Here are a few of the more prevalent email scams to look out for.

The Work at Home Scam

If you receive an email offering you a job that you can work from your house doing online searches, international shipping, envelope-stuffing, medical claims processing or the like it very well could be a scam.  The way it works is, the email sender, i.e. the scammer, will “hire” you to perform a certain job that they will agree to pay you for at some time in the future.  In the mean time you are expected to work for them on good faith that they will, in fact, pay you.  Additionally, some of these scams even require you to invest a certain sum of money in order to get started.  Almost inevitably, upon completion of your work the company decides that the quality was not good enough to justify paying you for it.

The Magic Weight Loss Scam

When you receive an email claiming that a new cream or pill has been discovered that can miraculously make body fat disappear, don’t get your hopes up.  In fact the whole pitch of this scam assumes that there are people who are willing to try anything to lose weight.  Don’t fall for these scammers, they don’t want to help you, they just want your wallet.

The Lottery that you’ve Already Won Scam

This is similar to the magic weight loss scam, in that it plays on peoples willingness flush logic down the toilet in order to believe that their life has instantly changed for the better.  When someone sends an email saying that there is money just waiting for you to claim, and all you need to do is send money, or your credit card information to them be very suspicious.

The Magical Disappearing Debt Scam

This scam requires that you declare bankruptcy, but always seem to fail to mention that in the original email.  The scammers make fairy tale claims that sound too good to be true for getting you out of the black hole of debt.  Again, this is another scam that people only fall for because they want so badly for it to be true.   There are better ways of getting rid of debt, but they require a little more work than waving the magic wand and pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

The general rule of thumb is, don’t give away any financial information or send any money until you have a good reason to trust them and their business.

DaFont

DaFont is my favorite site in this list. It allows you to download so many fonts that you will grow old if you will try downloading them all. The site is updated on daily basis so there are no chances of downloading obsolete content. The site has got wide range of fonts to choose from.

Abstractfont

Abstractfont has got some around 13,498 fonts, that’s what the site claim. The site has got a good feature to preview every font before actually downloading it. So you don’t have to do the hit and trial method. You can even upload your own fonts here and help others like you.

Urban Font

Urban Font is one of the biggest website when it comes to downloading fonts. This site has both free fonts and paid fonts, and obviously paid fonts are better than the free fonts. You even get to see the top 100 fonts page on this site from their navigation bar, so you don’t have to hit your head with the wall to find the best fonts available on the site.

1001 Free Fonts

1001 Free Fonts is another great website but it doesn’t have that much amount of fonts stored on it as others like Urban Font, DaFont etc have got. 1001 Free Fonts has got fonts for almost all kind of operating systems. The search option of this site too is quite good, it lets you filter the fonts quite easily and give you best results.

Search Free Fonts

Search Free Fonts – the name suggests it all. The site is quite good to download free fonts and it’s search options too are awesome, you can search for fonts using its name, search it alphabetically etc.

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Now that it’s gone, though, many people need another solution to check pure Google search rankings.  Google adjusts the rankings significantly based on your location, search history, and other data that they’ve gathered about you, so pure results are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

I’d like to share with you how we’ve been tracking rankings for the past several months with great success. It is free an easy and just involves a simple Google URL hack.

 Privacy Mode, Please

First things first, you need to open a private browser window.  In Chrome this is called an ‘Incognito Window’, and in Firefox it is called Private Browsing mode.  It is essentially a browser window with no cache and no access to your cookies.  This means that Google doesn’t have access to your browsing history, which would again adjust your rankings.

 The URL Hack Explained

The URL hack is pretty cool. For checking google.com (USA) rankings, we actually use Google.co.uk, and we set the geographical location parameter (GL) to the ‘US’ country code.  Let’s look at an example using the search query “grilling website” since I’m working on a new site about grilling.  If I wanted to see where I ranked when the average person searched “grilling website”, I’d put this URL into my private browser window:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=grilling+website&gl=us

By using Google.co.uk in a privacy browser, we eliminate any local bias since co.uk isn’t biased to any particular region in the United States. And, by setting the GL to ‘US’, we are telling Google to return content whose country of origin is the US.

 What This Means

The end result is a very close approximation to what someone would see in the United States if they searched ‘Grilling Website’ and Google didn’t have a lot of data on them to personalize their results.  By using this tool consistently to track your rankings, you have a good approximation on if you are moving up or down overall in the search engine rankings.

Do you have any thoughts on this or know of any other cool Google URL hacks?  Let us know in the comments!

