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Sunday, 1 January 2006
How to Avoid Phishers
Mood:  happy
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
Happy new year! In the first post of the new year I want to share some information on the deadly practice of "phishing" and how to avoid its potential ramifications.



"Phishing" is the practice of tricking internet users into revelaing their personal information. E-Bay and PayPal are popular targets for phishers, although Amazon.com and Overstock.com are occasionally used as well.

Traditionally, phishers send phony e-mails stating that you need to update your information and direct people to official-looking eBay, PayPal, Amazon, or Overstock log-in pages, where thay are asked to provide user names and passwords. One that I recently received (allegedly) came from "service@paypal.com," titled "PayPal Notification: Re: Unauthorized Use of Your PayPal Account!" Sometimes the phishers will hijack the accounts and sell phony or non-existent items on eBay or use the information to purchase items on these auction sites.

Recently, several listings were added to eBay's "Totally bizarre" category, which is designed for off the wall items, with the title "Movie!With me and Laura!My best friend!Sexy show!1$". When eBay users clicked on the listings, their browser was redirected to the phony log-in page and a virus was downloaded on the users' computers.



In all fairness to eBay, they have updated their screening tools and have removed these offending links. Following are some practical considerations so that you will not be a victim of phishing.

The web addresses of valid eBay sites have ".ebay.com" before the first forward slash. Examples: http://cgi3.ebay.com/ or http://arribada.ebay.com/ are valid, but beware of anything that resembles http://signin.ebay.com@10.19.32.4/ or http://signin-ebay.com/.

This is an authentic link to eBay:


Also, regularly clean out your "Junk email" so you won't be tempted to accidentally click one of their links. Occasionally my email reader will redirect an authentic email to my junk folder, but the misrouted email always resembles name@domain.com, so they're easy to spot.

It goes without saying not to click on any links in emails that ask for personal information. Go directly to the company's site to see if they actually need any information from you. Verify identities before releasing information, no matter what the reason, whether a potential employer or a lottery winning.



If you do happen to get caught by a phisher, report the incident immediately to the National Fraud Information Center/Internet Fraud Watch, http://www.fraud.org. They have an Online reporting form as well.

These tips come courtesy of Parry Aftab of InformationWeek and www.fraud.org. Read the full articles at ServerPipeline.com and www.fraud.org.

CIAO for now,
Randy



Posted by Randy at 11:14 AM MNT
Updated: Sunday, 1 January 2006 3:22 PM MNT
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Saturday, 31 December 2005
Do What Top Bloggers Do
Happy new year to all! I was just surfing the blogs on Blog Explosion and came across a posting on "What Top Bloggers Do," by Tino Buntic on Virtualaccuracy.com.



1) Freely link to other websites and other blogs. The blogs you link to will have a look at you and some will link back to you. Don't ask for links - freely give, freely receive.

2) Use descriptive words in anchor text of links. When linking to other blogs, use descriptive text in the link. This is the "anchor text." Doing this helps search engines find you.

3) Write about news, current events, other businesses, other people, other blogs, other websites. (Notice the pattern?) STOP writing about yourself. No one wants to hear it. If you find, however, you absolutely must write about yourself, only do so about a fourth of the time.

4) Keep your topics interesting with an interesting point of view.

The original article the above was exerpted from can be found at this blog.


Posted by Randy at 4:57 PM MNT
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Tuesday, 27 December 2005
How to Make Money with Stormpay
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Make Money with Your Blog
Happy holidays to you and yours. I hope you've enjoyed the pix of my family and I. Surely by now you've at least heard of Stormpay, what I term the safe alternative to Paypal. They not only have a safe means of transmitting funds electronically but they also have free auctions (i.e., no listing fees - they get a small percent of the selling price - much cheaper than Ebay), free email, Stormclix (you actually get paid the same day for clicking on ads), Stormpayges (ready-made custom sales pages for your merchandise), a Stormpay ISP (probably available in your area), and if that weren't enough, Stormfun video games. With so much to offer and adding more all the time, I don't understand why everyone is not a member! You can sign up for free at Stormpay.



While I have been pleased with the $5 or so a week I can get through Stormclix, I recently have been investigating ways of increasing my income there. The best program I have found is 12 Daily Pro.

I deposited $6 of my Stormclix money into 12 Daily Pro. Each day for the following 12 days I autosurfed my 12 Daily Pro for 30 sites. You only need to do 12 but I wanted to get some extra traffic, which you can also get from the "Proclicks" section. Then I had amassed $8.64, a 144% profit. Requested my money, and 10 business days later $8.64 was deposited into my Stormpay account.

