Mr. Knightley presently

I have always thought it a very foolish intimacy,' said Mr. Knightley presently, `though I have kept my thoughts to myself; but I now perceive that it will be a very unfortunate one for Harriet. You will puff her up with such ideas of her own beauty, and of what she has a claim to, that, in a little while, nobody within her reach will be good enough for her. Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Nothing so easy as for a young lady to raise her expectations too high. Miss Harriet Smith may not find offers of marriage flow in so fast, though she is a very pretty girl. Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives. Men of family would not be very fond of connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity - and most prudent men would be afraid of the inconvenience and disgrace they might be involved in, when the mystery of her parentage came to be revealed. Let her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable, and happy for ever; but if you encourage her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her to be satisfied with nothing less than a man of consequence and large fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs. Goddard's all the rest of her life - or, at least, (for Harriet Smith is a girl who will marry somebody or other,) till she grow desperate, and is glad to catch at the old writing-master's son.'
`We think so very differently on this point, Mr. Knightley, that there can be no use in canvassing it. We shall only be making each other more angry. But as to my letting her marry Robert Martin, it is impossible; she has refused him, and so decidedly, I think, as must prevent any second application. She must abide by the evil of having refused him, whatever it may be; and as to the refusal itself, I will not pretend to say that I might not influence her a little; but I assure you there was very little for me or for any body to do. His appearance is so much against him, and his manner so bad, that if she ever were disposed to favour him, she is not now. I can imagine, that before she had seen any body superior, she might tolerate him. He was the brother of her friends, and he took pains to please her; and altogether, having seen nobody better (that must have been his great assistant) she might not, while she was at Abbey-Mill, find him disagreeable. But the case is altered now. She knows now what gentlemen are; and nothing but a gentleman in education and manner has any chance with Harriet.'
`Nonsense, errant nonsense, as ever was talked!' cried Mr. Knightley. - `Robert Martin's manners have sense, sincerity, and good-humour to recommend them; and his mind has more true gentility than Harriet Smith could understand.'
Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judgment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable. Some minutes passed in this unpleasant silence, with only one attempt on Emma's side to talk of the weather, but he made no answer. He was thinking. The result of his thoughts appeared at last in these words.
`Robert Martin has no great loss - if he can but think so; and I hope it will not be long before he does. Your views for Harriet are best known to yourself; but as you make no secret of your love of match-making, it is fair to suppose that views, and plans, and projects you have; - and as a friend I shall just hint to you that if Elton is the man, I think it will be all labour in vain.'
Emma laughed and disclaimed. He continued,
`Depend upon it, Elton will not do. Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match. He knows the value of a good income as well as any body. Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act rationally. He is as well acquainted with his own claims, as you can be with Harriet's. He knows that he is a very handsome young man, and a great favourite wherever he goes; and from his general way of talking in unreserved moments, when there are only men present, I am convinced that he does not mean to throw himself away. I have heard him speak with great animation of a large family of young ladies that his sisters are intimate with, who have all twenty thousand pounds apiece.'
`I am very much obliged to you,' said Emma, laughing again. `If I had set my heart on Mr. Elton's marrying Harriet, it would have been very kind to open my eyes; but at present I only want to keep Harriet to myself. I have done with match-making indeed. I could never hope to equal my own doings at Randalls. I shall leave off while I am well.'

I saw her answer! - nothing could be clearer.'

