Thursday, September 16, 2010

Ustream Live Video, Trust, Embed Facebook Video, Ebook Marketing

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

A customer of mine runs an educational workshop over a number of days. This year he offered the workshop via a webcast in addition to live attendance. See the article.

Sometimes other people know best, even we you think you know best. See the article on trust.

Facebook is big. If you are on Facebook, you know. If you are not on Facebook, get on.

On Facebook, you can create a page for your business. This is a good idea. See the article.

If you find a video on Facebook that you like, you can embed that video on your website, but Facebook does not provide the embed code. See the article for how to get the embed code.

Interested in publishing an eBook or being a guest on radio. See the article contributed by Francine Silverman.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,

Andrew

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In This Email:

Article: Live Webcast Using Ustream

Article: Trust Other People

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Links to Other Articles

Article: How to Create a Fan Page on Facebook

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/223/How-to-Create-a-Fan-Page-on-Facebook.aspx

Article: How to Embed a Facebook Video on Your Website

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/226/How-to-Embed-a-Facebook-Video-on-Your-Website.aspx

Article: Science and Technology and Business Ebooks Contain Everything a Potential Radio Guest Needs to Know

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/ContributorArticlesInternetMarketingComputer/tabid/337/Internet_Marketing/229/PageID/229/Science-and-Technology-and-Business-Ebooks-Contain-Everything-a-Potential-Radio-Guest-Needs-to-Know.aspx

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Programming Articles

Article: How to Parse an Xml Document in Asp.net Grabbing Attributes Values and InnerText from ChildNodes

www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/227/How-to-Parse-an-Xml-Document-in-Aspnet-Grabbing-Attributes-Values-and-InnerText-from-ChildNodes.aspx

Article: Ustream.Tv Get Archived Videos for a User

www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/225/UstreamTv-Get-Archived-Videos-for-a-User.aspx

Article: Convert HTML and XML to Display on Web Page

www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/224/Convert-HTML-and-XML-to-Display-on-Web-Page.aspx

Article: Asp.net Menu Control Drop Down Menus Display Badly in Safari and Chrome

www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/216/Aspnet-Menu-Control-Drop-Down-Menus-Display-Badly-in-Safari-and-Chrome.aspx

Article: HtmlTextWriterTag.Div Downgrades to Table on Lower Level Browser in Asp.net

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Quotes:

- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. ~ Thomas Jefferson

- An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. ~ Thomas Jefferson

- An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ~ Thomas Jefferson

- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Article: Live Webcast Using Ustream

A customer of mine runs an educational workshop over a number of days. This year he offered the workshop via a webcast in addition to live attendance.

One website you can use to broadcast video for free is www.Ustream.tv.

The instructions are simple and you can have your own TV channel on the web in no time.

Ustream automatically archives your broadcasts, so people can watch them later.

You will probably want to embed your live show and archived videos on your website. Embedding your live show is easy. Ustream provides an embed link which you can copy and paste into your webpage.

You can do the same for the archived video, but you have code each one by hand. If you are programmer, you can automatically extract your archived videos and display then on your website.

See this article for an example of the code.

www.programmer.bz/Home/tabid/115/asp_net_sql/225/UstreamTv-Get-Archived-Videos-for-a-User.aspx

If you are charging for your videos, you need to protect them.

Ustream lets you make your videos private, but then you need to specify which Ustream users have access to your video.

Another choice is to pay the $50 a month and customize your own Ustream channel via your website. That way you can place the security on your website and only your website visitors can get to your channel.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/230/Live-Webcast-Using-Ustream.aspx

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Article: Trust Other People

Sometimes my dad would tell me to do things. There might be some family related event or some other thing and he might say, "You don't have to go to this," or he might say, "You should do this."

Whatever it was, if he said I should do it, I would do it. I fought with my dad a lot, but never over things like this.

You cannot trust your own decision making. We are all biased and influenced by our emotions that are often not in our best interest. We tend to make decisions based on laziness, fear and avoiding uncomfortableness.

That is one of the reasons we need trainers and teachers, to challenge us and force us to do things we would not do otherwise. Get us out of our comfort zone.

A friend of mine, Rick called me up late one night to go on a sailboat from Miami to the Bahamas. They needed a fourth guy to share the expenses. I agreed, but as soon as Rick hung up the phone, I changed my mind.

I called Rick back and told him, "I'm not going. I will be throwing up for four days." Rick talked me back into going, but again, as soon as he hung up, I changed my mind again.

