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Sep
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A Purebred Puppy Or A Mixed Breed Puppy? by Mitch Endick
A pure bred puppy will cost more. A mixed breed puppy is often free or cheaper in cost then a pure bred. A pure bred puppy will often have a higher level of care associated with it. Unless purchased from a puppy mill, pure bred dogs are often pampered, wormed and have their early shots. Pure bred puppies may have congenital problems associated with inbreeding unless care was taken in the breeding. Buying a purebred with accredited credentials from the American Kennel Club or other such breed clubs helps keep track of several generations of parents. The American Kennel Club offers pure bred dog registrations for both puppies that you eventually want to breed and puppies that are not to be used for breeding. Generally, the breeder you purchase your puppy from will charge more for a puppy if you want to eventually breed and have the puppies registered. This makes the breeder more money and helps keep out competition for that breed of registered puppies in the future.
I have personal experience in both pure bred and mixed breed dogs. I have had 4 different mixed breed dogs and all were lovable, healthy and great pets. One of my dogs, Shadow, I have had for 14 years. She is a mix between a Rottweiler (her mother) and a Golden Retriever. She looks like a wide black lab. I was hoping that she would retain some of the characteristics of both breeds. I wanted a friendly dog since we have three children, but also a dog that guards us at night. Well, it turns out, that she is a black Golden Retriever. She is all sweetness. There is not a trace of watch dog in her. We had good friends show up recently, at night.
They let themselves into our house with their key and walked right past our lounging Shadow to greet us. Shadow never barked when they arrived and just considered this a non alarm. Our friends visit about once a month and I'm sure that she knows the sound of their car engine. But I would prefer a bit of dog warning. She is a wonderful dog and just to look at her would scare most people with bad intentions.
On the other hand, I have a pure bred white German Shepherd puppy about eight weeks old. She is already acting like a watch dog at this early age. This is a trait that I was looking for. It is obvious that this instinct to guard is hardwired into her. I needed a dog that is highly intelligent, protective of my family and a watch dog, and large enough to wrestle with my son and I. I know that I found what I was looking for. My point is this. If you want a better chance of choosing a puppy that will grow to a certain size and exhibit certain characteristics, your best choice is going to be a pure bred. All you need to do is decide what size of dog you desire and choose the characteristics that you are looking for and then research the breeds. Do your homework and you will not be sorry. I usually wind up with a dog because it is available at the time. This was the first time that I actually chose the puppy I wanted, and even ordered it before it was born.
To be fair, many people own mixed breeds and love them including me. It is a good deed to save a puppy from the pound or save the dog that is obviously looking for a home. But if you are looking for specific characteristics, consider a pure bred.
Lastly, if you are looking for a purebred, try not to buy from a puppy mill. Puppy mills breed purebred dogs by the dozens. The dogs get little care or socialization. The dog moms are abused. Puppy mills often sell through chain pet shops, the internet and even local classified ads. This is not to say that all chain pet store, classified ads and internet ads are bad. When we purchased our puppy ( I found our puppy on the internet) I chose a breeder as close to home as I could (3 hours). I questioned the breeder as to how many dogs she had to be sure that it was not a large, impersonal operation. I visited the breeder and found out that she socialized each puppy in her home and the puppies even had a chance to be socialized with cats. I wanted to be sure that we had the best chance of buying a great puppy, and we did.
Mitch Endick is a short article writer, editor and website developer for the popular pet site petpages.com.
www.petpages.com is a pet information site with free pet ads, dog classifieds, and puppy for sale info Petpages.com also offeres information on cats, fish, reptiles, birds, ferrets, rabbits, mice and even pet bugs.
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29
Jul
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Variety Doubles
Destroying Your Home Business' Reputation By Spamdexing by Steven Becker
As a home business owner you know that a website is a must if you have any hope whatsoever of competing in today's global marketplace. Add to this the knowledge that no website is effective unless it consistently and continuously like cream rises to the top in the search engine ranking, and it is not at all surprising to learn that some entrepreneurs are engaging in practices that are borderline illegal.
