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Basic SEO For Your Wisconsin Site - Part 3 nd Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) was upgraded to a Buy from a Hold by Lazard Capital Markets.Wisconsin is one of the most beautiful places on earth as well as the home Green Bay Packers (my favorites).Many people also want to get a top search engine ranking in Wisconsin, because this is a place where people have money.Scoring high in the search engines often means money for those who can improve their sites enough to reach the top of the search engine ranking for Wisconsin related phrases.Since the search engines are getting better and better for each month, it is often not enough just do get the on-page search engine optimization factors right on the pages you write.It is key to get many inbound links to your site as well.You might not have thought about this, but search engines are in business and they too want to make money. Search engines are after the advertising dollars spend by advertiser and the more people that use their search engine, the more money they make.The bottom line is that search engines only want high quality pages show on top of their ranking. This way people will continue to use their service and they can continue to rake in the advertising dollars.Let’s just say that your Wisconsin site is about as good as other related Wisconsin sites. If the on-page factors of the sites are equal, the site with the most inbound links will show on top of the search engine ranking.This is the reason for you to make sure you get enough inbound links if you want a top search engine ranking in Wisconsin.But, how do you get those links pointing to your Wisconsin site?One good way to get inbound links is to submit your site to a Wisconsin directory or to write press releases. Recent Analyst downgrades include Prosperity Bancshares (NASDAQ: PRSP) which was downgraded to a Hold from a Buy by Sanders, Morris and Harris, Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR) was downgraded to an Inline by Goldman Sachs, Herley Industries (NASDAQ: HRLY) was downgraded to an Underperform from a Market Perform by Raymond James, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was downgraded to a Neutral from a Buy by Banc of America and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) was downgraded to a Neutral from an Outperform by Robert W. Baird. Recent analyst coverage initiations include Regis Corp (NYSE: RGS) which was initiated with a Peer Perform by Bear Stearns, Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) was initiated with an Outperform by Raymond James, Bancshares Florida (NASDAQ: BOFL) was initiated with an Outperform ratings and a $26 price target by Raymond James, RCN Corp (NASDAQ: RCNI), which by the way I’ve been seeing a lot of those RCN Vans in New York City lately, but the company was initiated with a Hold rating by Morgan, Joseph & Co, and Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) was initiated with a Neutral rating and a price target of $45 by Banc of America Securities. Investors Commentary And the Readers/Listeners Speak: Don from New Jersey said: “I’ve just started to listening to Wall Street to Main Street” and was surprised on how informative it was. A friend of mine turned me on to it and I think that its great, keep up the good work.” Don, thanks for the kind words, its always good to hear that our listeners and readers are finding “Wall Street to Main Street” beneficial. Word of mouth advertising is the best way to go and hopefully all of our listeners and readers will follow your lead and spread the WSMS word. Daisy from New York asked: “I know that the metals have been coming down lately including copper, do you think that it’s a good time to start looking at Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) as a potential rebound stock?” Daisy, Southern Copper in 2006 went from a low of $69.36 and closed as high as $105.85 on May 10, 2006. The stock traded down $3.03 on Wednesday to close at $80.72, I’d like to see if it breaks $78 on the downside because at that point it could freefall to the low $70 range before it bounces back. Their mining and smelting activities are primarily in Peru and Mexico, so as you watch this trade you may want to consider Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP). Andy in Maine said: “ I caught y Should You Tag and Ping? It’s Thursday June 8, 2006, and the downward trend continues, as we are over the hump of the trading week and the Dow and Nasdaq are still seeing red. But before we head into the world of stocks lets stop on the political front.You own a blog, and you want to make money from it. How do you do that? Well, to start with you need to get traffic to your blog. It doesn't matter how brilliant the content of your blog is, if nobody ever sees it, then you're never going to make any money from it.So how do you go about getting more visitors to your site? Well, unless you're willing to pay money for a Google Adwords campaign or something similar, then you need to make sure the major search engines like you. Or more to the point, convince the search engines that other websites like you! This is known as link popularity, and is often used by the search engines to determine whether or not to improve the ranking of a site in search results. The more links you have from other websites pointing to your website, the more "popular" your site is deemed to be, and the better its ranking.Of course, like most strategies for improving traffic, linking has been abused and overdone in a big way with Internet marketers. They set up thousands of links from sites that had nothing to do with their own blog, and got rewarded for it. Now, however, search engines are mostly interested in relevant links. So if you have a blog about grooming dogs, and you have a link from a dog site, great. If the links is from a site about cheese, however, chances are it won't help with your link popularity.So the bottom line is that there's no point joining any type of link farm, where you can buy or trade links with sites that have no relevancy to yours. You need to focus on obtaining links from complementary sites, which is best done by finding those sites online and writing to the site owner. Time consuming, but it pays off. Particularly if the site that links to you has a high page rank in Google.If this all sounds like a lot of work - guess what, it is! That's where the tag and ping technique comes into it. Basically, you list your blog on an authority site, and every time you update your blog, you let them know. The authority site needs can be either a social bookmarking site, like del.icio.us, or a blog directory, like Technorati. When you list your blog, you include a list of tags, or keywords, that your blog is a President Bush said on Wednesday that all