Article marketing has always been hailed as online advertising’s greatest strategy. For starters, if you could write your own articles, this tactic would be inexpensive. Submission to the many articles directories wouldn’t cost you a single penny.

Secondly, you’d be planting seeds that you could benefit from for many years. For as long as the article directories exist, your articles would be stored, and with them would be your links.

In hindsight, article marketing does seem like the greatest promotional technique invented for the internet. You see novice and veteran alike utilizing this strategy everyday. Whether their enterprises are mere startups, or whether they have established a profitable brand for themselves, article marketing is always at the forefront of their advertising campaigns. Read the rest of this entry

If you are reading this, then it is safe to say that you are sitting in front of a computer and accessing the Internet. The Internet is a wonderful thing. You have access to everything from e-mail to online banking, from investing to shopping, watching videos and listening to podcasts and so much more.

You can literally access just about any information you want from anywhere in the world and the convenience it provides is beyond compare.

But the problem is, the Internet has also become a very dangerous place, if you’re not careful. As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers.

While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets. I have listed a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure and give you greater peace of mind. Read the rest of this entry

If you are doing any marketing online, but I am sure that one of the things you’re doing is promoting products for other people as affiliates. The great thing about this, is you sign up for their affiliate program, then you grab some tools, like banners and ads, then you’re given an affiliate link to use.

It makes it all very simple, as all you have to do is slap your affiliate link in an e-mail, or post on your site, and when people click on that link they are taken to the marketer’s site and if they buy, then you get paid.

But here’s something I want you to consider.

How is that affiliate link affecting your sales? More to the point, how many sales do you lose by using that long, ugly affiliate link that you’ve been given?

You know the link I am talking about. It’s a long ugly string of letters and numbers, but quite frankly has a tendency to put people off. Even worse, is realizing that people are less likely to use that link, because they know it’s an affiliate link. Read the rest of this entry