What is Search Engine Optimization?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a web site or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Other forms of…
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Road Testing 4 Free iPhone Navigation Apps
Not as Full-Featured as Paid Apps, These Still Show the Way By Eric Hiss, Contributor, Edmunds.com They say the best things in life are free, and now GPS-powered navigation can be added to that list,…
Auto Insurance Tips: A Total Loss?
Tips for Filing a Claim After a Serious Car Accident By Steve Siler You’re OK. Your kids are OK. You have much to be thankful for. As for your car, well, there’s not a lot…
How to Choose the Right Insurance Company
By Erin Riches, Senior Content Editor , Edmunds.com If you’ve read our “10 Steps to Buying Insurance” article, you should have a pretty good idea of how much car insurance to buy and how to…
Car Insurance for Teenage Drivers
By Philip Reed, Senior Consumer Advice Editor The statistics about teenage drivers aren’t good. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), 16-year-olds get into accidents almost six times more often than drivers between…
How Car Insurance Works
by Allison Klein If you own your own car, you probably already know a little about car insurance. You may have heard the words deductible or premium. But, do you truly understand the different parts…
How Much Car Insurance Do You Need?
By Philip Reed, Senior Consumer Advice Editor A growing number of people are dropping their auto insurance to try to save money, according to a recent study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC). If the…
Top 10 Ways To Lower Your Car Insurance Bill
By Warren Clarke, Automotive Content Editor If you’re shopping for car insurance, you know there are certain crucial factors influencing your rate that are out of your hands. Such factors include your age, gender and…
Auto Insurance Tips
When you really need it, you will be glad you took the time to purchase good car insurance. The purpose of the articles in this section is to prepare drivers with the right auto insurance…
How to Get Rid of Love Bugs
It’s late in spring or summer, and love is in the air — in your garden, porch, on the windshield of your car. Love is everywhere. It’s the kind of love that drives people insane:…
How to Save Money on State Income Taxes
Retired IRS Mr. Smith, an independent truck driver, lives in Brunswick, Ga. In 2009 he earned $62,000 after business expenses as an owner-operator. Mr. Smith works on the road for months at a time and…
Having IRS File a Substitute Tax Return for You Can Be Very Costly
Retired IRS Agent A new client recently came to my office because the IRS had filed a lien against him for back taxes plus penalties and interest in the amount of $278,000 for the tax…
How to Save Thousands on Your IRS Federal Tax Return
Retired IRS Agent As a retired IRS agent and small-business owner I know the best way to save money on your income tax return is to take advantage of all deductions and business expenses. The…
Business Expenses for Truck Drivers
Retired IRS Agent Taking advantage of all of Uncle Sam’s deductions so that you can save on your income taxes involves knowing what you can write off as a business expense and keeping track of…
10 of the Most Common Errors Made on Federal Tax Returns.
Before filing your tax return you should review your tax return for possible errors which may delay your refund. Here are the most common errors: • Failure to sign the tax return. If you are…
Securing Oviedo’s Future Protecting our Community, our Finances, and our Quality of Life
Elect Matthew Schwartz for Oviedo City Council, Group IV (Oviedo, Florida) “I am committed to working hard to win this election. If elected, I will work diligently to keep Oviedo in the “Top 100 places…
Layoffs Said to Be Near for Bank of America Unit
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ Published: September 20, 2010 Echoing the slowdown in activity that has hit Wall Street’s biggest institutions, Bank of America plans to cut several hundred jobs in its investment banking unit this…
Twitter Is Hacked Tuesday Morning
By RIVA RICHMOND Twitter was overrun with posts on Tuesday morning that used a programming flaw to play pranks, distribute porn and spread worms to unsuspecting users. The problem appeared to be confined to Twitter’s…
In Worries About Sweeteners, Think of All Sugars
By TARA PARKER-POPE Are you worried about high-fructose corn syrup in your diet? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Today, about 55 percent of Americans list the infamous corn sweetener among their food-safety worries,…
How Much Will You Owe? Tax Plans Compared
By ROBB MANDELBAUM In the debate over the effect of the expiring Bush tax cuts on small business, it’s already possible to do the math. And the Obama administration is pointing to the tax savings…
Drywall Flaws: Owners Gain Limited Relief
By ANDREW MARTIN Published: September 17, 2010 Linda and Randall Hunter own their dream house in Plant City, Fla., with an oversize master bedroom, granite countertops in the kitchen and a screened-in pool. The problem…
Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill….
