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9 Ways to Become Masterful Receiver
August 26, 2011
1. Did you know, what you put out you get back? Yes indeed. When you give with love, you create the experience of love in your own life? It comes back to you. Allow the Universe to love you back… in fact expect it!
2. Ease into your own worthiness. It’s not necessary to argue or defend your deserving. You came to this earth deserving — it’s key for you to remember this truth.
3. Remember to show true appreciation when someone gives to you. Too often we say, oh – you shouldn’t have! Practice saying, thank you with grace.
4. Are you consciously receiving? If not, know you have that power. It’s a choice, and you can allow yourself more love, beauty, wealth and true abundance in your life. You are a powerful creator, and create heaps of prosperity if you allow it!
5. With that said, create affirmations and beliefs systems that support your new mindsets for creating wealth and opening yourself up to receive. Write a list of 10 statements that support your life and your wealth creation… do it now. If you can’t think of anything, pretend you know and make it up. This is a powerful life exercise.
6. Loving you is your most important job. It lays the foundation for all things that you will create and receive. The more you love yourself from an authentic place, the more you will find yourself receiving blessings from the Universe.
7. Think you need to work hard to earn your wealth? Think again, and choose to see the world through the eyes of energy. Everything is energy — “Ask and you shall receive” has more truth than “working hard for your money!”
8. Know that the better you can receive, the more you will attract/create abundance. You are a receiver yes, and also a “receiver” meaning ~ in a vibration and attraction based universe, you need to set your dial to tune into what you want – and when you do, boom. Your receiving, in both terms of the word.
9. Ask for guidance. Prayer and intention are very, very powerful. Consider asking for some specific guidance on how to become a better receiver. You may just get something like a whisper, a thought, an intuition, a synchronicity, that says – slow down, be patient, forgive yourself, forgive another, let go of control, be true to you… and line up with the beautiful love that you are.
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Pushing Bad Data- Google’s Latest Black Eye
August 25, 2011
Google stopped counting, or at least publicly displaying, the number of pages it indexed in September of 05, after a school-yard “measuring contest” with rival Yahoo. That count topped out around 8 billion pages before it was removed from the homepage. News broke recently through various SEO forums that Google had suddenly, over the past few weeks, added another few billion pages to the index. This might sound like a reason for celebration, but this “accomplishment” would not reflect well on the search engine that achieved it.
What had people buzzing was the nature of the fresh, new few billion pages. They were blatant spam- containing Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ads, scraped content, and they were, in many cases, showing up well in the search results. They pushed out far older, more established sites in doing so. A Google representative responded via forums to the issue by calling it a “bad data push,” something that met with various groans throughout the SEO community.
How did someone manage to dupe Google into indexing so many pages of spam in such a short period of time? I’ll provide a high level overview of the process, but don’t get too excited. Like a diagram of a nuclear explosive isn’t going to teach you how to make the real thing, you’re not going to be able to run off and do it yourself after reading this article. Yet it makes for an interesting tale, one that illustrates the ugly problems cropping up with ever increasing frequency in the world’s most popular search engine.
A Dark and Stormy Night
Our story begins deep in the heart of Moldva, sandwiched scenically between Romania and the Ukraine. In between fending off local vampire attacks, an enterprising local had a brilliant idea and ran with it, presumably away from the vampires… His idea was to exploit how Google handled subdomains, and not just a little bit, but in a big way.
The heart of the issue is that currently, Google treats subdomains much the same way as it treats full domains- as unique entities. This means it will add the homepage of a subdomain to the index and return at some point later to do a “deep crawl.” Deep crawls are simply the spider following links from the domain’s homepage deeper into the site until it finds everything or gives up and comes back later for more.
Briefly, a subdomain is a “third-level domain.” You’ve probably seen them before, they look something like this: subdomain.domain.com. Wikipedia, for instance, uses them for languages; the English version is “en.wikipedia.org”, the Dutch version is “nl.wikipedia.org.” Subdomains are one way to organize large sites, as opposed to multiple directories or even separate domain names altogether.
