Ask a dozen Internet experts what the term Web 2.0 means, and you'll get a dozen different answers. Some say that Web 2.0 is a set of philosophies and practices that provide Web users with a deep and rich experience. Others say it's a new collection of applications and technologies that make it easier for people to find information and connect with one another online. A few journalists maintain that the term doesn't mean anything at all -- it's just a marketing ploy used to hype social networking sites.


The O'Reilly Media Web site is a prime example of
Web 2.0 at work.



Before we get into the debate about what Web 2.0 actually means, let's look at where the phrase originated. In 2004, publishing firm O'Reilly Media and tradeshow production company MediaLive International had a brainstorming session. The two companies planned a conference that addressed the state of the Web, its future and the emerging techniques that would help ensure its success on the Internet. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, wanted to make the point that despite the dot-com crash of 2000, the Web was sure to become an enormous revenue generator.

During this brainstorming session, O'Reilly Media publisher Dale Dougherty coined the phrase Web 2.0 to describe the new Web environment that emerged after the crash. While dozens of Internet companies had declared bankruptcy, a few hardy sites managed to survive. New Web sites were appearing every day, and many of them used drastically different business models than the commercial sites that existed before the crash.

Still, no one had a clear definition of what Web 2.0 actually meant. If there really was a Web 2.0, did that mean there was also a Web 1.0? The use of "2.0" implied an improvement, or a new generation of Web sites, but there was no consensus on what made Web 2.0 different from Web 1.0.

In September 2005, Tim O'Reilly posted a blog entry that defined Web 2.0. The explanation spanned five pages of text and graphics illustrating O'Reilly's take on what the term meant.

O'Reilly's philosophy of Web 2.0 included these ideas:

Using the Web as an applications platform
Democratizing the Web
Employing new methods to distribute information
In this article, we'll explore each of these points. We'll also look at the debate about whether or not Web 2.0 actually has a practical meaning.

Video Gallery: Online Social Networking
Social networking sites reflect the Web 2.0 philosophy. In this video from PodTech, learn about Renkoo, a site that combines the concepts of social networking with event planning.


In the next section, we'll look at what it means to use the Web as a platform

Keeping people interested in your blog, whether it is a business or personal blog, is key to attracting a lot of regular visitors. Many blogs have died because people have just lost interest, take the Computer and link to internet. The main reason for the lack of interest is simply a lack of posts by the blogger. Regular, frequent posting, which will boost your blog’s ranking in search engines, is essential to the survival of any blog.

You might be asking yourself, what is frequent posting? How many blog entries should I make on a given week? How do I make frequent consistently good posts? What are the reasons for me to post frequently? In this newsletter, we will go over all of the above.

What is frequent posting?

Frequent blog posting is posting enough to keep your readers interested. Obviously, people will not want to come back to a blog that hasn’t been updated in months. They want to see consistent posting so that they know coming back to check the blog next week to see if there are more posts won’t be a waste of time.

How many blog entries should I make each week?

This is one of the tougher questions to answer. It really depends on the purpose of your blog. If it’s a personal blog, a weekly or twice weekly update is an excellent idea. A political/sports/music/religion blog should have 3-4 posts per week. Business blogs should have at least 2 posts, but preferably 4 each week.

The thing to remember is that quality counts. Posting frequently just for the sake of posting frequently tends to result in subpar posts which people won’t care about. It is important to find a balance—frequent, quality posts that won’t result in burnout on your part. Why create 4 poor quality posts each week when you could post 2 quality posts per week?

How do I create quality postings on a consistent basis?

It’s all about following a consistent pattern of writing. Maybe you’re not a natural writer and this is difficult. That’s why we’ll give you an outline to help you.

1. Pick a topic that is interesting to you and to your readers. Maybe if your blog is a personal blog, you could write about the latest happenings in Hollywood.

2. Carefully think about what you’ll write about the topic. It makes it easy to make quality blog postings if you know exactly what you’ll write. Plot out everything about the post before even beginning to write it.

