Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
The method is the most hands on method of investing. However, if you do it smart (duh), investing in real estate can generate additional sources of income and grow your savings. As an individual who has literally grown up and lived in the real estate world, I see first hand the few positives and mostly […]
How To Make Money In Real Estate
Although building a real estate business requires a lot of know-how, there are some major pillars or ingredients you need to employ if you want to succeed at building a sustainable rental property business. This article discusses the major pillars or ingredients for a successful rental property business. (Featured Image Credit: Pixabay.com.)
Major Pillars for a Successful Rental Property Business
by Tobias Stahl on 31.05.2021
The AuREUS material can generate energy from UV light. The ultraviolet light also passes through cloud cover – generating electricity even when the sky is overcast.
James Dyson AwardThe AuREUS material can generate energy from UV light. The ultraviolet light also passes through cloud cover – and thus generates electricity even when the sky is overcast.
For 15 years now, the James Dyson Award has been presented to young people who use fresh ideas to make everyday products a little better. One of the young engineers and designers on this year’s entry list has come up with something that sounds almost too good to be true: a solar power system made from organic waste that works even without sunny weather.
The invention, submitted by 27-year-old student and inventor Carvey Ehren Maigue to last year’s James Dyson Award, is so unique that it even won its own sustainability award for the first time. The focus on sustainability is no accident: Maigue lives in the Philippines, one of the countries most affected by climate change.
Maigue’s invention, called AuREUS System Technology, is a new material that can convert UV light into energy. Unlike conventional solar panels, the fluorescent-yellow material absorbs UV light and then begins to glow. This releases energy as visible light, which in turn can be turned into electricity using tiny solar panels. If that’s not enough of an attraction for you, unlike conventional photovoltaic or solar thermal systems, the material also works under cloudy skies – and what’s more, it consists almost entirely of organic waste.
This idea makes it easy for anyone to use solar power. In the future, energy from the sun can be generated in front of the house instead of just on it. It also serves as protection from prying eyes.
“When I first competed in 2018, my invention was just a window that aimed to harness UV light, sunlight, and convert it into electricity,” Maigue tells James Dyson Award staff in an interview. “Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to make that glass at the time, but I developed the product further and lifted the concept and the technology and found other applications for it. AuREUS is actually a material or technology that allows other devices to harvest UV light and convert it into electricity. AuREUS is based on a plastic material, so it can be made into different shapes.”
Currently, inventor Carvey Maigue is working on making the fluorescent yellow material more convertible. Then it could even be used in clothing.
James Dyson FoundationCurrently, inventor Carvey Maigue is working on making the fluorescent yellow material more versatile. Then it could even be used in clothing.
The material consists of 80 percent waste, and only 20 percent is man-made. Maigue gets the waste from Philippine farmers. Their harvests have been increasingly destroyed in recent years by natural disasters such as severe storms or floods. Instead of disposing of the actually ruined harvest, it can now be used to produce the AuREUS material. At one time, the material was said to be made of 100 percent organic waste.
Now, as the winner of the Dyson Sustainability Award, the young inventor already has a number of ideas for bringing his material to the people: “I want to make threads and fabrics so that even clothing would be able to harvest ultraviolet light and convert it into electricity. We also want to make curved sheets that could be used in electric cars, airplanes and even boats.” The technology could also capture UV radiation that has so far bounced off buildings, sidewalks and streets in cities and gone unused.
“AuREUS has the opportunity to bring solar energy capture closer to people,” Maigue explains. “Just like computers used to be used only by the government or military and now the same technology is in our smartphones, I want solar energy harvesting to become more accessible.”
