Archive for June, 2007

by Leonard Bartholomew
I just read an article from SitePro News called “Search Engine Optimization For Universal Search - Back to Square One?” and have some comments to make.

I have noticed a huge trend for Google to move duplicate syndications of articles into their supplemental index at the blink of an eye. This cannot be good for the article directories because, like my own at Moxie Drive Expressions it causes a dramatic decrease in Adsense income and exposure of the article across the internet. My question to Google is, when you go to buy a book or decide it is time to go to a book store to peruse the volumes, do you always go to the same bookstore? The answer to that is no. We probably go to the one that is the closest. If I as an author have published a book, I would like that my readers could find my book in whatever bookstore my reader chooses and I would like it to show up on every shelf in every bookstore in the world.

Google is not thinking this way. They want one “original” copy, from one article directory showing up in their search engine, and the rest of us with a syndicated copy get thrown in the “Google Dungeon”. This makes room for all of the other “videos, blogs, images, news articles, and other media available online”.

Apparently Google does not see that the article directories still have value with respect to content on the web. At least someone thinks so as scrapers still abound and many seem to be dependent on Adsense as a source of income. The article directory exists for that reason, to make money from Adsense, as well as provide an author’s exposure for their articles. I believe that Google has mistakenly included article directories in the category of MFA web pages (made for Adsense), and that is what has caused the precipitous fall into the supplemental index for all article directories and more.

Matt Cutts says that the solution to this problem is quality content (no duplicates) and back linking. First of all, there is no such thing as an original unless the author submits an article to one and only one article directory. To do this would mean much less “direct” traffic, that is non-search engine related and coming directly from the article directory in this case. This was the original method of getting traffic on the internet before the advent of the search engines. Second, even the author does not have control over which copy of a syndicated article gets chosen by Google to be the “original”. It seems to be random. Go ahead, submit the same article, with the same author’s box, to half a dozen article directories and see if you can guess which one Google doesn’t throw into the supplemental index. Third, How do you get back-links for the thousands of articles submitted to an article directory? Socializing them is a great risk because of what is called “source hopping”. You may not be socializing the “original” copy of the article and subsequently pissing the author off. This will get you banned from the social sites. The only option is to socialize only your own personal content.

As marketers, what can we do? I would say change, but how when it seems unclear what Google is up to? Then we wait and grit our teeth as we watch our content drop into the supplemental index, our Google PR disappear, and our traffic statistics go the way of the dinosaur.

I have a forum friend who has experienced an 85% reduction in Adsense income since this started happening, I say in January 2007. He was making a few thousand a month. This mentor suggests Web 2.0 tactics to boost your readership and increase your visitors for your original content. Swapping original blog posts and articles would also be a great plan.

If Google does not want to cooperate in helping us make money on the internet, and help them make money through their Adwords program, maybe it is time to change tactics. I can’t help but think that they are shooting themselves in the foot. Time to optimize for Yahoo, and MSN?

Leonard Bartholomew, B.S. Computer Science, Leonard invites you to read more about Google’s search engine antics at the Turnkey Business Blog.

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by Max P
Search engines are using links to decide relevance of your site’s content to the keywords you provide. Reciprocal links provide better website popularity and higher page ranking with search engines, which help drive free traffic to your site. This is why your website needs reciprocal links to help pull in quality traffic. But these have to be high quality, relevant to your website’s content links.

This article will explore an aspect of effective link exchange with other site owners and hopefully, increase your website’s chances to establish reciprocal links with sites that have higher page rank and greater traffic.

To better chances of your website acceptance by other webmasters for reciprocal linking consider the following suggestions:

First you should put yourself on the place of a web master/web mistress of the site you want to exchange links with. Ask yourself: “Would I link to my website?” This may save you some time, and help you decide what websites you want to exchange links with.

To get quality targeted traffic try to strive for a quality, themed based website. Find a niche and stay with it. Single topic focused websites tend to do better when it comes to exchanging links.

You can create a directory with subdirectories on your site where links to other sites will be found. Better yet, if an outbound link is located within the context relevant to linked site.

