Lot of people want to know “What can I do to get higher listings
in the search engines”. Here are 3 tips I use that have never let
me down:


1. Keyword Research – This is big. Too many times people try to
get their sites to rank for one word searches like “cars”. This is
too hard to do and I wouldn’t even recommend trying it. Plus did
you know 2 and 3 keyword search terms almost always convert better
for you? So look for 2 or 3 keyword search terms like “used cars”
or “used car dealerships”. You’ll find it’s much easier to rank
for these. Another trick is to look at the number of pages Google
returns. If it shows over 30,000 pages it’s probably a hard search
term to rank for so I’d keep looking.

2. Keyword Location — Put a paragraph containing your keywords
towards the top of your page (or at least at the beginning of your
content) . Also put the keyword phrase in your title and meta
description. Don’t over stuff your page with the keyword phrase.
Overuse can hurt you here.

3. Number of Words on the Page – Keep this around 350 words. You
can still rank well for pages that don’t have this many words, but
remember the search engines love content and 350 words seems
to be the magic number.

So there it is. 3 quick tips that you can use to get better search
listings. You can also use the free article spinning tool to
re-purpose your content for more than one search phrase. Don’t try
to have one page rank for more than one search term. It’s much
easier to just create a new page specifically tailored to the
search term you researched in tip 1.

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CNET Labs has returned the official iPhone 4 battery results for music playback time. With 3G turned on, we managed an impressive 59.02 hours in our longest test. That more than beats Apple’s promised time of 40 hours for audio playback. As a reminder, we also surpassed Apple’s rated talk times in the CNET Labs test last month.


When we conduct our music playback battery life test, we start with a fully charged phone. The display is set to a brightness level of 50 percent, and the backlight is set to turn off after 10 seconds. All phones are set to the same volume level, which we measure electronically to ensure fairness and consistency in testing. If the phone includes an EQ setting, we set it to “flat.” We play a group of repeating audio files and record the amount of time that passes until the phone’s battery drains and it shuts off.

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