Translated from the original: https://efahrer.chip.de/news/student-erfindet-solaranlage-aus-abfall-sie-funktioniert-ohne-sonnenlicht_105027 loaded 01.06.2021
See also:
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2020/project/aureus-aurora-renewable-energy-uv-sequestration
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/27/aureus-carvey-ehren-maigue-james-dyson-awards-sustainability
https://www.fastcompany.com/90578605/these-solar-panels-dont-need-the-sun-to-produce-energy
https://www.facebook.com/Carvey.Ehren.Maigue1
https://ask.fm/professionals/carvey-ehren-maigue%27s-email/156696020
by Tobias Stahl on 31.05.2021
When night falls, there is no peace and quiet between the solar panels in German solar parks. In addition to birds and deer, thieves are also increasingly hanging around there.
Unfortunately, where there is expensive equipment, thieves are often not far away. It is no different in solar parks: For some time now, solar parks all over Europe have been haunted by gangs, some of them organized. They do not shy away from unconventional diversionary maneuvers.
In solar parks all over Europe, a race is on between man and technology. It is becoming increasingly common for gangs of thieves to steal expensive equipment from the parks, usually at night when it is otherwise quiet there. In January of this year, for example, 20 inverters were stolen from a solar park in Wittstock. The resulting damage amounts to around 50,000 euros. In January, inverters worth 70,000 euros were also stolen from the Zepel solar park. In the Atzendorf solar park, cable drums and emergency power generators were recently missing, and 40 inverters were also stolen from the Glaubitz solar park in March. And such incidents are no longer rare in other European countries either, reports the Austrian news portal Der Standard.
The fact that the perpetrators are often not caught, even though the heists usually last several hours and the solar parks are monitored by camera, is due to the fact that they are excellently prepared: When the thieves have overcome the most dangerous zone between the fence and the panels, it is difficult for the security forces to spot them on one of the many screens. To do this, the criminals crawl or crawl across the field, dismount the loot and have accomplices, for example, drag it outside on ropes from outside the security fence.
Although the cameras are getting better and better, they must not be over-sensitive, as birds, deer or wild boars are often on the move on the grounds at night. Too many false alarms would be just as much of a hindrance in the fight against crime as too few, as genuine alarms could then be overlooked.
Court-appointed experts such as Markus Piendl are currently working in Austria to test the safety systems by trying to overcome them. The fact that Piendl and his colleagues not only crawl across the site on all fours, but also disguise themselves with a small fir tree or a wild boar mask, shows that the criminals leave no stone unturned.
René Steinkellner, founder of the security technology company Styx, explained to Standard what happens to the solar components once they have been successfully stolen: According to the report, the stolen panels and inverters often go to Eastern Europe and from there to Africa. “Installations in Italy and Spain are often robbed, so the problem is already big there,” Steinkellner explains.
The major insurance companies have also long been aware of the problem, and accordingly they now require certain security standards before insuring a solar farm. But the cat-and-mouse game is still likely to go on for a while.
Translated from the original: https://efahrer.chip.de/news/wie-kriminelle-solarparks-leerraeumen-auch-wildschweinmasken-kommen-zum-einsatz_105028 loaded 01.06.2021
A permalink is any URL you see in the rectangular box at the top of any browser. It is used for linking any internet searcher to a post, page, or other types of content on a site; also, it is used for link building. There are some reasons why link building is important, most especially because it can optimize a site and tremendously improve its SEO.
URL means “Uniform Resource Locator”: it is an address to a particular resource or location on the Internet. So, URL is a “permanent link” which is popularly called “permalink”—the short name for “permanent link.” In essence, a permalink is a URL and does the work of a URL by linking internet searchers to specific web posts or articles, news stories, pages, or types of content.
It is important to know how to structure permalinks and change or edit them because research has proven that the structures of permalinks have an impact on internet users or site visitors who usually bookmark them or link to them from various websites.
The structure of permalinks can help a site on search engines; however, some site owners and bloggers don’t often realize this, and many of them don’t even know how to make/structure and or edit/change permalinks. The following are 7 important tips you can use to structure your permalinks for SEO:
1. Create your own shorter slug instead of using the typically longer slug created by WordPress
By default, whenever you want to publish a post, WordPress creates a “slug” which is the part of the permalink that is located immediately after your domain; the slug automatically created by WordPress is usually as long as WordPress can possibly make it.
