Dark clouds are rolling in from afar
All enveloping, as black as night
Reverberations from thunder jar
Keep going and it will be all right
Migraine approaching, eyes and head hurt
Only hope I can fend off the pain
Or at least the worst of it avert
Damn, all these headaches are such a drain
This post raises some controversial issues that may upset some people, so please know that my intention is not to deliberately offend anybody, but to discuss the implications of the Hippocratic Oath as it relates to advances in medical science and technology.
For those who aren’t aware, the Hippocratic Oath basically requires doctors to practise medicine ethically and to do what’s right for their patients, although there are several other conditions too.
Now, this was all fine and dandy when medical science had little to offer in the way of treatment and cures, but nowadays, with all the technology that’s available (e.g. CAT scanners), this is no longer the case.
Doctors, and other medical professionals, are able to save the lives of many people who, in former times, would simply have died, often at a very young age.
This does, of course, raise several questions. (more…)
(See my previous post, My Internal Jukebox for what this category is all about.)
Having spent the past three or more years getting to grips with the black art that is Search Engine Optimisation (aka SEO), I know how hard it is to sort the information from the misinformation that you’ll find scattered all over the Internet.
So if you’re in this position, not knowing who to believe, then help is at hand…
… in the form of SEO Help Videos.
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You also receive three bonuses - audio interviews with eBay expert Alan Petersen and Social Bookmarking expert Ben Roy, both of which you won’t find anywhere else, as well as a follow-up Q&A video where Emmanuel goes through some of the questions he’s received via email and answers them on video for you.
Now, you’re probably wondering what this five-hour video course on SEO will cost you.
Well, you needn’t worry, because although there are so-called training courses out there priced at $8,000 USD (yes, really!), you’ll be glad to know that the SEO Help Videos course will cost you just $27 USD.
However, don’t let this low price put you off - it covers everything a complete SEO beginner needs to know, all the way through to advanced stuff (such as how Google PageRank is calculated - although it’s worth pointing out that you don’t need to know this to get your sites ranking well).
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Every time my PC gets a BSOD
X-rated words escape my mouth, like “bugger me”
Percussive maintenance is what I’d like to do
Like I can afford, though, to purchase something new
Of course it’s not just the money but time as well
Rebuilding from scratch seems like punishment from hell
Especially as all PCs seem to degrade
Relentlessly as soon as they’re used, I’m afraid
For those of you who use article marketing to promote stuff, whether it’s your own product or an affiliate product, then you’ll know the importance of weaving the right keywords into your articles.
This is often easy enough to do, without making it look too “forced”, but some keywords are a bit tougher.
Let’s take a couple of examples.
Suppose you’re writing an article to promote an anagram generator, and you want to infuse the keyword phrase “anagram generator”.
Then that’s pretty easy - something like “…if you’re looking for a great anagram generator, then I can highly recommend Anagram Genius“.
However, let’s say you also want to rank for the phrase “anagram maker free”.
This one might not be so easy to work in, especially in a way that’s natural.
But there is a way around this, and that’s to insert punctuation marks within the keyword phrase in strategic positions.
So, you might write something like this: “… if you’re looking for an anagram maker, free software might be good enough for what you need.”
You see, it appears that Google strips out punctuation marks such as commas when you do a search.
If you’re not convinced, check out these two screenshots from Google, done less than one minute apart:
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The number of results from both searches - one without the embedded comma and one with an embedded comma - are the same.
So, maybe this isn’t an earth-shattering revelation, but it may also help you to write articles in a more natural manner while still weaving in some of the trickier keyword phrases that have a good search to competition ratio which you might otherwise have ignored.
(See my previous post, My Internal Jukebox for what this category is all about.)
Traffic Stacker is a relatively new site that claims to generate more converting web visitors and online advertising with very little cost or effort.
So, I decided to put it to the test.
The first thing I noticed was that the site looks very clean and professional, with an attractive look and feel, all of which helps make it easy to read and understand.
