Bikefreak guide

New

Chinese cooking recipes can be hard to find and this is a recipe that hasn't been publish on-line to my knowledge. It is very simple and requires only a little preparation time.

Ingredients

- 1 pound of uncooked, boneless and skinless chicken breast - 1 can of sliced water chestnuts - 1 can of bamboo shoots - 1 can of baby corn (cut in half) - 1 cup broccoli florets - 1/2 cup bean sprouts - 2 dried red chili peppers (optional for spiciness)

Chicken Marinade

(30 minutes to 8 hours before) - 2 tablespoons of soy sauce - 1 tablespoon of teriyaki sauce - 2 tablespoons of corn starch

Chinese sauce

(can be made just before you start cooking) - 2 tablespoons of teriyaki sauce - 2 tablespoons of soy sauce - 2 teaspoons of brown sugar - 1 tablespoon of sesame oil - 1 tablespoon of water - 1 tablespoon of corn starch

Preparation

Cut the chicken into 3/4 inch cubes and place in a zip-top bag with the chicken marinade for at least 30 minutes.

Place 2 tablespoons of sesame oil into a skillet over medium-high heat. Empty the seeds from the red chili peppers and break them up into the oil (leave them whole if you want to keep them in the meal).

Let the oil warm up until it starts to shimmer and moves easily around the pan. After 1 minute remove the bits of chili peppers. Remove the chicken from the marinade and place in the oiled pan. Stir this constantly to ensure the chicken does not stick to the pan.

Once the chicken and marinade has thickened, add the bamboo shoots and broccoli into the pan. Increase the heat to high and stir every minute or so for 3 to 4 minutes.

After 3 or 4 minutes, put in the water chestnuts and baby corn. Keep stirring every minute or two until everything looks cooked through, another 4 or 5 minutes.

Add the bean sprouts and pour the Chinese sauce over the food and start mixing it with the other ingredients. Take the pan off the heat once everything is coated well.

Serve with rice and this becomes one more recipe in your collection of Chinese .

This serves 4 people and could be stretched with more rice to serve 6.

History

This is one of the Chinese cooking recipes I've known since I was a kid. It was one of the few Chinese cooking recipes in a school funded cookbook and I have never seen anything like it anywhere. I have cooked it through high-school, college and even now for my family. Everyone loves it and says it's one of the best Chinese cooking recipes I have.

Finding More

Promotion: link popularity: link building

Without doubt, in the last few years the Internet has turned out to be a golden opportunity and platform to increase the business sales. No matter, whether business is small or big, every business owner is establishing its online presence and looking to reach its wide potential customers in quick time and increase business sales rapidly. And, if we look at the present scenario the importance of growing your business and expanding your online brand recognition using all the strategic SEO elements available can just not be overstated. Obtaining quality sales leads, expanding wide market reach, gaining new customers online along with communicating with existing customers, and finally boosting the company's sales has become a key part of overall strategic SEO strategy.

Today to be the very best at marketing the business or even the websites has to reach to its potential customers and hiring SEO companies and SEO experts is proving best method to keep track of the latest developments in search engine optimization. These SEO companies always analyze your website ranking and try to set up and expand website analytics.

Perhaps these days many business and website owners are taking help of professional SEO companies as these firms are offering comprehensive SEO package that majorly includes comprehensive link building, directory submission, article submission, Content Writing and PPC Management Packages, etc. particularly catering to geo-targeting needs. The SEO strategies that are employed majorly involve in getting a top-level domain for website in order to indicate the geographical location of website to search engines.

The services offered by SEO companies majorly revolve around on-page optimization. They work for on page b50 optimization by website Structure optimization, Html code optimization, Meta Tag Creation and optimization, Html site creation, Image optimization, Google Analytics Setup & Monitoring, Google XML Sitemap Creation along with regular modifications.

They also work on the content of the website so that it contains the relevant keyword phrases that online buyers or visitors use to find your business.

After finishing all the above ethical SEO stuff they go for off page optimization process which majorly involves Link Building, Relevant directory submission then local directory submission, link exchange etc.

So, if your company is facing a major plunge in terms of sales even after you have tried all known internet marketing tactics to raise it up then perhaps the solution to your problem could be as simple as changing your strategy and employing new technique like SEO. By hiring an SEO specialist or availing SEO services, you get changes to your website that further ensure that all the keywords buyers use to search for products like yours are included on your site. And, this simple process can help in making your website rank higher in the search engines. It may easily bring traffic to your website, which ultimately results in converting into more buyers. It actually helps in making your website a far more productive business tool with just a small investment.

Remember that the key purpose of SEO companies by providing services is to increase the amount of traffic coming to your website and consequently increase your revenue. Though you might require paying a certain fee for this SEO service, but at the end the returns you will receive could possibly be the best value for your investment.

Promotion: link popularity: reciprocal links: link exchange

link exchange directory.

