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Good Spam or Bad Spam - What's the Difference?

"Are you good spam or bad spam?" This is the question I find echoing in my head sometimes when I am going through my email, as if it is part of some electronic Wizard of Oz. Have you ever given any thought to the fact that there really is a difference in spam? Not that I am defending anyone, but let me make my point and then you can decide for yourself. Spam is such a hot issue and no one knows the "right" view of spam that fits everyone. You either: - will take all measures to prevent people ...
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Caught In the Cross-Fire of the Spam War

LET THERE BE LIGHT: To understand this story, we must return to the beginning --- September 5th, 2001. One of my associates had placed a free ad in a newsletter that she had just subscribed to. For that effort, she was accused of spam! Mind you the person filing the complaint was not the editor of the newsletter, but rather a subscriber of the newsletter. The man was frustrated because he was having difficulty getting unsubscribed from the newsletter, so he filed a complaint against everyone ...
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The price of spamming search engines

One of the things I am constantly asked about is why doesn't my content rich website get better placed in the search engines. I am told that they have followed all the advice about content rich pages, they have used good metatags, yet still cannot get into the top 50 never mind the top 10. Now having content rich web pages is a must do, you can't hope to succeed on the Internet without them. It's absolutely useless putting up web pages with nothing more than banner ads for your affiliate ...
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Hacking the Spammers

I was talking with someone I know who is a real wiz with computers. He was telling me that if someone is persistent enough, they can basically break into any computer. Our service provider was recently attacked and the hackers placed programs in the system which were disruptive. Their priorities were to first get the server back up and running. In order to do this, they had to find and remove the disruptive files the hacker had placed on the system. Their next step was to identify how access ...
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Need Traffic? Pay for It !

You have a great website now where are the customers? If you can't get them through the search engines then maybe you will have to pay for them. A great website without customers is like a mega mall in the middle of a desert with no road leading to it. In order to sell you need customers, but how do you get the traffic to your website? There are numerous ways to drive traffic to your website, lets examine the paid methods of getting traffic. 1. Pay Per Click (PPC) Nothing new to anyone on ...
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Getting your Visitor's Details Using PHP

You can get quite a bit of information about your visitors without having to use a third party tracking software. I'll outline the PHP commands you can use to capture some of this data. The details you capture can be saved into a database, and retrieved later to check your site's performance and user details. The following information is captured using the server variable ($_SERVER) which is available from PHP 4.10 onwards. Visitor's IP address : You can get the visitor's IP address using ...
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Increase traffic? Now there's a MILLION dollor question.

The answer to this question is not an easy one in many respects, but mainly It's almost impossible for one answer to be correct for every circumstance. I began my venture into cyber space with absolutely no computer knowledge what-so-ever. Not only was I computer illiterate I didn't know the InterNet from a fishing Net. One of the very first things I learned was that the Internet can be a very lonely and impersonal world. Sitting alone in front of a computer screen hour after hour day after day ...
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Take the Guesswork out of Web Site Analysis

Take the Guesswork out of Web Site Analysis ZY Computing has released 123LogAnalyzer v. 3.0, an easy-to-use multi-platform tool that turns your web logs into a comprehensive analysis of your customers and prospects. 123LogAnalyzer tells you how visitors browse your web site, which pages they view and which they ignore, how long they spend on your site, and where they come from. With its new Marketing Report, you can track, analyze, and measure results by marketing campaign; 123LogAnalyzer keeps ...
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Google Adsense Success, Tips and Resources.

Yes, Money can be made from your website with a little hard work, affiliate knowledge and a true vision. Adsense from Google will be a big part of your plan. Washington State - 12/23/2005 - Google Adsense Success, Tips and Resources. The internet is a amazing and confusing place for a newcomer who wants to make money from their website, but with a lot of hard work and knowledge, a person can really make measurable money. Affiliate accounts and using Google Adsense can be a great combination to ...
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AdSense Money Maker through Blog Niche Marketing

You too can build a money making site from home, that will earn you extra money for that vacation you want to take, for that car you need to purchase or those inflating credit card bills. First step: you need to pick a Niche market. What is a Niche market you may ask? It is a topic that is more focused, and does not take the general aspect of a topic. You want to pick something that is out there, but is focused so you can get up there in search engines and build traffic to your site. Want an ...
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Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing

Are you a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running? Or is your website the only way for you to earn income? Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily. And if your website is rich in great contents and you want to earn more profit, why not get into the Google Adsense program as well? Why Affiliate ...
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How To Incorporate Adsense Into Your Affiliate Marketing

A lot of people are lured by affiliate marketing because it can be financially rewarding, even if you just stay at home. Affiliate marketing programs are best alternatives to those who are sick and tired of their arduous daily work just to climb up the venerated corporate ladder. You don't need products to sell, you just have to market them in your own web site and you don't have to worry about processing the customers' payments and the shipment of the products. If you are already into ...
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