I am embarrassed to say, this happened at least five more times that same night and has to be the most absurd phone calls I have ever made. I did go on that trip. I did not throw up and it was one of the most memorable four days I have spent.

A couple years later, when Rick told me I should go on a camping canoe trip down the Colorado river, I went, even though I was sure I was not going to sleep for a week.

This Labor Day weekend I was responsible for the evenings' main entertainment at Mosaic Outdoor Club's International Event.

We were at a kids camp in the mountains north of Montreal. The first night I led a folk dance program for a couple of hours.

The camp fire and night hike got rained out, so I had to improvise some other dancing to keep people entertained. Most people participated, but a few sat and watched.

The last night, I was leading another dance program. Again there were some people sitting out, so I said, "I know some of you are uncomfortable about getting up and dancing."

"You have to trust me. I have done this hundreds and hundreds of times. I picked these dances for you, for people who do not dance regularly. I promise, you are going to like it."

That got them up dancing, at least a little anyway.

Sometimes you have to trust other people. You have to figure, when you have a difference of opinion, at least half the time you are wrong, and probably a lot more than that if the other person knows something you do not know.

www.gainesvilledance.com/Articles/tabid/79/Gainesville-Dance/109/Trust-Other-People-in-Dancing-and-in-Life.aspx

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

September 27-29 Miami Beach Affiliate Marketing and Social Media Conference

Affiliate Marketing and Social Media conference in Miami Beach, September 27 to 29, the Performance Marketing Expo.
 
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

Got an email today from Google Places and wanted to forward the information on to you.

If you do business in your local area, registering with Google Places is one of the most important things you can do for your online
marketing. See the article.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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Article: Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services

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Quotes:

- If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life. ~ Robert Pante

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Article: Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services

If you do business in your local area and you have not already registered your business with Google places, do so now here.
www.google.com/places

Registering your address with Google will get your more business, because you will be found on more searches.

Google automatically detects where a person's computer is and gives search results for that area using the information you provide
in Google places.

If someone in Miami searches for "architect" and you registered yoru architecture business in South Florida, you have a much better
chance of getting shown than your competitor who did not bother to register with Google.

Spending 30 minutes filling out some web forms, is time well spent that will keep marketing for you indefinitely.

Google has made some enhancements to their local business search. Here are some of the features in Google's own words.

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Don't have a brick-and-mortar storefront, or prefer not to give customers your home address? Show customers your Service Area.

Check out this video
www.youtube.com/user/GooglePlaces

Read on to Learn more.
www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177103

You can link directly to your restaurant's menu. Not a restaurant? Link to a list of services you offer.

To add your link, on your business's Dashboard, go to "Your business info" on the right and click "Edit." Scroll down to "Additional
Details." Add a row and type Menu in the left column. In the corresponding right column, add the link to the Menu page of your
website (not your homepage).

Check out some examples.
www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182238

Log in now to add your links.
www.google.com/places

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Monday, August 9, 2010

Intuit Payment Network, Windows Live Mail, Acai Scam, CSS Tables

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

If you have been using Paypal, or another payment processor to collect payments, you have been paying $20 to $30 to cash a $1,000 check. There is a new option that is a lot less costly. See the article on Intuit Payment Network.

If you have a number of email addresses, it is convenient to forward them all to the same mailbox for reading. However, you may want to send out from those email addresses without picking up mail. See the article for instructions on how to set up a send-only email account in Windows Live Mail.

Watch out for fake websites, impersonating other websites. See the Acai Berry scam article.

If you write your own Html code, see the article for how to use CSS to to make tables without using the Html CellPadding and CellSpacing attributes.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,

Andrew

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In This Email:

Article: Intuit Payment Network (IPN) Verses Paypal

Article: How to Set Up a Send Only Email Account with Windows Live Mail

Article: Acai Berry Diet Exposed is a Fake News Website

Article: How to Use CSS to Make Tables without Html CellPadding and CellSpacing

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Quotes:

- Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. ~ Sydney Smith

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Article: Intuit Payment Network (IPN) Verses Paypal

Intuit is the publisher of Quicken, Quickbooks and Turbo Tax.

Intuit has an online payment processing service that can save you a substantial amount of money over Paypal.

Paypal charges about 2.9% plus $0.30 to receive a payment. Could be more or less depending on your circumstances.

This fee is understandable for credit cards, because that is the standard rate for credit card processing.

However, Paypal charges this fee even when the transaction is bank to bank. Bank to bank is like writing a check. There are no fees normally.

