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Seattle’s Balmer: UNC’s Austin, Thomas Like Family
Seattle Seahawks defensive tackle Kentwan Balmer said he hasn’t spoken with the NCAA about its investigation of North Carolina and that questions about his relationship with two of his former college teammates is “really not fair.” As the NCAA investigates whether defensive tackle Marvin Austin and receiver Greg Little received improper benefits from agents, questions have arisen about a cross …
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Seattle to honor World War II internees, soldiers
Several hundred families who purchased bricks to honor friends or family are expected to help build a Japanese-American memorial in Seattle.
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Fire in the sky, Seattle


Image by Piero Sierra
The house is one of those famous Seattle houseboats. You know, like where Tom Hanks lives…

Fire in the sky curtesy of the Fourth of July fireworks.

Added to Cream of the Crop group as personal favorite.

Seattle schools enact controversial policy for students’ online postings
What Seattle school students post on public sites such as Facebook or MySpace could get them in trouble — even if done at home on their private computers, according to a new policy.
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Seattle Sounders purchase Tanzanian club
Seattle Sounders MLS MLS outfit Seattle Sounders have purchased Tanzanian club African Lyon. An article in Tanzanian paper The Citizen said that Sounders owners would jet into Dar es Salaam on Friday to watch their new club take on Simba at Uhuru Stadium. The article supplied the following information: ‘According to an impeccable African Lyon insider, the majority owner of the American club …
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Seattle Game holds on in Thursday feature | Horse Racing
Seattle Game held off heavily favored Mizzen You for a neck victory Thursday in the featured Ashbaugh Beal Purse for fillies and mares at Emerald Downs.
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Seattle Panorama


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This is a 7-shot panorama of Seattle on a relatively clam night. The original is approximately 50 megapixels. It is even more impressive if you view a larger size:

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Seattle Seahawks Discussing Contract With Vincent Jackson
Confirmed through General Manager John Schneider, the Seattle Seahawks have begun discussing contract terms with San Diego Chargers hold out Vincent Jackson. This is a huge development, Chargers General Manager AJ Smith declined to comment on the situation, but the Seahawks brass has stated they have begun the necessary communication about compensation that could lead to [...]
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Seattle Police investigate South Lake Union homicide
Seattle Police are investigating a homicide that occurred in the South Lake Union neighborhood late Friday night.
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Seattle Police investigate South Lake Union homicide
SEATTLE – Seattle Police are investigating a homicide that occurred in the South Lake Union neighborhood late Friday night. Police say a private event was being held in a rented space in the 1000 Block of Valley Street. Shortly after midnight, a “shots fired” call was placed from that location and West Precinct officers responded. Nothing suspicious was found and people attending the event said …
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sleepy Seattle


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Seattle just before sunrise across Puget Sound. Taken from Alki Beach. HDR

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Seattle police investigate homicide in South Lake Union early Saturday
Seattle police are investigating the death of a man found in the South Lake Union neighborhood early Saturday morning.
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Seattle family shelter in need of funds
SEATTLE – Six-year-old Phenix shows us what’s cool about being 6. He’s got his own room, full of his own toys.  It’s certainly a priceless moment in time, but it wasn’t always this way. “A couple of places didn’t take me because they were like you’re a family of two and we’re looking for a family of four,” says Carla Wakefield, Phenix’s mother. Just last year, Phenix and his mom were on the …
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Seattle’s Balmer: UNC’s Austin, Thomas like family
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Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhaas


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Seattle Public Library, designed by fellow Dutchman Rem Koolhaas.
This place really made you feel like walking through someones arteries.

Seattle’s Balmer: UNC’s Austin, Thomas like family
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As the owner of a website being thus ignored by visitors and sidelined by search engines has probably kept you up nights wondering exactly how you might better the position of your site . Well the answer is simple; through SEO.

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization refers to a process by means of which a website earns high ranking amongst the search results, gets a coveted place on the SERP and thereby pulls in a large chunk of ‘unique’ visitors.

Who needs SEO?

Websites can broadly be classified into 4 different types:

• Personal sites
• Corporate sites
• Sites providing information
• E-commerce sites

As is obvious the first two types of website s can hold their own without using SEO. That is because they are target group is in itself a niche and it doesn’t want or need audiences beyond that niche. However, that cannot be said for the last two types of website s. If you build a site primarily to circulate information or for commercial use then you would definitely need unique visitors, these may be found only by means of good ranking on SERP’s and therefore by means of SEO.

Watch your content, get the right visitors. If you want to lure the right visitors into your website then simply use the right words. Although search engines do not read they do scan the site ’s text. The more relevant your content is the higher your chances of a better ranking.

Another important consideration, while on the topic of content, is keywords. Your keywords are words or phrases which summarize or represent the main topic or subject of your site , when a search engine scans the body of your website ’s text it picks up these repeating words and match them with the words being searched if they match then you get a high ranking.

When selecting your keywords make sure you choose words which are most likely to be used by users searching for a site like yours or subjects covered by your site . After you have selected them sprinkle them abundantly within the text of your site . However be careful that you don’t unnecessarily stuff them at inappropriate junctures cause that might attract criticism or even a penalty. Your keyword density per page can be anywhere between 5-15%, depending on of course how skillfully you might choose to repeat them. Make sure that you use your key words/phrases freely in the first two paragraphs of the text. Also, remember to include them in the concluding line of your text. But most importantly use them in your anchor text, certain Search Engine’s like Google put a lot of importance on the anchor text of your inbound links.

Judge for yourself

Here are the reasons we think optimization is a must, you decide for yourself.

• More than 80% of net-users find websites by means of search engines .
• 90% of these users do not bother to check beyond the first 30 results.
• 75% of those using search engines intend to buy a product or service.
• “Professional SEO is twice as effective as all other internet marketing methods and 8 times more effective than banner advertisements.”

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