Barack Obama shakes hands with the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, before their talks in Beijing. Photograph: David Gray/AP Barack Obama met the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, in the capital today, in talks that were expected to focus on trade and other economic disagreements. Speaking before the two men met, Obama said that the American relationship with China was deepening to cover international matters such as climate change and security. Wen said: “We are really on the cusp of moving forward with this relationship.” But trade and economic disputes arose in Obama’s joint press event with the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, yesterday and the two governments are expected to explore them more fully today. US officials had played down expectations of dramatic breakthroughs in the talks, although there were signs of progress on climate change ahead of next month’s Copenhagen summit. Some analysts suggested that the wide-ranging joint statement issued by the two governments was more promising than the press event had suggested. Bonnie Glaser, an expert on China at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told Associated Press the statement underscored that “the two countries have a lot of common interests, but it remains to be seen whether they can co-operate to advance them”. Obama made plain in his press event with Hu yesterday that he was concerned about China’s currency policy. The US wants Beijing to allow the renminbi to appreciate. Last week there were hints of a possible rise in its value, albeit not in the short term, but officials have since played down such prospects. He Yafei, the deputy foreign minister, told a press briefing after the joint appearance that maintaining a stable currency during the financial crisis “not only helped the global economy but also the stability of the world’s financial markets”. With exports having fallen for a 12th month in a row – albeit at a decelerating pace – Beijing is bound to be cautious. “Any policy changes by China, including on the exchange rate, will be based on its assessment of its own interests, not on external pressure,” said Jin Canrong, an expert on China-US ties at Renmin University in Beijing. Wen is expected to highlight Chinese anger at US trade tariffs – referred to pointedly by Hu yesterday – and concerns over US government spending. In March, Wen said publicly that he worried about China’s vast US assets. China has amassed $2.27tn of foreign exchange reserves and analysts believe about two-thirds of that is invested in dollar-denominated assets, making it easily the biggest foreign lender to the US. Obama will visit a stretch of the Great Wall near the capital later today, before flying to South Korea – where trade will also be high on the agenda. Seoul is pushing hard for progress on a free trade agreement. Obama is also expected to discuss North Korea’s nuclear programme when he meets President Lee Myung-bak. The US has agreed to send its special envoy, Stephen Bosworth, to Pyongyang for talks. North Korea toned down hostile rhetoric yesterday, saying in an official newspaper that it wanted better ties with the South.
2009/11/18
2009/08/29
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1. Programmers that build your site know SEO.
This is probably the most common belief and it’s completely false. There are programmers that have studied SEO inside and out and know what they’re doing. Most of them? Haven’t. This goes the same for the company that builds your website. Nearly all of them have some kind of add-on SEO service they try to get customers to buy. The talk will sound good – but, probably they don’t have any great experience or plans for getting your site to the top of Google. Why do I say that? There are too few GOOD SEO people out there. I started in 1997-1998. I have learned so much over the years that I could write a book. SEO takes a monumental effort when done correctly. For a small site that might mean $1500. For a large site? $100,000+ easy.
2. SEO takes place on your website.
This is true to some degree, but you know what? Even for a small site there are another hundred hours of effort as “off-site SEO” that is every bit as important as what is done on your site. If I’m doing a comprehensive SEO project for a site I tell customers straight off that $2,000 will be allocated to off-site SEO efforts specific to the focus of your website. That’s doing it right. There aren’t any shortcuts. I can prioritize my work for clients that just can’t budget $2K but if I’m doing it the way I want it will take 100 hours and $2K. I’ve recently started to create a comprehensive list of things I do when I fully optimize a site. I am amazed at the list and it keeps growing as I remember things I’ve done in the past and things I find out as I go along.
3. I can get SEO that works for $595. (insert a figure under a couple grand). Or, “I can get something for nothing!”
Unless it’s your good friend, what you’re getting for under $1,000 is likely incomplete and you’re better off to open the window of your mid-size or SUV as you’re blowing down the road and throw it at some pigeons. Really.
Here in Thailand I can do SEO for $20 per hour. Top quality, my best effort SEO. In the mainland US, I know nobody with my expertise can beat that rate – nor would they try. SEO experts with my skills go for $60-100 per hour in the states. So, if someone offers to give you a complete SEO package to “optimize” your site for Google or anywhere else I think they couldn’t legitimately get past the on-site optimization of your site for $1000. The off-site would suffer. Or, worse the on-site would suffer. If business website owners understood the amount of time and effort needed to get a website to the top 10 in Google – and keep it there, they would spend the extra money that would make the difference. I really hate to see any ads for SEO under a couple of grand because I know, something will suffer at that rate. Probably you’re wasting whatever you spend at that level.
