Yet a stroll through the sites of major candidates and minor players on both sides of the aisle is not a showcase of shrewd SEO tactics that are built to attract these searchers in droves, to say the least. Neither are these sites that are just one or two advanced tactics away from pushing their traffic into overdrive.

The Range Online Media SEO team completed an audit of the political candidates' sites, and I've done my best to detail the improvements needed for each major campaign throughout the article.

FINANCE: Global Meltdowns and the Perversions of Lucre

The credit rating agencies' apparent credulity amid years of hyperinflation in U.S. housing prices seems incomprehensible: Comparable spikes in asset values preceded the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and the dot-com crash of a few years later.

Contrary to the image of judiciousness cultivated by the financial sector, few players appear to have had much incentive to exercise caution. The earnings of the sectors' sales force are tied to the volume, not the quality, of business they generate.

The typical New York investment banker with 10-15 years' experience made 2.1 million dollars in 2007, according to Washington Post commentator Robert Samuelson. Of this, 1.2 million dollars came in cash bonuses for selling stocks and bonds or pushing mergers and acquisitions, he said, citing figures from compensation consultants Johnson Associates.

UPI Sports Calendar for Friday, Feb. 22

New Jersey at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Toronto at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Detroit, 8 p.m.

Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Boston at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.

Utah at LA Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.



NCAA

No Top 25 games scheduled



Hockey

NHL

Edmonton at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Detroit at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Colorado at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Nelson sees Webber as full-time starter

OAKLAND — Chris Webber has started 819 of 822 games in his NBA career, and he's not going to begin coming off the bench now.

Warriors coach Don Nelson said Monday that beginning with Thursday's game against the Chicago Bulls, Webber will be his fourth permanent starter, taking a slot alongside Baron Davis, Monta Ellis and Stephen Jackson.

Since Nelson and Chris Mullin, the Warriors executive vice president, feel that one of Webber's greatest strengths comes in enhancing the production of his four teammates on the floor, what better way to maximize that trait than by putting him with Golden State's best players?

"I think he should start," Nelson said. "I'm planning on starting him every game."

Nelson said he'll primarily use either Andris Biedrins or Al Harrington as his fifth starter, with Matt Barnes mixed in when the Warriors are looking to go small.

A dance crew from Boston chases a shot at stardom on MTV

They grew up in some of Boston's roughest neighborhoods and found salvation in hip-hop dance. Now members of the troupe Status Quo are trying to survive their toughest professional challenge yet: capturing first place in MTV's "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew" competition, a reality show pitting nine of the country's best, most energetic young dance crews in a can-you-top-this showdown offering a top prize of $100,000 and a shot at showbiz stardom.

Episodes of "Dance Crew" are taped Tuesdays in Los Angeles for broadcast Thursdays at 10 p.m. on MTV. Status Quo has already made it through two rounds and will compete again tonight. They could be dancing on thin ice this time, though, as the field shrinks and the show's three judges - rapper Lil Mama, singer-producer JC Chasez, and hip-hop choreographer Shane Sparks - grow stingier with their praise and start channeling their inner Simon Cowell.