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Friday, January 1, 2010

15 Clean Energy Technology Groth Stocks for 2010

15 Best Green Energy Stocks for 2010

Top Alternative Energy and Renewable Power stock picks for 2010:

1. ITRI - Itron, Inc. (Itron), provides products and services to utilities for energy and water markets globally, and is a provider of metering, data collection and software.

Itron company website link

2. AMSC - American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) is an energy technology solutions company, offering products and services based on two technologies: programmable power electronic converters and high temperature superconductor (HTS) wires. The two primary markets it serves are the wind energy market and the power transmission and distribution or power grid market.

American Superconductor AMSC company website

3. CSIQ - Canadian Solar Inc. (CSI) designs, develops, manufactures and sells solar cell and module products that convert sunlight into electricity. CSIQ conducts all of its manufacturing operations in China. It sells its products under its Canadian Solar brand name and to original equipment manufacturing customers under their brand names. It also implements solar power development projects, primarily in conjunction with government organizations.

Canadian Solar photovoltaic stock

4. CLNE - Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Clean Energy) is a provider of natural gas as an alternative fuel for vehicle fleets in the United States and Canada. CLNE designs, builds, finances and operates fueling stations, and supplies customers with compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG), and also helps them acquire and finance natural gas vehicles, and access government rebates and incentives. Clean Energy serves fleet vehicle operators in a variety of markets, including public transit, refuse hauling, airports, taxis, seaports, and regional trucking.

Clean Energy Fuels official website

5. LON-CWP - Clipper Windpower PLC (Clipper) is engaged in the design, engineering and manufacturing of advanced wind turbines and developing wind energy projects, including engineering, construction, and plant operation. The Company also retains partial ownership in certain wind energy projects. It manufactures the 2.5 megawatts Liberty wind turbine and actively develops wind power generating projects in the Americas and Europe.

Clipper Windpower PLC, CWP company website

6. BOM: 532667 - Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL) is an India-based wind power company. The Company is engaged in the manufacture of wind turbine generators (WTGs) of various capacities and its components.

Suzlon Energy global windpower leader

7. CVE:WND - Western Wind Energy Corp. (Western Wind) owns two wind energy electrical generation facilities and is developing wind energy projects in California and Arizona. WND currently owns over 500 wind turbines with 34.5 MW of rated capacity and a further 131MW of expansion power purchase agreements in the States ofCalifornia and Arizona.

http://www.westernwindenergy.com/

8. YGE - Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (Yingli Green Energy) is a vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturer in China. The Company designs, manufactures and sells PV modules and designs, assembles, sells and install PV systems. Yingli Green Energy’s end-products include PV modules and PV systems in different sizes and power outputs. It sells PV modules under its own brand names, Yingli and Yingli Solar, to PV system integrators and distributors located in various markets worldwide, including Spain, Germany, the United States and China.

http://www.yinglisolar.com

9. TSL - Trina Solar Limited is an integrated solar-power products manufacturer based in China. The Company sell and market the products globally, including in a number of European countries, such as Germany, Spain and Italy.

http://www.trinasolar.com/

10. ORA - Ormat Technologies, Inc. (Ormat) is engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. The Company designs, develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal recovered energy-based power plants, usually using equipment that it designs and manufactures. The Company develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants in the United States and geothermal power plants in other countries around the world, and sells the electricity generated by these plants.

http://www.ormat.com/

11. APWR - A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (A-Power) is a renewable energy company in China, engaged in providing onsite distributed power generation systems and micro power grids for industrial companies. The size of its projects range from 5 megawatt to 400 megawatt and allow its customers, which require heavy electrical input, to recapture previously wasted heat and gas from their manufacturing processes to generate electricity.

http://www.apowerenergy.com/

12. AMAT - Applied Materials, Inc. (Applied) provides Nanomanufacturing Technology solutions for the global semiconductor, flat panel display, solar and related industries, with a portfolio of equipment, service and software products. AMAT's clients include manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, flat panel liquid crystal displays, solar photovoltaic cells and modules (solar PVs), and other electronic devices.

http://www.appliedmaterials.com/

13. JASO - JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (JA Solar) is engaged in the development, production and marketing of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, which convert sunlight into electricity, in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

http://www.jasolar.com/

14. AOS - A. O. Smith Corporation is a manufacturer of water heating equipment and electric motors, serving a diverse mix of residential, commercial and industrial end markets principally in the United States.

http://www.aosmith.com

15. OTC: SHCAY (Sharp Corp ADR) - Sharp Corporation is a Japan-based company engaged in the manufacture and sale of electronic telecommunication devices, electronic machines and components. The Company operates in two business divisions. The Sharp Solar division is a world-leading alternative energy manufacturer.

http://sharp-world.com/

Monday, December 21, 2009

Green Realtor Associations of North America

Here are some links to green realty associations, ecological realtor groups, green builder guilds and more:

Green designation for agents AND property managers recognized by the National Association of REALTORS®

NAR Green Resource Council

National Association Of Green Agents and Brokers (NAGAB) is Canada's largest Non Profit association of Greerealestate™ Real Estate representatives.