So, we have a kind of page Google will index virtually “no questions asked.” It’s a wonder no one exploited this situation sooner. Some commentators believe the reason for that may be this “quirk” was introduced after the recent “Big Daddy” update. Our Eastern European friend got together some servers, content scrapers, Spambots, PPC accounts, and some all-important, very inspired scripts, and mixed them all together thusly…
Five Billion Served- And Counting…
First, our hero here crafted scripts for his servers that would, when GoogleBot dropped by, start generating an essentially endless number of subdomains, all with a single page containing keyword-rich scraped content, keyworded links, and PPC ads for those keywords. Spambots are sent out to put GoogleBot on the scent via referral and comment spam to tens of thousands of blogs around the world. The spambots provide the broad setup, and it doesn’t take much to get the dominos to fall.
GoogleBot finds the spammed links and, as is its purpose in life, follows them into the network. Once GoogleBot is sent into the web, the scripts running the servers simply keep generating pages- page after page, all with a unique subdomain, all with keywords, scraped content, and PPC ads. These pages get indexed and suddenly you’ve got yourself a Google index 3-5 billion pages heavier in under 3 weeks.
Reports indicate, at first, the PPC ads on these pages were from Adsense, Google’s own PPC service. The ultimate irony then is Google benefits financially from all the impressions being charged to Adsense users as they appear across these billions of spam pages. The Adsense revenues from this endeavor were the point, after all. Cram in so many pages that, by sheer force of numbers, people would find and click on the ads in those pages, making the spammer a nice profit in a very short amount of time.
Billions or Millions? What is Broken?
Word of this achievement spread like wildfire from the DigitalPoint forums. It spread like wildfire in the SEO community, to be specific. The “general public” is, as of yet, out of the loop, and will probably remain so. A response by a Google engineer appeared on a Threadwatch thread about the topic, calling it a “bad data push”. Basically, the company line was they have not, in fact, added 5 billions pages. Later claims include assurances the issue will be fixed algorithmically. Those following the situation (by tracking the known domains the spammer was using) see only that Google is removing them from the index manually.
The tracking is accomplished using the “site:” command. A command that, theoretically, displays the total number of indexed pages from the site you specify after the colon. Google has already admitted there are problems with this command, and “5 billion pages”, they seem to be claiming, is merely another symptom of it. These problems extend beyond merely the site: command, but the display of the number of results for many queries, which some feel are highly inaccurate and in some cases fluctuate wildly. Google admits they have indexed some of these spammy subdomains, but so far haven’t provided any alternate numbers to dispute the 3-5 billion showed initially via the site: command.
Over the past week the number of the spammy domains & subdomains indexed has steadily dwindled as Google personnel remove the listings manually. There’s been no official statement that the “loophole” is closed. This poses the obvious problem that, since the way has been shown, there will be a number of copycats rushing to cash in before the algorithm is changed to deal with it.
Conclusions
There are, at minimum, two things broken here. The site: command and the obscure, tiny bit of the algorithm that allowed billions (or at least millions) of spam subdomains into the index. Google’s current priority should probably be to close the loophole before they’re buried in copycat spammers. The issues surrounding the use or misuse of Adsense are just as troubling for those who might be seeing little return on their adverting budget this month.
Do we “keep the faith” in Google in the face of these events? Most likely, yes. It is not so much whether they deserve that faith, but that most people will never know this happened. Days after the story broke there’s still very little mention in the “mainstream” press. Some tech sites have mentioned it, but this isn’t the kind of story that will end up on the evening news, mostly because the background knowledge required to understand it goes beyond what the average citizen is able to muster. The story will probably end up as an interesting footnote in that most esoteric and neoteric of worlds, “SEO History.”
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Do Not Be A Victim Of Cyber Identity Theft
August 13, 2011
Cyber Identity theft is a growing problem that concerns anyone that has a computer. Cyber thieves use different tactics such as hacking, use of spyware, key loggers to obtain financial information from their victims.
The most recent scam to be wary of is called phishing, pronounced like fishing. The phisher sends a simple e-mail that appears to have come from a legitimate site, Usually from the person’s financial institution.