immigrants must learn English, this is a new proposal that he is pushing and looks to gain passage during this midterm election year, but he will have a long road ahead of him as he not only has to win over the Democrats but also members of his own party. There was a surprise guest on Capitol Hill and that was the founder of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Sergey Brin. This trip was an important one as for the first time the company has admitted to compromising their principles when they agreed to censor the Chinese version of Google. He stated that they reluctantly agreed to the censorship once the Chinese Government blocked Google’s Chinese version site. As we are in the heat of midterm elections the topic of gay marriage has popped up again, but is it just at the wrong time. The Senate rejected a gay marriage ban stating that both President Bush and the GOP’s lobbying for this passage was out of line. But because this is midterm election time you can expect this to topic to come back to life next month with more fuel on the fire than before. Now, I’m going to say it again, as an investor you should not, better yet cannot get emotional. Stocks trade up, stocks trade down, and that is the nature of the stock market. It’s your job to do the homework that will put you on the right side of the movement. We will continue to lay out some ideas and our outlook, we’ll give you some insight into the company and its current situation but you still need to do your homework to insure that it is right for you. We want our readers/listeners to be well informed so that you can make informed decisions and not foolish trading mistakes. So do not trade with emotion, use your head and focus on the game plan, now lets move on to some stocks that you will want to keep an eye on. The NAMC Newswire’s “Wall Street to Main Street” segment in its entirety is only available to subscribers. Don’t miss out and Keep in mind that all subscriptions are free and will remain that way. All that you need to do is go to www.namcnewswire.com and add your email address to receive the full segments. We value your privacy and all email addresses are only used for NAMC related items and not shared with any third parties. Your subscription allows you to participate in the newly added investor commentary; this is where we will be giving the floor to investors each day. Remember that investor commentary segment is wide open, so send us your emails using our contact form on www.namcnewswire.com and give us a call toll free at 888-463-9237 between the hours of 6:30pm and 12am EST weekdays to get involved. Make sure to include your name and state in the email or in the audio. We want to hear from you so make “Wall Street to Main Street” work for you. Be sure to spread the word about “Wall Street to Main Street” as we continue to grow both the daily segment and the radio show, so do your part to help us expand our reach. Remember that you can always listen to the NAMC Radio on Streetiq.com, the leader in financial podcast. www.streetiq.com and is also available on iTunes. Movers and Shakers Some major movers in yesterdays trading session include Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) which was knocked down from $116.35 to $107.70 on Tuesday but regained those loses to trade up $4.95 to close at $113.01 on Wednesday. This is the exact reason why it is crucial that you seek out companies that are being dragged down by the market , those companies that have not changed fundamentally. U.S. Xpress Enterprises (NASDAQ: XPRSA), one of our “Furious Five” features, traded up $1.34 to close at $23.34. As we mentioned recently trucking, rail and transport in general will continue to grow, especially those companies that transport construction material. We mentioned TMM SPA (NYSE: TMM) a Mexico play yesterday and U.S. Xpress is one that will benefit here in the USA. Target (NYSE: TGT) made some noise on Wednesday after an upgrade by Lazard Capital Markets. The company expects high gross margins in 2006 and basically the quality retail companies are beginning to shine, just look at Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Other stocks that made moves on the upside include L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) which traded up $3.44 to close at $76.93, Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) which traded up $2.55 to close at $55.47, DSW, Inc (NYSE: DSW) traded up $2.50 to close at $31.65, Life Time Fitness (NYSE: LTM) traded up $2.39 to close at $44.38, Four Seasons Hotels (NYSE: FS) traded up $1.46 to close at $62.58, Las Vegas Sands, (NYSE: LVS) traded up $1.37 to close at $68.00 and Harley Davidson (NYSE: HDI) which traded up $1.34 to close at $49.30. Under Ten Now lets take a look at movers in the market under ten bucks, Home Solutions America (AMEX: HOM) traded up $1.14 to close at $7.94 after a rough day on Tuesday but the pressure will still be on the stock in today’s trading session. Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP), this was a pick by our very own Larry Oakley from Wall Street Corner a few weeks back when it was in the low $4 range, so this was a good call, the stock traded up 56 cents to close at $6.72 but it gets better it was halted with news pending at 2.37pm yesterday. Well after the close Peru Copper stated that they requested the trading halt on both the Toronto and AMEX due to a “frivolous” bid that it received from Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU). They were concerned about the stocks unusually trading activity and wanted to stop this in its tracks, but you know what they say where there is smoke there is fire, so keep your eyes on Peru Copper. American Italian Pasta Company (NYSE: PLB) , if the name doesn’t give it away let me tell you , they are a producer and marketer of dry pasta in North America, some brands include Mueller's, Mrs. Grass, Pennsylvania Dutch and Anthony's pasta . Everything from linguini to rigatoni, they do it all, some of their competitors include Barilla Holdings, which is by far the largest pasta maker in the world, yes surpassing the Ronzoni brand. This has weighed on the company for some time. At one point this was a $51 stock and went as low as $3, it closed down in the $8 range yesterday, so for all intents and purposes this one fell out of bed. They currently have a 52 week low of $3 and a 52 week high of $23.64. Now I need to let you know that they company is losing money, they just reported that revenues dropped 7% in 2005, this is the first time in 12 months that they have given full disclosure of sales figures. But the stock had movement on Wednesday as it traded up 43 cents to close at $8.44, go figure. Other stocks under ten bucks that made nice moves yesterday include Nitromed (NASDAQ: NTMD) which traded up 40 cents to close at $4.64, Cardica (NASDAQ: CRDC) traded up 37 cents to close at $7.26, DUSA Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: DUSA) traded up 36 cents to close at $4.90 and Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) which traded up 32 cents to close at $6.05. Downers Some Downers in yesterdays trading session include USG Corp (NYSE: USG) , they are being dragged down with the building materials sector as the stock traded down $8.09 to close at $76.20 on heavy volume. Veritas DGC (NYSE: VTS) traded down $6.25 to close at $45.37, this is a company that is involved in the information end of the oil business as they supply integrated geophysical information and services to the petroleum industry. Now the stock ran up during the final week of May from $44.81 to close as high as $51.62 on Tuesday. So this pullback could be attributed to market conditions as nothing has really changed with the company. Actually it should be in better shape now as increased drilling in the U.S. is about to ramp up. So use this downturn as an opportunity to find a good entry point. Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) traded down $4.09 to close at $78.16. Now nothing dramatic has happened with the stock, it is being dragged down by market conditions just like Veritas. Now the stock broke the $79.23 mark and could slip to high $75 to the low $76 range, but you need to keep an eye on the trading on this as it could drop to the mid $77 range and pop back up. Now keep in mind that the stock traded as high as $95.65 in May 2006, so the potential is there. Keep this one on your stock watch. Other stocks that traded down but shouldn’t be down there include U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) which traded down $3.30 to close at $60.61, Schlumberger Ltd (NYSE: SLB) traded down $3.45 to close at $60.51, Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD), which traded down $3.26 to close at $53.74, Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR) traded down $3.53 to close at $81.80 and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) which traded down $3.07 to close at $94.72. Now some stocks under ten bucks that received the royal smack down on Wednesday include International coal Group (NYSE: ICO) which traded down $1.40 to close at $7.10 on heavy volume, Polyone Corp (NYSE: POL) traded down 54 cents to close at $9.09, Movie Gallery (NASDAQ: MOVI) the stock that shot up on rumors traded down 49 cents to close at $7.01 on over 5.3 million shares traded, Input/Output Inc (NYSE: IO) traded down 46 cents to close at $8.74 on heavy volume and Grey Wolf (AMEX: GW) which traded down 40 cents to close at $7.28 on over 3 million shares traded. Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades Recent Analyst upgrades include American Woodmark (NASDAQ: AMWD) which was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Sidoti & Co, Aeroflex Inc (NASDAQ: ARXX) was upgraded to an Above Average from an Average by Caris & Co, Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ: BRCM), a company that we just spoke about on Wall Street to Main Street, was upgraded to a Buy from an Above Average by Caris & Co, Boeing (NYSE: BA) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Banc of America and Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) was upgraded to a Buy from a Hold by Lazard Capital Markets. Recent Analyst downgrades include Prosperity Bancshares (NASDAQ: PRSP) which was downgraded to a Hold from a Buy by Sanders, Morris and Harris, Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR) was downgraded to an Inline by Goldman Sachs, Herley Industries (NASDAQ: HRLY) was downgraded to an Underperform from a Market Perform by Raymond James, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was downgraded to a Neutral from a Buy by Banc of America and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) was downgraded to a Neutral from an Outperform by Robert W. Baird. Recent analyst coverage initiations include Regis Corp (NYSE: RGS) which was initiated with a Peer Perform by Bear Stearns, Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) was initiated with an Outperform by Raymond James, Bancshares Florida (NASDAQ: BOFL) was initiated with an Outperform ratings and a $26 price target by Raymond James, RCN Corp (NASDAQ: RCNI), which by the way I’ve been seeing a lot of those RCN Vans in New York City lately, but the company was initiated with a Hold rating by Morgan, Joseph & Co, and Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) was initiated with a Neutral rating and a price target of $45 by Banc of America Securities. Investors Commentary And the Readers/Listeners Speak: Don from New Jersey said: “I’ve just started to listening to Wall Street to Main Street” and was surprised on how informative it was. A friend of mine turned me on to it and I think that its great, keep up the good work.” Don, thanks for the kind words, its always good to hear that our listeners and readers are finding “Wall Street to Main Street” beneficial. Word of mouth advertising is the best way to go and hopefully all of our listeners and readers will follow your lead and spread the WSMS word. Daisy from New York asked: “I know that the metals have been coming down lately including copper, do you think that it’s a good time to start looking at Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) as a potential rebound stock?” Daisy, Southern Copper in 2006 went from a low of $69.36 and closed as high as $105.85 on May 10, 2006. The stock traded down $3.03 on Wednesday to close at $80.72, I’d like to see if it breaks $78 on the downside because at that point it could freefall to the low $70 range before it bounces back. Their mining and smelting activities are primarily in Peru and Mexico, so as you watch this trade you may want to consider Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP). Andy in Maine said: “ I caught y Top Ten FREE Ways to Generate Great Content and Bring All the Traffic You Can Handle to Your Website lows you to participate in the newly added investor commentary; this is where we will be giving the floor to investors each day.So you're a fairly new website owner who is scratching his/her head wondering why you're only getting 50 to 100 web visitors per day to your site. You've tried what all the "web gurus" out there told you to do: Link up with like-minded sites! Put an ad for your site on another similar site and you will get hundreds ofclick-throughs every day!Somehow it's just not working. Let's say you are getting 75 visitors per day for your site, but only about 10% of those visitors come back for another visit. 