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Whitening Bathtub Stains

Problem: Stained tub.
Solution: Combine equal amounts of cream of tartar and baking soda with enough lemon juice to make a paste. Rub the mixture into the stain with your fingers or a soft cloth. Let sit for a half hour, then rinse well with water.

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How to handle Googlebot during site downtime

This week one of my clients was carrying out some web design work that required part of the site to be taken offline for several hours.

Google normally spiders the site quite a lot so the client didn’t want to mess up any rankings during the downtime.

The best way to manage this according to Google is to give spiders a 503 (Service unavailable) header code when they visit. This tells search engines that the problem is temporary and they will come back another time.

Serving the error message is easy if its just a static php page and you can even choose the number of seconds Google should wait before coming back.

Add a nice error message here

However sometimes you need to apply the code to all pages in the site, in this case you need to add this code to your .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*google.* [NC]
RewriteRule .* /errorpage.php

You should make sure your error page is giving the 503 header as shown in the php snippet above and most importantly test your code as soon as it goes live to check for problems.

12 Quick Home Repairs | Life Skills | 12 : RealSimple.com

Whitening Bathtub Stains

Problem: Stained tub.
Solution: Combine equal amounts of cream of tartar and baking soda with enough lemon juice to make a paste. Rub the mixture into the stain with your fingers or a soft cloth. Let sit for a half hour, then rinse well with water.

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By Matthew Philips
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Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue – In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.” But beyond the irony lies China’s true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region’s Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering.
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At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it’s under Chinese control. Assuming he’s able to master the feat of controlling his rebirth, as Dalai Lamas supposedly have for the last 600 years, the situation is shaping up in which there could be two Dalai Lamas: one picked by the Chinese government, the other by Buddhist monks. “It will be a very hot issue,” says Paul Harrison, a Buddhism scholar at Stanford. “The Dalai Lama has been the prime symbol of unity and national identity in Tibet, and so it’s quite likely the battle for his incarnation will be a lot more important than the others.”

So where in the world will the next Dalai Lama be born? Harrison and other Buddhism scholars agree that it will likely be from within the 130,000 Tibetan exiles spread throughout India, Europe and North America. With an estimated 8,000 Tibetans living in the United States, could the next Dalai Lama be American-born? “You’ll have to ask him,” says Harrison. If so, he’ll likely be welcomed into a culture that has increasingly embraced reincarnation over the years. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 20 percent of all U.S. adults believe in reincarnation. Recent surveys by the Barna Group, a Christian research nonprofit, have found that a quarter of U.S. Christians, including 10 percent of all born-again Christians, embrace it as their favored end-of-life view. A non-Tibetan Dalai Lama, experts say, is probably out of the question.
© 2007 Newsweek, Inc.

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Here is a list of 8 Great Resources that I use to find out what people are searching for online today. In the spirit of sharing and giving back I offer you the following:

1. Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

2. Yahoo! Buzz Index
http://buzz.yahoo.com/

3. Lycos 50
http://50.lycos.com/

4. AOL Search <<Hot Searches>>
http://hotsearches.aol.com/

5. Ask.com Top Searches
http://hotsearches.aol.com/

6. Amazon.com Hot New Releases
http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases

7. eBay What’s Hot page
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html
*** Make sure you click on eBay Pulse and eBay Pop

8. Google News – Most Popular
http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=po

BONUS:

Also take a look at the most popular sections of digg.com, netscape.com, reddit.com, and del.icio.us.

Enjoy!

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This is a good way to find niches that have a market (people) that are looking to for something specific.

Here are some of the keywords to use during your search:
get rid of, how to, solve, buy, review, features, price, fix, tips, etc.

Go to Google Suggest
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Google Suggest is a great way to find niches, by entering these keywords and then “space”, start with “a”, “b”, “c”, and so on, for each one it gives you a list of 10 searches.

I think it may be a little confusing for some so I will make a quick video so you can see it in action.

Here’s the link to the video, I uploaded it to youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zg-IIhYq09I

These ideas will still have to undergo the market research part, but they should give you some good ideas, especially if you are having some problems finding ideas.

Hope this helps,
Mike

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We joined, video, audioed, tuned in, blogged, meeboed, twittered away and selected niche areas or what we thought were niches to riches.
Now we are brainwashed up on the beach of the lost in Web 2 wasteland.
Never mind, don’t panic says the guru, it will all become clear as mud.

Gorrngrahdulashuns Rob smalleville for wining the $ten smakeroos, Shit we hardly got started or hold our breasts long enough. Never mind, I will twitter my life away smelling magnolias and stumbling over the super wall where my blog friends are.