The e-mail would state that there is a problem with the account. The e-mail would ask you to click the link provided to resolve the issue. The link leads to a site that looks exactly like that of your financial institution. You will then be instructed to fill out a form that will require your social security or credit card numbers, or some other confidential financial information.
There are ways to minimize your risk
Some attackers may try to deceive you by creating web pages that appear to be legitimate. Do not click on any links in your e-mail. Open a new browser window and type the address in yourself.
Check privacy policies of web sites that you do business with, to see how they distribute personnel information. Most companies allow customers to request that their info not be shared with other companies.
Always be in a high security state of mind. Be wary of new sites and links, IM messages and e-mails.
Frequently check credit reports for odd transactions or transactions that you do not remember. Keep an eye out for unusual charges on your bill, bills for services and products you do not have.
Contact the Social Security office if your SS number has been accessed or the DMV if your driver’s license has been stolen. This is to warn these agencies of unauthorized use of your ID information. You will also need to file a report with local police.
The biggest cybersecurity concern is Cyber Identity Theft. Cyber thieves use all kinds of methods- spyware, use of hacking phishing to obtain personnel information from their victims computers. The safest defense against Cyber Identity Theft is to keep up with the latest information.
Three Legal Ways When Sending Mails To Prospective Clients Without Spamming
August 6, 2011
It is very difficult to find anybody who does not dislike spam or unwanted emails. It’s a nuisance on so many levels and we’d all be better off without it in our lives. On the other hand however, emails are a very powerful tool for us to give information to potential clients about our products and services. So what is therefore the best course of action for the affiliate marketer or multilevel marketer?
Here are 3 methods that are sure to legitimately work without spamming
1. Ignore spamming but always try to have a legitimate sign up box somewhere on your website. This gives the customer the option of agreeing or not to give you’re their email address. You will need to give them an incentive for them to give you their email address.
A majority of the affiliate marketers offer them free software trials, newsletters or articles. This earns their trust and they will not mind a relationship with you.
2. Ignore spamming but legitimately purchase email lists or even addresses from various 3rd parties. Once you do this you will have to make sure that you let your potential client know where you got their email address.
Do not make the mistake many make of buying lists and then going ahead and emailing the contacts without knowing if the emails were deceptively obtained.
3. Ignore Spamming but rather try to use email newsletters as your mode of advertising. There are a lot of professional looking templates that you can get on the internet for your business. Post a link for these newsletters either on your site or on that of another business that can be associated with yours.
The whole reason for this article is to show you that spamming has a negative impact on your online money making opportunity by turning off the potential client.
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Spiritual Life Coaching – Exploring the Higher Senses
August 1, 2011
Our five senses are designed for pleasure. But when you believe that your five senses are the only reality, that your sense of smell, tastes, sight, hearing, and touch is all there is, you are limiting yourself from experiencing a much larger world. The mystical realm involves tuning into the higher six senses: clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (feeling, touching), clairvoyance (seeing), claircognizance (knowing), clairalience (smelling), and clairgustance (tasting).
According to polls conducted by the U.S. Parapsychological Association, there has been a rise of belief from amongst the general public who believe in these higher senses. In 1990 only 26% of the population believed that people possessed them. In 2000 the figure rose to 32% and in 2005 it rose again to 45%. That’s nearly 100% increase in belief among the public in just fifteen years, and I expect those figures to continue to rise. No doubt people are believing more because they are discovering these powers within themselves.
One of the ways the public is beginning to experience these supernatural abilities is from the kundalini awakening. Years before the actual awakening, the initiate may become aware of glimpses into altered states of consciousness. For example, subtle feelings of euphoria may occur after a just a few sips of wine. It’s not the wine that’s causing it, it’s the release of a chemical from the pineal gland called DMT (Dimethyltryptamine).
Other signs of a coming kundalini may include: involuntary jerking movements of the body, subtle tingling in the lower spine, heat or pressure focused on any of the major chakras (such as the third eye chakra or heart chakra), reading other people’s thoughts, having strong feelings of premonition, immediately coming up with solutions to lingering problems without question or confusion.
