Increasing online visibility is the goal of most online business owners. After all, without visibility, you have no traffic and thus no business. However, when you start to research how to increase your online visibility, you discover so many options, yet have so little time for research and implementation. Where does an online entrepreneur turn first to get the visibility (and traffic) you seek to help you promote your online venture?
New tricks and gimmicks come out every day, but unfortunately, most of them are like so many recording artists and become one-hit wonders. In my business, I’ve discovered that there are a handful that are able to stand the test of time. Some have been around for as long as websites have been around, while others are newer kids on the block. Here are my 10 most effective strategies to massively increase your visibility online:
1. Press releases. Press releases are a well-known marketing strategy that has worked for years with print and broadcast media. In recent years they have found new life as an online visibility tool. Just like in the old days, your release should carry some newsworthy angle that has been optimized with a select few keywords by which you want your business to be found. Don’t waste your time submitting your release to the free press release sites — the release simply sits on the site and goes no where else. Instead, invest in a fee-based service (I prefer PRWeb.com), which will ensure your release gets the recognition it deserves.
2. Social Networking. A “johnny come lately” to the online visibility scene, social networking now ranks near the top in terms of attracting much visibility to your business for a very low cost. If you don’t yet have accounts on the two most popular social networking platforms, Facebook and Twitter, today is the day to hop on board and begin to network. Choose 1-2 social networking platforms where your target market hangs out, and then begin to work it by making connections, joining groups or networks, sharing resources, and asking questions. Dedicate 15-30 minutes each day to your effort to begin to see results.
3. Article Marketing. Writing and submitting articles to major article directories has definitely stood the test of time for online visibility. Article marketing will drive traffic to your site, establish you as an expert in your target market’s eyes, and give you valuable content to repurpose into information products. For maximum effectiveness, your article needs to contain a strong resource box (author’s bio) that drives traffic back to your site, needs to contain useful content that solves a problem of your target market, and is written in a tips-based fashion, like this one, as they are the easiest for a website visitor to read and digest.
4. Blogging. Business blogs (a web log or journal), have gained popularity over the last few years as an online visibility tool. Blogs use RSS feed technology to immediately get new posts and updates out to your blog subscribers through a feed reader. Unlike ezines or traditional websites, search engines index blog posts almost immediately, which help you generate traffic to your website. To use effectively as an online visibility tool, you need to post 2-3 times per week to keep your readers interested and coming back.
5. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Optimizing your site or your blog for organic (naturally-occurring) searches has been around from the beginning of Internet marketing. Use a keyword research tool and create a list of keywords applicable to your business. Don’t forget to add things like “how to”, “tips”, or short descriptions of your target market’s problems to your research. Then, take a look at your page titles, page descriptions, page headlines, and formatted text on a page (bolding, italicizing, underlining) and include your keywords in those areas, as well as sprinkling 1-2 keywords throughout the content of your page. Make the SEO appear to be natural, not forced, and the search engines as well as your visitors will love you.
6. Email Newsletter (Ezine). Regular publication of an email newsletter (weekly is most effective) will enable your prospects to get to know, like and trust you and have you be top of mind when they are ready to solve the pressing problems that fall within your line of expertise. If you make opting into your ezine list the primary call to action on your website, you continually build your list with prospective customers. Best of all, if they like what you write, they are more likely to pass along the issue to their contacts, thus increasing your visibility yet again.
7. Signature Teleseminar/Speech. Have you created your signature speech or teleseminar that you can present whenever you’re asked to speak to any type of group (face-to-face or virtual)? If not, design a signature speech or teleseminar that demonstrates your knowledge and expertise without giving away the store (focus on the what and the why but not the how) that compels your listeners to visit your website or request your client attraction device and get on your list.
Then, begin to research groups that contain your target market both in your geographic area and online. Once you’ve landed a speaking gig, strategize your best call to action for the group — do you want participants to sign up for your email list, purchase a product, or book a consultation? Add that call to action to your presentation.
8. Videos. With the popularity of broadband Internet connections, it’s much easier for almost anyone to view online video these days. And, with high-quality yet low-cost web cams, video cameras, and screen capture software readily available, anyone can make a video today. You might record a live Q&A session on UStream.com and post it on your site. Or, perhaps you want to record a “how to” tutorial using screenshots from your computer and upload that to your YouTube.com channel. Remember to include your call to action in your video so that you drive traffic back to your site. Just think — your video may cause you to become the next YouTube star!
9. Expert question sites. Most people conduct online searches to find free information that answers their questions. Many online entrepreneurs are registering as experts on an expert or answers site, like Yahoo Answers or AllExperts.com, in an effort to get visibility online. To be an effective expert on these sites, you need to seek out questions that you can knowledgeably answer as an expert. Your answer needs to be very detailed and as specific as possible. The more thorough your answer, the better chance you’ll have of getting chosen as the “favorite” answer, which is the one rated highest on the site and in the search engines.
10. Viral marketing. Viral marketing involves creating a marketing piece (ebook, video, software) that gets passed along free of charge from person to person. Publicity Hound Joan Stewart does this quite effectively each year when she compiles the best tips she’s written about in the previous year in a “best of” ebook compilation that she gives away free of charge on her site. She also encourages her list and website visitors to “regift” it.
You’ve got two options when you try to get online visibility: the “steady and effective over time” method or the “quick and short and probably get banned” method. I prefer to use methods that have stood the test of time and won’t result in my site being removed from the search engines. Use one or more of these time-honored strategies to get you the visibility you deserve online.
About the Author
Internet Marketing Strategist & Boomer Biz Coach Donna Gunter helps baby boomers create profitable online retirement businesses that they love by demystifying the tools & strategies needed to market and grow their businesses online. To claim your FR*EE gift, TurboCharge Your Online Marketing Toolkit, visit her site at OnlineBizU.com. Ask Donna an Internet Marketing question at AskDonnaGunter.com
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10 Simple Ways to Make Life Easier for Your Website’s Users
Web designers and developers are continually gaining new tools to facilitate effective website creation. Compatibility, usability, interaction, visual appeal, and support for a website’s users are all important aspects for a designer or developer to consider when looking to present the most interesting and user-friendly site possible. By implementing the simple suggestions below, you can dramatically improve your users’ experience and the overall performance of your site.
1. Optimize the search function on your website or blog to make it easy for your users to find the information or media that they are looking for. Tag everything from articles to pictures and videos so that all of the content on your website is searchable. You want your users to spend a lot of time on your website, but you don’t want that time to be spent digging around for information that should be readily available.
2. Include links to all of your social network profiles on your homepage. Visitors who are genuinely interested in you or your business should be able to easily connect with you via social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. By including these links, your users can get more involved in learning about your company and will get the feeling that there are real, compassionate people behind your website.
3. Create Landing Pages that direct users to the content that is most relevant to them. Landing pages are convenient for your users because they can cut down on the time it takes for them to navigate through your website. Landing pages can dramatically improve conversions from website visitors to leads by providing users with a direct path to the page or form you are hoping they will use.
4. Optimize your website for the iPhone and other mobile devices by creating a version of your site that is readable and usable on the popular mobile browsers. Make sure that all text and media is formatted correctly for the smaller screen size and that your website’s style stays intact. Media Contour has an informative iPhone tutorial to get you started with making your website mobile-friendly.
5. Incorporate a text-to-speech application like Odiogo that allows your users to listen to an audio version of your website’s content. This is especially useful for users who are blind, illiterate, too busy to read, or simply lazy. Many people do not want to devote their time to reading a long blog article—by listening to it, they can browse through other sites or multi-task in other ways while they are enjoying your words of wisdom. Media Contour has implemented this application so that you can try it out for yourself—just click the “listen now” button above this or any other KaBlog! article.
6. Create text alternatives or captions to describe the content for all of your website’s media (images, music, video, etc.). This text alternative ensures that blind individuals can understand what a picture or photograph is portraying. Similarly, it also allows your hearing-impaired visitors to understand what is being played within an audio file.
7. Allow your users to navigate your site using keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can save time and prevent early onset of carpal tunnel syndrome. Many users prefer not to use a mouse and some are unable to do so. By installing keyboard shortcut compatibility, you will ensure that your website is usable for the widest range of visitors.
8. Provide your website’s users with helpful tools like an automatic spell checker, help or FAQ section, and bookmarking buttons. The Help and FAQ pages can save time for your users when they encounter a problem or an error on your site or when they have a specific question. The bookmarking buttons help users to easily remember and share your website within their network of friends, family, and professionals.
Tips specifically for e-commerce websites:
9. Provide an option for one-click checkout on every page so that users to do not have to spend time going back and forth between pages, potentially losing interest in purchasing your product or service as they waste more time navigating.
10. Include testimonials on your homepage, products page, or portfolio section that give your business a good reputation and help prospective customers gain trust and respect for your company’s products or services. You want to be able to choose which reviews your users see—without testimonials on your site, you will force your customers to look elsewhere for reviews of your business. These reviews, unlike the testimonials on your site, cannot be moderated by you.
