins top accolade in "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list for third year in a ...

Ramadan to see 20-30% price cuts Ministry of economy again refuses dealers’ bid to raise prices

The prices of most consumer products will be slashed by 20-30 per cent during the fasting month of Ramadan in line with an agreement between suppliers and shopping outlets, according to officials.The Ministry of Economy, which is involved in a drive to prevent sharp rises in consumer prices, has also told all cooperative societies and other...

Soft drink lovers should brace to pay 50 per cent more for their beverage when a proposed tax on these products is enforced by the UAE and other Gulf oil producers, press reports said on Tuesday.Smokers, already stung by a 100 per cent rise in cigarette prices, could also pay 50 per cent more as the recommended tax also applies to tobacco.Read...

US warns two drugs may have sexual side effects

Two Merck drugs for treating male baldness and enlarged prostate will now carry extended labels to add more possible sexual side effects, US regulators said.The changes involve Propecia and Proscar, both of which contain the active ingredient finasteride, after patients reported additional adverse effects that were not apparent at the time of the drugs' approval, the US Food and Drug Administration said Friday.The new Propecia...

Statistics Centre study reveals most babies in the emirate are born in OctoberA study released by Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi (Scad) as part of its 'Demographic Studies’ series shows that February-March is the time that most babies born in the emirate are likely to have been conceived.According to the study, which looked at birth patterns...

Woman crippled by overdose during delivery

A Saudi court ordered three doctors to pay SR110,000 (Dh108,000) to a woman who suffered from paralysis and loss of many senses because of an anesthesia overdose during a Caesarian operation.A Sudanese anesthesia doctor who was blamed for the medical error fled Saudi Arabia while two local doctors were ordered to pay the compensation.The woman’s husband said his wife had been bed ridden for five years following the operation at...

But male-dominated expatriate population produces more boysAbu Dhabi nationals appear to be far more producrive than expats, even though the number of expatriate births in the emirate of Abu Dhabi are higher, according to the latest statistics. The General Fertility Rate (GFR) for nationals stood at 118.4 per 1,000 female citizens - almost...

The US Agriculture Department confirms that it found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, in a dairy cow in central Californ...

8-year old Dubai boy battles brain tumour for life

An eight-year-old Indian boy who was constantly complaining of back pain and eye problems is now battling for life at Rashid Hospital, Dubai, while his family is seeking help to meet medical expenses.Doctors were treating him for short sight and even increased the power of his lenses and prescribed medicines for back pain. Unfortunately the...

It’s been nearly two weeks since Sri Lankan Nilakshi Priyadarshana’s life came to a grinding halt. The 22-year-old suffered third-degree burns when a drain acid bottle that was placed on top of the fridge accidentally fell on her.She has already undergone two skin grafting surgeries and is scheduled for one more this week. Her husband is...

Resident individual sponsors of relatives and friends visiting the UAE are required to purchase health insurance as part of the visit visa for each visiting individual. This is done to ensure that if any medical emergency takes place, there is sufficient cover to provide for medical care.However, not often is this cover claimed – resulting...

Girl regains consciousness and says boys beat her like a toyA little Emirati school girl who was admitted to hospital in serious condition three weeks ago after she was beaten up by four school boys accused teachers of failing to protect her as they watched her being kicked.Lujain Hussein said the four boys kept kicking her like a toy during...

Euro is sinking right now, forced down by the political situation in the eurozone. Concerns about what’s next for the 17-nation currency zone are dragging down the euro as Forex traders look for safety, and choosing the US dollar and the Japanese yen instead.Euro is struggling as the political situation in the eurozone deteriorates. For the...

The Australian dollar dropped today, trading near this year’s lows, as a government report showed that the nation’s trade balance deficit in March was bigger than estimated by specialists.Australia’s trade balance registered a deficit of A$1.587 billion in March, compared to experts’ forecast of A$1.380 billion. The February shortage was...

Taiwan Dollar Fluctuates, Will Central Bank Allow Currency Appreciate?

The Taiwan dollar fluctuated today as the impact of the general negative sentiment on the Forex market battled with the influence of speculation that the nation’s central bank will allow the currency appreciate.Analysts speculate that Taiwan’s central bank will tolerate gains of the currency to stem growth of inflation even as the strong currency puts pressure on exporters. Inflation accelerated to 1.44 percent in April from a...

Risk aversion is rising right now, and the Japanese yen is gaining across the board because of it. Concerns about Europe continue to dominate the markets, and Forex traders are looking for stability and safe haven. The Japanese yen offers that, and is quite popular right now.The biggest concern right now is Greece. Right now, the party Syriza...

Euro is down across the board today, falling as concerns about what is happening in the eurozone weigh on financial markets around the world. The financial and political turmoil in the eurozone are causing trouble, and the euro is below the 1.30 level against the US dollar as a result.Thanks to the political turmoil in the eurozone, financial...

The Australian dollar dropped, reaching the lowest level against its US counterpart this year, as Forex market participants anticipate a set of poor fundamental data from the South Pacific country today.Australian employment is expected to fall by 4,800 in April, following the increase by 44,000 in preceding month. Analysts predict that the...

After a few days of gloom over Europe, risk appetite is making an appearance in the financial markets. US dollar is pulling back from recent highs against the euro and the pound, and heading lower as Forex traders look for a little extra yield, and as a degree of optimism is seen as moves are made to shore up Spain.US dollar was headed higher...

Euro is finding some support in Forex trading today, heading a little bit higher. Even though there are still concerns about what is happening in Europe, traders are looking for a little bit of respite from the risk aversion and gloom. So, the euro is a little bit higher right now, and other high beta currencies are seeing some success as...

Bank of England Avoids Quantitative Easing, Pound Profits

The Bank of England refrained from easing the monetary policy at today’s meeting, causing the Great Britain pound to climb. The United Kingdom still suffers from the double-dip recession and it is questionable whether the currency could maintain its gains.The BoE held its key interest rate at 0.5 percent and the asset purchase facility at...

Australia’s employment data made a pleasant surprise for those Forex traders that were bullish on the Australian dollar as employment unexpectedly grew and the unemployment rate fell.The number of employed persons in Australia rose by 15,500 in April from March, while analysts expected a drop by 4,800. The unemployment rate slipped from 5.2...

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