4. SEO stops when my site is optimized.
This is a very common belief. I’ve done work on sites that brought them tremendous traffic and sales, and then they ignored SEO for six months untll sales had completely fallen off and realized they needed help again. And FAST! SEO done correctly is an ongoing effort. Everyday something must be done to add to the attractiveness, functionality, and/or link popularity so the search engines consider your site one of the best in it’s niche.
5. Getting your site ranked in the top 5 in Google is “The Goal”.
False. Getting your site ranked 1st on the keyword phrase, “Jeremy and Jeds Illinois Ice cream” is really not that awesome. It’s child’s play. Now, getting your site ranked 1st on “ice cream”, now that is awesome. Be careful what your SEO is promising you, typically there is that blanket, generic and quite meaningless promise, “Your site will rank in the top 10 of Google!” Make sure the keywords are the best you can get.
6. SEO means optimizing my meta tags, links, and text on my pages so I have a lot of instances of my top keyword represented.
It used to mean this to some degree. Now, it’s a new game. The industry has changed so much over the past 10 years and it’s in flux now – it’s always dynamic and never static. Another reason ongoing SEO maintenance is a must or you’ll find your site trailing your competition. Your competition could be someone from Guam now. Competition has become Worldwide now – it’s not limited to your city, state, or even your country anymore. There are many Canadian sites coming up in searches for SEO now. Go figure!
7. “My friend is going to handle the SEO…”
Unless your friend has spent a few thousand hours reading about and experimenting with live sites for him/herself you’re not going to get anything at all. There’s a reason SEO experts charge what we do – we have an advanced degree more valuable than my master’s degree even. I’ve acquired what is equivalent to a PhD in real life search engine optimization. While I help friends, I usually can just discount the first project for them and hope I can convince them how important the ongoing maintenance is so they contract me long-term.
8. White Hat SEO is the only way to go.
White hat seo refers to seo experts using optimization techniques that are Google friendly and that won’t cause any penalties for having used them. Google is pretty clear about what can and can’t be done. I use white hat seo techniques for every project and it was the only way to go for a while.
Now? It’s not good enough. I’ve created what I call the “Clear Hat SEO” initiative. I’ll flesh it out more as I think about it, but it has something to do with being more transparent to the customers that hire me to optimize their sites. I keep an ongoing Google Doc going in which I detail out things I’ve done for their project. SEO shouldn’t be secretive. Everything I do in the course of an SEO project should be in the open for clients to view. Otherwise how do you know what you paid for? I’ve done this with two recent clients and it seems that they appreciate knowing what is going on. Of course they don’t understand much of it – but I’m open to questions about anything written in the spreadsheet they want to learn about. White Hat SEO is almost OK, but, insist on Clear Hat SEO.
Here are some more articles on SEO that might help you get your head around the topic…
2009/06/24
China stock market 100 spot collapsing
“China stock market 100 spot collapsing, the business volume withers extremely every day, the commission slides extremely. Has a look in the hall, the human also did not have several. The marketing department thinks how can attract the investor, how to develop the customer resources?”This is at the beginning in 2008, south some negotiable securities company mister in a routine weekly assembly the words which said to the company intermediate deck backbone. The stock market after having experienced short more than one year of bull market, changes over to the bear market rapidly. This family negotiable securities company, the headquarters are located in Guangzhou, in the locality, the service does quite prosperously, sales office’s quantity by 2002 two, increased until now 12 sales offices and 5 service departments. Mister said to the intermediate deck backbone: “we must, if wants the means that to help the customer to make money is actually helps us to make money.”
2009/06/17
cash buy-back credit card total mark
total mark of the credit card will be overdue
there is a model in some forum of Shanghai that the total mark of the credit card is fulfilled – the reporter investigates further, it is very regrettable to waste. “A lot of similar small advertisement is very popular in the network at present, some oxen opening up the path separately begin to catch the idea that the total mark of the credit card fulfills.
Many holders think, the total mark of the credit card can only often change in the bank into some cheap smalls in the bank, and credit card total mark time have term of validity totally, might as well change into cash come on reality directly. The reporter has carried on relevant investigations to some people of the trade.
Mr. Chen living in Shanghai uses the credit card to be used to paying by credit card to consume with the credit card on ordinary days for many years, can exchange the present in the bank in order to save the total mark of credit card in purpose. However, can only often bring the small teacup or some small toy accessories after consuming more than 10,000 credit cards of total marks.
