India: Chennai Rain Showers at end of Hot Day

July 30, 2009 Evening showers on Thursday came as a much required relief for the residents who experienced yet another hot day. The rain, however, resulted in several roads going under sheets of water within minutes and distressing traffic.

While in several areas in chennai, including Chintadripet, Royapettah and Mylapore, the showers lasted for an hour, other localities, including Koyambedu, Otteri, Vysarpadi, Velachery, Vadapalani and Kilpauk, received only light showers.

Motorists spent a very long time as traffic piled up on many water-logged stretches of major roads such as Jawaharlal Nehru Salai, Poonamallee High Road and Taramani Link Road during the evening rush hour.

Nungambakkam registered a maximum temperature of 36.8 degree Celsius against the average temperature of 34 degree Celsius. Meenambakkam recorded a maximum temperature of 36.7 degree Celsius. The light showers over the past few days have helped to carry down the day temperature.

While the observatory in Nungambakkam recorded 3.2 mm of rainfall, the competence in Meenambakkam registered 32.2 mm of rainfall through the 12-hour period till 8.30 p.m. on Thursday.

Meteorology Department officials said the showers were due to the thunderstorm activity. There is a possibility of light rain and sun shine in some areas during evening or night on Friday and the maximum temperature would be around 37 degree Celsius.

URL Guidelines for SEO from Marketing

Marketing features a very wide list of URL guidelines for assist with SEO. Jody Nimetz of Marketing discusses the significance of leveraging search engine friendly URLs as part of a noise SEO strategy.

Having fresh and search engine friendly URLs can be the variation as to why one site places superior in the search results than another. Traditionally the search engines have shown a preference for static appearing URLs that have partial parameters and are short in nature. Shorter, cleaner URLs tend to resonate good with the user as well. URLs help users identify the website when they reflect the overall site information architecture. Search engine friendly URLs are particularly important in the SEO success of your sites.

Effective URLS:

1. Improve customer site knowledge with a consistent approach for domain name formats to better site usability.
2. Make it easier for the search engines to crawl, index and rank your sites.

Check out the article for 15 great URL guidelines and tips for successful URL optimization.

U.S. panel to set priorities for H1N1 Swine flu Vaccines

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vaccine experts who advise the U.S. government are possible on Wednesday to put healthcare workers, pregnant women and patients with asthma and diabetes at the front of the line to get vaccinated touching the new pandemic H1N1 influenza.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices may also at its meeting inspect ways to manage a complicated U.S. flu season, with people receiving seasonal influenza immunizations alongside swine flu vaccines.

“I think at the end of the day we’ll have a firm idea who will be recommended to receive vaccine against novel H1N1,” Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease protect and Prevention, said in a telephone interview.

“We might expect to see different sets of recommendations that take into account a convinced number of doses being available at any give time during our flu season.”

H1N1 swine flu is currently so widespread that the World Health Organization has stopped counting individual cases. Health experts are afraid it could worsen, particularly when the Northern Hemisphere’s influenza season starts in the autumn.

The U.S. government has tapered for 195 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine for a possible autumn vaccination campaign. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said previous this month the government would foot the bill.

HHS has also contracted for 120 million doses of adjuvant, a multiple to stretch the number of doses of vaccine needed, and the ACIP, which advises the CDC and HHS on vaccine policy, may discuss various options for using the adjuvants.

5 companies are making H1N1 vaccine for the U.S. market — AstraZeneca’s MedImmune unit, Australia’s CSL Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis AG and Sanofi-Aventis SA.

It is not clear how much vaccine is going to be presented. Flu vaccines are made using an old-fashioned method — inoculating eggs with the virus, leasing it grow, and then purifying and inactivating it to build the vaccine.

World Health Organisation Report: More than 800 died of swine flu worldwide

A total of 800 people died of swine flu (H1N1) worldwide, with most of the deaths occurring in South America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

So far, 707 people have died in the Americas, 44 in South-East Asia, 34 in Europe, 30 in the Western Pacific area and one in the Eastern Mediterranean region, the UN agency said.

In addition, more than 20 countries such as Afghanistan, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Haiti, Namibia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Solomon Islands, India, among others, have confirmed swine flu cases since July 6.

A total of 134,503 people worldwide have been affected by the influenza A (H1N1) virus, also called swine flu, so far. The real figure may be much higher, as countries are no longer required to report swine flu cases.

SEO Companies say Client Interaction is Required

When companies choose to use search engine optimization (SEO) to boost their online visibility by choosing an outside company they may believe taking a hands-off approach, but a new assessment seems to specify that is not what SEO companies want.

A new study from Search Engine committee finds that almost all search engine optimization (SEO) companies want their clients to have a few interactions in the process. In fact, only three percent of respondents said they would like no interaction.

An overwhelming 84 percent said they feel client interaction is a significant part of a search engine optimization (SEO) campaign with another twelve percent saying that a slight interaction would be fine.

With a rising number of businesses turning to search engine optimization and other online marketing promotion tools, it will increasingly become essential for them to get concerned in the process.

Top Best 10 Sites on the Web

1.Google

google.com

Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company’s focus is developing search technology.

2.Yahoo!

yahoo.com

Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.

3.YouTube

youtube.com

YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

4. Facebook

facebook.com

A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.

5.Windows Live

live.com

Search engine from Microsoft.

6.Microsoft Network (MSN)

Msn.com

Dialup access and content provider.

7.Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

An online collaborative encyclopedia.

8. Blogger.com

blogger.com

Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.

9.Baidu.com

baidu.com

The leading Chinese language search engine, provides “simple and reliable” search experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search in China.

10.Myspace

myspace.com

Social Networking Site.

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Proven experience in Successful PPC implementation.

Link Exchange, Directory submission, Cross advertisement in other/related websites.

Page wise keyword analysis & optimization by preparation of Meta tags/SEO across the website.

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