In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Hold down the left mouse button while your cursor is over a tree trunk. This will break the tree into wooden logs. The logs will automatically enter your inventory as long as you stand close to the tree. Repeat this several times. It does not matter whether you get oak wood, spruce wood, or any other type of wood. The default key for this is E. You should see a 2 x 2 grid next to your character picture. This is your crafting area. Planks will appear in the results box to the right of the crafting area. Drag the planks to your inventory. You've now turned the wood into planks. Place one of the planks you just made on the lower row of the crafting area. Place a second plank directly above it. Now you've made a bundle of sticks, which you should drag into your inventory from the results box. Fill the entire 2 x 2 grid with planks to make a crafting table. Drag this to your quick slot bar at the base of your screen. Close your inventory and place the table on the ground. (To place a block, select it in your quick slot bar and right-click the ground.) Remember not to confuse planks and wood. Only planks will work for this recipe. Right-click the table to open an expanded crafting interface. From here you can make recipes that require a 3 x 3 grid. The sword recipe only fills a single column of the 3 x 3 grid. All ingredients must be in the same column, but it does not matter which column you choose: A plank on top A plank in the middle (directly below the first one) A stick at the base (directly below the planks) Drag the sword to a quick slot and select it to equip it. Now left-clicking will use the sword instead of your hand. This is much more effective at killing enemies or animals, but be careful. A wooden sword is still pretty weak. Skip down to the section below on better swords if you want an upgrade.
Summary: Gather wood. Open your inventory. Drag the wood to the crafting area. Make two wooden planks into sticks. Make a crafting table. Open the crafting table. Craft the wooden sword. Use the sword.

For anyone who knows the basics of social media, search engine optimization (SEO), Google news and website building blocks, then you can likely learn Internet marketing on your own. A big part of marketing is understanding your competitors, data and market analysis. Determine your market. This is something that should be obvious from the moment you choose a service or item to market. However, you may need to research what portion of that market is online and what portion is done through phone or in-person sales. Determine who your main online competitors are. Research how they work, how they market and how big of a market share you believe they have. Sign up for e-newsletters, research their press releases and determine the strengths and weaknesses of each online competitor. You may even need to purchase something from them in order to understand how they complete their sales process. Determine who your ideal customer is. For any product, you should be able to see who is buying the product. After you determine your demographic, you can determine where they spend their time on the Internet. Make reports using Google Analytics, software or spreadsheets that show the market, competition and customer data. You can find software or online programs that can help you make reports or charts to show where your ideal customer is shopping and who your main competitors are. This is especially important if you have superiors to which you must report about Internet marketing. Although you may be able to turn data into a strategy easily, reports and graphs are essential in order to communicate that data to people who control the budget. Spend time making comprehensive reports and perhaps making a PowerPoint presentation based on your research. Use the research and conclusions from your reports to develop a successful strategy to reach your target demographic. Start by using the methods that were successful for your competitors, then look for more innovative approaches. Your strategy will most likely require a budget to hire writers to do SEO articles, graphic designers to do ads, and web designers to update or create a website. You may also need to hire people to update your business's social media accounts daily. Make sure your site uses analytics or use Google Analytics so that you know which methods are successful and which are not. This is an often forgotten rule of Internet marketing, but it is the only way to see your return on investment (ROI). Internet marketing almost always includes launching many campaigns at once, which is why they are so important to track. A website may be marketing through e-mail blasts, YouTube videos, social media accounts, web banners, affiliate marketers, SEO, blogs and more. Understand that search engines are the key to most online marketing. Businesses are looking for ways to make sure their site and product are listed on the first page of a Google, Yahoo or Bing search. The main ways of doing this are SEO, meta tags, press releases, social media content, videos and paying for an ad to be placed at the top or side of the search page. Sign up for newsletters or blogs that keep you tuned into the newest social media channels, marketing articles and innovative companies. Invest in marketing or programming classes, if you think they would boost your Internet marketing knowledge considerably.
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One-sentence summary -- Learn the steps of Internet analysis, if you want to learn Internet marketing for free. Interpret the data that you have gathered. Develop a strategy. Create online marketing campaigns and track them well. Understand that Internet marketing is constantly changing.

Problem: Article: Pay attention to the wording in the recipe when sifting your flour. The wording in a recipe affects how the flour is sifted. There is a difference between "1 cup flour, sifted" and "1 cup sifted flour." If the recipe calls for "1 cup flour, sifted," measure the flour first. Then, transfer it to a bowl and sift. If the recipe calls for "1 cup sifted flour," sift a good portion of flour. Then, measure out however much you need for the recipe. You do not always need to sift flour. If flour has not been sitting in a bag too long, it may be light enough to simply use in a recipe. When flour is in a bag for awhile, however, it gets compact and needs to be sifted. If your bag of flour was squeezed into a cabinet, or had another item sitting on top of it, it's especially important to sift your flour. If your flour is not tightly compact, you may be able to skip the sifting process for some recipes. However, if you're making something that is meant to have a delicate texture, always sift your flour first. Recipes like angel food cake, for example, will require sifted flour. If you're going to roll out dough, or knead it, flour can help prevent the dough from sticking to a work surface. Sifted flour generally works better in this case, as it will have less clumps and spread more evenly. You should also sift flour if you're dusting flour over wax paper to roll out dough for sugar cookies.
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Figure out when to sift your flour. Sift flour that has been sitting in a bag for awhile. Make sure to sift flour for recipes with delicate textures. Sift flour over a work surface before you roll or knead dough.