Foreword By The Editor

In this article by Louise Goldstein, a number of important security issues related to the modern Internet, or Web 2.0, as it is commonly known nowadays, are brought into focus. Modern technology is incredibly complex but is now in general use everywhere and its ubiquity is part of the problem. The bad guys are still out there and they are finding ever more ways to attack us. Vigilance has never been more important than now.
Mike Alexander
Author of ‘Internet Traps, Ripoffs And Pitfalls‘

The Modern Internet

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The Internet has given birth to a lot of new possibilities. It is a worldwide marketplace, a communication gateway, a networking venue, and a lot more. However, it has also opened us up to new dangers: viruses, trojans, and many other kinds of Internet malware are all over cyberspace, ready to launch an attack on whoever is vulnerable.

The first line of defense is knowing the enemy. So take a look at these latest Internet security threats. You just might meet one of them one of these days.

Scareware

Malware today are often disguised as anti-virus software and anti-spyware. Take, for instance, Vista Spyware 2011, Windows Restore, and Microsoft Security Center 2011. These software pretend to scan your computer then pretend to find viruses and registry problems and other stuff that should scare you into paying for the software to clean up your computer. (That’s why they are called scareware: because they scare you).

But in truth, the viruses and registry issues were never there in the first place, so you end up spending money to fix troubles your computer never really had.

LizaMoon

This is another scareware that is causing problems for millions of Internet users.

As of March 31, 2011, this malware has been found crawling on more than 500,000 web sites and has shown to be one of the most rapidly spread virus attacks in Internet history. What is worse, this virus not only tricks you into paying for basically useless software, it has also been reported to drain its victims’ credit cards.

Mobile Phones And Social Networks

Mobile phones and social networks are popular new targets for online attacks. Facebook and Twitter users are particularly vulnerable because the messages that contain malicious links come labeled with the names of people they know and trust, so they are more likely to click on these links.

URL Shorteners have also become common tools for driving people to malicious sites, as you never really know what you are clicking on until you reach the site in question.

Mobile phones are popular targets these days. After all, as Denis Maslennikov, a senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, explains, “Any mobile device, be it a smartphone or a basic mobile phone, has a direct connection to its owner’s money via their mobile account”.

Router Attack

While you are worrying about the safety of your computer or your web site, by the way, you might want to worry about your router as well. Hackers who have become bored with taking down Web servers through traffic flooding are now shifting their attention to routers, taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of the Border Gateway Protocol to take servers down. Unfortunately, there is not as yet a quick-and-easy way to protect routers from hacking.

In addition to implementing tighter authentication processes, filtering direct traffic better, and getting tools to detect and trace attacks, ISPs and carriers need to band together and, as a group, implement a protocol that will tighten overall security. This will prevent hackers from infiltrating a secured ISP by tunneling through a trusted-but-less-secure ISP network.

Protecting Yourself

For most of us, the best and easiest way to protect ourselves online is by investing in good quality Internet protection software. If you are low risk, meaning you don’t download a lot of stuff and seldom click on links, you can survive on a free one and there are many good free anti-malware programs from reputable companies out there.

However, if you love to download files, be they movies, PDFs, and most especially, software, or if you like to click links on Twitter or Facebook, you should definitely invest in a good, paid Internet security software. Never trust pop-ups that claim to find more problems than your reputable antivirus has warned you about.

Malware may have grown more sophisticated these days, but anti-virus companies have likewise grown smarter. There is no reason why you should be out in the cold when it comes to online protection.

About The Author

To be sure you are always protected you should have antivirus software installed on your computer. Antivirus review sites will keep you updated with the latest information on viruses.

Foreword By The Editor

This article by Walter J. Xavier covers the issue of safely backing up your important data and looks at the three most popular and secure methods of doing so for the average computer user. Obviously each has its advantages and disadvantages and these are all clearly spelled out in order for you to be able to choose the most appropriate method for your own circumstances. For further information be sure to follow the link shown in the About The Author section at the end of the article.
Mike Alexander
Author of ‘Internet Traps, Ripoffs And Pitfalls‘

Trends

If you take a look at historical trends, you’ll notice that more people than ever are saving vital information on their computer hard drives. Photographs, sensitive financial information, vacation plans, family recipes that are generations old, and other extremely valuable data is being stored digitally on computer hard drives. Obviously, it is important to keep this information backed up and safe, but which is best method for doing it? I’ll go over the three most popular methods in this article, so you can easily choose the right method for you.

