Affiliates - Your Free Way To Web Income:

By: Ian Stables

If you're looking for a way to earn your living from the internet then there is no better and easier way than this. What's great is there's no product to make and it's FREE. You get paid instead.

Let's first look at what it takes in order to make money the traditional way...

Because there's so much competition on the net you need to offer many products in order to earn a reasonable living. Do you want to spend a lot of time creating these? If you do then fine, but be prepared for a lot of hard work, research and a long wait for results.

Imagine instantly acquiring 10, 20, 50, 100, or even 1000s of desirable products. You simply put them up for sale and kaboom you're an instant success. Your income automatically comes to you without even sending a single product or sending a single invoice.

Or imagine this...

You get a job as a salesman but instead of being limited to one product that someone might or might not want. You have a product for everyone. You'll always have a customer. Every day!

Then imagine getting home from the pub or back from holiday. You switch on your computer and check to see how much your bank balance has increased.

HOW IT WORKS

You copy and paste an affiliate link and short recommendation into your website that you create. (Visit Tripod's website and you can have a website for free.) They all offer this written up for you. You just copy and paste.

Then advertise your site to get customers.

The best way to advertise your site is by writing short useful articles with a link back to your website. Then simply post the article to as many article sites as possible. They're all free.

Every time someone reads your article they'll most probably click the link in your resource box and visit your site.

Also in every email you send to anyone have your website link in that as well.

The easiest way to do this is by setting up a sig file in your email program. Look at the help to find out how to do this.

Then every time you send an email your website link will be included.

HOW YOU DO IT

There are 2 ways.

Method #1

You can search the internet looking at many different products for sale that offer an affiliate program. Believe me, this takes time. I've tried it.

Each time you find one, you sign up.

Every time someone clicks your link and buys from the site you earn a commission. Simple!

Method #2

You use a free service which is a web site that has lots of companies with a product offering an affiliate program.

There are many available.

Click the link at the bottom of this article for the one, in my opinion, is the best I've found. IT'S FREE.

To sign up you don't need to provide any credit card details, so it's completely safe. You will however need a Paypal account. You just tell them the Paypal email address to pay the funds.

If you don't like PayPal they have a few other options.

And, oh yes. It's free to join.

When you've joined simply click the marketplace tab and scan the products. Any item you wish to promote you simply click the promote button. You are then given your affiliate URL and all the sales patter you want. Or you can make up your own.

Simple! You've got nothing to lose. Sign up now (IT'S FREE) and you'll soon be agreeing with me that this is the simplest and most effective way of earning a living from the internet.

Good luck! Ian Stables

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Visit infostables.tripod.com/pdc.htm to join the best affiliate web directory available. IT'S FREE!

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Flash - New Opportunities for Game Designers:

Gamemine.com $8.99 to Start

By: Paul Wilson

Flash is an interactive platform that has a powerful design and animation tool along with a dynamic scripting engine, bitmap rendering, as well as advanced video and audio playback. There are three main aspects: the player, the file format, and the authoring tool/IDE. Flash games can be developed for websites, interactive TV, as well as handheld devices. There is no need to adopt multiple programming languages to build games.

It is the universal tool that permits the development of multimedia driven complex games. Games means fast, furious, efficient with rich graphics.

Flash enables developers to build the most popular games for online gamers. It just needs to support:

• Rich engaging graphics.
• Smooth download of files from the net.
• A playback device that can interpret downloads.

There are three main areas: design, development, and hosting.

The first step is creation of graphics. One must use Fireworks as well as Freehand for this aspect. The tools are compatible and fireworks allows the addition of Java script to images.

The game development will be done in Flash by importing graphics created in Freehand and Fireworks. The graphics are then placed in Director the parent tool of Flash.

The next part, hosting, uses a Web server. Dreamweaver MX is the tool that will create Web pages to host the game.

And, finally Action Script is used to provide enhanced functionality.

Advantages:

• Integrates almost all features needed for developing a game. It is a great interactive tool.
• Can be used anywhere does not need additional software or plug-ins.
• It is Mac friendly.
• Permits conversion from a full game to web version and vice versa.
• Low cost and free to distribute. Licenses for decoders MP3 and Sorensen Spark are included.
• Artists that can use flash easily are in plenty.
• Flash delivers broadcast quality images over the Internet.
• Permits embedding of game in power point for use in presentations.
• Plenty of information as well as guidelines can be accessed as well as understood by all -tutorials, articles, as well as blogs.
• The size of the game file remains small as the vector graphics and sound files are compressed.
• Learning Flash language is easy.
• Permits copy-paste to test components

There are traps one must be wary of and a few cons. Know the system well to maximize its use. There are plenty of tutorials inline that can be used as guides. Flash interface is ideally suited to both designer as well as developer, you can have fun while creating the game.

