Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David L. Fuhry dismissed a class-action lawsuit from owners of all-electric homes against electric companies.

Fuhry said that only the Public Utility Commission of Ohio, not him, had the authority to oversee the matter.

The lawsuit stems from FirstEnergy’s rate increases earlier this year.

Previously, the company had offered reduced rates to those with all-electric homes, electric hot water heating systems or electric load management systems. First, the electric company said it would abandon the reduced rates. Then, after homeowners protested, the company decided to gradually phase out its reduced rates during the next eight years.

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by Stephen Quick

We work for a lot of people in the service industry utilizing websites as a operating and marketing platform.  Every time  we start talking to someone about developing a website for them inevitably the idea of search engine optimization and meta key words comes up.  Although the video below only represents how google’s algorithm works with meta keyword description tags, we think its valuable information.

Many people still think that you can program in a list of “keywords” in the homepage of a site, and that will help your business move up on the search engine ranks. In our experience it really doesn’t help at all. You either have to implement a pay per click strategy, or create a site that is well designed, and is used as a strong resource in the day to day operations of the business.

At any rate here it is from Matt Cutts head of Google’s Webspam team.