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Spam is the internet’s equivalent of junk mail. Spam is defined as an e-mail message sent to people without their consent or permission. Addresses of recipients are often harvested from Usenet postings or web pages, obtained from databases, or simply guessed by using common names and domains.

Spam is sent to promote practically any product or service ranging from “Adult” products to logo design for websites. It is also used by hackers to spread viruses or links to dangerous websites used to gather your personal information like credit card details or passwords for sites like Ebay or PayPal. To the average user these messages appear genuine. Even the link has a genuine looking domain name. This technique is known as “Phishing.”

Here are some smart strategies and tips you can employ now to start reducing Spam and boost your email security.

- Configure your anti virus software to automatically scan your incoming email for viruses. Email is still widely used to distribute malicious software. Make sure you keep your anti virus software definitions up to date.
- If you are someone that frequently signs up for “freebies” or other stuff on the internet start using a separate e-mail account just for this purpose. Accounts from providers like Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Google’s Gmail all come with generous storage as standard.
- If sites don’t accept free e-mail address from the services listed above then use a free disposable email service like Sneakemail – http://www.sneakemail.com.
- If you are posting your email to a blog or your website then submit it in a way that is only recognizable to a human. For example if your email is johndoe@hotmail.com then post it as “johndoe at hotmail.com”.
- Never open a message from an address you do not recognize – always delete it straight away. This is especially so if there is an attachment. Never reply to a message as this only confirms the email address is “live” to the spammers.
- If you get an official looking message from your bank or Ebay or another site you are not sure is genuine here is what you do. Instead of clicking on the link embedded in the mail log on to the site normally via your browser. If there are any genuine serious problems you should get a message when you log on. Alternatively contact the site’s customer service via the phone if possible.
- Consider using standalone spam filtering software. This software analyses your email for common characteristics of spam email including words like “click” or “teens.” It also compares senders’ emails against a “Friends List.” Try Mailwasher for free here – http://www.mailwasher.net.

Richard Rogers is a owner of a number of computer related sites. One of his sites offers Free Computer Help for Windows XP Users and has just launched his new Registry Cleaner Blog.

I suppose you’ve recently heard of RSS being the King of content. Many marketers and marketing gurus are in fact preaching around about RSS being the replacement for today’s viral marketing strategy.

For those of you who do not know what RSS is, it is by definition – Real Simple Syndication which is used to syndicate news and information, it is usually associated with Blogs because blogs use RSS feed to get the content publish. Some marketers translate it to Rich Site Summary, I personally call it Really Simple Spamming as a joke.

What I see about RSS isn’t the replacement for viral marketing strategy, but merely a TOOL to automate your viral marketing method, boosting its speed of having your words spreading around like a new mutated virus that nobody can stop it in time.

As clearly as you can see, portal websites building is growing so quickly that this occult-like business is infesting all over the search engines. Search results show 40-50% of portal websites on any keyword that you search. This results the war between the sites builders and search engines, which also causing these portal websites even harder to be differentiated with other 100% hand-written websites. As far as I know, the new trend for SEOs and other portal-site-making gurus are teaching their followers to add contents into their portal websites by feeding RSS whether it is news related or articles.

The scene is like having a swamp of locust infesting all over the RSS directory sites, search and digging RSS links in bulk and direct the feeds into their portal websites. It is a great idea to harvest RSS feeds through the directory as the content are all nicely being categorized making them easy for whomever is searching.

What will amaze you more is once your RSS feed catches these builders’ attention, they will add your RSS feeds to their websites, where you’ll gain all those FREE advertising and back links.

As I mentioned they will come in swamp at the above paragraph, I wasn’t joking at all! Ten of thousands of them come to harvest your content feeds. Imagine having 10% of them picked at your RSS and feed into each of their websites. And I have to remind you that they each own more than 10 site domains at a minimum. The traffic that runs to your website will cause an Atomic Bomb explosion effect within a short time! Imagine the amount of traffic that will convert into your newsletter subscription list by just putting a little subscription box in your website.

All you have to do is to have your RSS feed being setup once in those RSS directory sites. Plus, high quality feeds have higher chance to be picked up by webmasters in BULK.

If you notice that almost every ‘Article Directories’ has an option to provide webmasters the feed for those articles that are being submitted. Having such option has already caught many of these portal site builders’ attention. They come, they search and they start feeding your RSS feeds into their websites.

This is like a fresh new gold mine for the builders, RSS feeds have solved all their problems on having fresh new contents being delivered right into their website 24/7. I urge you (article writers) to take advantage of this great opportunity right now and start to blast traffics to your websites. RSS feeding is their gold mine for new content, and now it has become yours

Here are 3 easy steps on how you may get started.

1. Setup a blog with Wordpress from www.wordpress.org, or you can setup a free blog from Blogger.com at www.blogger.com. Remember, you don’t have to be “formal” when comes to posting blog.

[Important]: For Wordpress Users, before you start posting anything to your site, remember to insert a list of ping sites to your ping list to Ping your Blog (for Search Engines to visit your new post and start indexing your blog pages). It is located at Options >> Writing >> Update Services (scrolled down). You can see that “http://rpc.pingomatic.com/” has already been added by default. Blogger.com Users please follow Step 3.