With Paypal, to receive a $1,000 payment, your cost is $29. That is a lot of money to cash a check.

Intuit Payment Network (IPN) charges $0.50 per payment received.

That is a big savings.

The drawbacks are:

1. Your customer must register with Intuit Payment Network, if they are not registered already. (This is true of Paypal too.)

2. Intuit Payment Network is for bank to bank transactions only. If your customer wants to pay by credit card, you do not save anything.

Go to http://paymentnetwork.intuit.com to register.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/211/Intuit-Payment-Network-IPN-Verses-Paypal.aspx

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Article: How to Set Up a Send Only Email Account with Windows Live Mail

Outlook has a feature that lets you set up email accounts to use as the from email for sending mail only, without picking up email.

Under Outlook, Tools, Send/Receive options, you can specify which email accounts you only want to send and not receive.

This is handy if you support many websites.

You can set up mail from all your websites to forward to one email box.

You can set up from email addresses for each website to send outgoing mail.

That way customers can send to and receive email from each of your websites individually. While you only need to check one mailbox to receive all your mail.

Windows Live Mail makes this even easier.

In Windows Live Mail, after you create your email account, go back in to Change the email account you just created.

At the bottom of the General tab page, uncheck the box "Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing".

Now you can send with that email address and Windows Live will not try to receive email.

Windows Live does make you include the outgoing email information even though you are not going to use it, so you can make up anything for the POP server and password.

If you have a mail program that requires an incoming mail server, you can set up a dummy email account called empty@mydomain.com.

Give it the minimum quota. Do not tell anyone about this email address so it will not get any email.

Use this as your incoming email account for all your From Only email addresses. This will let you fill out your account set up page and avoid you getting any mail on the email addresses you only want to send out from.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/208/Windows-Live-Mail-Send-Outgoing-Only-From-Accounts-without-Receiving-Incoming-Email.aspx

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Article: Acai Berry Diet Exposed is a Fake News Website

I do not know if Acai Berry can help you lose weight, but I do know sometimes when someone is misleading you.

Take a look at www.NewYorkChronicle.org.

There are many websites that look similar to this one. They are fakes.

The website is made up to look like a news website and professes to have tested the claims of the Acai Berry diet.

The test results are better than the original claims and appear to be completely outrageous in support of the product.

If you click on the links at the top of the page to News, Weather and so on, you will see that all the links stay on the same page trying to get you to sign up for the free Acai Berry trials.

This person appears to be an affiliate and probably gets paid each time someone signs up for a free trial.

The product owner may not even know what the affiliate is doing.

The product may be a good one.

This marketing page is deceptive.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/206/Acai-Berry-Diet-Exposed-Scam-Fake-News-Website.aspx

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Article: How to Use CSS to Make Tables without Html CellPadding and CellSpacing

To have a thin line as a border around the cells in your tables, using HTML, you need to use the BORDER, CELLPADDING and CELLSPACING attributes on your TABLE tag. By specifying 0 for CELLSPACING, you can avoid gaps between the cells.

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<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td></tr>
</table>

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Here is CSS to create a table with a thin black border, padding and a background. This CSS also aligns the table heading with the text. I like this table for displaying general text information in columns.

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table.infotable
{
background-color:#DDDDDD;
border:solid 1pt black;
border-collapse:collapse;
}

table.infotable td
{
border:solid 1pt black;
padding:.5em;
}

table.infotable th
{
border:solid 1pt black;
padding:.75em;
text-align:left;
}

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Here is how you use this class in your web page.

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<table class="infotable">
<tr><th>Head1</th><th>Head2</th></tr>
<tr><td>Cell1</td><td>Cell2</td></tr>
</table>

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See this article for compatible CSS for highlighting inline text and using an information box to go along with your table.

www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/210/CSS-for-Information-Highlights-Boxes-and-Tables.aspx

You can find the W3 CSS table definitions here.

www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Beware of USB Drives, Article Writing Update, Ebook marketing

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
 
You should be writing articles to market your website. It works and is fun. Despite my urgings, some of my customers still do not do this and yet complain they are not getting visitors to their websites. In November 2009, I created a few DotNetNuke websites and started posting articles. See the article below for a eight-month review of the effectiveness of this approach.
 
Beware of viruses on external media. See the article for a disturbing case.
 
Do you have an Ebook in you? In one of my other careers, I am a dance instructor and have written a book. See the article for how to market your Ebook online.
 
