Doctors are trying to unravel the mystery of an Indian village boasting 250 sets of twins born to just 2,000 families. 08 more images after the break...
The phenomenon has seen almost six times as many twins born than the global average in the remote village of Kodinhi, in Kerala.
In 2008 alone 15 pairs of twins were born in the village out of 300 healthy deliveries and this year is expected to top that number.
In the last five years alone up to 60 pairs of twins have been born, with the rate of twins increasing year-on-year.
Local doctor and twin enthusiast Dr Krishnan Sribiju has been studying the medical marvel of Kodinhi for the past two years. Although 250 sets of twins have been officially registered in the village Dr Sribiju believes the real number to be far higher. "In my medical opinion there are around 300 to 350 twins within the village boundaries of Kodinhi," he said
According to villagers, the twin phenomenon only started occurring three generations ago. Dr Sribiju said: "To the best of my knowledge this medical marvel began somewhere between 60 to 70 years ago"
"Without access to detailed biochemical analysis equipment I cannot say for certain what the reason for the twinning is, but I feel that it is something to do with what the villagers eat and drink"
Built using more than a million beer bottles, this incredible temple in the north-east of Thailand is a novel way to recycle any empties. The resident Buddhist monks at the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew complex encourage local authorities to deposit any used bottles at the temple which they then use to build new structures. Having already built the a temple and even shelters, the monks who live in the town of Khun Han really have got into the spirit of recycling. More images after the break...
Buddhist temple Glass houses: There are 20 buildings made of bottles in the complex Sometimes known as Wat Lan Kuad, or Temple Of A Million Bottles, the temple uses the discarded bottles to construct everything from the crematorium to the toilets. Altogether there are about 1.5million recycled bottles in the temple, and the monks at there are intending to recycling even more. 'The more bottles we get, the more buildings we make,' says Abbot San Kataboonyo.Buddhist temple
Buddhist temple Room with an interior view: The visitors' toilets are a unique spectacle 'They kept this up until they had nearly one million recycled bottles ready to construct their pagodas and temple. 'Even though drinking is a sin in Buddhism, this still seems like a positive use of beer and lager bottles.' Representing the cleansing of the human mind, the beer-bottle-temple is now on an approved list of eco-friendly sightseeing tours in South-East Asia.
In the course of site creation, it is useful for web designer or developer «to survey district» about a finding of similar sites (competitors) to help you to make certain decisions in design and working out questions. Knowing, what sites play the main violin and which accompany, you can understand what elements of design, characteristics of a site and a content are most effective.
More low you will find the small list of excellent, free and simple web tools which will help with site optimisation.
1. Site Explorer allows to check certain aspects URL. Function “Inlinks” allows to receive the information on pages which refer on concrete URL which you interests. Site Explorer gives you some representation about popularity of a site. This representation depends on number of pages referring to a site.
2. Compete is a tool for the analysis which allows to compare statistics of the traffic and tendencies simultaneously to three sites. This statistics gives you an estimation, how much on a site of unique visitors and displays of pages, and popularity of a site (growth rate) how much quickly grows.
3. Quantcast is one more popular tool for traffic measurement on a site. Quantcast allows publishers to "measure" the sites — process of placing of a script in a code of your pages that there was a possibility to receive statistics on the traffic directly. At the same time it is necessary to note - exact/full data can to give sites which "are measured", and the majority of people does not welcome use of foreign scripts on the sites.
4. Service Alexa starting to 1996 is today the most popular for traffic ranging. It traces statistics of the traffic of sites and provides a numerical rating on the basis of the collected data. Data represent two parametre viewings of pages and reach (% of Internet users which have visited a site).
5. One of effective ways for definition of popularity of a site is tracing of subscribers to the RSS-channel. If on a site it is used FeedBurner — the leading service provider on management RsS-fidami — you can use Feed Compare for tracing of tendencies of change of number of subscribers to tapes of sites and comparison of growth/decrease of this number for 4 channels simultaneously.
6. popuri.us Is the tool which can help to define, it is how much popular URL. Statistical data of such services, as Alexa, Technorati, bookmarks Delicious, and also number of subscribers and other parametres are used. It is the one-page tool which gives you the short review of popularity of a site. Service popuri.us gives the chance to place the counter on your site for popularity display.