While these suggestions are not appropriate for every website, they can be very valuable for a designer or developer looking to improve usability on multiple levels. By optimizing your site for many diverse types of users with their own preferences, tendencies, and handicaps, you can increase traffic to your site and raise the standards by which designers and developers create their own works. The Internet is for all to enjoy—you should make your visitors’ experience as pleasant and pain-free as possible.
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We are Media Contour, a full service design studio specializing in website design and development in Los Angeles, California. We provide complete solutions for web design and programming, as well as branding, graphic design, print and marketing services.
Many who are marketing on the internet still confuse the roles of a squeeze page vs. the landing page. In some circles they are regarded as one in the same but the fact is they serve two completely different roles. Both are used to attract customers online but that is where the similarities end. Whereas one functions as a tool to build a list the other is used to pre-sell a product. In either case they both play an important role for online entrepreneurs so let’s discussed their primary differences and applications now. Landing Page
Landing Pages also referred to as gateway pages are used extensively in the field of affiliate marketing. Their primary role is to pre-sell the site visitor on the product they will be shown on the next page.
These pages are generally not as ‘focused’ as Squeeze Pages. Landing pages in fact commonly attempt to ‘touch’ upon various emotions of the reader to more fully engage them in the content.
These type pages also referred to as ‘gateway’ pages are mostly used to prepare the visitor for the more hard selling approach to be experienced on the next page. Landing pages as a rule do not try to collect the contact information of the page visitor. Squeeze Page
Squeeze pages have one objective and that is it. The focus is to ‘merely’ collect customer contact information for future marketing efforts. The approach is direct and much more ‘focused’ as opposed to the landing page.
The content of these pages is generally found to be very brief in an attempt to not confuse or distract the visitor from the sole intention of the page. In fact it is unusual to even find many if any graphics on squeeze pages due to their ability to create distractions for the visitor.
The main message of these pages is made very clearly and that is to instruct the visitor to leave their contact information and why they should do so.
The offer of a free gift in exchange for customer contact information is both common and expected on these type pages.
As you have hopefully come to understand the squeeze page differs significantly from landing pages insofar as the roles they play online. Online entrepreneurs have a need to attract customers when marketing on the internet and both these pages do just that but their similarities stop right there. Squeeze pages are used to build a list whereas landing pages serve more as an introduction to a product that has yet to be shown to the site visitor. In either case they both play an important role for anyone looking to grow their customer base or income online!
About the Author
TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina.
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Pt-IV
WHO WAS INDIA’S FIRST CRICKET COACH?
Ajit Wadekar was the first to coach the Indian cricket team. He was both the manager and the coach of the Indian cricket team from 1992 to 1996. John Wright was India’s first foreign coach.
WHAT IS A SUCKER BALL IN CRICKET?
When a bowler intends to tempt batsman into scoring runs by bowling a ball which appears easy to hit and the batsman hits the ball but t results in his dismissal by either being stumped, bowled or caught, such ball is called a sucker ball.
WHICH BATSMAN HAS REMAINED NOT OUT MOST OFTEN IN CRICKET ODIS?
Michael Bevan of Australia has remained not out most often in ODI cricket — 67 times in 196 innings of 232 matches he ‘ has played. He has scored 6,912 runs with an average of (53.58).
WHO WAS THE YOUNGEST WINNER AT WIMBLEDON?
Swedish tennis legend Bjorn Borg was the youngest winner at Wimbledon. At 16, Borg was the Wimbledon junior champion in 1973. American Kathy Rinaldi, 15, was the youngest woman winner at Wimbledon (1981). Martina Hingis of Switzerland won the 1996 Wimbledon at 15 years too. At 17, Boris Becker won the men’s singles title in 1985.
HOW MANY ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS IN CRICKET HAVE ENDED IN A TIE?
Twenty one one-day international cricket matches have ended in a tie. While Australia has been involved in the most (8), the others are Pakistan (6), West Indies and South Africa (5), England, Zimbabwe and New Zealand (4 each) and India and Sri Lanka (3 each). Australia and South Africa have played four tied matches.
WHY IS CRICKET NOT A DISCIPLINE IN THE OLYMPICS?
Cricket was played just once, at the Paris Olympics in 1900. Cricket is played by just 10 countries at the highest level (though there are nearly 100 associate members of the ICC) and this would normally disqualify it from being included as an Olympic sport. The International Olympic Committee claims mass participation is a must (minimum of 16 nations). The only other occasion cricket was part of a multi-disciplinary meet was at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur.
WHEN WERE COLOURED UNIFORMS INTRODUCED IN ODIS?
Coloured uniforms for ODIs were introduced in 1977 by Kerry Packer for the World Series matches in Australia which did not have official status, even though many world class cricketers took part. However, it was a revolution in itself. Its legacy is a permanent change in the way the game is funded, watched, played and perceived. World Series pioneered three-cornered tournaments, night cricket, floodlights, coloured clothing, coloured balls, drop-in pitches, on-field microphones and multitudinous
WHO HOLDS THE RECORD FOR WINNING THE MOST NUMBER OF OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS FOR SWIMMING?
In the 1972 Munich Olympic games, Mark Spitz won seven Olympic gold medals, a feat yet unequalled by any other Olympic athlete. Even more remarkably, Spitz set a new world record in each of the seven events – the 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, 4 x 100 m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle and the 4 x 100 m medley
IN CRICKET, WHAT IS POWER PLAY?
The original rules of ODIs stated that during the first 15 overs, only two fielders should be allowed outside a 30-metre circle around the wicket. This meant that attacking batsman were likely to score runs quickly in the first 15 overs, but would become more watchful at the end of the spell. In an effort to keep the game more exciting during the middle overs, the 15 over block with fielding restrictions at the beginning of the innings is reduced to 10, and thereafter, the captain of the fielding side has to decide when to bring his fielders in again for two further blocks of 5 overs, at any time he likes. These 5 over spells are called Powerplay 2 and Powerplay 3. (Powerplay 1 is the first block of 10).
WHAT IS THE MILEAGE OF F1 CARS?
For every 100 kilometres, a 900 bph F1 car uses 70 litres of petrol. A team uses about 1,200 litres of petrol during a Grand Prix weekend.
WHY IS THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET TEAM CALLED “PROTEAS”?
The Protea flower with pink and yellow petals, is the national flower of South Africa, and hence their cricket team is called proteas. Similarly, South Africa’s rugby team is called springboks, which is the country’s national animal.
HAS ANY PLAYER IN CRICKET BEEN DECLARED OUT BECAUSE HE CAME LATE TO THE GROUND TO BAT?
Law 31 in cricket provides that an incoming batsman must be in position to take guard or for his partner to be ready to receive the next ball within 3 minutes of the fall of the previous wicket. If this requirement is not met, the incoming batsman will be declared ‘timed out’. The fielding side has to appeal for the wicket to be awarded. There is no known incidence of this in an international match. There are three cases, however, in first class cricket. H Yadav — Tripura vs Orissa at Cuttack in 1997; Vasbert Drakes — Border vs Free State at East London in 2002 and A J Harris — Nottinghamshire vs Durham UCCE at Nottingham in 2003.
WHEN WAS THE FIRST INDO-PAK CRICKET TEST PLAYED?
India played Pakistan from October 16, 1952 at the Ferozeshah Kotia in Delhi to kick pff the first-ever Test series. India won this Test by an innings and 70 runs to take the lead in the five-match series. While Lala Amarnath captained India, A H Kardar led the Pakistan side. This was the beginning of a long and fierce battle for supremacy. Later this month, this “war by other means” continues with India’s tour of Pakistan.
WHAT IS PELOTA?
Pelota is a very fast ball game of Basque derivation (language spoken by the people who inhabit the Pyrenees in north central Spain and the adjoining region of south western France). Pelota is popular in Latin American countries and in the USA where it’s a betting sport. It’s played by two, four or six players in a walled court or cancha and resembles squash. Each player uses a long curved wickerwork basket or cesta strapped to the hand to hurl the ball or pelota against the walls. Basque pelota has been an exhibition sport in Mexico and Barcelona.
WHAT ARE THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF SKATING TEAM PURSUIT?
The basic elements are: Competitions may be announced for pursuit races with either three or four skaters in each team. In both cases, the finishing time of the team will be determined as the finishing time of the third skater in the team. If less than three skaters of the team finish the race, the team is considered not to have completed the race and is disqualified. In Team Pursuit races, the two teams start simultaneously at each side of the track at the middle of the straights. If a skater of a team is disqualified as per rules, the disqualification also applies for the team.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUDO AND AIKIDO?