About the Author

Brian Patterson

Brian is an SEO and ORM enthusiast and partner at MangoCo, a Northern Virginia based online marketing firm.  Brian has worked with both small businesses and government agencies on projects ranging from user-interface design to complex reputation management issues.  You can follow Brian on Twitter at @brianspatterson.

In this article you will find extensions that will enable you save a webpage to read them later at your convenient time, use cloud storage service to access files from any device, edit images and photos online like a pro and make more business contacts. In the world of blogging, the above mentioned ideas can me your blogging experience better and increase productivity by a heap.

Evernote WebClipper

Evernote Webclipper is a fantastic extensions that lets you clip any webpage you want. It simply lets you save any web page so that you can read it later when you find convinient time. It supports cloud storage, therefore it syncs everything you save in it to any computer, laptop, tablet or phone or any device you use. Moreover it comes from the developers of Evernote, the award winning app. So its definitely the best in what it does.

Using this extension, you can boost your productivity a lot. You can save any article you find and read them later at your convenient time. Suppose you are working on your PC and you clip an article to read later on your mobile or tablet, this can not only make your work buttery smooth but also save a lot of time.

DropBox

DropBox is a cloud storage service, one of the best of its kind. DropBox takes your files wherever you go. It gives you 2Gb of storage space, which you can use to store any important data you have. Its in the secure hands of DropBox so you don’t need to worry about your files in any way. DropBox is available in all major platforms like Windows, Mac, Android, iOS. So whatever device you use, you will have DropBox and all your files beside you.

You can use this tool, to write articles for your blog and store it in the cloud. You can have access to your files from any place and can edit them from anywhere and from any device. This makes you work more pleasing, easy and productive.

Evernote Clearly

Evernote Clearly is a nifty extensions that makes the Web more clean and clutter free. If you love reading and is into a lot of reading, then this extension is just meant for you. No one likes all those flashy advertisements and floating objects that comes before you when you are trying to concentrate on reading something. This extensions removes all those things that tend to ruin your reading experience thereby making the Web much more cleaner and better readable.

Blogging means writing, but its important to read more to be able to write more. So this tool takes the duty of making your reading experience better than ever. Do give it a try.

Pixlr Editor

Pixlr Editor is one the best extensions to try if you are a graphic designer or need to edit photos. Sometimes it turns to be boring to use Photoshop all the time for any kind to photo editing job – maybe lightweight or heavyweight job. But Pixlr Editor is a very sophisticated photo editor built right into your browser, so that you can do all your editing stuff right from the browser window without moving to any other place.

You can edit any images, add effects to it which you can use in your blog. You dont need to open Photoshop everytime you need to edit an image to be used in your blog.

Rapporative

Rapportive is the extension that can give a new name to your business contacts list if you want to. It is an wonderful extension that focuses on increasing your contact list by far. Suppose you receive an email for an unknown person, you don’t know who he/she is, what he/she does. Nothing.  But this extension searches everywhere possible and tries to find all other possible connections with that particular person, maybe his Facebook profile, Twitter ID, LinkedIn profile, or anything else.

I hope these extensions will help you in blogging in a better way. But you may be using some other extensions which help you to increase your blogging productivity. Please do share it with us in the comment section, we would love to learn for you. See you in the comment sections.

What makes a highly-powerful SEO strategy and how are they implemented? This is just but the unlocking question into the mystery of SEO marketing success. Basically, any website or blog expert will tell you that a very successful marketing strategy is one which touches on the aspects of market research, current trends and individual targets. These are the main fundamental components making up the sphere of SEO marketing and conventional marketing practices in general. What differs these two types of marketing ventures is the technical aspects involved in the former. A very brief introduction into SEO marketing will probably do. Anyone with experience in this field of work may be well conversant with SEO plug-ins, content optimization, Activate RSS features and Viral Networking, Social Networking terms. Well, these are what one may consider as technical marketing however, they are the main components of successful SEO marketing strategies.

SEO plug-ins

SEO plug-ins as a strategy for internet marketing is something of worth to the practice since it involves widgets, add-ons and even graphics which convey the intended message to their users. Most internet marketers have found this tool quite useful and very influential in their line of work, as they really contribute towards successful online marketing, if not client-marketer interactions.