Internal Hard Drive

What is probably the most widespread method of consistent backup is through the use of two internal hard drives. One hard drive is used as your main one, while the other is used as as the backup hard drive. Your computer is set up to run automatic backups on a regular basis in the background. You won’t even need to know this is happening in order for it to function properly. You use your computer just as you normally would and it does it’s thing, keeping your data safe.

Many people are satisfied with this option. There are, however, a couple of drawbacks. For example, if your computer were to be stolen, this would obviously mean both your hard drives would be gone. This includes both copies of all your important data. Another potential problem is physical damage to your computer due to fire or flood, or some other calamity. Any such damage is likely to affect both drives, which could potentially destroy all your important files. For this reason, many people are turning to an external hard drive.

External Hard Drive

This second option, then, is to obtain an external hard drive. These have some benefits, as well as a couple of disadvantages. The benefits are that you can keep your external hard drive separate from your main computer, which will afford some protection against theft or physical damage. Another benefit is you can use your external hard drive for more than one computer. This can come in very handy if you are upgrading to a better machine and want to transfer all your data. Some downsides are that they can be expensive, and they require a little bit more effort to backup your data.

Online Storage

One more option is to backup your data online. There are plenty of services that will save your data in a secure, online location. You pay a monthly or yearly fee and set up your machine to backup your data to a URL on a regular basis. This gives you the simplicity of an external hard drive while providing the protection of keeping your backed up data separate from your main computer.

A couple of downsides to this are that you have to pay on a regular basis and you’ll need a fairly fast connection to the Internet should you need to access any of your data. If you happen to have a slow connection, or not connection at all, your data may be unreachable.

Summary

Of course, you aren’t limited to only one of these methods. Use whichever you think is best, or any combination. The most important thing is that you have some kind of backup in place to protect your data.

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Foreword By The Editor

This useful, and for some enlightening, article by Meagan Gray covers the somewhat entangled topic of search engines (and, strictly speaking, search directories) and their submission policies. Understanding the coverage of the different companies, as well as their relationships with each other, is important because you need to avoid a lot of time-wasting activity that would otherwise be inevitable without this knowledge.
Mike Alexander
Author of ‘Internet Traps, Ripoffs And Pitfalls‘

Statistics

Over 90% of US search engine traffic is driven by Yahoo! or Google search technology. You may hear the names of several other search engines but most of  them are powered by the preceding search engines in some way. For example, Yahoo! is the owner of Inktomi, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb. All three of these search engines are driven by the same database as Yahoo! Search.

Several meta search engines likewise drive a decent amount of traffic. Meta search engines do not crawl the net, but merge the outcomes of other search engines. If you’re indexed by the top few engines then you’ll likewise appear eventually in meta search results. Vivisimo is an example of a meta search engine.

Inbound Links

If you wish to publish your site then these are the places where you can. Google powers about half of US based web search. Yahoo! powers over 40% of US based internet search. This calls for a free Yahoo! id. Yahoo! also has a paid inclusion program that goes by the term of Overture Site Match. Ask Jeeves/Teoma influences about 5% of web search. It is the only main search engine that does not have a free site submit option. Eventually they’ll list your website in their search engine results when you have a few inbound links. Gigablast powers a much smaller portion of searches than most other engines but is quick to catalog pages if the site submit is functioning.

Free Links

You will find lots of free links here and there on the Internet. Some good examples are: leaving testimonies for individuals (occasionally they’ll connect to your site), offering donations to help out other web sites or organizations, placing your website in your signature in search engine optimization (SEO) discussion forums (or any other kind of forum), leaving comments on web logs (journals such as Fast Company, Inc., or any of the other thousands of blogs on the web). Some of them undergo redirects, but some do not. Writing articles that you post to websites like Buzzle or sites linked to your topic. Any search engine well worth being listed in will often record your website if you get a few incoming links. Search engines help keep your site inside their index in case you have several decent inbound links.

Submitting

If you want more people to visit your website, you need to understand how to make it search engine friendly and publish your URL to several different search engines. Posting a web site to directories is a really time consuming procedure. It takes hours to find and then submit your site to every directory manually and also to fill ‘captchas’ and publish. Lots of directories have some terms and conditions to consent sites. If you don’t comply with them, your site won’t get authorized or reviewed. So, at all times it makes sense to engage with a superior web site submission service provider that may distribute your website effectively, based on their own way. Site marketing is really not that difficult. You just need a little bit of effort, a little bit of thought, along with a reasonable amount of patience.

