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A Study Into The Top Marbella Sites

Feb 26, 2010 in Business

In a study to unravel the mysteries of website age as a factor to being classed as an authoritative website in a given search.. I picked the term Apartment Marbella as a relatively strong phrase from a list of many regularly used phrases on the Internet when searching for a popular holiday destination.

Looking at the first page set of results I was curious to understand why these specific ten were presented to me as being the most relevent for what I had chosen as my search phrase when there were clearly other phrases amongst them such as “Apartments for sale” “Rental apartments”. I’d read this week that theres the Go Green types who are encouraging websites to offset their carbon dioxide emissions by paying certain websites for green credentials on their sites as many folk get bogged down with the idea of how much energy they are using each time they do a search! Imagine the thought of flying to enjoy a beautiful holiday apartment in Marbella? How much carbon ?.

Thankfully none of the search providers take energy usuage into account when presenting the top 10 sites for me, or calculating on a GEO bases how much flting CO2 I would be using to reach my holiday location and rate accordingling!! Imagine such horror.

Anyway,back to the search in hand – Holiday Apartments Marbella. which is in Spain for those who’ve never heard of it. The titles shown in the results were all very similar and the descriptions had a fair amount of differing content but I was set on finding out the domain creation date of each of them. I came across whosdomains which served my purpose and jotted down each domain and when it was first registered. For the conclusion of earliest first having some bearing I was at least curious to see if the top results showed an older registration date than the ones at the bottom of the first page.

For this illustration I am Ignoring the months in each case… the run of years from number one to number ten goes like this: 2001; 1999; 2004; 2007; 2002; 1996; 2004; 2003; 1999; 2002. Something which struck me immediately is that none of them are very recently registered, yet there’s an eleven year spread across the top ten and not in a linear order either. Have you heard of the phrase content is king? its something a lot quarters like to spout as the over riding decision factor and clearly a website with good content properly aimed at its target audience has to be a major benefit to both the site owner as well as the searcher. when going back to view the content of each of the top ten I see places where that rule doesnt seem to add up.

So it seems that the original hypothesis about older sites do better in search engines is only a part truth…. to satisfy my curiosity I looked at a page set back amongst the 12 page of results and there were plenty of old sites back there too. Clearly its unlikely to get a brand new site to the front of any large search result data set. However there’s clearly many other things at play here in final ordering, including but not limited to, site recommendations between sites, order of words used in the website’s titles etc and maybe even some sort of calculation on how popular the site is through visitors on its pages. I wonder if I’d had a different conclusion if I’d picked Apartments Algarve instead of picking Marbella? maybe next week as my heads spinning now.

Exploring Snoring Solutions

Feb 26, 2010 in Business

Life isn’t always fair, is it? You’re the one snoring, but your partner is the one losing sleep. The ultimate irony is that you get to pass the misery of your condition to your partner. If you truly care about your partner, you’ll find a way to stop your snoring. With that in mind, lets see if we can discover how to prevent snoring.

You must make every effort to not sleep on your back. Snoring is most commonly caused by the muscles of your throat relaxing and clogging your airway. If you sleep on your back it’s easier for the relaxed tissue to obstruct your air flow.

Various snoring sprays have also been known to bring relief from snoring. Most of these sprays will stop your throat muscles from completely relaxing, thereby keeping your airway open.

Another large factor in snoring is being overweight. The extra fatty tissue in the throat of overweight people only adds to the problem. You may find your snoring will go away with the extra weight, if you’ll lose it.

Other things that may contribute to snoring are drinking alcohol before bed, many common sinus pills and cough syrups, and smoking. Stay away from anything that can relax your throat muscles and add to your snoring problem.

Please Note: This posting is based entirely on information freely available in the popular press and medical journals concerning . Nothing herein is intended to be or construed to be any type of medical advice. For medical advice people should talk with his or her physician or other medical specialist.