It is not always easy to leave your computer turned on with an active internet connection, especially when you have kids or other users in the house. It is not even possible to forbid kids from using the computer as they use it to play video games or grab some knowledge from Google for their science, math projects. Being a parent or senior, you might be worried to death about the online safety and what your children can watch online behind your back.

Internet Mania, Oblivious to Threats

Children out of curiosity can click open anything as they are unaware of the widely spread scams, threats, adult content hidden in several sites that ask them to fill up personal, confidential information such as email address, passwords etc. Even if they are aware of something called as online threats, they might not understand what harms these can do to their parents or guardians. There are mischievous children also who are computer-savvy and can find numerous ways to access the unwanted sites in order to boast about their talent or cast an impression on their friends.

How do I Ensure Online Safety?

When you have a wireless router, it becomes overly difficult to keep an eye on the children or other users who elope to an isolated place in the house or lock up themselves in their room to enjoy whatever they do on the internet. The only way to ensure the online safety is to bock the undesired websites on your Netgear wireless router through their proxy server addresses. These are difficult to bypass and even can be blocked to make sure that a computer-savvy kid can’t infiltrate with it.

How to Block Guide:

Open your internet browser (viz. Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer etc.)

Type ‘192.168.0.1’ (without quotes) in the address bar at the top of your browser and hit ‘Enter’ on the keyboard

This should bring up the Netgear router login window. If the window doesn’t come up, try ‘192.168.1.1’

Type the username and password that you entered while initially setting up your Netgear router and click on ‘Login‘ or hit ‘Enter’ on the keyboard.

If you didn’t make any changes to your original credentials that came with the router, then you can use ‘admin’ as the username and ‘password’ as the password. However, I would recommend that you check your router credentials before entering any information.

On the left hand side menu, under the 2nd category that says ‘Content Filtering‘, click on the ‘Block Sites‘ option.

Type the website name that you want to block such as “www.Facebook.com” just Facebook.com in the box that says ‘Type Keyword or Domain Name Here‘ and click on the ‘Add Keyword’ button.

Instead of the full name, you can also type a keyword such as ‘Facebook’ (without quotes) and click on the ‘Add Keyword’ button. It will block all the websites or domains that have the keyword ‘Facebook’.

If you want, you can put a checkmark in the box that says ‘Allow Trusted IP Address to Visit Blocked Sites’ if you want a networked computer to access the blocked website and then click on ‘Apply‘. If you leave the box unchecked, no one will be able to access the blocked website.

The article is aimed at educating parents, guardians about the possible threats that their children or other users can create unknowingly or knowingly and what steps they can take to stop them from doing so.

There are endless possibilities when you have the internet. The possibilities are endless. No matter where you are in the world, an online recruitment agency can find suitable jobs for you within your area. The world is within your reach and you don’t even have to leave your home or office and all things are available to you 24/7, 7 days a week.

If you are using other methods such as looking for vacant positions in your local newspaper, you will find limited jobs because a lot of employers are now using online recruiting agencies to fulfill their human resource needs. If you post your Resume online, there are good chances that it will be exposed to a lot more employers and the services of online recruiters are available day and night so you have the flexibility to apply at times which are best suited for you.

If you are willing to relocate or you want to move to a country and land a job before you even get there, then there is no better option than online recruiting because, you have access to employers from all over the world at the touch of a button. You can extract information about the latest jobs available and view company profiles of companies which are located in another country without having to physically go there. Sometimes you are hired online and the company pays for all your relocation expenses but those jobs are of a much higher caliber.

Using recruitment websites saves a lot of times and energy as you can apply for many positions in a short period of time. You will also save a lot of money when you are applying online for jobs since you do not have to pay for postage or recruitment charges. Your Resume is saved on the database of the recruitment agency and sometimes if an employer comes across your profile, there are good chances that they may contact you and offer you employment and you will land a job without even making an effort.

If you are an employer then a recruitment agency is an ideal place for you to reach out to thousands of candidates in a matter of minutes, you will have a lot of candidates who apply and picking the best person for the job will be a lot easier for you, also the cost of advertising and radio ads will also be saved and you will also be exposed to a much bigger market when you use an online recruitment agency website.

A good recruitment agency website may be the first step to reaching the world with your business.

