In continuing my series on internet marketing, I want to share with you some of the best places to submit your articles to get results.
1. Lists.
There are three sites that currently have lists that are very popular, and will get you included in these highly popular sites:
Yahoo Groups
MSN Groups
Google Groups
To find groups to list your articles, I recommend that you do a keyword search on each one using the keyword of your topic plus “article lists”. This should yield you good results as this is what I do.
You can also browse the categories.
I’ve had the best luck with Yahoo Groups, so here are some groups that I recommend:
The Write Articles - This is a group that I own that I am the moderator for. A top ranked site recently contacted me, and our RSS feed will be featured on their site, and this will give the writers on this list a lot of free publicity. This group accepts small business, internet marketing, copywriting, website building, computer, and writing articles.
These highly popular groups belong to Shelley Lowery. They get a lot of traffic, and she focuses on different topics. Please make sure you read the guidelines. Otherwise, Shelley will reject your articles.
Article Announce - Writer & Publisher Exchange is the first and ORIGINAL article announcement list. This announcement list includes all article submissions.
Article Announce Home - Home and Family oriented articles.
Article Announce Health - Health and Fitness oriented articles.
Article Announce General - General Interest oriented articles.
Article Announce Internet - Internet oriented articles.
There are many others. These will get you started and put your articles in front of thousands of publishers.
2. Article Directories
With article directories, it’s as simple as doing a search in your favorite search engine to find these directories. Here are some of my favorites, and they’re all highly ranked:
Article City
Go Articles
Click for Content
Ezine Articles
Idea Marketers
Many of these sites require an account, but it’s free.
3. Forums
Forums are often overlooked as a place to promote your articles, but they can be very effective. Like article directories, all you have to do is a search in your category combined with the search term “forums”, to help you find what you are looking for.
Here are a couple of forums I recommend that deal with internet marketing, and they accept articles:
Warrrior’s Forum
Profits.cc
Forums normally require that you sign up for an account, but it’s free.
4. Individual Sites
Finally, if you surf as much as I do, you’ll find a ton of sites out there that accept articles. The important thing here is to do your research, keep a bookmark file, and every time you find a site that you can submit articles to, bookmark it.
Read the publisher’s guidelines. You are more likely to get your article accepted if you study the guidelines before posting.
Remember, this technique will not only help you with the search engines, but it will brand you as an expert in your field, and it will drive traffic to your site, as well as building relationships, which will make you sales.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
small bussiness and internet marketing
Environmental Entrepreneur,Green Biz.NRN Murthy of Infosys says that we Indians are weak in execution.We need to realize the need and practice of gud project management. Form a group of competent Managers,Give them responsibilities and review the project from day One.
Little Agreement on Spyware Guidelines
By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
1 hour, 38 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Many anti-spyware programs scour computer hard drives for those data-tracking files called cookies that we often get from Web visits. Microsoft Corp.'s tool does not. And there are disputes aplenty about whether certain widely used advertising programs circulating on the Internet are clean of spyware.
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No surprise, then, that there's little agreement on what should be considered spyware, and what adware is exactly. Or on whether adware, which delivers ads, is a form of spyware or a breed apart.
Consumers are confounded. Is their computer-cleaning overzealous or not thorough enough? Are they removing useful programs with the dreck?
No less vexed are makers of anti-spyware software. They're beset by legal headaches, constantly challenged for what their products define and target as malware.
"It certainly distracts us from the job at hand," said David Moll, chief executive of Webroot Software Inc.
Help may be on the way. Led by the tech-advocacy group Center for Democracy and Technology, the anti-spyware industry is crafting definitions and plans to eventually set up dispute-resolution procedures. A draft is expected by late summer.
"A definition is the foundation," said Ari Schwartz, the center's associate director. "If a consumer's going to make a decision in the marketplace about what they have and what software they are going to use, it's helpful to have a basis to do that on."
Similar efforts, however, have failed before.
Part of the challenge stems from how the term "spyware" evolved.
"It started out as being called spyware because a lot of it was spying on people and sending personal information," said Dave Methvin, chief technology officer with tech diagnostic site PC Pitstop. "It's a catchy, quick word that is always easy for people to understand and say."
