Your Business and Economy World: August 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009

5 + 10 Improvements For Your Blog

A blog can do a lot for your career, but if your blog isn’t setup right, you will just be wasting your time. If you want to be a successful blogger, here are some things that you HAVE to do.

(First 5 Improvements)

Take the time to write a good about page

When someone visits your blog one of the first things they do is go to your about page. If it isn’t compelling, they probably won’t be coming back to your blog. If you want to make your about page compelling you need a few things:

Reason – not only should your about page explain what your blog is about, but it should give the reader a reason to come back. A good way to do this is to list out all of the benefits of reading your blog.
Personal connection – most about pages lack information about the blogger. Have a detailed overview of your life on your about page as well as a picture of yourself. If you can create a personal connection with a blog visitor, you are likely to turn them into a regular reader.
Contact information – you don’t have to place your contact information on your about page, but make sure your about page links to your contact page. Don’t you hate it when you want to contact someone and you can’t figure out how to get a hold of them?

Make it easy for people to come back

Although you maybe familiar with RSS feeds and RSS readers, most people are not. In your blog sidebar you need to provide multiple subscription options. For example I provide an email option.

Providing subscription options isn’t enough. You also need to convince people to subscribe to your RSS or email feed. You can do this through text:

"Even if you don’t visit Traffic-Payout on a regular basis, you can stay tuned by having the latest Traffic-Payout news delivered to you for free via RSS or Email."

Make your content look attractive and keep your blog design simple

You may want a blog design with cool graphics, bright colors, and tons of pictures…but do you really need it? A fancy design will just distract people from reading your content. Here are 3 things you should keep in mind when designing your blog:

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – try to create a plain white design with little to no graphics. This way your blog will load fast and people will focus on reading your content.
The bigger the better – not everyone is 20 years old. Make sure your text is big in size and black in color. The typography you choose should also be easy to read.
A picture says 1000 words – your blog design should be flexible, so that you can embed images within your blog posts. Pictures will make your blog posts easier to read.

Create a community

What makes a blog so great is that you can have a conversation on it. Remember you aren’t the only one who is going to be contributing to your blog, your readers are going to as well through comments.

Here is how you can create a community on your blog:

Invite a conversation – end your blog posts with an open-ended question. I usually use the line, “anyone else have any suggestions”. Anything will really work.
Use threaded comments – threaded comments will make it easier for others to reply to a comment (similar to a forum discussion). This will help create a conversation through comments.
Reward your commentors – through a top commentors plugin, people can get a link back to their site if they comment enough. The way the plugin works is that the 5 or 10 most active commentors gets a link to their site within your blog sidebar. This is great because it encourages people to comment due to the traffic they can get from the link.
Respond to every commentor – no one likes talking to himself or herself, so respond to every commentor. This will show that you care for your readers input and it will help you create a stronger community.

Content is king

The most important part of a blog is the content. If you don’t have good content, very few people are going to read your blog. Here are a few ways you can improve your content:

Write resourceful content – news is great, but there are already tons of people who write on it. Instead of writing on the news, create content that helps people. Writing how-to guides is an example of creating resourceful content.
Use attractive headlines – if the titles of your blog posts aren’t attractive, how do you expect people to read them? If you have trouble creating attractive headlines read this blog post.
What is old to you is new to others – just because you know something it doesn’t mean others do. Even if another blogger already wrote on a specific topic, it doesn’t mean you can’t write about it. People don’t have time to read 100 blogs a day; the chances are they only read a few.

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(Last 10 Improvements)

Anatomy of a Successful Blog:

Most new bloggers don’t understand the difference between a professional blog and an amateur. So I’ve outlined below 10 of the most common blog design tips you can easily make that will help you to improve your blog and join the ranks of professional bloggers:

1: Make your borrowed template your own.

There is no such thing as a completely original template. All are variations of one theme or another so you don’t have to start from scratch. The most important place to start with is your top banner because that is the first thing your readers will see. When making a banner consider your blog’s niche and design something that is relevant to your topic.

2. Change your template icons.

Most blogs come out-of-the-box with icons in your sidebar. They are usually common images that we’ve all seen more times than we care to admit. So why not get rid of them and make your own images or grab these fantastic icons for free. Or, consider dumping the icons and use white space, shades of color or borders like I have. It makes for a cleaner looking template.

3: Make Your Post Titles go Click.