One of the major signs of an impending kundalini awakening are what I call “word echoes.” Word echoes are when you hear a word or words that you are either thinking, writing, or reading, echo back to you from another source such as a person speaking on the radio, TV, or another person close to you. For example, if you’re writing or reading the word, “journey,” you’ll hear the word “journey” being said by someone from another source in the very same instance that you’re reading or writing it. Now, this may not seem like a strange experience. Just by the sheer odds of it, that’s bound to happen. That’s true, however, when this happens many times a day, every day, then it becomes apparent that something new is going on.
As we approach the end of the Mayan Calendar on December 22, 2012, humanity is beginning to evolve into a supernatural being. These higher sense are no longer going to be limited to the sages, mystics, yogis, and shamans. They are already being discovered by normal everyday people amongst the sea of the masses.
Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a Spiritual Life Coach and the founder of The Art of Transformation, a company devoted to teaching Self Realization to the masses. His Spiritual Life Coaching program uniquely synthesizes spiritual wisdom with ego transcendence, holistic health, life path astrology, shadow & pain-body work, heart-brain intention, the power of presence, and the law of attraction.
SEO: Do Not Spam!
July 29, 2011
Perhaps very few things can illustrate competition as vividly as the Web. After all, how can one website compete with thousands of other websites just like it?
If the attention span of an average Internet browser is as expansive as a search engine’s listing, then there’s nothing to worry about. Unfortunately, though, that is not the case. Very likely, a person conducting a search on the Internet will probably just browse through the top 3 to 5 SERPs (search engine results pages) and stop there. Websites that get buried in the 10th page and onwards will probably not get too much attention if certain measures are not undertaken. Those measures are what are called search engine optimization (SEO). Experts in this field perform certain tasks which may be seen a “website boot camp” to get your website into fighting form that will compete in the top rankings of a search engine.
However, as it is with almost everything else, some shortcuts exist that are able to “cheat” search engines into placing a certain website at a high ranking, despite the fact that it offers no real or valuable information. These sets of shortcuts are called “spamming”. SEO spam (or spamdexing) is a set of techniques that manipulate a website for the purpose of creating an unrealistic boost in its rankings on SERPs.
Here are just some examples of some SEO spam:
1. Cloaking
When a website presents information to a search engine unique from a set the user is seeing, then cloaking has been done. What usually happens is that the web pages code is relevant to the user’s search keywords, but when the browser visits that particular web site, the user sees a document that has little or nothing to do with his search.
2. Artificially networked sites
There is really nothing wrong with creating links between one site to another so long as the links are relevant and serve to connect useful information. However, spammers who use this method set up several web sites and link them together even the sites contain no real and useful information. The goal for doing so is simply to create the illusion of a highly referenced site because of its vast amount of links. If this is the case, then it can be considered spamming.
3. Blog and Forum Spam
Online blogs and forums are a great source of information since it these formats are built to be updated within short intervals. This, in itself, what makes it a good reference for information, which is why search engines like to visit these sites and rank it well for the quality of information it holds. However, spammers have taken advantage of this by flooding blogs and forums with spam links to the websites they want to generate artificial ranking for. Not only are they cheating the search engine company by misleading a user to irrelevant information, they also interrupt the bloggers and the forum participants, which is downright rude.
4. Hidden text.
Similar to cloaking, hidden texts are meant to make search engines think that a page is about one thing, while it is actually about something else. But it fools the search engines this way: the text that the search engine is able to read is hidden by making the text font color the same as the background. What happens is that the user is unable to read what the search engine saw, and therefore may be looking at a document that is not related to the user’s search.
Other techniques are to create small, imperceptible links that a user can accidentally click on, thus generating more hits for a website even if the user had no intentions of visiting that site at all. By this time, you probably already know why Spamming is done. It is a shortcut used by some unscrupulous website owners to make their website rank high on SERPs. People who pose as SEO experts use these spamming methods to get money for doing little to no work.
Now that you know who they are, and how they spam, here’s why you should have nothing to do with spamming and the people who condone them.
The whole point of the Internet was to create a wealth of information that everyone can access and add to. The whole idea was to be able to create a portal where information can be created and shared with others so that it can foster understanding despite physical borders.
