How to save energy (and dollars) this winter
December 31, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
CHEEKTOWAGA, NY …
Winter in greater Buffalo means spending a good portion of your time indoors. And while you want to keep your home warm, comfortable and cozy, that can run up quite a tab for your heating and electricity costs. As the leading home improvement and furnishings club, DirectBuy of Buffalo has some helpful tips on heating your home more efficiently and keeping your electric bills in check.
"Needless to say, in these trying economic times, homeowners want to save as much as possible to go," said Mark Klinger, owner of DirectBuy of Buffalo. "It is amazing that, just by a few simple steps, you can reduce your electricity and heating significantly."
Here are few things homeowners can do: Set the thermostat no higher than 68 degrees when you are home, lowering the temperature at bedtime and when you’re out. Reverse the direction of your ceiling fans and run at slow speed. This creates a gentle updraft and recirculates the warmer air trapped at the ceiling to provide even, comfortable heat throughout a room. On sunny days, open the shades and curtains on the side of your home facing south to take advantage of the heat benefits of the sun. Make sure to close the shades and curtains at night for the opposite reason. Be wary of blocking your radiators or heating vents with furniture or drapes. To maximize heat from your radiator, place a sheet of aluminum foil between the radiator and the wall to reflect heat back into the room. Replace all the lights in your high-traffic areas with compact fluorescent light bulbs. Replacing 25 percent of your lights with these bulbs can reduce your lighting expenses by 50 percent. Weatherize your home by caulking and weather-stripping all doors and windows. Be sure to lock your windows to make them tighter and draft-resistant.
“There’s nothing more brutal than a Buffalo winter. Yet by following some or all of these simple steps, you can keep your home comfortable and manage to save a bit on your heating and electric bills,” said Klinger.
In the past 38 years, DirectBuy helps consumers enjoy enormous savings of furniture, home decoration items, entertainment and outdoor products, flooring, and accessories, providing an avenue to purchase directly from the manufacturer. Conveniently located in cheektowaga 4950 Genesee Street, New York, DirectBuy offers members a comfortable environment, they finally have a direct purchase of financial control.
For more information on DirectBuy membership can call 716-684-1400 or visit www.directbuycares.com.
Do Outgoing Links Improve Link Popularity? present by top10optimizer.com
October 8, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Outgoing links refers to links pointing to other sites from your webpages.
This issue of whether outgoing links contribute to link popularity is a hotly
debated issue amongst the search engine optimization community.
The fact is, outgoing links do dilute the Google PageRank rating carried over to
other pages by the rest of the links on the page.
Some SEO experts may not agree with me on this next point, but that?s OK.
I also believe that linking to other relevant websites can also help your search
engine rankings, although it may not specifically help your link popularity as
such. Let me give you an example of why I believe this.
1. Find a subcategory within the Yahoo! Directory. http://dir.yahoo.com
2. Search for the topic of that particular subcategory in a search engine such
as Google. You are more than likely to find the Yahoo! Directory category page
listed amongst the top 30 search results.
Here are some examples:
Search Term: "communications and networking"
Google Search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=communications+and+networking
Ranking: #1
Yahoo! Directory Category:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Communications_and_Networking/
Search Term: "computer generated art"
Google Search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=computer+generated+art
Ranking: #1
Yahoo! Directory Category:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Computer_Generated/
Search Term: " computer generated music"
Google Search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=computer+generated+music
Ranking: #1
Yahoo! Directory Category:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Computer_Generated/
As you can clearly see, Yahoo! does not offer any substantial content for those
particular topics. It merely offers links to relevant websites. Yet many of its
web directory pages are considered as relevant pages for the search queries
listed.
Is this a fluke? Is this limited to Google, because of its relationship with
Yahoo?
I doubt it very much. Conduct the same search on other major search engines and
you will find the same pages listed amongst the top ranked search results in
those engines as well.
Some astute search engine optimizers have already gotten onto this fact and have
designed links pages to take advantage of this. I have actually landed on these
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