When I first learned to build my own website in 1999 I used a completely free service. At the time I didn’t even have a business.

Yep, that’s right. My idea of a fun time was building websites, with CODE, from SCRATCH! How ya like me now? 😉

When people ask me how they can start out and make their own website, totally free, I do understand where they are coming from.

I have to caution you though, if you are in business it’s almost always better to go for professional resources to build your website. In the case of website hosting, domain names and email address you certainly get what you pay for.

When you decide to go the ‘free’ route you will often get unwanted advertisements, less control and lower quality results then you would get had you paid for them.

With that said, everyone needs to start somewhere!

Totally Free Website Builders For Instant Setup

Here are my suggestions for starting your website for free. Please keep in mind that I haven’t used ANY free website services for years now so you’ll want to check into these yourself and find the best fit for you:

Google Sites – I tested out Google Sites quite a while ago now. The thing about building your website right on Google is, well, it’s Google!

Weebly – Weebly was voted as one of Time’s 50 best websites of the year. I am pretty sure this site was created by a well-known internet marketer. The templates are very good looking and the layouts look clean. Worth looking into.

Bravenet – I have used Bravenet in the past and while I don’t recommend you use this for a business site, it is a great place to get some experience with starting a website and many of the nifty tools available on the internet. If you insist on using free, Bravenet might be an option for you.

Consider Blog Platforms

If you are looking for a free website to start with but want to progress towards a professional platform than I highly recommend you just get started with blogging. There are two blogging software programs I can recommend to you:

Blogger – This is a Google program that hosts your blog so it’s totally free.

WordPress – I use WordPress for all my websites and it’s really very reasonable in terms of price. You can start with a completely free blog at the free WordPress site and then when you are ready you can move that blog to a host where it is 100% owned by you.

The problem with using any FREE service to host your website or blog is that you won’t own your website. You will have no control or say if the place you’ve set up your site decides they want to drop it without warning or notice.

Yes you can have your website created very quickly for free. What you need to do is decide whether the disadvantages of free and quick outweigh the advantages.

If you do any Internet surfing at all, use the Internet like a library for research or simply occasionally search topics of interest on any of the major search engines, then no doubt you have come to junk websites which trick you into thinking you are going to a legitimate website that has worthy information. Often these junk websites have a small bit of information on them and a whole lot of advertising on them; some relevant but most is totally irrelevant. This ruins the online experience for users.

I cannot imagine anyone just putting up endless sites, copying formats of everyone else, putting up junk and calling that their income, yet I see it every day as do all Internet surfers and researchers. I have seen folks writing articles and ebooks telling them how to put up a quick cheesy websites and wait for their Google checks in the mail. It seems everyone wants something for nothing and these folks who tell others how to manipulate the system are ruining the Internet tool, which is so very valuable to our civilization. If everyone puts up these junk sites then it will add to the size of the Internet in number of pages and indeed to Google’s profits. This will assist shareholders and their second public offering price, but for all humanity it is a negative trend.

I wish people would not plagiarize, steal articles and infringe on copyrights simply to get free content to build these junk sites and get a check from Google, but alas even kids in school do this, cheating on term papers and reports, not willing to do their own work. It is a problem with human beings, it is tough for them to reason an ethical standard of appropriate behavior in this realm, because it is too easy and it appears to be human nature is to try to get more for less. That is to say; Trade, cheat, deceive, etc., as those are innate characteristics of the species. Perhaps these deceptive actions are reason for our larger brains, to keep track of all this behavior and remain in a good social standing with the group to continue to get what they want with the least amount of effort. Not such a good depiction of mankind. But by applying such observations of various upright walking primates and chimpanzees to plagiarizers, it seems to help one understand them better. And since these cheats are all part of us, the problem is that we all accept this behavior and reward it.

Additionally the Internet is the best communication device ever created (Thank you Tim Berners-Lee) and you can immediately see those innate negative aspects of the human species quite easily, as they use the Internet to hide in broad day-light. This is one of the reasons I personally do not bother to use the articles to promote anything in that there are so many who are also using it to promote crap that I do not wish to be anywhere near them.

