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Computing & Internet

The Top Manufacturers All In One Place

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Why spend your time going from dealer to dealer when you can go to the Hutchinson, Kansas Car Dealer that has vehicles from 10 different manufacturers? There’s nothing worse than going to a dealer, not finding anything you like, and then having to leave and go someplace else.

With Conklin, if the first car you see isn’t what you’re looking for, they have hundreds more to choose from. That sounds good to me. You can go to lots of places in Kansas for Used Cars, but when you go to Conklin you’re getting quality vehicles and service that no other place can compete with. Wichita new and used cars are also available through Conklin Cars.

General

Have Your Company Working More Efficiently

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It’s frustrating to know that your company could be more efficient. You know that there are better ways to keep track of inventory, incoming orders, and the warehouse in general, but don’t know which to choose.

That’s why F. Curtis Barry & Company is the answer to all your problems. I think you’ll be surprised by how much their warehouse management system can help your company save time and money.

With over 20 years of experience in Warehouse Consulting, F. Curtis Barry & Company has the know-how to help your company move to the next level. You’ll quickly see why they’re an industry leader in helping companies become more efficient.

Blogging

Writing Too Much or Too Little?

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Sometimes I feel like I am writing too many posts but sometimes I feel like I am so free, not writing anything and miss blogging! Actually, am how many posts do I write daily? You may not know it and may feel that my blog may seem so quiet, but I blog consistently on a daily basis and even though I may not publish my posts, I blog and save them all in my Draft folders.

I believe in writing in advanced and will always have a bunch of posts saved up, which I call them my ammunition! Weird, huh? But all the drafts give me a sense of security, knowing that my posts will self-publish should I be too busy to attend to blogging or if I do not have access to the computer or internet.

Some people have asked me why I do not publish them as and when my posts are written. Well, I write more than ten original blog posts across my blogs and if I were to publish them all it would be overwhelming for readers and also would push my sponsored posts way down or even off the main page. That wouldn’t be good, would it?

General

Getting Covered Abroad

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My friend heard that I am contemplating taking a vacation and he told me that one of the most important things about preparing to travel is to get a travel health insurance. Well, to be honest, if he did not mention that, I would not even have thought about it.

I subsequently read up on this and found that actually, most of our existing health or medical insurance are useless out of the country. Whoa, that is really risky! I don’t know how many people know about this and I am pretty sure that there are plenty of people who travel without insurance. It is a pity that they are not duly compensated due to ignorance when something unfortunate happens during their travel.

While doing my research, I came across the website, All Aboard Benefits, which offers international travel health insurance that is valid worldwide. I think one thing that we should be aware of is that there is a type of insurance called trip cancellation insurance where the traveler will receive reimbursement benefits should the trip be suddenly cancelled due to poor health, poor weather conditions or other factors that caused the trip to be interrupted or totally cancelled. This surely provides peace of mind to the traveler knowing that all is not lost should something like this happen.

In any case, if you are planning a trip out of the country, you should plan your insurance coverage as well.

WordPress Issues

Akismet Activated

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When I first started this blog, it was very quiet, very clean. As days go by, more and more spam comment kept hitting my blog. I really do not understand how they could even find my blog or the permalinks of specific posts. Anyway, I tolerated them and even found some to be really funny.

Until a couple of days ago, I consistently received more than 50 email alerts of comments on the blog which are 99% spam. I don’t know why Blogger blogs could stop spam from hitting but WordPress can’t. I don’t even get as many spam from all my Blogger blogs combined since day one compared to one day on one WordPress blog.

After tolerating for seven long months where it got exceptionally bad this past couple of months, I finally moved my butt over to wordpress.com to register for an account sans blog just so that I could get the free Akismet API key. Well, I think it’s mighty redundant to have to do so. I mean, I don’t even want a wordpress.com blog and neither have I ever logged in to read other blogs. I’m not that free. I’m not bored up to that level yet.

That’s the main reason it took me this long to get the key but now that I have finally activated my Akismet, whoa, only one or two wayward spam comments managed to hit my inbox PER WEEK. It’s so effective (for now) 😀

Computing & Internet

Driving Traffic To Your Blog

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A couple of weeks ago, I was introduced to the personalized news portal of Thoof.com. I was told that I could gain more traffic by submitting my blog post to Thoof.com. I registered with Thoof.com without further ado, it’s FREE, after all, and promptly submitted my article to Thoof.

However, I was too impatient that I submitted my article BEFORE my registration was confirmed. So I was not assigned a ThoofRank Badge which I was supposed to place at the end of my post on my blog. Having this ThoofRank Badge will even drive more traffic to the blog. I know, because there was no way to rectify my submission and so I submitted another article to Thoof and this time, managed to embed the code for ThoofRank Badge at the end of my post.

With a post without the Badge and one with the Badge, I would see the vast difference in traffic. I believe everyone who blogs is hungry for traffic. Having multiple blogs, I *AM* hungry for traffic. Bloggers could write a killer post but if it is not read, it doesn’t make an impact.

Thoof allows us to market our posts to a wider international audience and share our thoughts with other Thoof members. If our blog has great content, we can convert random article readers to our loyal blog readers and that is what every blogger needs!


Blogging

Value In A 3 – 5 Line Post

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I have been blog hopping reading random postie blogs and I see so many people either having a whole page of sponsored posts or have short posts as long as only three to five lines.

I would like to know, is there any value in such a short post? What is a blog? Posts as short as that make the blog seem like a notice board and as far as I can see, ultra short posts like that cannot convey any good information to the reader and there really isn’t any value to at it all. Sooner or later, people won’t even bother coming by to read. I know I won’t.

To me, a blog post have to be at least 140 words to be of any value to the reader and taking this into account, I do not see what good a three to five line “interim” post will do. What do you think?