But the term stuck even as some of these programs, in response to consumer complaints, began sending back less data and became less sneaky.
In some people's minds, spyware came to include programs that change Web browser settings without asking or trick users into racking up huge phone bills by making the equivalent of "900" calls to foreign porn sites.
"`Spyware' has sort of become the euphemism for any software I don't want," said Wayne Porter, co-founder of SpywareGuide.com.
The result is chaos.
Microsoft, for instance, chose not to scan cookies because many sites need them to remember passwords and otherwise customize a surfer's experience. Cory Treffiletti of the online ad agency Carat Interactive says cookies help sites identify repeat visitors so the same ads aren't shown over and over.
But other spyware hunters flag cookies on the grounds that they help advertisers track behavior. EarthLink Inc.'s Scott Mecredy says anti-spyware programs have gotten sophisticated enough to distinguish good cookies from bad.
Then there's the question of whether "spyware" includes adware.
Claria Corp., formerly known as Gator Corp., has sued several anti-spyware companies and Web sites for calling its advertising software "spyware." PC Pitstop rewrote some of its materials as part of a settlement.
Even "adware" isn't good enough for some.
Joseph Telafici, director of operations for McAfee Inc.'s security research unit, says the company now gets one or two complaints a week, compared with two or three per quarter last year from companies whose programs it has dubbed spyware or adware.
McAfee is in the process of assigning a full-time lawyer.
Symantec Corp. sought to pre-empt a lawsuit by filing one itself, asking a federal court to declare that it had the right to call Hotbot.com Inc.'s toolbar adware. Hotbot did not respond to requests for comment.
Symantec still faces a lawsuit by Trekeight LLC, whose product Symantec brands adware.
Though it has yet to sue, 180solutions Inc. takes issue with "adware," preferring "searchware" or "sponsorware." "Adware" has become too linked with bad actors, and the industry needs more differentiation, said its chief executive, Keith Smith. Most anti-spyware vendors, however, still put 180solutions in that category.
Aluria Software LLC says one company, WhenU.com Inc., has changed its practices enough that it is now spyware- and adware-safe.
But America Online Inc., though it uses Aluria's technology, prefers a different test: What its users think.
AOL found that users overwhelmingly choose to rid their computers of WhenU's SaveNow application when anti-spyware scans uncover it, so AOL continues to list as adware.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that many legitimate programs — including Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Web browser — send out data without making the user fully aware, one of the common attributes of spyware.
And many programs that spy do have legitimate functions — people may run a keystroke recorder to monitor spouses whom they suspect of cheating. Or they may willingly accept adware in exchange for a free game or screensaver.
Anti-spyware software companies say they leave removal decisions to customers, though many users simply follow their recommendations, failing to distinguish the mild from the malicious.
"If an anti-spyware company recommends that the software (gets) blocked, consumers will typically block it," said Keith Smith, chief executive of 180solutions. "It doesn't matter how good an experience they have with it."
Alex St. John, chief executive of WildTangent Inc., says anti-spyware companies have an incentive to overlist programs: It makes their products appear effective. Better definitions, he said, would help clear his company's game-delivery product.
"We want to do anything under our power to be clearly defined as a legitimate, upright consumer company," he said. "We would love to have something to adhere to."
Guidelines could give anti-spyware vendors a better defense.
For consumers, said Tori Case of Computer Associates International Inc., "if we start using the correct terminology, we can demystify it a bit and help people understand what the real risks are."
1 hour, 38 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Many anti-spyware programs scour computer hard drives for those data-tracking files called cookies that we often get from Web visits. Microsoft Corp.'s tool does not. And there are disputes aplenty about whether certain widely used advertising programs circulating on the Internet are clean of spyware.
ADVERTISEMENT
No surprise, then, that there's little agreement on what should be considered spyware, and what adware is exactly. Or on whether adware, which delivers ads, is a form of spyware or a breed apart.
Consumers are confounded. Is their computer-cleaning overzealous or not thorough enough? Are they removing useful programs with the dreck?
