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		<title>The Reputation of Social Networking Platforms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reputation of social networking platforms has reached a point in time whereby new sites arrive every week. Consequently, it is central to understand the benefits and additionally disadvantages of social networking in order to make the most from this specific opportunity. 
There&#8217;s countless social networking websites accessible on the net. These websites encourage the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reputation of social networking platforms has reached a point in time whereby new sites arrive every week. Consequently, it is central to understand the benefits and additionally disadvantages of social networking in order to make the most from this specific opportunity. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s countless social networking websites accessible on the net. These websites encourage the users to contribute knowledge regarding each other, contribute videos and photos, use information pages, and easily share issues. So, will be critical that web surfers should embody aware of the wholly possible concerns who online online networking could well impart.</p>
<p>The law was subsequently delivered in the legislature and additionally raised all the way to the Senate, despite objections from cyberspace advocates, civil liberties groups, business owners and a few politicians. It was then situated on the custody of dubious lobby groups who were too sluggish to lead it after they had been hit with far-flung condemnation through the news and blogosphere.</p>
<p>Friends and family can feel outpaced by the technically knowledgeable teens. Nonetheless, there are definitely abundant things that parents should impart to the young people, particularly when it comes to encountering users on-line. Parents are able to also join a web site where the children are using and scan the terms and conditions page to discover if is definitely suited for children and kids.</p>
<p>The authorities laws to combat the damaging effects of social networking was started on 2005, at the height of the consternation around the issue re the security of small kids on the net. This universal application of online networking websites on homes and libraries in the U.S. was picked out and resultantly recommended to end up prohibited by lawmaking in order to get down the distressing incidences relevant to internet cheats.</p>
<p>Always try to infer precisely what information should be maintained secret for social groups. It is safe practice to only post material which you are comfortable participating in amongst other people. It is usually good to share info concerning fishy or threatening alerts you have recently encountered on the internet.</p>
<p>Like with everything, there are regularly risky sides to online networking. Setting up an account in a site can be challenging, and putting up a new profile online is able to expose a person to net predators. <a href="http://www.websitedesignerpoint.co.uk">online networking </a>has its pros and cons. It is up to the customers purposely to make use of it for gain or just for entertainment.</p>
<p>There are all sorts of social networking sites that could well captivate the interest of young people to tempt them to move to get involved. Though a few youth oriented social networking products wouldn&#8217;t allow the variety of communicating that other online networking websites offer for adults and older teens, there are still things that mums and dads had better do to guide their own kids as to just how to socialise online.</p>
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		<title>Why You Should Not Do Business with PageRank Sculpting SEOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The professional search engine optimization community became divided in 2007 over a troublesome issue.  Some people in the industry began advocating the practice of hiding internal links from search engines.  This so-called PageRank sculpting, they argued, would help Websites get more pages indexed and rank better for high-value keywords.  Despite the fact [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The professional search engine optimization community became divided in 2007 over a troublesome issue.  Some people in the industry began advocating the practice of hiding internal links from search engines.  This so-called PageRank sculpting, they argued, would help Websites get more pages indexed and rank better for high-value keywords.  Despite the fact that several industry leaders spoke out against PageRank sculpting its adherents insisted they were helping clients improve their search referral traffic with the technique.</p>
<p>Over the summer of 2009 Google employees revealed for the first time that because so many Websites were hurting themselves through PageRank sculpting Google had changed the way it assesses PageRank.  Now we know that <a href="http://www.seo-theory.com/2007/09/05/how-to-screw-your-web-site-with-nofollow/">PageRank sculpting</a> caused great harm and the SEO firms that were advising their customers to use this technique were in fact causing harm to their customers&#8217; sites.  This disturbing revelation should have brought the PageRank sculpting SEOs to their senses, but instead several of the staunchest advocates continue to speak as though PageRank sculpting works and helps Websites.</p>