Yet in this sea of human deception, there is one island of integrity, it is a site called; EzineArticles.com and on this site I see many good folks with good information who write articles to give good information, while simultaneously self-promoting their many unique and interesting small businesses. This group or giant club of authors are generally doing this without crossing the line of poor ethical behavior. I think we must reward this site and the strict enforcement of only original articles posted there. Think on this wonderful island of integrity next time you have an article you have written which you believe others might benefit from. I have and now have written some 1900 articles and posted them on EzineArticles.com.

If you are new to the proxy business, but have been trying to profit from domain flipping, you should pay attention. The problem with flipping domains is that it takes hours of research and hard work to flip it for a reasonable profit.

Although there is a lot of money in domain flipping, there is a easier and more effective way to earn money from the a related business model: Flip Proxy Websites.

Proxy websites is very easy to set up, runs on auto-pilot, and earn money daily as long as there is visitors. To make it even more clear, I’ve set up a list of the benefits of flipping proxy websites:

* Easy to set up

* The demand is huge

* Easy to promote

* Getting traffic is free

* Runs on autopilot

* Earns daily revenue from day one

* Easy to flip

With easy to flip I mean that finding a buyer for your proxy website is easy.

Let’s say you have a proxy website earning 1$ a day, making it a monthly revenue of $30. This is not to hard with a good niche-brandable proxy. Proxy Websites usually sell for 4-5 times monthly revenue, making it possible to sell it for $120 – $150.

The demand for proxy websites is huge. Every day there are millions of students looking for new ways to unblock websites at school. It’s mostly because of the boom in use of social networks like Facebook and MySpace that proxy websites are more popular than ever.

If you want to take advantage of this untapped market, and learn how to flip proxy websites, I have an eBook covering all the things you need to succeed in the proxy business.

Here is a list of websites that you must know about when starting out as a self-publisher. Most of the sites listed are considered to be the biggest names in the industry. They are listed in a random order:

1. Google.com/AdSense: they manage the affiliate programs for many websites. These websites, including BarnesAndNoble.com, require an account with Google AdSense if you want to earn referral fees. Free.

2. LinkedIn.com: a way to list yourself and make professional connections. Free.

3. WordPress.com: the biggest, the easiest, and the best way to create a blog. Free. Also see WordPress.org

4. Scribd.com: PDF document storage and sharing; and sales of documents and eBooks. Free.

5. SmashWords.com: excellent place to get involved with publishing eBooks. Smashwords is an eBook publishing and distribution platform for eBook authors, publishers and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free eBooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.

6. Amazon.com Advantage Program For Books: the largest and most important internet retail sales book site. You are going to spend a lot of time learning about Amazon.

7. BarnesAndNoble.com: the second largest retail sales book site.

8. APSS: The Association of Publishers for Special Sales: helps authors find new opportunities for sales to non-bookstore buyers.

9. iBooks.com: for sales of your eBooks.

10. BookWorks.com: the self-publishers association.

11. YouTube.com: the most important place to show your videos. Free.

12. LightningSource.com: a POD source for printed books and eBooks; will manage your POD sales worldwide, and distribute to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Considered a back-door way to get your publications into Ingram’s database.

13. BowkerLink.com: the source for buying and managing ISBN’s.

14. FreeBarCodes.com: a great place to create Bookland barcodes for your publications. Free.

15. Linda.com: the best place for learning about publishing software. I spend a huge amount of time using this website.

16. MailChimp.com: mailing list management. Free to a certain extent.

17. EzineArticles.com: authors can post their articles in a searchable database for newsletter publishers to publish. Free.

18. PRLog.com: is an online press release distribution and release submission service. Free.

19. CreativeCommons.org: provides licenses that help the copyright owner share some rights with others. Free.

20. Gravatar.com: a website used to create your personal avatar that will appear where ever you post a comment. Free.

21. CafePress.com: an excellent website to create t-shirts, hats, etc. with graphics and images that you create. Excellent way to add a small side-income to your book sales.

22. SPAWN.org: Small Publishers, Artists, and Writers Network. Excellent way to connect with your peers. A huge amount of helpful information. Their mission is to provide education, information, resources and a supportive networking environment for creative individuals and small business owners interested in the publishing process.

23. IBPA-online.org: Independent Book Publishers Association. Excellent way to connect with your peers. A huge amount of helpful information. IBPA is a trade association of independent publishers. Founded in 1983, it serves book, audio, and video publishers located in the United States and around the world.

