How Not To Get Web Design Work
I get the occasional web design lead from my website. I wanted to find a company I could pass these onto. So I put an ad on a freelance site. It specified the programming qualifications needed, stated that the successful candidate should have good English, and was for companies only.The replies I got were enlightening. So much so, I made a list of things applicants did wrong. Here it is.I should point out I was initially prepared to give everyone a fair go. After the first twenty-odd emails, my attitude changed. I was looking for reasons to delete applicants. I only needed one successful one; with 100 replies it was getting to be a headache, so I decided a bru... |
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How Spammers Fool Bayesian Filters - And How To Stop Them
Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of spam tools coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. The old ways of blocking the bad guys just don’t work anymore. Examining spam and spam-blocking technology can illuminate how this ... |
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How To Add Unlimited Pictures To Your Ebay Auction Listing – For Free.
I get a lot of questions from people wanting to know how to add more pictures to their auction listings. Do you know that eBay charges for additional pictures? Yes, that’s right. Pay attention when you launch your next eBay listing. Only the first picture is for free. For any additional photos you will be paying $0.15 per photo. This does not sound much but you will be surprised how these figures add up: Imagine you add 3-4 photos per listing. This will end up to an additional $0.50 – just for hosting of your photos. Let’s say you have 3-5 listings a day at the end of the year you might have paid $400-600$ just for picture hostin... |
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How To Avoid Getting Hooked By Pfishing
"Pfishing", sometimes spelled "Phishing", is a word that's used to describe amethod of identity theft where con men use fake e-mail that looks like it comesfrom legitimate sources. This e-mail is designed to hoodwink you into givingout personal and financial information. Once the scammers receive yourinformation they use it to either clone your identity or to empty out your bankaccounts and run up your charge cards. Here are some tips on how to avoidbecoming the next victim.1. Never respond to an e-mail that looks like it came from your bank or any ofyour credit card issuers no matter how official it appears. Phishing scame-mails will tell you that there is some problem with your account and that youhave to click on an embedded link to correct that problem. They may threaten toclose your acc... |
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How To Avoid Getting Ripped-off Online
(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved=Online security is one of the top catch phrases these days, but hardly anybody knows what it means and worse, most home computer users think security only applies to corporations and online businesses.Most people think online security means simpl... |
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How To Avoid Problems And Errors Of Shared Web Hosting?
Most webmasters on the net today are familiar with what the industry calls "shared" web hosting accounts. A shared hosting account is where you rent a small amount of space on a server which is shared among many other users. This is a cheap way to get started online but it has many disadvantages - you will encounter email delivery problems because of spam complaints against other sites on the same server. You will find your site's grinding to a halt when someone else does some heavy database work on your server. You might even find your site going down because of a denial of service attack against someone else hosting hacking or piracy related material on your server (these type of sites attract antisocial elements!) How can you avoid all of this drama? By upgrading to a virtual dedicated server. A virtual dedi... |
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How To Avoid Spam Robots
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Despite the fact that Federal legislation (the CANSPAM act) made it illegal, harvesting email addresses from the web using automated robots remains alive and well.Spammers who need fresh email addresses release software spider programs that comb the Internet and suck email addresses off Web pages, guest books, and anywhere else you might post your email address.Once they get your email address, spammers will trade it around like 5th graders with a new pack of Pokemon cards at rece... |
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How To Become An Ebay “sniper”.
If you bid for a few things on eBay, the chances are that sooner or later you’ll end up getting your bid beaten at the very last second by a ‘sniper’. This can be a frustrating experience, and while in theory sniping is against the rules and you can report it to eBay, in practice they never do anything about it.The bad news is that there’s only one way to bea... |
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How To Boost Your Online Sales With An Affiliate Strategy
Ever since we had products for sale in the offline world, we had sales agents. You know the ones - the multi-product travelling sales "reps" carrying products and business cards from different manufactu... |
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How To Check An Ebay Seller’s Reputation (and Why You Should Do It).
When you buy something from an eBay seller, you are giving them your money and hoping that you will get something in return. However many guarantees of safety eBay might make to you, nothing is certain: if you just give your money to scammers all the time without doing any checks then the chances are you won’t get all of that money back. That’s why you should always check the seller’s reputation, or ‘feedback rating’. This is a quick and easy-to-read summary of their history as an eBay seller, which gives you some idea of whether or not you shou... |
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How To Choose A Good Web Host (when They All Look Alike)
Choosing a web host is never easy. There are just so many unknowns when it comes to finding a host. It's hardly ever possible to walk into a web host's office, look around, meet the owners, and get a feel for whether or not you'd like to do business with these people. It's important, though, that you bend over backwards to establish whether your prospective web host is a credible provider - or a fly by night artist. The webmaster industry is awash with horror sto... |
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How To Choose A Reputable Online Casino
With literally thousands of online casinos on the internet, it can sometimes become very confusing as to which ones are safe and reputable, and which casinos are not. So many of them are beautifully designed, look very professional and offer great signup bonuses, so how does one go about choosing the "reputable" online casinos while avoiding the "dodgy" ones?When choosing an online casino to play at, one should always ta... |
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How To Choose A Web Hosting Company?
