3 Reasons Your Website Might Fail To Attract Enough Customers
Virtually all website owners concentrate their efforts and energy into getting more visitors. With business owners this effort is spent on getting more and more new customers. What many people forget - with both their website and their business - is...
6 Things to Increase Your Affiliate Income
So you've signed up for affiliate programs, posted links around the net but you're still only making pocket change? Wonder what others are doing that you aren't? Below you will find 6 things that every affiliate marketer needs to increase their...
Extra traffic right under your nose!
Do you know what's the 2ND MOST VISITED page on your web site? This may surprise you. But in my consulting work the error page is the second most visited web page on many of the web sites that I've seen! Anywhere between 10% and 40% of your page...
How to Promote Affiliate Products Without a Website
How to Promote Affiliate Products if You Don't Have a Website Copyright 2004 Jude Wright Okay, you want to promote affiliate programs. You have one or two that you are very interested in. But - you don't have your website created yet and you don't...
SEO EXPERIMENT - The coolest guy on the planet, Mike Filsaime ?
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There is a reason why this article is called - SEO EXPERIMENT - The coolest guy on the planet, Mike Filsaime ? It is a reality show live internet marketing experimnet and you can...
Security Issues Everyone Should Know About Online Shopping
While there is no foolproof way to ensure that no one will EVER access information you don't want them to, there are several very effective steps that you can take to minimize the risk.
When passing sensitive data like credit card numbers, addreses, or social security numbers over the Internet, be sure that the connection you are using or implementing is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). SSL is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of message transmissions over the Internet. Essentially, SSL works by using a public key, or password, to encrypt data that's transferred over the connection. The receiving software, usually a browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, decrypts the message into meaningful information for the intended recipient. The encryption of the data prevents unauthorized access while the data is being transmitted over the network. (By convention, URL's that require a SSL connection start with https instead of http.)
Another step that can be taken to minimize the risk involved with transmitting information across the Internet is to use several different e-mail
accounts, each with a specific purpose. To limit your exposure to unwanted spam and potentially dangerous viruses, the e-mail address provided by your ISP or Web host should only be given to trusted parties, such as family members, friends, co-workers, and business associates. If you frequently fill out online forms that require the use of an e-mail address, use a "throw-away" address, such as one that can be obtained from Yahoo! or Hotmail. This will help stop your primary e-mail account from being flooded with unwanted mail, and it might reduce your exposure to viruses as well.
Several other key preventative measures to safeguard your personal information include checking your credit reports regularly, paying by credit card for online transactions (instead of ACH bank account debits), and searching for your name at a good search engine, like Google, to find out what information about you is online.
About the Author
Alan is the lead developer for InfoServe Media, LLC (http://www.infoservemedia.com/), a Web development company that specializes in Web site design, hosting, domain name registration, and promotion for small businesses.