What I mean by that is your post titles should also be a clickable permalink. So when it’s clicked it will take your readers to the post page. This is not only advisable from an SEO perspective but it is also the logical choice that your readers are going to click.

4: Make your Blog Title and Logo Click.
Meaning, your blog title should be a clickable link that will take your readers to your blog home page. Again, this is important for SEO purposes as well as from a user’s perspective. Be sure also to include ALT and TITLE attributes for your home page.

So why not make your own logo? Instead of just words for your blog title, use an image that will give your banner a more professional look. For Blogger users the easy way to make your blog title image clickable is to put code into the “Description” section under the dashboard “Settings” menu. Here is my code that I use:

Example: (Click To Enlarge The Picture!)

Of course don’t forget to change the src=” “ and href=” “ so that it points to your own address, and while you’re at it why not put a slogan underneath your Blog Title.

You can read more about it here if you like: Create a Clickable Logo and Banner for Your Blog

5. Put your descriptors first, and your blog name last.

This goes for both your blog and post titles. This is a common mistake that most newby bloggers make. Why? Because when a user is searching for information they are looking for specific keywords that you may have written about — not your blog’s name. This will make a huge difference from an SEO perspective.

It’s easy to do for your blog title but it’s another matter trying to make it work for all your post titles. Wordpress users can install a plugin to do this but New Blogger users need to change the blog title tag in their template.

Just look for the following code near the top of your template:

data:blog.pageTitle

and replace it with this code: (Click To Enlarge The Picture!)

Don’t forget to change “your blog descriptor” to whatever you want.

*Warning: As always, be sure to make a backup of your template before fiddling with it. I also recommend commenting out your changes rather than deleting them so you can easily revert back if necessary.

6. Put your RSS newsfeed link somewhere prominent on your site.

The best place for that is near the top of your template as well as at the bottom of each post. Use a nice image and make it a clickable link.

7. Clean up the clutter and you can start by getting rid of those useless widgets that slow down your blog.

I realize that widgets are all the rage right now BUT widgets use scripts which make calls to other sites, and if that server is down or slow it will also slow down your blog’s performance. New readers are impatient and will only wait a few seconds for your blog to load in their browser. Anything beyond that and they will move on to the next link.

8. Make a menu near your top banner with links to your faq file, your profle page, email, newsfeed, home page, important posts, etc.

9. Make your blog look B-I-G-G-E-R.

What I mean by that is most users today are using large monitors. Chances are your blog has been designed to fit the old small monitors and so it will look like a teeny-weeny spec on anything that is 19 inches or larger.

The easy way to make your blog look bigger is to increase the size of the post body area (that’s where all your posts go) and your sidebar. Once you have done that you can also increase the font size a little, but don’t go overboard because most modern browsers today already have a feature for making fonts larger.

10. Some website design purists will tell you to use little (if any) images.

White space is your friend and don’t distract from your content they will say. The funny things is most of those sites are also wallpapered with blinking ads. Go figure. ;-)

So … I’m in agreement with that to a point, but like all things moderation is usually the best policy. As the old saying goes “a picture is worth a thousand words“.

Don’t go to extremes and make your blog look boring, but neither should you make your blog look like a neon billboard in downtown Tokyo either. Finding the right balance is not easy but is well worth the effort.

If you are a fan of famous sayings like I am then here is one (or two) more for you. Try this on for size:

“There is no accounting for taste“, but “beauty is in the eye of the beholder“.

So what does that mean? Apparently “you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time“.

Ok, enough with the clichés Bloke! I hope you find this post helpful and cheers!

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Will The Real Spammer Please Stand Up!

If you have been using opt-in email marketing for sometime, I'm sure you might have got accused of spam at some point, even after doing everything right.

Yes, I'm talking about people who actually agreed to receive
your email, blaming you for sending unsolicited mail.

According to me it's not their fault, as nowadays it's very easy
to mistake an 'email marketer' for an 'email bomber'.

The web has grown so wide and huge in the last couple of years
that it has become hard to differentiate between a spammer and a legal email marketer.

Spammers just didn't disturb a regular
email users life but also wrecked havoc in the Internet
marketing community.

Day after day it's becoming devastatingly difficult for
permission based email marketers to use email legally and not
get slammed for illegal mailing.

Even after making sure your email looks, sounds, smells and
tastes 'Legal', you run a high risk of either getting blocked or
being labeled as a spammer.