Developed in the 19th century, judo is a Japanese system of wrestling. It was developed from jujitsu in 1882 by a Japanese educator. It tries to develop the skill of using an op- ponent’s own weight and strength against him. Techniques include throwing and grappling. Judo fighters learn how to fall safely when they are thrown to minimise injury. Aikido is (ai – harmony, ki – spirit, mind or universal energy, do – the Way) the Way of Harmony with Universal Energy. Created by Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969), it’s based on bujutsu with an emphasis on self-defence and spiritual growth. In aikido, an attack is avoided with flowing, circular movements and it uses grappling, throws, and mainly non-resistance to tackle opponents.
WHAT IS THE VJD METHOD IN CRICKET?
V Jayadevan, an engineer from Kerala, has devised a method which has the backing of the Indian board and will be discussed by the ICC’s Cricket Committee during its two-day meet in Dubai on May 13 and 14. Like the Duckworth-Lewis method, Jayadevan’s system (the VJD method) also comes from an analysis of numerous one day matches, and predicting scores and targets on the basis of scoring patterns recorded from earlier games.
WHEN WAS THE STUMP CAMERA USED IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET?
The first stump camera was installed by the BBC in the early 1990s. It placed a Hitachi KP-D8s camera in the middle stump. This was a colour camera that used a 410,000 pixel CCD (charge-coupled device) with micro lenses, and offered a Horizontal resolution of 470 TV lines. Its size (42 cubic cm and 80 gms) makes it possible for it to be inserted into the stump. If one camera is not enough, two can be placed, one with a wide-angle lens and the other with a narrow-angle lens, giving the broadcaster four different views.
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD ‘ACROBAT’?
The word ‘acrobat’ means a performer who is skilled in the feats of agility and balance. It comes from the Frencn word ‘acrobate’ which is derived from the Greek words ‘akrobates’ (one who walks on tiptoe) and ‘akrobatein’ (to walk on the stem of the feet).
WHAT IS THE EIGHT QUEEN PROBLEM IN CHESS?
The eight queen problem in chess is one where a person has to place eight queens on a chess board such that none of the queens can capture another queen at that point of time. For example, place the queens at a8, b2, c4, dl, e7, f5, g3 and h6 respectively. There are a number of combinations (a fixed number, however) where a person can place queens at different positions and yet no queen can capture another queen.
WHEN WAS FOOTBALL FIRST PLAYED?
Modern-day football has its origins in England. There are indications that a game akin to football called choule or soule arrived in England from Normandy, Brittany, and Picardy, during the Norman Conquest. According to historical evidence, football-like games were played in English public schools such as Eton and Winchester colleges in the 16th century. By the mid-19th century, public school boys more or less formalised the rules of football, which then became an organised activity. This gradually developed into football as we know it today.
IN FOOTBALL, WHAT IS THE FALLING LEAF SHOT?
The falling leaf shot is called so because the ball swerves twice, just as a falling leaf, during its flight towards goal. The diminutive Brazilian striker of 1950s and ’60s, Manuel dos Santos Francisco Garrincha made the banana kick and falling leaf shot his own due to his brilliant skills. Garrincha earned the nickname of Little Bird due to his short stature and vast repertoire of beguiling free kicks that tormented defenders.
WHICH IS THE WORLD’S FIRST VIDEO GAME?
In 1951, an .engineer Ralph Baer developed a game called Pong using raster video equipment. In 1958, William A Higinbotham created ‘tennis for two’, a game using an analog computer. The game was never patented and dismantled. Nolan Bushnell built an arcade game in 1969 using a rasterscan TV monitor. He is known as the father of video arcade games. From being a fun activity, video games are also used to help sick children manage pain and anxiety during hospital stays. Recently, Ethan Myers of Los Angeles made a partial recovery after a grave car accident, thanks partly to a video game system.
WHEN WAS THE IDITAROD DOG RACE FIRST HELD?
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, also called the ‘Iditarod’ or the ‘Last Great Race’, is held in Alaska. It starts from Anchorage in southcentral Alaska and terminates at Nome on the western Bering Sea coast. Each team, of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher, covers over 1,150 miles in about three weeks. The Id- itarod Trail Sled Dog Race first ran in 1973. The idea was conceived by Dorothy G Page in 1964 as part of Alaska’s Centennial Year celebrations in 1967.
WHAT IS THE WORLD RECORD FOR THE DEEPEST DIVE?
The world record for the deepest dive is held by South Africa’s Nuno Gomes, a 52-year-old engineer who dived to a depth of 318.25 metres (1044 feet). He was scuba diving in the Red Sea on June 10, 2005 and beat the earlier record of 313 metres set by Mark Ellyatt of Britain in 2003.
WHO IS KNOWN AS THE POLE VAULT QUEEN?
Yelena Isinbayeva (23) of Russia has been hailed as the queen of pole vault. The world record holder has been virtually unbeaten in the past three years. Yelena, who spends most of her time in Monaco and trains in Italy, was recently asked to move to Italy and represent it for $6 million. However, she refused stating that she would never betray her country and that she is still based in Volgograd, her native place. She was Also approached by the oil baron Roman Abramovich to endorse the oil brand worldwide, but it did not materialise.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCCER AND FOOTBALL?
What Americans call soccer is called football elsewhere in the world. So, if is better to say that American Soccer and British Football are the same sport. The official name of the sport is Association Football and the international body governing it is FIFA (Federation International de Football Association).
IF A BATSMAN IS OUT LEGITIMATELY BUT THE FIELDERS DON’T APPEAL, WOULD THE UMPIRE RULE
HIM OUT?
Law 27 clearly says that: The umpire shall not give a batsman out unless appealed to by the other side which shall be done prior to the bowler beginning his run up bowling action to deliver .the next ball. Under Law 23.1 (f) (The Ball becomes dead), the ball is dead on ‘over’ being called, this does not however, invalidate an appeal made prior to the first ball of the following over provided ‘time’ has not been called as Law 17.1 (Call of Time). Always remember an appeal shall cover all ways of being out. (Law 27.2). Even if a batsman leaves his wicket under a misapprehension that he is out, but umpire ruled him not out under such circumstances, the umpire shall intervene if satisfied that he is wrong (Law 27.5).
WHO HAS WON THE MOST PAIRS FREE SKATING TITLES?
Andree Brunett and Pierre Brunett have won the world figure skating championship four times — in 1926, 1928,1930 and 1932. Three pairs have won it thrice — Ludowika Jacobson and Walter Jacobson (1911,1913,1924), Helen Engelmanri and Alfred Berger (1913,1922,1924) and Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (1983,1985,1988).
WHEN WAS THE STUMP CAMERA USED IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET? .
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD “ACROBAT ?
Theword-acrobafmeansaperformerwho is skilled in the feats of agility and balgance. It comes from the French “word ‘acrobate’ which is deprived from the Greek words ‘akrobates’ (one who walks on tiptoe) and ‘akrobatein’ (to walk on the stem of the feet).
WHO WAS THE FIRST BATSMAN TO BE DECLARED OUT BY A THIRD UMPIRE?
Sachin Tendulkar, on November 14,1992 at Durban, against South Africa. Tendulkar, who had scored 11, glanced the ball to the backward point where Jonty Rhodes was fielding. Sachin attempted a quick single, but was sent back by non-striker Ravi Shastri. Rhodes threw the ball to the stumps where Andrew Hudson, who had moved in from short leg, broke the wicket. It was a close call so square-leg umpire Cyril Mitchley asked third umpire Karl Liebenberg to decide. The TV replay clearly showed that Tendulkar was run out.
WHY IS THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEAM IS CALLED A SKIPPER?
Skipper originated from the Dutch word ’schipper’ (literally ’shipper’). Skipper usually means a person who commands a boat or ship. In naval terms, a skipper is responsible for the care and safety of the vessel, ship, yacht or boat. This is true of the captain as well, but in addition, the captain is also responsible for the care and safety of the crew. In sports, he is a team captain in lawn bowls. It is an informal title of a baseball manager and captain of a football team.
WHAT IS A MAGIC BARRIER IN CHESS?
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) awards rating points to chess players to indicate their relative skill level. This system is based on a general statistical rating system called ELO. According to it, the more the rating points, the better the player. FIDE tracks players’ performances continually, and the ratings are revised periodically. Garry Kasparov obtained 2851, the highest score ever. Only four players — Kasparov, Kramnik, Topalov and Anand have obtained a score greater than or equal to 2800, which is called the magic barrier. The term is an imitation of the term sound barrier, which is considered a difficult threshold to cross before achieving supersonic speeds.
WLIAT IS A CRICKETER’S COFFIN?
Cricketer’s coffin is a term used in jest for the kit bags that cricketers carry. The amount of paraphernalia carried by them on tours makes these bags resemble a coffin. It is also jocularly said that cricketers carry their coffin with them on every tour.
HOW DOES THE SNICKOMETER WORK?