Destroying your home business' reputation by spamdexing is one very real way of skirting the rules of search engine optimization and having it blow up in your face. Any webmaster and many a home business owner also doubles as the business' webmaster knows that the magic world of search engine ranking is search engine optimization and the articles written on this subject are legion. The truth of the matter dictates that unless your website makes it to the top10 or 20 of MSN, Google and also Yahoo, you might as well not exist.
It is interesting to note that spamdexing most commonly is not intentionally done by the home business owner but instead happens when she or he outsourcers website development and maintenance, and perhaps even hires another entrepreneur to deal with the issue of search engine optimization. A lucrative business for many a search engine insider and Internet junkie, those who make a living off website rankings know that payment is commensurate with results, and some have found that streamlining a process of less than ethical methods translates into more business faster.
In simplest terms, spamdexing refers to the method of increasing search engine rankings by manipulating the site relevancy and META tags with keywords which do not necessarily pertain to your home business, but instead may be some of the most sought after words on a given search engine that week. Usually this is seen in the less than reputable affiliate marketing sites that peddle diet pills, but legitimate home businesses are now also falling victim to this form of advertising in that it guarantees a short-lived presence at the top of the search engines.
Before long, search engine will receive a deluge of complaints about your website and your business. At issue will be the notion that even though you are selling widgets, your site keeps popping up when a user searches for the latest celebrity video (which has nothing to do with your business) and eventually your site will be banned from the search engine. In addition to this damage, you will also contend with the fact that your home business' name is now associated with shady Internet dealings and the next time a consumer is in search for widgets and your site pops up, she or he might remember you and move on to the competition.
Avoid destroying your home business' reputation by spamdexing! Carefully screen the companies who offer to elevate your website's rankings, insist on contractual language that specifically excludes spamdexing, and if you do your own website design, stay away from such questionable practices even if they are suggested in one of the many online tutorials on how to maximize your search engine rankings.
Steven Becker is owner of http://TemplerMarketing.com and writes on a variety of subjects. To learn more about this topic Steven recommends you visit: http://www.templermarketing.com
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16
Jun
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One Get
The Easy Way Of Getting Free One Way Links by
Fact: One way links can push your site up the rankings in Google as well as many other leading search engines, such as Yahoo and MSN. Reciprocal linking is by no means 'dead', however when it comes down to using your time effectively and efficiently, then you will find that you will get many more rewards with much greater results in the search engine results pages with one way linking.
So now you know that it's going to help, I want to show you a few ways that you can get a head start. These may be a bit time consuming in the beginning, however they will certainly pay off in the future.
Articles: This is one of the best ways to get inbound links and it also helps to build you a solid and well formed reputation. I love this as the articles that you submit will be used again and again all over the net, thus expanding your potential market. You can submit articles on a whole range of topics on thousands of article directories all over the internet. For each article that you post you can place at least one inbound link in it that points towards your site. This link can be palace in your 'Author Bio'. Any articles that you submit will want to be 'keyword enriched', which means that it will have to mention several times a term that you think people will use to search for you site. Once you have your article you will need to submit it to some online directories. For this, quantity is just as good as quality. For a better distribution that is done automatically for you I suggest that you use http://www.articlemarketer.com
Directory Submissions: Directories can be found all over the net and they certainly should not be ignored as they are a very important part of any linking strategy. Just like article directories there are thousands out there. I suggest that if you can't be bothered submitting yourself than you can use http://www.best-web-directories.com
One thing to remember is that each link that you get, helps to push you up the Google ranks. Don't go over the top and sit there for days at a time as this will only lead to burnout and you will not get anywhere. Set yourself a goal of submitting to say 10-20 directories and in no time you will have thousands completed.
Richard MacKenzie is an online marketer with a twist. His abilties have been shown in the marketering of his two great sites, one on Hypnotherapy and one on Hypnosis Downloads
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