Recently, under to ” point out the right way ” friend, he search for ” cash buy-back credit card total mark ” find, there are a lot of people specialize in, retrieve credit card total mark on the net from network, can very convenient total mark change into the cash the credit card. Mr. Chen has explained that exchanges this phenomenon of the cash in total mark of the online credit card in detail to the reporter. Mr. Chen says, the seller who purchases total mark of the credit card types the price-list that is exchanged of the total mark of the credit card on websites, every 10,000 points total mark of credit card, Banks such as CITIC, people’s livelihood, industry and commerce, Pudong Development Bank,etc. can exchange 20 yuan. It is found after the model of this kind of buy-back on a lot of forums that Mr. Chen has compared with, credit card total mark above several bank can exchange only, though different seller bid different, but generally the total mark of 10,000 points of credit cards can all be exchanged 20 yuan to 28 yuan, if it is platinum card, diamond credit card total mark of card of China Merchants Bank that change into spot price can by up to several one hundred yuaning also. Why the total mark of credit card is fulfilled will prevail in this way. Please continue looking over the total mark of the credit card is fulfilled – the reporter investigate serial articles further Why does the business transaction of total mark of credit card prevail
credit card mark buy and sell
2009/06/11
It’s okay — there is no rush
Just open the wp-admin and found that
This dashboard widget queries Google Blog Search so that when another blog links to your site it will show up here. It has found no incoming links… yet. It’s okay — there is no rush.
why no rush.. faint .
I must got more links
2009/06/08
mayor Ray Nagin quarantined in Shanghai jinjiang hotel
US mayor Ray Nagin quarantined in Shanghai jinjiang hotel
Mr Nagin is on a 10-day trip to China and Australia
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is being held in a Shanghai hotel, after a passenger on his flight from the US fell ill with suspected swine flu.
Mr Nagin’s office confirmed the quarantine of the mayor, his wife Seletha, and a security guard.
They were on a 10-day trip to China and Australia aimed at promoting business to his city.
The World Health Organization says the flu strain, found in 64 countries, is most prevalent in North America.
New Orleans city officials told US media the Nagins had no symptoms and were being held as a precaution only.
They were seated during their flight near a passenger who showed “signs and symptoms of an influenza-like illness suspected to be of the H1N1 subtype”.
There was no word on how long the Nagins would be held. They were to travel next to Australia.
Chinese health authorities confirmed eight cases of H1N1 swine flu on Sunday, bringing total confirmed infections on the mainland to 80.
There have been no reports of deaths from H1N1 flu in China.
Among nearly 19,000 infections worldwide, 117 people have died.
Almost 2,000 cruise ship passengers at the centre of Australia’s swine flu outbreak were cleared and allowed out of quarantine in Sydney last week.
There’s been another quarantine in China for folks possibly exposed to the Swine Flu and this time New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is amongst the group under lockdown at the Jinjiang Inn in a suburb of Shanghai.
Nagin and his wife Seletha have been in quarantine since Sunday, along with a member of the mayor’s executive protection team, after they had the misfortune of sitting within a few rows of a French student now confirmed ill with the A-H1N1 virus on their flight from the U.S.
Nagin planned to be in China for several days for trade-related meetings but it looks like he’ll just be killing time in the hotel room instead. Authorities are also screening his phone calls while there to “keep him safe.”
The Jinjiang Inn is a popular Chinese budget hotel brand and the rooms do come with internet access. From what we could gather, some Jinjiang Inns offer it free, some do not. Coincidentally, an AP reporter was quarantined at the same hotel last month. There was limited English language television channels and lots of boredom. Hopefully, they waive the internet charges for Nagin.
But just remember, he’s definitely not Twittering about this thanks to China’s strict social media controls.
sedo parked domain
From the 2007-2009 I parked about 100+ domains in sedoparking, but got olny 10$.
So I changed my mind and now I make some English site. like this one
Itis being more Interesting to make site than to parked domain
Dear Customer,
During a routine Account Maintenance Check, we noticed that you have one or more domains listed with Sedo that are not currently registered.
Since the domain(s) in question are not active and therefore cannot be traded or parked through Sedo, we’ve removed them from your Sedo account.
To ensure the quality of Sedo’s marketplace, we will be conducting frequent Account Maintenance Checks for all Sedo accounts. This increased awareness of the domains listed on Sedo, will allow our team to detect and remove any expired domains on our site.
Below are the domains which were deleted from Sedo’s marketplace on Jun/07/09:
sy bye to sedo . I cant play with you
2009/06/07
Richard Li and Isabella Leong have been parents
Hong Kong media today reported that Richard Li, 42-year-old and Isabella Leong have been promoted to be parents.
Reported by Hongkong , Isabella Leong at the age of 21-year-old. she was gave birth to a boy seven pounds weight in Toronto by the end of April.
Richard Li says that they dont have plan to marry.
She was referring to Lee, he is a birth plan, “the child’s grandfather named grandson Li Changzhi, as its English name from the father of the child for Ethan.”