About The Author

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Foreword By The Editor

In this article by John P Haskel, a few different ways for you to get targeted traffic to your website or landing page are covered. If you need more in-depth guidance, or more information about a particular facet of traffic generation, be sure not to miss the links you will find in the paragraph headed About The Author.
Mike Alexander
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Get More Traffic

While there are many different ways of getting traffic to your website, follow the techniques listed below if you want to boost your traffic as well as increase your search engine ranking for your targeted keywords.

Google AdWords

If you have a new website and you need to start getting targeted traffic immediately, the fastest way to do it is by using Google AdWords. The only problem about using AdWords is, if you don’t do it the right way, you’ll end up losing money and not get the targeted traffic you need for your website. In order to find the best ways to use Google this way then simply search the Internet to find e-books on how to properly utilize AdWords.

S.E.O.

The next best way to get targeted traffic to your site is to make sure your landing page (or indeed, your whole website) is perfectly optimized for the search engines. When we talk about optimizing web pages, we’re talking about having proper keyword targeted phrases throughout the page. Again, you can find e-books and information online that can show you the proper way to optimize your web page.

Joint Ventures

Another great way of getting targeted traffic your website is by having other people drive the traffic for you. You can do this by utilizing joint ventures. This is where you find other people in your niche who are willing to promote your product for you in return for reward. You will however, need to compensate these individuals with some type of commission percentage or something similar. Fifty percent commission is standard and, don’t forget, you only need to pay these people when they generate a sale for you.

Forums And Blogs

One technique that has been used for years and will continue to be effective for a long while yet, is that of posting comments in forums and on other people’s blogs. Although I’m sure you’ve heard of before, I will explain the best ways to do this.

Every time you leave a comment on a blog, you will see a few boxes where you need to enter information. Where it says name, enter your targeted keyword. Be sure to enter a valid email address and where it says website enter the URL you wish to promote. Then simply leave a real comment that relates to the blog post. The URL will then be tied to the name you entered. So every time you leave a comment it will create a back link. Now, you will receive traffic from the link itself and it will also help boost your search engine ranking for your targeted keywords.

Your Signature File

Most forums will not allow you to place a link in a comment or question that you post on their site. They will however, often allow you to place links in your signature. Then you can set your signature file to appear every time you post a comment or question. Which means, every time you ask a question or leave an answer to someone else’s question you will be building a link back to your site. You should, of course, join as many forums as you can and post on each one at least once a day.

Article Marketing

Finally, you should begin utilizing article marketing. This is where you create articles and post them in article directories or anywhere else online you’re able to publish an article. And in each article be sure to include a resource box which has a link that points back to your website.

About The Author

To find out exactly how we do Search Engine Submission, visit my website about Search Engine Marketing.

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Foreword By The Editor

This article by Hornet Thomson is basically about considering a bluetooth wireless keyboard and covers all the pros and cons as well as ending with a specific recommendation. If you find the subject of interest, be sure to read About The Author (last paragraph) and follow his links.
Mike Alexander
Author of ‘Internet Traps, Ripoffs And Pitfalls‘

Security

Bluetooth wireless technology offers a highly secure link to your keyboard and mouse, much more so then the older wireless keyboards, anyway up to 28 feet away. It keeps you connected, saves you time, and simplifies your life in ways you’ve never thought possible. I use laptops exclusively and never a desktop, and even I love the flexibility a bluetooth keyboard can give you!

Battery Power

Bluetooth technology is able to pipe a signal over 10 meters in distance. Wireless keyboards in general work on battery power and are fairly heavy in their consumption because they are generally used a lot of the time. With this in mind its best to get the rechargeable type of batteries.

Because of technical progress in battery life and advances in networking via wireless technology, it is almost certain that very soon every single piece of  hardware that needs a communication pathway to your computer (and back again) will be wireless.

Why Bluetooth?

The advantage of bluetooth rather than infra-red wireless keyboards is that bluetooth makes connecting with your computer a piece of cake in comparison. That’s one reason why bluetooth has become the standard in most computers today.

The critical reason why bluetooth is so much better is that infra-red utilizes radio signals and consequently experiences a great deal of interference. It is also very limited in it’s range capacity.

Smaller Is Better

I know what the average working area is like: papers scattered everywhere, cables, mouse pads etc. With smaller keyboards, a lot more freedom is experienced and a tidier office results.