As there are some DOs to follow when trying to establish reciprocal links, there are certain DON’Ts as well. If your website fits any of the below categories you may consider improving all the weak spots your website has. Some DON’Ts include:

• Poorly designed websites. Website quickly thrown together is easy to detect. Your website doesn’t have to be fancy, but having a clean and spelling error free site helps.
• Websites with little content or low quality content.
• Sites with too many low value links. Links considered low value if they lead to low content or junk sites, banner/link farms etc.
• Don’t place more than 20 links per page. High amount of links per any page will reduce the chances of visitors going to any one particular site, and most likely, your link partners will not like it.
• Sites with lots of dead links. Links leading to pages under construction, pages that can not be found, etc. are not looked upon favorably.
• Dead sites. Dead sites are sites under construction, or sites inaccessible for any other reason.
• Sites supporting terrorism, illegal activities, hate, promoting spam, or racial intolerance.

Max P. is a founder of www.createincome.info. The site is an informational resource for anyone desiring to earn online.To learn more techniques to drive free quality targeted traffic to your website follow this link: quality targeted traffic

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by MN Richards
If you market via the net, you would be crazy to not sign up to a weight loss affiliate program right now. You probably know that the number of overweight and obese people is pretty high and climbing higher every year, which means that you aren’t likely to run out of clients any time soon. You might also know that for many of these people dieting alone can’t do the trick for various reasons. Whether they can’t stick to a diet for long or the process is too slow or it simply doesn’t work well, it doesn’t really matter. The important thing is that these people need help.

And help comes in the shape of a pill. Since you’re by no means the first to have noticed this opportunity, the market is literally awash in weight loss pills. In fact, there are so many of them that you can barely tell them apart, much less find out which one is worth selling. Another problem is the fact that producers are willing to say anything in order to sell their pills. They’d probably swear that their pills can turn an elephant suffering from compulsive eating into a skinny mouse over night. Welcome to the wonderful world of scam pills.

So let’s see how you can find a good weight loss affiliate program and make some money for yourself. The first thing you need to look out for is an affiliate program that sells quality products. Diet pills filled with sawdust are absolutely out of the question. Pills filled with some kind of exotic mushrooms from South America or a miraculous cactus extract from Africa aren’t any good either. What you need is a pill backed up by a clinical study that stands as an official seal of quality and effectiveness. A clinical study means bragging rights for any marketer.

And to go along with the clinical study and the quality products, you need all the things that make a marketer’s heart beat faster: high commissions and free resources. A quality product, properly marketed, is going to sell very well, which makes the high commission an even nicer thing. Getting free websites, free content and free marketing resources is the icing on the cake because it gives you more time to focus on refining the sales pitch at no cost to you whatsoever. Plus, it’s always nice to get as many things as possible for free and spend your commission money on things you really like.

Any weight loss affiliate program that offers free resources, high commissions and quality products backed by official studies and sold to a huge market is the winning combination for you. If you really are a good marketer, this is the perfect opportunity to show what you can do and to earn as much money as possible. The sky is the limit when you are dealt a perfect hand.

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by Victoria Moore
So many people have asked the very same question, “how do I get money without leaving my house”, the answer is very simple and is contained within the text of this article. For many years people just like you have been successfully making money without a website, money outlay and stock, this has happened because of the overwhelming popularity for affiliate programs.

What Will I Get?

A successful affiliate program will give you your own website, affiliate Url or domain name and web hosting completely free of charge. These types of programs will also give you affiliate support and marketing materials to help you generate more sales each month.

How And When Do I Get Paid?

Payment is generally made by Paypal, direct bank deposit or check. Each affiliate program varies in the amount they pay and most commission rates are set from 10% - through to 75% or more and you may be paid at a flat rate per sale. The pay periods will also vary from one affiliate company to another; this could be weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.

How Do I Find A Program?

You are almost guaranteed to find an affiliate program within any industry you could possibly imagine, the trick to success is finding one that has a good reputation from both their customers and affiliates, also providing you both with support and quality products or services. Any search engine will return a list of appropriate affiliate programs giving you the opportunity to make money at home, however if you would like to avoid some of the lower quality programs, follow the link at the end of this article to ensure your success.

