New Hope for the Unemployed by the Investigative Guy

In October the national unemployment rate hit 10.3% this equates to approximately over 15 million Americans left jobless, many with little hope of returning to work in the near future. However perhaps there is hope out there a hope that has yet to be revealed.

INVESTIGATIVE GUY John Mattes has uncovered a federal program designed to give free gas cards to the unemployed but is a secret to those it's designed to help. The U.S. Labor Department provides millions of dollars in supportive services to the states for the unemployed. The program in some areas provides free gas cards, child care assistance and even pays for job interview clothing -- but the program has never been publicized so the unemployed don't know it exists or how to ask for it.



More info at InvestigativeGuy.com
Press Release: http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20091108/new-hope-for-the-unemployed.htm

Freelance SEO Expert Gets New Google Profile

For too long, I've avoided creating a profile in Google for various reasons. But I just found out that they are giving free business cards away to Google profile members, so I figured I'll capitalize on that. I don't get too personal in my profile. It was mainly built to support my theme; Freelance SEO Expert.

You can check it out if you like. I'll revisit it in the near future and make it a little bit more robust. But for now, let's put some age on it and give it a link.

A San Diego SEO Company on Merchant Circle

Another great place to submit your local company is Merchant Circle. Yes, there are 1,000's if not millions of places to submit your business to for a listing, but there's something special about Merchant Circle. It's like the Yellow Page, mixed with MySpace but with a twist. Businesses can now mingle and network via a social network and we don't have anything to worry about because we all understand that we're companies trying to make a living, friend and/or a buck. Here's a link to my SEO Company profile and my San Diego SEO Blog.

SEO by the Hour San Diego Now on Twitter!

Hey guys, I'm on Twitter now. I recommend following me because I'll be shedding a lot of light on what I do here in San Diego and in SEO. I'll share link building tips, talk about keywords, list local events in San Diego and much, much more. I'm new to twitter, so bare with me if you send me a direct message. I never gave Twitter a chance in the past because I never seen the SEO capabilities behind it. But even though it's not that great for SEO, it's great for traffic just like Facebook is good for traffic and useless for SEO.

But I am starting to see some twitter SEO possibilities and how twitter can improve your rankings...

Follow me to see how.

SEO by the Hour San Diego on Twitter

Link Building Video About Anchor Text & Reporting

Here's a video brought to you by California SEO; SEO by the Hour . :) Learn the importance of back links in order to dominate the search engines from a real link building expert. Link building is a very important search engine marketing factor to consider.

This video is posted in many social networks so feel free to embed them on your site using whatever network is your favorite. I'm only using Vimeo here because I'm using the YouTube and Blip TV versions in other places.

When it comes to embedding videos and aesthetics, I prefer Vimeo & Youtube over all the other video networks.

Link Building Expert Article - Backlink Building Tips

I just wrote an article titled "Link Building Tips for Obtaining Relevant Backlinks" in order to give a quick overall of a typical strategic and planned-out link building campaign. I cover various link building issues from what types of links you need, why you need them and some ways to obtain them. The main point of this article was to create a link titled "link building expert" that could possibly have the chance to be mass reproduced. (hence the title of this post and the anchor text to the article; relevance)

Here's a snippet of my link building article.
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- Contact other webmasters and let them know about your site. These webmasters should be websites in your industry with a lot of visitors
- Notify forums. Every industry has forums. Letting visitors that participate in these forums know about your site can generate buzz.
- Find blogs in your industry with huge RSS subscribers. Ask them to review your site. Normally all their visitors/commentators will review your site as well.
- Convert all your text content to podcast using text to voice software (Or you can record someone reading it). Then submit your podcast to podcast directories.

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Check it out and comment what you think.

Kate Sessions Park in San Diego, CA

About 4 or 5 days of the week, my girlfriend and I take our little french bulldogs to Kate Sessions Park. We just let them loose and they run around with the biggest smiles on their faces. The park is actually not a leash free park, but if you go after 5/5:30 (after the rangers have left) you can let your dog loose to play with all the other dogs.

Here's a video of Kate Sessions' large grass field. It's perfect to us and our dogs.

If you want to see more of our little french bulldogs or this video continued, visit our blog FrenchieTink.com