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
 
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In This Email:
 
Article: Update on the Effectiveness of Article Writing
Article: Beware of USB, External and CD Drives Carrying Viruses
Article: Self Publishing an Ebook
 
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Other Items of Interest
 
 
"70 per cent of Microsoft engineers are working on something to do with the cloud," added Elop, saying it would rise to 90 per cent in a couple of years. "We're all in," he said.
www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-we-won-t-use-search-engines-in-2020-692234
 
 
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All of life is peaks and valleys. Do not let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. ~ John Wooden
 
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau
 
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Article: Update on the Effectiveness of Article Writing
 
In September of 2009, I created some DotNetNuke websites and started posting articles.
 
Go to these three websites. Next to each article is the number of visitors.
- www.DotNetNuke.bz
- www.InternetHandholding.com
- www.Programmer.bz
 
The articles are in order of newest first. Notice as the articles age, they get increasingly more visitors.
 
I have done nothing to promote these articles. I only posted them on my website. DotNetNuke automatically pings Weblogs.com when the article is posted.
 
You can see the newest articles have around 30 or 40 visits. Older articles typically have 100 to 300 visitors, with one article over 1,000 visitors.
 
These are the number of visitors per article, not per website.
 
The number of visitors tells some interesting tales, like what people are searching for the most and which articles are the highest ranked.
 
www.InternetHandholding.com has about 80 articles in eight months, which is a little less than two articles per week. You can write an article in as little as fifteen minutes, though I usually take longer. Still, in only an hour so a week, you can build up a nice accumulation of articles that work to market your website without additional effort from you.
 
I have not done this yet, but you can give your articles a boost by submitting them to article directories. You can find a bunch of article directories here.
 
 
Follow my planned upcoming article series on marketing an Ebook to see the effectiveness of article directories.
 
 
You have specialized knowledge that can help or entertain others. Take an hour out of your week to share your thoughts and help yourself and others.
 
 
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Article: Beware of USB, External and CD Drives Carrying Viruses
 
One of my customers got a virus from a shrink wrapped USB drive from Costco.
 
Think about that. Imagine you buy a package of brand new USB drives from a store and there is a virus on one. You use the USB drive to transfer some files from your home PC to your laptop and then to your computer at work.
 
Suddenly you have infected all three of your computers.
 
You can read about the MIRC virus that infected my customer here.
 
 
I had written a couple of articles on:
 
 
 
The information in those articles is still true, provided companies you trust and depend upon, like Costco, do their job and make sure they are not selling you drives with viruses packaged on them.
 
That particular drive was made in China, what a surprise.
 
I cannot prove that the drive came shrink wrapped with the virus, because my customer used the drive to transfer data, so it is possible he got the virus some other way. However, all he does with those USB drives is transfer a database file from work to his desktop and laptop at home. There was nothing else on the drive besides the database file and the virus. The drive was not formatted with the typical CD virtual drive, that is usually on that USB drive. I believe the drive came infected from China.
 
Anytime you put in a CD, DVD, USB Drive, SD Card or some other data device that automatically starts, you could be at risk of getting a virus.
 
There is a good article here about Autorun attacks and how to disable AutoRun. I have not tried it.
 
 
Before putting any removable data media into your computer, be sure you trust the source. Remember, even shrink wrapped packages from reliable companies can have virus. If you have any doubts, check the removable data first.
 
To check the media, download and make a bootable CD of Ubuntu from Ubuntu.com. Follow the instructions on the website.
 
This is a Linux operating system with a user interface a look like Windows and the Mac.
 
An Ubuntu bootable CD is handy to have around. See the article on Ubuntu to the Rescue.
 
 
Once you boot up Ubuntu, you can put in your removable media. Ubuntu will not autorun, since the autorun is for Windows, not Linux. You can then browse the removable media. Ubuntu will show you all the files, including system and hidden files.
 
If you see anything suspicious, rename it and move it to an out-of-the-way folder.
 
You can then use the removable media in Windows.
 
 
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Article: Self Publishing an Ebook
 
If you have some knowledge that is useful to other people, you might have an Ebook in you.
 
An Ebook has many advantages over a printed book, one of which is you can publish the Ebook yourself and another is you can sell an Ebook for a lot more.
 
In one of my other careers, I am a social dance instructor. In the course of trying to teach folk dancers how to dance with a partner, I figure out that you only need to know three rules to communicate every step in every dance unambiguously.
 
This is amazing if you think about it.
 
This is also original and I have written a book about how to communicate in social dancing called Partnership Dancing(tm).
 
You can see the website I am building around this product here.
 
