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1.) THE "EDITOR'S CHOICE"
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We are Proud to Present Our "Editor's Choice":Ronald Wolner of rwenterprises
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Just a guy seeking out a living. Love helping people make extra $$$ in their spare time.
I believe in "what goes around, comes around"
DRY WASH & GUARD is an online, offline, business that anyone can do, even the kid's.
The 1 & only Waterless Car Wash. Company has products for Car, Boat, Motorcycle, Home,& Body.
Look at my Website, you won't be disappointed. Thank you
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2.) HEADLINE ARTICLE
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How to Cloak Your Affiliate Links
By Robert Plank«¤»„«¤»§«¤»„«¤»§«¤»„«¤»§«¤»
Cloaking your affiliate links is a good way to keep people from stealing your commissions.
All a "cloak" has to be is some sort of a redirect. There is a very easy way to manage
as many redirects as you want, that is FREE and easy to manage with just a single file.
There are a couple of problems with linking directly to an affiliate page with your ID.
The obvious reason is that someone could steal your commissions if they are also
a member of the same affiliate program (which is common if it is a large program like Clickbank).
The other main reason is that a lot of people will be wary of clicking on long affiliate links,
things with lots of letters and numbers. This seems to be more and more the case as
I sometimes see these mile-long links, with un-needed crap in them like "adminid", "pid" etc. A good affiliate link should have two items MAXIMUM. If the program is specifically towards one URL it should only have one piece of information, your affiliate name
(preferably a name instead of a number). But that's not always within your control.
Luckily even a five year old could perform redirects with HTACCESS, my favorite tool.
The common solution I see a lot of clueless webmasters doing is just creating the folder
or the file and doing a simple redirect. So if that person needed the URL:
http://www.example.com/mlm
... To send the user to:
http://www.affiliateprogram.com/?affiliate-id
They'd physically make the folder on their site and add in an index.php redirect.
Sometimes I've also seen the HTML redirect, which uses meta tags... which means
the HTML file has to actually load before the redirect takes place. That makes the trip take even LONGER and in the meantime the visitor is staring at a blank page.
This would be ok, but what if you had 20 or 30 or 40 affiliate programs?
That's a lot of folders to get in your way.
Anyway, enough with the crap. Check out an HTACCESS file I use to do redirects.
All I have to do when I want to add or remove a redirect is just edit a text file.
Redirect /simplephp http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx/simplephp
Redirect /clicksensor.html http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx/jumpx
Redirect /john-calder.php http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx/bydandy1
Redirect /teresa http://www.tipsfortop.com
Redirect /puddy.link http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx/hotbobs
You put each redirect on a different line. What you first need is the word "Redirect",
and then the relative path HTACCESS is going to intercept. In the first line since
my second part of it is "/simplephp", that means if my domain is:
http://www.example.com
... And someone goes to:
http://www.example.com/simplephp
... It will send the user to that third item on that line, the long Clickbank hoplink.
The redirect doesn't just have to be a folder name. You could even make people
think you're linking straight to an HTML file, like in the second example.
Or, it could even end with ".php" if you want (3rd line) or even something you make up,
like "dot-link" (last example).
So go ahead and add tons of affiliate redirects in seconds. Just modify that above code
to your needs, save it as "htaccess.txt", upload, chmod to 755, and rename to ".htaccess" with that dot in front.
[break]The file will disappear to you, because it becomes hidden, but if you need to
come back to that list later you can still see if with many FTP programs. I use FlashFXP
and I go to Options -> Preferences. Then choose the "Advanced" tab. Look in the "List Method" square and change the choice from "Default" to "Show hidden files."
I don't know how it'll be in your FTP client... in a lot of them this sort of choice doesn't even exist. But that will allow you to see the HTACCESS file for future editing if you lose the copy on your hard drive. (Hey, these things happen.)
One last thing you should notice is that even though HTACCESS has sort of a "bare bones" feel to it, it doesn't have to be hard to read. Look at what I've done, I've spaced everything up so when I look at the file in Notepad with my fixed-width font everything lines up nicely.
You'll find that with a lot of programming stuff, like HTACCESS, PHP, JavaScript, C++, Java and so on... that the whitespace you put in doesn't matter. You can separate those things above with only one space if you want, or space it out forever, or even use tabs instead of spaces.
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4.) PARENTS TIME-OUT
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Time Out for Parents
Welcome Parents. It is time for a little Time-Out. Running an online business or working outside of the home takes much time and effort away from your family.
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This page is designed to be simple and easy to follow. Our goal is to keep it short and simple each week, allowing you to maximize your family time.
You can find all of our Time Out editions archived at http://www.parentstime-out.com/archives.htm
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5.) HOT BIZ*TIP
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Changing Picture Size
Most monitors display at 72 dpi (dots per inch). So, if you want
the picture to be, for example, 5 inches wide (probably about the
biggest you would want for an e-mail message), the picture would
be 360 pixels wide (5 inches x 72 dpi = 360 pixels). Pixel is
short for "Picture Element" and is the smallest unit of
information used to build an image. The more pixels in an image,
the better the resolution.
Most scanners and digital cameras come with some sort of imaging
software that will allow you to resize an image. Open the picture
in your imaging software and resize the image to your desired
resolution. You can usually do this via an Image or Edit menu.
Usually, you'll get a screen that lets you input the image size
in pixels. If there's a checkbox that allows you to constrain
proportions, make sure that's checked (this insures that when you
change the height or width the picture remains proportional).
Since you've changed the picture size, you may want to save it
under a different name. Use the Save As command under the File
menu of your imaging software.
This comes in handy when you want to place a picture on your
desktop or if you send it by email. Now your friends won't wait
forever to download a huge picture file that is WAY too big.
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