The Snickometer, although not used in adjudicating decisions, is a useful TV tool which tracks the cricket ball’s path by picking up sounds from pitch and stump microphones. The Snickometer, invented by Englishman Allan Plaskett in the mid ’90s, is used to display sound from stump microphones. The feed from the stump microphone is fed directly into the Snickometer which then represents the sound as a visual graphic. From that, viewers can tell whether the ball hit a pad (a flat, dull display) or hit the bat (a lot sharper graphic) or just went pass (a flat line).
WHAT DO COLOUR CARDS SIGNIFY IN SOCCER?
WHAT IS THE SOCCER WAR?
The Football War or Soccer War was a six-day war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. It had little to do with soccer but an attempt to settle cultural differences. The fact that the more aggressive Salvadoreans were illegally immigrating to Honduran territory was a leading cause of this war. It’s called the Soccer War because it began after a bitterly contested series of three World Cup qualifying matches between them. El Salvador initiated hostilities when its army moved into Honduras. After more than four days of fighting (which left 3,000 dead, 6,000 wounded and caused $50 million in damage), a ceasefire was called under pressure from the US and the Organisation of American States. A peace agreement was not signed until 1980, and it took a 1992 decision by the International Court of Justice to settle the boundary issues.
WHAT ARE THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF SUMO WRESTLING?
With its origins in ancient Japan, sumo wrestling competitions are marked by elaborate rituals. A sumo bout takes place between two wrestlers belonging to a group of compatible ranks; the ranking system itself has been in existence since time immemorial. The wrestling takes place inside a circular area of 4.55 metres diameter with the ground made of clay and sand. The wrestlers can push, pull, slap, throw and grapple each other, but they are not permitted to engage in kicking, gouging or hair pulling. If any part of a wrestler’s body, except the soles of the feet, first touches the ground inside the ring, or if he crosses the boundary of the ring, then he is declared the loser. An average bout lasts for a few seconds to a few minutes.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPORTS AND GAMES?
A sport is a physical activity carried out under an agreed set of rules, with a recreational purpose: for competition or self-enjoyment or a combination of these. A game is a recreational activity involving one or more players, defined by a goal that the players try to reach, and some set of rules to play it. Games are played primarily for entertainment or enjoyment. The difference of purpose differentiates sport from game, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess.
o IS THE WWF AN AUTHENTIC WRESTLING SHOW?
No. WWE (formerly WWF) matches are a completely staged event for entertainment. The WWE superstars are fully informed about their matches, their results and the moves, which they have to use. The superstars are always ready to have their bodies on the line for the sake of WWE. So, the bottom line is that WWE, although a staged show as far as the results are concerned, is purely authentic when seen from the point of view of the WWE superstars as the blood shed and injuries are for real.
WHAT ARE THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE UNEVEN BARS IN GYMNASTICS?
The uneven parallel bars demands strength, concentration, courage, coordination, precision and splitsecond timing. The routine must move from the low bar to the high bar, incorporating many grip changes releases and regrasps, flight elements, changes of direction, saltos and circle swings through the hand-stand position. The entire routine should flow from one movement to the next without pauses, extra swings or additional supports. Each routine must have two release elements.
WHEN WAS THE FIRST RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP HELD?
The first Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship was held in 1963 in Budapest, Hungary The competition featured 28 athletes from 10 European countries. Rhythmic individual all-round competition was added to the Olympic Games in 1984. The Rhythmic group event was added as a medal sport at the 1996 Games. The Rhythmic Gymnastics group competition involves five athletes working together as a team.
WHAT IS AUSSIE RULES FOOTBALL
This is the quintessential local Australian sport derived from a mixture of rugby and Gaelic football. It is played with 36 players (18 from each team) on an elliptical field, often called as an oval. First introduced in 1858, in the Victoria, Australia, the game is widely played in other countries like UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Papua, New Guinea and New Zealand. The game is distinguished from other kinds of football by the fast, relatively free movement of the ball ‘ (due to absence of the off-side rule) ‘ and the awarding of a free kick for any clean catch, known as a mark, of a ball which has been kicked more than 15 metres.
WHAT IS THE HIGHEST TOTAL SCORED BY ANY TEAM IN FIRST CLASS CRICKET?
The highest total score is 1,107 runs made by Victoria in a Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales at Melbourne in 1926. They scored this in 10 hours 30 minutes i.e. at an incredible rate of 1.76 runs per minute.
WHO WAS INDIA’S FIRST CRICKET TEST CAPTAIN?
Lala Amarnath was independent India’s first Test captain and led India on the of Australia in 1947. He was a swashbuckling all rounder and an outspoken personality who was not afraid to speak his mind. After his retirement from the game, he was appointed to the board of selectors.
WHY IS THE CRICKET BALL RED IN COLOUR?
The red ball is not always used in cricket these days. During night cricket matches, a white ball is used. As for the game itself, it originated in England, where ambient light levels leave much to be desired. Light is made of seven different colours. The red wavelength is scattered least from its original path while blue is scatted the most. Red colour is, therefore, most suited for spotting in dwindling light. Incidentally, the cricket ball is called the red cherry. The same explanation holds true for the red appearance of the sun during sunrise and sunset. Also, the same logic can explain why the sky and the oceans appear blue.
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THE REDNECK GAMES?
The Redneck Games, events for the not so athletic, is held every July in Georgia (USA). Started ten years ago as a spoof of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, it attracted about 15,000 participants this year. Events are unusual and include mudpit bellyflop, bobbing for pigs’ feet, hub cup hurling, cigarette flip, redneck horseshoe played with toilet seats, seed spitting contest, bug zapper spitball, big hair contest and the armpit serenade.
WHICH IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST SWIMMING POOL?
The Natural Buoyancy Laboratory or NBL at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, known as the SCTF near NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, is the world’s largest indoor swimming pool. The pool is 62 metres (202 ft) in length, 31 metres (102 ft) in width and 12 metres (40 ft) in depth — 6 metres (20 feet) above ground level and an equal distance below ground. The pool holds 22.7 million litres (6.2 million gallons) of water. The pool is used by astronauts to train in conditions similar to zero gravity using specialised methods.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SNOOKER, BILLIARDS, POOL AND SIDE POCKET?
The main difference is with respect to the number of balls used. In snooker, 22 balls, including the white colour striker ball, are used. The other coloured balls are as follows: 15 red, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 blue, 1 pink, 1 black and 1 green. In billiards, only three balls are used — white, yellow and red — and both the white and the yellow ball can act as the strikers. In pool, there are nine balls with numbers and stripes printed on them. Side pocket is not a recognised table game and refers to the corner pockets of the billiards table.
IN RUGBY, WHY IS THE CALCUTTA CUP CALLED SO?
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM ‘WILD CARD’ IN SPORT?
The origin lies in card games, where a wild card means a card with no fixed value, and whose value is assigned by the player dynamically In other games like tennis, the term is nowadays used to refer to a player (or a team) who is awarded entry to a tournament at the discretion of the organizing committee, even though the player (or team) has not strictly satisfied the eligibility criteria. A wild card is awarded to players who are usually young and promising, and belong to the home country The term has been in use in the above sense since 1950s.
WHAT IS THE WOODEN SPOON IN SPORTS?
‘Wooden spoon’ is a phrase which refers to the performance of an individual or a team which finishes last in a competition. Sometimes, a mock or real wooden spoon award is also handed over to the contestant coming last. The phrase is apparently based on the fact that a wooden spoon is almost valueless compared to the winner’s trophy which is made of precious metal. The term had its origin in Cambridge University where professors used to dangle wooden spoon before students who failed in examination.
WHY DO TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO PLAY AS A SEPARATE TEAM IN FOOTBALL BUT PLAY AS A PART OF THE WEST INDIES IN CRICKET?
West Indies is composed of several islands; some are independent nations, some others are dependencies or territories. Most were under the rule of Spain, Britain, France, Denmark, or the Netherlands. When England introduced cricket in its colonies in the 19th century it wanted to form only one cricket team in West Indies with representatives from all its colonies there and from British Guyana. The West Indies team was set up in 1890s and it gained Test status in 1928. It’s managed by the West Indies Cricket Board, which today represents ten independent and two dependent English-speaking nations of the Carribean. Unlike cricket, soccer developed independently in the West Indies. It is possible for each country of West Indies, particularly Trinidad and Tobago, to participate independently in international football tournaments.
WHO HAS WON THE MOST NUMBER OF FENCING TITLES?
Russia’s Aleksandr Romankov has won the most men’s Individual World Championship fencing titles — five in 1974,1977,1979,1982 and 1983. However, he was never an Olympic champion. SagineRejto Ildiko has won the most Olympic fencing medals by a woman — seven (two gold, three silver, two bronze).
WHY ARE THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN, FRENCH OPEN, WIMBLEDON AND THE US OPEN CALLED GRAND SLAMS?
In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all these four titles in the same year. These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. The term was first used in 1933 by American journalist John Kieran. In describing the attempt that year by Jack Crawford to win all four titles, he compared it with “a countered and vulnerable grand slam in bridge”.
