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[12 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 432 views]

NEW YORK
Westchester, N.Y. County police department arrested 66 people in a months-long probe into high-priced prostitution rings that advertised on the popular Website CraigsList.
The Elmsford, Greenburgh, Rye and Rye Brook police departments say the nine-month investigation also netted more than $21,000 in apparent prostitution proceeds. Some defendants were charged with prostitution, others with patronizing prostitutes or other offenses.
Rye Brook Police Chief Gregg Austin says undercover officers set up dates after spotting ads for sexual services on the online clearinghouse Craigslist.
A Craigslist spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an e-mail early …

Advertising / Marketing »

[11 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 199 views]

Today’s internet business world is very competitive. New websites are emerging often making the business more competitive. In majority of businesses return customers comprises a major portion of the business.  And that makes it very important stay in touch with customers informing them about upcoming products, promotions etc. Email Marketing could help you stay in touch with your customers.
Advantages of email marketing
- The advantage of a mailing list is clearly the ability to distribute information to a wide range of specific, potential customers at a relatively low cost.
- Compared to …

Programming / Coding »

[10 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 269 views]

ERROR: The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add.
I generally work with Microsoft SQL database. This time I got into a situation when I have to work with Microsoft Access. I did very little work with Access before, so I was concerned at the begining.  Later as I started working I found it’s not that difficult, lot of syntax matches with MS SQL with some differences of course.
Anyways when I was working with a situation when I had to insert big text into …

SEO »

[10 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 439 views]

For many reasons often webmasters tend to optimize their site for Geographic Locations. Lets say you are selling candy online for USA, and you don’t ship anywhere else. Its very likely that you would want to optimize your site for that geographic location.
Why you wanna optimize for geographical location?
First of all to get higher ranking on search results. If you specify your site for a location your site will will be the preferred one over the ones that are not geographically targeted.
Another reason could be you just don’t wanna do …

Advertising / Marketing, My Business News »

[9 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 274 views]

As you can see on the top right side navigation I have a feed counter showing how many subscribers this site have.
Few days ago I got an email from a reader saying “you should rethink of proudly showing your feed counter on the site”. I replied back “every time I visit the site, it reminds me how hard I have to work”.
In today’s internet world websites are growing and dying like fungus. Even kids know of the internet before they are 5 years old. Everybody wants their site known to …

Advertising / Marketing »

[6 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 199 views]

Every webmaster does have hard time bringing in traffic to a new site. As its said first 15 months is the toughest time for any website. If you can survive that time chances are your site will stay around.
Here is a little tips that could get you some traffic.
There are quite a few blog review sites. SponsoredReview.com is one of theme where you can buy blog reviews getting bloggers bid for it. The way it works is you create a campaign that is available to bloggers for bidding. You accept …

Advertising / Marketing »

[5 Jan 2008 | 2 Comments | 503 views]

Alexa.com been around for a while now providing website statistics based on visitors and pageviews. Alexa stats are in no way near accurate, just an approximate view. To make things worse it can be easily manipulated using different techniques. I have written another article how Alexa Rank can be manipulated. But we gonna show you a way to get some traffic from Alexa.
There used to be two ways to get traffic from Alexa:

Writing reviews on a site at Alexa
Related Link Suggestion

Alexa took off the review feature from their site, so …

Technology »

[3 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 305 views]

Monkeys may have a world we haven’t discovered yet!
Selling sex is said to be humankind’s oldest profession but it may have deep evolutionary roots, according to a study into our primate cousins which found that male macaques pay for intercourse by using grooming as a currency.
Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore made the discovery in a 20-month investigation into 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, New Scientist reports on Saturday.
On average, females had sex 1.5 times per hour.
But this rate jumped to 3.5 times per hour immediately …

Making Money »

[1 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 446 views]

You can earn some money working as a Google Contractor. Or you could have your business details shown on Google Maps.
Joining the Google Local Business Referrals (LBR) program is a great way to earn some money while connecting people to the businesses in your neighborhood. The information you collect could be seen by millions of people who use Google every day. And you’ll be helping the businesses you refer attract new customers while also making it easier for people in your community to find the products and services they’re searching …

Advertising / Marketing »

[1 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 240 views]

Webmasters work their ass off for traffic. Specially if its your first website, chances are you will get lost in wonderland.
These techniques are for fun purpose only. I wouldn’t recommend trying any of the extreme techniques mentioned here, however you may find some useful tips here as well. If you try any of these, you would do at your own risk.
Here are the ideas to pour in traffic to your site:

Paint your URL on your body and run naked through New York or any big city.
Next time you …