So truth time how many of you have lived in Marbella and you still haven’t made the effort to learn Spanish and with the modern advances of the internet there really isn’t any excuse.

Fiona Gonzales of Teach Yourself Spanish

So for those of you who want to teach yourself Spanish and take the ball by the horns so to speak I came across this fantastic website click Teach Yourself Spanish to see for yourself. Now being a guy its hard not to be impressed with such a stunning lady as Fiona Gonzales and if I was going to get some advice on how to learn Spanish Id defo be getting it from her but that’s all as she is head over heal in love with her fella (lucky guy) so we will have to stick to Spanish.

For those of you who want to give Fiona a swerve but want easy Spanish lessons then get online find that Spanish course and starting mixing with the local Spanish who are wonderful people by the way.

Loathe her or love her but Angeles Muñoz is certainly doing her best to promote property Costa del Sol & Marbella and it looks like that all her hard work and obvious self promotion is now paying off  with the news that the new owner of Malaga Football Club, Abdullah ben Nasser Al-Thani, has announced that he will invest a large amount of money in a Marbella project.

Boost for Marbella

Al-Thani said after a meeting with Mayor Angeles Muñoz in Marbella that he is in advanced negotiations in a major project in Marbella, related to the tourism industry. He did not reveal exactly what kind of investment project it was.

Angeles Munoz claimed after the reunion with the Qatari sheik that this was wonderful news for the city of Marbella. She looked very excited about the plans, but could not either identify exactly what they were.

Until further information comes from the mayor or the sheik, one can only speculate what the spectacular plans consist of. All we know for know is that the Qatari will invest money into something related with tourism in Marbella. Sundream Blog is very hopeful it will create much needed employment for the citizens of Marbella.

This is great news for Marbella and this blog who has been championing the causes of our wonderful Mayor of Marbella who has been heavily criticized for self promotion and wasting public money. What we pointed out to the idiots who were criticizing her was you only needed one deal like this and you were miles ahead of the game so well done Angeles.

Do you miss the manual for your router or wireless phone, or has the dog eaten up the manual for your cell phone or wireless router? If the guide to a thing is gone, then can you be absolutely sure you need it. It is Murphy’s Law … Then you should take a look at The User Manual Site. It has indexed over 300,000 manuals from the Web, in PDF format. I did some searches on different stuff I have at my home office and it gave good results.

To use the service is simple. Just enter the name and product name in the search field, and do a search. The site uses an auto-completion feature in the search field so that you get the options just by typing parts of the product name. Once you got a hit, just click the PDF file, and print it if you need.

If you not found your guide at The User Manual Site, you can take a look at another site. SafeManuals.com is the website that can come to the rescue. There are almost 900,000 (nine hundred thousand) handbooks, manuals and user guides posted in PDF format. It is just keying in the name of your electronic things, whatever it may be, and see if it is included in the database. Do you get a hit, can you free download the manual in PDF format, to read on screen or print. This article did I found in TkJ. Thanks Tommy.

With a profit margin of over 36%, has Apple built up a cash reserve of 29 billion dollars. Focus on high profit products as iPod and iPhone, is the key to the whole business model and the reason why Apple is sailing calmly through the recession. The stone hard margin hunting is a big reason why Apple stubbornly refused to embark on the rocket market for notebooks. On the computer side, however, has Mac lost something the past two years.

In April 2009, was it time for Apple to present the quarterly report. Compared with the same period in 2008, has the profit increased, but the sales of Mac declined. iPod reached just over 11 million of sold units. That who holds up the figures is the high demand for the iPod Touch. iPhone sold 3.79 million units. Both figures are higher than the market expected. In the case of sales for Mac, it was sold 2.2 million units, down by 3%. Timothy Cook,at Apple, said in connection with this quarterly report – We will make the best computers in the world, not most. (Information from Seniorhuset)

A hot week, we have summer now. The summer is here with the tourist, also those who want to buy Marbella apartments or Marbella villas. I had little time over for write in the blog about the entire good and bad thing in Marbella. Ok, we had receive two new apartments and one villa for sale, new reports of saving water in Marbella, Antonio Banderas villa problem, property Marbella, rental tenants to court, GIMP program, more than just blogging on Wordpress, no follow links information and other news:

Test your computer: Are their unsecured program.
900 tenants to court in Marbella and Malaga for not paying their rent.
Stop immediately with internal no follow links.
Marbella Town Hall steals a slice of Antonio Banderas garden
10 fantastic things more with you WordPress besides Blogging.
Marbella saving water by its desalination plant.
Become professional in image manipulation program GIMP.
Marbella, Fuengirola and Costa del Sol news.

The new properties for sale are:

http://www.sundream-estate.com/395-marbella-apartments-penthouse.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/190-property-marbella-bungalow.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/391-marbella-apartments-property.html

Happy reading!

That the links is what gives value to the sites and the increase in search engine rankings is probably not news to readers of this blog. Many have certainly experimented with internal links and tried to push the maximum forces to the main pages. One part of this has been to put no follow on links to sub pages that are not so important to appear high in Google for. But now, Google has put the foot down and changed the rules for internal no follow. Since no other blog seems to take up the subject, so here comes a small summary.