Canadian Green Realtor Association

Green Tool Kit for REALTORS®. A a collaboration between the BC Real Estate Association and the Greener Realty Association,

Green Resources for Realtors

HomeFinder.com Guide to Green Realtors

Working with a Certified Green Realtor

Guide to USA Green Home Builders

Green Builders Online Directory

ListedGreen.com Eco-friendly Homes and Properties

Find Organic Land and Green Homes For Sale

Green Building and Environmental Trends

Eco-friendly Building and Construction Blog Website

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Optimization for realtors; optimizing real estate websites

The key to successful optimization of a realtor website is localizing localizing localizing...

Important factors to consider:

1) Keywords within links to your website, and within internal links on your website

2) Keywords "after the slash" eg. in page title names

3) Keywords in domain name

4) Page content

5) Meta Tags

Let's look at these areas one at a time:

1 - Anchor Text, or "phrased links"

When you are linking your website from another webpage, use a phrase in the hyperlink that you'd like to come up for on Google, for example, Find Markham luxury homes, then link your website from that phrase.

I work at MCS Real Estate Systems (if you are an Ontario realtor seeking a strong web solution call 1866.470.4007 x 239 or just ask for Joe), so if I am linking our website from another website or blog, I may use something like:

Toronto Real Estate website design, web design for Ontario realtors

Note that the underlying link is to www.mcsres.com

For competitive terms, like "toronto real estate", there will be thousands of links to major websites, so pick an area or three and get farming. Think in terms of neighborhoods, subdivisions, towns and areas. Phrases like Unionville detached homes, or Maple luxury homes, or Streetsville family home, will be more successful than Markham homes or Scarboro real estate.

2 - Keywords "after the slash"

Think about it; while keywords in the domain tell Google what your 50-page website is all about, the keywords after the slash (eg. Page Title at end of URL) let Google's index know what that specific page is about. For example:

JohnRealtor.com/SearchBurlingtonHomes.html

GTAproperties.com/MarkhamLuxuryHomes

See how there is much more detailed info after the slash? Name your pages properly and you'll come up in a wider variety of searches and generate more leads from the web.

3. Keywords within the domain name

Something like SearchTorontoHomes.com will usually (not always, as #1 factor remains keyworded links to your website - anchor text) rank higher for that specific phrase and variants of it than something like JohnSmithRealtor.com would.

This is particularly important if you are farming a new subdivision area or section of town you really like. The smaller the area, the more value you'll get out of having keywords in the domain. Now, you don't want all your branding to reflect one small area, so if you register a domain name for an area you are farming / prospecting, consider it a sub-brand, and create a page on your website about that subdivision, then forward that domain to that page. A web branding rule: Main brands point to homepage via DNS, sub-brands forward to specific sub-page via Enable Forwarding (a GoDaddy.com term).

4. Words content on your website

The more you write about various parts of your city and cool towns nearby, the wider a range of searches you will come up in at Google. Search engines want to deliver relevant results. To make your website relevant to what your ideal client would search for at Google, write down the 15 phrases that this ideal client might type into the Google search engine.

Now try and work 3 or 4 of of those phrases into sentences on each page of your website, making your web presence organically relevant to what your desired client would search for. How do you do this? Okay, let's say these are 2 of your phrases:

find Toronto homes

If you are looking to find Toronto homes for sale online, THIS is the website for you!

Markham luxury homes

We offer expertise on elegant homes and properties throughout the Toronto GTA region, including the best neighborhoods for Markham luxury homes, Richmond Hill detached houses and luxurious Thornhill condos; call today!

5. Meta Tags - Not what they used to be!!!

Before Google began their global takeover (they ARE the 800 pound gorilla we were all afraid Microsoft might become...) in 1998, meta tags were a key factor in deciding search engine rankings, but not any more. They can still break a tie, however, so do a great job on your meta tags and this will enhance your search engine rankings. A couple of tips:

a) Do separate meta tags for each of your crucial pages

b) Whenever possible, don't use any keywords that are not on that specific page

Many happy returns!!!!

Links Relevant to Real Estate SEO:

AgentBuddy.com realtor website SEO

RealEstateWebsiteSEO.com Optimization for realtors

RealtyRankings.com Real Estate SEO

SEOforRealtorsBlog.com SEO Tips for real estate agents

Real Estate website design:

Website with listings for Ontario realtor

Professional website for USA real estate agent