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by Pawel Reszka
What are opt-in rates? Opt-in rates refer to visitors to a website who opt for their email ID to be added to your database. This may be achieved via providing them freebies or newsletters or even free crash e-courses that arrive at their Inbox every week on a particular day.

Why opt-in rates are so great Opt-in rates can dramatically increase a website’s customer base. By adding more and more email IDs to one’s existing database, a website can utilize this database of contacts for future promotional events or for any future marketing campaigns. A customer base is a highly useful and effective tool that can significantly increase profits of a company over time.

Tips to improve opt-in rates With rising fraud and insecurity becoming an issue on the Internet, most subscribers are wary of giving out their email IDs. To enable a website to enhance their opt-in rates, we provide some tips and ideas here:

- Privacy policy: Before a subscriber signs up for any newsletter of e-course or any such material, they would want to be sure their email ID is protected and is not going to be used negatively or sold to other websites. Having a privacy policy helps assure website visitors. Try and place this privacy policy near the place where visitors sign up.

- Double confirmation: After a visitor has signed up for any material from yourn website, it helps to send an email to their Inbox asking them to confirm their registration on your website. This prevents fraud and also assures visitors that your website takes extra precautions to ensure legitimate transactions on your website.

- Unsubscribe: It is always necessary to have the option of letting your visitors unsubscribe to any content from your website. If you do not have this option, it gives the impression of a trap and as if they are forced into receiving updates from your website. Unsubscribing gives them an option of opting out if they do not want any more updates.

- Informative: The Internet is all about information and people want facts and substance in the articles they read. Even a newsletter needs to be information based rather than being promotional in the tone. Try and provide regular updates on particular products and services of interest, freebies, conduct regular contests to keep the interest alive. Most of all be sure to provide in-depth useful information in the newsletter else people will start unsubscribing.

- Attractive content: The layout and display of the newsletter also makes a huge impact on the readability and hence the opt-in rate. If the newsletter is drab looking or doesn’t have enough color or an attractive layout, chances are readers will initially may be skim through the content but with time they’ll get bored with your newsletter.

- Sharing: Often many newsletters have a link that says ‘send this page to a friend’ or ‘email this page’. These are all techniques to encourage people to rotate and hare your newsletter. This will get more opt-ins and more email IDs to your database.

- Subscribe at other websites: This is another great way to encourage visitors to get to have access to your newsletter even if they’re on another website.

- Catchy content: If your newsletter is to be read and subscribed to, you need to ensure the headline and the content is catchy and interesting. Else no one will be even interested to give your newsletter a first look.

- Ezines: Ezines usually have an opt-in box provided that gives readers an opportunity to opt-in for content written from your website. Therefore since this opt-in box is your gateway to increased opt-in rates, it is but essential that you make this box obvious and attractive to the reader.

- Engaging content: Include graphics or photographs that are relevant to your website and content. That helps to attract visitors and get them to stay longer, giving them a chance to browse your website and hence even opt-in for content.

- Placement: It is essential to place the opt-in box at a strategic place where visitors get to see it more often. Often the top right handed corner is the best place because of maximum eye movement towards this place.

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by Leon Lioe
Many people want to know if Niche Marketing On Crack is a scam? I have just finished reading the book and would like to share with you some insights.

Basically, this book is about teaching you how to make money online by building a niche site empire. It walks you through step-by-step the whole process of building a highly profitable niche site.

Inside Niche Marketing On Crack, you will learn the following processes in details.

1. Niche Research - you will learn how to find profitable niche topics, products within the niches that have low competition and good level of search volume. You will also learn how to identify the primary and secondary keywords for the products you have chosen.

2. Content Generation - you will learn ways to generate keywords optimized content for your niche sites and articles for submitting to the major article directories.

3. Site Generation - here you will learn how to build niche sites using WordPress blogs. The reasons why it uses Wordpress blog are because it’s easy to setup and manage. The more compelling reason is that Wordpress blog when set up correctly is very SEO friendly. There is an 8-page section within “Niche Marketing On Crack” that teaches how to correctly set up a WordPress blog. You will discover with some simple SEO and promotional efforts, your WordPress niche sites will get indexed and ranked well by the search engines very quickly.