By this time, I had accumulated enough Stormclix to purchase 2 shares ($12) in 12 Daily Pro. Continue this process, and in a few months time, we can have enough invested in 12 Daily Pro to get some serious money back. Just think...$300 invested would be $36/day, for a total return of $432, $132 profit for a little bit of surfing. What are you waiting for? Join 12 Daily Pro today and start surfing your way toward another source of income!

CIAO for now,
Randy

Posted by Randy at 11:57 PM MNT
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Thursday, 22 December 2005
Discover How to Get More Traffic - part 4
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
Today we willhave a segment featuring the 3rd top searched term as of last Friday, according to Wordtracker, Eminem. You may freely copy the entirety of the following to your website (or use our RSS feed on the right), provided you include the author's name and a link to this site, provided at the end.



All About Eminem

Eminem was born October 17, 1972. His biggest single was 2002's "Loose Yourself," and his biggest LP was 2000's "Marshall Mathers LP. He's even been nominated for 9 Grammies. We'll include more details about his musical successes at the end of this article.

"My insecurities? I'm dumb, I'm stupid, I'm white, I'm ugly, I smell and I'm white...I wanna kill myself...My nose is crooked...um, my penis is small." (Eminem, 2000)

Discounting all that, Eminem has done fairly well for himself, considering his humble beginnings. He was born in Kansas, and raised in Detroit. His interest in rap music came about as a way to escape his teenage years. And who doesn't? Wish we could all meet his successes! During his youth, he move around a lot, didn't have much money, and was constantly picked on by the neighborhood bullies.

His uncle Ronnie was his own age and influenced him greatly, even introducing him to rap. Eminem ultimately dropped out of high school, while Uncle Ronnie shot himself at age 19.

But even all these hardships didn't slow Eminem down much. Starting in 1997, Eminem came in 2nd at LA's Rap Olympics.

Then, in 1998, Dr Dre signed Eminem and he released the (in)famous Slim Shady. In 1999, he was the #83 Singles f the year, followed by #21 Singles Artist in 2000. In 2001, he still made it to the top 200, coming in at #175.

2002 was a banner year, with Eminem coming in at #9 singles artist of the year, Followed in 2003 by spot #14. 2004 continued his slow downward trend in the Singles artist of the year charts, with a #18 placing, but 2005 saw an upsurge in popularity.

Not only was Eminem nominated for 3 Grammies, but he had a number of Top 40 hits, including "Like Toy Soldiers," "Ass like That," "When I'm Gone," and "Shake That." "When I'm Gone" also made it to the top 10.

Randy Hildebrand

You are free to copy the entirety of the above article, provided you include the author's name and a link to this website, An Internet Marketing Tutorial for the rest of us.

CIAO for now,
Randy

Posted by Randy at 8:15 PM MNT
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Monday, 19 December 2005
Discover How to Get More Traffic - part 3
Mood:  on fire
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
Today we will go to the 2nd top searched word as of Friday, according to Wordtracker. The keyword "Google" is still in the top 30. You may freely copy the entirety of the following to your website, provided you include the author's name and the link to this webpage.


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A Primer on Google

The very term Google is a play on the math term googol, which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google the company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. The number 1 search engine began as a research project when Page and Brin were PhD students at Stanford. Their hypothesis was that relatioships between sites would produce better search results than what was used at the time.

Dr. Eric Schmidt, formerly CEO of Novell, was named CEO of Google after Larry Page stepped down.

Google is now located in Mountain View, California.
Google's stated purpose is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," while being "not evil."

Randy Hildebrand


You are free to reproduce this article in its entirety, as long as you include the author's name and a link to An Internet Marketing Tutorial for the rest of us.

CIAO for now,
Randy

Posted by Randy at 10:58 PM MNT
Updated: Monday, 19 December 2005 10:59 PM MNT
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Sunday, 18 December 2005
Discover How to Get More Traffic - part 2
Mood:  party time!
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
As promised, we will provide an article based on WordTracker's Friday list of current top keywords. The Friday list gave Christmas as top searched keyword. You may freely copy the entirety of the following to your website, provided you include the author's name and the link to this webpage.



Christmas Origins

Although scholars are uncertain about the exact date of Christ's birth, December 25 was chosen in 336 CE by the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine, the first Christian emperor.

Eighteen years later, in 354 CE, Liberius, the bishop of Rome, made December 25 official for Christianity and adapted the holiday from a Roman holiday celebrating the birth of the sun.

