Top 7 Free Things to Do in Las Vegas

Here are some free things to do while in Las Vegas.

 1) Fremont Street Experience: This is the place to experience Las Vegas - almost free. There are dozens of attractions. The biggest attraction of them is the biggest light and sound show, made possible by a canopy of 2.5 million lights.

Walk into downtown Las Vegas after the night falls for the most wonderful light and sound show in the world.

Also add to that free concerts, music shows, street performers, dance shows, body painting artists, spray painting artists, celebrity lookalikes, and what not. It is simply amazing.

 2) First Friday at Arts District 18B: Just a few minutes away from Fremont is 18B, which stands for 18 Blocks, which originally formed the Art District. Although it has outgrown the original 18 Blocks, the name sticks.

Every month, on the first Friday, the street wears a festival look with musicians, artists, etc displaying their talents like nowhere else. Get more details here.

 3) Casinos: Walk into any casino and it is an entertainment in itself with the ambient lights, attractive tables, and variety of casino games happening everywhere.

Flamingo is especially a nice casino, with real flamingo birds, swans, and other wildlife in natural habitat. See them all for free.

Circus Circus Hotel & Casino welcomes you with free circus and clown shows every day. You will see highly skilled circus artists, clowns and acrobats in action.

Paris Hotel & Casino is place for Napoleon's Duelling Pianos, where pianists compete against each other to create a surreal musical experience. On the foreground, there are cigars, and hundreds of variety of champagnes to taste and to enjoy. Live music is from 9pm to 1am every night.

 4) Fountains of Bellagio, Fall of Atlantis Fountain Show at Caesar's Palace Hotel, and several dozens others also keep you entertained. The shows are very frequent - would start every 15 or 30 minutes.

 5) Bevtainment: Serving beverages is an art for these beautiful entertainers. They take orders for beverages, sing, and dance at Rio-All Suites Hotel and Casino. Entry and entertainment free, you pay for the beverages. And, don't forget to tip.

 6) Fashion Shows: Free fashion shows comes very naturally at Fashion Show Mall. They host as many as seven fashion shows a day. The runway, LCD displays, and the lighting fills the atmosphere with high energy. There are over 250 shops, several restaurants, and department stores.

7) Underwater Fish Feeding Show at Silverton Hotel is where you will see some 4000 tropical fish, sting rays, and sharks in a 117,000-gallon salt-water aquarium. They feed the fish at 1.30pm and 4.30 pm every day. Also don't miss the mermaid swim shows, Thursday through Sunday every week.

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Las Vegas, NV Vacation Packages if you plan to visit the sin city some time soon.

Las Vegas Vacations Made Easy - for Families

If your idea of Las Vegas, NV is limited to shining limos, glamor girls and uninhibited gambling and the like, you need to discover something more.

Take for example the Hoover Dam Helicopter Tour. An EC-130 Eco Star will take you over the dam, giving you a bird's eye view of the magnificent power station, the reservoir and the amazing landscapes that surround them all. Built in 1936, this 736' dam built across Colorado river is surrounded by picture perfect landscapes, making it an must-see destination in Southwestern US. The ticket costs $124 for an adult and $104 for children aged 2-11, for a flight of around 15 minutes. Hotel pick up and drop off included. You can take your still and video cameras with you.

Also consider a photo tour through the Valley of Fire State Park, a safe off-road adventure trip through the Aztec Sandstone formation, which are like nothing else in the world. You will also see the once spiritual center of Native Americans, which is a treasure trove of ancient American Indian art, petroglyphs, and a glimpse to the survival of people in the desert several thousands of years ago. The place not to miss is Lost City Museum, where you will discover the remnants of culture that existed here until around 2000 years ago. Did I mention there will be lot of stops to shoot the magnificent landscapes?

Red rock formations of Bryce/Zion also takes you to some of the breathtaking landscapes that you have seen in high-budget Hollywood movies. Nine out of ten photos you take here will be a picture perfect postcard for your own collection.

Grand Canyon West Rim Motorcoach trips, Colorado river rafting, etc also will take your breath away with the sights of impossible landscapes, geographical features and thrilling tours.

Family trips to Las Vegas with children are not complete until you see the Las Vegas Zoo, The Adventuredome Theme Park, Fast Lap Las Vegas Indoor Car Racing, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, and a trip to M&Ms World.

There is no dearth of hotels in Las Vegas as you will find great hotels as Flamingo, Imperial Palace, Excalibur, Tropicana Resort & Casino, Best Western Mardi Gras Hotel & Casino, Paris Las Vegas, and several dozens more.