Other results of this information have led to the development e-commerce and online businesses, which in itself is not necessarily a bad thing. It still contributes to a community of information and sharing. However, spamming is fundamentally profiting at someone else’s expense. A spammer profits by using other people to make his website rank higher than others without taking the necessary time and effort to make his website useful and relevant as what others have done.
It speaks poorly of website owners who see nothing but their own bottom lines in using the Internet. It is basically exploiting the trust and the willingness to share, which made the Internet such a promising venue for everyone.
Finally, it demeans honest SEO experts who take the time and effort to produce quality websites and make it a point to follow the rules. Search engine marketing is helping to level the playing field so it can allow businesses to advertise right along side each other. And that is a commendable thing, which everyone should gladly support. Search engines, on their part, are developing better technologies to detect spamming techniques in order to give users the best list of information from the Internet.
In the end, the spam methods mentioned above may be eliminated. But it is very likely other more sophisticated ones will come up. On your part, you can report spammers to these search engines when you encounter them. The more people like you who do this, the easier it will be to catch & Stop these cheaters and make it more difficult for spammers to do their thing.
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How To Protect Your Personal Information Over The Internet
July 23, 2011
Identity theft is becoming a permanent problem as tech savvy crooks take aim at unsuspecting victims who are just playing online. Because of this, keeping your personal information hidden is important. Facebook is one place that you need to pay special attention.
You can set your own privacy levels, so it is a good idea to limit who can look at your profile. Set it so that your friends and family can have access, but make it invisible to everyone else. That way, you can review who wants to look at you, and then you can decide.
People on Facebook include their birthday on their profiles more often than not, and most of them don’t understand that a criminal can begin to put together a piece of the puzzle of who you are.
Don’t have your password include your date of birth either. Imagine someone learning when you were born and can compare it with your name. Now they can use that information to start building a profile on you and discovering things, including hacking into your account.
Next on the list of things to be aware of is listing your job in your visible profile. Can you imagine some stranger showing up at your work? Nobody needs to know that stuff about you until you get to know them, so be careful, and don’t post that.
One of the main reasons to guard your information is to guard your safety and life. Take care to protect yourself from some weirdo stalking you because they figured out where you live or work off information in your profile that you let loose.
Another big way people can identify you is by what school you went to and what year you graduated. You don’t need to have that hanging out there either, and unless someone is really bored, nobody legit would even care.
The more that you keep from public view, the safer you will be. Taking this into consideration, stay away from joining networks, because that is like a goldmine with regards to finding out who you are and stealing that from you.
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Familiarizing Yourself With About Spywares And How They Negatively Affect Your Laptop
July 17, 2011
Are you getting constant random pop up ads when you start your computer? Does it take a while to boot up or randomly just shut off? Worse yet, does it freeze while you’re in the middle of an assignment and you lose everything that was on the file? The frustrations of this can be paramount and you’re no alone if this happens to you.
If you are experiencing any or all of these problems on your computer, there is a good chance that your computer has been invaded by spyware. There’s a great chance that you’ve experienced this at some point in time, and it may have done irreversible damage to your PC.
CNN released a survey showing that 90% of computers that are connected to the internet have some form of spyware on them. Many of which the owners have no idea it is there until it is too late.
Some computers can have over 1000 viruses infecting their system at once, ranging from cookies to horses and varying in effectiveness.
While some viruses will just track the history of your web browsing, there are other viruses that do much worse. Some viruses are made to steal your personal information off of your computer like your passwords to accounts and even credit card information.
One way that spyware can find its way onto your computer without you ever knowing is simply through visiting a web page. However, the most common way for viruses to make themselves at home on your computer is through downloading and file shares like kazaa and bearshare.
I’m sure at this point you are ready to be rid of these viruses. You are probably wondering what you can do to get your computer back to normal and protect your personal information.
ParetoLogic’s XoftSpySE is one of the best programs to use for deleting all viruses and spyware on your computer. This software will also keep them from coming back.
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The Necessity Anti-Virus Software Today
July 14, 2011
AV software or anti-virus software plays an important function in detecting, preventing, and removing malware, computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, spyware and adware.
