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Bill Would Provide Federal Oversight of Toll Increases

§ December 22nd, 2011 § Filed under General § No Comments

Legislation introduced Friday in both houses of Congress would provide for federal oversight of bridge and tunnel tolls, allowing the U.S. Department of Transportation to determine whether proposed toll increases should be implemented.

Source: http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=28319

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Cover Letters

§ December 20th, 2011 § Filed under General § No Comments

Been looking online for examples of cover letters for truck drivers online and haven’t found any. Was wondering if anyone knew of any sites that had…

Source: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/questions-from-new-drivers/164085-cover-letters.html

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If Your Article is Not Indexed, It Doesn’t Exist

§ December 18th, 2011 § Filed under General § Tagged , , § No Comments

When it comes search engines, google is still the king, and they are doing everything they can to maintain their lead,   in the hope of offering it’s search users better results, according to their official blog, this change impacts 11.8% organic search results, in plain English, google thinks about 12% of it’s search results are really bad and need to manipulated. The update was initiated more than a year ago, and recently I see some of my ranks were lowered considerably, on the other hand almost all keywords promoted by contextual links are not affected, and a few of them even gained a few positions, it becomes clear that linking campaign the old way is the thing of past, probably due to link spamming sites being downgraded by google.

So what exactly is linking campaign the old way? a large percentage of SEO firms will do this,  they will get links from any websites which accept adding links, the content on those sites will never be updated, and most of them are useless, the name of link spamming sites is justified. Now google algorithm probably will weed out these sites, the links on those spamming sites won’t work anymore.  

A few real world examples will help to explain what I said. When I got into online marketing long time ago, I started promote the keyword, load binder, at that time almost every body was doing plain linking campaign, almost all the sites I got link from had too many links, and those sites had only links, no real content at all. This strategy worked in the beginning, finally the rank improved a lot,   the honeymoon lasted until google changed it’s mind. Now let’s look at another keyword, chain puller , most back links for this keyword are from articles and posts, not too many plain links have been built, you can imagine how this keyword ranks. Old and outdated linking campaign lost to content linking, what’s next? Actually this is all about content, as long as you dole out high quality content, not only people will love to read your stuff, so do the search engines. It’s never too late to build good blogs for business purpose, such as this interesting blog, baby strollers , in the beginning I just post to it casually, lately I added nice stuff left and right, you probably think this site won’t rank a all, in actuality my site is ranking high for some nice search phrases. As we can see, article marketing with great content is the way to go. Now imagine you have your own blog network, such as truck accessories, then you will have a powerful weapon in your SEO arsenal.

Bottom line is that you should create great content, publish and share with people, promote your business with the content, this strategy will prevail in short or long term. Whatever you do, you will need persistence and patience, nothing will automatically improve overnight, it doesn’t matter you’re doing SEO or advertising your business, keep doing what we have to do till the end of world. Ezine is one of the best article directories out there, new article will be indexed within an hour if not minutes, popular blogs will get your post indexed as soon as you post it, let look at some aticles or posts which are published and indexed, let’s look at this one, cargo nets , good writing, interesting content, indexed and cached, this article is a good example of article marketing. 

By the way, the social media is the must have channel for your marketing effort. The Twitter tools is a wordpress plugin, you can install it, get a twitter account and API keys, set up API credentials in your twitter tools option, then every new post on your blog will show up in your twitter page, it’s real easy and useful, if you don’t use this tool it’s just too bad.

Speed Limiters and Lack of Safety

§ December 18th, 2011 § Filed under General § No Comments

Speed Limiters are not about Safety or the Environment as the Ontario Trucking Association, Road Safe America and the American Trucking Association claim.

These Government Lobbyist Organizations represent the largest trucking concerns in Canada and the United States.

Their primary goal: To increase profits and decrease competition in the trucking industry. This is the only logical reason speed limiters are being promoted for future legislation in the USA.

Here’s a video of OOIDA Life Member, Ed Wesselius of Guelph, Ontario explaining why speed governors are actually more dangerous and create added driver stress, fatigue, and frequent incidents of road rage against the driver’s. The volume is low, crank up your speaker’s. Speed Limiters and Lack of Safety

See More Videos about the Dangers of Speed Limiters Click here

Source: http://fastertruck.com/news/6/Speed-Limiters-and-Lack-of-Safety.html

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TCA promotes Highway Angel video

§ December 16th, 2011 § Filed under General § No Comments

TCA is encouraging truckers to watch Lindsay Lawler?s new ?Highway Angel? music video.

Source: http://www.truckersnews.com/tca-promotes-highway-angel-video/

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