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United States Missing Child Statistics

- A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the U.S.,over 2,100 per day

- 800,000 children go missing each year

- 90% are juveniles

- 50% are 4-11 years old

- Strangers commit 53% of child abductions that end tragically

- Kidnapping statistics in America also show that it generally takes a parent 2-4 hours to provide complete information [recent photos and general information about their child] to law enforcement agencies

- Another 500,000 go missing without ever being reported!

** (Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrown away Children, October 2002)

If those statistics aren’t scary when it comes to the safety of our children I don’t know what is! From the moment our children are born we as parents naturally worry about them. Are they hungry?Are they warm enough? Are they sick? Our kids safety and well being are uppermost in our thoughts at all times.

Hazards are everywhere and we worry most when we are not with our children and seemingly have no control over their well being. Is it surprising that many parents are turning to technology to provide an added measure of reassurance? Moving beyond the baby monitor and even the cellphone is a new monitoring method called GPS-Global Positioning System. Under what circumstances would I use a GPS tracking Device for my child?

I recall an incident when my oldest child was very young and we were shopping at the mall. I was standing at the counter at Wendy’s paying for our order and when I turned Kevin was nowhere to be seen!Have you had that or a similar situation happen? Fear grips you, your heart races, you search desperately,frantic with worry and the thought occurs to you that your child may have been kidnapped or injured. My experience ended happily as Kevin was playing a game of hide and seek,but sadly there are similar stories with unhappy endings. Kids are naturally curious and easily distracted. Wouldn’t it ease any parents mind to be able to instantly track their location.

As our children age and go off to school they sometimes have to walk alone or perhaps they just want to go to the park with a friend. While every child needs to have a measure of independence,we as parents worry about these situations. A Personal GPS Tracking Device can help monitor your child’s movements and determine if they are where they should be. Young children need close supervision.The GPS Tracking Device for children works on the principle that you can set parameters and have a “virtual” fence.If the child goes outside those preset parameters an alarm is sent to the parent device immediately letting you know where your child is.

Would I use a GPS Tracking Device on my children if they were young? You bet I would!Regrettably we live in a world where we cannot guarantee the safety of our children 100% of the time but wouldn’t you feel better just knowing you had one more weapon in your parental arsenal to protect your child? Check out those statistics again and I think you will agree that a GPS device is just another layer of protection that will bring you peace of mind.

Parents with special needs children,children with autism for example,or other special needs kids would benefit greatly with a tracking device designed especially for children. There are various makes and models that will be the perfect solution for you and your kids! Isn’t your peace of mind and your child’s safety worth the investigation and investment of the right tracking device that will fit your child and unique situation and budget?

There are numerous devices on the market today. GPS watches to fit children,shoes that have built-in tracking devices and small GPS devices that will fit in a backpack.

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Everyone needs the SEO services but it is hard to find the best company in the fray which can get you the desired results. There are many review websites which review the performance of SEO companies on a regular basis and list them for easy identification and leading this list of SEO company review website is TopSEOs.com

TopSeos.com is an independent authority on search vendors. They regularly review 3000+ firms from over 130 countries to evaluate and identify the best companies that provide services and products in the internet marketing industry. They identify and rank the best internet marketing agencies and tools.

TopSEOs is known as one of the most rigorous ranking systems in the world and it has fast become the number source for finding the best SEO Company for the clients. Their recent rankings can be found at http://www.topseos.in/rankings/.

In their September, 2009 review they ranked SEOValley Solutions Private Limited as the Top Search Engine Optimization company in India.

The different criteria of evaluation & ranking include number of active clients, client retention rate, pricing of services etc. Their evaluation process has been designed specifically to identify organic optimization firms that excel in their performance and output. An in depth assessment looks at how the firm works and is able to achieve its objectives. They collect the at least three clients of the firm to understand the performance better.