3. Before writing your content, pick out some keywords that are relevant to your blog. If you naturally use keywords throughout your post, you will please search engine spiders which will get your blog ranked higher on search engines. Your visitors won’t mind the use of keywords if they are used in a tasteful way.

4. Begin writing your post. Don’t limit yourself to a particular amount of words. Just do what’s natural. And if any blog post is hard for you, just take a timeout and relax. You should be able to finish the post a bit later on, after you’ve had some time to think things through, you should be able to finish the post with no problems.

Why is frequent posting important?

Blogs are meant to be outlets for individuals or businesses. They are used to get an opinion out on something and to engage readers. Readers need to have something that makes them want to keep coming back to a blog. That something is usually quality, frequent posts.

Gaining and maintaining visitors isn’t the only reason to post often in your blog. Catching the eye of a search engine—and achieving a high ranking—is another valid reason for posting frequently. Most likely, each posting in your blog features some keywords or keyword phrases scattered throughout it. Logic says that the more natural keywords you have on a blog, the better. Thus, the more posts you make on your blog, the more keywords you have on there. And the more keywords you have, the more likely a search engine bot is to crawl your site. The more your site is crawled by bots, the more likely it is that you will have a high ranking on a search engine.

Frequent blog posting can be easy as long as the person who is posting takes the time to plot out what they’ll write about. So take a few minutes to think about your post and then just do it!

By Len Hutton

By Len Hutton

Blogs are now an extremely popular and important part of the internet. Millions of people blog every day. As blogs have evolved over the years, so has the commenting system. Now anyone can make comments on a particular blog posting. As blog commenting has grown more popular, so has spam commenting. In this newsletter, we’ll go over why comments are a great form of feedback for your blog, how they help the credibility of your content, what spam comments are and how to prevent them from happening.

Comments – A great form of feedback

When blogs first came around, they were simply online journals. No one could post comments on a blog posting. That all changed in 1998 with OpenDiary, a site which allowed people to comment on blog postings. Now every blog, whether it is remotely or self-hosted, includes this option to comment.

Commenting is great because it allows real people to tell you what they think about your form. It gives you feedback on what you are doing right and what you may need to improve. Comments can be encouraging to you and motivate you to post more quality blog messages. Or they can be constructive criticism to make you work harder to get better at writing content.

Whatever the style of comment is, it is still very useful to your blog. High numbers of comments have the ability to make a blog look credible because they show that the blog is being read by a lot of people. That’s something that every blog owner wants, and comments help to let them know just how many people enjoy their content.

Bad comments

Unfortunately, spammers have now started to use comments as a way to spam. How do you know what a spam comment is? Well, a spam comment is a comment that only advertises another site or product. If the comment seems bland/generic with a cheap link thrown in, then it’s definitely a spam comment.

Here is an example of a typical spam comment:

“Hey, this site is really cool. Check out my really cool site at spamsite.com.”

Of course not all spam comments will be this blatant, but you get the point.

Fortunately for bloggers, as spam comments have grown, so has the ways to prevent it. Here are a couple ways that you can prevent spam comments from even being posted on your blog.

#1: Close off commenting on older blog posts

There are options for you to stop comments from being posted on any particular blog post. Lots of times, spammers will post comments in weeks or months old posts. So take away this opportunity from them to keep it from happening. Most blog hosters now offer this as a standard option in the tool panel. If one of your posts has been up for a couple weeks, close it up.

#2: Take advantage of software offered to prevent comment spam

If you host your own blog using WordPress, you can use an option in that software to prevent spam. Even if you aren’t using WordPress, you can still use other Spam comment blocking software like Spam Karma, Akismet, and Bad Behavior. While these aren’t 100% effective, they have proven to be quite effective in preventing spam from happening.