In most cases, if the title of a post or article is not short or doesn’t contain a small number of characters, WordPress automatically makes permalinks longer than necessary. Longer permalinks usually affect clicks from visitors and most visitors are often click shorter permalinks which automatically contain shorter slugs.
For example, if your domain name is https://domain.com/, and the title of your article is about “5 of the best ways you can use to purify water”, the slug that WordPress would create is “5-of-the-best-ways-you-can-use-to-purify-water” and the permalink would be https://domain.com/5-of-the-best-ways-you-can-use-to-purify-water. Note that, generally, WordPress uses all the words in a title and creates the longest permalinks possible, rather than shorter permalinks that are more preferable for SEO.
Because of SEO, you could neglect WordPress’s usually longer slug (“5-of-the-best-ways-you-can-use-to-purify-water”) and permalink (https://domain.com/5-of-the-best-ways-you-can-use-to-purify-water) and use a shorter slug (“5-best-ways-to-purify-water”) and permalink “https://domain.com/5-best-ways-purify-water”; better still, you could make your permalink shorter by using “https://domain.com/5-ways-purify-water”.
Make your permalinks to be as short as possible because shorter permalinks are known to perform better in search engine results— The shorter, the better. If possible, keep your permalink below 100 characters, or make it to be far less than 100 characters; between 40 and 60 would be great.
2. Use dates for news content, but don’t use dates for evergreen content
When you want to publish a post, it is advisable to use dates for news stories because they occur on a particular date or around a particular period of time, and it is important to give an actual indication of when stories were actually published.
On the other hand, evergreen content like educational content doesn’t require dates because they would likely remain “fresh” or unchanged, and therefore don’t need to be “time-stamped”.
Note that if your permalink has a date that is years away from the current date, fewer people would click on it if it appears on search engine results pages. Why? Because people tend to be more attracted to recently published content.
3. Include keywords in your permalinks
Always remember to use keywords in your permalinks because they help signal to search engines (Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Bing, etc.) what your articles or posts are about; this will in turn help to boost your ranking on search engine results pages.
For example, if the title of your article is “5 of the best ways you can use to purify water”, your permalink could be https://domain.com/5-best-ways-to-purify-water or https://domain.com/best-ways-to-purify-water which is shorter. Note that the keyword is centered on “ways to purify water”; it’s advisable that the “keywords”—“ways”, “purify”, and “water”—be included in the slug, and eventually the permalink as well.
4. Include hyphens in your permalinks to distinguish words from each other—especially keywords
Use hyphens to distinguish or separate the words in the slug part of the permalink. If you don’t use hyphens, it would be difficult for visitors and even search engines to easily understand the words in the permalink.
For example, if hyphens are not used in the slug (“5bestwaystopurifywater”) part of a permalink, the permalink would look like this https://domain.com/5bestwaystopurifywater, and confuse search engines, and especially humans whom search engines were designed for.
It would be preferable to use https://domain.com/5-best-ways-to-purify-water or https://domain.com/best-ways-to-purify-water, instead of https://domain.com/5bestwaystopurifywater which doesn’t have hyphens; doing so would make it easy for people to distinguish the words or keywords in the slug.
5. Ensure that “stop” words are not in your permalinks
Because certain words called “stop words” don’t really add any advantage to permalinks and SEO, and also don’t help search engines comprehend what your content is about, ensure that they are not included in permalinks, especially in the slug part of your permalink.
Examples of stop words include, “which”, “before”, “at”, “any”, “or”, etc. Using such words in your permalink is not important because they are simply a waste of space and would only make your permalink unnecessarily longer than usual, and affect your SEO.
6. Use “https” in Your Permalink
For SEO purposes, it’s important to have “https” in your permalink because it usually helps indicate to internet users or web visitors that your domain is “secure” or has an “SSL certificate”.
