Monday, August 10, 2009

Learning SEO: Social Bookmarking For Your Site. Get Started!

List of Bookmarking Sites

In fact, there are 100’s of sites out there you can bookmark your site at. Please, check out our social bookmarking list and build your own.

Connotea.org PR8
Twitter.com PR8
Digg.com PR7
Propeller.com PR7
Reddit.com PR8
Del.icio.us PR8
Stumbleupon.com PR8
Google.com/Bookmarks PR7
Technorati.com PR8
Slashdot.org PR8
Furl.net PR7
Bibsonomy.org PR7
Blinklist.com PR7
Newsvine.com PR7
Folkd.com PR7
Indianpad.com PR6
Myweb.yahoo.com PR7
Blogger.com PR7
Myspace.com PR8
Dzone.com PR7
Swik.net PR7
Lipstick.com PR7
Squidoo.com PR7
Mister-wong.com PR7
Facebook.com PR8

How to add my site to a social bookmarking site?

As an example, let’s add our site to the bookmarks at Google.com. First of all you need to create an account (if you have no account). Ready? Now you are able to store additional bookmarks, tag your bookmarks, and share with anyone interested in your bookmarks.

Adding a bookmark

1. Go to your iGoogle page
2. Find “Google Bookmarks” module.
3. Enter the URL, Name and Labels for your site. Name should be appealing for other people who may be interested in the bookmark. Include the keyword phrase into your title as well.


4. Click “Add” button and your site is bookmarked!



And remember that now you have one more external link to your site. Congratulations!

If you haven't tried a Bookmarking site, join one, and use it for a few months before you make a judgment on how useful it is. And surely use Share Your Site feature provided with our classifieds software to encourage your visitors to add your site to their bookmarks.

Friday, August 7, 2009

CHANGES

New logo, menu and a lot animations coming in few days !
Also watch www.car-insurance-tuning.blogspot.com

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Breaking: GM To Announce PHEV SUV

I heard on Paul. W. Smith's radio show this morning that GM is gong to announce later today a plug-in hybrid SUV. Paul W. is covering the Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Review of the vehicle’s electrical and electronic architecture

Just being back from my summer vacation hiatus I found a good summary of present challenges for a vehicle’s electrical and electronic architecture from just-auto. I haven't figured out if the news archive is available forever so read it fast if you are interested...

A second interesting article was about the use of firewire (1394) in automotive applications: 1394 Automotive network enables powerful, cost-efficient in-vehicle networks for infotainment, navigation, cameras from Automotive DesignLine.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Smart Roadster to return?

This is the news Tarmac has been waiting for - Autocar has released details that Mercedes-Benz has applied for several patents for a new three-seater Smart, touted to be known as the ForThree, in keeping with the names of other Smart models.

As you can see from the images, the new car will have a seating layout similar to that of the McLaren F1 supercar, with the driver sitting centrally and passengers behind and to either side of the cockpit.

According to the drawings and Autocar, the central seat is designed to swivel and slide towards the door to ease access. The car could potentially use both petrol and diesel units that Smart currently produce, and it may even be available with an EV option by the proposed 2014 release date. Mercedes are also developing a dual-clutch seven-speed transmission for use in the next A-Class, and this may even find it's way into future Smarts such as the ForThree.

The first generation roadster was nowhere near as popular as it was expected to be, selling just over 43,000 units in its two year production run. If Mercedes and Smart can find the right price for the ForThree, they may well overcome the main hurdle the first model faced - it's expense compared to more powerful and practical rivals.

Tarmac will be keeping a keen eye on the progress of this story and will bring you further developments as they happen.

Why CARS (Cash For Clunkers) Should Be Extended

I posted previously that I didn't think the CARS program would be extended, and the outcome is still currently doubtful.

I think that CARS should be extended.  Many billions of dollars have been set aside for banks and insurance companies (some of which are now paying out huge bonuses to their employees).  Billions more have been set aside for "green energy" investments.  All for the sake of "stimulus".  However, much of the stimulus money won't be spent any time soon.

By redirecting some of the stimulus money to the CARS program, Congress would accomplish more stimulus sooner.  Money would flow quickly to dealerships, with their employees and dependent businesses, and money would flow to the automakers and suppliers.  It would also have the beneficial side effect of reducing gasoline demand by improving the overall fuel economy of the cars on the road. 

Saturday, August 1, 2009

CARS List Update!

I updated my original CARS (cash for clunkers) eligible vehicle list with the new data from Edmunds, triggered by NHTSA's re-calculation of some of the fuel economy numbers. Some cars fell off of the list, and some were added on.

You can see the updated list here.