Forms of e-mail fraud

1. Spoofing
2. Phishing for data
3. Bogus offers
4. Requests for help

Avoiding e-mail fraud

Due to the widespread use of web bugs  in email, simply opening an email can potentially alert the sender that the address to which the email is sent is a valid address. This can also happen when the mail is ‘reported’ as spam, in some cases: if the email is forwarded for inspection, and opened, the sender will be notified in the same way as if the addressee opened it.

E-mail fraud may be avoided by:

• Keeping one’s e-mail address as secret as possible.
• Using a spam filter.
• Ignoring unsolicited e-mails of all types, simply deleting them.
• Not giving in to greed, since greed is often the element that allows one to be “hooked”.

Many frauds go unreported to authorities, due to shame, guilty feelings or embarrassment.

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1. Content Matters: No matter what you write, keep in mind that it has the potential to reach a large audience and be beneficial to your company beyond any SEO benefits. Blogs, articles and on-site content are a chance to link your company to useful, interesting information about your industry. Well-written copy about intriguing topics is also more likely to be linked and shared by outsiders — increasing your page rank as well.

2. Write Compelling Headings: The titles of your articles and webpages are important — they are among the first things that can grab the reader’s attention. Instead of using a boring, generic heading, make sure that your heading is interesting while clearly explaining the content. Working a keyword into the heading is also a good idea.

3. Stay on Topic: It’s easy to write around a topic and begin drifting into tangents that are unrelated to your topic. Keep in mind that this is business writing and not a personal blog! While it’s OK to have some personality in your writing, your focus should always be on the topic you are writing about.

4. Ideal Keyword Length and Density: For website content and off-site articles for directory submission, content could be 300 to 1,000 words in length. The length of your article will largely be determined by the number of keywords you are using: you should use a keyword for every 50 to 100 words of content.

5. Don’t Stack Keywords: Some people cram all of their articles’ keywords into one section at the beginning of the article – often as part of a list. This looks unprofessional since all of your linked keywords will be running together on the page. Spread your keywords evenly throughout the article so they look more organic.

6. Add Keywords to the Bio: Whether you are writing a story for a magazine or submitting an article to an online directory, there will be an opportunity for you to add your biographical information. This is valuable real estate and another chance for optimization. Make sure that you include one keyword in your bio.

7. Write and Tag Hierarchically: Using the appropriate tags for your content will show Google and other search engines that it is professional and well-structured, leading to higher placements. Make sure you use the h1 tag for titles and the h2 tag for subheadings, etc. You should also apply this concept to your writing, putting the most compelling information up front.

8. Use META Descriptions: Making sure that your articles have META descriptions — 150 character descriptions of the content — that have keywords included. Including META descriptions is a great way to get Google to recognize your content and give it greater value.

9. Write Original Content: Search engines will punish sites that publish duplicate content that already exists online. Make sure that your content is fresh and original instead of just “copying and pasting” content from existing sources.

10. Choose Relevant Images: Having eye-catching images that are relevant to your content will grab the reader’s attention. You can use Creative Commons search tools like the one found at http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/creative-commons-image-search.htm to find intriguing images that are free to use without risking copyright infringement.

Source: www.submitexpress.net

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With our medical alarms, many, especially the seniors will love this system. Aside from it saves lives, it also gives the comfort any person that has health problem can get.

One of the companies that are providing such system is Phoenix Medical Alert. Their product and their three easy steps on how to use the system will surely make your day.

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This is important to keep in mind. There are some links that are good for traffic, there are some good for SEO, and there are some good for both. Links that provide both traffic and a rankings boost in the search engines are obviously great, but it is important to realize that just because a link gets good traffic, it doesnt mean that it is good for SEO.

There are many advantages of link building.

1. Link building helps in getting quality traffic from relevant sites which increases sales.
2. Also when there will be high quality incoming links the site will also be seen as a valuable resource.
3. Link building helps in creating awareness, visibility and credibility of your site.
4. The site also obtains wider search engine exposure.
5. It also helps the website get indexed by search engines.

Link building is a tedious task. Some considered it as a full time job. Nowadays there are freelancers and companies offering this type of service. You can outsource link building jobs. There are also emerging service where you can buy links

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As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

The acronym “SEO” can refer to “search engine optimizers,” a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term “search engine friendly” may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.