On the other hand, if luck favors you and your mail does make it
to your subscribers' inbox safe and sound, what's the guarantee
that it'll get opened and read?

It's a nightmare every marketer would love to avoid.

Well, you can stop worrying now and have a sigh of relief. It's
about time all the hardcore spammers out there had their last
laugh.

The Internet marketing world is abuzz with a brand new
technology, which could finally send spamming back to the dark
ages, big time.

If you still don't have a clue of what I'm talking about, it's
called RSS and it's turning heads all over the web.

RSS, which stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' is a new
technology, which enables anyone to syndicate his or her content
online.

A lot has been written on what is RSS and how it works. So I
would like to keep it short and sweet, as I'm sure you too
wouldn't really want to get into the unnecessary technical stuff.

In simple words, RSS is a way to publish and receive content
electronically. RSS files are XML based and are popularly known
as RSS feeds.

What's revolutionary about RSS is, it can help you distribute
your content directly to your subscribers, without any spam
filters interfering.

To subscribe and read your RSS feeds, all your subscribers need
to have is an RSS reader, also known as an aggregator.

What's more, they don't even have to worry about giving out any
of their personal details to subscribe to your feed.

And with a screaming bunch of RSS readers available on the web
right now (most of them being free), it wouldn't be very hard to
convince your subscribers to get there hands on one.

RSS readers are available in both versions, desktop and
web-based, of which the latter seems to be the most popular.

Once your subscriber adds your RSS feed to their favorite RSS
reader, you go 'live' and instantly establish a direct
connection with your subscriber.

Whenever you have something
new to publish, all you have to do is update your already
published RSS feed with your fresh content.

As soon you load your feed with new content, walla! Your feed
automatically gets updated everywhere it's subscribed.

No mess, no fuss. Just content that works.

Pretty neat huh?

That's the beauty of RSS. No wonder it's currently being
employed by web honchos like Yahoo! and MSN to deliver content
to their users.

They even allow their members to add any RSS feeds of their
choice to their members' area, making them perfect examples of
web-based aggregators.

Syndicating your content can mean a lot to you and your
business. By publishing your own RSS feeds, you could eventually
end up with more leads, more subscribers and not to forget, more
money in the bank.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Top 13 Most Powerful Business People

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Quite accurate list of the most powerful businesspeople in the world.

1. Steve Jobs

Chairman and CEO, Apple

During the first two decades of his remarkable 30-year career, the Apple Inc. founder twice altered the direction of the computer industry. In 1977 the Apple II kicked off the PC era, and the graphical user interface launched by Macintosh in 1984 has been aped by every other computer since. Along the way Jobs conceived of "desktop publishing," gave the world the laser printer, and pioneered personal computer networks. As a side gig he bankrolled Pixar, which fostered the development of the technology and a brand-new business model for creating computer-animated feature films.

Since returning to Apple in 1997, he has changed the dynamics of consumer electronics with the iPod, and persuaded the music industry, the television networks, and Hollywood to distribute their wares with the iTunes Music Store. With his hugely successful Apple Stores, he gave the big-box boys a lesson in high-margin, high-touch retailing. And this year, at the height of his creative and promotional powers, Jobs orchestrated Apple's entry into the cellular telephone business with the iPhone.

That's five industries that Jobs has upended - computers, Hollywood, music, retailing, and wireless phones. At this moment, no one has more influence over a broader swath of business than Jobs.
--Brent Schlender

2. Rupert Murdoch

Chairman and CEO, News Corp.

News Corp. is a global force across the board - film, television, print, and even online (it owns the social networking site MySpace).

Murdoch wanted more, and he got it with the $5 billion acquisition of Dow Jones. It was the crowning achievement of a career that started in 1953 when he inherited control of two Australian newspapers. Murdoch expanded to Britain in the 1960s, the U.S. in the '70s, and Asia in the 1990s. In Britain he owns the biggest tabloid, the Sun, and in the U.S. the New York Post and his Fox News Network are known for their take-no-prisoners attitude.

Derided by his critics as a tabloid hound all too willing to kowtow to China for the sake of commercial gain, the purchase of the Wall Street Journal was a particularly sweet victory.