24. SelfPublishingReview.com: is an online magazine devoted to self-publishing: book reviews, publisher reviews, interviews, news, opinion, and how to’s.

Here are three more that you must also check out:

25. PayPal.com: a fast, easy, and very popular way to send and receive money.

26. CIPblock.com: librarian and publisher Adrienne Bashista will create the CIP block for your books. Bashista’s goal is to provide quality CIP blocks to the independent publisher at a reasonable price while maintaining a high level of service and quality.

27. Shopify: the biggest, the easiest, and the best way to sell your books through your own online store. No design skills needed, and can easily be customized.

To be honest if you are looking for ways on how to make money selling websites, then you are definitely on the right spot. But getting to having a career in website marketing requires patience, learning and eagerness to working hard and staying at the top.

One top way in making money selling websites in what is commonly known as website flipping; website flipping is a term used to getting a domain name registered and hosting that domain as a developed one and then creating content or value on that domain and then selling it for profits, profits excludes number of man hours spent on developing your website.

I have for a fact that getting a website flipped is by far the easiest thing one can get himself or herself involved in, simply put a website should first be researched upon, lets take for example you are looking for a domain dedicated to dentist and then you create one say dentist in Colorado and you call it coloradodentist.com now what you have done was to register that domain for people who are in dire need of getting a registered domain but imagine you put in content into that domain and then tagging it all over the place and placing it on search engines what happens next is a boom in that website, by then you may have built tremendous traffic to it and ready to sell, which is where flipping comes into being.

So if you are ready to jump start any business be sure to get involved in flipping websites for profits

They’re still out there. Insurance websites plagued with redundant screens and confusing site maps. Beware! The problem is getting worse, not better. With the proliferation of vendors hocking search engine optimization (SEO) services, many unsuspecting insurance companies and brokers are receiving new websites that are easy to find but terrible to read and navigate.

There’s no question – If you want to rank well for the insurance products and services you promote, you have to build a search engine optimized site. But, in the process of doing so, you also have to pay close attention to persuasive experience optimization (PEO).

In other words, you must create compelling website content that leaves readers yearning for more. Sure, pages should be optimized, targeting specific, relevant search terms so search engines know what each screen is about and who might want to read it. But that’s not enough. The copy must be written persuasively so once readers find you, they can easily see that you’re the best company to help them – you honor their time and you provide value. Then, and only then, will your insurance website transition visitors to clients.

Let’s take a minute to look closer at PEO.

How will they know you’re the best company to help them? They’ll know if you demonstrate your expertise instead of just describing it. Instead of stockpiling your insurance website with empty, keyword-rich yet meaningless phrases, provide potential clients success stories, testimonials, case studies and examples. Throw in a few offers so they can request a white paper or an analysis to learn more.

How will they know you honor their time? They’ll know because your insurance website will be logically and intuitively organized without layers and layers of screens. Clients don’t want to search for information – they want it to be easy.

How will they know you provide value? Because you’ll give away just a bit of your expertise right there on your site. You’ll provide just enough valuable information to pique their interest and get some positive energy flowing. And, as I stated before, you’ll include some offers for readers to request more information.

Where does SEO come in?

When done correctly, SEO copywriting pairs persuasive copy with purposeful use of targeted keywords and phrases. Web page text and on-page elements are written in a way that reads well for both people and search engines. Its purpose is to rank highly in the search engines for targeted terms and get more high-quality traffic to your insurance website – without sacrificing your visitor experience.

Here are a few SEO copywriting tips to help improve your insurance website’s content so that it ranks well in the search engines.

1. Write well. Quality content is an important factor when it comes to increasing traffic and rankings. If people find your content useful, they will link to it and tell their friends about it. Google and other search engines also like useful, well-written content. Make use of your targeted keywords throughout the copy. Keep your content compelling, credible and clear.

2. Strive for keyword density in your copy. Your targeted keywords should appear at the beginning, in most paragraphs, and somewhere near the end. The higher the keyword density (number of times the word is used on the page), the more relevant to the search string a page becomes. But don’t stuff your copy with keywords. It sounds unnatural and the search engines don’t like it.

3. Define your page with a strategic page title. The page title is more important to search engines than ordinary text on the page. If you have the same keyword density as your competitor, but have targeted keywords in the page title as well, you should rank higher than the competition.