No less vexed are makers of anti-spyware software. They're beset by legal headaches, constantly challenged for what their products define and target as malware.
"It certainly distracts us from the job at hand," said David Moll, chief executive of Webroot Software Inc.
Help may be on the way. Led by the tech-advocacy group Center for Democracy and Technology, the anti-spyware industry is crafting definitions and plans to eventually set up dispute-resolution procedures. A draft is expected by late summer.
"A definition is the foundation," said Ari Schwartz, the center's associate director. "If a consumer's going to make a decision in the marketplace about what they have and what software they are going to use, it's helpful to have a basis to do that on."
Similar efforts, however, have failed before.
Part of the challenge stems from how the term "spyware" evolved.
"It started out as being called spyware because a lot of it was spying on people and sending personal information," said Dave Methvin, chief technology officer with tech diagnostic site PC Pitstop. "It's a catchy, quick word that is always easy for people to understand and say."
But the term stuck even as some of these programs, in response to consumer complaints, began sending back less data and became less sneaky.
In some people's minds, spyware came to include programs that change Web browser settings without asking or trick users into racking up huge phone bills by making the equivalent of "900" calls to foreign porn sites.
"`Spyware' has sort of become the euphemism for any software I don't want," said Wayne Porter, co-founder of SpywareGuide.com.
The result is chaos.
Microsoft, for instance, chose not to scan cookies because many sites need them to remember passwords and otherwise customize a surfer's experience. Cory Treffiletti of the online ad agency Carat Interactive says cookies help sites identify repeat visitors so the same ads aren't shown over and over.
But other spyware hunters flag cookies on the grounds that they help advertisers track behavior. EarthLink Inc.'s Scott Mecredy says anti-spyware programs have gotten sophisticated enough to distinguish good cookies from bad.
Then there's the question of whether "spyware" includes adware.
Claria Corp., formerly known as Gator Corp., has sued several anti-spyware companies and Web sites for calling its advertising software "spyware." PC Pitstop rewrote some of its materials as part of a settlement.
Even "adware" isn't good enough for some.
Joseph Telafici, director of operations for McAfee Inc.'s security research unit, says the company now gets one or two complaints a week, compared with two or three per quarter last year from companies whose programs it has dubbed spyware or adware.
McAfee is in the process of assigning a full-time lawyer.
Symantec Corp. sought to pre-empt a lawsuit by filing one itself, asking a federal court to declare that it had the right to call Hotbot.com Inc.'s toolbar adware. Hotbot did not respond to requests for comment.
Symantec still faces a lawsuit by Trekeight LLC, whose product Symantec brands adware.
Though it has yet to sue, 180solutions Inc. takes issue with "adware," preferring "searchware" or "sponsorware." "Adware" has become too linked with bad actors, and the industry needs more differentiation, said its chief executive, Keith Smith. Most anti-spyware vendors, however, still put 180solutions in that category.
Aluria Software LLC says one company, WhenU.com Inc., has changed its practices enough that it is now spyware- and adware-safe.
But America Online Inc., though it uses Aluria's technology, prefers a different test: What its users think.
AOL found that users overwhelmingly choose to rid their computers of WhenU's SaveNow application when anti-spyware scans uncover it, so AOL continues to list as adware.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that many legitimate programs — including Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Web browser — send out data without making the user fully aware, one of the common attributes of spyware.
And many programs that spy do have legitimate functions — people may run a keystroke recorder to monitor spouses whom they suspect of cheating. Or they may willingly accept adware in exchange for a free game or screensaver.
Anti-spyware software companies say they leave removal decisions to customers, though many users simply follow their recommendations, failing to distinguish the mild from the malicious.
"If an anti-spyware company recommends that the software (gets) blocked, consumers will typically block it," said Keith Smith, chief executive of 180solutions. "It doesn't matter how good an experience they have with it."
Alex St. John, chief executive of WildTangent Inc., says anti-spyware companies have an incentive to overlist programs: It makes their products appear effective. Better definitions, he said, would help clear his company's game-delivery product.
"We want to do anything under our power to be clearly defined as a legitimate, upright consumer company," he said. "We would love to have something to adhere to."
Guidelines could give anti-spyware vendors a better defense.