WHAT IS TREE TRANSFER’ IN FOOTBALL?
Every football player who plays for a club has a contract with the club for a particular period of time. After the contract expires and the player moves/transfers to another club, it is called free transfer because the latter does not have to pay the player’s former club any amount of money.
WHERE WAS TWENTY 20 FIRST PLAYED?
The Twenty20 format of cricket was first played in 2003, in a match between England and Wales at Lord’s in England. It drew a crowd of 26,500. The first international Twenty20 match was played between Australia and New Zealand in Auckland’s Eden Park.
WHO WAS THE CAPTAIN OF INDEPENDENT INDIA’S FIRST CRICKET TEST TEAM?
The colourful cricket legend Lala Amarnath (1911-2000) was the first Test cricket captain of an independent Indian team. The first series he captained was against Australia, played in Australia in 1947-48. A brilliant all-rounder, he is best remembered as the first Indian to score a Test century in his debut match against England in Bombay in 1933. He was also the captain who led India to it’s first-ever Test victory and series victory in 1952- 53 when India and Pakistan played a series in India.
WHY IS THE WIMBLEDON DRESS CODE WHITE?
Traditionally, white is considered the colour of sport since it stands for purity. Since the Wimbledon Championships places great emphasis on tradition, it insists that players wear only white. Of course, thanks to some players’ flamboyant outfits, most notably Andre Agassi, the all-white dress code was relaxed to “almost white”.
WHO IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE FOOTBALLER?
In 2001, Zinedine Zidane transferred. From the Italian club Juventus F.C to Real Madrid of Spain , on a four-year contract. The transfer fee was $66 million, making him the most expensive, player in foot• ball history. The 34-year-old French captain, popularly known as Zizou, is considered one the greatest players of this generation. He has said that the 2(506 World Cup will be his last in competitive football. He is retiring from club football as well.
WHY DO THE SURFACES OF TABLE TENNIS RACQUETS HAVE DIFFERENT COLOURS?
IN FOOTBALL, WHY DOES THE BEST PLAYER WEAR NUMBER 10?
It’s not that the best player in a team wears a number 10 jersey. It just happens so. Generally the manager and coach start numbering the formation, beginning from the goalkeeper and then defenders and so on. Accordingly, mostly midfielders or forwards have that number. It’s completely according to strategies or formation.
HAS ANY GOALKEEPER EVER SCORED A GOAL DIRECTLY FROM HIS 18-YARD BOX?
Luis Martinez, a Colombian goalkeeper achieved this feat in a match against Poland on May 30, 2006 in a World Cup warm-up match with Poland.
WHAT’S THE HIGHEST SPEED RECORDED AT A FL EVENT?
The Grand Prix with the highest average speed was the 1971 Italian Grand Prix, won by Peter Gethin in a BRM at an average speed of 242.6 kph on the Monza circuit which at the time did not yet have any chicanes. Interestingly, a recent computer simulation suggested that current Formula. One car would achieve an average speed of well over 300 kph on the original circuit. In 1998, the fastest Grand Prix was the Italian, won by Michael Schumacher at an average speed of 237.591 kph.
HOW IS ‘WALKING’ DIFFERENT FROM “RUNNING’ IN THE OLYMPICS?
In walking, the constraint is that at any frame of time you should always maintain contact with the ground. This can only be achieved when before lifting your rear foot you put the front foot on the ground. In running, there is no such constraint but the former method will slow you down compared to the latter. m running, you push your rear foot to get a leap even before your front foot has reached the ground, thus achieving greater speeds. In the walking marathon at the Olympics, foot contact is closely monitored and if the visual suggests the participant has not maintained continuous contact with the ground, it results in disqualification.
WHY IS AUSTRALIA CALLED OZ?
The word Australia when referred to informally with its first three letters becomes Aus. When Aus or toundfairult.
IN CHESS, WHY ARE THE PIECES IN BLACK AND WHITE, AND NOT IN ANY OTHER COLOUR?
It is for the sake of contrast. Although the colour of chess pieces may vary, the lighter colour is called ‘white’ while the darker colour is called ‘black’. The players are called ‘white players’ and ‘black players’, depending on the colour of pieces they control.
WHAT DOES BMX STANDS FOR?
The full form of BMX is bicycle motocross. It is the sport of racing specially built bicycles on a rough, cross-country course that includes constructed obstacles. BMX wheels are much smaller in diameter than touring or hybrid wheels, and the frame is designed to be very small in relation to the size of the rider.
WHY IS AUSTRALIA REFERRED TO AS DOWN UNDER?
Australia is known as ‘the land Down Under’ for its position in the southern hemisphere. The discovery of Australia began when European explorers searched for a land under the continent of Asia. Before Australia was discovered, it was known as Terra Australis Incognita — the unknown southern land. Despite the term’s wide usage, it is rarely used by Australians themselves, many of whom regard it with some derision.
WHERE DID ACROBATICS ORIGINATE?
Acrobatic traditions are found in many cultures. In the West, Minoan art from circa 2000 B.C. contains depictions of acrobatic feats on the backs of bulls, which may have been a religious ritual. In China, acrobatics have been a part of the culture since the Han Dynasty, over 2500 years ago. During the Tang dynasty acrobatics saw much the same sort of development as European acrobatics saw during the Middle Ages with court displays during the 7th through the 10th century dominating the practice. The first use of acrobatics as a specific sport was in (he Soviet Union in the 1930s, and the first world championships were in 1974.
WHICH IS THE WORLD’S RICHEST SPORTING BODY?
India’s cricket board claims it’s on track to becoming the richest sporting body in the world. Since Sharad Pawar took over as president of BCCI in November, supported by vice-president Lalit Modi, who is aggressively overseeing sales and marketing, and former BCCI president Inderjeet Singh Bihdra, the body claims it has already multiplied its income by eight times to about $1.5 billion.
WHEN DID WHITE RIVER RAFTING BECOME A SPORT?
Rafting or whitewater rafting is a recreational activity utilising a raft to navigate a river or other water bodies. This is usually done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. In the 1970s, raiting was included in the Munich Olympics. In the 1990s, rafting was included in the Barcelona Olympics (1992) and Atlanta Olympics (1996). The International Federation of Rafting was instituted in 1997, and the first official International Championship was held in 1999.
WHICH IS THE NATIONAL GAME OF FRANCE?
France is one of the most sportsoriented countries in the world, considering that about two-thirds of the men and one-third of the women of France actively participate in at least one sport. Further, France hosts many prestigious international tournaments every year and France is one of the leading winners of gold medals in Olympics. Although a variety of sports and games are played and hosted by France, the most popular sports there are football, tennis, and cycling. Football has the maximum number of licensed players and is considered by many as the national game of France. However, cycling and tennis are also referred to as national games of France by some others.
WHICH IS THE OLDEST GRAND SLAM TITLE IN TENNIS?
The Wimbledon Championships, played on grass courts, is the oldest Grand Slam tournament. It began as an amateur event called the Lawn Tennis Championships. The first championship was held in 1877. The other three Grand Slams of tennis are the US Open that started in 1881, the French Open in 1891, and the Australian Open in 1905.
WHAT IS A DEAD BALL SITUATION IN FOOTBALL?
A dead ball situation in football is when the ball is not in motion. It is created whenever a foul is committed. A free kick is awarded to the respective team to whom the foul has been given. There should be a minimum distance of five yards between the ball and the player. Corner kicks as well as goal kicks are considered dead ball situations. The possibility of scoring a goal increases as the distance between the goal and the ball decreases in a dead ball situation.
WHY ARE ATHLETIC EVENTS HELD IN ANTI-CLOCKWISE DIRECTION?
As we know, the Earth rotates in the anti-clockwise direction, and hence, it is much easier to go around a circle in the anti-clockwise direction during sports meets, particularly athletic events. Therefore, all such events are held in the anti-clockwise direction.
WHICH IS THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND NEWEST FOOTBALL CLUB?
It is possible that a football-related organisation existed in London between 1421 and 1423. The records of the Brewers’ Company of London, a guild, mention the hiring out of their hall ‘by the football players’ for 20 pence, under the heading ‘Crafts and Fraternities’. The listing of football players as a fraternity is the earliest allusion to what might be considered a football club. There is evidence that in the 18th century, English cricket clubs regularly played football in the winter. It’s been claimed that the Barnes Club (later Barnes Rugby Football Club), from Barnes in London, was formed in 1839. However, this has not been conclusively documented.
WHEN AND WHERE DID FIGURE SKATING ORIGINATE?
Figure skating began in the later part of the 19th century in Europe. An American ballet master Jackson Haines, who lived in Vienna in 1860s, added the elements of ballet and dance to figure skating. The first world championship for men was held in St Petersburg in 1896, followed by the women’s championship in 1906.
WHAT’S THE MASCOT OF THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES?
