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Before you start that essay assignment, check out these 25 indispensable sites. The internet can guide you to discover how to write, what to write, where to find information, and how to format your paper. Goodbye hours of frustrating rough drafts, hello A's.

How to Write

The OWL Writing Lab is one of the most complete writing sites on the web. Offering everything from step-by-step outlining to developing a thesis, you’re sure to find something to improve your writing here.

Cyber Essays offers a collection of sample papers submitted by actual students.

This Guide to Writing a Basic Essay walks readers through a step-by-step process of creating and perfecting an essay.

Michael Harvey’s Nuts and Bolts of College Writing provides extensive information for those writing at the college level. From research and documentation to structure and style, there are hundreds of interesting, informative pages.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Writing Center offers a writing handbook that guides writers through all steps of the writing process.

Essayinfo.com provides extensive information about different types of writing (critical essay, narrative essay, persuasive essay, etc.)

This Study Skills Online page uses graphics to guide students step-by-step from questioning to editing.

What to Write

Old Dominion University Library provides lists of hundreds of possible subjects organized by category.

Queen’s University Library not only offers lists of topics, but provides many research guides for individual topics, complete with lists of related books, multimedia, and other resources.

This Argumentative Essay Topics page offers suggestions for persuasive papers with possible thesis statements and links to reference material.

Where to Find Information

Reference.com offers hundreds of links to sources of information such as almanacs, dictionaries, and literature.

Refdesk.com provides organized links to useful sites on tons of topics.

The Library of Congress provides an Ask a Librarian service that allows researches to ask previously unanswered questions and receive an email response in five days. This service is not to be used for simple assignments.

Many states have fantastic Ask a Librarian programs that allow users to chat with a librarian live (and for free) from their home computers. California’s program Asknow.org gives access to live librarians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for all residents. To find out if your state hosts such a program enter your state’s name and “ask a librarian” in any search engine.

LibrarySpot offers thousands of links to reference material on a variety of subjects.

From biographies to news facts, InfoPlease.com provides tons of useful information for writers.

Encyclopedia.com provides brief factual information on many subjects.

The Internet Public Library offers links to full text books, articles, and reference material for free.

Google Scholar allows users to do a web search with only academic results. If you’re looking for sources that are taken seriously, this search will save you the hassle of sifting through unprofessional material.

How to Format Your Paper

The Online Writing Lab offers a wealth of information for using MLA style.

The Online Writing Lab also offers information about using APA style.

The Citation Machine is a helpful web-based program that automatically creates proper citations in MLA and APA styles based on simple information that you provide.

The Writing Center offers detailed information about using Chicago or Turabian Style.

The UVic Writer’s Guide provides essential information about citing sources and avoiding plagiarism.

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So you have decide to create your first blog on Blogger. It has a simple and fine interface that takes care of many things for you. This is my suggestion to you for your first free essential must haves for your blog.

1. Feedburner - It generates an smart feed compatible with all feed readers for free like my feed. It allows you to put easy subscribe buttons for XML, Add to yahoo, Add to Newsgator, Add to MSN etc. Read about how their single feed policy can benefit you.

It can give you a cool feed count chicklet button to show how many readers are using your feed to read your blog. It also gives you a headline animator which you can attach to your blog to display the recent 5 posts in a nice animated fashion. You can get an authentic Creative Common license, get a browser friendly RSS feed, Splice photos and links and more…

2. Haloscan - Trackback is an essential component of blogging these days. Unfortunately Blogger does not have trackback. Haloscan provides you with a seamless way to integrate free trackback in your blog by adding a small code. You can also integrate their comments component if you like to replace the Blogger comments. Read about Haloscan or Blogger comments.

The benefits are that you can edit Haloscan comments, and open them in a pop up and keep them separate from your post (Blogger allows you to only delete comments and not edit them, also on the post page all comments will show whether you like it or not).

The main disadvantage is it will not email you these comments (like Blogger) for free and it is difficult to track where these comments were made. Another major benefit is that it allows you to send pings and trackback to other sites when you mention about them in your posts.

3. Imageshack - Dont you want to fill your blog with images without hassles of registration. Imageshack provides an excellent interface to take care of your free image hosting needs. Maybe it is this the fastest way to host an image on the web. Allows lots of image format, hotlinking, transloading from other sites. Its a good idea to register to keep track of all your images in one place. It is much convenient than the proposed Hello and Picassa options…

Update: Blogger enabled hosting of images on its own webspace making it easier to host images in your posts. But you cannot manage or edit / delete your blogger images in any way

4. Technorati - Create and add a technorati profile. It allows you to claim your blog in this huge blogosphere. It allows you to put an excellent technorati search on your blog. The best part is that whenever someone mentions or links to any page of your blog, technorati knows and a search for your blog on technorati shows exactly how many sites link to which pages of your blog and when they were added with a small description. See why you need a technorati account.

5 - Sitemeter - Just takes 5 minutes to get a free tracker which gives you realtime site traffic statistics to check the quantity and quality of your site traffic with detailed referrer and geographic data. I have checked out several other tracking sites, but this one seems the best. Although you need to keep a counter visible (as a logo, visitor counter) and the statistics can be made private too.