Hot Keys

Hot keys might be of significant importance to you and, if so, you should search for a keyboard with them installed as an extra. If you are unsure what a hot key is, it is a button on the keyboard that has the ability to run a program just by tapping that button one time. Examples of this may be your email program, or perhaps Internet Explorer, or something else you use repeatedly. A hot-key simply makes it faster and easier to get to where you want to go.

Check This Out

Rocketfish Bluetooth Keyboard RF-ABTKB (can be used for PC or Apple). Technical Details: you can use this bluetooth wireless keyboard anywhere up to 30 feet away. This amazing low profile keyboard with great bounce back that’s built for fast typing has ‘one-touch’ access to multimedia functions, 90 days battery life on 2 AA batteries included (not a long life really but get the rechargeable batteries and save yourself lots of visits to the local shop for new batteries). A recent buyer of the Rocketfish Bluetooth Keyboard RF-ABTKB had this to say about the purchase: “I had a few initial connection problems because it kept dropping out of sync. After a bit of research the problem was easily fixed. Other than this, it works fabulously well and is very smooth to the touch, which I adore. Its got keys suited to both the PC and to the Mac, so it has best of both worlds, you could say. Overall, an unbelievable buy and ten out of ten from me! After getting over the teething problems, I fell in love with this keyboard. It’s just so smooth and my fingers glide over the keys.”

About The Author

Where is the best place to buy Bluetooth wireless keyboards? I’ll show you now. For more info on other wireless products: wireless mouse and keyboards.

Foreword By The Editor

This article by Karla Whitmore gives some sound advice on generating an income using Google AdSense with three straightforward and easy-to-apply strategies. If you get something from this piece, why not follow the links in Karla’s bio (About The Author).
Mike Alexander
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Making Money

AdSense is not as complicated as the myriads of books and websites would have you believe. In fact, there are just three things you need to know in order to make money with AdSense. Start by reading this easy-to-follow article.

Content

AdSense is directly involved with content. Your first and most obvious consideration will be where you can place the content. Blogs are popular, but you can also use a website, your own or a site that allows you to upload your content and either make straight profit from Google, or one that offers a revenue-sharing program. Many people choose to have blogs and websites while taking advantage of content sites at the same time. This makes it possible to make more money in a shorter time period. Just remember that content is not just about writing. Please the customer with images and video, too.

Relevance

The content on your pages must be relevant to the searches done on Google. This is where choosing a niche comes in. Google AdSense displays ads on your pages according to the keywords and content you provide. If you are not consistent with keywords or you choose an unpopular niche, the ads displayed will not be relevant and your visitors will not be compelled to click on them. Without the clicks, you will not be paid. So choose a niche or niches that people really care about. Choosing a niche that you care about is just as important. After all, your knowledge and passion will show in the content and those who trust in your expertise are much more likely to click through relevant advertising.

Promotion

It doesn’t matter how great your relevant content is if people are not visiting your places on the web. A store can have all the best products in the world, but if people don’t know about it, it won’t see any profit. You have to promote the content you have worked so hard to create. If your intention involves making money with AdSense without spending money on marketing, you can promote by ‘pinging’ or letting engines know when you have created new content, by joining and utilizing social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Digg or StumbleUpon, and by using good SEO strategies in your sites, blogs and all other content.

Summary

These are just the basics of making money with AdSense, but these tips are all you need to get moving. Experience, passion and need are important when it comes to creating content and using Google Ads to make a profit from working at home.

About The Author

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The following article by Justin Harrison covers the very important subject of search engine spiders, what they are and what they do. Automation is crucial when it comes to effectively indexing the World Wide Web and the search engine spiders are one of the most important elements in the process. Be sure to read his author bio in the last paragraph and to follow the links there if you want to explore further.
Mike Alexander
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Spiders And Crawlers

Search engines employ automated processes or robots, casually known as ‘spiders’ or ‘crawlers,’ to find various sites. They’re an important part of the whole internet infrastructure, but why is that so? What do they do exactly?

Robots actually have the same basic functionality that earlier browsers had. Just like these early browsers, search engine robots do not have the ability to do everything. Robots cannot get past password protected areas, for example. They do not understand frames, Flash movies, images or JavaScript. Even if you use a robot, you have to click the buttons on your website. They can cease to function while using JavaScript navigation or when indexing a dynamically generated URL. A search engine robot retrieves data and finds information and links on the web.

Gaining Visibility

The ‘Submit URL’ function places the URL into a list the robots are going to explore. Even without submitting your URL directly, robots will try to find your site by following links. That’s why building visibility through a web of links is so important.