4. Promotion - finally you will learn how to drive traffic to your niche sites. You will learn both conventional and advanced methods of driving targeted traffic such as article writing, backlinks, social bookmarking, feeder websites and other methods.

Concluding thought…

Niche Marketing On Crack is a great book for both the beginners and experienced marketers who want to learn the “end-to-end” process of building niche site empire using WordPress. Unlike many other ebooks that only tell you half of the story, Niche Marketing On Crack puts together all the pieces of the puzzle and lay out the whole process step by step.

BUT please remember that after finish reading the book you MUST take actions because only actions will produce results. If you are not willing to take action then this book is NOT for you. Don’t waste your $47.

You can find out more information on Niche Marketing On Crack here.Leon is an Infopreneur dedicated to sharing his online discoveries across the net. You can visit his blogs at Online Business Journey and Ebuzz Zone.

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by Darryl Harris -
What is all the uproar about SEO optimization about? It’s such a hassle to mess with that stuff. You should just go over right now and set up a pay-per-click account and get visitors to your website today. Is there a problem
with that?

The problem you run into here is you throw hours away searching and finding just the right keywords, studying how to set up your ads just right, figuring out how much you can pay per click for your advertising to pay off in sales and many other small details.

After all this you hopefully are making a little headway and you are happy with the way your advertising is going. All seems well in your internet business world.

Then boom! Like a bolt of lightning your world is shattered.

Many online marketers actually lived this story in real life when their bread and butter ad campaigns were blown out of the water overnight.

Many people woke up one morning and found that their low cost keywords exploded up to 10 times the cost and more. Pay-per-click gurus were scrambling to pick up the pieces. Some had to go back to the drawing board to rework their strategies or even scrapping their business altogether.

Webmasters who used SEO optimization on their website,and built their ranking over time to be listed in the free section of search engines did not notice a difference at all that fateful morning.

If you will spend some quality time when making your site and then advertise your site with articles, submitting to directories, etc., it will pay off huge for you when people are searching for information you can supply.

What do you need to do for your first step?

Study information on what engines look for on a homepage and secondary pages. It is really not that difficult. Take for instance meta tags. They just tell a search engine information that actual people visiting will not see.

Such as keywords, the words engines use match to someone’s search. If you put cat as a keyword you would not show up if someone searched exotic vacations.

Seems like a no brainer, huh? Well, you would be amazed at how many webmasters do not even do this, they try to put as many keywords as possible to try to cover so many bases that they get completely off target trying to trick the engines.

A lot of things you do actually after you build your site. Such as writing articles ( hmmmm….), and linking to other websites that are in the same category.

You would really be shocked at the amount of people that don’t take the little more time to build a site right for searches.

I look at many sites on the internet and really just can’t believe it.

What does this mean now?

So never, ever use pay-per-click. Just work on your SEO optimization techniques, right? When first constructing your website that is the way I go. After I start to get good ranking in searches and feel I have my good copy on my sales letter then I can afford to pay for other types of marketing strategies.

Darryl Harris loves to build search engine optimized websites and has for over 5 years. As always, grab your marketing cool free gift at: http://www.seotrafficreviews.com

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by Colin Stables
As a web designer, you should design your websites to give your visitors the greatest ease of use, the best impression and most important of all a welcoming experience. It doesn’t matter if you had the greatest product in the whole world — if your website is poorly done you won’t be able to sell even one copy of it because visitors will be driven off your website by the lousy design.

When I’m talking about a “good design”, I’m not only talking about a good graphical design. A professional web design will be able to point out that there are many components which contribute to a good website design — accessibility design, interface or layout design, user experience design and of course the most straightforward, which is graphic design.

Hence, I have highlighted some features of the worst web designs I’ve come across. Hopefully, you will be able to compare that against your own site as a checklist and if anything on your site fits the criteria, you should know it’s high time to take serious action!