At 76, Murdoch appears to be at the height of his powers. He views Dow Jones, along with the recent launch of the Fox Business Network, as steps in the creation of a globe-spanning financial news powerhouse. Can he do it? The breadth of his ambition could be his Achilles heel - the more dominant News Corp. becomes, the more opposition it tends to provoke. Still, Murdoch has proved time and again that counting him out is a high-risk strategy. --Tim Arango

3. Lloyd Blankfein

Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs

Wall Street firms are taking multibillion-dollar write-offs. Titans of finance are losing their jobs. But through it all, Goldman Sachs keeps making money. The i-bank reported stellar third-quarter results: Earnings per share almost doubled from the prior year, and return on equity was 36.6%.

CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who took over last spring, gets credit for helping steer Goldman away from the most damaging investments. And Goldman, which says it has limited exposure to the subprime mess, stands confirmed - for now, anyway - as the smartest bank on the Street.
--Bethany McLean

4. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergei Brin

CEO; President, Products; President, Technology; Google

The ambitions of Brin and Page, Google's 34-year-old founders, are pretty much boundless. Sure, they've already revolutionized - okay, massively disrupted - the advertising industry. But the billionaires aren't stopping there. They've set their sights on altering how mobile telephones work, fixing climate change, utterly redefining the very nature of work, that sort of thing.

Preposterous? Actually, there's a method to their madness. Despite endless predictions that Google would run itself off the rails, the duo, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, have shown a good deal of management maturity. They've been willing to build (AdWords, their search-based advertising service) as well as buy (YouTube). And they've defied critics who said they couldn't operate their company for the long term.
--Adam Lashinsky

5. Warren Buffett

Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Of course it matters that Buffett has built Berkshire Hathaway into a massive holding company with interests ranging from underwear to private jets (2006 revenues: $98 billion). Of course it's impressive that since 1965, Berkshire has performed more than twice as well as the S&P 500. Of course it's amazing that Buffett has made millions from something as toxic as Enron bonds. And of course it is somehow unsurprising that he managed to help broker a deal between A-Rod and the New York Yankees.

But the source of Buffett's influence is found in his nickname: the "Sage of Omaha." CEOs - and athletes, obviously, including LeBron James - venture to Nebraska to consult him. And people everywhere listen to his pronouncements on things like managed earnings (against), stock option expensing (for), and the U.S. dollar (pessimistic).
--Cait Murphy

6. Rex Tillerson

Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil

An oilman down to his boots, Tillerson makes no apologies for running the world's biggest non-state-run oil company. Exxon Mobil gets high marks for the quality of its operations, and its stock has out-distanced the S&P 500 on Tillerson's watch. He has even made something of a modest PR splash by acknowledging the possibility of global warming, something his prickly predecessor never did. Exxon under Tillerson has learned that it needn't pick a fight in order to throw around its weight. --Jon Birger

7. Bill Gates

Founder, chairman of Microsoft; founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill Gates remains the iconic technologist, entrepreneur, and business leader of his generation. He invented the software industry, masterminded the rise of the PC, and has hung in there as a force on the Internet. Still intent upon transforming how people work and communicate, now Gates is pushing software to handle all aspects of office communications, from your phone to e-mail to instant messaging. His software powers smartphones and will show up soon in television set-top boxes. And he has hooked up with upstarts like Facebook to channel the energy and advertising potential of social networks.

Since 2000 he's had a new kind of power through the charitable activities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates is expected to retire from Microsoft next year and devote most of his time to the foundation, which has an endowment of $33 billion - and the promise of tens of billions more from his close friend and occasional bridge partner Warren Buffett (No. 5). The foundation has global aspirations to improve health care and reduce poverty. His other goal: reinventing philanthropy itself, much as he did information technology. --Brent Schlender

8. Jeff Immelt

Chairman and CEO, GE

General Electric's chief executive is powerful for many reasons, but here's one that's often overlooked: the company's AAA credit rating. Only six U.S. industrial corporations hold that credential, and it gives GE a huge competitive advantage in the finance-related businesses that bring in most of its profit. It also helps the company sell its big-ticket products - jet engines, industrial turbines, CT scanners, locomotives, and so forth - by offering financing that competitors can't beat. Add a century of experience in developing the world's best managers and management practices, and GE becomes a very tough organization to catch up with or oppose.

