http://www.lavaseek.com/articles en-us http://www.lavaseek.com/articles N/A support@lavaseek.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:04:41 CDT 20 http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/15/SEO-Services-India.html   Brain Pulse is an India SEO Company, offering SEO services in India UK Canada USA Australia. We offer search engine optimization and Internet marketing solutions India. SEO firm and SEO agency outsource SEO services to Indian SEO company India. Govind Singh Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/14/Free-Music-online-and-Free-MP3-Downloads.html  If you are a die hard music buff or a beginner, keen to know about the artistes, have an enviable collection and keep adding to it, then this blog is for you. Get all the music related gossip, free mp3 download links, discussion with fellow music lovers and more. Check it out!http://onlinemusicdownload.blogspot.com/ Nadal Jon Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/13/LiveWorkatHome-Blog.html Opportunities, resources, articles, tools and ideas needed to start your own home business. Top tips and advise for the career oriented entrepreneur working from home and the like minded individual. Visit LiveWorkatHome Blog Tammy Akmens Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/11/Here-we-go-again-inflation--interest-rate-hikes.html Interest rates have increased steadily throughout 2006, and once again already in the first weeks of 2007, and if analysts are to be believed they are set to increase again before the end of the first quarter.   Where does that leave us all, inflation is at an all time high, the highest it has been for many years, utility bills have all increased, interest rates increased, we are most certainly getting more and more out of pocket, if interest rates continue the next thing will be a drop in house prices, which again will see us feel the pinch. For the homeowners coming to the end of a mortgage deal, get in there quick and secure yourself another deal before the increase or you will end up finding yourself either on a variable rate that could see an increase in your monthly payments of anything up to £200 pcm or be left with no choice but to accept a new rate that is actually higher than the one you are on now.   January always manages to scare us not only are we just clearing up after the Christmas break, but we are also trying to juggle the bills incurred, and stretch our money that little bit longer, as a majority of us are paid prior to Christmas, which of course is nice at the time, but come January when you have spent it and the next pay day isn’t until the end of the month, seems like a horrendously long time between pay days.   Did you know that January also has the highest recorded number of defaults than any one month of the year, you are more likely to miss a mortgage payment or utility bill payment in this month for the above reasons than at any other time, this of course adds to your worry, and causes even more stress. We all want the extra money before Christmas to get those last few bits that always turn into those last few lots that cost the earth and you end up spending more than you wanted too, hence the problems in January needless to say in retrospect we would all probably benefit a damn site more if our bosses, actually left payment until after Christmas, I know we would all moan at the time, calling them all Bah hum bugs etc, but honestly we probably would be better off in the long run, we would force ourselves to budget for those last bits earlier, and have enough money to cover our usual monthly bills the next month. So in the long run they would be doing us a favour.   Tips for a better year and ways to avoid some of those high bills.   ü      Firstly check out Uswitch.com and see if you can save money switching utility provider, Gas/Electricity & Telephone, it takes two minutes and can save you loads, what’s more they make all the arrangements, once you have filled in the form the rest is down to them.   ü      Find out when your mortgage deal ends, if its within the next 3 months, then start talking to an advisor try www.mortgages-made-simple.net or call 08454283455, they offer free quotes sourced from the entire market, and get the new deal secured before the next increase.     ü      Then transfer your credit card balances to a 0% interest card, chop up the old one so that you are not tempted to use it again, and pay off as much as you can to reduce the debt, as quickly as possible.     When all this is done, try not to worry, you have done everything in your power to make your hard earned cash stretch that little bit further and all you can to save yourself some money.     Cindy little Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 CST http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/10/80-of-revenues-go-back--into-advertising.html As a testament to our commitment to promote LavaSeek, we are putting back 80% of all site revenues into advertising.  That means when you pay $1 to list your site on LavaSeek, you're also spending $0.80 of it on other sites.  The $1 inclusion fee is a limited-time introductory offer.  Don't count on it to stay that way forever. Oudam Em Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 CST http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/9/Backlog-issues.html We currently face a huge backlog of submissions.  To prevent the pending links from piling up, I've decided to start charging $1 for all new submissions.  This is a nominal fee for a high quality, aggressively promoted directory like LavaSeek.  The revenues will also help offset our advertising expenses.All paid submissions will be reviewed within 48 hours.  We will review paid submissions before reviewing the free submission queue.  The fee will likely rise in the future since we spending a lot of money to promote LavaSeek as well as adding new enhancements to the site. Oudam Em Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/8/New-Articles.html  In case you haven't noticed, I am adding a couple of articles a day to our article directory.  I enjoy scouring the web for articles on website marketing and related topics, for my own edification if not for this collection.  Thanks to the explosion of article marketing, most articles I read are just rehashes of what have been written a thousand times before.  I try to publish only the ones that I think are worthy of your time.  I hope you'll learn something from these articles. Oudam Em Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/7/Latest-Google-PR-Update.html Hi All,As you may have already realized, Google has just completed updating its toolbar PRs.  To my delight, 17 of my sites had achieved PR6 and PR5 from various lower PRs.  Unfortunately, LavaSeek.com had apparently missed the boat as the site was launched just 6 weeks ago.   Not that PR really matters...PR  matters simply because it still matters to a lot of people.  Unfortunately, it tends to matter more to web directories as many site owners target high-PR directories because they are believed to "pass" more PR to their own sites.Needless to say, our current PR of 0 does not reflect the quality of our site, or the traffic we're getting, or even the number the links pointing to our site.  Hopefully, for what PR is worth, we'll do better on the next update.PR aside, LavaSeek continues to break its own traffic records, attesting to our commitment to enhancing and marketing the site. Our bookmark rate hovers at around 40%-- obviously a lot of people think this site is worth a second look.I have recently added a meta-search engine to go along with the web directory, blogs, and article directory.  In fact, you can search the entire DMOZ directory without leaving our site....so I guess that makes us even bigger than DMOZ itself...hehehe.I want Lavaseek to be more than just a web directory where people go to submit linksto boost their PRs.  I want it to become a reliable resource where people actually go to search for things.  Thanks to you, this is becoming more and more of a reality everyday! Oudam Em Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/6/Thanks-for-your-support.html I want to thank everyone for helping to make this site a success by continuing to visit and bookmark this site.  Lavaseek is a just a few weeks old and, as you can imagine, is under constant development.  I have been adding enhancements to the site and am planning to add more in the near future. In case you're wondering where this project is going, so am I!  Actually, I don't want this site to turn out to be another general portal.  That's way beyond my technical expertise and the scope of my original intentions.In LavaSeek I want to achieve two objectives:(1) To provide a  positive and interesting surfing experience to the general visitor.(2) To provide a useful marketing resource for webmasters and site owners.I think it is going to be a challenge to build a site that serves both purposes, but I'll do my best.If you have any comments or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.  Please go to http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/pages/Contact-Us.html to submit your message.Thanks! Oudam Em Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.lavaseek.com/articles/blogs/5/LavaSeek-now-tops-300-visits-a-day.html  Some good news...in just a month of our launch, LavaSeek.com now receives over 300 visits and around 100 submissions a day....thanks in no small part to the crosslinking from my other sites. Oudam Em Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 CDT