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Sunday, October 23, 2011




Increase WebSite Traffic Writing Articles #ExpertWriter


Many webmasters wonder how they can increase their website traffic without spending a dime. When I build my first site I did not know either. I just told all my friends about my new site and eventually started contacting other webmasters to propose a link exchange.

Link exchanges are time consuming and they only give you a link to the main page of the site. What about the other equally - if not more - important pages? I think you will agree that sticking only to those tactics will never get your site massively exposed like Article Writing can.

Attaining More Visitors by Writing Articles:

Fortunately, There is another way to get links, and thus more visitors, to your site.
Submitting articles to an Article Directory is the perfect way to increase incoming links - and thus increase website traffic - to your site pages and it does not cost a single cent. Not only do you gain incoming inbound links, you also build a relationship with your off-site (and eventually on-site) readers. A very powerful traffic tactic. Actually more common sense than a tactic.

Quality content articles can really attract your readers in becoming returning visitors. It is the perfect medium to build trust with them.

Just picture someone enjoyed reading your article, wanting more just like it. Would you think they are curious to what more your site has to offer? You can be sure of it! If your readers already liked what you wrote, they will want more and most probably visit your site.

Increase web site Traffic with More Links to Your Site:

Now, how does writing just one article get you more links to your site ?
Article authors are usually allowed - in return for submitting their articles to an Article Directory - to put a few links in their Author Resource Box. The Author Resource Box is included at the bottom of each article and contains some information about the author, their business, any other info the author likes to add and of course one or two links. Just look at the bottom of the article you're reading now.

It would seem though that one article would only give you just one or two links to your site. That is actually true. But if you submit to as many Article Directories as you can, you will have that many more links to your site pages. Some Article Directories send out the articles of their authors to other Article Directory. Something SmallArticles is working on right now, and might even already be accomplished when you visit our site.

If so - one article on Small Articles with one link at the bottom becomes hundreds of articles spread over hundreds of other Article Directories. That's hundreds of incoming inbound links to your site pages - ready to be crawled, ranking you higher in the search engine listings. Again, all for free!

Now that's what it's call allot of links. But that's not all ...

Many of these Article Directories allow webmaster - who are looking for great content - to reprint your article on their site(s). We invite all publishers to reprint our articles. Webmasters are allowed to use tools to publish your article, on the condition they leave the author links intact and leave the article as is. Allot of webmaster are looking for great content for their site(s). So if your article is what publisher prefer best, publishers will publish your article and you will have that many more additional inbound links to your website and that many more changes for visitors to stumble upon your site. Yet many more great aspects that comes with writing and publishing articles.

Final Say about Article Writing:

In the end it all comes down to writing as many articles as you can. If one article can give you hundreds or even thousands of visitors a day - for years to come - think about writing 10 articles, or more ... You can literally explode website traffic coming to your website. It all depends on how many you write and submit.

If you do not know how to start or how to write a good article, there are many articles out there that with great advice to master article writing. Just do some searches.

Finally, here is my final help to you get started. Write about what you know. You will never have trouble writing about what you know. Just start like that. Feature your article with kind helpful advice and add you own thoughts. Read your article out loud. Make sure there is a smooth flow to it. Do not use long sentences. Write an article as if you are telling a story to someone. And do an extensive spell check in the end. But never rush writing an article.
Stick to that. You will come to like writing articles and your readers will like reading them. Trust me. It is really rewarding - any way you look at it!



Monday, August 8, 2011





The Famous Baccarat Crystals #ExpertWriter


A small village in the depth of a French forest has become the home of some of the world’s most renowned pieces of crystal.

In the 15th Century, glassmakers in Murano, near Venice, produced an almost colorless glass which they called “cristallo.” It was thin, elegant, and much purer than existing glass.

In 1676, a London glassmaker discovered the formula for lead crystal. It was nicknamed “flint glass” due to the high amount of powdered flint in its manufacture, and was used mainly for optics. Finally, in 1781, the first crystal as we know it today was produced.

The story of Baccarat began in France in 1764, when Montmorency – Laval, the Bishop of Metz, got permission form King Louis XV to set up a glassworks of Baccarat, a small village in the depths of the Vosges forest near Lorraine. The glassworks prospered, and by 1860 was one of the leading exporters of crystal to the world.

Baccarat kept pace with the changing technology, introducing the latest fashions of the era in its collections, but creating its own originals at the same time. Baccarat survived two world wars, using the periods of inactivity to renovate and update its factory. Today, it has a range of 2,000 products comprising dinner services, table accessories, decoration, decanters and lighting fixtures.

Up to 1835, Baccarat dictated sober fashions: simple glasses with little cut-work, short and flat-based with straight sides. The style was termed the Regency look. Styles changed in 1839 becoming more elaborate, and the first crystal chandeliers were introduced. These ultimately achieved enormous proportions, some being five meters high. The first balloon-shaped glasses (the predecessors of the wine-taster’s “ballon”) were launched by Baccarat in 1849.



The fashion for profusely decorated crystal was set by Baccarat in 1870. It peaked in the early 1900s, but by 1939, simplicity was back in fashion. From 1958 onwards, Baccarat began the trend of crystal pieces being signed by well-known artists and sculptors including Salvador Dali, and Georges Chevalier. The pieces designed by Georges Chevalier for Baccarat soon after the second world war have become some of the most coveted in the history of crystal.

Crystal is glass with more than 24 per cent lead and with a refraction index above or equal to 1.54. Every crystal manufacturer has its own mix of raw materials, which are largely responsible for the quality of the final product. There are other factors as well – melting techniques, blowing skills and the type of furnaces used – which add or detract from total perfection of the crystal.

Baccarat crystals consist of silica (57 per cent), lead oxide (27 per cent), potassium oxide (14 per cent), and various products in minute quantities (2 per cent). Manufacture begins by mixing the different components in clay crucibles, called pots. These are placed in furnaces at a constant temperature of about 1500 degrees. The melting crystal is then gathered on the end of a steel rod which is turned continuously. This rod is passed on to a blower who shears off the required quantity for the article he is making and blows it through a hollow rod into the desired shape.

Once the shape has been achieved, the blower passes his rod back to the first blower who connects the different pieces of crystal to make it a perfect harmonious whole. The piece is then cooled. The first rigorous check is conducted at this stage. At the sign of the slightest flaw, it is destroyed.

Once a piece has passed the first check, it is cut, engraved, flattened and polished. In spite of the care taken, nearly 35 per cent of articles are destroyed in each lot as failing to reach Baccarat quality.



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