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As the site owner, you need to open up to your visitors and te Remember that investor commentary segment is wide open, so send us your emails using our contact form on www.namcnewswire.com and give us a call toll free at 888-463-9237 between the hours of 6:30pm and 12am EST weekdays to get involved. Make sure to include your name and state in the email or in the audio. We want to hear from you so make “Wall Street to Main Street” work for you. Be sure to spread the word about “Wall Street to Main Street” as we continue to grow both the daily segment and the radio show, so do your part to help us expand our reach. Remember that you can always listen to the NAMC Radio on Streetiq.com, the leader in financial podcast. www.streetiq.com and is also available on iTunes. Movers and Shakers Some major movers in yesterdays trading session include Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) which was knocked down from $116.35 to $107.70 on Tuesday but regained those loses to trade up $4.95 to close at $113.01 on Wednesday. This is the exact reason why it is crucial that you seek out companies that are being dragged down by the market , those companies that have not changed fundamentally. U.S. Xpress Enterprises (NASDAQ: XPRSA), one of our “Furious Five” features, traded up $1.34 to close at $23.34. As we mentioned recently trucking, rail and transport in general will continue to grow, especially those companies that transport construction material. We mentioned TMM SPA (NYSE: TMM) a Mexico play yesterday and U.S. Xpress is one that will benefit here in the USA. Target (NYSE: TGT) made some noise on Wednesday after an upgrade by Lazard Capital Markets. The company expects high gross margins in 2006 and basically the quality retail companies are beginning to shine, just look at Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Other stocks that made moves on the upside include L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) which traded up $3.44 to close at $76.93, Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) which traded up $2.55 to close at $55.47, DSW, Inc (NYSE: DSW) traded up $2.50 to close at $31.65, Life Time Fitness (NYSE: LTM) traded up $2.39 to close at $44.38, Four Seasons Hotels (NYSE: FS) traded up $1.46 to close at $62.58, Las Vegas Sands, (NYSE: LVS) traded up $1.37 to close at $68.00 and Harley Davidson (NYSE: HDI) which traded up $1.34 to close at $49.30. Under Ten Now lets take a look at movers in the market under ten bucks, Home Solutions America (AMEX: HOM) traded up $1.14 to close at $7.94 after a rough day on Tuesday but the pressure will still be on the stock in today’s trading session. Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP), this was a pick by our very own Larry Oakley from Wall Street Corner a few weeks back when it was in the low $4 range, so this was a good call, the stock traded up 56 cents to close at $6.72 but it gets better it was halted with news pending at 2.37pm yesterday. Well after the close Peru Copper stated that they requested the trading halt on both the Toronto and AMEX due to a “frivolous” bid that it received from Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU). They were concerned about the stocks unusually trading activity and wanted to stop this in its tracks, but you know what they say where there is smoke there is fire, so keep your eyes on Peru Copper. American Italian Pasta Company (NYSE: PLB) , if the name doesn’t give it away let me tell you , they are a producer and marketer of dry pasta in North America, some brands include Mueller's, Mrs. Grass, Pennsylvania Dutch and Anthony's pasta . Everything from linguini to rigatoni, they do it all, some of their competitors include Barilla Holdings, which is by far the largest pasta maker in the world, yes surpassing the Ronzoni brand. This has weighed on the company for some time. At one point this was a $51 stock and went as low as $3, it closed down in the $8 range yesterday, so for all intents and purposes this one fell out of bed. They currently have a 52 week low of $3 and a 52 week high of $23.64. Now I need to let you know that they company is losing money, they just reported that revenues dropped 7% in 2005, this is the first time in 12 months that they have given full disclosure of sales figures. But the stock had movement on Wednesday as it traded up 43 cents to close at $8.44, go figure. Other stocks under ten bucks that made nice moves yesterday include Nitromed (NASDAQ: NTMD) which traded up 40 cents to close at $4.64, Cardica (NASDAQ: CRDC) traded up 37 cents to close at $7.26, DUSA Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: DUSA) traded up 36 cents to close at $4.90 and Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) which traded up 32 cents to close at $6.05. Downers Some Downers in yesterdays trading session include USG Corp (NYSE: USG) , they are being dragged down with the building materials sector as the stock traded down $8.09 to close at $76.20 on heavy volume. Veritas DGC (NYSE: VTS) traded down $6.25 to close at $45.37, this is a company that is involved in the information end of the oil business as they supply integrated geophysical information and services to the petroleum industry. Now the stock ran up during the final week of May from $44.81 to close as high as $51.62 on Tuesday. So this pullback could be attributed to market conditions as nothing has really changed with the company. Actually it should be in better shape now as increased drilling in the U.S. is about to ramp up. So use this downturn as an opportunity to find a good entry point. Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) traded down $4.09 to close at $78.16. Now nothing dramatic has happened with the stock, it is being dragged down by market conditions just like Veritas. Now the stock broke the $79.23 mark and could slip to high $75 to the low $76 range, but you need to keep an eye on the trading on this as it could drop to the mid $77 range and pop back up. Now keep in mind that the stock traded as high as $95.65 in May 2006, so the potential is there. Keep this one on your stock watch. Other stocks that traded down but shouldn’t be down there include U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) which traded down $3.30 to close at $60.61, Schlumberger Ltd (NYSE: SLB) traded down $3.45 to close at $60.51, Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD), which traded down $3.26 to close at $53.74, Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR) traded down $3.53 to close at $81.80 and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) which traded down $3.07 to close at $94.72. Now some stocks under ten bucks that received the royal smack down on Wednesday include International coal Group (NYSE: ICO) which traded down $1.40 to close at $7.10 on heavy volume, Polyone Corp (NYSE: POL) traded down 54 cents to close at $9.09, Movie Gallery (NASDAQ: MOVI) the stock that shot up on rumors traded down 49 cents to close at $7.01 on over 5.3 million shares traded, Input/Output Inc (NYSE: IO) traded down 46 cents to close at $8.74 on heavy volume and Grey Wolf (AMEX: GW) which traded down 40 cents to close at $7.28 on over 3 million shares traded. Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades Recent Analyst upgrades include American Woodmark (NASDAQ: AMWD) which was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Sidoti & Co, Aeroflex Inc (NASDAQ: ARXX) was upgraded to an Above Average from an Average by Caris & Co, Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ: BRCM), a company that we just spoke about on Wall Street to Main Street, was upgraded to a Buy from an Above Average by Caris & Co, Boeing (NYSE: BA) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Banc of America and Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) was upgraded to a Buy from a Hold by Lazard Capital Markets. Recent Analyst downgrades include Prosperity Bancshares (NASDAQ: PRSP) which was downgraded to a Hold from a Buy by Sanders, Morris and Harris, Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR) was downgraded to an Inline by Goldman Sachs, Herley Industries (NASDAQ: HRLY) was downgraded to an Underperform from a Market Perform by Raymond James, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was downgraded to a Neutral from a Buy by Banc of America and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) was downgraded to a Neutral from an Outperform by Robert W. Baird. Recent analyst coverage initiations include Regis Corp (NYSE: RGS) which was initiated with a Peer Perform by Bear Stearns, Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) was initiated with an Outperform by Raymond James, Bancshares Florida (NASDAQ: BOFL) was initiated with an Outperform ratings and a $26 price target by Raymond James, RCN Corp (NASDAQ: RCNI), which by the way I’ve been seeing a lot of those RCN Vans in New York City lately, but the company was initiated with a Hold rating by Morgan, Joseph & Co, and Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) was initiated with a Neutral rating and a price target of $45 by Banc of America Securities. Investors Commentary And the Readers/Listeners Speak: Don from New Jersey said: “I’ve just started to listening to Wall Street to Main Street” and was surprised on how informative it was. A friend of mine turned me on to it and I think that its great, keep up the good work.” Don, thanks for the kind words, its always good to hear that our listeners and readers are finding “Wall Street to Main Street” beneficial. Word of mouth advertising is the best way to go and hopefully all of our listeners and readers will follow your lead and spread the WSMS word. Daisy from New York asked: “I know that the metals have been coming down lately including copper, do you think that it’s a good time to start looking at Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) as a potential rebound stock?” Daisy, Southern Copper in 2006 went from a low of $69.36 and closed as high as $105.85 on May 10, 2006. The stock traded down $3.03 on Wednesday to close at $80.72, I’d like to see if it breaks $78 on the downside because at that point it could freefall to the low $70 range before it bounces back. Their mining and smelting activities are primarily in Peru and Mexico, so as you watch this trade you may want to consider Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP). Andy in Maine said: “ I caught y Is your Website Working? Home Solutions America (AMEX: HOM) traded up $1.14 to close at $7.94 after a rough day on Tuesday but the pressure will still be on the stock in today’s trading session.A. The BasicsBefore launching into a new strategy it is important to examine why you have made, or are about to make, an investment in the internet. The first question to ask is “what is the objective your investment?” Do you wish to:• Enhance your brand • Have an electronic advertisement • Generate competitive advantage • Change the way you do business • Attract new business • Increase sales • Reduce the cost of sale • Increase profits • Move to electronic trading • Keep up with the competition, or • Is it just an act of faith?Your objective can be one, several, all of these, or it may be something that is not on this list. Our contention is that the objective of a commercial organization’s internet strategy is “to increase profits”, and the route to achieve this is by identifying, attracting, winning and retaining customers profitably.Having agreed that this is a realistic objective to pursue, does your internet strategy support this? Some answers may be:• It does and it is working • It does and is partially working • It has not been in operation long enough to have an informed judgement. • It does not!In reality it is either working or not! Your strategy must be to deliver customers to your business, getting them to your web site is only the first step. It is vital therefore to understand the nature of the internet user today. In the UK for example (according to the Office of National Statistics) 49% of householders, 12.1m in all have access to the internet; 85% use the internet for email, and 50% use the internet for commercial transactions.Some recent research from Penn University in the USA shows that there are no longer surfers of the internet, there are searchers - people who are actively seeking something specific. Their survey of 450000 web queries shows that overwhelmingly people use search engines to drive answers to their needs. However,• over 80% stop searching after looking at just three results • 50% only enter one search • over 50% only look at the first page of results • only 19% looked at the second page of results • fe Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP), this was a pick by our very own Larry Oakley from Wall Street Corner a few weeks back when it was in the low $4 range, so this was a good call, the stock traded up 56 cents to close at $6.72 but it gets better it was halted with news pending at 2.37pm yesterday. Well after the close Peru Copper stated that they requested the trading halt on both the Toronto and AMEX due to a “frivolous” bid that it received from Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU). They were concerned about the stocks unusually trading activity and wanted to stop this in its tracks, but you know what they say where there is smoke there is fire, so keep your eyes on Peru Copper. American Italian Pasta Company (NYSE: PLB) , if the name doesn’t give it away let me tell you , they are a producer and marketer of dry pasta in North America, some brands include Mueller's, Mrs. Grass, Pennsylvania Dutch and Anthony's pasta . Everything from linguini to rigatoni, they do it all, some of their competitors include Barilla Holdings, which is by far the largest pasta maker in the world, yes surpassing the