The sign-up process was very quick and painless, which was good.
I should warn you that although membership is currently free, they do offer two different upgrade options, although these are not necessary to gain the benefits.
Once you’ve activated your membership, which only takes a few seconds, then you’re straight into the Members Area.
As with the public pages, this is well laid out and intuitive, which means I was able to work out what to do after only a few minutes, and was able to get up and running in less than five minutes.
Once you’ve logged in, there are two main things you can do - create links and create ads.
To create a Traffic Stacker link, all you do is enter any URL (although I have found that, currently, it has problems with certain ones - I’ve raised a support ticket and they’re looking into it) and the system will transform it into a “Traffic Stacker” link for you.
You can also create a Traffic Stacker Ad, which you can use to promote anything you want, using the Generator tool.
And of course, you can create as many ads and as many links as you need.
The back office is organized nicely too - no hunting for stuff, as your five most recent links are displayed on the main page, for easy reference, while all of your links are shown in the order you created them.
Given that you’ll be using the Link Creator more than anything, that’s available right at the top of the page you get after you’ve logged in - another time-saver.
Once you’ve created your first ad and your first link, you can start to use Traffic Stacker to generate traffic.
How?
That’s easy too - as you may have expected by now.
Instead of promoting the original source link, all you need to do is promote the Traffic Stacker link that you generated.
Whenever somebody clicks on that Traffic Stacker link, the original page is loaded, and then, a second or two later, there’s a neat little ad that slides up at the bottom of the page.
This ad displays another member’s ad, as well as a link back to Traffic Stacker that contains your affiliate URL.
What this means is that, if anybody should click that Traffic Stacker link, they’ll be taken to the main website, and should they sign up, they become your referral.
This is a fantastic viral feature, because you can build a downline without even really trying, just by using the site to promote your own products or affiliate pages.
So, how do your own ads get displayed?
Well, whenever that little slide-up ad window appears on your pages, you earn credits that will in turn allow your own ads to be displayed on the ad windows that appear on other people’s sites.
The more clicks you get on your Traffic Stacker links, the more your ads will get displayed.
Don’t forget too that this is a viral tool - when you do grow your own downline, whether that’s by promoting Traffic Stacker or just by using it and having people click on your affiliate link, then you earn credits on their link clicks too, up to five levels deep.
That’s a ton of additional free ad views you can get, just by using the service.
I have to confess that I only recently signed up for this service, so I can’t, in all honesty, say how much extra traffic having a large downline actually generates for you.
But the rest of the service performs exactly as they claim - somebody clicks my links, credits are added to my account, and then my ads get displayed.
And BTW, Traffic Stacker keeps tracks of things like clicks and ad displays for you, which was not even advertised as a feature.
If all of that weren’t enough, there is one more feature that makes this a no-brainer - you can email your downline with your own offers, promotions, etc.
Now, you can use this system to send out millions of spam emails - it’s tightly controlled so that you don’t annoy your downline with too many messages, and the system does show you how long it will be before you can send out your next email.
Overall, Traffic Stacker seems like a very simple, robust and usable service - reminiscent maybe of some of the systems from a few years ago, but vastly improved and consequently much more valuable.
In conclusion, I highly recommend you take Traffic Stacker for a test drive!
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(See my previous post, My Internal Jukebox for what this category is all about.)
… on TV and in movies can walk through walls but don’t sink down into the pavement?
If you remember the movie Ghost, with Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, then shortly after Patrick Swayze dies and becomes a ghost, he finds this weird guy on the subway who can apparently move real objects, which he is so far unable to do.
He bugs this other ghost constantly to teach him how to do this himself, and eventually he acquires the knack himself.
But here’s my question: hasn’t Patrick already mastered the art of interacting with physical objects, otherwise how can he walk on the pavement (that’s sidewalk for my American readers), without falling through the surface?
Still, why should I let this minor detail ruin an otherwise pretty good movie?
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