Flash is simple to use and a game can be developed in a few hours in a packaged form that can run on a PC, Mac, or Linux. One can make use of a browser or run the game as a stand alone.

Author Bio

Paul Wilson is a freelance writer for www.1888FreeOnlineGames.com, the premier website to play thousands of free online games including arcade games, action games, card games, flash games, strategy games, puzzle games and more. He also freelances for www.1888SoftwareDownloads.com.

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How to Write Successfully for the Web:

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit


Online readers love free information. They scour the Internet daily looking for specific information to solve their problems, help them be successful, live longer or get healthy. You should join the information revolution too! Publish your free, helpful solution-oriented articles to the web.

Steps

1. Make your article scan ready. A study by Jakob Nielson, publicized as the guru of web page usability by the New York Times, revealed that only 16 percent of his test users actually read the copy they found online; 79 percent of them simply scanned it. Your impatient web readers will want important information to jump out at them. Some practical ways to make your text scannable:
   • headings
   • sub-headings
   • bulleted lists
   • numbered lists
   • easy steps
   • typeface variation
   For example, compelling headlines are considered an art. Are you drawn to the author's article as "How to Write Web Articles" or "5 Tips to Write Winning Web Articles?" However, overuse of any or all of these elements may bring the quality down.
2. Keep it short. Get and keep the attention of web readers by delivering short messages. You put effort into gaining your web reader's attention; now make their click worthwhile with brief compelling copy in bite sizes. Start with the conclusion. Your readers may not make it to the end of your piece to get it. Web readers don't want to get bogged down in long blocks of text. So get to the point early and use the rest of your article to support that main point.
   
3. Make your title sizzle. Dull titles will not capture your readers' interest. It will make your article fade into the sea of other boring articles listed in article banks these days. You have to create a title that will reach out and grab your reader by the collar. Make it short. Create interest. Include the main benefit or solution in your title.
   
4. Talk to your target audience. Your information is not for everyone. Avoid generalities. Choose a friend or family member that's interested in your topic. Write your article to them. Writing to a friend will make your copy personable and friendly. You won't come across as a fussy hen, do this, do this, don't do that. You will connect with your readers as a friend giving advice. Your article will do a better job of building credibility for you.
   
5. Add substance. Resist fluffing your articles. Include practical, valuable information in your copy. Everyone loses when you don't take the time to impart substance. It increases the reputation of the web being an unreliable source of knowledge. Additionally, lack of substance will block your road to profitable referrals. Do the research and/or draw from your knowledge and experience to illustrate. Your stories and real life examples will meet your reader's need for practical information and connect with their emotion. It's a known fact emotions will move people to action. Whether you desire them to act by signing up or making a purchase, add substance and improve your reader responses.
   
6. Make it web professional. Create a more web professional look by using short sentences, then format your page to approximately 65 characters per line. Long stringed sentences that stream from side to side of the web page look visually unprofessional. Select a layout for your article from several short article formats that include the how-to, tips list, question-answer, problem-solutions and interview. Make your introduction and summary short but do add one. Your web readers don't want just a list of boring facts and information. They want to connect with you by reading your personable introduction and practical tips with a definite ending or summary. Remember, excited readers become enthusiastic buyers and enthusiastic buyers will refer your product or service to all their friends.
   
7. Don't spice the article with "optimized" keywords to flatter search engines -- this how-to is about how to write successfully for the web, not search engines, after all. Usually, the search engines will follow the links of real readers, who actually liked your content.
   
8. Appeal to emotion especially if you're trying to sell something. "I went for a walk" or "I went for a walk in the summer sun". Which walk would you prefer?
   
9. Use a good description for link text. It should tell the visitor where they are going next. Avoid using Click here.
   

Tips

• Long paragraphs are usually acceptable for print media; they are not for the web.
  
• You may use these guidelines for all kinds of web copy. The same elements (using keywords, making your article professional, adding substance, keeping it short and making your copy scannable) will improve the quality of your articles. Practice these simple principles and write winning articles to distribute on the web everywhere.
  
• Keep the writing short, simple and on point. Jakob Nielsen recommends using half the word text online compared to print.
  
• Print a hardcopy of your article and read it an hour later in a different setting. Ask someone else to review it, both online and in print.
  
• Use diagrams or photographs to help illustrate your points. Useful content can and should go beyond basic clip art to draw on the reader's imagination.
  
• Avoid the use of technical jargon except where necessary. If you must use it, include links or definitions for uncommon words or industry terms.
  
• Make sure that the color of the font contrasts with the background, and that the font color is much darker than the background color. For example, don't use a yellow font on a green background. Even if you make the letters big and bold, the readability of your text suffers.
  
• Avoid making readers scroll across. People would much rather scroll down than scroll across, so make your text space adjustable to the reader's window size.
  