 
If you are interested in the process of developing and marketing an Ebook, stay tuned. I intend to publish a series of articles to help you learn from my mistakes.
 
 
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Death of Another Hard Drive, DotNetNuke Article Writing, Windows Live Mesh, Cox Spam Control, Delete Comments on Blogger

Hello Andrew and Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
 
A number of my customers are starting to get itchy about getting their websites found on the Internet. For years I have been encouraging them, but they are busy and marketing their website online was an after thought. See the article on getting your website found.
 
If you use Cox cable, and I imagine any number of ISPs, you may have had some of your legitimate outgoing email blocked as spam. That is horrible. No ISP should ever block legitimate email. See the article about Cox for a work around.
 
Bought a new computer last month to replace my 5 year old laptop because the hard drive had failed. I spent the last month reinstalling all my software and trying to recover my data from one place or another with acceptable, but time-consuming, results. The day after I finished, the hard drive on my new computer crashed. See Death of Another Hard Drive.
 
Microsoft Windows Live Mesh synchronizes folders between your computer and an online desktop. This can be a good solution for backing up your critical, current data. See the Live Mesh article.
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
 
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In This Email:
 
Article: Get Your Website Found
Article: Write Articles on Your Website using DotNetNuke Ventrian Articles Module
Article: Blogger is My Favorite Place to Post Links
Article: Delete Comments on Blogger Blogs
Article: Cox Spam Control Blocking Legitimate Outgoing Emails
Article: Death of Another Hard Drive
Article: Windows Live Mesh for Automated Real Time Backup and Synchronization
 
 
 
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Quotes:
 
- Don't ever not change. ~ Richard Porter
 
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Article: Get Your Website Found
 
How to get your website found is no secret. The formula is simple. Spend some time marketing online.
 
Google loves original content updated regularly. Google is not fond of stale websites. Old information is fine as long as you also have new information.
 
The formula is this:
 
1. Know your keywords and use them correctly so google knows that your website is relevant to the search.
 
2. Update your website regularly so google knows your content is fresh.
 
3. Create links back to your website so google rates your website higher.
 
Some of my favorite tools in attacking this problem are:
 
A. DotNetNuke as a content management system for your website, takes care of #1 and #2. See the article on writing articles.
 
B. Blogger.com is my favorite place to post links back to websites. See the blogger article.
 
You should be posting at a minimum once per week to either your website or blogger.
 
The more you post, the better.
 
Always keep in mind quality for your visitors. Provide a useful service.
 
 
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Article: Write Articles on Your Website using DotNetNuke Ventrian Articles Module
 
DotNetNuke as a content management system for your website lets you keep your website up-to-date and optimize your keywords.
 
My favorite DotNetNuke tool is the Ventrian Articles module, because it is so easy to use, automatically pings Weblogs to let search engines know your website is updated. It also puts your title in the url to increase your search engine ranking.
 
Posting short articles whenever an idea pops into your head, is a great way to get visitors to your website.
 
Take a look at the home page of www.InternetHandholding.com or www.DotNetNuke.bz. Scroll down. At the end of each article is a number that tells you how many times that article was viewed. As you scroll down, you will see older articles with more views. You can see, that posting articles with good keywords is an excellent way to get visitors.
 
You can take the extra step of submitting your articles to article marketing websites to get even more visitors.
 
 
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Article: Blogger is My Favorite Place to Post Links
 
Blogger.com is my favorite place to post links back to websites.
 
You create your own blog. You do not have to ask anyone permission to post a link to your website.
 
Blogger is owned by google, so google loves blogger.
 
You can create as many blogs as you want.
 
You can email updates so you can post efficiently.
 
When you update Blogger, make sure you put links back to your website, preferably deep links back to individual pages.
 
One problem though is spammers like to add comments to your blogs. See the article for How to Delete Comments from Blogger Blogs.
 
 
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Article: Cox Spam Control Blocking Legitimate Outgoing Emails
 
Cox Cable Internet outgoing spam blocker is a horrible service and makes me mad.
 
Cox blocked one of my outgoing emails today. They have done so in the past.
 
Cox should not be blocking outgoing emails.
 
Think it is just a ploy to get people to pay for their business service.
 
It cannot serve any useful purpose in reducing spam. Almost all spam is caused by illegal spammers sending out thousands to millions of messages. Not by individuals replying to messages.
 
This difference is easily detectable.
 
Blocking the emails might be illegal in terms of free speech anyway.
 