#3: Take a look at your settings and see what can be tweaked to toughen your protection

Lots of blogs now have settings to help prevent spam. If you already have a spam blocker on in your blog and are still experiencing spam, take a closer look at the settings to see if there’s anything that can be tweaked to make your protection stronger. However, if you do this, you should closely monitor your posts to make sure legit comments aren’t being blocked out. If they are, you might have to lighten up a bit.

#4: Regularly read your blog comments

Be sure to keep an eye on your comments. Even the best software or setting can’t prevent everything, so you will have to occasionally manually remove comments on your own.

By applying the above principles, you can ensure that your blog is full of only good, quality comments, which will help your credibility tremendously.

Comments are a great form of communication between yourself and your readers. They help the credibility of your blog!

There are lots of different ways that electronic devices can connect to one another. For example:
• Component cables
• Electrical wires
• Ethernet cables
• WiFi
• Infrared signals
When you use computers, entertainment systems or telephones, the various pieces and parts of the systems make up a community of electronic devices. These devices communicate with each other using a variety of wires, cables, radio signals and infrared light beams, and an even greater variety of connectors, plugs and protocols.
The art of connecting things is becoming more and more complex every day. In this article, we will look at a method of connecting devices, called Bluetooth, that can streamline the process. A Bluetooth connection is wireless and automatic technology, and it has a number of interesting features that can simplify our daily lives.


The Problem
When any two devices need to talk to each other, they have to agree on a number of points before the conversation can begin. The first point of agreement is physical: Will they talk over wires, or through some form of wireless signals? If they use wires, how many are required -- one, two, eight, 25? Once the physical attributes are decided, several more questions arise:
• How much data will be sent at a time? For instance, serial ports send data 1 bit at a time, while parallel ports send several bits at once.
• How will they speak to each other? All of the parties in an electronic discussion need to know what the bits mean and whether the message they receive is the same message that was sent. This means developing a set of commands and responses known as a protocol. Bluetooth offers a solution to the problem.

Why is it called Bluetooth?
Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Nordic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.

In using Computers, it appears that the venerable wheeled mouse is in danger of extinction. The now-preferred device for pointing and clicking is the optical mouse. Developed by Agilent Technologies and introduced to the world in late 1999, the optical mouse actually uses a tiny camera to take 1,500 pictures every second. Able to work on almost any surface, the mouse has a small, red light-emitting diode (LED) that bounces light off that surface onto a complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor.

The CMOS sensor sends each image to a digital signal processor (DSP) for analysis. The DSP, operating at 18 MIPS (million instructions per second), is able to detect patterns in the images and see how those patterns have moved since the previous image. Based on the change in patterns over a sequence of images, the DSP determines how far the mouse has moved and sends the corresponding coordinates to the computer. The computer moves the cursor on the screen based on the coordinates received from the mouse. This happens hundreds of times each second, making the cursor appear to move very smoothly.
Optical mice have several benefits over wheeled mice:
• No moving parts means less wear and a lower chance of failure.
• There's no way for dirt to get inside the mouse and interfere with the tracking sensors.
• Increased tracking resolution means smoother response.
• They don't require a special surface, such as a mouse pad.
Although Technology LED-based optical mice are fairly recent, another type of optical mouse has been around for over a decade. The original optical-mouse technology bounced a focused beam of light off a highly-reflective mouse pad onto a sensor. The mouse pad had a grid of dark lines. Each time the mouse was moved, the beam of light was interrupted by the grid. Whenever the light was interrupted, the sensor sent a signal to the computer and the cursor moved a corresponding amount. This kind of optical mouse was difficult to use, requiring that you hold it at precisely the right angle to ensure that the light beam and sensor aligned. Also, damage to or loss of the mouse pad rendered the mouse useless until a replacement pad was purchased. Today's LED-based optical mice are far more user-friendly and reliable.

One nuisance that has been around for as long as the internet, is the existence of extraneous files that accompany websites.

When you upload your website, you need to make sure that along with it you upload every image file you want to use, every Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) that determines font styles, every video or audio clip you want to include, and lots of other files as well.

