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Castro Valley, Calif. (Oct 14, 2011) – YardShare.com, a free website that allows homeowners and landscape professionals to create “virtual” yards, share tips, and create friendships, is continuously updating its Yard Ideas section to share its expertise and extensive knowledge on landscaping.

It’s not just any other landscaping blog. The yard ideas presented here come directly from YardShare homeowners and experts, packed into neat little articles.

When asked about the articles in this section, YardShare.com founder, Bryan Powell said, “We are continuously posting articles on creating and maintaining yards and gardens as we know that this kind of information, when coupled with pictures of the ideas themselves, are in short supply on the Internet. We use yards that our members have shared as examples of great ideas that will hopefully inspire you.”

He further said, “We want YardShare to be a central destination on the web where a yard lover can view & share pictures, ask and answer questions, and generate ideas for their own yards.”

The Yard Ideas section launched in April 2009 and continued to grow in popularity with yard lovers. The section, which is updated several times a week, provides do-it-yourself tips, creative ideas, step-by-step illustration of construction of yards and many more to help amateurs, professionals and garden enthusiasts design their yards and gardens.

When asked about the response from their readers, he said, “We regularly receive excellent feedback from our readers and this has always been our motivation to provide more insightful information.”

Widely-read articles over the past few weeks include: ‘Gardening for Seniors’, ‘Create Your Own Small Pond This Weekend’, ‘Feed the Earth! A Guide to Composting’, ‘Fire It Up! Fire Pit Ideas’, ‘Growing Carnivorous Plants’, and ‘Your Own Wild Kingdom’.

The members are also allowed to share their yard ideas and post pictures. One can even get some really advanced and sophisticated designing ideas and suggestions from experts. So, make sure that you visit this site to make your outdoor spaces look more unique, attractive and creative.
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Hyderabad-India-Online.com Increases Visitors By 300%

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (October 1, 2011) – Hyderabad-india-online.com, which has been on the forefront in providing useful and functional information about Hyderabad, recently announced that it has increased number of visitors by over 300% in the last year.

This rapid popularity stands as testimony to the quality of content that is provided on the HIOC site. Hyderabad India Online started with a simple goal to serve the middle class educated and hardworking people in Hyderabad with useful/functional information to lead a sensible and virtuous lifestyle. Over the last four years it managed to grow in popularity among the Hyderabadis with its insightful and unbiased content.

When asked to speak on this achievement, a spokesperson for HIOC said, “We thank our viewers for the support given to us in the last year. We have received hundreds of positive reviews and comments from users. Some of our articles remain extremely popular and are referred daily by hundreds of users.”

Further, he said, “The reason to our success is simple – unlike most sites focused on entertainment and latest news – we at HIOC have taken a principled view to make a positive impact on Hyderabad City with our site, while providing information that is useful and helpful to Hyderabad citizens.”

Articles in HIOC are spread across several sections like Living@Hyd, Opinions, Education, Information, Humor, Social, Real Estate, and Health etc.

Living@Hyd section provides information about radio stations in Hyderabad, Hyderabad biryani, Hyderabad maps, Hyderabad petrol, etc., which is very useful for the people of Hyderabad. The information that is provided here will help people get acquainted with facilities that are present in Hyderabad city to enable better quality of living.

The Information section keeps you informed about major developments in Hyderabad. This information will increase your awareness about current happenings in Hyderabad and develops an objective outlook.

Articles in Opinions, Education, Social and Real Estate sections are insightful, original and unbiased – that is what differentiates them from other websites.

The site developers have stated that, “We look forward to continue to serve our clients with high quality content that enables them to live their life well in Hyderabad City.”

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CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. – YardShare.com, a free website that allows homeowners and landscape professionals to create “virtual” yards, share tips, and create friendships, today announced its newest exciting yard contest, “The Light Up the Grill Contest”. This contest, which is announced in view of upcoming summer (bbq season), invites contestants to submit images of their outdoor cooking area.

The contestants are allowed to submit their images, including bbq grills, outdoor kitchens, smokers, and any other area or tool they use to cook. They can submit their photographs until September 30, 2011. The best creative image will be awarded with the Omaha Steaks Gift Card worth $250. Visitors and members have already started voting online from August 1, 2011. Voting will continue until September 30, 2011. Official rules of the contest can be found at http://www.yardshare.com/yard_contest_info.php?contest_id=187

YardShare.com founder, Bryan Powell said, “We conduct contests to encourage our members to showcase their creativity. This particular contest is being conducted to highlight the barbeque season in which cooking in outdoor spaces is an integral part of the enjoyment of our yards.”

YardShare provides do-it-yourself tips, creative ideas, step-by-step illustration of construction of yards and many more to help amateurs, professionals and garden enthusiasts design their yards and gardens.

With an archive of more than 12,000 images, this site is a perfect one stop solution for creative design ideas of outdoor spaces. It has a separate section for constructing different types of gardens.

Powell offers themed advice columns under the “Yard Ideas” tab on YardShare, which is open to both amateur and professional yard and garden enthusiasts. Some of the most popular articles are – Creating Privacy: 10 creative ways to make a front or backyard more private; Outdoor Entertainment: Make your yard the life of the party; The Taste of the Garden: Edible Gardens and more!

The members are also allowed to share their yard ideas and post pictures. One can even get some really advanced and sophisticated designing ideas and suggestions from experts. So, make sure that you visit this site to make your outdoor spaces look more unique, attractive and creative.

Bryan Powell, 32, founded YardShare.com in 2008 when he couldn’t find online inspiration for building his own back-yard kitchen and patio. Powell, who lives in Castro Valley, Calif., and works for a financial management company in San Francisco, began working in his free time to merge technology and neighborhood to create a virtual community of advisors and launched YardShare (“Knocking down fences”). Today it is an online community of more than 5,000 members and over 40,000 unique monthly visitors, many of whom post pictures of and step-by-step DIY instructions for their landscaping, design and yard projects; YardShare’s archives contain more than 12,000 images.

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