<p>When you are deciding whether to hire an SEO firm to help your Website, you should find out as soon as possible whether they use, teach, or advise their clients to engage in <a href="http://searchengineland.com/youd-be-wise-to-nofollow-this-dubious-seo-advice-13524">PageRank sculpting</a>.  If you find that an SEO firm you have approached or which has approached use favors PageRank sculpting, you should just move on.  Since these people are unwilling or unable to recognize the huge mistake they made, you can do better by working with professional SEOs who don&#8217;t put client sites at risk.</p>
<p>Professional search engine optimization cannot afford the luxury of sacrificing client priorities for the sake of trying to prove points &#8212; especially when those points have been debunked by no less an authority than Google itself.  The plain and simple truth is that <a href="http://www.jaankanellis.com/what-is-pr-scuplting-and-does-it-work/">PageRank sculpting</a> has never worked as promised and people who sugar-coat it or try to argue that they now know how to do it better don&#8217;t deserve your business.</p>
<p>PageRank sculpting is a dangerous practice that should be left in the experimental past.  Now that Google has defused the original PageRank sculpting technique, Website operators may not be so lucky if they follow the bad advice being published in favor of new PageRank sculpting ideas.  Google may not be able to fix the problem a second time around.</p>
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		<title>Department of Justice Humbled by FTC Farce on SPAM Decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DOJ or Department of Justice is completely humbled by the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Consumer Protection Divisions Anti-SPAM Group&#8217;s dismal, degrading and disgusting demise as the worked to destroy SPAM. The CAN SPAM Act was mishandled by the Federal Trade Commission and by the FTC&#8217;s own admission has not dropped more than nine percent after [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The DOJ or Department of Justice is completely humbled by the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Consumer Protection Divisions Anti-SPAM Group&#8217;s dismal, degrading and disgusting demise as the worked to destroy SPAM. The CAN SPAM Act was mishandled by the Federal Trade Commission and by the FTC&#8217;s own admission has not dropped more than nine percent after climbing by some 3000% since 2000. In fact the largest growth spurt in World Wide SPAM has increased by some say 500% since the FTC jumped on the case.</p>
<p>Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Consumer Protection Divisions Anti-SPAM Group&#8217;s recent report to the United State&#8217;s Congress on their Anti-SPAM, CAN SPAM Act enforcement was more apologetic than reality based and in my opinion such a horrific, haphazard and horrible response has done nothing more than embolden SPAMMERS across the Globe. There is nothing worse than an agency, which fails so miserably. Certainly the Department of Justice must be quite humbled indeed by FTC farce on SPAM decline, as the Federal Trade Commission is under their watch? Should heads role at the FTC since misrepresentation, fraud and deception in public relations, advertising and press releases are something that the FTC&#8217;s consumer division is to enforce on the business community? Yet now the FTC misrepresents its abilities and performance to the American People.</p>
<p>We need prison terms for those who work in the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Consumer Protection Divisions Anti-SPAM Group. And we also need to investigate every case the FTC&#8217;s consumer division has worked on in the last 7 years to insure they had not over inflated, misrepresented and abused power. We should be mad as hell and not take this anymore, these are my opinions. Think on it.</p>
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		<title>Get Your News Releases Through the Spam Filters in 11 Easy Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s spam-filled email world, it&#8217;s sometimes VERY difficult to get your news releases and PR pitches to the media person you are trying to reach. These tips hold true for personal emails, too, so even if you don&#8217;t do P.R., this article offers some important email tips.
Here are a few ideas to help you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today&#8217;s spam-filled email world, it&#8217;s sometimes VERY difficult to get your news releases and PR pitches to the media person you are trying to reach. These tips hold true for personal emails, too, so even if you don&#8217;t do P.R., this article offers some important email tips.</p>
<p>Here are a few ideas to help you be more successful in reaching your target.</p>
<p>1.  Write the release with spam filters in mind.</p>
<p>There are many words that trigger spam filters these days. Learn to write alternative words, substitute zeros for Os or add * in the word to avoid the spam trap. You can find out which words are likely to be a problem in this excellent list provided by Dr. Wilson:  <a href="http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt8/spamfilter_phrases.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt8/spamfilter_phrases.htm</a></p>
<p>2.  Check your content to see what your spam filter rating is.</p>
<p>There are free sources to check your email. One of them is Lyris Content Checker ( <a href="http://www.lyris.com/contentchecker/)" rel="nofollow">http://www.lyris.com/contentchecker/)</a>, which checks it against the SpamAssassin database.</p>