As if running a company like that didn't make him powerful enough, Immelt is also chairman of the Business Council, the group of top-tier CEOs that influences government policy, and on the board of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. --Geoff Colvin

9. Katsuaki Watanabe

President, Toyota

No question: When Katsuaki Watanabe became president of the world's most admired company in 2005, he took the wheel of a well-oiled machine. But he is making his own mark on it, urging the company, which earned $14.1 billion last year, to keep getting better. He launched a quality-improvement campaign that helped make the debut of the 2008 Highlander SUV just about trouble-free and has the company on track to overtake General Motors for good as the world's largest automaker. His ultimate goal: a car that can drive across the U.S. on a single tank of gas. At the speed he has Toyota moving, you can pencil that in for 2050. --Alex Taylor III

10. A.G. Lafley

Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble

Since taking charge in 2000, when Procter & Gamble was sinking under the weight of too many new products and organizational changes, Lafley has refocused on consumers and rejuvenated core businesses. P&G now boasts 23 billion-dollar brands, including Tide, Crest, Pampers, Gillette, Olay, Pantene, and the latest addition, Gain laundry detergent.

By denouncing insularity and demanding innovation in everything that P&G does, this company lifer has pushed P&G toward higher-margin areas like health, beauty, and personal care. The payback: Profits have tripled on his watch, to more than $10 billion on $76.5 billion in revenues.

Of course, Lafley has bought some of that growth; the acquisition of Gillette for $54 billion in 2005 was the largest in company history. But it is the record of organic growth - an average of 6% a year - that has made P&G a stock market standout and Lafley a role model for other CEOs. --Patricia Sellers

11. John Chambers

Chairman and CEO, Cisco

"What do you think?" Turning the tables on his questioners is a Chambers trademark, and therein lies a key to the power of Cisco's CEO. The soft-spoken West Virginian has turned listening into the art of making a sale - and few sell better. Everywhere he goes he makes converts to the Internet. Cisco's equipment, far more than any other company's, tells all those digital bits where to go. Without it the world would come to a standstill.

At less than $30, the stock is far below its split-adjusted peak of $80 in 2000. But financially Cisco is stronger than ever, and Chambers deserves a lot of the credit. Revenues for fiscal 2007 were $35 billion, up 22%. At $7.3 billion, profits rose 31% - and have climbed almost threefold since 2000. --David Kirkpatrick

12. Li Ka-shing

Chairman, Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa

In Hong Kong they call him "superman" - and his feats in business are indeed the stuff of legend. Born in China, Li, 79, came to Hong Kong as a refugee. Forced to drop out of high school, he founded his first company, a plastics manufacturing concern, in his early 20s. Through Cheung Kong (Holdings), his corporate flagship, and Hutchison Whampoa, a conglomerate, he wields enormous influence in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Europe, which last year accounted for 45% of Hutchison's $34.3 billion in revenues.

Li's empire includes the world's biggest ports company and the world's largest provider of 3G mobile-phone services, plus holdings in shipping, property, retailing, and energy. And he is not slowing down. Last year Hutchison's profits and EPS rose 40%, and Li, who may be Asia's richest man, remains keenly interested in a new business school he is financing in Beijing. --Clay Chandler

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Another Big Scam Website!!

I'm getting so damn tired of this "scam union" people that try to get people's hopes up or trying to steal their money. I want to share this with you because I care about people. I don't want to cheat on people.

But this is just ridiculous. And know most of you will just laugh out lout!

This is all around the net, called PTC you click on a link and you view an ad for 90 sec and then you're supposed to get paid. The real companies pays only 0.01$ or something like that. But take a look at this!

http://www.creativemails.biz (This is the website and please keep away from this! I don't even want you to click on it, I just want you to remember this URL so you will never ever get involved in something like this!)

Whois Info: http://whois.domaintools.com/creativemails.biz

We are adding CreativeMails.biz to our scam list and here are our reasons why:

1. Complaints - Members are reporting them as a scam and saying this site is not paying. Here are a few of those complaints:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/466/RipOff0466232.htm
http://www.gptboycott.com/forum/showthread.php?p=114866

2. PayPal Account - When you click on their button for paypal to upgrade you get a paypal message stating that they are no longer able to receive funds. Which is a polite way of saying, they are a scam.

3. Ties with a scammer - History shows that any site that is hosted on a "getpaidsolutions" network, is a scam. All these sites have the same theme. Get rich quick by reading emails, and none of them pay, EVER.

4. "Too Good To Be True" - No site is going to pay $100.00 per email. It just DOES NOT happen.