A lot of company nowadays have been sprouting here and there claiming to be the best company for search engine optimization. But there is only one seo company that I would like to recomment, Vast Vision.

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Having first appeared in September 1995 Inktomi was initially a pioneer of online search techniques and went on to power some of the leading web tools, notably MSN, HotBot, Looksmart and others, as well as a number of regional search engines. Dozens of other major web sites used Inktomi Enterprise Search to power their on-site search engines.

When it was launched, Inktomi claimed to have the largest web index of more than 1.3 million documents on the World Wide Web. It was created by Eric Brewer, then an assistant professor of computer science at University College of Berkeley, and graduate student Paul Gauthier. The project was initially funded by the US government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, but it became a commercial organisation in early 1996 and soon after it gained its first major customer with the HotBot search engine.

Soon afterwards, Inktomi removed the direct interface to its search engine from the web, opting instead to operate as a provider of search for other web portals, rather than directly competing with other sites. A major coup came with the agreement to power Yahoo!’s supplementary search results, and during the years of web boom at the end of the 90′s, the Inktomi Corporation went public and rapidly increased in value.

The company grew quickly, offering a variety of web search, e-commerce and enterprise search products, but then Inktomi suffered a serious of setbacks and business realignments, so that it moved to just focus purely on search technologies. In 2000 Inktomi lost their Yahoo! contract to Google and subsequently lost further market share when AOL and Netscape Search also moved their search indexes to Inktomi’s biggest rival.

During this time Inktomi was also the first major search engine to launch a paid inclusion service, whereby websites could submit pages on a subscription basis in return for regular and frequent re-indexing. The company’s acquisition by Yahoo at the start of 2003 heralded a new dawn for this pioneering search tool and although its technology is central to Yahoo!’s search engine database, the Inktomi search engine brand has now been absorbed and it has disappeared as a standalone search engine.

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The founder of the first Internet cafe, Eva Pascoe, was working on her PhD at the time.

She got the idea to mixing sipping coffee to surfing the web while sitting at one of coffee shops near the City University of London.

Cafe Cyberia started with half a dozen HP computers, connected to the Internet through dial-up modems that were able to transfer data at 9.6 kilobits per second.

As the first Internet cafe, Cafe Cyberia got tremendous publicity, and additional investments into the business from likes of Mick Jagger and Maurice Saatchi.

With the success of Cafe Cyberia, the Internet Cafe business got into a flying start, and there were over 60 similar cafes over the world by the Summer of 1995.

Ms Pascoe sold her stake in Cafe Cyberia (to three Korean investors) in 1998 and moved to shape another field of online business, online fashion commerce.

If you feel nostalgic, you can still find the original Cafe Cyberia from London’s West End, at Whitfield St., behind Goodge St. station. However, the cafe was renamed “Be the Reds” by the new Korean owners (“Be the Reds” is a supporting cheer for the South Korean national soccer team).

Although the first Internet cafe was launched in Europe, there had been similar activity already in the U.S. even before the launch of Cafe Cyberia.

SFnet, which was launched in San Francisco in 1991 (originally as a bulletin board), was not an Internet Cafe, but rather a network of 20 coin-operated computers providing a dial-up connection to the Internet with a 2400 baud modem.

The first actual U.S. Internet cafe (according to a 1995 Wall Street Journal article) was a Chicago cyber cafe called Suba Internet Center, launched in April 1995 by Todd Bodenstein and Alex Strasheim.

Suba was located at 2945 N. Broadway in Chicago, and was sold to to Bean.Net in 2000 by the founders.

Internet Cafe History 1995 – 1999

From the tens of cybercafes by mid-1995, the industry expanded into thousands by 1997.

Internet cafes not only became a natural way for travelers to send and check email, but also a way in which local residents got access to the latest software applications.

With the continuing success of ecommerce and related fields, high-profile entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his company easyGroup entered Internet cafe business in 1999 with the easyInternetCafe franchise.

By 2005, easyInternetCafe had become the best known and most successful Internet cafe franchise in the world.

Internet Cafe History 2000 – Today

In the U.S., the burst of the Internet bubble by late 2000 also changed the Internet Cafe industry overnight as the sources for new venture capital money virtually disappeared.