Links are collected from every page that is visited. These links are used in following those links to other pages. The robot gets around the World Wide Web by following links from one place to another.

When the robots return, the information they gathered is assimilated into the search engine’s database. Through a complex algorithm, this data is interpreted and web sites are ranked according to how relevant they are to various topics that would be searched for. Some of the bots are quite easy to spot. Google’s is the appropriately named Googlebot, whereas Inktomi utilizes a more ambiguous bot named Slurp. Others may be difficult, if not impossible, to identify at all.

Data Gathering And Processing

Robots ‘read’ your site by collecting data on any visible text, on tags you may have in the coding of your page, and on any links available. These are the things that determine what the search engines ‘think’ your content is about, so these are the things you really need to pay attention to when building a site that you want to have high visibility in search results.

The search engine sorts the information that has been delivered to the databases which has become a part of the search engine and directory ranking process. This allows it to display the results.

Databases are updated periodically. Robots visit often to find changes to your pages so that the latest information is available. The way that the search engine is set up determines how the number of visits you get is calculated. This can vary with different search engines. If your website is down or experiencing a large amount of traffic, the robot may not be able to access the page they are trying to visit. The website may not be re-indexed when this occurs. It depends  how frequently your site is visited by the robot. In the hope that your site will be accessible again, the robot will re-visit your site to see if it has become accessible.

About The Author

Justin Harrison is an internationally recognized Internet Marketing Consultant who provides world class SEO Services to website owners. For more information visit: http://www.seorankings.co.za.

Foreword By The Author

The World Wide Web (WWW), unbeknown to many, was actually a European innovation. It was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee, and was created in 1990 while he was working as a scientist for CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Some people, short on knowledge about how ‘cyberspace’ developed, think he invented the Internet itself, which of course, he definitely did not. The Internet was already in existence (and thriving) and had grown out of ARPAnet, a research network founded (and funded) by the U.S. military. But Internet protocols (the ‘rules’ governing how data is to be transmitted and received) were defined by obscure prefixes such as ‘gopher://’, ‘wais://’, ‘ftp://’, etc. These, and others, are still in use but, because of the WWW, no longer dominate as they once did. Usenet (‘news://’) is still popular though, as is SMTP, one of the original protocols for the most popular (and still fastest growing) of all information dissemination systems, the ever ubiquitous ‘email’.
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The Original Internet

Prior to the WWW, the Internet consisted mainly of thousands of sets of individual files and text-based messages transmitted by the various transport protocols mentioned above. Most were categorized and stored in databases on computers housed in universities across the USA and around the world. They were accessible only by those who understood the protocols and the intimidatory command systems necessary for their operation.

The Birth of the Web

What Tim Berners-Lee introduced to the Internet, and named the World Wide Web, was the ability to ‘link’ data together, whether that data was located in files on the same server or on servers half a world away. He did this by bringing together three main elements: HTTP—the WWW protocol; HTML—the ‘language’ of the web; and the URL system—for ‘addressing’ websites anywhere in the world (a website being simply an area of disk space on a computer). The use of these three elements would transform the Internet into what he called “a single, global information space”. It would allow, for the first time, transmission and retrieval of ‘pages’ that could each consist of many files. These might be graphics files, text files, sound files, or indeed any other type of file, since the only restriction would be in the application that could interpret the language and present the results as viewable pages (these applications came to be known as ‘browsers’). Thus rich, interactive, multimedia documents, each capable of being linked to any other file on the Internet, suddenly became accessible to everyone.

The Vision

His vision of the web was, in his own words, “about anything being potentially connected with anything. It is a vision that provides us with new freedom, and allows us to grow faster than we ever could when we were fettered by the hierarchical classification systems into which we (formerly) bound ourselves. It leaves the entirety of our previous ways of working as just one tool among many. It leaves our previous fears for the future as one set among many. And it brings the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds.” *

One of the analogies he used to explain what he meant was how a strong smell of coffee could trigger a response in his mind and instantly transport him back to a small room over a corner coffeehouse in Oxford, England, where he once studied. The brain, and therefore the human mind, works by using a web-like structure of connections, or links, he reasoned, and therefore the nearer his ‘global information space’ could come to using a similar structure, the more viable—and versatile—it would be. It would also, like the mind, be the ultimate expression of freedom, with no governing body or stultifying bureaucracy to restrict its development.