1) Background music

Unless you are running a site which promotes a band, a CD or anything related to music, I would really advise you to stay away from putting looping background music onto your site. It might sound pleasant to you at first, but imagine if you ran a big site with hundreds of pages and every time a visitor browses to another page on your site, the background music starts playing again. If I were your visitor, I’d just turn off my speakers or leave your site. Moreover, they just add to the visitor’s burden when viewing your site — users on dial up connections will have to wait longer just to view your site as it is meant to be viewed.

2) Extra large/small text size

As I said, there is more to web design than purely graphics — user accessibility is one big part of it too! You should design the text on your site to be legible and reasonably sized to enable your visitors to read it without straining their eyes. No matter how good the content of your website or your sales copy is, if it’s illegible you won’t be selling anything!

3) Popup windows

Popup windows are so blatantly used to display advertisements that in my mind, 90% of popup windows are not worth my attention so I just close them on instinct every time each one manages to pass through my popup blocker (yes, I do have one like many users out there!) and, well, pops up on my screen. Imagine if you had a very important message to convey and you put it in a popup window that gets killed most of the time it appears on a visitor’s screen. Your website loses its function immediately!

In concluding this article, let me remind you that as a webmaster your job is to make sure your website does what it’s meant to do effectively. Don’t let some minor mistakes stop your site from functioning optimally!

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by Marc and Kem
When my wife and I got into the WWW. E-commerce world, we had visions of easy money and an auto pilot type of business. You know the kind that runs itself and the money just rolls in. Oh yeah, low start-up cost, little time, and low commitment. Just read the commercials and Internet ads.
The Internet can be your friend or it can bite you like a scared dog. Try researching, starting an Internet business. You will find every easy money method in the world. Here is a list of things to consider and these things are just the surface. This is not meant to scare you but to inform you of the reality, before you fall into the money pit. Just remember you have to give before you receive and sometimes we learn from the pain.

Websites necessities or basics:
Host/Server — to store all your files and images. E-mail and other perks. $8 to $12 month
Purchase your domain — www.mysite.com $8 to $???
Merchant/Credit Card service –Credit Card processing. This is a low price. $25Month, $15 service charge, and 30 cents per transaction and 2.5% of sales. (OUCH!)
Paypal — You can use Paypal for your payment option. It’s free. I don’t use it. Nothing is free.
Rent a ready-made store - Now you can go with a company who will host your site and provide a storefront for you. They will even give you products to sell. These are usually database type and provide no SEO. In other words, the only people who purchase from your site are your friends and family. No one can find your site in the Internet desert. You’re on page 200 (if lucky). They run from $40 to $200 month.

Find a wholesaler? No problem, everyone is a wholesaler. What do you want to sell? Leather, Home Décor, Knives and Swords, Collectibles or maybe Kitchen cookware?
Where are the real wholesalers? The ones they buy from. There are many scams and scam tools for sale out there. Now try ordering from them. Late? Back Ordered? Packing? Drop ship costs? Shipping & Handling Costs? Drop ship or Inventory? Taxes???

Build your site - There are many templates out there that look good but if you don’t know how to program HTML forget it. You will probably buy a book or software that shows us dummies that we can create HTML websites without having to know HTML. On the outside it looks good, but on the inside they stink. How are you going to find the time and keep up with the latest in this “part time business”? Search Engine robots don’t like bad programming among other things.

Gather Information - Now that you have a wholesaler, download all the prices and images. Create your spreadsheets to upload all the product information (change them to CSV or some delimited format. Or you may have to do this one at a time… Ahhh!
Fix the images - Adjust the resolution, size, etc. to fit your WebPages. Get the right software to do this…It will save you days of work and cost. I hope you get this done before the prices change or the item is discontinued. Remember that if you have more than one wholesaler, you have more than one tax and drop ship charge. You also have different information and images. They could be in other formats.
My wife and I thought an Internet Shopping Mall would be so cool. We could have different stores, oh boy…That’s where the name MallAboutTown.com came from. Oh yeah. Now you have to have a logo and a theme and all the right colors and, and, and.
It’s kinda like building a house.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - You should have been thinking about this from the start. Buy links, buy PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising, buy search engine submissions, buy content, submit articles and link to directories and other Websites, read, read, read and determine who is telling the truth.
After all the smoke clears, you will be in the hole a few bucks. When that first sale comes in you will feel like that golfer getting a hole in one. Then you’re back at it, harder than ever. It’s an addiction. I guess it could be described as the spouse that won’t leave an abused relationship. Like any business, Internet business is not for the short-term commitment. There is so much I had to leave out because many things depend on what direction you take on this journey. Good Luck, remember if it’s too good to be true…..