If you don't have a well organized filing system, it is easy to misplace or lose files amonst the clutter. And even with a good system, you may leave old files on your site that are no longer used and are just taking up space.

File Clean Up

The makers of XSitePro 2.0 understand the problems associated with building and maintaining a website, so they have built tools into their software to manage a lot of those problems with a minimal amount of effort.

The program's suite of Website Cleanup tools are able to tell you if there are any files that are no longer needed, redundant, or out-dated. And, because this powerful package can handle the publishing of your website to the server, it ensures that everything is uploaded in an organized fashion.

Mapping Your Site

Along with creating all of the files and content for your website, you also have to remember what everything is for and where it is. When a site comprises just a few pages, that may be simple, but as your site grows in content and size, it becomes more complex.

Enter the automatically created Full Sitemap function. It helps you keep track of each facet of your site, and is an excellent way to help your website's visitors find precisely what they are seeking. And, as an added bonus, sitemaps help ensure that your entire website gets indexed by search engines.

The Time is Now! Or, Whenever You Want it to be

Now this is a program that has been designed to make hard things easy.

When you first build your website using the new version 2, you'll find that it helps you along and makes it easy to produce a great looking website. Once you've completed making it, it will be easy to see why it is imperative to keep everything up to date.

With the Taskbar Scheduler, you can set up everything in advance and simply tell the program when you want to make changes, and XSitepro will take care of the rest for you.

This user friendly website builder is easy to buy, easy to download, and easy to learn. Its developers have made it easy for you to create and publish a website, and smoothed the way for you to maintain it and keep it updated.

It's tough getting noticed on the Web. A Web page can provide useful information about a popular subject in an interactive and engrossing way, yet still attract few visitors. One of the most reliable ways to improve traffic is to achieve a high ranking on search engine return pages (SERPs).
Imagine that you've created the definitive Web site on a subject -- we'll use skydiving as an example. Your site is so new that it's not even listed on any SERPs yet, so your first step is to submit your site to search engines like Google and Yahoo. The Web pages on your skydiving site include useful information, exciting photographs and helpful links guiding visitors to other resources. Even with the best information about skydiving on the Web, your site may not crack the top page of results on major search engines. When people search for the term "skydiving," they could end up going to inferior Web sites because yours isn't in the top results.
While most search engine companies try to keep their processes a secret, their criteria for high spots on SERPs isn't a complete mystery. Search engines are successful only if they provide a user links to the best Web sites related to the user's search terms. If your site is the best skydiving resource on the Web, it benefits search engines to list the site high up on their SERPs. You just have to find a way to show search engines that your site belongs at the top of the heap. That's where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in -- it's a collection of techniques a webmaster can use to improve his or her site's SERP position.
In this article, we'll look at two SEO philosophies: the white hat approach and the black hat approach. We'll also learn about some of the problems webmasters can encounter when trying to satisfy both the visitors to the site and search engines.
We'll take a general overview of what SEO really means on the next page.

by: Scott Lindsay

The best role of business online is that of interdependency. We’ve all heard the old saying, “No man is an island.” When it comes to online business this is especially true.

If a business owner who takes their business into the online world determines they will be self reliant and never accept the help of anyone then that individual will not be in business long enough to change their minds.

It is accepted fact that the greatest tool for long-term exposure to your website is through Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Without it potential customers can’t find you. It is unreasonable to expect that you can adequately develop a website without optimizing your website for the best possible search engine ranking.

Search engines also place a high value on sites that have links placed on existing sites. These ‘backlinks’ demonstrate to search engines that others trust your site. By placing your link on their website these other businesses indicate a trust and recommendation for your site.

In effect the two strategies listed above rely exclusively on what others can do for you when it comes to your online business.

Shirley Temple once proclaimed in her movie Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, “I’m very self-reliant.” American westerns are filled with lines dealing with pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and holding down the fort. Many of us have grown up to believe if we want something done right we have to do it ourselves.