For consumers, said Tori Case of Computer Associates International Inc., "if we start using the correct terminology, we can demystify it a bit and help people understand what the real risks are."
Environmental Entrepreneur,Green Biz.NRN Murthy of Infosys says that we Indians are weak in execution.We need to realize the need and practice of gud project management. Form a group of competent Managers,Give them responsibilities and review the project from day One.
Mass worm attack could be imminent
Mass worm attack could be imminent
By Joris Evers, Special to ZDNet
24 June 2005 Add your opinion
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A surge in scanning on a port associated with a Windows flaw patched last week suggests that a mass worm attack may be imminent, experts have said.
A rise in activity on TCP Port 445 could be a sign that hackers are trying to exploit a flaw in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, Gartner analyst John Pescatore said Thursday in the US.
"Increased scanning does not always mean an attack will happen, but it greatly increases the odds that one will," Pescatore said. "I don't think this has a high probability of a worm, but if people get lax about patching the odds of worms goes way, way up."
Like would-be burglars knocking on doors looking for a likely target, Internet intruders sometimes scan random computers to see if a particular network port is available, as a precursor to attack.
TCP Port 445 is used by SMB, which Windows uses to share files, printers, serial ports and also to communicate between computers. Microsoft recently released a fix for the "critical" vulnerability in the protocol as part of its monthly patch cycle.
Increased port scanning has preceded major worm outbreaks in the past, Pescatore said. Alfred Huger, a senior director at Symantec Security Response, also said that a worm could be on its way.
Users should patch their systems as soon as possible, they both said.
However, Pescatore and Huger also noted that port scanning by suspected hackers is common after Microsoft discloses vulnerabilities. Furthermore, this particular Windows flaw is not easy to exploit, so the scanning may not be an ominous sign at all.
Symantec saw a spike in scanning on TCP Port 445 last week, but the probing of the port has since gone back to normal levels, Huger said. "I don't think we should be screaming the barn is burning by any means," he said.
Microsoft is not aware of any active attempts to exploit any Microsoft vulnerabilities via TCP Port 445, a company representative said Thursday in the US. Also, the software maker has not received any indication of malicious activity
By Joris Evers, Special to ZDNet
24 June 2005 Add your opinion
Forward in Format for
A surge in scanning on a port associated with a Windows flaw patched last week suggests that a mass worm attack may be imminent, experts have said.
A rise in activity on TCP Port 445 could be a sign that hackers are trying to exploit a flaw in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, Gartner analyst John Pescatore said Thursday in the US.
"Increased scanning does not always mean an attack will happen, but it greatly increases the odds that one will," Pescatore said. "I don't think this has a high probability of a worm, but if people get lax about patching the odds of worms goes way, way up."
Like would-be burglars knocking on doors looking for a likely target, Internet intruders sometimes scan random computers to see if a particular network port is available, as a precursor to attack.
TCP Port 445 is used by SMB, which Windows uses to share files, printers, serial ports and also to communicate between computers. Microsoft recently released a fix for the "critical" vulnerability in the protocol as part of its monthly patch cycle.
Increased port scanning has preceded major worm outbreaks in the past, Pescatore said. Alfred Huger, a senior director at Symantec Security Response, also said that a worm could be on its way.
Users should patch their systems as soon as possible, they both said.
However, Pescatore and Huger also noted that port scanning by suspected hackers is common after Microsoft discloses vulnerabilities. Furthermore, this particular Windows flaw is not easy to exploit, so the scanning may not be an ominous sign at all.
Symantec saw a spike in scanning on TCP Port 445 last week, but the probing of the port has since gone back to normal levels, Huger said. "I don't think we should be screaming the barn is burning by any means," he said.
Microsoft is not aware of any active attempts to exploit any Microsoft vulnerabilities via TCP Port 445, a company representative said Thursday in the US. Also, the software maker has not received any indication of malicious activity
Environmental Entrepreneur,Green Biz.NRN Murthy of Infosys says that we Indians are weak in execution.We need to realize the need and practice of gud project management. Form a group of competent Managers,Give them responsibilities and review the project from day One.
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