Our advice is to personally talk to someone that is successfully operating E-commerce site, (not on E-bay) and get the facts. This is what made E-bay so popular. But even E-bay can be tough.
Good Luck,

Marc and Kemella Allyn
http://www.mallabouttown.com

Marc and Kem own www.mallabouttown.com and bring their personal experience for your use. These articles along with others were written to bring the basic knowlege to your aid. Operating a internet Shopping Mall requires knowlege of many different product and aspects of applying them for success.Thank You for supporting our ministry www.allaboutthecross.com

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by Avdhesh
Hundreds and thousands of people have made use of the Internet in a variety of ways, each in an attempt to subjugate its great power and potential to give profit and gain to users and businessmen. However, alongside the aims of these hardworking innovators and entrepreneurs are people who simply want to extort as much money from people in exchange for dubious products and services.

Web content is brought to a potential user by means of either direct recall of a particular service provider’s website, or by blind searches done on various Internet search engine platforms made available by Internet software giants. By entering words, known as ‘keywords’ relevant to the desired information, product, or service, into the search field, users can employ these blind searches to look for content closest to what they are looking for.

As is the practice, a search engine usually produces a list of websites matching the keywords provided by the user to a degree of relevance. These are ranked by relevance, quality of content, and sometimes, ‘visitor votes’ that come in the form of a measure of frequency of visits by people who usually find the content useful to them.

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a method used by many businesses and entrepreneurs online in order to maximize the potential of the search engine by helping them rise in the ranks of the query response listings. SEO usually deals with organic searches, or those that need no payment to be listed among the list of likely matches to a client’s keywords, as well as crawler search engines, which are search engines that literally crawl through web pages in search of relevant links and relations between pages in order to find relevant content.

Dubious figures in the Internet, however, have made use of the Internet to forward their own selfish desires, leading to an unethical use of the brilliant SEO model. This has led to a divergent field of SEO, called “black hat SEO”. In this method, various deceptive schemes are used in order to manipulate search engines and dupe customers by providing them with websites that are completely useless. This method is also called “spamdexing”.

Ethical SEO techniques also exist in the Internet. Before even going into details, the most important ideal behind ethical SEO techniques is in providing better service to clients, and allowing this satisfaction to become key in promoting the website.

What does it take for a method to become an ethical SEO technique?

There are various ways under the central guideline to achieve them.

The first one is creating quality content for the users. After all, no ethical SEO technique tries to get the better of any customer, or even harm them to the slightest extent. By providing quality content, users receive useful, timely, and secured information when they need it.

In order for that to be achieved, no amount of exaggeration or manipulation of the nature and content of the website is done to lead customers into believing that it contains the website relevant to their query. Ethical SEO does not employ any method that will mislead the customer into a site, and even offend the customer once he or she has found his or her way into the website.

Moreover, ethical SEO techniques do not, in any way, violate any laws as regards intellectual property rights, international law, or spamming laws implemented at every level of every way. This would include not claiming for their own products and services that are not theirs to sell or produce just so they can fool users into providing sensitive information through which they can extort money.

A website employing ethical SEO techniques will never try to exaggerate and reflect a company’s image any more than how it should be portrayed; doing so, in effect, manipulates the customer into trusting a company based on falsity.

Relevant to various security issues existent on the Internet, one last measure of how ethical a SEO technique is lies in the protection of its customers on the basis of privacy agreements. In providing the service sought by the client, ethical SEO techniques protect the confidentiality and sensitivity of the information made known to them in confidence by their clients.

Both goals aim to achieve the same end of profit. However, the road diverges and one must pick one over the other. In the end, ethical SEO techniques allow for users to maximize the profit they pay without impinging on the rights of other people an manipulating others; this by far is the best option to go.

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