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Saturday, 17 May 2008

Learning to build websites


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Learning to build websites takes time. I'm still learning but I only started 10 months ago. In fact I learn something new each day. But it's more than just about learning to build websites. You have to make sure that what you say on the site is of a high quality and that means knowing your subject. And you also have to build quite a large website (that's my own view).

But the most important factor of all in this process is to know how to get your website seen by the search engines. Because without it being seen and listed in the first one or two pages of the search results, you are pretty well wasting your time.

Sounds a bit daunting doesn't it? But you know there is a website hosting company which holds your hand, so effectively, throughout the process that you not only get seen by the search engines you can earn money while you're building the site. Sounds like utopia doesn't it? It just happens to be hard reality and I know because I've been through the experience.

I am typing this on a Google Blogger sub-domain to the main website,
http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/. I started to build the site about 10 months ago. It is in construction. It is not highly monetized - I've just put some Adsense on the site and it makes about $180 per month, which I give away to help cats. Man, I love cats.

My target is about $1000 per month - yes, a long way to go but it's great fun getting there and I earn while I do it and the amount I earn goes up as I progress, which is very motivating.


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Learning to build websites can be fun if you do it with SBI. The President is Dr. Ken Evoy. He participates in the forums, which are the best on the internet. He is very open and his mentality has filtered down throughout the company making it very friendly and helpful. If you follow what he teaches you are guaranteed to succeed even if you start from scratch.

SBI is not a restrictive formulaic type method. There is lots of freedom as long as you follow the basic SEO (search engine optimization) techniques. Take this Blogger site for example. It is part of my SBI site (look at the URL - web address - in the bar at the top of the page). This gives you freedom to use Blogger's ease of use and SBI's fantastic SEO power. That is one example; there are a lot of features that you can employ at SBI to make your site successful.

Yes, it costs $299 normally for each year (SBI runs promotions - currently one at $100). But you know, great though the promotions are you can make 5 to 10 times that figure in the first year, so who cares about the subscription. One well known SBIer made $2,000 in his first 6 months and another top SBIer makes $100,000 per year from Adsense alone (he has a site that is Alexa ranked about 50,000). It can be done but not by jumping on the nearest freebie website hosting business and starting without thought. Try Learning to build websites the SBI way and genuinely succeed.

This is not a boast but this site as you can see is Alexa ranked about 200,000 and getting better. It gets about 2,000 unique visits and about 8,000 page views a day. And I got there in 10 months. And it is all thanks to SBI and Dr. Ken Evoy. When I started I didn't have a clue. Everything that I have learned I have learned from the SBI team.

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Cat Inbreeding


Cat inbreeding for cat breeders must by force of necessity be part of the process of developing purebred cats that are sufficiently of the right type (appearance). It happens a lot and cats become ill sometimes because of it. That is part of the breeding process.

An interesting question is whether it happens in the wild. If so cat breeders could argue that all they are doing is what happens naturally. What happens naturally, if one agrees with the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, must be done in the interests of survival of the individual and if the survival of the individual depends on the survival of a group you would have thought that cats would take action to protect the group as well.

As genetic diversity breeds better health and health aids survival it would seem plausible that cats in the wild do not naturally mate with close relatives. It does happen though when the population is very low. This happened with the Cheetah population. There are only about 12,500 Cheetahs left in the world and at one time it would seem the population was lower to a state where cat inbreeding took place leaving the current population having a very similar genetic makeup similar to laboratory bred animals approximating clones.

Some say that cats can distinguish relations through scent and on that basis are able to preserve health by not mating with close relations. Others disagree. We know that cats use their sense of smell to recognize territory. Even the age of a cat's spray (marking out territory) can tell another cat whether the cat is still around by the deterioration in the smell due to its age.

We also know that cats mate freely and the sheer numbers help preserve the species. My gut feel is that cat inbreeding does happen in the wild but not as a first choice but of necessity.

Cat Inbreeding to Abyssinian cat

Savannah Cats for sale


Savannah Cats for sale are being developed in the UK. In the USA the Savannah cat, a wild cat hybrid of substantial popularity is relatively common and for this reason cat breeders in the UK are importing this fine looking cat from the States to allow them to progress their own breeding programs.

The premier Savannah breeder in the States is A1 Savannahs. Kathrin and Martin Stucki run the cattery. Kathrin assisted me by making one or two amendments to the page on Savannah cats on the main website.

However, I am compelled to report for the sake of the cats that there may be some problems with the F2 Savannahs imported from A1 Savannahs. It seems that some are suffering from FIP ( Feline Infectious Peritonitis) and/or other illnesses specifically URIs (Upper Respiratory Infections). In this instance one cat died of FIP and had a calicivirus URI, which is severe. Another was euthanized as she was severely ill. A post mortem is likely to show FIP again. FIP has a high mortality rate. A1 Savannahs would argue that the disease was not present when the cat was "shipped".

It is thought that FIP is not highly contagious and cats with FIP are infected early in life. It also seems that the problems mentioned above do not only relate to a single importation from this very well known breeder.

Something is wrong, it seems, in the cat breeding world (or am I getting this wrong?). I may be exaggerating but I feel a time is approaching when cat breeding in the States will go through a change in which it will be more highly regulated as the breeders are unable to regulate themselves satisfactorily. I am not saying that solely on the basis of the above allegations. Other factors come into play such as the unsustainable conflict between the abandoned cat population and the continuation of cat breeding and the inherited defects sometimes bred in to high attractive purebred cats.

If the above is true and I have no reason to think it is not the underlying reason is combining the need to make a profit with the sale of a living creature - the two can never satisfactorily co-exist. I personally wouldn't buy savannah cats for sale. I'd try a rescue center instead. There are a number of purebred cat rescue centers.

Savannah Cats for sale will continue to be breed but I feel under different circumstances in the medium to long term future. If I have said or done wrong in this difficult post please say so by making a comment. As I said the first call is the cats. All of us "buyers" and cat breeders must do what it right for the cat not for us.

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