Posted
on May 12, 2011, 4:53 am,
by tammydog,
under
Website Tips.
The unfortunate thing is that we are only secure if we are not attacked or worthy of being attacked. Hackers would prefer to attack a challenge. However, there are those who would do just about anything to crack into an unaware person’s computer and steal whatever lviagratle information there is and whatever little money they have.
As you browse, the internet leaves cookies on your computer. This does not give access to your hard drive, but some of them can store your private information, which is sent through a browser. The best way to deal with this is to clear your cookies as soon as possible.
Some browsers also collect information about you as you fill in forms. This is to make it easier to access later on. You may want to delete these also on a regular basis so that your personal information is not freely available. The best is to not enable auto-complete so that you protect your privacy a little more.
Some banks offer free security software which they maintain will prevent phishing and virus attacks on your PC. This is meant to preserve the information stored on your PC as well. How effective that is can only be seen by how hackers can get into any “armour”, should they put their mind to it.
Image: www.getclosure.co.za
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Over the weekend, search engine giant Google decided to tweak its algorithm so that search results would produce better content. The goal of this shift was to make good content rise in the search rankings and bad, spammy and unhelpful websites that rely on “black hat” SEO practices drop back a few pages: Great news for Internet users; Terrible news for “content mills”.
“Black hat” SEO (search engine optimization) refers to shady and unethical practices for driving traffic to a website. Many content sites, such as WiseGeek, EZine Articles, Suite 101 and Associated Content, that pay writers on revenue share engage in some of these practices by creating extremely similar pages or impostor sites to drive backlinks to their content. All of these took a serious hit after the algorithm change. This tweak is a great thing for web content, though. Content sites need to improve their quality if they want to remain relevant and that will be good for them, good for their users and good for the Internet in general.
Most users who are searching for answers or how-to articles online are very specific in their queries. They don’t want to type in “how to cook a turkey” and get a ton of results that simply use a combination of those words in text or tags and have literally nothing helpful to offer about the subject. They want to see video clips showing qualified people demonstrating how to actually cook a turkey or read clear, concise tutorials about how to do it themselves.
Sensing this trend, some content sites have already begun to shift away from writer-generated articles. Mahalo.com’s CEO Jason Calacanis gave a keynote speech detailing his company’s move to presenting content from credentialed experts, instead of freelance writers. Demand Media’s CEO Richard Rosenblatt defended his company’s content, saying that they consider themselves “very white hat” (above board in SEO practices) and that they are removing duplicate content from their sites to comply with Google’s change. Whether these adjustments will help them regain their standing in the eyes of Google’s spiders or not remains to be seen.
In the meantime, there is still helpful content out in the wild blue yonder of the Internet, even some good content on the sites mentioned above. The best way to find it, though, is to be very specific in searches and then to evaluate the website’s appearance. Sites that are ad-heavy, revenue-share based or unprofessional are probably not going to provide great information.
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Yovia is just getting ready to come out of beta. Before we open it up to the ‘masses’ we wanted to give the SEO community a chance to try it out. Because our content is so original and social, we’re getting great SEO results for articles written by our contributors. This is what we’re NOT looking for:
People that just want ‘backlinks’
Anything spammy at all
Blackhat, etc.
This is what we are looking for:
People or companies with a solid value proposition who need traffic
Interesting niches that would be interesting to our 7,000 contributors
Long-tail content
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Posted
on June 25, 2010, 7:38 am,
by Jalali,
under
Pay-per-click.
Not even a few years ago there was a clear distinction between watching television and surfing the web. The devices were different, the quality was different and in general we did one or the other. The 
TV and movies now can be viewed via a web browser
Many of the leading TV networks now offer streaming feeds of most shows, and sites like Hulu.com allow you to watch just about anything anytime.
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