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O’Rourke Hospitality Interviews Tom Critchlow on Hotel Link Building at the SEOmoz Seminar 2009
bit.ly O’Rourke Hospitality attended the SEOmoz PRO Training Seminar 2009 and interviewed guest speaker, Tom Critchlow, on how hotels can build more links by leveraging their USP, PR, and organic growth. O’Rourke specializes in the hospitality industry, and we aim to provide your hotel with useful tips on how you can improve your website optimization. Link building plays a major part in increasing your website’s visibility and page rank, and can help your hotel listing rise to the top of the search engine results pages. We enjoyed Critchlow’s talk on link building, and wanted to share some of his insights with you, so we asked him his thoughts on how the hotel industry in particular could increase their page rank with link building. Tom O’Rourke, founder/president of O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing, interviewed Critchlow and asked him to expand upon the following question that many hotels are asking, “What advice would you give today to a hotel who is ranking somewhere between 3-4 in Google right now and have finished out all their on-page SEO? What do you think they should do moving forward?” “Link building is the Key!” said Critchlow. We agree with Critchlow in that hotels need to identify their USP (Unique Selling Proposition). As he states in the video, “If you haven’t got a USP figure one out!” Perhaps your USP is that you are a boutique hotel, or an eco-friendly hotel, or conference-focused. Establish your USP and promote it through creative public relations. Once …
New American Home 2009: Ideas for your Home!
The New American Home 2009 is a showcase home in Las Vegas full of design ideas and energy-efficient technologies applicable to any size home, anywhere in the country. Premiering at the 2009 International Builders Show and sponsored by NAHB’s National Council of the Housing Industry (NCHI) and Builder Magazine, the home doesn’t shy away from the big and beautiful. At the same, it shows off cutting edge green practices: the 8700 square foot home uses less energy than a house a quarter of its size. Visit the NAH web site: www.buildersshow.com/Home/Page.aspx?pageID=2254
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Our first day of skiing season on the Snow Summit at Big Bear Lake. From the Snow Summit website: Thanks to Mother Nature and this cold, dry weather we’ve been making snow for 42+ hours. These are the kind of conditions that allow us to make a lot of “real” snow. This is some of the best early season riding Snow Summit has seen in years and with all this snowmaking we’re excited to open more lifts and runs as soon as possible. With great snowmaking comes cold weather, the high today will be 27 degrees with possible below zero wind chill so break out your warm cozy gear. Were looking at a machine groomed packed powder to machine groomed hard pack with lots of new snowmaking. All three roads into Big Bear are open with no chain requirements. All vehicles must always carry chains when traveling to the mountains during the winter months. Red=runs open, Purple= runs next to open Snow Summit and Bear Mountain have the most open terrain in Southern California with plenty of runs and trail combinations for beginner to advanced skiers and riders! The People’s Park at Bear Mountain and Snow Summit’s Westridge, ZZYZX and Ego Trip runs now offer more than 80 terrain park features! The weather is providing a long, continuous snowmaking window increasing the open lift and run count all the time. Come enjoy real snow, blue skies and friendly faces!
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Google I/O 2009 Native Code for Compute Intensive Web Apps
Google I/O 2009 – Native Client: Using Native Code to Build Compute Intensive Web Applications Brad Chen Some applications require high-performance client-side computation. Native Client is a technology for running native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps. This talk will give a brief overview of the architecture of Native Client. We’ll then look at some specific example applications as well as strategies for how to use native code to handle compute intensive tasks within web applications using SRPC, Shared Memory and NPAPI. For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html
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Iran TV: 1000 killed or injured in Tahrir Square, by Israelie Jews Commandos A crowd of thousands rushed to speakers and projection television screens to listen to their president address the unrest that has swept over the nation in the past eight days. They weren’t happy with what they heard and told an Al Jazeera web producer they would remain in the square until Mubarak leaves. Protestors were scattered and some were trampled underfoot. Battle for Egypt Pro Iran Islamist vs Green Freedom Seekers of Egypt Thousands of supporters and opponents of President Hosni Mubarak battled in Cairo’s main square, raining stones, bottles and firebombs on each other in scenes of uncontrolled violence as soldiers stood by without intervening. Government backers galloped in on horses and camels, only to be dragged to the ground and beaten bloody. All the unrest has also led to heightened tensions along the Egypt-Gaza border. Both Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, have been watching the situation closely, the border has been closed since Friday. More than a million protesters flooded into central Cairo, turning Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital, into a sea of humanity as massive protests against President Hosni Mubarak swept across Middle East’s most populous nation. Packed shoulder to shoulder in and around the famed Tahrir Square, the mass of people on Tuesday held aloft posters denouncing the president, and chanted slogans “Go Mubarak Go” and “Leave! Leave! Leave!” Similar …
Google I/O 2009 -…Interaction & Visual Design with Android
Google I/O 2009 – Pixel Perfect Code: How to Marry Interaction and Visual Design the Android Way Chris Nesladek A great user experience incorporates three pillars: structure, behavior, and expression. This talk will explore the wide variety of interaction design patterns we have built into the Android system framework to help educate you on the best way to use these pattern-based behaviors for an optimized user experience. For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html