Also, the increasing success of portable computers and WiFi Internet access, combined with the fact that more and more people were having Internet access at home, resulted in fewer customers for the Internet cafes.

However, as a dynamic industry, many new cybercafes and many of the old ones started to offer a bit more targeted services than just coffee and computers, to bring in new customers.

For example, some cybercafes started to offer services primarily for gamers (and still do).

Typically, these cafes offer the latest computer games with state of the art computers.

The success of broadband network gaming brought the concept of LAN parties to these Internet cafes, as they organise gaming tournaments over broadband LAN connections.

By late 2002, the Internet gaming cybercafes had become a huge success around the world.

For example, according to some estimates, there were over 4,000 cybercafes in Taiwan by 2002, most of them focused on providing gaming.

In South Korea, the PC Bang (the South Korean name for internet gaming cafes) industry first came into existence in the mid 1990s.

Recently, it was estimated that there were over 22,000 PC Bangs (the name of Internet gaming cafes in South Korea) in South Korea at the beginning of 2006.

In addition, during January 2006, Intel, the global PC chip manufacturer, made another milestone into the Internet cafe history by opening a 120 computer PC Bang operation at Nowon-gu, in northern Seoul, South Korea.

However, as many Internet cafes in some countries have evolved into advanced gaming or business centers, the original cybercafe idea (of providing basic Internet access) is still a major growth story in many parts of the world.

India, for example, has over 50,000 Internet cafes with over 500,000 customers each month, according to some estimates. One Indian company alone, Sify Limited, which operates the iWay Internet cafe franchises, has over 3,100 cybercafes in 149 Indian cities.

One significant historic milestone in Internet cafe history has been the introduction of the Yahoo! Mail Internet Cafe Awards, awarded in September 2004, to celebrate the 10th birthday of cybercafe industry.

Source: http://www.internet-cafe-guide.com/internet-cafe-history.html

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1. Be professional. When you approach your boss, do not give threats and avoid ultimatums. You have to be courteous as much as possible. But do not beg either.

2. Consider your market value. A good way of preparing yourself for the negotiation is to research on what is your fair market value in terms of your skills and position. It is better for you to know if you are way behind what other people are receiving in some other companies within your locality.

3. Negotiate well. In this planet, everything is negotiable. So if you think it is fair for you to get a raise, go on and ask.

4. Highlight your accomplishments. Do you think you have provided a lot of achievements for the company? All companies always value their employees especially those who have excel in their post. During the meeting, you can explain your value in detail.

Asking for a raise is never been too easy. But the fact remains. If you think you need a raise, go get it.

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Good thing I found Windows Mail.

Windows Mail is an e-mail and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.

Unlike Outlook Express, Windows Mail is not considered to be a component of Internet Explorer. As such, it will not be made available for earlier Windows operating systems, while Windows Internet Explorer 7 was made available for Windows XP. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mail

I would like to share why I like Windows Mail:

Reading emails in one window

If you have a lot of email accounts and you want to monitor all emails coming from different accounts in one window, this application is for you. It is very easy to organize your emails by using folders and you can reply emails without logging into your web-based email account one by one.

If you want to read in offline mode

Have you experienced trying to get the cell phone number of your client in your email but found out that there is no internet connection and you can not open your email? One of the best things you can get from using this application is that you can read your emails again even if you do not have an internet connection. All your emails will be saved in your computer so you can re-open it anytime you want.

Organize your email and files

Another good reason why I like to use this application is because all the attachments are there together with the email. I do not have to download it and save it in a folder. The hassle of downloading it from your web-based email and saving it in your hard drive is that you will lose track of the file because the email that comes with it is separated from the file. With Windows Mail, you have the file and you have the email in one place.

Back up emails

Whether you will consider your emails in Windows Mail as your back up or the one in your web-based mail, it doesn’t matter. Bottom line is that you have a back up of your emails.

Contacts in one place

There are times you want to get a contact from one account and use it in your other account. You won’t be bothered anymore by shifting from one account to the other because everything is in one place.

There are a few other benefits in using Windows Mail for you to find out. Each of us has different preferences but I bet you will like this application.

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