Winterizing Your Kohler Generator by Rick Oros

Fall is officially underway, which means winter is right around the corner. You probably got a lot of use out of your Kohler generator during the warmer part of the year, thanks to utility failures, equipment malfunctions, summer storms, and inexperienced construction workers. Unfortunately, the winter months do not much of a break from blackouts. To get dependable service from your generator, it is important to prepare it now before it is needed during the year’s first blizzard.

To begin with, you should handle a few maintenance items. Start by draining the fuel from the entire generator, including the carburetor. You may find it helpful to use a hand siphon to ensure it is emptied completely. You can remove any remaining liquid from the fuel bowl by opening the engine cover, usually on the left side, as well as the spark plug cover on top. Next remove the spark plug cable from the spark plug. Untighten the carburetor drain screw and remove the gasoline. Next, turn on the engine switch. Turning the engine over a couple of times will release the last of the gas. After this retighten the screw on the carburetor and turn off the engine. Plug the spark cable plug back in and close the engine cover.

Once you have taken care of the regular service issues, consider purchasing a cold weather kit, which are specifically designed protect generators from the harsh winter temperatures. One of the best cold weather accessories is a battery warmer. Many people have experienced dead batteries in the middle of winter. Sub-par temperatures suck the energy out of batteries, even those in generators. To make sure yours is ready and working when you want it, consider investing in a thermostatically-controlled battery warmer. This device is wrapped around the battery and can be left there all winter long. It automatically turns on anytime the temperature dips below forty degrees, guaranteeing you have an operational generator when your family needs it.

Another great invention is the generator oil heater. Oil, during the summer months, is the slippery lubricant that is necessary for a generator to work at its optimum power level. The winter months challenges its normal consistency and aims to turn the oil in the engine into sludge. An oil heater can help you avoid this anti-friction gunk. Most crank case heaters use only 5W-30 so you might have to switch oil types before installing this device. In a similar manner of the battery warmer, the oil heater can be left in place and will automatically switch on once a specific temperature is reached.

It is good to keep in mind that power outages during the winter are just as serious as the ones that occur in summer. Instead of battling a heat wave, you are up against sub-zero temperatures. Do not allow your family to be left out in the cold. Take the time to properly prepare your Kohler generator now and you can be confident that you family will be warm from November to February, no matter what the weather brings.

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How to use keywords to improve your ranking in search engines   by Kathy Joyce

The importance of keywords

Keywords or key phrases you choose will determine how your site is positioned in the search engines. It is always better to have lots of pages each focusing on a small group of keywords. This will give them more relevance to each individual page.

For example if your site is about shoes you may have lots of different types of shoes.
Your index page should have a menuleading into each of the differentcategories of shoes.

You might have a page for sandals, one for platform shoes as well as stilettos, court shoes and flat heel shoes.

Choosing keywords

First you have to think like your customer. What would they type into a search engine if they wanted to find the products you are selling.

Use phrases as well as single words. Often someone looking for a product or service will type in several words. For example a customer may want to buy a shoe with stiletto heels. They may type in "stiletto heel shoe", "black stiletto" "stiletto heel","stiletto high heel" or "high heel shoe"

brainstorming keywords.

Start by thinking of as many keywords associated with your site as you can. To make it easier there is a free tool for this which can be found at http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

It will give you the number of times this word has been searched for in the last month. This will also give you a guide to the popularity of the keyword.

Try looking for similar sites to your own and viewing the source code. This will give you ideas for keywords that your competitors are using. Viewing the source code is easy, just right click the mouse somewhere on the page and click on view source.

A good idea is to open a file in wordpad or other text editor and call it "keywords" then if you find words or phrases relevant to your site copy and paste them into your file. You can then view them offline and even print the page out to study it. This can give you ideas for keywords you may not have thought of.

When you have made a list of keywords relevant to each page you will then need to check the supply and demand if you want an edge over your competitor.

You will already know the demand of each keyword the next thing you need to do is to take a sheet of paper or use a spreadsheet on the computer and make 3 columns naming them keyword, supply, and demand.

In the first column list the keywords that have the highest demand. Then in the supply column type how many times it has been searched for.

Lastly in http://www.Altavista.com or http://www.Google.com type in your keyword surrounded by quotation marks like this "stiletto shoes" and see how many sites come up. They will list the number of sites with that keyword in it.

Go through your list, and see how many have a large demand and lower supply. Of course the idea is to have as many large demand and low supply keywords as possible.

Optimise your site by creating theme based,keyword focused pages for each category of shoes or whatever it is that you are selling.
This will greatly increase your chances of getting a higher ranking in the search engines.
Just concentrate on a couple of keywords in each page.

The title meta tag

The title tag is THE most important part of your webpage. It must appeal to the search engines and also the visitor to your site. The title of your page is used as the link to your site by the search engines and is visible to the reader.
Use your most important keywords in the title. Make the title between 15-20 words in length.

The title must be compelling for people to want to click through to your site.

Don't ever make the mistake of leaving the title tag blank.
Not a good idea if you want an edge over your competition!!

Every page on your site must have a keyword focused title.

The description meta tag

The description tag is also very important and some search engines display it as a summary of your site. Use some important keywords here but don't repeat them more than 3 or 4 times as it could be seen as spamming.

Keyword tag.

This tag is not as important to search engines as it once was, but you should still use it to list your keywords.

The alt tag

This tag is used to describe images and is useful to the visually impaired.
If an image takes a long time to load the alt tag will appear first.
Add keywords to this tag as part of the description.

The main body of text

Place emphasis on your keywords in the first paragraph of the main text, and repeat them several times in the rest of the page. As each page is theme based the keywords will be relevant,and will appear naturally in the body of the text.

You will greatly increase your chances of getting your site in the top positions of search engines if you follow these ideas.

You must however regularly register all your pages with each of the main search engines to make sure the pages are still there as they can suddenly disappear, or drop down from a number 1 position to number 201!!
Normally about once a month is enough.

You can use a site submitter to make this a lot easier.
A good one that I use is http://selfpromotion.com or another one is http://www.submit-it.com

About the Author

Kathy is an artist and webdesigner for small businesses. She has designed sites for other artists to showcase their work, and has her own mlm online business.
Kathy has written several articles on promoting an online business.
Visit her site at http://www.healthandbeautytowealth.co.uk
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