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Organic Cleansers are a Good Choice for Your Home

howard3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0400

Did you know that one of the most common sources of exposure to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens is via ordinary household cleaning products? Although household cleansers seem innocuous, many of them are made of potentially dangerous solvents, acids, and cancer-causing substances. If you have children or pets in your home, they are particularly vulnerable to these harsh chemicals. If you would like to start avoiding dangerous household products, you can purchase commercial organic, natural cleansers. These cleaning products are available at almost any store and are generally made of fruit juices and extracts, vinegar, baking soda, salts, herbal extracts, and other safe substances. What are the health benefits of switching to natural, organic cleaning products? First, you're drastically reducing your exposure to cancer-causing chemicals. Second, you're reducing your exposure to allergens and substances that can trigger asthma attacks. Organic cleansers are a particularly good choice if you have children with asthma or other breathing conditions in the home, since they do not produce the kinds of fumes that can worsen breathing or trigger an attack. Switching to organic cleansers is also advantageous compared to using products with antibacterial substances. Current research suggests that antibacterial soaps and cleansers actually end up increasing the proportion of dangerous bacteria in the home due to antibiotic resistance. There are many types of organic cleaning products that can sanitize surfaces and kill bacteria without causing antibiotic resistance. For Professional Organic Carpet cleaning call 1-800-CLEAN-MY CARPETS 1-800-253-2669 Original post blogged on b2evolution. Tagged by howard3 under blogs,

Why Do Uti Bugs Love Cranberry?

howard3 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:57:00 -0400

by Scott Schofield If you are a long term sufferer from UTI and Cystitis, you’ll already remember how cranberry at first appeared as a savior - the answer to all your prayers. Then, just when things were looking up - your UTI attack began to return - much, much worse than before! Now why is that? What’s going on? Why are these cystitis attacks happening again and again? Well, e-coli (notorious source of most Cystitis / UTI and Bladder Infections) is identified in medical circles as an adaptive bacterium, meaning that it is capable of modifying its nutritional requirements to its immediate surroundings. Then, because Cranberry makes urine more acidic (rather than neutral), you are effectively nourishing your e-coli whenever you drink some Cranberry. More than 5 years ago I began to religiously take cranberry every day, in the belief that it would reduce or eradicate my frequent UTI attacks. At first things improved, but then discovered that I still got just as many infections as previously. Only when I began to do my own research did I realize that I had been wasting my time and money. I was foolishly following a widely-dispersed myth instead of searching out something that really worked (I did in the end though). So why is cranberry so popular? Why do so many “experts” claim it works in reducing or curing UTI? Is its reputation wholly underserved, or only partly so? Here is a very basic version of the information I gleaned: It is very well-known in scientific circles that an e-coli bug sticks like crazy to the walls of the urinary tract, that’s where it sets up home and breeds. It is also well known that Cranberry juice has a slight anti-adhesion characteristic. I believe that from these two unrelated facts people have decided that if bacteria sticks and cranberry un-sticks, then cranberry has to be particularly good for cystitis sufferers and UTI sufferers. However, I also believe that if you compare its anti-adhesion properties against the damage that can be done in producing acidic urine in which e-coli thrives, then the benefits just don’t outweigh the disadvantages, so cranberry fails miserably. There’s another problem too - cranberry prevents some antibiotics from working effectively. Antibiotics do their work by damaging the bacteria’s cell walls. Adding cranberry-created hippuric acid to the urine just makes the bacteria to grow a thicker skin, and this makes the future use of that antibiotic less likely to succeed. This is the reason that UTI-sufferers who have taken cranberry for several years may find that their physician’s normal course of antibiotics no longer works and the infection rapidly returns. The problem is compounded by the modern physician’s unwillingness to prescribe more than the usual 1-week course of antibiotics, when a month or more is needed. “BUT IT WORKED SO WELL WHEN I STARTED USING IT!” Yes, it usually does! Taking cranberry results in your urine becoming much more acidic, and that acid will - at first - attack and kill many of your bacterial cells. So at first you’ll feel better, and probably believe that cranberry is the miracle you have been searching for (I know I did). But that is usually only a temporary respite. The e-coli cells remaining, (always the stronger tougher ones), will quickly get used to their new environment, then start to reproduce and breed ever-stronger replications of themselves. Your next UTI attack will inevitably be worse than any previous one, and you’ll label cranberry as a curse. In reality, not all that I’ve outlined here happens to all cystitis or UTI-sufferers, but it really did happen to me! After 21 years of sporadic UTI-problems, I was informed about cranberry. I hated its taste, but taking a cranberry pill every day gave me more than four years of relief. Then, right out of nowhere, I had a really terrible attack. So I increased my cranberry intake - but as it turned out - to no avail. I had to visit my physician and get a prescription for antibiotics. Then, just a few months later, I had another even more painful UTI, much worse than every before (I’ll spare you the gruesome details). It was only then that I accepted that cranberry no longer the cured for my UTI that I had believed. I began to look for another option. It took a while, but I eventually located a natural remedy for UTI which is staggering in its simplicity. No known side-effects, no reaction to other drugs, isn’t actually absorbed by the body at all! And it can be used as a uti-preventative or as a highly effective UTI treatment. It’s called Mannose, or D-Mannose, or Waterfall D Mannose (and no, I don’t know why). It is extracted from trees (just like the simple aspirin), and seems to offer solutions to many people for whom regular UTI’s are part of life. If you want to know more, follow the links in my final paragraph About the Author: Dr Scott Scofield is a therapist who writes on mainstream and alternative medicine. To learn more on how to effectively treat cystitis and UTI, or if you want to learn about bladder infection symptoms, visit his blog now. Tagged by howard3 under products, promotion, marketing,