A proven website Linking building strategy have shown to be an effective way to create a flow of targeted and qualified traffic to any website regardless of subject.

It can involve a few terms and the meaning of these is sometimes not clear and therefore can cause confusion and misunderstanding.

Lets look at the terms you need to have some understanding of:

1. Reciprocal Linking - This is the simple exchange of links between websites. A site agrees to place a link on one of its pages in exchange for a link from your site. It can be text or a banner/graphic.

2. Themed linking- . This is sites similar in subject linking to each other. Also this can cover the internal linking of the pages in your site between each focused subject page - the use of plain html text linking between pages, is recommended. This makes it easy for the search engines to find the pages.

3. Page Rank-(PR) -This is Googles view of your site in a scale of 0-10. New domains take time to get PR and starts of at zero. The PR of a site that wants to exchange links with you needs to be considered.

4. One way linking -This is the formation of one way links (no suprize here!) using different methods that will be discussed in future articles.

5. 3 way linking - This is the formation of and understanding between 2 webmasters. Webmaster "A" -owns 2 sites (No.1 and No.2). He links to your site from No.1, and in turn asks you to link to site No. 2

6. A Link Farm - This is where your link is placed on many other sites, almost instantly. Normally a paid service, it is not in any theme and rarely results in any traffic. Effectively it is a tactic to fool Google and the other major search engines. Not recommended!

7. Anchor Text- This is the html text displayed and used in the link to your site eg: "Click Here" -Normally a blue underlined link.

8. Site wide linking- This is where a webmaster agrees to place a link to your site on every page of his site - Sometimes can be a reciprocal arrangement.

9. Deep Linking - This is the linking to internal pages of a site, normally aimed at a specific keyword and the page is normally in the same theme: egExtra-Large-Cat/p>

10. Content Linking- This is using articles on specific subjects and linking from those articles to your site in the form of a resource box at the end of the article. Can be a good form of one way linking.

11. Paid Text links -This is purchasing links on other sites for the sole purpose of influencing search engine ranking. Google has come out to disapprove of this and is encouraging webmasters to report any sites doing this.

12. - A directory of web sites set up that all want to exchange links

13. Social linking -This is links from the new marketing media like myspace or social bookmaking sites like A large network of themed bookmarking sites have evolved in 2007

There are many effective linking strategies, for effective marketing online at the same time the development of goals with an overall plan to be discussed in future articles.

Relationships: dating sites and servises for singles

And if we were to take one of those E-harmony, or some of those dating quizzes that .

Web design and development: graphics: web: templates

photoshop templates.

If you are selling an eBook, studies show that having an image of the book creates an increase in sales. A 3D cover gives the customer the feeling that they are actually getting SOMETHING for their money, not just a bunch of digital 1s and 0s.

There are several ways of creating an image for you to use. The first is to pay a designer to create one for you. The advantages of this are that you can usually receive an image or collection of images (in various sizes) that really looks nice. However, these custom images can be costly...between $50 and $200. And frequently it takes several iterations before the designer makes a 3D cover that matches exactly what you need.

The second method is to buy Adobe Photoshop and an Action Script. An Action Script is like a macro or mini-program within Photoshop. In the case of creating a 3D book cover, it involves converting the flat image and giving it effects like depth perspective, reflection, shadow, etc. There are existing templates and scripts for Photoshop that produce some really beautiful images. The difficulty is that both Photoshop and the Action Scripts are fairly pricey and have a bit of a learning curve. Photoshop costs $300 and the popular scripts for the 3D covers run about $50 to $100.

The third method is to use GIMP. GIMP is a free graphic software package that is as close to Photoshop you can get. There are some technical differences between GIMP and Photoshop which high-end graphic designers will argue about. But for the purposes of designing your own 3D book cover, GIMP can produce the same quality image as Photoshop.

GIMP is 'open-source' software. It is not owned by any one company. It is available freely on the internet.

There are several steps to creating a photo-realistic 3D cover. First, the image actually consists of several smaller images: the face, the spine, and the top edge. Reflections are created for the face and spine layers. Highlights are added to give texture to the book, especially at the bend and top edge. Those 'layers' are then wrapped around a box within GIMP.

One of the best things about mastering the GIMP technique is that GIMP can open . There are free book cover templates available on the internet, but they are all in PSD files, which is Photoshop's format. Those free files can then be opened by GIMP, and the technique for wrapping can then be applied to those files as well, all without having to pay for Photoshop!

In addition to being fun, designing your own 3D Book covers can be profitable. Many internet marketers are looking for graphics to go with their products. Once you learn how to create those graphics, you then have the ability to sell them! Search Internet Marketing forums for people looking to buy graphics, or sign up with one of the many freelance design websites on the internet.

However you choose to create your 3D book cover, always strive for top quality results. A poor image, such as those created by free websites, can hurt your eBook sales. It is better to have NO image than to have a bad one.