The mascots of the Beijing Olympic Games are Fuwa (five children). Fuwa, designed to express the playful qualities of five little children who form an intimate circle of friends, embody the natural characteristics of four of China’s most popular animals — Beibe (the Fish), Jingjing (the Panda), Huanhuan (the Tibetan Antelope), Nini (the Swallow) and the Olympic Flame. When you put their names together — Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni, they say ‘Welcome to Beijing’.
WHAT ARE THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS?
Special Olympics is an international organisation created to help people with intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence, social skills and a sense of personal accomplishment through sports training and competition. Among their other activities, Special Olympics conduct the Special Olympics World Games every four years. This year it is taking place in China.
WHAT IS A MASSE SHOT?
A masse shot, a term in billiards and snooker, is a technique that causes the cue ball to follow a curved path similar to a spin ball in cricket. The masse shot is accomplished by tilting the axis of the ball so that it spins to the inside of the desired curve, and against the grain of the felt. The forward direction of the ball is accomplished by the horizontal angle of the cue. The amount and direction of spin is achieved by the vertical angle and the point of contact. The force by which the ball is pushed is also decisive. The masse shot is an extremely complicated combination of physics that requires lot of concentration and practice.
WHAT IS A LOW ULTIMATUM GAME?
A low ultimatum game is money related game. A person can offer a sum of money on a non-negotiable basis to another. The person receiving the cash knows how much the other has and how much he is being given from the total pie. At times, even if the sum of money offered is high, some people re-fuse it for they feel they are being given a very small slice of the pie. Scientists are now correlating this seemingly irrational decision to the testosterone level in these men while taking this decision.
WHAT IS A PROGRESSIVE SCORE IN CHESS?
In chess tournaments, when two players end up with the same score on the final round, the tie needs to be broken for ranking purposes. Different systems of rating follow different rules for such tiebreaking, and the FIDE (Federation Internationale des Echecs) or the Worldwide Chess Federation system uses the cumulative progressive score. Progressive score in a round is the points obtained for the result in the current round plus the progressive score of the previous round if any In general, the system tends to reward early wins rather late wins.
IN WHICH YEAR WAS BILLIARDS FIRST PLAYED?
Though the origin of billiards is lost in history, an account by the Greek traveller Anacharsis suggests that a rudimentary version was played by Egyptians around 400 BC. This form was adopted by the Greeks. The word ‘billiard’ has its roots in the French words ‘billart’ meaning stick, and ‘bille’ meaning ball. In 1470, the first billiards table was found among the possessions of French king Louis XI. The earliest record of how the game was played was made in the 15th century It started as an indoor version of croquet. The Spaniards introduced billiards to the Americans in 1565. Shakespeare’s use of the word ‘billiards’ in his playAnthony and Cleopatra shows that this sport was well known to the Elizabethans.
WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT EUROPASS FOOTBALL?
The EuroPass is the official football for UEFA Euro 2008. The adidas EuroPass combines tradition with modernity It has a new surface structure which allows players to have more control over the ball and direct it perfectly in all weather conditions. The PSC-Texture, which consists of fine structures on the outer surface, guarantees optimum grip between the ball and boot. The 12 black dots on the ball contain individual graphic elements which stand for passion, friendship, action, training, fans and winning goal. The name EuroPass symbolises the connection between Austria and Switzerland, the host countries of the tournament.
WHEN WAS THE FIRST TWENTY20 MATCH PLAYED?
Twenty20 cricket was first played in English domestic cricket in 2003, between England and Wales Cricket Board. The first international Twenty20 cricket match was played between Australia and New Zealand, on February 17, 2005 at Eden Park, Auckland. Australia defeated New Zealand by 44 runs.
WHEN WAS CHESS FIRST PLAYED AS AN INTERNATIONAL GAME?
Chess was played in 1851 in London as an international tournament. The tournament was conceived and organised by English player Howard Staunton, and marked the first time that the best chess players in Europe met in a single event. German Adolf Andersson won the 16-player tournament, earning him the title of the Best Player in Europe.
HOW IS A CRICKETER’S BATTING AVERAGE CALCULATED?
In cricket, a player’s batting average is the total number of runs he has scored divided by the number of times he has been out. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often he gets out are primarily measures of his playing ability, and largely independent of his team mates, the batting average is a good statistic to describe an individual player’s skill as a batsman. The number is also simple to interpret intuitively, being approximately the average number of runs the batsman scores per innings.
WHO INVENTED THE BOARD GAME SNAKES AND LADDERS?
The board game, today called Snakes and Ladders, originated in ancient India, where it was known with the name Mokshapat or Moksha Patamu. It’s not exactly known when or who invented it, though it’s believed the game was played at a time as early as 2nd century BC. According to some historians, the game was invented by Saint Gyandev in the 13th century AD. Originally, the game was used asa part of moral instruction to chil dren. The squares in which ladders start were each supposed to stand for a virtue, and those housing the head of a snake were supposed to stand for an evil. The snakes outnumbered the ladders in the original Hindu game. The game was transported to England by the colonial rulers in the latter part of the 19th century, with some modifications. The modified game was named Snakes and Ladders and stripped of its moral and religious aspects and the number of ladders and snakes were equalized. In 1943, the game was introduced in the US under the name Chutes and Ladders.
WHAT IS A CARROM BALL IN CRICKET?
It is a form of bowling. The ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger, and instead of a regular release, the ball is squeezed out of the fingers. It could result in an off-break, a leg-break, or a googly Like in carrom, one never knows where the ball will land.
WHO INVENTED THE BOARD GAME SNAKES AND LADDERS?
A complete Sanskrit name for Snakes and Ladders— ‘Parama Pada Sopana Patam’— means the chart showing the ladder that leads to the ultimate state. Such blockprinted charts on rough paper were sold at fairs or marketstreets leading to the main doors of the temples of south India. An important aspect of the game is that when you get to the higher stage of spiritual attainment, only certain falls of the dice will entitle you to move to the next house, illustrating the difficulty of spiritual practice needed for attaining moksha, the ultimate release. The game was a way to teach the young, in an entertaining way, the principles of ancient Indian thinking on proper living.
WHO IS THE YOUNGEST OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST?
The youngest individual Olympic gold medallist is Marjorie Gestring of the United States. She was 13 years and 268 days old when she won the gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, in the 3-metre springboard diving competition. As the 1940 and 1944 Olympics were not held due to World War II, she didn’t get a chance to defend her title. An interesting aspect about her victory is that it was watched by Adolf Hitler. Marjorie Gestring was also included in the International Swimming Hall of Fame and a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. She came back in the 1948 London Olympics. Danish swimmer Inge Sorensen won the bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke, aged 12 years, 24 days. She remains the youngest-ever competitor to win an Olympic medal in an individual event.
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Top 3 Guaranteed Ways To Improve Google Landing Page Score
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In the Columbus Web Design and development world, there are a few ways to view these web pages. Single purpose,distinct web pages are called Landing Pages. And more traditional image oriented or static web pages like you see in most corporate situations like web blogs, retail web sites, and others.
This article will discuss various Columbus Web Design strategies with respect to developing these types of pages
Types of website landing pages include Squeeze Pages, also called opt-in or flycatcher web pages, involvement pages, long form sales letters, micro websites, and reference sites
When considering a new web page design, the Columbus Web Design expert must pay close attention to the marketing purpose.
Here’s what we mean..
The Columbus Web Design purpose of the Opt-in Page is to generate a lead. This data could include first name, last name, address, city, state, zip code and phone number.
The web design purpose of an involvement page is to get the prospect involved in the sales process by being asked to take some form of action. Types of action include participating in a survey or poll.
Columbus Web Design experts should implement a long form sales letter if a sale can be made directly from the website.
The design of Microsites should look like larger scale websites but the primary purpose is usually something very specific like becoming a subscriber of the site or even registering for a free workshop.
Additionally, Columbus Web Design practitioners should design reference sites when looking to solicit others to contribute articles or their business information to business directories.
The last piece of information the Columbus Web Design support person should consider would be what is the objective of the page. As discussed briefly above examples include providing the prospect a bonus of some sort if the opt-in, participating in as survey or vote, becoming a member of your site, downloading a free ebook or some software or making a product free not including shipping.
About the Author
This article was provided courtesy of the Columbus Internet Marketing Association. Members include small business owners, Columbus web design and developers, Search engine marketers, SEO practitioers, website programmers and others. For more information visit our Columbus Advertising blog.
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The Affiliate Code is Not The Secret Affiliate Code
The Affiliate Code is a brand new product that is being released on November 17. It is not The Secret Affiliate Code which originally came out in 2008. Michael Jones is the creator of The Affiliate Code. He also launched the very successful Clickbank Code earlier this year which broke clickbank records for sales. The Affiliate Code is expected to be just as successful.