Nowadays, anybody can afford to order a feature-packed web hosting plan for next to nothing; however, affordable price is not the only criterion which should be considered when purchasing web hosting services. In this artic... |
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How To Choose The Right Online School
(ARA) – Kids aren’t the only ones getting ready to go back to school. So are some of their parents, and they won’t necessarily be attending classes at a brick and mortar institution. Thousands of adults are now pursuing higher education online. Debbie Alms, 32, a relationship facilitator for Retek, a software company in Minneaopolis, Minn., is among them. She already has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of North Dakota, but is now pursuing an MBA at Jones International Univers... |
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How To Create A Website That Search Sngines Will Love.
It is a well known fact that "Content is King".An information laden website relevant to a specific niche is the life-blood of Search Engines and they love them. The more ontent you have on your website, the greater your chances of enjoying a decent search engine ranking.After all, it is information that ... |
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How To Create Your Own Blog Using Blogger
It takes only a few minutes and is easy to setup your own weblog using the Blogger weblog system. By completing only three simple steps, creating an account, naming your blog and choosing a template, you... |
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How To Create Your Own Streaming Audio With A Few Simple Clicks.
Discover right now how to quickly and easily create "streaming audio" like a pro and make your web site stand out from the crowd ... for just cents on the dollar! Streaming Audio has always been available to the large corporate sites and techies. Now you can use the MP3 Sound Stream software to produce your own streaming audio just like the professionals with no knowledge of programming required. A Message from MP3 Sound Stream Best of all no monthly fees or additional costs....With the web surfer becoming much more "web savvy" than they were a year ago, they are expecting not only information but an entertaining web experience.You do not need any technical ability. Our program is so ... |
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How To Dispute Unfair Ratings On Ebay.
So you’ve done everything you can to keep your buyers happy – but still someone’s left you negative feedback! You don’t think it’s fair, either because you fixed the buyer’s problem, or they never gave you a fair chance to fix it. What can you do?Communicate.Tell the buyer that you don’t think that feedback was fair, and give them a list of the things you’ll do in exchange for them withdrawing it. You can offer refunds, replacements, or even to ‘compensate them for their time’ (that means bribe them), depending on how desperate you are. If they agree, you can go through the mutual withdrawal process detailed below.Respond.Leave a comment under the negative feedback explaining what happened – this at least minimises the damage it will do to your reputation if anyone lo... |
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How To Find A Dependable Web Host
Your new website is ready to upload, and now you need a web host. Or perhaps you already have a web host, but uptime and support are lacking. Of the thousands of web hosts to choose from, how... |
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How To Fully Automate Your Website So You Don’t Waste Time Working
So you don’t have a way of managing all of the customer responses coming through your inbox? I can relate, please let me share a personal story. When I first started my online business, I didn’t know what an autoresponder was, and I wa... |
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How To Get Directories To Submit Your Site - With This 5 Steps Guide!
So you have completed that new site and want to start your site promotion campaign by getting listed in some directories? Well,definitely a good idea, because those directories will provide you the initial thrust needed for visibility of your web site. But then how do you find those directories to submit your site to? No need to despair! Help is at hand! , allow this simple 5 steps guide help you out with your campaign:1. Check out your competitions back links. Your competition is sure to have got links from some directories. Try to get into those first. 2. Do a search in Google (the most obvious one!) using keywords like 'submit+site+directory’. You will come up with many directories for your site. And you can use your... |
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How To Get Ebay Coupons.
You have to be very lucky to be one of the chosen few who receive an eBay coupon by email. These co... |
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How To Get Help From Ebay’s Safeharbor Team.
SafeHarbor are the eBay police department. If a buyer does something they're not supposed to, then it's SafeHarbor you should be reporting it to.Non-paying Buyers.This is the most common rule buyers break -- it's all too easy for them to just change their minds and try to get out of the auction. eBay, however, regard every auction as a contract. Th... |
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How To Get Links From Amazon
Amazon has become one of the most productive e-commerce entities. Due to its reliable and profit-oriented affiliate program, the strength of Amazon has shot up very quickly. The Amazon affiliate program which was launched in 1996 has become an epitome of opportunity and profit requisites for its affiliates. You would surely like to get links from this grand daddy of all e-commerce affiliates programs present today. If you want to get links from Amazon, you would have to sign up with the Amazon associates program. You can build affiliate links with Amazon through Amazon’s e-... |
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How To Get Links From Auction Sites
Internet auctions have emerged as one dynamic and effective economic force where millions of buyers and sellers are entering regularly. Online auctions provide a comfortable source of i... |
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How To Get Listed With Google In Less Than 24 Hours
Firstly the truth, you do not need some miracle to get listed in google in less than 24 hours. Getting listed in google in under a day can actually be quite easy and in this article I’ll show you exactly how to do it.Firstly what we mean by your site getting indexed is when it... |
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How To Get Up-to-date Weather Info Via Rss Feeds
(and every other type of news) If you haven't heard about RSS or Atom feeds don't feel bad. I just started using t... |
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