4. And she says don't forget employers talking about "ethics, a detergent word used time and time again to cleanse conscience without scrubbing."

Well, what's an employer to do?

1. Remove malcontented employees better suited to be self-employed.

2. Refer dissatisfied employees to network marketing (MLM) self-employment opportunities. Some of biggest "misfits" in employee ranks become best entrepreneurs.

3. Conduct in-house meetings to teach remaining employees threat that outsourcing of jobs to China, India and other countries poses to employers and to employees--motivating them to improve their attitudes, stop whining, and work as a team. 4. Define and remove organizational and procedural stumbling blocks to a job satisfaction. These can require some attitude adjustments in upper management ranks in some cases. 5. Making sure business has a Three Year Business Plan--and making sure everyone in company know where Plan is taking company and them--and what their role and responsibility for company success. Remember: cubicle farm folk are restless and negative. 71% are not happy with their jobs. The status quo just doesn't cut it. The unsettling effects of globalism and offshore outsourcing are permanent. So, act today. Do it now!

John J. Alquist is co-owner/co-operator of Alquist Enterprises. His firm promotes self-employment via two network marketing (MLM) opportunities, professional speaking, business consulting, business planning meeting facilitation, and Internet strategy and website development.

Discovering Your Site’s Status on MSN http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx

As page in help section states, you can use site:www.yoursitehere.com to find out if a document at your site has been indexed. The results page will also give you date of last caching.

Google Rankings http://www.googlerankings.com

You’ll need a free Google API key for this one, and site has direct link telling you where to get one. You’ll have to enter this key in order to query site for information on Google.

With Google Rankings, you’ll be able to see where you rank within top 40-1000 results in Google for a given keyword. I recently noticed that it also displays results for MSN and Yahoo, with links to each search engine.

They also have some other tools that will track your keywords over time, as well as one they call “Ultimate SEO Tool” that will measure your site’s keyword density.

Google Backlinks Checker http://lilengine.com/tools/backlinks-tool.php

LilEngine.com’s Backlink Checker will measure number of links you have pointing back to your site against competing sites. Handy if you just want a quick comparison of how many links you have versus others, though how much getting more links back will help varies, depending on other factors.

Yahoo Search Rankings http://www.yahoosearchrankings.com/

From same folks who brought you Google Rankings, using Yahoo Search Rankings, you’ll be able to see where you rank within top 1000 results in Yahoo for a given keyword. If you just want to see your Yahoo rankings, it’s quite helpful.

You can find more Yahoo tools that use Yahoo Web API at their developer’s site : http://developer.yahoo.net/wiki/index.cgi?ApplicationList .

In next part of article, we’ll take a closer look at other tools that give you more specific information about links pointing back to your site, keyword research, and more.