Most people know that secure domains usually have SSL certificates, and domains that don’t have SSL certificates are usually not secured. Any domain that doesn’t have an SSL certificate can be hacked and the information being transferred between the domain and visitors can be intercepted by hackers.
It’s important to note because one of Google’s targets is to make the internet user-friendly and secure for visitors, it considers SSL certificates as an important factor in ranking a domain or website. Therefore, if a site doesn’t have “https”, it would likely not rank as high as it should on search engine results pages.
7. Avoid using the names of categories in your permalink
Categories are highly valuable and many site owners use them to distinguish various types of content on their sites, Categories are additional sections in a domain, and some site owners add them to their permalinks; however, although categories are important, they make permalinks to be unnecessarily longer.
Your permalinks would be as short as possible and look “neater” and “sharper” if you don’t include categories. For example, if you remove the category “physical education” or “/physical-education/” from the permalink https://domain.com/physical-education/how-to-run-without-getting-tired/, the permalink would become https://domain.com/ how-to-run-without-getting-tired/, and be much better for SEO.
In addition, along with avoiding categories, also avoid using any permalink structure (like custom structure) which allows site owners to use “tags”, “author”, etc., in a permalink; applying these items makes it possible for WordPress to create longer permalinks which internet searchers don’t generally like to click. Keep your permalinks simple by making them as short as possible.
Conclusion
By following the tips given above on how to structure your permalink for SEO, you will be able to have a greater SEO advantage over many other domains. Remember to use “https” in your permalink, use shorter slugs instead of using the generally longer slugs that are automatically created by WordPress, use dates for news content and avoid using dates for evergreen content, use keywords and hyphens in your permalinks, don’t use “stop” words in your permalinks, and lastly, don’t include categories in your permalinks.
Whether you’re exposed only to traditional investment assets apart from cryptocurrencies, or you have some interest in investing in cryptocurrencies for the first time, you might really want to understand why you should invest in cryptocurrencies or crypto. You’ve likely read or heard about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin, Litecoin, NEO, Ethereum, XRP, Alias (formerly known as “Spectrecoin”), NXT, Bitcoin Cash, etc.—but why invest in crypto anyway? By getting a general overview, it will be easier to understand why you should invest in cryptocurrencies. This article discusses ten reasons why you should invest in cryptocurrencies, especially on a long-term basis. (Featured Image Credit: Pixabay.com.)
10 Reasons Why You Should Invest in Cryptocurrencies Especially on a Long-term Basis
Wouldn’t you agree that a doctor is not rich if he earns $500,000 a year, but spends over $750,000 per year and struggles to make ends meet? Certainly, anybody who spends money this way would make life a bit difficult for themself. At the other end of the ladder between poverty and wealth, some people live on less than a few dollars per day, don’t have modern conveniences, walk several miles each day to get clean drinking water, and even cook all their food by burning wood with fire! So poverty and wealth can’t be defined only by how much income you make or what you have: poverty and wealth are much more than just a context or concept. (Featured Image Credit: Pixabay.com.)
Poverty and wealth shouldn’t be defined only by how much income you make or what you have
Published 15.05.2021 by Schmitt Trading Ltd
Search engines were designed to understand, discover, and organize the internet’s content in order to provide the best search results to search queries made by searchers. Not all domain owners know whether their site’s pages have been discovered by search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, etc.); many don’t even know how to make a quick check.
Before a domain’s pages can show up in any search engine’s results, its content has to be first be discovered, interpreted, and recorded, or indexed by search engines. If your domain or site can’t be found by search engines, then it won’t be possible for its pages to show up on any search engine results pages (SERPs).
This article discusses how search engines gather information from across the internet by the process of “crawling”, and how you can find out whether your domain’s pages are in a search engine’s index. Before we go there, let’s first discuss how search engines work by crawling on domains before relevant pages can be found, indexed, and recorded.