Content optimization

Content optimization involves highlighting the main keywords within the websites, in order to communicate direct and relevant information pertaining to various products on sale. This kind of strategy has been very effective in maintaining the ranks of various websites as well as selling out almost automatically. The web marketer may find it beneficial, if they can work closely with their web-designing counterparts, since their team-work can really boost the performance of an online marketer. This is a strategy which can be said to have worked for more than a dozen online marketers.

Active RSS features

Active RSS features are very common in the modern day blogging experience. One may have come across such features which prompt them to sign up for various blogs and websites newsletters. They act on the same principles with correspondence marketing. It may be very common for one to sign up for newsletters which offer additional information on products they are interested in. This fact has led to the adoption of Active RSS features in most online marketing strategies and list of effective techniques.

Social networking and viral networking

The most contemporary yet common online marketing strategies of all time are social networking and viral networking. These two models are very common and equally effective in a planet where the craze of social networking is taking toll on all and sundry. One can suggest these strategies as being very useful and additionally, a must-use by every online marketer.

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As a result, link-building has become an important discipline, and one that many people find extremely difficult. Finding powerful and relevant sources to gain links to your website can be a fairly in-depth job, and actually acquiring those links can be particularly tough. As a result, many people end up utilising lazy link-building techniques, most notably comment spam, spun content and article marketing directories (all of which should be avoided, particularly given Google’s recent de-indexation of many high profile networks).

There are ways of building links to your website which still have a lot of merit, with the most notable being content creation for other sites. Many of the top SEO agencies use this tactic, which involves creating high quality content (including guest posts, infographics and videos) for external websites in return for a link back. This kind of content creation is not only an excellent way to build links, but if you’re producing particularly high quality content then you can end up getting your content on some extremely high profile websites.

However, one of the major issues with this kind of link-building is that it can be extremely time-consuming and often frustrating – you’ll find you have to source a huge amount of potential sites and then manually call or email each one, a process that often ends up with you getting no reply at all from the majority of sites you’ve contacted. Even when you do get a link placement, you’re putting in a fair amount of work for a single link – worth it if the domain gets a fair amount of traffic, has a particularly high domain authority or gains a decent amount of traction via social media platforms, but very time consuming in the long run.

I’m not knocking guest-blogging or infographic placement as a linkbuilding tactic (I still use both frequently), but often it can be more efficient and more successful to put that effort and work into creating unique content for your own website – something we refer to as link magnetism. Placing high quality, unique content on your own website (either as a static page or a blog post) and then promoting that content via social media can often be a more effective form of link-building, as that content will attract natural links from external sources. This can be beneficial for a couple of reasons, firstly the links back to you are unlikely to all use the same anchor text (or if they do, it will likely be your brand name) which will make your link profile look far more natural (because it will be natural) and avoiding over optimisation or unnatural anchor text penalties from Google. Secondly, that one piece of content could earn you anywhere from a couple of links or hundreds of links, depending on how successful it is. If you compare this to the one link you’d have received using that content for a guest blog, you can see the important of link magnetism.

Spyware And Adware Programs

While you may think that it is just the word-editing program you are using that is currently running on your PC, or the windows media player that is keeping you from being bored, there are some other programs that are silently running on the background among which are spyware and adware programs. Unless you have implemented a reliable strategy to combat auto-installation of these programs, you probably have one on your PC right now. Just like your legit programs, these adware and spywares also take considerable amount of resources while spying on your activity; collecting data from you and passing them on to their launchers. Despite causing a slow PC, they have also led to identity theft and the bridge of other delicate information.

Viruses

Viruses are foreign programs designed to accomplish several purposes on a victim’s computer while wrecking havoc on the process. It is true that most of the security software vendors are busy researching and inventing solutions that can keep the computer safe from the intrusion of viruses and other foreign programs, but certain individuals actually made it their profession to design, program and perfect viruses that can penetrate all these security measures in order to accomplish their goal. As a result, there are tens of thousands of viruses out there. And God knows how many are released today! When these programs come into your system, they secretly and silently spread themselves from one file to another. Hence some files may end up corrupt while the memory of the computer will be drastically affected thereby causing sluggishness.

Hijacked Browsers

I am amazed at what some hackers can do these days. Just like you are working hard to provide your blog readers unequal value with every blog post, somebody somewhere is busy perfecting means of taking total control of your online activity. Have you ever noticed a change in your Homepage or a persistent popup as you are browsing? These are the results of a browser hijack. Hackers through this act and by using special hacking programs can plug into your browser, replace part of it or compromise your window to the internet thereby taking advantage of your surfing period to accomplish their deadly intentions. These, among other problems can wreck havoc on your online reputation while causing slow pc on the process.