Plus the spam blocker is simply a bad program. My message was not spam. So it is blocking a legitimate message. I have even seen the program block messages that I sent to myself, between my own mail accounts.
 
It is not like I have a choice. Cox is the only cable provider in my area.
 
Cox blocks smtp service, so I cannot use another mail server or send directly from my computer. They force me to use their email service, then they block my legitimate emails.
 
Email is the single most important thing I do on the Internet.
 
So, I have to give Cox Internet service a grade of D.
 
They should never block a legitimate email, never.
 
I send out a newsletter once a week via Aweber. It is just text about 180 lines long, with announcements of events. Each line about 30 letters with a lot of blank lines for spacing.
 
Someone replied to my newsletter and I tried to reply back and got this error message from Cox Cable.
 
"The message could not be sent because its size exceeded the server's limit... Please visit http://coxagainstspam.cox.net for more information."
 
Following the link gets to a generic page with no instructions on what to do. It should go to a page with a detailed explanation of the error.
 
Here is a solution to the problem. Sign up for a gmail.com email account.
 
Many people only use their gmail account via the web using the gmail.com web browser interface.
 
However, gmail has an option that lets you send an receive emails directly from your mail program, like with any of your other email addresses, without going to gmail.com.
 
After you signup for you gmail account, logon to gmail, go into settings and enable pop and smtp.
 
Then go to your mail program, add your gmail account and set up the gmail pop, and most importantly smtp server.
 
Now, when you send using your mail program, if you need to, you can select your gmail account and send emails that would otherwise be blocked by the Cox spam filter.
 
Some instructions for setting up your gmail settings are here.
 
 
Add the gmail account to your mail program so you can send emails via your email program using gmail's smtp service.
 
 
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Article: Death of Another Hard Drive
 
Bought a new Dell computer last month to replace my 5 year old laptop because the hard drive had failed. See Death of a Hard Drive.
 
I spent the last month reinstalling all my software and trying to recover my data from one place or another with acceptable, but time-consuming, results.
 
The day after I finished, the hard drive on my new computer crashed. My computer was running impossibly slow and when I ran a hard drive self test, got error code 2000-0146.
 
Called Dell and they immediately said I had to replace the hard drive. They mailed a hard drive to a local technician. He came to my house and put it in my computer.
 
The hard drive was pre-loaded so it automatically reinstalled Windows when it started.
 
I have spent the last week reinstalling programs and data.
 
There were two cool, useful things that helped.
 
1. My computer would not reboot from the hard drive, so I downloaded Ubuntu, burned it to a CD and booted from the CD to be able to get some of my hard drive data. See the article on Ubuntu to the Rescue.
 
2. I had set up my computer to use Windows Live Mesh to synchronize some folders on my computer with the Mesh online desktop. It worked and I was able to recover some files that were no where else. See the article for Windows Live Mesh.
 
 
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Article: Windows Live Mesh for Automated Real Time Backup and Synchronization
 
Microsoft has an online offering called Windows Live Mesh at mesh.com.
 
This service provides a free, 5 gigabyte online desk top that will automatically synchronize with designated folders on your computer.
Mesh is not a backup service, but does serve that function, and I decided to use Mesh for backing up my critical data.
 
I considered using a number of the fee based online services that backup all your data, such as Mozy, Carbonite and Acronis, but I went with Mesh.
 
Mesh automatically synchronizes the folders on your computer whenever a file changes with the online desktop.
 
You can access your online desktop from any web browser on any computer, so your files are available to you wherever you go.
 
If you are away from computer and your computer is on, you can change your files online and you can have Mesh automatically copy the changes you made online back to your computer.
 
Since Mesh is limited to 5 gigabytes, I decide to look through my data and see what I really had.
 
Yikes, lots of stuff I never look at.
 
So, I decided to break my data into three groups.
 
1. Multimedia files, movies, pictures, music. I have hundreds of gigabytes of this stuff, too much to backup online. I copy to external hard drives for backup.
 
2. Old data that I have not looked at in a while. I moved all this under a folder I called Archive. This is all backed up on external hard drives and I do not need this on my Live Mesh desktop.
 
3. Current data. This is under a folder for my current documents and consists of all my data that I use and change, programs, finances, articles, notes, customer information and the like. This is the folder I synchronized with Live Mesh.
 
So, my current data is backed up in real time, automatically online.
My multimedia, old data and current data is backed up to external hard drives using a program I run on occassion. I have a number of external hard drives and store these in my office and stashed around at other locations.
 
 
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