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CHINESE CLASSICAL FURNITURE THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS $9.99

Antique Chinese Silk Texturized Two-Part Box with Three Illustrated Calligraphy $19.99

Antique Chinese Porcelain – Types Dynasties Dates Shapes / Illustrated Book $32.95

Chinese Export Silver Entrees CU/k c1850 Illustrated In Forbes 171oz $75,000.00

1959 Vintage/Antique Chinese Softback Illustrated Book $35.00

Vintage Chinese Art Porcelain Decorative Ashtray With an Illustrated Scene, $49.00

Antique Chinese Export Porcelain Patterns Makers Dates / Scarce Illustrated Book $34.95

How Cartoon Illustrations Can Help You Increase Online Advertising Revenues

If used correctly, cartoon illustrations not only attract readers to the articles on your website, but they can also help you to realize more clickthroughs from your advertising. Here is why:

First off, cartoons attract attention. The eye just naturally drifts to the cartoon on the page. The tendency of the eye then is to go from left to right. If your Google ads were placed to the right of the cartoon on this page, your readers would read them first.

Studies have shown that ads which are placed near the top of your page get better results than ads placed in lower positions. Also text ads get better results than banner ads containing fancy graphics. There’s a reason for this. Web surfers have been inundated with advertising and over a period of time have conditioned themselves to ignore ads as they read the webpage. This is especially true for image ads or banners.

What you don’t want is for your ad to look like an ad. If you use Google AdSense ads on your page you will find that these ads are designed to be unobtrusive. Google gives publishers the option of changing the color scheme on their ads and by selecting a background color, text colors and link colors for your ads which match those of your page, you can actually make your ads blend in very nicely. Google allows this.

Google does not, however, allow you to place related images right next to their ads. They don’t want any suggestion that there is a relationship between the image you are using and their ads. Nothing prevents you from using an image to illustrate your article as long as the image does not appear to be part of the ad. Because the image stands out from the rest of the page, it can still draw attention to the area of the page where your ad block rests, which encourages your readers to read the ads and maybe respond.

The search engines read the page in the same order as the html code is written, which means the first thing they will see is the title of the article and the alt code on the image. If both use keywords closely associated with the content of the page it helps to bring in visitors interested in your subject matter and it keeps the Google ads relevent to your content.

I like to use cartoons as illustrations because of their fun and colorful appearance. People love cartoons and they are a natural device to attract readership. Advertisers who wish to put their ads on your page will also appreciate the way cartoons are used to bring more attention to their sales message.

Victorinox 40520 Fibrox 8-Inch Chef’s Knife $24.72 Nothing is worse than going to cut with your cutlery, and having the handle slip around in your hand. To combat this potential for injury, Victorinox has created this Fibrox chef’s knife. The Fibrox® handle is textured and provides a firm grip, even when wet, and does not slip or slide around. It is comfortable and fits naturally to the shape of your hand, and provides an attractive and modern st…

OXO Good Grips Multi-Purpose Pastry Scraper/Chopper $8.15 Multi-purpose scraper/chopper. Use to section dough for pie crusts, evenly portion dough for pastries, and scrape dough from your floured board. Stainless steel blade features 1″ markings for precise measuring. Try it for lifting cookies from a cookie sheet, or for chopping firm vegetables like celery. A broad, soft handle cushions your hand. Dishwasher safe….

Weber Style 6435 Professional-Grade Grill Pan $16.62 Weber Style Accessories, Stainless Steel, Rectangular Grill Pan, Made Of 430-Grade Stainless Steel, Just The Right Tool For Cooking Pan Fries On The Grill, Or Try It For Delicate Fish, Vegetables and Even Fruit…

The Raga Guide: Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas $38.43 These four CDs tucked into a meaty, comprehensive book portray and explain the different histories, tonalities, and rhythms of 74 of Hindu’s most common ragas. The raga, a musical form of ancient Hindustani prayer and poetry, has been the cornerstone of Indian music for centuries, evolving into a complex set of expressions inviting improvisation and varying according to purpose, mood, story, and r…

Michael Jordan to the Max (Large Format) $9.98 The greatest basketball player of all time gets an appropriate clip reel in this 45-minute documentary, which was originally released in the IMAX format. While you can’t simulate IMAX’s 80-foot-high screen in your living room, you can still get the thrills and awe-inspiring footage of this tribute to one man’s talent and endurance. Much of the original footage was shot during the 1997 NBA Finals b…

Let Me in $6.05 13 tracks. STILL SEALED with small shallow saw cut into jewelbox title spine does not touch art….

Sports Illustrated – Super Shape-Up Program [VHS] $18.60 …

Sports Illustrated NBA Superstars VHS Tape $5.50 NBA Superstars VHS Tape….

Super Shape-up Program …

Kidde FX10K Kitchen Fire Extinguisher, 82CI $24.95 Cooking is the leading cause of house fires in the U.S. In addition to your primary home protection, fire experts recommend adding UL-rated fire extinguishers for supplementary protection in the kitchen. The Kidde FX10K Kitchen Fire Extinguisher is designed to provide supplementary fire protection for your home, as it is UL- rated for specific hazards, such as common kitchen cooking fires and ener…

There are dozens of magazines that publish illustrated stories for younger children, but YA and adults don’t particularly do this. Also, bear in mind that authors are very rarely allowed to illustrate their own works for any kind of publisher as they prefer to use house- or contract-illustrators.

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