EzineArticles Blog Update: Calculating Your Resource Box Size

Calculating Your Resource Box Size
November 17th, 2009
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Is your article's Resource Box too big, too small
or just right?

EzineArticles recommends that your Resource Box
be around 15% of your Article Body's word count.
If it's too big, your article will look spammy
and be of little value to the reader. If it's too
small, you may be missing out on a great opportun-
ity to market you and your products.

So how do you calculate the relative size of your
Resource Box?

Read the full Blog entry at:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/11/calculating-your-resource-box-size.html

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Your Keyphrase Leverage Strategy
November 16th, 2009
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You may already know about our Traffic Search
Terms feature where you can access the top 5 key-
phrases or keywords that were used to find your
published articles on EzineArticles.com. [Premium
members can access the top 30 keyphrases]

While this is one of our coolest tools, it has
one downside: It can take 60-90 days after your
article gets published on EzineArticles.com before
it starts to produce really useful keyphrase re-
ferral data.

To read this full Blog Entry or post a comment,
please visit:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/11/your-keyphrase-leverage-strategy.html

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Article Writing Tweets to Retweet
November 13th, 2009
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If you're a Twitter user who doesn't follow
@EzineArticles, you're missing a lot of great
EzineArticles information and training!

The following is a list of (30) assorted author
tips, insider info, fun facts and reminders we
tweeted in the month of October. Any one of these
could have been just the tool you needed to turbo-
charge your article marketing efforts.

Just CLICK on any of the "ReTweet This" links to
auto-populate your Twitter status field. Then just
edit for length and retweet to your heart's content!

To read this full Blog Entry or post a comment,
please visit:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/11/article-writing-tweets-to-retweet.html

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Are Your Old Articles Still Driving Traffic?
November 10th, 2009
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If the links in your articles are dead = No free
traffic for you.

Writing and submitting quality articles for inclu-
sion on EzineArticles.com can significantly boost
highly pre-qualified traffic to your website(s).
That traffic is generated by interested readers
clicking the links in your articles. But when one
of the links in an article breaks, the article is
no longer able to do its job. A broken or dead link
in an article is like a car that won't run - you
can be proud of your beautiful car, but it's use-
less for "driving in traffic."

To read this full Blog Entry or post a comment,
please visit:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/11/are-your-old-articles-still-driving-traffic.html

To Your Article Writing & Marketing Passion!
Christopher M. Knight, CEO & Publisher
http://Blog.EzineArticles.com/
http://EzineArticles.com/

Removal Instructions:
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Air News Release (HQ): EPA Proposes Stronger Air Quality Standards for Sulfur Dioxide /New standard to protect millions of the nation's most vulnerable citizens

CONTACT:
Cathy Milbourn
202-564-7849
202-564-4355
milbourn.cathy@epa.gov

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
November 17, 2009

EPA Proposes Stronger Air Quality Standards for Sulfur Dioxide

New standard to protect millions of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens

WASHINGTON – For the first time in nearly 40 years, EPA is proposing to strengthen the nation’s sulfur dioxide (SO2) air quality standard to protect public health. Power plants and other industrial facilities emit SO2 directly into the air. Exposure to SO2 can aggravate asthma, cause respiratory difficulties, and result in emergency room visits and hospitalization. People with asthma, children, and the elderly are especially vulnerable to SO2’s effects.

“Short-term exposures to peak SO2 levels can have significant health effects – especially for children and the elderly – and leave our families and taxpayers saddled with high health care costs,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “We’re strengthening clean air standards, stepping up monitoring and reporting in communities most in need, and providing the American people with protections they rightly deserve.”

EPA is taking comment on a proposal to establish a new national one-hour SO2 standard, between 50 and 100 parts per billion (ppb). This standard is designed to protect against short-term exposures ranging from five minutes to 24 hours. Because the revised standards would be more protective, EPA is proposing to revoke the current 24-hour and annual SO2 health standards.

EPA also is proposing changes to monitoring and reporting requirements for SO2. Monitors would be placed in areas with high SO2 emission levels as well as in urban areas. The proposal also would change the Air Quality Index to reflect the revised SO2 standards. This change would improve states’ ability to alert the public when short-term SO2 levels may affect their health.

The proposal addresses only the SO2 primary standards, which are designed to protect public health. EPA will address the secondary standard – designed to protect the public welfare, including the environment – as part of a separate proposal in 2011.

EPA first set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for SO2 in 1971, establishing both a primary standard to protect health and a secondary standard to protect the public welfare. Annual average SO2 concentrations have decreased by more than 71 percent since 1980.

The public comment period will be open for 60 days after the proposal is published in the Federal Register. The agency will hold a public hearing on Jan. 5, 2010 in Atlanta. EPA must issue final standards by June 2, 2010. 

More information about the proposal: http://www.epa.gov/air/sulfurdioxide

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Recovery Act Announcement: Obama Administration Announces Nearly $40 Million for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Projects in Florida and Maine November 17, 2009 Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $40 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Florida and Maine to support clean energy projects. Under DOE's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, these states will implement programs that lower energy use, reduce carbon pollution, and create green jobs locally. "This funding will allow states across the country to make major investments in energy solutions that will strengthen America's economy and create jobs at the local level," said Secretary Chu. "It will also promote some of the cheapest, cleanest, and most reliable energy technologies we have—energy efficiency and conservation—which can be deployed immediately. Local communities can now make strategic investments to help meet the nation's long term clean energy and climate goals." Full story

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More, more H20!

More, more H20!
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:02 -0600

I went hiking while visiting a park this past weekend and was reminded of just how relaxing natural water formations can be. I took in the sounds of water gurgling over rocks and under leaves and fallen trees. It reminded me of how I used to spend a lot of my time in my backyard [...]

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