2. When you have done all the above, submit your blog RSS feed to all the top ‘RSS Directories’. The URL for RSS looks like this: http://www.webblogerz.com/feed/. Here’s a list of RSS directory sites for you to get started at www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55

3. (Wordpress Users may skip this step) After submitting your RSS feed to the directories, for Blog and Ping method, go to a free ping service call Ping-O-Matic. Follow the instruction by filling in the forms and then submit.

I’m sure this will definitely help you to get more traffic by implementing this new revolution of RSS Viral Marketing Strategy.

Remember, business cannot grow for just having new ideas, taking actions is always the turn key to every success!

Edwin Lim is a freelance copywriter living in Malaysia. You can visit his Website at http://www.webblogerz.com.

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Yes, you know the four-letter word I’m talking about and everyone wants to know how to get rid of it. Rhymes-with-ham has become such an overwhelming issue that ISPs are trying to do all sorts of things by setting up filters and blocking emails. The problem with this approach is that you don’t get the emails you want and you keep getting the ones you don’t want. It’s a vicious cycle. The Federal anti-rhymes-with-ham legislation has been passed into law and is effective immediately. How will this affect you? If you are a legitimate email marketer with opt-in subscribers you’re going to have to include your postal mailing address in your mass communications. Also, you’ll need to have an easy way for people to unsubscribe if they choose. Now, will this law work for preventing all that rhymes-with-ham showing up in your email box? We’ll have to wait and see.

Earlier this year I got an email that said for $15 I could have my email address placed on a National No-Spam List. Since the Colorado No-Call List for telemarketers seemed to be working after adding my phone # there, I thought why not give this a try? Well, most of you are probably already predicting that this was money not well spent. It didn’t work.

Factoid: There are over two million websites about rhymes-with-ham. What does this tell you? It’s a huge problem in need of a solution.

SpamKiller softwares – Doesn’t the name alone sound so powerful? Surely it’s got to do the trick. What I like about some of these softwares is that all the blocked messages are put into a separate email area that can be viewed. Messages can be “rescued” with a click if they are not rhymes-with-ham. What I don’t like about these programs is that every time someone responded to an email that I sent and kept the same subject line in the reply – it was treated as rhymes-with-ham. By day 2 or 3 all rhymes-with-ham messages were coming through my regular email program and important business emails were being “filtered” into the blocked messages box. This was actually taking more time than simply hitting the delete key.

Setting up Email Filters – I spent about two hours one day setting up my own email filters to try and block the rhymes-with-hammers. I simply took the subject lines of several rhymes-with-ham emails sitting in my in-box and made a list of them in Word. Next, I copied and pasted those into my email program and told it to delete messages that contain these words. Again, this system failed to work because the rhymes-with- hammers keep inventing new words and subject lines. Take these two hours of time saved and use it more wisely getting reciprocal links which is much more fun and profitable.

Delete – My dirt simple approach to the rhymes-with- ham problem is the delete key. When I open my email program the first thing I scan for are subject lines that are business related. I respond to those first. Next, I look for familiar personal email addresses from friends or family. I move those to a personal folder to respond to later. Next, I start deleting the rhymes-with-ham without opening any of them. I have also learned that if you try to get removed from these lists by clicking on the links in their emails – you’ll get even more rhymes- with-ham.

What is the solution for rhymes-with-ham? When people quit reading, responding and buying from these emails we may see less. This is a dream I have. Of course, I’ve thought the same about telemarketers and they’re still around. It’s unlikely that this will happen anytime soon.

The most immediate, free and simple solution is to use the delete key and use it often. This is a mindless task that can be done while sipping your morning latte or enjoying an ice-cold beverage.

Ok, enough about rhymes-with-ham – I’m getting hungry and going to make a ham sandwich. Pass the mustard please.

Anita Larson, The Web Muse & Co., http://www.thewebmuse.com
Creating websites that attract your ideal clients.

We have all suffered from these annoying dangerous spam emails. Most of us still do. There are excellent anti spam solutions in the market, there is no reason to tolerate this no more.

To understand the solution we must first understand the problem. So, what is this spam email? Spam is unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant or inappropriate email. Spam email is mostly used for commercial purposes. Spam emails are also known as “junk mails”.

So, why do people are constantly searching for the best spam blockers? Why do the market of anti spam solution rolls billions of dollars a year? Well, these spam emails are time consuming and are annoying. But, more than that, they cost a lot of money. Why? First, because time is money. But more than that, billions of spam emails are loading lots of unnecessary data over the servers.

Therefore, big software companies constantly develop anti spam solutions, spam blockers and email spam filters.

Anti spam solutions basically do one or more of the following things:

1. Anti spam solutions check the senders’ names and addresses and filter the spam emails according to a black list of spammers they own and update.

2. Anti spam solutions check the recipients’ names and addresses and according to certain parameters, they filter the emails. For example, if the mail is sent to a large group sorted alphabetically, the email is considered spam.

3. Anti spam solution scan the emails (Their subject and body) and search for certain words or phrases such as “Viagra” and filter the spam email accordingly.

There are many kinds of anti spam solutions such as anti spam lotus, anti spam exchange 5.5, anti spam for outlook express and others. Some work on the server layer and some on the client layer. But basically, they all do the same job – Make your life better.

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