The Clickbank Code focused on the same subject as The Affiliate Code, being an affiliate and selling other people’s products. However, The Clickbank Code focused on adwords and buying traffic where The Affiliate Code focuses on free traffic. Michael says he wanted to help those people who don’t have a lot of cash with these super simple totally free techniques in The Affiliate Code that can have you making money on the first day. Based on the excellent techniques from his earlier product and the success seen with it, I believe him.
Besides the basics of niche and keyword research, copywriting and tracking your work, here are some highlights of what you will get within The Affiliate Code 9 different modules:
How to get ranked in hours not days
Build an affiliate business that runs on autopilot
Methods to get multiple listings on the front page of Google
Simple techniques to build a targeted list
How to pick the right niche and sell the right product to make money
How to tell a buyer from a browser
As you can see from everything above, The Affiliate Code is great for beginner affiliate marketers, but it also has something for those affiliate marketers that already make an income online. It provides you with a technique to double your business and take it to the next level. Now, no matter how much income you make online now, there is always room for making more money.
The Affiliate Code is a video course where you can watch over Michael’s shoulder and see step by step how he does each task, from finding a niche to building a Landing Page. There is 8 1/2 hours of video training. The videos show you how to setup your product promotion and the secrets to getting a lot of traffic to it that converts.
Michael says the Affiliate Code is a turn key system that you can be setup and forgotten. Well, one way this is accomplished is by building a list for your selected niche that you can market to in the future. This is where the totally free part of the system changes. Although the techniques are totally free in The Affiliate Code, building a list may cost you a minimal amount. You will need an autoresponder to build your list that will cost about $10 a month. With The Affiliate Code, you could easily be making enough money to pay for this small cost.
The Affiliate Code comes with an unbelievable 56 day no questions asked money back guarantee. If The Affiliate Code is as good as Michael’s earlier products, you don’t want to miss these techniques.
If you are an online marketer you probably recognize the importance of having a landing page aka a lead Capture Page. These pages are what appears when a prospective customer clicks on an ad or a search engine result link. This page will normally show subject matter that is a logical annex of the ad or link, and that is optimized to possess specific keywords or phrases for indexing by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. In pay per click (PPC) promotions, the landing page will also be tailored to evaluate the effectuality of various advertisements. By supplying a parameter to the linking URL, marketers can evaluate ad effectiveness based on comparative click-through values.
There are 2 different variants of landing type pages, they include reference and transactional. A reference landing page will introduce selective information that is relevant to the visitor, these will usually show content such as text, pictures, links or other elements such as videos. A transactional landing page is formulated to persuade the visitor to complete a transaction such as filling out a form with the main goal being; immediate gross sales.
One of the major mistakes new affiliates or inexperienced affiliates make is buying junk traffic upon the truck loads and expecting it to turn over. Seriously, don’t even waste your hard earned money with this crap. Do it the right way the first time and stick with it. Junk traffic is called junk for a reason; ITS JUNK!
Now in a lot of instances affiliates end up getting low conversions on their landing pages simply because they don’t know how to set something like this up or you might do the same page that every single other marketer has. More often than not this is a turn off for potential customers. They want to see your site as being uniquely different. With a landing page creator you wouldn’t have to worry about any of these problems because the creator itself can do amazing things with your site, and take the guesswork out of it for you. Some of the benefits of these creators include options such as; building a sales page, promoting or selling any product, adding valuable content, reviews, articles, link and much more. Plus you can do other cool things to “reel” in potential sales such as adding videos, which most definitely allows your site to be unique in both content and quality. These are the types of programs you really wouldn’t mind spending money on because they could potentially make you enough money back threefold!
You could profit with things such as Click bank, Commission Junction, Amazon or any other affiliate program for that matter. Is the “home made” landing page you made yourself been able to offer any of this stuff? Doubtful! Get every and any sale you want! Your website will be the only one offering incentives, articles, links or whatever content you want! The sky is the limit! Remember to make things as unique as possible. Of course in some situations this is impossible and you might not have exact control over your landing page, but if you have control, change it. Make it interesting. Make it yours!
Business Killers – Why Using A Squeeze Page Generator Can Kill Your Business
A squeeze page is one of the most widely used tools by Internet marketers to generate sales. The conversion rates of a well crafted page are very high. Good Squeeze Pages optimized for search engines have been shown to outdo websites with similar offerings. There are basically three things you can do to get a page:
-Use templates/squeeze page generator -Do it yourself -Hire a designer
You can get templates from several sites on the Internet. These templates require you to put your content in and host it. Sometimes you might have to make some change. Though a template is very easy to use, it will not give you the desired results. This is because templates are over used. And the design is not exclusive and lacks the desired quality. For your visitor to get enticed, your page should be cut apart from the rest. To do this, you have to make your own page. This would be your best shot. But making a page is time consuming and if you haven’t made any before, then it might not come out the way you want.
Outsourcing- Your savior…
In order to have a customized design in less time, you should outsource your work to a designer. Outsourcing saves a lot of time and today it works much cheaper than doing it yourself. If you want to put a video on the page, then it is more compelling that you hire designer. Your video makes an instant impact on the visitor. I am certain you would want to make a good first impression.
Also shooting your own video and editing will leave you with no time at all for you work which is marketing. It would also be very expensive if you don’t have the equipment. You can get your page and video for much less than what you would spend doing it yourself. Apart from making a page, your designer will also put content that sells. Since most designers have an in depth knowledge of visual appeal and advertising, you can be certain that your page will deliver what is expected of it.
About the Author
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What Goes Into Making A Killer Squeeze Page? – The Behind Scenes Work Of Expert Designers
Making squeeze pages is an art. And just like every other art that can be performed only by an artist, there are artists for making squeeze pages as well. There are many aspects to it that need to be taken care of keeping the visitor in view.
1) When making the page, a designer always puts two questions to himself. These are – What will the visitor like? This is not an easy question to answer. His visual judgment aided by experience filters through several options until he gets to the right one for your market and the product.
2) The second question he asks is – what you, the marketer needs? When you work with a designer, you would be asked to state your requirements. There is a lot of flexibility as when doing so. You can let the designer know of your idea for the copy as well apart from just the design of the page. Since designers are also equally adept at SEO, you never know how good your copy can be made.
That apart, getting a page designed will make you come out with something new. Since the competition is intense, and everybody is trying to do well, a visitor is looking for anything and everything different.
If you show a distinguishing character on your page, you have held his gaze. Now if your headline is good, he will go on to the text and you can be reasonably certain that he will sign up.
While text is important for conveying a message, it is not as effective as a video. Comprehending this is no rocket science. You would rather watch a movie than read a book. The same principle applies for squeeze pages too. A video presentation will hold a visitor and give you a chance to talk to him.
As several of the highest converters have pointed out, video is the way to go. Text is now being associated with the small guys and having text alone could seriously undermine your chances.
About the Author
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It’s the page your website visitor arrived at after clicking a
link. The link could be on any page on your website or pay per
click advertising or banner ads or keyword search.
The goal of landing page is to cause your visitors to take
definite action. You don’t want your visitors to leave until you
get them to do what you want them to do. To click on the buy
button, to sign up for an affiliate program, to download a free
ebook or software, to sign up for a course, or to subscribe to
your free newsletter.
The landing page is a direct marketing copy. Your visitors
landed here through a link on your webpage, an ad, a keyword
search, pay per click advertising, banner ads, and now you want
to convert them.
Here are some tips to design a good landing page…
1.Content Relevance
Your Landing Page Content must be relevant to what people were
looking for when they applied the click through. The closer the
match is the higher the chances of conversion.
2.Be Concise
Net writing is different than offline writing. Generally, when
people surf the Internet they give short attention span to what
they are reading. So be concise. When visitors arrive at your
landing page they are already predisposed to buy, or they want
to get more information of your product or service. By all means
give them information but be concise. Don’t use more than three
sentences to communicate a point. Think through and concise what
you want to say. Use bulleted list to communicate the benefits
of your product or service.
3.Get straight to the point
The landing page is a highly customized marketing copy for your
product or service or affiliate product or service. Don’t
distract your visitors with advertisements, links to other web
pages. Don’t let your visitors wade through a whole bunch of
hosh posh before they get to want they want.
4.Focus
Dedicate one landing page to only one product or service. Don’t
try to promote multiple products (unless they are of the same
product group)or services on one page. Create separate landing
pages and campaigns if you have multiple products or services to
promote. Focus on one product or one product group on each
landing page.
5.Be Factual
Use facts and figures instead of generalities.
General: Prices Reduced
Factual: Prices Reduced by 20 percent
6.Clear Call to Action
Tell your visitors what you want them to do. Buy now, click here
to download, fill in name and email address to subscribe or
whatever. Keep all call to action text in bold.
7.Readable Text
Sure, there’s nothing much to look at a page with white
background and black fonts. But it’s definitely easier to read
the text than a red background with black fonts. Remember, it’s
the words that sell. Your website visitors must be able to read
your text with ease.