5. No Forum - Another given. A site that does not support a forum, is a hint of a scam. PTC sites need one in order for members and staff to communicate with on another. This one doesn't have one.

6. Zero Payment Proofs - From their site they claimed they have paid $301,400.00 . Yet, no one as posted any proof of this on blogs, forums, or other sites.

Also on their site the minimum payout is $500 for Upgraded members and $30,000 for standard members. Then how do they explain the payment proofs posted on their site under $500? No payment should be under that amount. They have a fake and made up shots of payments $300, $370, $400.

Summary:

This site is a scam. Do not waste your time with these types of sites, if you do, use caution.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Is Your Computer Sick?

Viruses and spyware usually show up on your computer one of
two ways.

Either they invade your system with a frontal assault like
the Huns attacking the Romans, or they sneak in a back door
like a cat burglar.

Either way, once a virus or piece of spyware gets on your
system, getting it off can rate harder than curing a severe
case of trench foot!

Viruses, malicious programs designed to disrupt normal
computing, and spyware, programs intended to literally "spy"
on your activities, can enter your computer a number of
ways.

Most commonly they enter your system through an email
attachment, by sharing files with an infected computer by
disk, as a "ride along" with a 3rd party program you
install, or through a "back door" port in your computer.

Regardless of how they get on your system, once in place,
they cause no end of headaches and frustration.

The following represent typical signs you may suffer from
infection by a virus or piece of spyware.

Your computer starts acting oddly by doing things it never
did previously.

Your modem starts trying to dial out to the Internet without
you initiating a surfing session.

You notice that files start disappearing, the system stalls,
runs slowly, or even crashes frequently.

Your computer takes progressively longer to boot up every
time you start it or you notice that your available hard
drive space has disappeared. Strange popup windows appear,
even when you're not surfing the web, or you delete a
program and it "magically" reappears next time you boot the
system.

If you suspect you a virus or a piece of spyware has invaded
your computer, follow these steps to first identify and then
delete the offending code:

Step 1 - Back up your important files, but remember to scan
these files for viruses before reinstalling to avoid
accidentally re-infecting your system.

Step 2 - Update your anti-virus definitions and perform a
scan of your hard drive.

If you don't carry virus protection, or you suspect your
anti-virus software got corrupted somehow, then log on to
www.pandasoftware.com and use the free Panda Active Scan
service to check your hard drive for viruses.

Follow the instructions for quarantining and removing the
offending files.

Step 3 - Scan your hard drive with an adware, scumware, or
spyware detection and removal tool like Adaware
www.lavasoft.de/support/download/ or Spybot
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/.

Step 4 - In many cases, when the virus or spyware program
gets installed with a free utility or game you download from
the Web, you must usually uninstall the utility or game to
finally get rid of the problem once and for all.

Step 5 - Avoid re-infection by keeping your anti-virus and
firewall up-to-date at all times.

As a last resort, if you run into a program you simply can't
get rid of, but can figure out the offending file's name, do
a search for the file name on Google.com. Often you will
find you're not the first victim and may get valuable advice
for cleaning up your system.

However, be very careful of the information you find and
think twice before modifying any system files.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Racing Car Hit 2 Horses!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Attention: Watch Out For Scams Like This!!

= Please be aware that this is an example of typical scams and internet users
should be careful, keep away from this =

Not all e-mail scams are vicious. Some are kind of old-shoe, and a person would feel fond of them, except they are still cheating people out of their life savings. I recently got this classic:

“I am George Mudashiru, a close friend and personal assistance to Abba Sani Abacha the son of the former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha. I got your contact throught a directory of prominent members in the world so I decided to contact you through mail on regarding this proposal.

“As a close associate to Abba, he gave me a large sum of money which he said to help him transfer abroad and be deposited in my name in a security company. . . .” And good old George would like to deposit $10 million in my bank account if only he had its number. A great classic, which is to scams what a Duncan Phyfe table is to furniture. I didn’t give good old George my bank account number, and I’m sure you wouldn’t either.

THE PAYPAL SCAM

Now for the worst one. It started off on an alarmingly high note. (Or maybe I ignored the e-mails they sent for starters -- because I’m on three e-mail sucker lists I get daily news, in triplicate, about the terrible things supposedly happening to my PayPal, eBay, and bank accounts.)