StatCounter gives much more detailed statistics and the counter is totally invisible and free totally till you start getting large traffic, when you need to pay. But the disadvantage is that both of these track the last 100 visitors only, while another free service Extreme Tracking tracks them all… but you statistics cannot be made private. More options I like are Google Analytics for deep traffic statistical analysis and it is hidden too.

6. Feedblitz - It quickly allows your blog visitors to subscribe by email to your new posts. They just have to enter their email. You decide which page opens after they press Subscribe. A quick confirmatory email to them and they get 1 email daily with all your new posts. You can decide if you want to send the full post or short posts with defined number of characters. Very good to keep your subscribers informed of new posts. It allows them to unsubscribe easily also. Example for our blog.

7. My Blog Log - Tracks outgoing links to let you know where your traffic is going. The free limited version data is not in much detail, yet provides a good idea. You can also add a Top 5 Our Links module to your web site. Now they have a MyBlogLog community to get some extra site traffic too.

8 AudioBlogger- Audioblogger allows free unlimited audio posts from any phone to your Blogger blog. You call the number (Currently a US phone number), record a post, then your blog is updated with an audioblogger icon and a link to your recorded audio.

9. w.bloggar - It is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. It enables users to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems. Helps to manage multiple blogs on Blogger very effectively.

10 Blogger Mobile - opens a new concept of Moblogging i.e. blogging by your mobile phone. When you send text or photos from your mobile device to go@blogger.com they’re automatically posted to your new blog page.

11. Blogexplosion - helps you get confirmed traffic to your blog. The principle is simple, you visit other peoples blogs and they visit yours. For every 2 blogs you visit, one visitor comes to you. This is very good if you are new blogger and have hardly any traffic. Definitely try the Rent a Blog advertising swap service.

12. Pingoat - Pinging lets dozens of blogging services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Just enter your blog name and blog home page, check the blogging services you want to ping, just click ‘Submit Pings’ and in one click it pings all of them. Pingoat offers a wide variety of such services and is fast too. See many more one click pinging services.

13. Creative Commons - It offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright. They are nonprofit and all tools are free and useful to highlight the way in which you want others to use you content.

14। Google Adsense and Search - When you take all effort to write for a blog, why not optimize it to make some money. Let users search for good posts in your blog. And now it even helps to monetize you feeds.

Content is king. That’s for sure. Your search engine optimization efforts can be really much, it doesn’t help if you don’t have good and unique content. Quality content is both important for the users of your website and the search engine spiders. Search engines honor unique content because it increases the satisfaction of the search engine users. Different sources of good text and information are a necessity that users come back - both for the search engine and your website. If a search engine result page (SERP) has among ten listings 5 times the same content, this will be pretty unsatisfactory. Thus, good SEO content will fall back positively to the ranking of your website.

The users honor your good content as well. They will come back and recommend the site, moreover, you will more likely get links from other websites. Of course, writing unique content is a tough job. But you will get rewarded. Whereas those who do only keyword inclusion in a standard text will be punished. Not too long ago, webmaster uploaded thousands of webpages with the same text, just the keywords were automatically exchanged. No chance for them to get good rankings any more!

So actually the right term should be content creation instead of content optimization.

Vice versa, duplicate content will reduce your ranking. If done heavily we talk about text spam and that can have serious effects - even an exclusion of the SERPs can be thinkable.

Good content goes closely along with a good text amount. A reasonable text amount is considered to be 300 to 400 words at least. 200 words and less will be hardly recognized by search engines. The keyword density in the SEO text should not exceed 5 to 8%, else it could be keyword spamming.

Last but not least, good content and information will more likely draw links to your website which will boost your rankings even more.
Good content attributes

1. Unique information
As mentioned before the content needs to be unique. No-one likes to read the same content again and again on different webpages or categories on one website.
2. Scannable structure
The text should have good structure for the eyes, so you can fly over the text and right away get the most important information. Highlighting the keywords is very efficient as well.
3. An answer to a question
A website is worth reading when you get an answer to the question you entered in the search slot of a search engine, for instance. Still happens often enough, that you have to scan 10 different websites to get a solution.
4. Quality of grammar, punctuation and spelling
If you stumble upon mistakes all the time, you’ll lose patience and attention and thus even a professional text will become annoying.

The header of a website is the first part that is visible to search engines and search engine users. They mostly transport technical data for the search engines or the browser. For the users of your website is it not so important as the header and the meta tags are not shown on the screen.
Parts of the header and meta tags

Title tag (importance: ++)
The title tag belongs to the header but is no meta tag. It will appear in the reverse bar of the browser and is also often used in the search engine result pages as the link to the respective website. Moreover, it will be shown if you choose to bookmark the webpage in your browser. Take a look at this website here, the title tag is Header and Meta Tag optimization. The title is placed between TITLE and /TITLE.

Meta description (importance: +)
The meta description tag is used to describe the content of this website. Years ago the search engines used it heavily, in the meantime it doesn’t have too much influence anymore, at least not with the big search engines. Smaller ones might still rely on the meta description tag. Still this tag should be used because sometimes it will be shown in the search engine result pages (SERPs), instead of the usual text snippets. So a good meta description is important to increase the click-rate for your webpage in the SERPs.