This thinking is in opposition to the rules associated with an online business.

The online world can only exist because people share. Individuals share technology, but the also share links, reviews, blogs, forums and a wide range of other marketing strategies that find a commingling of interdependency.

In online business you are as dependent on others as they may be on you. Unlike the word ‘dependent’, the term interdependent indicates a mutual dependency. In other words you are depending on others to help provide links back to your site while they are equally dependent on you (or others) for the success of their business.

Have you really taken a proactive approach to networking? It’s possible you are reading this today and you’ve never considered asking someone else to place a link to your site on his or her online business site.

It can feel awkward depending on others to achieve online success especially if you’ve been lead to believe reliance on others is also a sign of imposing on their otherwise brilliant generosity.

I suppose it could be a deep-seated sense of pride that makes it hard to consider the need to ask others for help. However, the truth is depending on others is really what has made the Internet possible. The growth of this online world is comprised of a link of computers, networks and servers that are connected in a way that provides the maximum benefit for all.

Building an online business can feel a bit like trying to build a house of cards. Without the ability to rely on the other ‘cards’ around you it is virtually impossible to build.

Interdependence. This is the essence of online business.

By: Steve Morris

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By Nisha Gragg;

Chatting on internet is a very motivational method of communicating with several people. This social telecommunications facility offered by the internet makes it possible for different people to share their ideas and beliefs with anyone who have come online. The Chat room offers a marvelous option for people to understand the cultures and ideology of others by chatting with them.

In online chat rooms, one can find several rooms classified according to age groups, interests and region. There are also other criteria of classification and chat rooms are formed basing on these understanding. Such rooms determine the subject category under which users can initiate a discussion. The subject, the age bracket or the gender determine the class of people entering into these rooms to chat. So, sharing of ideas has become easy and fun-filled. There are separate rooms for kids, adults and people belonging to a different culture altogether. People are known to talk on diverse topics and one finds a lot of suggestions and opinions while chatting with others. It enriches people and adds value in their lives.

Online chat is not just limited to sending or receiving of messages, like traditional telecommunications technology . The users can also make or receive calls to people sitting at the other end. It makes possible for people to make long distance calls to any place of the world. The entire process is based on cheap means of connectivity. It is not that people just make calls but they can also see them over the network with the aid of a web camera. The entire process is thus based on the lucrativeness of the method of call-making as well as sending messages.

With the introduction of this technology, the world has become a global village where it is found that anyone can communicate with others from any part of the world. Thus, intercontinental friendship is a very common feature of this system. Intercaste and inter-religion marriages also take place. The whole world thus becomes a better place with people opening up and living in a free world. The only criteria for this is that people should join in healthy chat rooms where wise people interact on a common understanding. It is true that, nowadays, the internet is being flooded with sites that offer degraded and meaningless chatting.

It is also true that online chatting is a low cost criteria. It is one method by which people can communicate with one another at a significantly low call cost. Now it is also possible for people to interact with others for a long duration of time. This is possible of the slashing in call cost that is involved in this process. The people to people interaction increases and it remains so even if they are staying in different countries. The services of this system are also up to the mark for messages are delivered instantly and there is absolutely no interruptions while chatting with people. This method of communication is just mind-blowing and has taken into the whole world like wild fire.

The services offered by this method of telephony is what makes the entire process so exciting. People can get involved in group conference and so a number of people can involve themselves in conferencing simultaneously. This makes the process unique and this technology is now being utilised by business organisations to become successful in their business ventures. It can be accessed just with internet connection and a computer.

By Jimmy Ray Purser
Courtesy of Cisco


As your smaller business' network traffic grows, getting faster switches isn't your only option. Jimmy Ray Purser says that paying attention to a network's quality of service -- by classifying packets as they enter your network -- can be just as important


The one thing that any network admin can tell you (besides a massive amount of Star Trek trivia) is the increase in network traffic and users over the years. Networks are like kids: they start small and grow big, then don't listen to what you have to say.