7. socialmeter represents the tool which defines popularity of a site through large social sites, such, as Digg, Stumbleupon and Delicious. It is exposed to you "socialmeter-points" which represent now simply summation of the found results (it is useful for comparison of popularity of a site in social networks).
8. One more way of the control over popularity of a site consists mention tracing in Twitter. TweetVolume allows to carry out search of keywords and phrases (for example, the site name, the URL-address, a name of the author) to define frequency of a mention of the phrase necessary to you.
9. Quarkbase represents the complex tool which gives set of the information on a site. Quarkbase “Social popularity” which shows you the information on popularity of a site among social sites, such as Digg, Stumbleupon and Delicious has a bookmark.
10. If you the information on a concrete blog or the blogger, the tool profiles BlogPulse interests represents the web tool which gives the information on a blog rank, on a mention in other blogs, other helpful information, for example, number of the posts published for month, or the list of similar blogs.
11. Technorati is a leading system of search in blogs. Control panel Technorati allows you to see ranging of this or that blog, to define degree popularity among millions similar blogs. In the same place you will find 100 best blogs. Technorati defines a blog rating on number of reactions (URL which specify in a blog).
12. Statbrain.com — The simple tool which will tell about total number of visitors coming on a site.
13. Cubestat is one more tool which gives you information on a site of popularity of a site on the basis of daily viewings of pages. Uniqueness Cubestat consists that service displays a site estimation in a money's worth (in US dollars) — the more expensively, the the site is more popular.
14. dnScoop tries to calculate site cost, being based on such factors, as URL, specifying in the domain, popularity of the domain, Page Rank, the traffic etc.
15. WebsiteOutlook allows to define popularity of a site on the basis of estimated cost, daily viewings of pages and the income.
And what you use? How you measure popularity of the site? Can you know tools and services which should be present at this list? Be not too lazy and share with us in comments!
A great new tool for any SEO to add to their arsenal is the Search Based Keyword Tool (SbKT) from Google. To get some really good ideas on how you can utilize this tool, I recommend you read by Avinash Kaushik before you go any further in this article.
That article is what inspired this post which is a follow-up to it or my thoughts on the tool as an SEO as opposed to a Pay-Pay-Click (PPC) manager. So let’s begin.
For SEO, the SbKT can be a very useful addition to an SEO’s current tool set, but since the tool was created with PPC in mind, it would be even more useful when setting up a PPC campaign. One thing I’ve noticed after using SbKT several times is that it doesn’t always match up relevant words to the pages you’re targeting. You should be careful on taking Google’s advice on what is most important for your site.
If you’ve done any keyword research for your site, you more than likely know what keyphrases are better to target for each page and you probably don’t need Google to tell you what keywords should go where. For the most part, that should be obvious, but matching up keywords to pages could be very helpful for your more general terms.
One huge benefit of SbKT matching up keywords to pages on your site is that it can give you an idea of what Google thinks each specific page is about. If they’re matching up the wrong, or even completely unrelated keywords to a page of your site, it’s likely the content is not as focused as it should be and the page could use some optimization tweaks.
The way the SbKT works is by using data Google has stored. They store the data of search queries people use when searching Google.com and data from pages they have indexed.Since SbKT matches up keywords to cached pages of your site, you won’t find out if Google has changed their mind on what they think your pages are about until they cache your newly optimized pages.
Check SbKT after the pages have be re-cached and you’ll find out if you’re on the right track.The Search Based Keyword Tool is not as useful for keyword research. At least not for initial keyword research. You can find many more useful and relevant keywords to target on your site by using the and .
After more thorough keyword research has been completed, SbKT can be very helpful. More than likely you’ve come across some long tail keywords in your original keyword research, but this tool will show you any you’ve missed and what pages you should focus them on.
If pages of your site are already perfect matches for these long tail keywords, there isn’t much more work needed to start pushing them up in the search results. Put some more work into those pages, build some links and long tail traffic should start to trickle in.
If you have a blog, SbkT can also be used to create a list of long-tail terms that you can target with blog posts. If you don’t have any pages on your website that you’d like to focus some of these keywords, your blog is the perfect place.Since you’ll be writing a post with your long-tail keyword in mind, the content should be highly targeted, relevent and ready to rank.