Meta keywords (importance: -)
Meta keywords have become more or less unimportant. You should evaluate carefully if your effort you put into meta keyword creation will pay off. They provide additional text for crawler-based search engines, but as these don’t have a relevant market share, meta keywords can be neglected.

Meta robots (importance: +-)
With the meta robots text you can exclude search engine spiders. It lets you specify that a particular page should NOT be indexed by the search engine. If you want your pages to be indexed, no special input is necessary, just leave the meta robots tag away in your source code.

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As you can see, within two months of the SEO campaign being implemented at the end of April 2005, site traffic increased by 278 percent from 11,876 visitors to over 33,000 visitors in the month of June 2005. Within 6 more months, traffic had increased by another 66 percent to 54,931 visitors in the month of January 2006. That's a whopping 463 percent increase in traffic since the site was optimised! Here's another happy customer:
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As with many things, it's often worth making a checklist and ticking each item off as you go. Here is a simple SEO Checklist to apply to your site. Tick off all these items from the SEO checklist and your website will be in much better shape.


This list is in no particular order.

• Decide what search phrases you want to target. Use a tool such as the Digital Point suggestion tool to see what search phrases are popular, and optimise your site for these. You can optimise for any number of phrases - a bigger site can target a greater range of phrases. If you don't know how to research phrases properly, pick some phrases that you think people might search for, and optimise for these. Make sure the phrases you choose are relevant to your content.
• Clean up your URLs. No capital letters, no spaces, no special characters. Seperate each word with a "-" dash. Make sure each URL accurately describes the page.
• Remove Querystrings from URLs. No question marks in your URLs.
• Redirect the non-www version of your site. When you enter domain.com into the browser, it should redirect you to www.domain.com using a SEO friendly 301 redirection.
• Make sure you don't link to "index.htm" or "index.php". Instead, link to "/".
• Remove frames from your site - unless you really, really know what you are doing.
• Ensure the title is different on every page of the site.
• Ensure the Meta Description and keywords are different on every page of the site, or leave them empty.
• Ensure every page has a H1 heading. Ensure the main body content is immediately after the H1, with no breadcrumbs or navigation in between.
• If your main navigation is flash or image based, ask yourself if it can be done using CSS. If it can, do it.
• If using CSS styled text for navigation is unthinkable, then add text based footer navigation on every page.
• Add a sitemap, containing a link to every page on your site.
• Add a Google XML sitemap. Even if it's just a simple list of all the URLs on your site. Submit this to Google through the Google Sitemaps program (sign up if you have not already)
• Is your website tables based? Consider a cleaner CSS based layout for your site.
• Have you got a website statistics program installed? Do you know how to access it, and do you check it regularly? If not, do it.
• Do you know where your website currently sits for your main phrases? If not, go find out. Check Google, the localized version of Google eg google.co.nz, Yahoo and MSN. Very few visitors will search past page 3.
• Check the Optimisation of each page. Pick 1 search phrase that is relevant to the content on the page. Ensure the page contains the phrase in the Tilte, H1 heading, twice in the Meta Description, twice in the opening paragraph, and also in the URL if possible. The page you are reading now is optimised for "SEO Checklist".
• Have you got good content? SEO will be much harder if you don't have plenty of original text content, so perhaps spend less time reading SEO Articles, and more time writing good content.
• Check the source order of your page. Good source code will have the page content as clost to the top of the HTML document as possible, and the least important elements such as sidebars and footers last. If you can get the content above the main navigation, great.
• Spider your website using a program such as Xenu. Action all recommendations that it makes, such as fixing broken links. Look carefully at the list of URLs, and make sure they look tidy (no spaces, capitals etc).
• Optimise your images. Ensure all are named appropriately, have alt tags and are placed near text that is relevant to the image.
• Check the search engines to see how well indexed your site is. If the search engines have indexed pages that have since been moved or deleted, setup a 301 redirect to redirect all trafic that these pages generate (or lose it).
• If you are a local "bricks and mortar" business, make sure you use your town / city / country on every page, in the title if possible, and in close proximity to your chosen search phrase.

If you can tick off most of the items on this list, your site will be looking in reasonable shape.

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甜蜜蜜 Comrades, Almost A Love Story (1996)
Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung


天若有情 (If Sky Have Love) (1990)
Andy Lau & Wu Qien-Lien


滚滚红尘 (Red Dust) (1990)
Brigitte Lin & Cheng Han


秋天的童话 (An Autumn's Tale) (1987)
Chow Yun-Fat & Cherie Chung


胭脂扣 (Rouge) (1988)
Leslie Cheung & Anita Mui


双城故事 (Alan and Eric Between Hello and Goodbye)(1991)
Eric Tsang & Alan Tam


花样年华 (In the Mood for Love)(2000)
Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung


玻璃之城 (City of Glass)(1998)
Hsu Chi & Leon Lai


重庆森林 (Chungking Express) (1994)
Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong, etc.

Last one, 春光乍泄 Happy Together.
Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung


Ok, I must confess. I prefer HK movies ：P