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Bad Behavior

Posted by Michael

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Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions like Akismet by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.

This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

Bad Behavior is working in a completely different way than any ohter spam solution out there. Instead of merely looking at the content of potential spam, Bad Behavior analyzes the delivery method as well as the software the spammer is using.

This way, Bad Behavior stop spam attacks even when nobody has ever seen the particular spam before.

Bad Behavior is designed to work alongside existing spam prevention services to increase their effectiveness and efficiency. Whenever possible, you should run it in combination with a more traditional spam prevention service like Akismet.

Installing and configuring Bad Behavior on WordPress is very simple and takes only a few minutes. No configuration at all is needed. Simply turn it on and stop worrying about spam!

To download ‘Bad Behavior’, – go here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/

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Beginning in the year 2002, blogs moulded the online marketing world.

While most people at that time started with various blogging systems, eventually most of them shifted to WordPress. WordPress has become so much more since a powerful website CMS that emerged from the need for a better blogging systems.

If you read any popular blogging tips online, WordPress is often positioned as a tool that well,  -creates a blog. But an increasing number of marketers are finding that you can also use it as the most important tool to upon which you can grow a profitable business empire.

The most powerful function of WordPress itself lies in its ability to manage large amounts of text, audio and video content. After a dozen pages it becomes difficult to manage a static HTML site. Although you can use template-driven software as well like SBI or DreamWeaver, nothing beats the ease of WordPress.

Using premium blogging tools you can easily transform create a static website, an article directory, a WordPress based membership site system, a complete e-commerce site, an auction sites, a portfolio site and so much more. As a matter of fact you can also just about use it for anything.

Besides that, Search Engine Optimization is another important element. By default, WordPress is pretty good at optimizing and creating SEO friendly content. However you can also get more serious and utilize simple WordPress plugins to further increase your SEO rankings and get better Yahoo or Google rankings.

However the best thing about WordPress is its flexibility. You can easily switch between WordPress themes, and improve its functions by using plugins and even some custom programming. It’s free and have I mentioned before?

If you aren’t using WordPress you should. The learning curve has reduced substantially in the past 3 years. At the moment it’s so easy to use even a six-year old kid can figure it out. To power your online business, go ahead and use WordPress!

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As a member you’ll get tons of step-by-step video tutorials on how to use WordPress, web 2.0 technology, search engine optimization, making money from Google AdSense and affiliate marketing, and so much more. Get more information here:

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Akismet

Posted by Michael

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Akismet, developed by Matt Mullenweg the founder of Automattic, Inc., is perhaps the most important plug-in on my blogs.

Spam comments is a huge problem with a WordPress blog, but luckily akismet come preinstalled with WordPress. All you have to do, is to activate it and insert your WordPress API. Do not share your API; – It’s like a password.

The names is a contraction of Automatic Kismet, and by installing it, you should never have to worry about spam again. The only other spam plugin you might need is Bad Behavior. In fact you should disable any other spam plugins you might use, as they most likely will reduce the effectiveness of Akismet.

When a new comment is submitted to your site, it is submitted to the Akismet web service as well. Here it will be run through hundreds of tests and return a positive or negative result.

When the plugin detects a spam comment, it saves it in your database for 15 days, so that you have the chance to check it out manually.

The beauty of the system is that it needs no maintenance at all. Just plug it in, insert your WordPress API and you are ready to go.

The plug-in works against spam in any language, so don’t worry if your site is in a non-English language.

Akismet comes with both a license for personal as well as for commercial use. The personal license is free, the commercial comes with a very modest fee.

To download Akismet, – go here: http://akismet.com/download/

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4 Ways of Making Money Online

Posted by Michael

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If you are still new to Internet Marketing, let me take you for a short tour around this brand new, exciting world of Internet Marketing – by first showing you some 4 of many ways people do to make money online.

Here you are!

Affiliate Marketing.

This is by far one of the most-used marketing methods online. Basically, you refer prospects to the principal or sales person online in the shoes of an affiliate for a percentage of commissions.

You are not really the sales person here, but merely a referrer or middle man. You refer while the principal does all the selling to the prospect you refer. If the prospect buys as a result of your referral efforts, you can get a percentage of the commission. If it is a digital product, your percentage of commission can range from 40% to 75%!

This is very good, if done right, since you do not need to create your own product or service – thus you save time simply by referring prospects!

Resell Rights.

This is one of the recent Internet Marketing fads that have been going on for the past 3 to 4 years. In a nutshell, you can buy and resell a product and keep 100% of the profits (of course, if the product has Resell Rights).

This is a benefit that affiliate marketers do not have. In addition, you can possibly earn back-end residual income by reselling as many copies of a digital product as possible as long as you have the product’s contents re-branded to your own affiliate link.

Selling your own Information Product.

This is one sure fire way of making money online. You have full control over your product’s terms and conditions and own full ownership over it.

You can choose to convey Resell Rights to your product or leverage your marketing efforts on an army of affiliates.

However, you must have the skills and expertise to create your own Information Product.

If you are talented, knowledgeable and have good writing skills, this is for you.

Start a mailing list.

With your own huge mailing list of subscribers, you can endorse products as a Joint Venture partner for commissions or sell advertising space within your eZine issues.

The more subscribers you have and the more responsive they are, the higher your sales conversion rates each time you endorse a product or service and the higher you can charge advertisers for buying ad space within your eZine.

These are just 4 ways of making money online. While there are certainly more ways to profit online, these four options are the easiest to achieve by most individuals out there.

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Sidewalk Chalk Guy

Posted by Michael

Absolutely Amazing!

Sidewalk Chalk Guy
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See more @ http://gprime.net

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Front cover of the Playboy magazine , release October 16. 2009
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Moving Day

Posted by Michael

We are moving the site to an other host, so things might get a little messed up.
We will try our best to get things straighten out as quick as possible.

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