To keep up with the demand, vendors have been building faster switches with deeper buffers every single year. This is an example of Moore's Law at its finest. But is that enough? Of course, any account manager will say yes! Buy more Cisco, problem solved. But a realistic network engineer needs to consider the role quality of service will play in the network. Most people understand how 802.1p works. Diffserv seems to be the big unknown in the world of QoS.

The real term is differentiated services, but the alpha geek crowd just says diffserv. Diffserv is concerned with classifying packets as they enter the local network. This classification then applies to a flow of traffic where a flow is defined by five elements:

Source IP address
Destination IP
Source port
Destination port
Transport Protocol
A flow that has been classified or marked can then be acted upon by other QoS mechanisms. Multiple flows can therefore be dealt with in a multitude of ways, depending on the requirements of each flow: voice this way and data that way and so on.

Diffserv uses a code point (the cool way to say this is DSCP) to determine the per-hop behavior of the flow. There are 64 total DSCP values. They range from 0 through 63. Remember that a high DSCP value is not equal to a high QoS queue. However, understand that in the assured forwarded (more to come) there are three drop probabilities. The DSCP determines the per-hop behavior (PHB) of a flow.

Virus authors adapted to the changing computing environment by creating the e-mail virus. For example, the Melissa virus in March 1999 was spectacular. Melissa spread in Microsoft Word documents sent via e-mail, and it worked like this:

Someone created the virus as a Word document and uploaded it to an Internet newsgroup. Anyone who downloaded the document and opened it would trigger the virus. The virus would then send the document (and therefore itself) in an e-mail message to the first 50 people in the person's address book. The e-mail message contained a friendly note that included the person's name, so the recipient would open the document, thinking it was harmless. The virus would then create 50 new messages from the recipient's machine. At that rate, the Melissa virus quickly became the fastest-spreading virus anyone had seen at the time. As mentioned earlier, it forced a number of large companies to shut down their e-mail systems.

The ILOVEYOU virus, which appeared on May 4, 2000, was even simpler. It contained a piece of code as an attachment. People who double-clicked on the attachment launched the code. It then sent copies of itself to everyone in the victim's address book and started corrupting files on the victim's machine. This is as simple as a virus can get. It is really more of a Trojan horse distributed by e-mail than it is a virus.

The Melissa virus took advantage of the programming language built into Microsoft Word called VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications. It is a complete programming language and it can be programmed to do things like modify files and send e-mail messages. It also has a useful but dangerous auto-execute feature. A programmer can insert a program into a document that runs instantly whenever the document is opened. This is how the Melissa virus was programmed. Anyone who opened a document infected with Melissa would immediately activate the virus. It would send the 50 e-mails, and then infect a central file called NORMAL.DOT so that any file saved later would also contain the virus. It created a huge mess.

Computer Software Microsoft applications have a feature called Macro Virus Protection built into them to prevent this sort of virus. With Macro Virus Protection turned on (the default option is ON), the auto-execute feature is disabled. So when a document tries to auto-execute viral code, a dialog pops up warning the user. Unfortunately, many people don't know what macros or macro viruses are, and when they see the dialog they ignore it, so the virus runs anyway. Many other people turn off the protection mechanism. So the Melissa virus spread despite the safeguards in place to prevent it.

In the case of the ILOVEYOU virus, the whole thing was human-powered. If a person double-clicked on the program that came as an attachment, then the program ran and did its thing. What fueled this virus was the human willingness to double-click on the executable.

