Monthly Archives: February 2009

How do I choose good keywords for my website?

By admin | February 12, 2009

Choosing good keywords for your websites is a skill that all online marketers need to master. Writing up webpages without paying attention to the keywords you are using will hamper the success of your website. Another factor that you must take account of is the type of website you have and what you want people to do when they find it.

There will be different motives for someone who is searching for a videos on gardening and someone else who wants the latest Coldplay track to download. The first website carries information and the second one will have the track ready for download. Now if the information website has the relevant information on video then you may be able to sell the information but you have to catch people who are looking for your information.

This is how you should use the keywords. The choice of the right keywords will enable you to target specific visitors to your website. When it comes down to it there are 2 basic methods for choosing good keywords. You can subscribe to keyword discovery or any of the other paid research keyword websites. This will very quickly give you search results and competition for keywords. Then you can use the free google keyword tool to find out which keywords are getting the searches. You will not find your keywords very fast this way but it does work.

Finding good keywords means that you must find phrases that have high search numbers with low website competition. If the niche has low searches in general then you will find good keywords quite easily. For big niches such as diet or credit cards will be much more of a challenge to find good keywords. My minimum statistics for a good keyword is searches of above 500 searches a month and less than 25,000 websites competing for the phrase. If you use these keywords in your website content then more people will find your pages through searching.

All of this information is really just a summary of what is a very large topic. You can find more answers to the question how do I choose good keywords for my website by going to the mega article website.

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Protect Your Webcam from Clickjacking

By admin | February 11, 2009

Learn More About Clickjacking

Technical news mags such as ZDnet report that clickjacking may be a serious threat that affects any Internet browser.

Clickjacking from the Layperson’s Perspective

Briefly, clickjacking is accomplished by a malicious page hiding behind what appears to be a safe page.   When you click on an item, your computer is “clickjacked” by the malicious code, which then hijacks various components of your computer.This takes place without your knowledge.

Generally, webcams are hijacked, but clickjacking is not limited to affecting a cam. For instance, your sound system or microphone can be exploited, or your PC can be taken over in other ways.

Adobe’s Flash Player was particularly vulnerable to clickjacking threats; however, Adobe has come out with a fix to address the issue.

What Browsers are Affected?

Clickjacking is a cross-browser threat, meaning that the malicious code can affect Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or any other Internet borwser.   It cannot be quickly fixed by disabling javascript.

The only known solution is a “No Script” add-on that works with Firefox.

Problems with the Clickjacking Fix

After using No Script for a week or so, I disabled it because it made web surfing a chore. Virtually every site I visted was blocked to some degree because the page contained common elements such as javascript, affiliate ads or YouTube videos.  For instance, the following were all blocked by No Script:

  • Google Analytics
  • Pepperjam network
  • Peelaway Ads
  • Voxant’s newsroom
  • Chitika
  • and many, many more (see the partial list of affiliate programs and other utilities blocked by No Script).

There’s a little bit of good news for Google publishers and advertisers. Adsense is automatically whitelisted by the No Script add-on. Most of the others will need to be approved manually. It is doubtful that the average Internet user will whitelist advertising networks.

If clickjacking is indeed a serious threat and script blocking solutions are the only way to fight back, then I can see online advertising taking a big hit. Adserver Plus and other heavy hitting advertising networks were blocked by the Firefox add-on.

Conclusion:  Maybe the Threat is Overrated

My web browsing experience is back up to speed since I’ve disabled No Script and so far I haven’t been hit by any type of clickjacking activities. Perhaps the threat is not as serious as some would claim.

The NotGuru blog has posted some videos that show exactly how clickjacking works and how to install fixes.

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phpBay Pro Is The One For You

By admin | February 11, 2009

eBay is a well known wonderful website with a great affiliate program designed to enable to monetize your web sites. Due to Google’s current practice for de-indexing BANS sites, you’re more successful with a normal site that adds eBay feeds to your site, but isn’t the only reason for the being of your blog. Some BANS problems are the big number of blatant affiliate sites built using it, the templating issues, and content concerns, that result in it being more difficult working with than different systems. Wade Wells’ phpBay Pro cures this problem by trivially adding eBay auction results into your existing articles.It’s well worth it.

Getting it installed is easy, as it installs as a regular WordPress plugin. After this, you only need to turn on it and set your intended configuration. Don’t forget to enter yourCampaign ID.Be sure you get credit for all your sales!

At this point you in a nutshell put a small bit of code in the posts, and voila you have eBay feeds in your entries. Code inside the tags yields you the what you want listed, the quantity of items displayed, eBay category number, and the negative terms you need to make more precise your search.Don’t forget this part.

eBay search returns typically yield a high number of results. Often this will not list you the specific item you need, due to the unbelievable number of items sold on eBay. This is where phpBayPro’s negative search term function is a great feature to filter out the unnecessary results.

phpBay Pro makes use of the SEO’d links feature, in order that any search engine will not figure the site is a thin affiliate site. Most BANS installations have been de-indexed because of this, so ensure that you put some useful additional content up as well to be viewed as a full fledged site instead.

 

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