Due to changing calendars, though, even the year of Christ's birth is unknown. Many scholars attribute the event to 4 BCE.

The December celebration was banned in England and her American colonies in the 17th century by Oliver Cromwell. He was protesting the pagan origins of such Christmas memorabilia as Christmas trees, which the druids worshipped.

Over the course of time, these strict guidelines were beginning to loosen. Sparked by literary works such as "A Christmas Carol," the celebration of Christmas became popular again. Alabama was the first state to make Christmas an official holiday, and by 1907, every contiguous state had a Christmas holiday.

Randy Hildebrand

You are free to reproduce this article in its entirety, as long as you include the author's name and a link to An Internet Marketing Tutorial for the rest of us.

CIAO for now,
Randy

Posted by Randy at 9:06 PM MNT
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Discover How to Get More Traffic - part 1
Mood:  sharp
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
Welcome to "An Internet Marketing Tutorial for the rest of us"! So glad you stopped in! This is the inaugural post for a series we're doing this week to demonstrate how to get more traffic to your website.




The major part of the series will be devoted to keyword marketing. By far the best source for keywords is Wordtracker. They list the top 30 searched terms over the last 48 hours, updated daily. We will post a series of articles based on the top 5 as of Friday. Those terms are no longer in the top 5 but are still in the top 30. You can copy the articles for your own site, as long as you copy the entire article, which includes a backlink to this site.


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The other part of the series will focus on the many ways we currently use to promote this site. Please help support this site by signing up for Monster or Hotjobs! They have 1000s of great jobs in all levels of expertise! You can post your resume for free and submit it to employers with the click of a mouse!

CIAO for now,
Randy

Posted by Randy at 3:35 PM MNT
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Friday, 16 December 2005
Search Engines go BETA!!!
Mood:  loud
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
Gary Price, in the most recent edition of Search Engine Watch, lists links to Beta pages currently being worked on by the top search engines. He openly states that he prefers Tpox.net's Newsrank algorithm, but I find it unsatisfying for blogs. The result of me putting USA Today in a shredder would give me top stories that had more to do with one another. That being said, here is my gut analysis of the betas.

Calling itself "All things Beta," Yahoo proves its point a little too well. Most of the offerings on next.yahoo.com are rehashings of what Yahoo already has or has better versions available elsewhere. Nonetheless, podcasts are the next wave of the future, and you should make sure yours is listed in Yahoo Podcasts. The other thing of interest to we bloggers is the RSS support found in My Web 2.0, a souped-up version of My Yahoo.

I didn't find anything that really interested me at Google Labs, but sandbox.msn.com had a couple of items of note. YIKES!!! The sandbox DOES exist! ;> The Sandbox bills itself as a 1-stop shop to "make the web faster, more organized, and personal." Shoot, I'd marry here if I weren't already taken. Anyway, they have a good Anti-spyware download (still in beta, so beware of upgrades) and Netscan, a wonderful Usenet news reader.

Aol's Betas include a spyzapper download and something they call "1-click fixes" for your computer.

Have a great day, and please check out the following link!

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CIAO for now,
Randy

Posted by Randy at 12:50 AM MNT
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005
Technorati's new Explore
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
Currently in Alpha stage, Technorati's Explore (located at http://kitchen.technorati.com/explore/) is a search listing of current hot topics in blogs. It's generated from member blogs on Technorati. All you have to do is sign up for Technorati's free service, add some tags, claim your blog, and configure it. Go ahead and send them a ping while you're at it.

CIAO for now,
Randy


Posted by Randy at 11:19 PM MNT
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Sunday, 11 December 2005
"An Internet Marketing Tutorial..." Goes Global!
Mood:  hug me
Topic: Create + Promote Blogs
Good evening and welcome to An Internet Marketing Tutorial for the rest of us. I just went to Blog Stats at Blog Explosion and clicked the little graph marked Site Stats.

Come to find out, in the past week alone this blog has received visitors from virtually every time zone in the world, except for a few in Africa and East Asia. So I want to wish a hearty welcome to all our international friends.

The breakdown it gave me of the languages my visitors speak was enlightening, too. Besides English, our visitors speak French, German, Dutch, Danish, Malay and Taiwanese. For you I have included the translation capabilities of Babel Fish by Altavista. Just click the flag of the country you are from and the page will be translated for you into your native tongue. I've tested it and it works very well.

CIAO for now,
Randy

Posted by Randy at 2:05 AM MNT
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