How Search Engines work by Crawling
Crawling is a process whereby search engines continuously use robots called spiders and crawlers to access URLs or links and discover new and updated content in any format (Word documents, PDFs, videos, web pages, images, etc.) on the internet.
For instance, Google, which is the most widely used search engine, uses its Googlebot or web crawler to gather few of a domain’s web pages and follows the path of the web pages’ URLs to discover new URLs; by generally utilizing the path of the URL’s or links, the Googlebot crawler is able to discover new content and supply it to its index called “Caffeine” which is a gigantic database of discovered URLs.
When searchers seek for information on Google, it is from Caffeine that Google selects the information that is the best match and displays it on its search engine page results.
Three Main Functions of Search Engines
Generally, search engines work by doing three major functions: (1) crawling, (2) indexing, and (3) content or page ranking. During crawling, each search engine hovers around the internet to interpret and find content or domain pages associated which each URL that can be accessed.
During indexing, search engines organize and record or save content discovered during crawling. During content or page ranking, search engines provide search results to queries made by searchers, and arrange content from the most relevant content at the top, downwards to the least relevant content on the next and bottom search engine result pages.
When anyone searches for a keyword or keywords on a search engine, the search engine hovers over its index for highly relevant content and orders them from the most relevant to the least relevant on its results pages, with the aim of providing information or solutions to each query.
The ordering of search results from the most relevant to least relevant is known as “ranking”. It can be rightly assumed that the more a search engine perceives that a domain’s content is relevant to a query, the more the search engine would rank it higher on its results pages.
To find out if a search engine has your domain’s pages, go to its search box and type “site:yourdomain”, and click “search”
Your domain or site has to be crawled and indexed by a search engine before its content can show up in the search engine’s results pages (SERPs). It would be a good idea to find out how many of your domain’s pages have been crawled and indexed by a search engine; the results would confirm whether the search has indexed your domain’s pages and has been discovering new pages on your site whenever you publish content.
To find out if your domain’s pages have been indexed by a search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), go to the search engine’s search box and type “site:yourdomain”, and the search engine will either provide results or not provide any results; either way, it would confirm whether or not it has indexed your site. Figure 1 below shows the Google search results for “site:schmitt-trading.com”, while figures 2 and 3 show the Bing and Yahoo search results for “site:motivationenvironment.com”
Figure 1: Google search results for “site:schmitt-trading.com”
Figure 2: Bing search results for “site:motivationenvironment.com”
Figure 3: Yahoo search results for “site:motivationenvironment.com”
The number of results shown by a search engine gives an idea of a domain or site’s pages that have been crawled and indexed, and how they are showing up at the moment in search results. To get more accurate results, use the Index Coverage report in Google Search Console. You can sign up for free on Google Search Console, and also submit your site to Yahoo and Bing respectively.
If your domain’s pages are not showing up in a search engine’s search results pages, then it could be because of any of the following reasons:
1. Your domain is new and hasn’t been crawled and indexed by the search engine.
2. There are no other websites that have linked to any of your domain’s pages.
3. Your domain makes it difficult for a search engine’s robot to crawl it effectively.
4. Search engines have detected some basic code or crawler directives that have been blocking search engines from crawling on your domain.
5. Google has penalized your domain for using spammy tactics.
Conclusion
If you want your domain’s pages or content to be discovered by search engines, ensure that your domain’s content is accessible to search engines’ crawlers, and can be indexed, otherwise, it will remain invisible. Note: you can submit your domain to Google Search Console, and also to Yahoo and Bing respectively.
The world of real estate investing can be very intimidating and challenging, especially for people who have either little or no experience, or are just getting started in real estate investing. Each real estate practitioner or professional has their own level of experience and goals: some people who are at the beginning of their real estate investing career would like to know how to invest in real estate, and others who haven’t started practicing would like to know how to start investing in real estate. The content of this article provides relevant information that can enlighten you on how to get into real estate investing and increase your chances of building your career and wealth and minimizing losses or failure. (Featured Image Credit: Pixabay.com.)
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