Easily Share/Promote Your Web Site

Pro Web — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:44:21 +0000

You have your web site up and running or you have just added some important posts to your Blog. How do you make it as easy as possible to for people to share this information?

Here is a free web-based tool that does just that. It is called ‘Add This’ and can be seen here at this web site:

http://www.addthis.com/

You pick the options you want and the site will automatically generate the HTML code needed. You simply copy/paste this this code and place it on your Web site or with-in the template of your blog.

If you are not exactly sure where to place the code, contact a friend that has basic HTML skills and they can help you. It should only take about 15 mins.

Now when someone wants to share an interesting blog post or page on your web site, they simply click on the icon that they have an account with. For example, if someone has a Facebook account, they click on the Facebook icon, login to there Facebook account, and they post a brief mention of your content. This generates more exposure for your site and is a great way to get traffic. It basically allows other people to promote your web site and blog, for no cost!

The other benefit of this tool is that once a person posts a mention of your content on there social networking account, it creates what is called a ‘back link’. A back link is simply a link on a web site that links to your web site. The more back links that you have from sites that have relevant, similar content, the better. Google and other search engines put a decent amount of weight on how many quality back links you have. Basically the more quality back links, the more important you site must be in the eyes of the search engines.

So if your looking for a free, easy to use tool that allows others to share and promote your site, then I would highly recommend using this service.

Social Media Crimes

Pro Web — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:43:16 +0000

Now that more and more people and also businesses are signing up with Social Media networks such as Linkedin, Facebook and Myspace, these sites are starting to get hit by cyber criminals. In 2006 nearly 3,200 account hijacking cases have been reported at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. Ok so here is how this is now happening and how you can be aware of this and protect yourself from harm.With Facebook it starts within your wall or your news feed. Hackers are updating feeds with bogus text and video links to sites that get you reveal personal information such as passwords and addresses. Once the criminals have account access they will can then go into your account to send out more links with your friends and family. All the time your account is compromised they are acting as you in your account. They will have access to all of your friends to infiltrate.

Typically these thieves are exploiting the distress factor to lure in their potential victims. “Please help me out”, “I am stranded in Germany and someone stole my money”. “click here to help me out”. Exploiting the trust you have between your friends is how their doing this.

Also now that Twitter is becoming more and more popular I see this site getting hit the most. It is so easy to shorten links to any site with out even having the name of the link in it. So even though Facebook and other sites have specialized software to detect malicious activity in your account it doesn’t always work that great. So please be careful with what links you open and do not fill out any of your account information on site that link out of social networking websites.

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Easily Share/Promote Your Web Site

Social Media Crimes