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Jim Moore, founder and director of the non-profit Phoenix Foundation, has a long and illustrious career as a scientist, journalist, freelance writer, photographer, graphic artist, editor and publisher, as well as TV host/producer and political activist. At the age of 16, he was an International Science Fair finalist with the creation and construction of Project OBSAT, a unique "spy satellite" that used a unique Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) technique to detect Soviet nuclear tests underwater, underground, in space or in the atmosphere. He won numerous awards from the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, NASA and the National Science Foundation for this breakthrough in defense technology. At 19, he became the youngest department editor of a daily newspaper anywhere in North America when he launched his journalism career at the Pratt Daily Tribune in Pratt, KS. While there his stories and photos were carried across the nation by the Associated Press. After leaving college early (University of Kansas School of [Aerospace] Engineering), he became involved in underground anti-Castro operations funded by the CIA. In 1968, he became a footnote in history when he won a major U.S. Supreme Court case against the State of Illinois while he was chairman of Sen. Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign. In 1971, he launched a small-town Tennessee newspaper, The Fairview Flyer, and was later arrested and jailed three months for, in his words, "publishing a newspaper on Sunday" when local politicians and sheriff (later exposed for corruption) joined forces to shut him up. The arrest made national news. In 1975, he was asked by the chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Rep. Henry Gonzalez (Dem-TX), to investigate connections between Watergate burglar E. Howart Hunt and the murder of President John F. Kennedy. He later played major roles in a number of local and statewide political campaigns in Tennessee. In 1980, he was Davidson County (TN) co-chairman of the John Anderson independent presidential campaign. The following year, shortly after creating the Phoenix Foundation, he exposed Operation Rex, a long-standing program that constructed "detention camps" for the future incarceration of U.S. political dissidents. That same year, in his newsletter, The Omega Report, he forecast the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union, using proprietary news analysis techniques. He has won praise from "liberals" and "conservatives" of both the Democrat and Republican parties for his investigative journalism. He has also served as an "unofficial consultant" to many members of the US Senate, House and Executive Branch on issues involving advanced weapons technology and their effects on the environment and human health. In 1991 he began producing and hosting The Omega Report, a weekly hour-long news documentary cablecast to more than 1.5 million homes in Tennessee, Kentucky and Philadelphia, PA. It was on that show in 1993 that he predicted the Oklahoma City bombing a week before it happened. Today he splits his time between his home in Nashville and the Foundation offices in Hickman County, where his ELF research is now focused on using electromagnetic energy for healing purposes - in sound, music, light and other related methods. He has been an award-winning investigative reporter (TN Press Association) and web designer and now devotes his time to writing, web design and caring for his wife, a retired chiropractor, on a full-time basis, working from home. How Effective is Banner Advertising? By all the rules and advice of advertising, this is something I should NOT tell you ... but ... ... like probably most of you, I have a very small advertising budget - and cannot afford serious mistakes. The fact is: if you do a bulk mail marketing and it is well-written and attractively produced, you can expect anywhere from 3-5% return. That means 3-5 out of 100 people who get that bulk mail will open it and respond. The sorry truth is, the figure for Internet banner advertising is much smaller - more like .02%. That means if 10,000 people see the ad, you can only expect 2 to respond. Bulk mail can be 100+ times more effective - BUT it's also a lot more expensive up front (graphic design, printing, postage, etc., etc.) I don't guess that's any way to sell advertising, is it? But at least I hope you appreciate the honesty. Unless you advertise on a really busy site, you may be wasting your money. TennTimes is not in the top 100,000 websites and while we would appreciate your display advertising, I would only do it if you support what this site is trying to do - AND if you keep your ad budget low! By the way, I DO think our text ads are a good bargain! Linkmarket.net is one of many "link exchange" sites on the Internet. It lets web owners "trade" links. We're giving it a test run to see if it works for us. If you'd like to exchange links with us at no $$ cost, look us up at Directory> News> Extended Coverage or just type "TennTimes" into the search box at this link. This service is still small and doesn't offer as many potential partners or variety as we'd like, but hey, who knows how much they'll grow if we all pitch in and help each other help ourselves? Signup is free!