Oh! to be sure,' cried Emma, `it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.'
`Nonsense! a man does not imagine any such thing. But what is the meaning of this? Harriet Smith refuse Robert Martin? madness, if it is so; but I hope you are mistaken.'
`I saw her answer! - nothing could be clearer.'
`You saw her answer! - you wrote her answer too. Emma, this is your doing. You persuaded her to refuse him.'
`And if I did, (which, however, I am far from allowing) I should not feel that I had done wrong. Mr. Martin is a very respectable young man, but I cannot admit him to be Harriet's equal; and am rather surprized indeed that he should have ventured to address her. By your account, he does seem to have had some scruples. It is a pity that they were ever got over.'
`Not Harriet's equal!' exclaimed Mr. Knightley loudly and warmly; and with calmer asperity, added, a few moments afterwards, `No, he is not her equal indeed, for he is as much her superior in sense as in situation. Emma, your infatuation about that girl blinds you. What are Harriet Smith's claims, either of birth, nature or education, to any connexion higher than Robert Martin? She is the natural daughter of nobody knows whom, with probably no settled provision at all, and certainly no respectable relations. She is known only as parlour-boarder at a common school. She is not a sensible girl, nor a girl of any information. She has been taught nothing useful, and is too young and too simple to have acquired any thing herself. At her age she can have no experience, and with her little wit, is not very likely ever to have any that can avail her. She is pretty, and she is good tempered, and that is all. My only scruple in advising the match was on his account, as being beneath his deserts, and a bad connexion for him. I felt that, as to fortune, in all probability he might do much better; and that as to a rational companion or useful helpmate, he could not do worse. But I could not reason so to a man in love, and was willing to trust to there being no harm in her, to her having that sort of disposition, which, in good hands, like his, might be easily led aright and turn out very well. The advantage of the match I felt to be all on her side; and had not the smallest doubt (nor have I now) that there would be a general cry-out upon her extreme good luck. Even your satisfaction I made sure of. It crossed my mind immediately that you would not regret your friend's leaving Highbury, for the sake of her being settled so well. I remember saying to myself, ``Even Emma, with all her partiality for Harriet, will think this a good match.'''
`I cannot help wondering at your knowing so little of Emma as to say any such thing. What! think a farmer, (and with all his sense and all his merit Mr. Martin is nothing more,) a good match for my intimate friend! Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own! I wonder you should think it possible for me to have such feelings. I assure you mine are very different. I must think your statement by no means fair. You are not just to Harriet's claims. They would be estimated very differently by others as well as myself; Mr. Martin may be the richest of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society. - The sphere in which she moves is much above his. - It would be a degradation.'
`A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!'
`As to the circumstances of her birth, though in a legal sense she may be called Nobody, it will not hold in common sense. She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. - There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentleman - and a gentleman of fortune. - Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. - That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubitable to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. - She is superior to Mr. Robert Martin.'

10 Ways To Raise Your Site In Google- And In Alternative Search Engines, Too_65276

This is not a manipulation game-Google fully hates that game and can punish you for it-which is perhaps what the darker part of the SEO world sells. Smart, in-bounds SEO is created up of smart, user-and-search-engine friendly techniques. Think of SEO as a performance-enhancing drug-one that will not get you kicked out of baseball.

That being said, there are masses of things webmasters can do to help their sites perform higher in search, thus this list is not by an extended shot finished. It is, though, what we have a tendency to think are the top 10 strategies for higher search engine by "search engine" I mean "Google" - placement.

1. Title tags

Listed by others collectively of the Massive Three (tags, links, and text), we're putting title tags at the top. The words within the title tag seem in the link that pops up within the search result. This is often where you tell the search engine (and therefore the would-be visitor) as succinctly as doable what needs to be known: company or publication name; relevant, targeted keyword or keyword phrase taken from the text of the page. Every page should have a title tag as Google ranks every page individually, not the site in its entirety.

2. Content

The order of the Big 3 is terribly debatable, but extremely they work as parts of the entire; not one among them can be overlooked if the machine is to figure properly. In this case, you probably perceive that content ought to be quality, but that's outlined, however it ought to conjointly be wealthy in the keywords you are targeting to drive search traffic. That doesn't mean just throwing them in there like you are cooking up a pot of SEO gumbo, though. Keyword use and keyword variation should be natural and not overstuffed. For the visual text half of the page, specialize in operating within the relevant words and phrases you wish individuals to seek out you for.

3. Quality Links

Or additional specifically, back links, links to your website from outside sources. Links are your letters of recommendation. If no one's recommending you, or the recommendations appear phony, then it will not work. Authority links are weighted most heavily, of course, therefore strive to urge business-related authority sites to link to your site.