Tip: Make reservations in advance or try Las Vegas, NV Vacation Packages, designed specially for touring families.

How to Survive Next Panda Update

SEO professionals are now pulling their hair and biting their nails after news of changes in Google algorithms. They are yet to recover from shock waves sent by the recent Panda update floored and dusted several thousands of SE-Optimized websites. Let's find how to avoid a massive Google slap.

The Right Way to Create Content

Almost every SEO professional today uses some software to spin articles. Undoubtedly, articles produced this way are of poor quality. Most amateurs think such articles will pass as content in their websites. They are all wrong.

Readers recognize such articles as rubbish. If real people identify the content as rubbish, Google bots are not far behind. Google has been tracking internet usage through various channels - clicks from search results pages, toolbar, Chrome browser, and recently Google Plus. They all give immense insight into what real users find useful and what they throw away as rubbish.

So, if software-made or hastily written articles are part of your content strategy, you are up for some unpleasant surprise.

If people stay in your website for long, there are several ways Google identify it too. If people ditch your website the moment they reach your site, Google can sense your website is of no value to human visitors.

The verdict is straight and simple. If you want your web pages rank on top of Google search results, make sure the pages are appealing to the visitors reaching your site.

The Right Keyword Strategy

Filling keywords in meta tags, h1 tags, alt attributes, and throughout the page is not enough. You have to create web content - articles, blog posts, video, photos, etc that are of real use to people visiting the page.

Of course, you need text content. When you create content, create content for the visitors reaching your site. Not for manipulating Google search results.

Make sure you use top keywords, keyword variations and at least half a dozen naturally occurring LSI keywords in every content page you create. The keyword here is 'natural'. Don't push in keywords simply because they look cute. Use the keywords, because content is not complete without relevant keywords.

Unnatural Links Pointing to Your Site

If you have received a message like this, it is a bad sign. Although Google doesn't penalize you even for spammy links directed at your site, such links can seriously affect your site's credibility.

Google can now recognize link buying activity. You won't get any special benefits for buying those links.

More dangerous are link exchanges. When you link out to sites not topically related to yours, your site will be flagged as a potentially spam link exchange website.

So, link out to sites that are relevant to your visitors. And, make sure not all your links have nofollow attributes. Also make sure your site gets links from topically related sites.

Link buying won't hurt you if the links are from quality, topically related sites. Yeah, that is right! No Panda update is going to slap you if the inbound links are from related sites, which don't link out to hundreds of unrelated sites.

Next Panda Update Coming; Will Slap Over-Optimized Sites

Over-zealous SEO professionals are yet to recover from the recent Panda update, which slapped and hit several thousands of websites out of the park. The worse is yet to come. The insiders are to be believed, worse is yet to come. Over optimized or over-SEO'ed websites are bracing themselves for some severe punishment. Let's try to find the SEO practices Google will be targeting with their algorithm update.

What is Over Optimization?

Over SEO'ed websites will receive the punishment. That is the general consensus among the SEO professionals from Las Vegas to Bangalore. How much SEO is too much SEO? Where to draw the line. How do I know if my website is over-SEOed?

Well, Google has given clear guidelines for content creation, link building and other stuff for webmasters. Most SEO professionals overstretch the guidelines and make a fool of themselves. This is what happens in most cases.

Overdoing Content Creation

It is common knowledge Google values quality content. Webmasters overdo content creation. They use software to create spun articles, which they publish in their websites. The websites have hundreds of so called content pages, which are nothing more than spun articles.

It is over-zealous content creation. The content is not useful for the visitors at all. It may have helped the websites fool the search bots for some time.

Google has been studying the behavior of internet users for several years now. Google can now tell the pages that people find useful and the pages people find useless. All those spun articles are useless pages. People find them useless. Google also guess thus much.

If you have been creating content for the search engines, dear webmaster, you are up for some unpleasant surprises.

Overdoing Link Building

Topically relevant links are valuable. Links from unrelated websites and topics are going to stop serving you any purpose. If real users are not going to click on the links to your pages, Google bots too are going to stop following those links. The thousands of links you have bought from all kinds of websites are going to become useless.

Keyword Stuffing

This is the same as overdoing content creation. Filling your web pages with keywords is no longer a viable SEO strategy.

Well, if you thought any or all of the tricks above as SEO strategies, wait till the next round of algorithm update to see the fun.