8.Navigation Links
Not at all, if you could help it. The only link you want your
website visitors to click on your landing page is the call to
action link.
9.Graphics and Images
Keep visual effects to a minimum unless you are running an
online audio or video business, real estate business, or selling
holiday destinations. Keep in mind that for direct marketing
it’s the words that sell. Graphics and images serve only to
enhance your text communication, not cloud it.
10.Grammatical and Spelling Errors
Check through your text and correct all grammatical and spelling
errors. Otherwise it gives your website visitors a negative
impression of you and the company you represent. Once visitors
have a negative impression, it becomes difficult to convince
them of the product or service that you are promoting. First
impression counts a lot.
11.Make it personal
Make it personal to connect with your visitors. Use a lot of You
and Your in your text.
12.Make your text clear and simple to understand
Avoid colloquialism or jargons. Use terms and phrases that
people readily understood. Use short sentences, and phrase them
in the active voice.
A good landing page will always sport good conversion rate as
compared to a poor one. Take the time to think and rethink, work
and rework your Landing Pages. Don’t make the mistake of just
optimizing for the search engines. You need to optimize your
landing pages for humans too. Ultimately, it is humans that give
you the sales.
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Website Landing Page Definition
Affiliate Landing Page Guide: 5 Different Ways to Greatly Improve Conversion
Your landing page is vital for your affiliate marketing business as you will be driving traffic to your website to start growing your subscriber list. Once you have started to send consistent traffic to your website, you will have to keep on testing the landing page so that you will get the best conversion. Here are the 5 different ways that you can use to improve the conversion.
1) Testing The Main Headline Of The Website
This is crucial as you will want to make sure that you capture the visitors’ attention once they come to your website. If you do not have a attention grabbing headline, the visitors will leave your website. You will want your visitors to stay so that they will be able to view your message. You can try to test different headline to get the best conversions.
2) Testing The Website Background Color
You can also try to change the website background color and track the conversion. There are some background colors which will make the webpage looks more presentable. You can never make the final judgment until you test and track the conversion. The most proven combination is the white background with wording in black colour.
3) Testing Placing The Opt In Form In Different Places
The placement of your opt in form will greatly affects the conversion of your landing page. You can try to place the opt in form on top of your landing page against placing the opt in form at the bottom of the page. You will have to track the conversion and choose the one that gives you the best conversions.
4) Testing Putting Videos Against Text
You can try to put videos on your landing page against using text. Videos will be able to capture people’s attention and you will be able to communicate your message more clearly. As mention, you will have to test it and there might be situations when placing a video will hurt your conversion.
5) Testing Of Simple Landing Page Against Landing Page With Full Graphics
A landing page with nice graphics will be able to capture people’s attention. It might seem to be true most of the time but you will want to make sure that you do some testing. There might be some market which will only requires you to have a simple landing page. You will have to test it and choose the best option. You definitely do not want to make use of any lousy and unprofessional graphics on your website.
Here are the 5 different ways that you can test so that you will get the best conversion from your landing page. Do stay focus on sending traffic to your landing page consistently so that you will be able to test your landing page. You will want to test as much as possible so that you will be able to fully leverage on the traffic that you are getting. So make use of the 5 methods today to improve conversion.
About the Author
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Landing Page Layouts
Tips on Creating a Landing Page
If you use a Landing Page Templates or basic format, it truly speeds up the process of making them. Landing-pages are a fast and simple method of informing your potential customers and helping them along in the middle to purchasing. It is simply a single page advert with option to buy or links to the product selling page you are selling.
I’ve written before about the basic layout of landing page, using your adaptation of this method will enable you to focus on your talent. Often creative people need this framework, it’s a bit like writing, I find if I stop to spell check all the time it becomes tough work and doesn’t flow. The template makes sure you have all the important parts to make it easy for them to buy what you are selling, similar to a checklist.
The details are explained more in my other article on here or through my link, but fundamentally the checklist is :
1/ title, including keywords. 2/ powerful engaging first paragraph. 3/ benefits to customers 4/ plenty of footage. 5/ masses of Links let them buy.
If you buy a landing page templates, possibilities are that you get a page which has heaps of instructions to’place your title here’,'put your bullet points here’ and so on .
Sometimes that is’s just about as bad as having to come up with your own landing page templates from scratch! Just what do you put in those boxes?
The title is your principal opportunity to grab your reader’s attention. If you don’t have a punchy headline, possibilities are your reader will click the back button and be gone forever.
news sell.
Look at any newspaper. Or better still, countrywide Enquirer.
What draws your attention?
It’s generally the headlines. They offer mystery and intrigue. Providing they are well written, they make you would like to read further, even if you are not completely interested by the subject.
if you are stuck for words for your landing page headline, go for some of the proven phrases. ‘7 secrets You Never Knew About …’, that kind of thing. There are title generator programs and books available which will give you lots more ideas.
After your headline, you want some bullet points.
* List out the main benefits your clients will get from your products * Give them a reason why your service or product is much better than anyone else’s * Offer them something free in exchange for letting you have their e-mail
eventually, place your email sign up form somewhere apparent. Ideally keep it’above the fold’ so your user doesn’t have to scroll down the net page to find it. That is’s why on a lot of landing page templates you see will have a title at the top, a listing of bullet points on the left and a signup box on the right. This keeps them nice and compact and increases the likelihood of customers enrolling.
About the Author
Ricky is a web developer that specializes in creating web templates to help people and small businesses decrease their web design costs.
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Hey guys, I just need help with my wordpress blog.I added audio to one of my pages and I want to know what have to do to make the audio start automatically once someone lands on the page?I just want ti to start automatically.And just to let you know,I have already tried autostart=”true and auto_play=yes non of these work. Please help me.Thank you.
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If my question is in the wrong section sorry…
What to use depends on which tags or tag you used for the audio media player code.
The object tags:embed tag:
autostart=”true”
Ron
Landing Page Wordpress
How to Create an Effective Landing Page
Wordpress has become almost a standard for affiliate marketers trying to use their blogs to promote specific products or building their lists. However, a blog is continually changing and adapting which can seem to make it difficult to have static Landing Pages for their wordpress blog.
There are several different reasons that you may want a landing page and your reason determines what how you want your landing pages to be presented. Do you want to promote your list, a product, or just push more people into the blog itself? Let’s take a quick second to talk about list building or product sales on your landing page before we get into using it to market your blog.
The reason I want to talk about list building and product promotion first is that it can be a painstaking effort if done on your own. You essentially have two options. The first is to purchase a theme or product that helps create these pages specifically for wordpress. Most range from $20-$100 depending on what you are looking for. The second option is to simply do some coding and programming yourself. While this may seem daunting at first, it is very possible. However, for times sake, I am not going into specifics here. The overall goal of your coding changes is to set a static landing page using wordpress and delete certain potential distractions such as the sidebar, and additional advertisements, while still having enough related content available as to not make your visitors feel trapped. This additional content will also go a long way in making sure that your page is ranked well by search engines.
Now lets focus on creating a landing page that will pull your visitors farther into your blog. On this page, you want to introduce new readers to your blog. This is sort of like the first day of high school for your visitors. They are probably a little unsure of what to expect, as well as unclear about what you have to offer. Your landing page needs to essentially overwhelm the visitor with useful posts and information without intimidating them. One way to do this is to have the few paragraphs of your top 10 or 20 posts. You also want to make them aware of all of your categories and rss feed so that they know what your blog is all about. You should not make the landing page look much different than the blog itself so that when they do dive further into your blog, the transition seems smooth. Think of your landing page as your blogs highlight reel. It showcases your talents and gives your visitors a reason to continue reading and exploring your blog.
My goal has always been to use a wordpress landing page to get people farther into my blog. The reason is simple. Once they are farther into your blog, you can sell them on products and get them to join your list. But keeping someone continually reading your blog is one of the most difficult things there is to do. Plus, if they are loyal readers, they end up buying a multitude of products from you. However, if you landing page is aimed at a one time sale, you will only profit from them once. Plus, if they are not happy with the product they may never come back. On the other hand, if they are already loyal readers and you have an established relationship with them, they may leave some scathing comments about the product, but they will still come back to read more.
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seo advertising help please?
im about ready to start a wordpress blog affiliate marketing business and i was wondering if it is possible for me to make it to the front page of google for myself. ive done a lot of research lately on SEO and i was also wondering (because 2 sites told me different things) does SEO rank individual webpages or your entire website. for instance will just one of my pages (a landing page) be checked by google for rank in search engines or will it look at my entire website to determine one pages rank?
Pages are ranked individually. That is why you have to use your keywords in your page titles. And that includes your home page, unless you want to rank for “home”.
Don’t forget to use your main keyword in your website title and URL. Basic on-page SEO is enough. What matters most is your backlink build up. Those backlinks should come from relevant sites preferably with different domain names and IPs. These should be hyperlinks with your keywords as anchor.
Backlinks from high PR social bookmarking sites and other social media can help.
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