North Carolina's tax credits for film and television production are set to expire at the end of this year, and some Republicans in the General Assembly will take their marching orders from the John Locke Foundation, which hates Hollywood and hates Hollywood's money flowing into the state. In fact, the sock puppets working for the John Locke Foundation claim that the state's "film incentives" produce a "negative budgetary impact."
A new, non-Pope funded study of the film industry in North Carolina by Robert Handfield of the North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management found this:
Beginning in 2007, when the incentive was first enacted, through 2012, the film and television industry has spent $1.02 billion in the state and generated a projected $170,000,000 in tax revenue. The cost of the credit over the same time period was $112,000,000. The result means that, for every dollar of credit issued, the industry generated $9.11 in direct spending and contributed $1.52 in tax revenue to North Carolina. (Hattip: WRAL)
The City of Charlotte has never looked better than it does in "Homeland." The Charlotte Chamber of Commerce ought to be giving a subsidy to that show.
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What is Search Engine Optimization – Search Engine Optimization also known as SEO is Bettering your website(s) for higher search results for certain key phrases in your market. By having high search results you then have more traffic to your website.
Getting started is the hardest part in all this. First part is research, research is key to the success and longevity of your web pages success.
Our market research, this is most time consuming parts (besides creating content). Find your direct competition. To do this go to multiple search engines such as “Yahoo, Google, Bing, Ask, ect.” and type in your keyword/phrase your attempting to gain popularity for.
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So far we went from “Babysitter” to “New York Babysitter” to “Manhattan Babysitter”. Lets now mess with plural instances. 4,510,000 results from Google for “Manhattan Babysitters”, its more =(. In our case less competition the better!
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Doors are your content, the more doors you have the higher potential traffic you may have. Try and write as much text content as possible, of course adding images, videos and audio segments are a plus. Currently images and text are the top searched things on the internet.
Quality content is a MUST, copy and pasting is a NO NO! DO NOT COPY AND PASTE your content, not only is it not right (without giving credit/getting permission) you are majorly hurting your future results.
Search Engines will and are penalizing for duplicate content. For example lets say two websites are found in the search engines directory with the same results, it will only display one of the two. Thus being one website missed out indefinably. How that is determined is unknown, but off speculation its due to better “SEO” practices on one of the two websites. The better one stays, and the other one goes.
Keyword density (How many times your using your keyword; human like instances not (cars, cars, cars, cars) should look like (Our cars come in all colors. Cars are my favorite hobby. I love cars so much even my wife likes cars.)
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