Niche Marketing - Tips To Help You Find A Profitable Niche Market

howard3 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:57:00 -0400

by Davion Wong Marketers have come to understand that niche marketing is powerful and can be extremely profitable when you find the right niche to target. Some smaller players are smart enough to dig deeper into broad niches to discover smaller and underserved ones. They know that these are where potential gold mines can be found. However, not everyone is willing to think of new research methods to discover new online market niches and prefer to stick to old conventional ways. Anyone who has done some form of niche marketing would immediately know that keyword research is crucial for any success. Overture, GoodKeywords and WordTracker are some useful free tools people often use. Some have tried using Google to search and verify the amount of keyword competition for targeted keywords. Many have the impression that once this is done and the niche found, they can quickly build their site around them and income will start pouring in. All is not that simple and fast, though. In order to discover really profitable niches, you need to dig deeper and take an advantage of many more tools the Internet offers. You may have never thought to use them in your research - and deprived yourself of an excellent opportunity to mine loads of niches craving for quality supply. Here are a few examples how you can expand your search: 1. Make sure of online auctions like eBay to get an idea of the hot sellers. You would also discover popular categories and from observations gather what are the possible sub-niches you could get into. From the bid prices, volume of sales and other market data from eBay, you would be able to study the market and find hot sellers. Do not miss out the auctions when you do niche marketing. 2. Other websites such as social networking sites like Groups Google and Meet Up are fantastic places also to find out what are your prospects’ interests. Even in forums, read what people are writing about and see what the categories that get the most attention are. This can really reveal a lot about niches you may have missed out previously. 3. Once you have a rough idea of a probable general niche, you would need to narrow your search. Read online news on the subject and see what are the news that get the most views. Go through websites on the subject such as article directories like EzineArticles to get an idea of what topic is getting the most reads. The list goes on. There are many other websites online that can be used as your niche marketing tool. As long as it is getting a lot of attention, there are telltale clues you can pick up on the favorite topics. Add these sites to your research arsenal. Be creative and innovative when conducting market research. By doing things differently from other niche marketing competitors, you are one step ahead of them! Discover a powerful tool from my income blog that can complement your niche marketing techniques to fire up traffic, sales and subscribers. About the Author: See how Niche Empire Generator can churn out an income generating blog within 5 minutes! Read this for more niche marketing secrets. Tagged by howard3 under marketing, promotion,