What mean do follow links?

A no follow link means that you do not give any force to a particular page as a link pointing to. This technology was originally created to protect the blogs that got a lot of comments of all types of visitors. More recently, it used by a lot of various SEO companies to sculpt PageRank. Maybe you did not want to give any force to the login page or contact us page, but rather to your web shop. Then, it has been effectively with internal no follow.

This is it technically:

Plain link: <a href=” http://www.sundream-estate.com/marbella-apartment.php”> Marbella apartment</ a>.

No follow link: <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.exempel.com/”> questionable link </ a>

No follow previous:

Google has previously considered that the internal no follow links, PageRank can be spent on other sub. That is no longer.

No follow today.

With the new rules so, you should not have no follow internally in your site. You just are wasting your link force. If you have 10 internal links and 7 is no follow, so divided now 30% PageRank at the 3 common links. Previously, 100% of the PageRank went to the usual links. So now it is time to remove all no follow, the internal link power is wasted with using no follow.

Matt Cutts was there as usual, was the first to tell the news. So, have you changed your no follow or have you never had any? Personally, I will get a review of a number of pages that need to fix this.

WordPress can be used for much more than blogging. After all, it is a really complex and flexible publishing system, and with the right additions, you can do lots of other types of websites. TkJ tips me about WP Candy who has written a very good and detailed article on ten items you can use Word Press to, in addition to running a blog.

The various points in the list are all thoroughly explained, with suggestions for extensions (plugins) you can download and install in Word Press for implement the project. For example shows you how you make a link directory or an advertisement site.

1.      Create a Static Web Site

2.      Build a Directory

3.      Start a Classifieds Site

4.      Create an Article Repository

5.      Make an Image Gallery

6.      Build a Review Site

7.      Start a Discussion Forum

8.      Aggregation

9.      Membership site

10.  Ecommerce Site (online store)

So if you ever meet a person who says that WordPress is limited, you can throw this article in the face of the person … Again, fascinated by the possibilities of WordPress!

GIMP is the open source – world’s answer to Photoshop. It is a complex image manipulation program full of functions and tools, and it is also completely free. You can download it for both Windows and Linux. The latest version is 2.6.6, and it contains many news.

I find an article of Six Revisions, which lists 10 websites with schools, guides and other articles with has to do with GIMP. Do you want to learn to master this great program in image editing, is this really good websites to begin with. If you think that GIMP is a bit too complex for your taste, are there a lot of other free image-editing programs. Two of my favorites are Paint.NET and Photoscape. They are both easy to use, have simple and logical interface and is also free.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program and was originally developed for Linux / Unix. It has however since several years been closed for Windows. GIMP is an enormously complex tools, and by that I mean that the learning threshold is relatively high, but above all that the program contains many and very good functions. You can very well compare GIMP with Photoshop.

That who probably is the most unaccustomed with GIMP is that the interface is different from the other of Windows programs, because it is was closed from Unix. But it is really no major differences, and once you come over the threshold, it is no problem. Once you start using GIMP, you will realize that it is an excellent tool for imaging, image editing and photo retouching. This article did found I in TkJ.

Everyone talks about SEO optimization. You must make an on-page, must have in-links, must have a blog, ect …. But one of the most important and easiest things have many people forgot. If you have not thought about before, it is high time to start doing it now. Make sure that the right keywords are in the URL of everyone of your article! Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are taking very good on the URL, and ranking your article better in Serp.

Say that your web page or blog is about Marbella. Then you’ll write a lot of articles on Marbella. Sample article titles like: “The best restaurants in Marbella, Five tips in Marbella for the summer” and ”Marbella history”

To improve your chances to be found in the search engines for the word Marbella is that they must include in your URL. We take the article entitled “Marbella history.” Your URL may look like this: http://www.sundream-estate.com/new-43-marbella-history.html As you can see is “/ Marbella-restaurants” the piece that you decide yourself when you write your article and here is the key word Marbella with which you are investing extra in order to be found by search engine, also the word restaurants get a good position. Working a lot to finding the right keywords to the URL; it is worth gold.

Tommy with TjK wrote this nice article. Search engines needs for find things on the web. For many surfers, there is only one search engine, and it is Google. The reason is so simply, that many do not know that there are other search engines. But it does, and many works for most users either as good or better than Google.

Which of the search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing do you like most? Most of us says Google safe, but the question is what you had responded in a blind test? This is where Blind Search comes into the picture. It is well emphasized that the service is mostly for fun, even if it is right interesting to see how different the three search engines hits.

Blind Search function easily. You fill in a search word in the box at the top of the site and click Search. Now, a search be made on the three search engines and displays results in three columns. You don’t know which of the column is respective which search engine. Select the results you think is best, and click on the bottom Vote for this search engine.

How was the result? Choose you the search engine that you have as favorites, or was it someone else who turned out to see better than the favorite?