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How can I protect myself from viruses and such? The most common viruses are boot sector infectors. You can help protect yourself against those by write protecting all disks which you do not need write access to. Definitely keep a set of write protected floppy system disks. If you get a virus, it will make things much simpler. And, they are good for coasters. Only kidding. Scan all incoming files with a recent copy of a good virus scanner. Among the best are F-Prot, Dr. Solomon's Anti-virus Toolkit, and Thunderbyte Anti-Virus. AVP is also a good proggie. Using more than one scanner could be helpful. You may get those one or two viruses that the other guy happened to miss this month. New viruses come out at the rate of about 8 per day now. NO scanner can keep up with them all, but the four mentioned here do the best job of keeping current. Any _good_ scanner will detect the majority of common viruses. No virus scanner will detect all viruses. Right now there are abou...

The one thing that is constant with search engine optimization is that things always changing. The search engines hire the smartest programmers and use very smart algorithms.  They are constantly tweaking their system so it produces the most relevant results. However with this constant algorithmic change, it can be hard to provide consistent page one rankings. So it is important, in fact it's essential, to keep up with the latest changes and updates from the various search engines. A technique that has worked well for many years is back linking. Back linking is the way the search engines recognize if a site has authority are not. It looks to see how many other websites are linking to the site. Typically the more back links there are to a given site, the higher the website ranks in the search engines. Over the past few years more variables have been added to the search engine algorithms such as social media indicators and local search. Social media is now one of the most important ...

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the science that helps web pages rank naturally in search engines. You may have the most useful and interesting website, if nobody finds it, it's equal to zero. On the other hand, an average quality site may get lots of visitors only because it is considered relevant by search engines, therefore it ranks on top for keywords with high volume of search. There are two components to SEO: on-site optimization and off-site optimization. The on-site SEO is not hard to do. You can do it yourself in great degree. Basically, it boils down to having the desired keywords in certain positions on your pages. First of all, you need to make sure your keyword appears in the page title. Please note that I said page, not website. Search engines don't treat and rank websites as a whole, they look at each separate page of an website and rank it for its most relevant keywords. Let's assume you have a website about vegetables. The page about carrots should be...

Search engine optimization is the process of arranging a webpage through various procedures so that it will rank highly in search engines. The trick really is to have the listing for a website rank on the first page of a search engine, usually in one of the top five spots. This would seem to be nearly impossible, when the odds say that to land in the top five when there are more that 20 million competing websites is silly. However there are techniques that actually beat the odds and make it possible for people to create niches where they will stand out and be noticed. We live in an Internet world where everything seems to be happening there. The commerce, the buying and selling, is ongoing, 24 hours a day and is happing all over the world. It is no wonder that there is this almost frantic quest to get online and sell something. It makes sense too, to do that because it is a legitimate way to make money, if you can get noticed. You can get noticed too, by just doing a little homework. ...

Search Engine Optimization is a marketing strategy that analyzes what people are searching for on the Internet. The procedure involves determining what keywords or what keyword phrases people are using to enter into the search box in looking up any particular subject. Optimizing a website might also involve editing the verbiage in the website itself to better reflect a more focused content. If people are searching for a specific keyword, then the information that appears should at least shed some light on that topic. So the editing of the actual content of the website, reworking the HTML code, and adding more backlinks to give the site more relevance on the internet can add to the credibility of the site. All of this began to occur back when the search engines began to send a spider to new websites so they could be indexed and cataloged on the server of the search engine. Information about the page, its contents and relevancy to the subject, the number of links coming back to the site...

Darlene started writing a blog a year ago. She faithfully writes a new post every week in which she talks about her work as a fitness trainer. She offers a lot of valuable training tips in her articles, and the people who read her blog comment on how informative it is. The problem is that very few people reading it. And the reason is because Darlene doesn't understand the importance of good search engine optimization. What is search engine optimization? Search engines like Google and Yahoo! help people find information online that is relative to the search inquiries they make. When you do a Google search for "tips on how to slim my waist" you want to be sent to a website that will give you good advice on how to go about trimming your waistline. You don't want to be sent to a website that has information about different types of diets, but no specific information on reducing waistlines. The search engines want to send people to sites relative to their requests. So the...

SEO is the ongoing process of ranking a website in the search engines based on a set of given keywords. Also known as search engine optimization, SEO can take a great deal of time and patience to yield the results you are after. But, once you achieve the rankings you will have something promoting your website 24/7 while you play or work on the other parts of your business. And, it can promote in anytime zone in the world for you.   It is a very powerful form of marketing as well. It is targeted and brings the prospects to you rather than you having to go out and look for customers. The lifeblood of any SEO campaign is keywords. Keywords and phrases are the terms people type into the search engines when they are looking for something. If someone is looking for a specific answer to something and your website pops up in the results then you have a good chance of getting a visitor and making a sale. So, that means you need to think like your customers to get that initial batch of...