Ronzoni brand. This has weighed on the company for some time. At one point this was a $51 stock and went as low as $3, it closed down in the $8 range yesterday, so for all intents and purposes this one fell out of bed. They currently have a 52 week low of $3 and a 52 week high of $23.64. Now I need to let you know that they company is losing money, they just reported that revenues dropped 7% in 2005, this is the first time in 12 months that they have given full disclosure of sales figures. But the stock had movement on Wednesday as it traded up 43 cents to close at $8.44, go figure. Other stocks under ten bucks that made nice moves yesterday include Nitromed (NASDAQ: NTMD) which traded up 40 cents to close at $4.64, Cardica (NASDAQ: CRDC) traded up 37 cents to close at $7.26, DUSA Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: DUSA) traded up 36 cents to close at $4.90 and Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) which traded up 32 cents to close at $6.05. Downers Some Downers in yesterdays trading session include USG Corp (NYSE: USG) , they are being dragged down with the building materials sector as the stock traded down $8.09 to close at $76.20 on heavy volume. Veritas DGC (NYSE: VTS) traded down $6.25 to close at $45.37, this is a company that is involved in the information end of the oil business as they supply integrated geophysical information and services to the petroleum industry. Now the stock ran up during the final week of May from $44.81 to close as high as $51.62 on Tuesday. So this pullback could be attributed to market conditions as nothing has really changed with the company. Actually it should be in better shape now as increased drilling in the U.S. is about to ramp up. So use this downturn as an opportunity to find a good entry point. Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) traded down $4.09 to close at $78.16. Now nothing dramatic has happened with the stock, it is being dragged down by market conditions just like Veritas. Now the stock broke the $79.23 mark and could slip to high $75 to the low $76 range, but you need to keep an eye on the trading on this as it could drop to the mid $77 range and pop back up. Now keep in mind that the stock traded as high as $95.65 in May 2006, so the potential is there. Keep this one on your stock watch. Other stocks that traded down but shouldn’t be down there include U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) which traded down $3.30 to close at $60.61, Schlumberger Ltd (NYSE: SLB) traded down $3.45 to close at $60.51, Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD), which traded down $3.26 to close at $53.74, Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR) traded down $3.53 to close at $81.80 and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) which traded down $3.07 to close at $94.72. Now some stocks under ten bucks that received the royal smack down on Wednesday include International coal Group (NYSE: ICO) which traded down $1.40 to close at $7.10 on heavy volume, Polyone Corp (NYSE: POL) traded down 54 cents to close at $9.09, Movie Gallery (NASDAQ: MOVI) the stock that shot up on rumors traded down 49 cents to close at $7.01 on over 5.3 million shares traded, Input/Output Inc (NYSE: IO) traded down 46 cents to close at $8.74 on heavy volume and Grey Wolf (AMEX: GW) which traded down 40 cents to close at $7.28 on over 3 million shares traded. Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades Recent Analyst upgrades include American Woodmark (NASDAQ: AMWD) which was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Sidoti & Co, Aeroflex Inc (NASDAQ: ARXX) was upgraded to an Above Average from an Average by Caris & Co, Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ: BRCM), a company that we just spoke about on Wall Street to Main Street, was upgraded to a Buy from an Above Average by Caris & Co, Boeing (NYSE: BA) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Banc of America and Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) was upgraded to a Buy from a Hold by Lazard Capital Markets. Recent Analyst downgrades include Prosperity Bancshares (NASDAQ: PRSP) which was downgraded to a Hold from a Buy by Sanders, Morris and Harris, Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR) was downgraded to an Inline by Goldman Sachs, Herley Industries (NASDAQ: HRLY) was downgraded to an Underperform from a Market Perform by Raymond James, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was downgraded to a Neutral from a Buy by Banc of America and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) was downgraded to a Neutral from an Outperform by Robert W. Baird. Recent analyst coverage initiations include Regis Corp (NYSE: RGS) which was initiated with a Peer Perform by Bear Stearns, Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) was initiated with an Outperform by Raymond James, Bancshares Florida (NASDAQ: BOFL) was initiated with an Outperform ratings and a $26 price target by Raymond James, RCN Corp (NASDAQ: RCNI), which by the way I’ve been seeing a lot of those RCN Vans in New York City lately, but the company was initiated with a Hold rating by Morgan, Joseph & Co, and Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) was initiated with a Neutral rating and a price target of $45 by Banc of America Securities. Investors Commentary And the Readers/Listeners Speak: Don from New Jersey said: “I’ve just started to listening to Wall Street to Main Street” and was surprised on how informative it was. A friend of mine turned me on to it and I think that its great, keep up the good work.” Don, thanks for the kind words, its always good to hear that our listeners and readers are finding “Wall Street to Main Street” beneficial. Word of mouth advertising is the best way to go and hopefully all of our listeners and readers will follow your lead and spread the WSMS word. Daisy from New York asked: “I know that the metals have been coming down lately including copper, do you think that it’s a good time to start looking at Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) as a potential rebound stock?” Daisy, Southern Copper in 2006 went from a low of $69.36 and closed as high as $105.85 on May 10, 2006. The stock traded down $3.03 on Wednesday to close at $80.72, I’d like to see if it breaks $78 on the downside because at that point it could freefall to the low $70 range before it bounces back. Their mining and smelting activities are primarily in Peru and Mexico, so as you watch this trade you may want to consider Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP). Andy in Maine said: “ I caught y Bad Credit is EVIL any that is involved in the information end of the oil business as they supply integrated geophysical information and services to the petroleum industry. Now the stock ran up during the final week of May from $44.81 to close as high as $51.62 on Tuesday. So this pullback could be attributed to market conditions as nothing has really changed with the company. Actually it should be in better shape now as increased drilling in the U.S. is about to ramp up. So use this downturn as an opportunity to find a good entry point.Bad credit is one of the worst financial situations to be in. A bad credit can affect you in a lot of ways. With a bad credit you can have difficulty getting a loan. Anything like poor financial skills or bankruptcy can lead to bad credit. 