Hardware Problems

I have noticed that the major hardware problem that can cause a slow computer is inadequate memory. When your computer had used up the available memory, it starts to use hard drive space as virtual memory. As a disadvantage, this can’t perform at the speed of a normal memory, thereby causing sluggishness. Additionally, hardware issues relating to the CPU, bus speed, the access time of the hard drive and many other factors can also lead to a slow pc.

How To Avoid A Slow PC

I will sum this up in one sentence; Use a reliable security software program. While a free security software solution can provide you some shield from viruses, spyware and adware programs, a free product is always a free product and may have unannounced limitations. You may have to get a paid security software solution with auto scan and update facilities.

Additionally, set your browser to block auto-installation of ad-ons, and pop-ups. Use safe search and security toolbar ad-ons. Most security vendors have programs like this designed to save you from clicking on malicious links as you surf the net. I am currently using AVG Internet Security 2012 and it came with all these features. Always customize your browser, specifically its security options; make sure that those options are set to provide maximum safety. Finally, you can always upgrade the memory of your computer – thanks to advanced computer technology. A top-up on the memory of your PC can actually save you hours of frustration while restoring your computer to its full speed.

What is Google Drive?

If you happen to be one of the few people who haven’t heard about Google Drive, a brief explanation might be helpful.  You can regard Google Drive as a type of file system which not only supports Google Docs but also integrates other services provided by Google.   5GB storage is available at no cost.  The least expensive paid plan costs $2.49 per month and offers 25GB, which also applies to your Gmail inbox size.  $4.99 per month earns 100 GB. There are plans going up to 16 TB at a cost of $800 each month.  10GB is the maximum allowance for file size.  Drive is set to become a regular element of the Google Apps for business use with identical security assurances.  The revised edition of Chrome OS will have Drive for its system for files.

Why the Long Wait?

Rumors about Google Drive have been floating around for quite a while.  So it is natural to wonder why it took Google so long to release Drive.  According to administration as Google, the elements necessary for Drive were not in place until now.  Whether or not, the comment strikes you as valid or not had little relevance.  Google Drive is here.  So the question now becomes was Drive worth the wait.

Will Drive work for me?

Regular users Google Docs and Gmail will quite certainly find that Drive suits them well.   That being said, Google Drive launches with some terrific features.  Space within this brief article does not allow an           in-depth exploration of Google Drive.  It is worth your time to explore these features on your own to see if they appeal to you.

As far as the concerns that users may have about allowing Google to access our files, only time will tell whether the features and benefits of Google Drive outweighs the security issues.  Many users are thus far not being won over by Google Drive.  Revisions to the service seem likely to come.  However, at this time, Google Drive is free to access all of the contents found within your files.   While the data remains under the control of users, the data can be utilized for targeting ads to specific groups.  If that is something you can live with, take a Google Drive.  Otherwise, wait a bit to see if things change and then decide if Google Drive is special .

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Blog About Your Experiences and Case Studies

There are so many blogs out there that are just rehashing content and saying the same old stuff. One of the best ways to make a lasting impressions is to bring originality and experience to your blog. Readers want to get more personable with the sites they are reading.

Some excellent ways to share case studies and experiences are anything from talking about why you are starting a blog, what your business is, how you started to make money online and many other ideas. No matter what niche or market you are in, you can create compelling content, tutorials and case studies that people want to hear. This is also the type of content that people are more willing to share to their social networks and go viral.

Leave a Lasting First Impression

As mentioned, there are billions of blogs out there, so what’s to make one person remember you blog from another? When I first launched my ZacJohnson.com blog, I wanted to make sure I was a step ahead of the competition. I created a killer mascot and logo for the site and also had an original and custom theme created for the site as well. This was all part of the plan for building the visual appeal and branding of the site. Now the ZJ toon is one of the most recognized logo in the affiliate marketing space today.

Don’t Over Monetize Your Site to Death

Everyone wants to make money online, but there are right ways to go about it and wrong ways. There is nothing worse than visiting a site and seeing a ton of “Advertise Here” banner ads through out the blog. Not only are they ugly, they also aren’t making your any money.

In the world of web sites and online marketing, it’s all about compelling content and readership. This is exactly the mindset and model I have in mind at my pay per click marketing blog. There is no banner monetization on the site and we are strictly focused on creating killer content for the site.

Focus on your content and readership, then the revenue sources and monetization will soon follow.