The Commercial Web

He foresaw the rise of commercialism on the Internet but welcomed it as inevitable anyway. The anti-commercial bias evident among some academics, particularly those who had used the Internet prior to the introduction of the World Wide Web, was not something he subscribed to.

He was nevertheless wary of the potential for predatory behavior by some parts of the business sector and his work as head of the WWW Consortium, the body set up to lead the web to its full potential, must inevitably have involved pressure being applied to his philosophy from time to time. But his vision was clear and incorruptible. He never considered using his ownership of such unique intellectual property for personal commercial gain. As it turned out though, even he was surprised by the speed and scope of entrepreneurial exploitation of the web. Its potential as a new marketing medium was taken up with almost evangelical fervor and it became firmly established almost overnight.

Newcomers immediately started to get exasperated by the seeming lack of structure they found as they tried to cope with this new non-hierarchical entity. “Who’s in charge of this thing?” marketers asked, and “Where’s the directory of participants?”. This led to the establishment of a whole new industry in its own right, as attempts were frantically made to categorize and map the web.

Search Engines and Portals

Search engines and directories (or portals, as they have come to be known) swiftly came into being and those that gained dominance soon started marketing their services as being indispensable to the ‘surfing’ public. (The irony is that the very term ‘surfing’ sprang from the fact that hopping from one site to another via their links was analogous to the way surfers hopped on a wave not knowing where it would take them but simply to enjoy the ride.) If they were even remotely as reliable as telephone directories, these claims to indispensability might have some justification. But they’re not, and never will be. Both large and small portals and search engines can sometimes be extremely useful tools, of course, but that’s basically all they are, helpful tools, among many other helpful tools. One reason is that the web is growing and evolving at such a phenomenal pace that it’s impossible to keep up with developments. The major search engines and search directories that most people use when trying to find things don’t even come close to categorizing and recording everything. Nor do they, as things are now, have a hope of ever doing so.

Which is one of the reasons why website developers who recognize these facts devote special pages of links to other sites. They understand the non-hierarchical structure of the web, where any data can be linked to any other. So they provide links to other information that their visitors might find useful, thereby enhancing the usefulness of their own site.

The Way Forward

The World Wide Web, precisely as its creator Tim Berners-Lee predicted, has become such a vast and rapidly growing network of sites that practically every topic and subject under the sun is represented on it somewhere.

The fact that there is no official map of what data is available and where it can be found, is sometimes a source of great frustration though, both for users of the Internet, and those who wish to present information for them to find. The surest way to improve the situation for everyone is for website authors and managers to recognize the validity of Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision and to respond to link exchange requests in as positive a way as possible. Even the big search engines and portals are at last beginning to recognize the wisdom of doing so. I predict that the number of incoming and outgoing links a site has will soon become a major factor that they will consider when ‘ranking’ it in their search results.

© Mike Alexander 2002

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* Weaving The Web by Tim Berners-Lee 1999. ISBN 0 75282 090 7

Foreword By The Author

What are ValuePaks? It’s the term we coined to describe a collection of software and/or ebooks focused on a particular theme or market segment and specially put together to sell at extreme bargain rates. There are currently six of them but more will be added as time goes by so as to widen the field and to keep the selection fresh for our affiliate sales force. Come back often to see the latest additions.
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Bronze ValuePaks

The first in this collection is called the Motivation And Inspiration ValuePak, which is centered around the theme the title describes and consists of fifty valuable ebooks covering the subject from a variety of angles. The second is the Self Improvement For Success ValuePak, which is a similar concept and, once again, the title is descriptive of its content. This is also made up of fifty ebooks. Bronze ValuePaks sell at the amazing price of only $7.00 each.

Silver ValuePaks

The third is called Webmaster Tools (The Ultimate Collection) ValuePak, which almost exclusively consists of software, much of which is extremely useful, while the fourth in the series is called the Foreign Language Phrase Books ValuePak, which is made up entirely of ebooks. These two Silver ValuePaks sell for just $14.00 each.

Gold ValuePaks

The Web Advertising And Promotion ValuePak comes next, followed by Great Kitchen Recipes, both of which are Gold ValuePaks which are fantastic bargains at only $21.00 apiece.

Every one of these special collections was created exclusively for 101 Internet Answers and can only be bought through an appointed affiliate. Every one of them also represents extreme value such as you are very unlikely to find elsewhere.

Reviews

We shall be reviewing them individually in future articles so that you can get a greater appreciation of their value but if you have a particular current interest in any one (or more) of them, just click on its link below to get more information.

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