<p>3.  Send each email individually, not as a CC or BCC.</p>
<p>The CC function allows everyone to see who you sent your email to so you definitely don&#8217;t want to do that. The reporters will get irritated when they see you have sent it to all of their competitors. As my grandmother used to say,&#8221;It&#8217;s better to keep some things to yourself.&#8221;</p>
<p>The BCC function allows you to hide the list of recipients from everyone who receives the email, but it doesn&#8217;t hide it from the email programs and filters. These programs know that you are sending a BCC message to a list, and if you send it to 10 or more, it will automatically trigger the spam filter.</p>
<p>You can send your emails efficiently from many database programs. I use ACT! and it allows me to not only send to a group, with each email going individually, but it also keeps track of what I sent to whom.</p>
<p>There are also systems available, like the one I use to deliver my ezines (which comes with my 1ShoppingCart.com service), designed to send hundreds and thousands of emails all at the same time. And the best thing is, you can tailor your release to add personal details about each recipient, such as their name and the industry they cover. I use my shopping cart to deliver my newsletters, but you can also use a service like ConstantContact for this.</p>
<p>4.  Include the recipient&#8217;s name in the subject line.</p>
<p>When someone sends me an email that begins, &#8220;Lois,&#8230;&#8221;, I pay attention. I know that this person either knows me or I have subscribed to their ezine or asked to have them communicate with me for some reason. And I NEVER report these people as spammers. If I don&#8217;t want to continue receiving information from them, I politely unsubscribe or email them to take me off their list. Think about it. You respond better when someone uses your name, don&#8217;t you? It&#8217;s a terrific way to get someone&#8217;s attention.</p>
<p>5.  Include [News] or [Pitch] in brackets at the beginning of the subject line.</p>
<p>Again, you need to give the reporter an easy way to spot your news as legitimate. So tell them up front you are sending them news or a pitch and watch your email delivery rate soar.</p>
<p>6.  Include the reporter&#8217;s column or beat in the first paragraph.</p>
<p>A reporter is always going to pay more attention to your pitch if you are one of their faithful readers. If you start out your email with something like, &#8220;Jane, in last week&#8217;s Cooking for One column, you said&#8230;&#8221;, you will surely get the reporter&#8217;s attention.</p>
<p>7.  Include all your contact information</p>
<p>Nothing&#8217;s worse than getting an email that you want to respond to immediately and having no way to contact the person except by email. Give the reporter all your phone numbers. And don&#8217;t forget your physical address and website domain. Make it easy for them to contact you.</p>
<p>8.  Never include any attachments.</p>
<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living in a cave without Internet access, you know that attachments are the way that most worms and viruses are spread on the Net. Windows XP strips off most attachments, and most corporate entities don&#8217;t allow attachments to come through their systems. They can even get you blacklisted so your emails cannot get through. So don&#8217;t be stupid. Don&#8217;t send attachments unless someone asks for them.</p>
<p>9.  Provide a link to your website to download photos, graphics, graphs, bios and other background information.</p>
<p>Just about anything that you need to deliver to a reporter can be uploaded to your website. You can include product photos, people photos (remember to make them 300 dpi for print/ 72 dpi for online and in various sizes, so that the media can choose which size they want to use), bios, background information, sample chapters, and even an entire digital book. If the reporter wants you to send the product or a physical book, then you&#8217;ll have to mail that, of course.</p>
<p>10.  Always include a subject line, but never put &#8220;Hi&#8221; or&#8221;Hello&#8221; in the subject line, especially alone.</p>
<p>Emails without subject lines are usually spam, and those that say hi or hello are usually viruses, so no one is going to open them. Be thorough. Include a subject line.</p>
<p>11.  Follow CAN-SPAM rules and allow an easy unsubscribe method to your email list.</p>
<p>Even if you don&#8217;t include a one-click unsubscribe, you should at least include a statement that tells the reporter how they can get off the list or let you know that their beat has changed. A simple statement that says, &#8220;To get off this subscriber list, simply hit &#8216;reply&#8217; and put &#8216;remove&#8217; in the subject line&#8221; will suffice. And don&#8217;t forget to include your name and address.</p>
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<p>Lois Carter Fay, APR, is a 30-year veteran in the P.R. and marketing field. She now produces three marketing ezines, Brainy Tidbits, Brainy Flash, and Success Secrets of Women Entrepreneurs. All are free.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://www.MarketingIdeaShop.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.MarketingIdeaShop.com</a> or <a href="http://www.WomenMarketing.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.WomenMarketing.com</a> to subscribe and claim your free special report.</p>
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