If you’re like most MMO gamers, you’ve been waiting for December 7 and the release of World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm for over a year. Those first few days are the most important, so how do you stay connect to the realms and your toons when real life interrupts and you can’t be next to your PC? There are some epic applications all World of Warcraft players must have for the mobile devices.
It All About the Gold Pieces
For the WOW entrepreneurs, it just as much about making gold to buy gear or level up toons professions as it is raiding. What better way to make money, then have access to the auction houses from anywhere. The Remote Auction House Application let players browse any auction house their toons have access to. They can also bid on or buy out auctions, post items from their bags, bank slots and Tabs. The app also has access to their mailbox to collect gold on sold items and auction they have been outbidded on. There is a subscription fee for this application. (Available on the Android, iPhone, and iPod Touch)
Toon Safety
The Battle.net Mobile authenticator helps keep toons, items and gold safe. The Mobile Authenticator for mobile phones offers an additional layer of security to help prevent unauthorized account access. The Battle.net Mobile Authenticator gives the security of two-factor authentication. Each time a player logs into their account, the Mobile Authenticator generates a unique, one-time password that a player needs in addition to their regular password. This application is free. (Available on the Android, iPhone, iPod Touch)
The Armory
The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory app lets players access the official Armory database with their mobile device. Many of the features and functionality of the Armory website are available, including searching for and view any character, item, guild, or arena team. There is also access to in-game calendar of events to check raid schedules. Players can also view achievement-point leaderboards and plan out talent specs using the talent calculator. This application is free. (Available on the iPhone and iPod Touch)
So now it’s easy for World of Warcraft players to keep connected through their mobile device.
A Query Letter is a letter sent to an editor, agent or publisher that outlines and your idea for a story or book. Query letters are sent to magazines, newspapers, book publishers, websites or other types publications.
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What does Google mean?
A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank metric partially depends on all pages that link to it (“incoming links”). A page that is linked to by many pages (Link Juice) with high PageRank receives a high rank itself. If there are no links to a web page there is no support for that page. PageRank is a numeric weighting from 0-10. It is known that other factors contribute to PageRank, e.g. relevance of search words on the page, actual visits to the page, site structure, etc.
So what is Link Building? Link building is gaining incoming links from another site to your site. In a simplified way, to search engines each links acts like a vote or thumbs up for your site. Out there in the vastness of internet, someone or some site thinks your content is valuable enough to their readers or followers to share the page by linking to it. In general, the more incoming links to a page, the better that page will rank in search engines results.
Linking is Natural
From an SEO prospective every publisher has one goal for it content – get it to rank higher in search engines. One of the parts of a pages success in search results in based on links to a given page.
Search engines see this as a simple matter of community policing. Link building is a natural thing. If content is good, people will link to in naturally. It cannot be forced or exchanged. Search engines are smart enough to know they if links are exchanges making them less valuable on not of any value. The links they are looking for are naturally occurring link patterns.
So how do we try to create naturally occurring link patters? Simple create good content that people will want to link to.
Links should be to a given piece of contents, not the home page of a site. Why? While a site has an overall rank, each page on a site has a given rank also. Most users coming from search engines are hitting the individual pages of a site (the pieces of content).
If you are planning on sending part of or your whole manuscript out with your query letter, make sure your manuscript is in perfect condition before sending it out. One of the things that may turn off agents, editors or publishing houses is mistake in the first few pages. It will may stop them reading right in their tracks.
The longer the piece the more time you will probably send editing it. A novel will need more time on the editing process.
Some agents will request synopsis of longer pieces beforing even requesting a manuscript. Also, always check with agency to see how they perfer receiving materials.
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