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You Should Know Before What can you believe? Website owners, more and more, are engaging in fraud and deception to convince you their website is the best place for you to throw away your money. I have run this site for over ten years and have never before solicited advertising. For one, most of my income came from other avenues - such as a full-time job or designing websites for others. For anyone who knows how to dig deep into the bowels of the Internet, it's relatively easy to find out who's lying and who isn't. But do you know how to ferret out that info? EXAMPLE: Here's a site I just ran across by accident - artcyclopedia.com. They claim to have come up with a new form of advertising that gets "an average 20.4% clickthrough rate." That in itself is a bit hard to believe, but when you check their traffic claims (173,000 unique visitors a month in the U.S. alone), you find the source they give does not even exist. Go ahead - click the link below to PCDataOnline. There is no such animal.
Their claims may be true - but they become suspect when they use fictional sources to back them up. Here you will find independent tools that will tell you the truth about any website's traffic, popularity, and Google page rank. (We have a verified page rank of 3). I have no intention of trying to deceive you, because I have faith in this site and was recently amazed to discover that the domain name alone has been independently appraised at over $38,000! That means that, in the expert opinion of the appraisers, this site is one of the more valuable pieces of "virtual real estate." Most ring at under $5,000. Over the past year, because my wife had two strokes and crippling rheumatoid arthritis, and we faced growing legal and financial problems related to that, I have worked from home so I can be with her as a 24/7 caregiver. (She is one amazing woman and worth every bit of it!) During that time of transition, I must admit I had to somewhat neglect this site, but am now re-focusing my efforts to make it live up to its full potential. This hopefully benefits not only me, but you as well. I would be less than honest with you if I didn't point out the truth about banner ad effectiveness! Read that article and continue to the bottom of that column for a no-cost alternative! With no further ado, here are the tools you can use to evaluate this (or any other) website. These will open in a new window. (Descriptions courtesy of seolog.com.) Domain Age CheckUse this tool to find the age of a domain. The age of a website is one of the major factors used to rank a website. Age can also increase the amount of money that can be made from advertising on the site, or sale of the website. Results for tenntimes.org : Fake PageRank Detection SEO toolDomain Names are big business these days, and Pagerank fraud is becoming a serious problem. When someone is offering a domain name for sale, they can artificially inflate the domain's PR. It is achieved when offending domains use a 301 or 302 redirects that point their sites to sites with a high Pagerank. This is a well known trick in the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world, but people who aren't familiar with SEO are most likely to fall for this. Pagerank is a value from 0 to 10 that is derived from the amount of sites that link to, or cite another website. When a website links to another, they are in effect casting a kind of vote for that website. The higher the PageRank of the site casting the vote, the more powerful that vote is. The algorithm that calculates Pagerank takes into account the pagerank of all pages linking in, external and external, the ammont of outgoing links on pages, and many other factors. PR - BL update Calendar for SEOThis tool shows how often Google updates its Pageranks - not very often as you'll see. Lots of SEO's (Search Engine Optimizers) have sworn off checking
Pagerank and waiting around for updates, but I think we all know that
these updates are still very interesting, and the numbers are still a
very important part of SEO. They can give us a peek at what kind of
progress we are making with our SEO campaigns in Google, THE most
important Search Engine for SEO, since a high ranking in Google is much
more valuable than all of the other search engines combined. BackLinks Analyzer toolUsing a regular backlink check (link:domain.com) is a useful tool to find what sites are linking to you, but there are many other Important factors that go into the pagerank formula. There are currently 82 unique domains around the world (with 169 total results) linking to our site, as of August 8, 2007. Countries include Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, Italy, India, Zambia, and a few others we haven't figured out yet. Our deep link percentage is 52%. See the tool to discover what these terms mean. Link Value Check ToolUse this tool to find out how much you can charge for a single link on your site. These are the results for three of our sites:
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