(Blog consultant) Hamilton Edges Out Massa to Win Brazilian Grand Prix
No commentsBy Roger Munns
It was a nail-biter of a race. The 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix had race fans on the edges of their seats until the very end. The final race of the 2008 Formula One series appeared for a time to be Felipe Massa’s. However, a last minute effort by Lewis Hamilton resulted in his becoming the world’s first black Formula One champion.
Lewis Hamilton fans were elated when he secured first place at the China Grand Prix in Shanghai. He had been predicted by many Formula One watchers as the front-runner. Hamilton needed that win to be in the running for World Champion heading into the Brazilian Grand Prix.
His two year career with Formula One has been fraught with high hopes and subsequent disappointments. His association with the sport and team McLaren actually began long before his induction to Formula One. Lewis Hamilton began as one of the first drivers to receive instruction in the Young Driver Support Programme. The school was started in 1998 as a joint effort between McLaren and Mercedes-Benz. Hamilton was just 13 at the time.
His rookie season looked promising at the start. He had nine podium finishes in a row and four first-place finishes. It wasn’t quite enough in the end though. The 2007 Grand Prix season saw Lewis Hamilton take the runner up position to World Champion Kimi Raikkonen. Still, it was an impressive finish for the British rookie.
His fans waited eagerly to see if he could step it up in 2008. He took five first-places in the season. He narrowly missed a sixth in Belgium. Hamilton was at first declared the winner, only to have his title stripped from him. He lost his ranking at the Belgian Grand Prix due to an illegal manoeuvre. He cut a chicane late in the race. The act got him demoted to third place.
He also narrowly missed a win in Japan in October. Lewis Hamilton had been the favored racer. Instead he managed to earn a disappointing 12th place, thanks to a penalty. His loss in Japan narrowed the gap to a small margin between him and rival Felipe Massa.
It was Massa who sped to a first place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix, the season’s final race. It appeared initially that Massa, who also had an impressive season, would take the World Championship. Fortunately for Lewis Hamilton he was able to overtake the fifth place drive on the final lap. It was just enough to squeeze out Massa. He beat Massa by a mere one point.
Lewis Hamilton set more than driving records this season. He isn’t just Formula One’s first black champion. The 23-year-old will go down in history as the youngest driver to win the series.
Hamilton will likely spend a few weeks reveling in his newfound status. His name, after all, has been uttered in the same sentence as David Beckham’s as of late. His star will be shining bright when he returns home to England for some much needed and deserved rest. His brilliant performance and last-minute manoeuvre at the Brazilian Grand Prix will be remembered for years to come.
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Free Directories or Paid Directories: The Pros and Cons
By seomul Evans
A web directory is nothing more than a list of websites categorized by subject. If an internet user wants information about a particular subject, she simply goes to a directory, searches for the information she needs, and she’s given a list of relevant websites.
Web directories are managed by humans, so each directory submission is reviewed before the website is added to the directory. This means that website owners need to be very meticulous when submitting a site. Submission guidelines must be followed to a T.
Despite the potential tediousness of directory submissions, they are very valuable for driving traffic to your site and increasing your search engine ranking. Each link from a directory is viewed as a one-way link by the search engines, and search engines place much higher value on one-way links than on reciprocal links. The older the directory is, the more value it is assigned by search engines, too, so submitting to well-established directories can also increase traffic and search engine ranking.
There are two ways to go about submitting your site to web directories. The first is to use free directories, and the second is to use paid directories. Here are the differences:
Free Directories
The primary advantage to free directories is that they are just that free. Beyond that, there isn’t much redeeming about them, particularly if you’re serious about using directory listings to build your business. The major drawbacks are that you’ll have to wait awhile between the time you submit your site and the time that it’s listed, your link will be lost in a sea of other links because free directories are often so crowded, and a general devaluing of your link since it will be listed with many lower-quality sites.
Owners of free directories have to make their money somehow, though, and that’s usually by using Adsense or selling advertising space. Both Adsense and paid advertising space distract a visitor from the actual free listings, which can cost you traffic and business.
Paid Directories
If you’ve decided that you want to use a paid directory, you need to make sure that you’re getting the most bang for your buck. Make sure that any directories you pay for are maintained by professionals and have a professional-quality layout. They should include a lot of content, including articles and high-quality resources. A paid directory should be able to guarantee you a turnaround time of 24 to 48 hours between the time you submit your site and the time your site is listed in the directory. It should offer the opportunity for deep linking as well.
Make sure that Adsense is not included in a paid directory, and a paid directory should have more features than just a sea of links. Look for a blog, articles, or other things that are there simply to enhance a visitor’s experience.
The next step is up to you. As a business owner, you have to decide whether paid directories are the right investment for you. After all, they are more well-respected by directory users, and links from paid directories are given more value by search engines than links from free directories.
If you’re not sure exactly how to proceed, consider consulting with an internet marketing professional or SEO expert. An internet marketing professional can sit down with you and help you decide how to make directory listings part of your overall internet marketing strategy.
She can help you weigh the benefits of free directories and paid directories, and can ultimately help you pick out which directories will be most beneficial for your business. Don’t hesitate to get expert help from an experienced professional. When you see the increased traffic to your site and see all those sales, you’ll be glad you did!
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It Is Excruciatingly Easy To Add Myspace Cursors To Your Profile Page.
By puneet1
If you want to liven things up a little bit on your MySpace pages, you can change the generic profile pages which come with your new MySpace account. You can customize the backgrounds of your pages as well as the layout, and the graphics. You can even add things like MySpace cursors and icons which can only enhance your MySpace pages even more.
And just as you will find that the backgrounds, layouts, graphics and animations needed to make your MySpace pages look good, are free. So too will you find that for the most part MySpace cursors are also free. This makes your job of finding new and interesting ways of enlivening your MySpace pages interesting and easy to boot!
For instance, if you want to change your MySpace pages to reflect the seasons, or even your moods, you can change not only the background and the graphics of your MySpace pages, but you can also change your MySpace cursors to match the overall theme.
It is excruciatingly easy to add MySpace cursors to your profile page, and if youve already been through the exercise of changing and customizing your profile page, you will find that to add the MySpace cursors to your page you just need to use the same basic rules.
Find a website that offers free cursors (make sure that it is free and that you dont have to pay anything!). You might think that this may be too “cute” for words and avoid getting any MySpace cursors at all, but if you really think about it, you will find that it can only enhance your MySpace pages, not detract from them. You can also go to www.rss-announcers.com. And since not everyone has gone to the extent of including any MySpace cursors on their pages, you are bound to get some sort of reply, even if it is in the form of razzing from your friends! Go through the various different cursors that they probably have littering their pages.
Preview the cursor to see if it looks good (you will generally be provided with a method of doing this so that you dont have to forever be changing your MySpace cursors codes).
After that, if you like it, you can copy the code which will be provided, normally to be found alongside of, or nearby each of the MySpace cursors. Next you will need to log in to your MySpace account and go to the profile edit section where you can then paste the MySpace cursors code that you copied earlier, into one of the editable textboxes.
You might think that this may be too “cute” for words and avoid getting any MySpace cursors at all, but if you really think about it, you will find that it can only enhance your MySpace pages, not detract from them. And since not everyone has gone to the extent of including any MySpace cursors on their pages, you are bound to get some sort of reply, even if it is in the form of razzing from your friends!
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