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You will need a good credit for all kinds of loan – home loan, car loan and personal loan.Bad Credit loansBad credit loans are tailor-made loans for people with bad credit. When in bad credit, no bank or lender will give you a loan as he will fear that you will not be able return the amount of loan due to your bad credit history. However, some lenders do provide bad credit loans too. But these loans have a higher rate of interest than the loans that a person with a good credit would take.Fixing your bad creditIf you have a bad credit, it becomes imperative for you to repair it immediately. You can improve this by paying off your pending bills quickly. If you are buried under multiple debts, you can take a debt consolidation loan that would help you pay off small loans. Moreover, take your report from the credit agencies and see the areas where you need to improve. If you can afford a consultant who will give you a sound advice, that wo Diamond Offshore Drilling (NYSE: DO) traded down $4.09 to close at $78.16. Now nothing dramatic has happened with the stock, it is being dragged down by market conditions just like Veritas. Now the stock broke the $79.23 mark and could slip to high $75 to the low $76 range, but you need to keep an eye on the trading on this as it could drop to the mid $77 range and pop back up. Now keep in mind that the stock traded as high as $95.65 in May 2006, so the potential is there. Keep this one on your stock watch. Other stocks that traded down but shouldn’t be down there include U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) which traded down $3.30 to close at $60.61, Schlumberger Ltd (NYSE: SLB) traded down $3.45 to close at $60.51, Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD), which traded down $3.26 to close at $53.74, Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR) traded down $3.53 to close at $81.80 and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) which traded down $3.07 to close at $94.72. Now some stocks under ten bucks that received the royal smack down on Wednesday include International coal Group (NYSE: ICO) which traded down $1.40 to close at $7.10 on heavy volume, Polyone Corp (NYSE: POL) traded down 54 cents to close at $9.09, Movie Gallery (NASDAQ: MOVI) the stock that shot up on rumors traded down 49 cents to close at $7.01 on over 5.3 million shares traded, Input/Output Inc (NYSE: IO) traded down 46 cents to close at $8.74 on heavy volume and Grey Wolf (AMEX: GW) which traded down 40 cents to close at $7.28 on over 3 million shares traded. Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades Recent Analyst upgrades include American Woodmark (NASDAQ: AMWD) which was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Sidoti & Co, Aeroflex Inc (NASDAQ: ARXX) was upgraded to an Above Average from an Average by Caris & Co, Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ: BRCM), a company that we just spoke about on Wall Street to Main Street, was upgraded to a Buy from an Above Average by Caris & Co, Boeing (NYSE: BA) was upgraded to a Buy from a Neutral by Banc of America and Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) was upgraded to a Buy from a Hold by Lazard Capital Markets. Recent Analyst downgrades include Prosperity Bancshares (NASDAQ: PRSP) which was downgraded to a Hold from a Buy by Sanders, Morris and Harris, Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR) was downgraded to an Inline by Goldman Sachs, Herley Industries (NASDAQ: HRLY) was downgraded to an Underperform from a Market Perform by Raymond James, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was downgraded to a Neutral from a Buy by Banc of America and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) was downgraded to a Neutral from an Outperform by Robert W. Baird. Recent analyst coverage initiations include Regis Corp (NYSE: RGS) which was initiated with a Peer Perform by Bear Stearns, Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) was initiated with an Outperform by Raymond James, Bancshares Florida (NASDAQ: BOFL) was initiated with an Outperform ratings and a $26 price target by Raymond James, RCN Corp (NASDAQ: RCNI), which by the way I’ve been seeing a lot of those RCN Vans in New York City lately, but the company was initiated with a Hold rating by Morgan, Joseph & Co, and Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) was initiated with a Neutral rating and a price target of $45 by Banc of America Securities. Investors Commentary And the Readers/Listeners Speak: Don from New Jersey said: “I’ve just started to listening to Wall Street to Main Street” and was surprised on how informative it was. A friend of mine turned me on to it and I think that its great, keep up the good work.” Don, thanks for the kind words, its always good to hear that our listeners and readers are finding “Wall Street to Main Street” beneficial. Word of mouth advertising is the best way to go and hopefully all of our listeners and readers will follow your lead and spread the WSMS word. Daisy from New York asked: “I know that the metals have been coming down lately including copper, do you think that it’s a good time to start looking at Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) as a potential rebound stock?” Daisy, Southern Copper in 2006 went from a low of $69.36 and closed as high as $105.85 on May 10, 2006. The stock traded down $3.03 on Wednesday to close at $80.72, I’d like to see if it breaks $78 on the downside because at that point it could freefall to the low $70 range before it bounces back. Their mining and smelting activities are primarily in Peru and Mexico, so as you watch this trade you may want to consider Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP). Andy in Maine said: “ I caught y 10 Killer Ways To Multiply Your Sales nd Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) was upgraded to a Buy from a Hold by Lazard Capital Markets.1. Right after a customer places an order send him over to another page that offers the opportunity to join your affiliate program for free. This has the effect of compounding the power of that sale which can lead to many more sales.2. I don't see very many people doing this online. Sell gift