4. Use synonyms of your keywords. Use as many different words that are relevant to the title keyword as possible. If you use a range of terms that are relevant to the theme, search engines will see the page as credible and useful. If your copy repeats the same keywords again and again, search engines will see the page as less informative and not useful.

Once you’ve created compelling and optimized content, start link building by getting quality back-links to your website.

The Internet has quietly revolutionized the world. It has made completion of tasks easy and fast, making us dependent on it heavily for almost every aspect of our life. One of the earliest revolutions took place in the banking industry, followed by the ticket booking services, after the US military made their ARPANET project public and allowed universities and businesses to take advantage of this wonderful technology.

Interestingly, computer and programming nerds create primitive web based ticket booking systems with the Java language, which is considered by many as the language of the internet. They do so for their academic projects in their schools and colleges and these applications are insignificant with respect to the commercial versions. However, the case was discussed to make the reader realize the popularity of theses internet based ticket booking applications.

Now, coming to the main point, online ticket booking and hotel reservation systems often provide the option of paying the required amount online, which is referred to as wire transfer in common man’s language. These websites use third party plug-ins through APIs, that integrates their website’s database with the bank’s computer systems and servers through a software-defined network device called the Payment Gateway.

Generally, these payment gateways are extremely secure environments that employ Secured Socket Layer or SSL algorithms, which can be 64 bit or 128 bit encryption algorithms, based on the requirement. 128 bit SSL algorithms are the most secure algorithms deployed in public domain for the purpose of securing fund transfer environments and encrypt the sensitive information with a highly secure process that is extremely difficult to crack by present standards.

The problem, or rather the loopholes lie with the internal data storage mechanisms deployed by the third party ticket booking websites. Sometimes, to reduce the cost associated with maintaining the security standards high, these websites do not take adequate measure to ensure that the payment related information are safe in their servers. It might also be the fact that their server or database administrators are not skilled enough to ensure stringent security measures are deployed.

It may happen that while no security breach takes place on part of your bank’s transfer system, security loopholes might exist in the hotel’s or the airline’s own website. If their servers are hacked and the data is appropriately mined by any expert hacker, your entire details regarding the financial transaction, including your credit card details, will be in front of the hacker.

The hacker can simply download or copy the information to some other system of his own and use the same to perform unauthorized transactions and fund transfers. Although banks deploy double-layered verification methods to mitigate such frauds, the process is far from being full-proof.

Thus, think twice before you trust third party hotel and ticket booking service. Even the best hotel booking service providers are vulnerable to such server attacks by cyber experts and they do very little to plug the loopholes in their systems and servers.

You would like a website for free wouldn’t you? Well, there are sites online which offer people the possibility to build their own websites for free. But, hold on a minute. Wouldn’t you like people to actually see the website you build? This is where the problem lurks!

In almost every case we hope our website will be found in the noise of millions and millions of websites out there on the World Wide Web. Mostly we would like to earn money from our website. Unfortunately we sometimes Have to pay a little to receive something. On the other hand, there is not much of value we can get for nothing these days and in many cases when “it sounds too good to be true” it probably is too good to be true.

Quality work usually requires skill and dedication. We have become used to receiving for nothing on the internet but remember that everyone needs to earn their living and skills need to be rewarded.

Websites need to be search engine optimised (SEO) so that they can be found by engines (or crawlers) such as Google and Yahoo. Proper optimisation requires knowledge and webmasters have to constantly train themselves in order to keep up with changing trends. Believe me, this is not an easy task and it grows more difficult by the day as algorithms change.

Search engines need to keep their algorithms secret (because they too have competitors) so it is necessary for a good webmaster or web marketer to cover all the bases when optimising a website. Things are constantly shifting and what worked a few months ago may not work today. What search engines endeavour to do is to return to the searcher a useful match to their query. In order to do this the search engine must search the billions of pages on the web to find the correct content. Without optimisation the crawler will be unable to access your content, even if you have good content.

What are some of the important points for good optimisation?

• well written content (not copied from anything on the web but freshly written)
• internal links
• external links
• metatags such as keywords and descriptions
• alternative titles for images

Do your homework, find a webmaster with good references and build your website on a solid foundation. Thereafter you will need to market your website but more about that in another article.