By : "HSW Newsletter Jul-08"

Strange as it may sound, the computer virus is something of an Information Age marvel. On one hand, viruses show us how vulnerable we are -- a properly engineered virus can have a devastating effect, disrupting productivity and doing billions of dollars in damages. On the other hand, they show us how sophisticated and interconnected human beings have become.
For example, experts estimate that the Mydoom worm infected approximately a quarter-million computers in a single day in January 2004. Back in March 1999, the Melissa virus was so powerful that it forced Microsoft and a number of other very large companies to completely turn off their e-mail systems until the virus could be contained. The ILOVEYOU virus in 2000 had a similarly devastating effect. In January 2007, a worm called Storm appeared -- by October, experts believed up to 50 million computers were infected. That's pretty impressive when you consider that many viruses are incredibly simple.­
When you listen to the news, you hear about many different forms of electronic infection. The most common are:
Viruses - A virus is a small piece of software that piggybacks on real programs. For example, a virus might attach itself to a program such as a spreadsheet program. Each time the spreadsheet program runs, the virus runs, too, and it has the chance to reproduce (by attaching to other programs) or wreak havoc.
E-mail viruses - An e-mail virus travels as an attachment to e-mail messages, and usually replicates itself by automatically mailing itself to dozens of people in the victim's e-mail address book. Some e-mail viruses don't even require a double-click -- they launch when you view the infected message in the preview pane of your e-mail software [source: Johnson].
Trojan horses - A Trojan horse is simply a computer program. The program claims to do one thing (it may claim to be a game) but instead does damage when you run it (it may erase your hard disk). Trojan horses have no way to replicate automatically.
Worms - A worm is a small piece of software that uses computer networks and security holes to replicate itself. A copy of the worm scans the network for another machine that has a specific security hole. It copies itself to the new machine using the security hole, and then starts replicating from there, as well.
In this article, we will discuss viruses -- both "traditional" viruses and e-mail viruses -- so that you can learn how they work and understand how to protect yourself.

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Internet Marketing is full of jargon designed to confuse and mystify a beginner. You can learn the old fashioned way through trial and error, or you can cheat and skip a chapter and read the Internet Marketing Jargon Buster from Lama Kalla. This article will explain some more of the common jargon.
Click
A click is where someone clicks on something - very simple - whether you click on an advert, a banner, or something else.
Click Through Rate
The number of clicks on a particular advert, i.e. how many people click through to your site. This is very important for you as an Internet Marketer. Why? Because you need to know how well your adverts are working. If you have a low click through rate then you may need to tweak your adverts or maybe even advertise in a different place. It might be that the place you are advertising in just isn't suitable for your product.
ClickBank,
Clickbank is an online marketplace with a huge catalog of products from a wide variety of publishers. It handles payments from customers and payments to affiliates. Clickbank is very much favored by Internet marketers because it is a fire and forget system. You can set up a website for your product, list it on Clickbank and then sit back and relax. Potential affiliates can pick up your product and sell it with no input from you. As they handle all the payments, all you need to do is receive the money and enjoy.
Conversion Rate
The conversion rate is how well your advert / website / sales letter converts, i.e. how many people who view your advert or visit your site go on to purchase your product. You need to know this because it has a big impact on your business. Firstly, it tells you how well your adverts are working, and secondly you can calculate from this how much you can afford to pay for your adverts.
There is a lot of jargon in the Internet Marketing world, and it's important for you to understand them in order to achieve the success you so desire.
How can you find out what all these weird and wonderful terms mean?
You can download the free Internet Marketing Jargon Buster from Lama Kalla today - claim your copy right now at http://www.GlossaryInternetMarketing.com
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The content of your website can determine the success of your website. For SEO purpose, we must make sure the content that we have on our website appeal to human visitors and Google robots alike. It is useless to have 100 keywords in a single page, because that will never work.
It would be wiser to create 100 pages with contents that revolve only around one keyword instead. With the latent semantic indexing, search engine are able to identify content that are built just for the sake of getting high ranking for certain keywords. You obviously don't want to be one of these people.
Search engines like Google place higher priority on websites that are filled with quality contents because they know no one will be happy to have junk websites listed as one of their search results.
One of the secret to have a better search engine position is simply by targeting keywords with lesser search volumes. These keywords usually have lesser competition and that makes them easier to target.
Just imagine if you have 50 pages of contents that are targeting these keywords and each of these keywords is pulling in 20 to 50 daily searches. That means you have at least 1000 daily traffic from daily searches from these keywords alone!
It's better to have high ranking for 50 keywords in a month instead of focusing all your effort to get a keyword that pulls in 3000 daily searches that takes 3 to 4 months to rank. It's a no brainer!
About the Author
Kusuma Widjaja is an online marketer and he wants to share the real Internet marketing secrets and strategy to get targeted web traffic for your website.

