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Have you visited Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News lately?

The diversity and expansion of the ACAN news site has been something to behold. There are now even more famous authors/contributors including: Ken Hall, Anderson's Restorations, Time Piece PR, and many more!

For those interested in quick response and media exposure, our articles have repeatedly been displayed within the Google results within 2 minutes!*

More and more of the major press release writers who specialize in auctions, antiques and collectibles, etc. are now getting published on Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News. Obviously they know something!

So what can YOU find on the ACAN site?

Antiques and Collectibles including specific subcategories for niche topics

Appraisers for those times you want to know the real value of your antiques and collectibles

Associations for those who want to know where to go to learn more

Auctions including state specific and online only auctions

Dealers and Retailers including world renowned antiques and collectibles dealers/retailers online and/or storefront

Museums including the world's finest museums

If you haven't visited the Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News site lately, there is a whole new world of antiques and collectibles related news waiting for you.

*Note: Google Blog news results for multiple press release postings have been on display within the 2 minutes according to Google's stated results on their page.

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From its inception, Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News (ACAN) has been focused on being the best online world news site dedicated to antiques and collectables. Rising to the top rankings in the major search engines like Google, AOL, Yahoo! and MSN was a significant start.

Recently, ACAN has leaped forward within the Alexa rankings with one week averages inside the top 200,000 websites of the world. According to Alexa reporting the Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News site the average visitor is viewing 20+ pages per week. Reach, page view and overall ranking are all on the rise for the ACAN site according to the latest Alexa reports.

What all this points to is how well the world has received news from the Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News site. If you have not visited lately to see what all the fuss is about, you owe it to yourself to do so.

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Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News, the worlds best online only antique and collectibles news publication completed the upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.1 yesterday, November 9, 2007.

There have been a number of dramatic improvements within Wordpress 2.3.1 according to the development community of Wordpress (Wordpress Codex):

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Post status transitions (http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Version_2.3:New_Post_Status_Transitions) and new post_status of pending (http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Version_2.3:New_Post_Status_Of_Pending)

SEO-friendly URL redirection, Canonicalize more URLs (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4554)

Upgrade to “800% times faster” (http://jquery.com/blog/2007/07/01/jquery-113-800-faster-still-20kb/) jQuery (1.1.4), and some parts (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4576#comment:2) of the WordPress dashboard have been converted to jQuery.

The files in wp-admin were reorganized to make things easier to find.

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Due to the continual increase of world renowned authors and contributors along with the exponential growth of visitors by collectors, hobbyist and antique & collectible professionals, the upgrade of the Wordpress backend application became a priority for the owners of Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News.

“Continually bringing the world’s best antiques & collectibles news, events and resources has been and continues to be our primary focus.” according to Michael Hudson, Editor of Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News. Michael continued saying “Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.1 with the dramatic performance increase while continuing to provide our rich feature set was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever made. Thanks to the fine support staff of Lunar Pages for going over and beyond to help make this transition possible.”

Now that the Wordpress foundation upgrade has been completed, the owners of Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News have positioned their site to handle the 100+ authors/writers who have either already posted news articles and/or committed to submitting press releases. Having the best world class writers and recently obtaining some of the world’s best advertisers, Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News is fully prepared to continue its ascent to the top of the search engines and readership for antiques & collectibles, appraisers, associations, auctions and museums as the one-stop shop.

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Did you notice that Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News has recently made it to the first place of Google's search engine rankings for antiques collectibles news?

Did you realize that Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News covers: antiques and collectibles, appraisers, associations, museums and auctions?

There are now tens of thousands of inbound links to Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News. There are dozens of world renowned authors and contributors covering a wide variety of niche areas with unsurpassed expertise. There are now top level resources listed in many of the categories and subcategories for collectors and hobbyist to find answers to all kinds of antique & collectable questions.

Yes, Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News is quickly blowing by the competition as the one stop antiques news source for the finest in antiques and collectibles news! Visit today to see for yourself why hundreds of thousands of hobbyist and dealers are visiting this premier antiques news site.

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A few hours earlier today, Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News published its first press release from the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The addition of such famous and world renowned names to the growing list of contributors is becoming a regular occurance.

Realizing the need for newsworthy content from small, medium and large entities, we are exceptionally proud to add the Selma Antiques District to our list of authors. Their first article focused on the recent event held by the combined forces of the Selma Antiques Dealers and their Association. To them we say... Welcome Aboard!

As for the site itself, we will be implementing a number of wholesale changes over the next few weeks to improve the overall look, functionality and ease of use. Please bear with us as these steps are taken.

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Just when we thought our site would settle down into a day-to-day existence, we learn that several new key businesses will be submitting articles and press releases to Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News.

We are pleased to announce our newest businesses submitting articles and press releases from: Johnson Properties, Christie's, National Knife Collectors Association, and the Jewish Museum.

When you stop by to visit Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News, check out the latest posts from these fine writers bringing you the best in antique and collectible news.

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The Antique News site http://antiques-collectibles-auction-news.com has continued to grow and expand their offerings in a big way.

Recently, ACAN has added categories for Knife Collecting and Guns (firearms) receiving press releases from notables like the National Knife Collectors Association. To make it even easier finding all these new categories and posts, ACAN has added a new Antiques Sitemap page at http://antiques-collectibles-auction-news.com/sitemap/.

For those interested in "getting on the wagon" and advertising on Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News, there is a new Media Kit on the Advertising page with background info, recent site statistics, and advertising rates.

If you haven't visited Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News lately, you really need to check it out today!

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Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News has continually grown these past few weeks to include:

• National Auctioneers Association - press releases,
• Olympia Antiques - articles and press releases
• SeaFair / Expoships - articles and press releases
• Vintage Maps - author
• Cindy Stackler Nieder - author

As you can see, this is one antique news site intent on bringing collectors the best news, resources and events from a wide variety of niche topics around the world. There is even talk of creating a Google Gadget to make it even easier to get collecting news right on your personal homepage and/or desktop!

Don't blink! There is so much more to come.

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Today the premier Antique News website http://antiques-collectibles-auction-news.com has added a new events calendar to make it even easier for viewers to find specific upcoming events and locate the related antique/collectable news story.

This new feature also inserts a segment into the news posting showing the dates/times of events including detail day-by-day beginning and ending times. The staff of Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News are thrilled to make this feature available and look forward to filling more events in the near future.

You can find the new events calendar at the bottom of the sidebar on the right side of each page.

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