I suspect that when Google came up with Google Alerts they knew they had a cool tool that people could use to keep track of subjects they were following and wanted the latest news on those subjects coming to them in their email inbox.

People have used Google Alerts for following things like Nascar, the musician Pink, Soccer, their favorite WWE wrestler, you name it.

But, many people have found other clever uses for it as well, as it is a very powerful tool whe it comes to staying on top of who is saying what about whom and where it was said.

Recently, one of my members shared they way they use Google Alerts with me for this very purpose, and I found it worked so well that I would now like to pass it on to you.

Google Alerts searches the Google archives for any given search term, and if it finds it, sends an email to you with the link to where it found the search term, and a summary of the text where it was found. This is very handy for someone that is either particularly vain, or someone that has a vested interest in what is said about them, or even about their product.

Doing this kind of search manually would be agonizing, as you would always get the same results, and they would not be based on the most current occurences of your keywords.

So, if you go to Google Alerts and

1. type your name  or your product name or even your Twitter username (which looks like @rondavies);
2. for “Type” select “Comprehensive”;
3. for “How Often” select “once a day”; and
4. enter your email address where asked.

You will receive any new occurences of that search term (your full name or product name) as they come into the Google archive system.

This means that if someone says something nice about you on blog XYZ.com, (or heaven forbid, not so nice), and Google spiders thier normal update for that blog and finds your name, you will be notified by email within the day.

Then you can either thank them, or spank them I suppose, depending on the nature of the comment or post where your name or product name were found #;>)

Another very cool, very easy to use tool from my little toolbox.

Have a great day!

Google Adsense Bounce Rate & Pagerank

So many web marketers use web page traffic exchange system and start page exchanges as part of their website promotion strategy.

In many cases this is a very bad idea, particularly when it comes to Google Adsense sites and Pagerank.

Need proof? Have a look at how favorably Google views the traffic sent to one of my sites by Trafficswarm.com.

I think you will be surprised – I was!

I highly recommend for best viewing that you click the “Full Screen” button in the player below.

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Here is another great video on the topic of Web 2.0 done by the clever people at CommonCraft.

This video does a very good job of explaining why social networking sites are so popular. We think one reason is because they help to solve a real world problem.

Cheers,

This post is really about an ex black-hat magician opening his book of tricks for you to take a peek.

The simple line of code I have shown below can be used to edit any web page on any website anywhere in the world -with a catch…

It only edits the page you see, and not the actual website as seen by others visiting that site.

What is the point of this?

Watch the video to see how cheats use this code to falsify documents, income earnings statements, Clickbank transaction pages, PayPal statements, you name it.

You need a current web browser, but other than that it works in both IE and Firefox.

OK, so how do you use it? Visit any web page. When the page has loaded fully, past this into the browser address bar and hit “Enter” key on your keyboard:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Next, select an area of text as you would in MS Word, etc, and start typing, editing, etc.

What the hackers or cheats would then do is click the “Print Screen” button, or on many keyboards the “Prt Scr” button, then open MS Paint, Photoshop, or whatever imaging program you like, create a new image, and hit “CTRL-V” to paste this falsified web page image into the document.

Very scary huh? It is frightening to think what damage people have done with this.

The one I see very frequently is the falsifying of Clickbank income statements, PayPal sales statements, etc.

Cheers,

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For a very long time I have researched the single biggest deterrent preventing Internet marketers from using WordPress as their main CMS and marketing platform.

Those that have tinkered with earlier versions of WordPress found the installation cumbersome and complex, not to mention the rather convoluted process of locating, installing and configuring the very limited, almost always unstable plugins that seemed to be unworkable depending on the WP version you were installing them on.

All this has changed with WordPress versions of late, even more so for 2.7. The rules for plugin development have been firmed up, and the stability is far far better, not to mention that the plugins developed for Internet marketers have come a long, long way.

Now the plugins range from SEO positioning and optimization to traffic analyses and RSS aggregation, automatic replacement of words with masked affiliate links, automatic emails sent to commenters, completely self contained affiliate programs and much more.

To cap this, of the 40 or so plugins that I use, all but 2 of them are free, including free updates.

The final show stopped for most is the hassle of locating the right plugins, and uploading them via FTP, setting permissions, etc., and although WordPress 2.7 has some facility to help this, it is still not going to do much of the work for you.

Enter my latest solution for revenue bloggers;

Killer WordPress Plugin Pack With Auto-Installer

A download-able, completely self-contained installer that runs in Windows that uploads, installs and sets up the top WordPress blog plugins that I use personally.

Even better, it is free :>)

You can download the installer by simply completing the form below :
(I have to send a license download).

There is a Help Page that you can open right after starting the installer. It even checks to ensure that your server is 100% compatible with the system, and keeps you informed of the status as you go.

I am working on a simple video that shows how to use it tomorrow.

Cheers!

Ron Davies

PS: Happy New Year!