Vow Renewals: When One ‘I Do’ Is Not Enough
By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN Published: September 17, 2010 UP until recently, the wedding industry would have you believe that you had only one chance at the perfect day. So spare no expense, be a princess…
The Food Processor: A Virtuoso One-Man Band
By MARK BITTMAN Published: September 14, 2010 IT’S sitting there, over on your counter or maybe, sadly, under it. Perhaps ignored, even forgotten. Yet the food processor — the darling of the mid- to late…
Dogs: Not a Gardener’s Best Friend
By MICHAEL TORTORELLO Published: August 25, 2010 DID Bertie Wooster mean to harm Barbara Geltosky in September 2008? The evidence against him is damning. For instance, the hole that Bertie, Ms. Geltosky’s 5-year-old Norwegian elkhound,…
Take One Last Look
By CATHY HORYN Published: September 17, 2010 Fashion writers and professionals have been complaining about the motley nature of the shows since the mid-1970s, when designers moved their presentations to hotel ballrooms and, through the…
Woods, a Man on His Own, Is No Longer One of a Kind
By CHARLES McGRATH Published: August 21, 2010 What on earth is wrong with Tiger Woods? It’s true he played a little better at the P.G.A. Championship, where he at least made the cut and finished…
For Manning and Colts, Super Bowl Loss Lingers
By JUDY BATTISTA Published: September 18, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning used to tell his father that he would almost rather the Indianapolis Colts not make the playoffs if they were going to lose, preferring…
Real Estate Q & A
By JAY ROMANO Published: September 17, 2010 Responsibility for Fireplaces Q Who is responsible for maintaining a working fireplace in regulated and unregulated rental apartments — the tenant or the landlord? And who would be…
Nutrition: Risky Additions to a Low-Carb Diet
By RONI CARYN RABIN Published: September 13, 2010 Atkins-style low-carbohydrate diets help people lose weight, but people who simply replace the bread and pasta with calories from animal protein and animal fat may face an…
Lightening the Health Care Load for Small Businesses
By WALECIA KONRAD Published: September 17, 2010 BETSY BURTON feels as if she dodged a bullet. At 64 and a co-owner of the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, she has been in business…
Search Takes a Social Turn
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: September 12, 2010 Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web…
A Textbook Solution
By ELIZABETH WEIL Published: September 16, 2010 The most complicated form in print media is the textbook,” Josh Koppel of ScrollMotion explained to me. “You have a 1,000-page math text with 10,000 more pages of…
A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme
By MATT GROSS Published: September 15, 2010 SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They…
Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd?
By TODD WASSERMAN Published: September 18, 2010 AMY VERNON still recalls the first time, two years ago, when a story she posted on the social news site Digg became popular. She had promoted a blog…
Google User Experience
Google User Experience Our aspirations The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO is an acronym for “search engine optimization” or “search engine optimizer.” Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk…
Shopping Innovations
By Mary Bellis The Mall A shopping center, shopping mall, or shopping plaza, is the modern adaptation of the historical marketplace. The mall is a collection of independent retail stores, services, and a parking area,…
Watching the Catwalk, and Clicking ‘Add to Cart’
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…
Bachelorette Cooking Parties (Girls Gone Mild!)
By DIANA CERCONE Published: August 13, 2010 CHEFS and private cooking-class instructors say they are seeing a spike in requests for bachelorette cooking parties. Why are brides trading in their shot glasses for aprons and…
Fending Off the Weeds With Newsprint
By ANNE RAVER Published: September 8, 2010 THE garden suffered through another heat wave last week: day after day in the high 90s and no rain. (Didn’t I say that a few weeks ago?) Hurricane…
American Holidays
Official information and services from the U.S. government Americans celebrate a variety of federal holidays and other national observances throughout the year. American holidays can be secular, religious, international, or uniquely American. With the wide…
Find the Best Places to Live Before You Move – Top Places to Live in the World
By Diane Schmidt, About.com Guide Finding the best places to live takes a little research. Many companies and organizations have done a lot of the legwork for you, having compiled data and conducted surveys to…
Space Commandos Back at War, With Retooled Combat Gizmos
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
Car Sharing: Ownership by the Hour
By KEN BELSON Published: September 10, 2010 FOR all the reasons it may make sense to rent a car — a carless household facing a gaggle of errands, a temporary need for a second vehicle,…
Video Clips on the Web for Scouting and Laughs
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Published: September 11, 2010 This is the era of the screen — touch, wide, flat, etc. — and tennis is not even close to immune. The players’ lounge at the United States…
Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love
By JANET MORRISSEY Published: September 11, 2010 REBECCA AND TRENT DUPAIX of Eagle Mountain, Utah, spent a year searching for their dream home. The couple, who have five children, considered 15 to 20 houses before…
Nation of Individuals Sees Tennis Identity Fade
By GEORGE VECSEY Published: September 6, 2010 It’s Noah’s Ark time at the United States Open, with one Venus Williams and one Sam Querrey left amid the rising tide of Spaniards and Eastern Europeans. This…
Health Plan Won’t Fuel Big Spending, Report Says
By ROBERT PEAR Published: September 9, 2010 WASHINGTON — A new government study says President Obama’s health care law will have negligible effects on total national health spending in the next 10 years, neither slowing…
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…