Warnings

• Flashing text, marquees, animated gifs, rollover buttons and other effects serve to distract the reader from main text on the page. While they can be used in moderation, overuse of these features will irritate the user more than impress him/her.
  
• Remember that you are writing for a reader who has no compulsion to go on reading the page.
  
• Write for the readers, search engines are bound to follow
  

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• How to Create a Website
  
• How to Start a Blog
  
• How to Start a Wiki
  
• How to Write a Headline That Leaps off the Page and Grabs the Reader by the Throat
  
• How to Freewrite
  
• How to Write a Speech
  
• How to Spell Check Text Input Boxes for Forums, Blogs, eHows and More
  
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Sources and Citations

• Write for the web! Use the tricks you just learned in this wikiHow to start writing articles for the web. Visit 40articlewritingtemplates.com for more article writing help.
  

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Facebook Faces A Whole New Round of Privacy Concerns:

Lawmakers reportedly seeking FTC investigation

Chris Crum | October 2, 2011 @ 6:17am 

Last year at f8, Facebook revealed its Open Graph and social plugins. Shortly thereafter, privacy concerns became a major point of discussion throughout the media and around the water coolers. We all watched CEO Mark Zuckerberg sweat through interrogations over this, but ultimately the company made numerous changes until the discussion finally fizzled out a bit.
Are you concerned about Facebook and privacy? Let us know.
The discussion never went completely away, but privacy no longer dominated the conversation about Facebook after a while. Last week, Facebook finally held this year’s f8 event, and of course made more huge announcements, including the new Timeline feature (which still hasn’t been rolled out to everybody) and the new Open Graph, which makes apps a lot more information sharing-friendly.
Naturally, more information shared, means more privacy concerns.
The Poynter Institute says Facebook and news organizations are pushing the boundaries of online privacy and that “Facebook again my have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete and that this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it.”
Poynter Digital Media Fellow Jeff Sonderman calls out new Facebook apps like the Washington Post’s Social Reader, and similar offerings from The Guardian and The Daily, as well as Yahoo News, which is having readers sign up to have their reading activity streamed to their Facebook profile.
This isn’t the first we’ve heard of such concerns since f8. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore talked about this in another article saying that he saw on Facebook that someone he knows professionally was reading articles with titles like: “Heather Morris on Breast Implants,” and “Perrey Reeves Shows Off Bikini Body (PHOTO).”
Big deal? Career ender? Probably not in this case, but it gives some people an icky feeling to think about everyone they’re friends with on Facebook being able to see every page they look at. And you can bet that more and more sites will rush to get on board with this new Open Graph, just as they did after last year’s f8.
Earlier this week, we talked about how Facebook may be tracking your web browsing activity even when you’re logged out. An Australian hacker blogged about a test he ran looking at cookies. Facebook’s initial response was that it doesn’t track users across the web, but uses cookies on social plugins to personalize content, help improve what Facebook does or for safety/security reasons.
“No information we receive when you see a social plugin is used to target ads, we delete or anonymize this information within 90 days, and we never sell your information,” a company spokesperson was quoted as saying.
The logged out cookies specifically, they said, are used for safety and protection, including IDing spammers/phishers, detecting when someone unauthorized is trying to access accounts, helping users get back into their accounts if they’re hacked, dialing registration for under-age users, etc.
More on all of that here.
Either way, Facebook’s responses weren’t enough to keep lawmakers from urging the FTC to investigate Facebook, according to MSNBC, which reports that the co-chairmen (Reps. Edward Markey and Joe Barton) of the Congress’s Bi-Partisan Caucus want the FTC to investigate the company over “potential” privacy violations. MSNBC quotes a letter from the co-chairs:
“As co-chairs of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, we believe that tracking user behavior without their consent or knowledge raises serious privacy concerns,” they said. “When users log out of Facebook, they are under the expectation that Facebook is no longer monitoring their activities. We believe this impression should be the reality. Facebook users should not be tracked without their permission.”
Facebook of course says there is no security or privacy breach.
Whether or not the FTC will launch an investigation remains to be seen, as does whether or not Facebook is really doing anything it shouldn’t be in the eyes of the law.
Regardless, this is the kind of thing the company surely doesn’t want saturating the headlines again – particularly as it tries to get people to put their entire lives on Facebook via the Timeline.
The launch of Google+ did seemingly inspire Facebook to give users more control over who can see what when they publish a status update, as the company recently launched some new features making sharing a little big more Cirlces-like. But that was before the f8 announcements, and the way the new Open Graph works with “frictionless sharing” as Facebook calls it, seemingly undermines the mentality that went into those features. When you look at an article online that you have agreed to share to your timeline, are you going to know who all sees that, or is it just going to be in the ticker for everyone you know?
Do you think Facebook’s latest announcements hurt your online privacy? Let us know in the comments.

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