Some of the general and project specific queries based on which the rankings is generated are:

Genera Queries:

• What type of needs analysis was conducted before work initiated?
• What type of a ROI were you anticipating, what was achieved and in what time frame?
• What would be 3 things you would change about your experience?
• What was your total investment?
• Rate your overall experience (1-10; 10 being the highest).

Project Specific Queries:

• What are the most competitive keywords you have been able to rank on the major search engines and how long did it take you to achieve those rankings?
• Did the agency modify the way they achieved higher rankings for you based on the Universal Search model introduced by Google?  How?
• How comprehensive, specific, and useful are the reports that are offered to the client?  What metrics do they cover?
• Do the reports inform you what the next set of steps ought to be to achieve higher rankings and when you can expect to achieve the next set of goals by?
• How many of your top industry keywords rank in the top 10?  Which ones?

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It is all about the keywords right? Well not really. It is actually all about the demographics each keyword represents. When someone searches Google for “seattle real estate” you have to put yourself in the mindset of the searcher. Who searches for that phrase? It could be a prospect for a home, a real estate agent checking local properties, or a real estate broker looking for a new recruit. Assuming a keyword will generate a return on investment for the time and budget it takes to have an organic result in the search engine may be a monolithic mistake.

Rather than think entirely “in the box” of search terms and keywords, think demographics. Think target market.
Consider social media a chance to explore your target market. One keyword leads to another, leads to another. Within a few steps you may discover that your best prospect for your business may be two or three levels removed from where you have been trying to reach them.

Example: Real estate professionals always want to show up for “city state real estate” as a term. Yet often they need to reach a person much earlier in the process. A real estate transaction is a relationship based sales process taking one to twelve months. There are indicators online regarding what people do before buying a home. They get married. They find a new job. They get divorced. They have kids. They go to school.
Social Media generates an entirely new set of keywords to compare and look at in the “big picture”

demographics
hobbies and interests
family connections
friend networks

Taking the real estate example: You can look at schools, churches, major employers, lawyers, hospitals and create a niche for themselves in a strong and consistently producing category. For instance Boeing, Idearc, AT&T, Comcast, Amazon, Microsoft, etc are all heavily present in the Seattle area. More importantly, some of those companies have huge employee groups clustered around certain neighborhoods.

How do I find my niche? Think out of the Box

There are a variety of tools out there that will help you with keyword research and drawing some basic conclusions. There are different categories of tools that can be used together or individually, they will help you discover:

the popularity of your keyword
who is talking about your niche (and the people involved in the conversation)
keyword synonyms and related terms (One letter may make all the difference)
niche industry trends and traffic patterns

Keyword Research Tools

-Google AdWords Keyword Suggestions- Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. It works with providing keywords based on words or phrases and can also recommend based on site content.
-Google Traffic Estimator- a very simple to use traffic tool. You can dump in a list of hundreds of keywords or phrases and see what choices make sense for your next article.
-WordTracker – Wordtracker is the best non-google system, however it requires you to purchase a membership to get real usage out of the tool (and I am a fan of free/low cost)

Competitive Keyword Tools

-Compete.com Search Analytics – Identifies rival search marketing strategies to take your SEM and SEO efforts to the next level. Also defines traffic patterns on competitor sites.
-KeywordSpy – shows terms that competitors are buying or ranking for in the organic search results, including pay per click ad text.
-KeyCompete – shows pay per click words that competitors are buying.

Social Media Specific

-TweetVolume , TweetScan, Summize all give insight to Twitter. They can show you how much a keyword is being talked about and the associated terms that are drawn to it.
-del.icio.us tag page- StumbleUpon tags – - The most popular tags (keywords) can be seen in clusters of information.
-BlogCatalog Directory – MyBlogLog Directory – are both massive directories of sites that have been tagged by a member community. You can quickly search for a term, see associated terms on a site, and popular members on each site that may be influencers.
-IceRocket Trends – Technorati Tags – Useful for seeing keyword trends (Icerocket) and authority value (Technorati- the number of sites linking to another site)

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