4. Amount Links

Authority (top quality) links are by nature a lot of troublesome to urge, therefore you may have to begin some other place unless you have already got the whole recognition you would like from square one. Several SEOers propose "link-swaps" to every different and it was once common trade to shop for and sell links. But as Google demonstrated last Fall, you can't obtain Google's love that way. After all, you'll get the other of love. So, strive to get as several links as you'll from trade peers the nice old school approach - by promoting. Submit links to respected directories like DMOZ and Yahoo, as well. A massive burst of low-quality, non-authoritative, or bad-neighborhood links, though, will do a lot additional damage than smart; so keep things natural.

5. URL

The importance of the URL is usually debated, however one argument seems to make a lot of sense than the others. Search engines do not like too many parameters in the URL (easy to confuse the spiders with & and ?) and individuals cannot browse those long URLs and tell what they mean at a look either. The folks side here is very necessary, because they're the ones clicking and they need to perceive where a link leads them at a millisecond glance. Lesson: keywords within the URL are a good idea.

6. Spider Food

Search spiders eat HTML, not Flash. They eat text, not pictures. Make the spiders happy with HTML and heaps of text to eat.

7. Site Architecture

There's a lot to think about here, however the goal is creating a web site spiders can easily access, a site that tells them where to go and what to index. Sitemaps are important for this purpose, as is proper use of Robots.txt.

8. Frequently Updated Content

You'll start a site, slap some content on it, and let it sit there in cyber space. It'll be indexed, most likely. But you really expand your credibility as a loyal, relevant source if you update regularly. In addition to spiders, it offers people a reason to come back, too.

9. Begin a Blog

A nice way to determine yourself as an authority voice on the Net is to begin a blog regarding the business you're in. Maintaining a blog means that another entry purpose with frequently updated content that eventually with some authority helps pull up the most web site via targeted links to the positioning, or specific pages among the site. It is not a spam blog, which will be zapped eventually, if there's helpful content on it and bonafide linking.

10. Do not Forget Humans

This is often thus important, it most likely should be higher up on the list. There's an art to planning a site that is friendly to both Google crawlers and also the people you ultimately wish to convert. Without individuals, what's the point? Thus initial design for them, and then tweak to please the spiders, not the opposite method around. Jakob Nielsen may be a usability guru you will want to test out. He's been telling folks how make user-centric websites since net directories were still phonebooks-you know, on paper.

Zombie Computers Roam The Internet_72894

Spyware and viruses are so common that you would be hard pressed to find anyone that isn抰 aware of them. Under the umbrella term Malware, these little programs have been causing trouble for computer users for many years, and they seem to get more powerful everyday. A new incarnation of malware is becoming very common as of late, and it involves using a virus or trojan horse to place a computer under the remote control of a hacker. The controlled computer is referred to as a zombie and it is used to commit various dastardly deeds without the knowledge of the computer owner.

Zombie computers are almost always attached to the Internet via a broadband connection such as DSL or Satellite Internet. This is important as spammers have found that by using zombie computers to send out their junk mail they can easily avoid detection. As of 2005 it was estimated that up to 80% of all spam was sent via zombie computers, and that number is on the rise.

The increase can be attributed to smarter hackers and better technology, but the real driving causes behind the increased zombie trend are better spam filters and anti-spam laws. According to Tom Spring at PC World Magazine, 搒pammers are hiring virus writers and hackers to help them create armies of zombie PCs to send spam.?This union of hackers and spammers has been beneficial to both parties in opening new revenue steams that are extremely difficult to shut down.

Gregg Mastoras, a senior security analyst at the security firm Sophos says, 揂 new underground economy is evolving." This new economy is for the most part illegal and to date impossible to stop completely.

As of late the Chinese hackers have thrown their hat into the game and have taken the zombie computer business to the next level. Senior Pentagon Advisor Paul Strassmann recently said, 揂s of September 14th 2007 there were exactly 735,598 computers in the United States infested with Chinese zombies?

Large groups of zombie computers can be used to form a 揵otnet?or network of slave computers. This network can be used to send out millions of spam mails in a short period of time. Slave networks are also used to commit a DoS attack. DoS attacks, or Denial of Service, target a particular website and overwhelm the server with information requests until the server can no longer handle the load. These attacks or in no way secretive, and once discovered are easily shut down. There will be a period of time however when site traffic will be disrupted by the DoS attack. Larger more sophisticated networks such as those used by governments or large firms have defensive measures in place to prevent damage from a DoS attack.