It is a fact that the Internet has proved to be a fantastic medium of communication, but at the same time it is an simple target for computer viruses and worms that can cause great chaos to a networking system.
Computer viruses and worms have the capacity to adjust, delete and steal data, with worms also having the ability to multiply and spread themselves to cause great concern.
The necessity of loading AV software is urgent because it is quite possible that a infection or worm could have been in a computer a long time before one knows it.
This could leave your computer infected a long time before you take action for its removal. So the proper functioning and storage of essential and private data requires the latest version of the software which can help to not just keep your personal computer clean and uninfected, but would also inform you of threats where prompt action is required.
A number of strategies can be used in anti-virus protection using signature based detection involving searching for known patterns of data within executable code. But it is vital to know that this does not always prove effective if the computer is contaminated with new malware.
There are constantly new updates made for the software to counter such so-called zero-day threats. Some of them use heuristics to foresee new dangers.
Generic signatures, one heuristic approach, has proved effectual in identifying new versions or variants of existing viruses by looking for known malicious code, or slight variations of such code, in files. Some AV software has, in addition, the capacity to test what a file will do by running it in a sandbox. It can also analyze what it does to see if it will perform any malicious actions.
The necessity of installing AV software on your computer for Internet usage arises out of a requirement for computer safety and the protection of vital documents and files that could become damaged or lost forever. The two main methods that AV software works involve, firstly, that it scans for all the viruses that are specified in the virus dictionary.
Then it alerts the user, after having discovered them, of their suspicious nature like port monitoring, spyware or data capturing. Then it takes action to be rid of infected files either automatically or on instruction from the user. Most good AV software will update these files automatically, which is achieved by having the software connect via the Net to the vendors? server for the regular downloading and installation of the latest virus patterns.
I would say that anti-virus software is without doubt necessary for the effective use of computers and the Internet, but it does not come without drawbacks such as the slowing down of the computer. Along with impairing the computer’s speed, it could give prompts and make decisions that are very difficult for laymen to understand, thereby leading to confusion and possible security breaches.
In addition, AV software that employs heuristic detection might sometimes not be able to achieve the correct balance between false positives and false negatives, with both of them proving destructive. Lastly AV software running at the extremely sensitive kernel level of the operating system creates a potential avenue of attack.
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All About Spam And How To Protect Yourself
July 8, 2011
President Bush signed the “Can Spam” bill in 2003 and this is the first national standard around bulk unsolicited commercial email. Because of this bill, senders of unsolicited commercial email are prohibited from using false return addresses to disguise their identity or spoofing and the use of dictionaries so that such mailers are generated. In addition, it prohibits the use of misleading subject lines and requires that emails include an opt-out mechanism. Prohibiting senders from harvesting addresses off websites is another thing the legislation does. But spam is international, just like the Internet. These emails are harder to fight, because they come from outside our country’s laws and regulations.
To protect you from spam, here are 4 tips you can follow.
Making your email addresses available on the Internet should be avoided. There are products called “spam spiders” that search the Internet for email addresses to send email to. If you are interested, then try searching for “spam spider” and you will actually be amazed at what you will discover. If you need some contact information on a website, then you can try these suggestions.
Use form emails, which can hide addresses.
Instead of your personal address, try using addresses like sales@company.com.
In order for Spam spiders to find it difficult to read your email address, there are programs available that encode your email address on the web pages.
Get spam blocking software.
Out there, there are many programs available for this. Although some are free, you may want to buy a professional version if you have a problem with spam.
Have you tried using the multiple email address approach?
There are a lot of free email addresses to be had. You must have a back up email address if you must subscribe to newsletters.
Do not open attachments from people you don’t know.
A common problem with spam is that they have attachments and those attachments often unleash viruses. General rule of thumb: if you do not know who is sending you something, DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. Secondly, look for services that offer filtering. If you unsubscribe from spam, this will just tell spammers that they have a valid email address and they will then sell it to other spammers.
Simple precautions like these can help to minimize the amount of spam you receive in your inbox. These precautions seem to be the better option if you add up how long it takes you to wade through and delete all the spam.
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