certificates to your online store. Possibly in one hundred dollar increments. Give them a discount by saying that they can purchase a $100 gift certificate for only $90.3. The upsell. When customers are at your order page they are in the "buy mindset" so why not ask them if they would like to order additional related products. It doesn't hurt to ask.4. Send free promotional merchandise with the packages you ship out to your customers. Maybe a hat with your domain name printed on it or a bumper sticker with some funny saying on it along with your domain name. Try giving away a t-shirt with your domain printed on it. Your customer gets added value and you get more exposure and traffic.5. You can send out upgrade offers to your existing buyers. Tell them there are some hot new improvements to the product or products they currently own and they need the new updates to increase the value of them. And of course offer them a discount because they are an existing customer.6. Cross promote deals. If you have an ezine list and you know someone else that has a list equal to the size of your list, ask them to run your ad to their list and in exchange you'll run their ad on your list.7. Selling the duplication rights to your products really increases their value. You could include a sales letter to sell it and put in some back end links in the product which promotes your other products.8. When shipping out products to your buyers be sure to include ads for other related products and services. The cost is low and the return is very high with this technique. I've tested this myself and it works incredibly well.9. Let your customers know that they when they refer three paying customers then you'll give them a full rebate of what they paid for their products. That'll give your customers some motivation to send traff Recent Analyst downgrades include Prosperity Bancshares (NASDAQ: PRSP) which was downgraded to a Hold from a Buy by Sanders, Morris and Harris, Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR) was downgraded to an Inline by Goldman Sachs, Herley Industries (NASDAQ: HRLY) was downgraded to an Underperform from a Market Perform by Raymond James, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was downgraded to a Neutral from a Buy by Banc of America and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) was downgraded to a Neutral from an Outperform by Robert W. Baird. Recent analyst coverage initiations include Regis Corp (NYSE: RGS) which was initiated with a Peer Perform by Bear Stearns, Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) was initiated with an Outperform by Raymond James, Bancshares Florida (NASDAQ: BOFL) was initiated with an Outperform ratings and a $26 price target by Raymond James, RCN Corp (NASDAQ: RCNI), which by the way I’ve been seeing a lot of those RCN Vans in New York City lately, but the company was initiated with a Hold rating by Morgan, Joseph & Co, and Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) was initiated with a Neutral rating and a price target of $45 by Banc of America Securities. Investors Commentary And the Readers/Listeners Speak: Don from New Jersey said: “I’ve just started to listening to Wall Street to Main Street” and was surprised on how informative it was. A friend of mine turned me on to it and I think that its great, keep up the good work.” Don, thanks for the kind words, its always good to hear that our listeners and readers are finding “Wall Street to Main Street” beneficial. Word of mouth advertising is the best way to go and hopefully all of our listeners and readers will follow your lead and spread the WSMS word. Daisy from New York asked: “I know that the metals have been coming down lately including copper, do you think that it’s a good time to start looking at Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) as a potential rebound stock?” Daisy, Southern Copper in 2006 went from a low of $69.36 and closed as high as $105.85 on May 10, 2006. The stock traded down $3.03 on Wednesday to close at $80.72, I’d like to see if it breaks $78 on the downside because at that point it could freefall to the low $70 range before it bounces back. Their mining and smelting activities are primarily in Peru and Mexico, so as you watch this trade you may want to consider Peru Copper (AMEX: CUP). Andy in Maine said: “ I caught your show while I was looking for financial shows on Monday for my iPod and I have to say that I’m glad that I found it, is this show going on national radio and how about television?, hey I’ll help produce it” Andy, I’m glad that you found us, so we welcome you to the growing “Wall Street to Main Street” family, as far as national radio syndication, we’re working on that and any assistance that we can get on that end from our listeners is appreciated. As far as a TV show, well that is something that is being kicked around, if we need production help we’ll shoot you out an email. Marie in North Dakota asked: “I came across a new issue by the name of Luna Innovations, and I wanted to know if you thought it was a good play or not.” Marie, Luna Innovations (NASDAQ: LUNA) is a new IPO that went public on June 2, 2006. The stock is relatively new and came public at a time that Vonage (NYSE: VG) created a massive IPO debacle, but Luna stood strong at $6 where they went public. The company researches, develops and commercializes innovative technologies in molecular technology and sensing solutions. I haven’t had the time to get my hands dirty and research it, and I am not going to give you an on the fly outlook on whether you should buy the stock or not, it would not be fair to you. So what I’m going to do is try to get the CEO of Luna Innovations on “Wall Street to Main Street” so they can tell you exactly what the company is about and then we can evaluate its value to you. Thanks for the emails and keep them coming, this is the interactivity that we need to really make “Wall Street to Main Street” work for you. FURIOUS FIVE The latest addition to our “Furious Five” companies that we see excelling in their industry in 2006 is Omega Healthcare (NYSE: OHI). For our outlook, and other vital information on the companies that we feature as the "FURIOUS FIVE" on Wall Street to Main Street just subscribe for FREE at www.namcnewswire.com Omega Healthcare Investors trades on the NYSE under the symbol OHI. We cannot stress enough that investors need to do their due diligence, call the companies, get the information, consult with your investment advisor and if you do not have one consider getting one. Put the same time into investigating these companies as you do when you go to purchase a new television, it’s only for your protection. When it comes to thinly traded securities stagger your orders or put a limit order in to avoid a run up. 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