For those of you who don't know what an FFA site is, it's basically a website where you can post a link/add to your website for free. Generally it is also posted to many other sites at the same time and hopefully somebody sees your link...free advertising in other words. This also creates backlinks to your website. When you post a link, you are also giving permission (whether you know it or not) to receive confirmation e-mails back from the site owner. What seems to happen though is many people see this as free advertising and get angry when, not only do they not see a flood of sales come pouring in, but they start receiving other people's offers. I know when the first time it happened to me, I couldn't figure out what was going on and was frustrated at the results. Let's back up a moment and look at the bigger picture of what an FFA site is and its TRUE purpose. The true purpose of an FFA site is for the owner of that site to promote his/her business. It's really not just because he's a nice guy giving people a free advertising place. (If it were such a goldmine for pulling in sales, he would be doing it himself). That is just the bait, getting people to his site to post their links, thinking they are getting free advertising, so he can respond with "confirmation" of your link, and his business ad. Those confirmation e-mails are NOT spam. You had to agree to receive them in order to post your link. Who are reading these ads anyway? So is posting to FFA's a total waste of time? Not necessarily, you do get an occasional sale, people do go back to post their links and sometimes take a quick look through the links to see what's there while they're at it. So what's the answer? Get your own FFA site to promote your business. There are many excellent resources out there. I have found from personal experience however,that many of the services offering FFA's sites, offer a free version or a paid upgrade. The phrase "You get what you pay for" comes to mind with these. I've used several kinds and found that the paid upgrades more than paid for themselves in sales. Shop around however to compare between companies. You can promote any product through this method; information products, crafts, vitamins, whatever. You could have the very best on the entire internet, but if nobody sees your offer, it's not going to get the sales you desire. It takes traffic to get sales. These sites are options for driving those numbers to your site. Free classified ads sites are also in this same category with the same purpose and can be worth pursuing.
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By Valerie Garner - Owner and candlemaker of highly scented, quality soy candles, with hundreds of scents offered! http://www.joyfuldesignsinsoy.com

With so much information flying around about broadband, it is not surprising that users are becoming slightly confused about what they should expect from their deals. Here are a few answers to the most commonly asked questions.
One of the most common questions is why speeds do not match up with the speed they were promised when they signed up to the original deal. The answer is simple, connection speeds will vary considerably depending on the time of day you use it. Evenings are the busiest times as this is when most home users will be on the internet downloading and uploading.
Speeds will also vary depending on the item that you are downloading. Films require a lot longer to complete than a song would for example as the file is larger. As more people use their broadband to call friends and family abroad VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) which includes Skype has become very popular but takes longer and needs fast connections to use.
Tidying up your computer will also help improve the speed. As you surf and download your way through the internet, many files and viruses can find their way into your hard drive and simply erasing these can improve your connection speed. Many people compare broadband speeds but it is important to give yourself every chance of having those speeds and eliminating your computer of viruses is a must. You may want to get an expert to come and do this for you to ensure it is done thoroughly.
It is very frustrating for customers when the speeds they receive do not match the speed quoted to them by the operator. Asking the provider what the maximum and minimum speeds possible will give you a better indication as to what to expect from your broadband. The broadband speed test allows you to get an idea of the connection speeds in your area and once you know that, you can start to compare the various deals.
To ensure you get the most out of your broadband deal and achieve the fastest speeds, make sure your computer is free of viruses and unwanted files. Take the broadband speed test and find the speeds you should be getting and afterwards compare broadband deals from the leading providers.
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