How Linknet2 Works

howard3 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:59:00 -0400

Linknet2 is a "member restricted" website designed to allow members to promote their products and services. "Member restricted" means only members can post entries to the blog. The public at large can view the posts and comment on them, but only members can make original entries. Members can make as many entries as they like - The purpose of Linknet2 is to give members an avenue for promotion. So members are free to make posts within all the blogs that make up Linknet2. etc... Tagged by howard3 under self, serve, blogging,

Members Can Promote as Many Sites as They Want

howard3 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500

Linknet2.com is a "community" of online entrepreneurs. The objective of Linknet2 is to give members effective promotional tools. The most important tools are the 5 core blogs that make up Linknet2. After members register they are given access to use these blogs to promote their products and services. Members create their own posts -- as many as they want, and as often as they want. Blogging at Linknet2 is an effective means of self-promotion because it puts your message in front of other members and in front of the search engines. This enhances your site in the eyes of the search engines and improves your search ranking. That means more people will find your site. In other words, you will get more traffic. Plus, the effectiveness of your message is multiplied many times over because RSS feeds of each of these blogs is syndicated on at least 25 other websites. Among other things, this creates links pointing back to the websites featured in your blog posts. Tagged by howard3 under blogging, blogs,

How Often Can I Post at Linknet2.com

howard3 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:59:00 -0500

The objective of Linknet2 is to keep your message in front of the search engines and build a relationship between your site(s) and your most important keywords. With Linknet2.com you can emphasize different keywords in each blog post. So, for instance, if you have three different products -- Green Widgets, Blue Widgets, and Red Widgets -- you should create optimized posts for each of these products. You may want to have these linked both to your home page and to your unique product pages. And you can use each of the five blogs to promote each of these products, because each of the blogs is a unique website in the eyes of the search engines, and each of them is syndicated on different pages. That makes 15 different posts. As far as "frequency" is concerned... we recommend that you re-post for the same product in the same blog roughly every two weeks. Why? Because as other members post for their products, yours will move down the list and eventually fall off the 1st page of the blog into the archives where it is much less effective. It will also fall off the syndicated versions for the same reason. So "refreshing" your posts is important, to keep it in front of the search engines. On the other hand, "spamming" the blogs will not be tolerated. If we find the same blog being used to promote the same product on the same day we will delete the oldest post(s). If this happens continually we will suspend the member in question. If you have further questions, make a comment at the end of this post. Tagged by howard3 under blogs, blogging, self serve blogging,

Welcome to Linknet2 - What is it?

howard3 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:59:00 -0500

Linknet2 is a "member restricted" website designed to allow members to promote their products and services. "Member restricted" means only members can post entries to the blog. The public at large can view the posts and comment on them, but only members can make original entries. Members can make as many entries as they like - The purpose of Linknet2 is to give members an avenue for promotion. So members are free to make posts within all the blogs that make up Linknet2. Read further to find out more... Tagged by howard3 under blogs, self serve blogging,

Link Building Programs Compared

howard3 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:35:00 -0500

We build links by placing client links in articles, blog posts, videos, and web 2.0 submissions. Tagged by howard3 under website promotion, link building, building links, linking,

Create Your Own Blog Posts

howard3 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:58:00 -0500

Creating effective entries for Self Promotion Tagged by howard3 under effective blogging, self promotion,

Premium Listings Blog

howard3 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:31:00 -0500

Promote products with Premium Listings Tagged by howard3 under list products, website promotion, search engine marketing, product promotion, promote products,

SEO and Relevance | SEO Strategy

howard3 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:43:00 -0500

In a series of blog posts Jonathan Leger has examined some of the more common myths about SEO with a similar theme to yours. You just need a lot of links. This seems to square with my own observations - although I admit I have not done an exhaustive study of the situation. Tagged by howard3 under seo strategy, seo,

Syndicated blogs at Linknet

howard3 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:59:00 -0500

blogs at linknet Tagged by howard3 under blogs, syndicated blogs, linknet blogs,