This one started out: “We recently have determined that different computers have logged 1nto (sic) your PayPal account, and multiple password failures were present before the login. One of our Customer Service employees has already tryed (sic) to telephonically reach you. As our employee did not manage to reach you, this email has been sent to your notice.

“Therefore your account has been temporary suspended. We need you to confirm your identity in order to regain full privileges of your account.

“To confirm your identity please follow the link below:” (the link looked like a PayPal link but I am sure was not).

Well. They suspended my account. We’re playing in the big leagues now.

I do have a PayPal account, though not at that particular e-mail address. And if I hadn’t received so many scam e-mails, this would have led me to go to the REAL PayPal website and ask if they sent that e-mail. Instead I hung tight.

And got the doozy. It had the official PayPal logo and format. On the right-hand side of the page it said:

“Protect Your Account Info. Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites. To safely and securely access the PayPal website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and type in the PayPal login page (http://paypal.com/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal site. PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.”

Amazing. They didn’t want me to type my password into an e-mail, and they did want me to go to the real PayPal site. So I went to the real site. Took a good look at it, then returned to the e-mail, which said on its lefthand side:

“Dear PayPal Member: Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated! Someone with ip address 149.225.126.87 tried to access your personal account!

“Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked. Click here to activate your account.

“Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to” -- and they had an official looking link for me to click.

So I clicked on it. Which I shouldn’t have done, and maybe that’s where I got the attempted computer hijacking and a tracking cookie. But I was curious. I was taken to a website that looked EXACTLY like the PayPal official website. Remember? They had me go to the real one to see how it looked. I still had the real site on another screen, so I went back to it. The two sites were EXACTLY the same, except for two things:

The real PayPal website recognizes my computer. It automatically welcomes me and puts up the little stars that represent my password. The scam website had blank spaces for my account number and password.

Well, of course they were blank! The whole point was that I should fill in my PayPal password and account number so they could wipe out my account.

Second difference: the address in the window at the top of the scam site was not that of PayPal. It was a string of code letters and numbers.

I still had the real PayPal site on another screen. I flipped back to it. The address in the window at the top was http://PayPal.com. The address on the scam site was not.

And those were the ONLY TWO DIFFERENCES. Talk about low-down, sneaky scams!

I hope I have turned you into a gimlet-eyed, suspicious person -- but only where Internet frauds are concerned.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A Little Info For You

A little info about how Google search engine works.

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They use crawlers to crawl the web for new content and popular websites.

And they specially like updated blogs with new original content.

But they also check out how long visitors stay on the website or blog. So if you just visit someone's blog and just go right out the crawlers will consider this as a "dead traffic" and the website will not get higher rankings.

So what I want you to do, and I will also return the favor back. Of course!

You visit my blog, you check out my content, just take your time, at least 1-3 minutes and then you can go if you want.

I will promise you to do the same thing. And if you haven't followed me please do that.

- Everything you do for me, I will be glad to return the favor -

Because if you have many followers, google will consider your blog as valuable resource and start to send you more organic traffic.

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Monday, August 10, 2009

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Friday, August 7, 2009

I Have 4 Different Blogs

When you have a blog you should choose your "niche". What is "niche"? It's just your group of people. Your market.

You see, this blog is about helping others improving their blog. How to get more traffic, what to write about and so on. This is my market so I try to aim on that target.

But we are all different with different hobbies and passion.

For example, my hobby is photography so I have made a blog about my photos.

www.ImagesToExplore.blogspot.com
I post all my photos on that blog to share with others.

I have also a passion for health and exercise, and I like to take care of myself and try to live healthy and go to gym. So I have also made a blog about fitness.

www.HealthExerciseAndGym.blogspot.com
This is going to help you into better shape, and stay healthy!

And I also have a blog about how to make money online. So many people want to make money online but don't have a clue how and what to do. I know how to make money online and I want to share my knowledge with others.

www.Making-Money-Today-Smiling.blogspot.com
You can start building a huge monthly income today, and it will put a smile on your face ...

So you see I have 4 blogs and it all reach out to different communities and groups.

"I'm sure this guy has enough on his plate"

I could imagine myself having four arms. Each pointing in different directions and I get all the traffic.

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Want To Change Links?

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Do you want your link on my sidebar?

Let's change links.

My link got to be visible on your blog.

Not in the blogroll or something like that where nobody can see it.
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

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