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Email Inheritance Scam, How to avoid it

May 31, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Scam No Comments →

Scam is simply making money by stealing money, time, or resources from you. Or worse, they can continue to cause harm to you after the initial event in other ways too, such as taking your personal information, including credit card information and selling it to others, or even stealing your identity.

If you receive an email in your inbox claims that you are going to receive a huge inheritance from a long-lost friend or family member, therefore you should beware, as you are encountering an Inheritance Scam.

The formula of the email you may receive is like that ” We wish to notify you again that you were listed as a beneficiary to the total sum of £4,600,000.00GBP (Four million Six hundred thousand Great British Pounds) in the intent of the deceased (name now withheld since this is our second letter to you). We contacted you because you bear the surname identity and therefore can present you as the beneficiary to the inheritance since there is no written will.

In your acceptance of this deal, we request that you kindly forward to us your letter of acceptance”.

In this Scam technique, you are simply a focus of mass mailings for many people nationwide. Thousands of people having the same surname receive a notice that a huge inheritance has been located in their names. This email will spell out where the inheritance is located and how you can claim it. The scammer may ask for a fee to process the claim. You should never have to pay a fee as no reputable law firms and executors of wills will never ask you to send them money for a processing fee.

If somebody on the mailing list victims does claim his right to the inheritance, the amount is usually very small and many times less than the fee they paid to claim it.

There are many scams, frauds, and cons that you have to watch out for today. Do your research and talk to people involved with them to make sure and avoid those. In order to protect yourself from Inheritance Scams, you should check with your family members about any recent deaths. You can also check with the local Better Business Bureau, the State Attorney General’s office, or the U.S. Postal Inspection service.

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5 Simple basics to Choose the right affiliate marketing product to promote

May 29, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Affiliate Marketing No Comments →

There are many affiliate programs that are available on the internet. It can be quite a challenging task for the new affiliates to choose a good affiliate product to promote.

The key to succeed in any affiliate marketing campaign is to use the correct marketing methods, coupled with the right choice of product.

1- Find out if the product, you are choosing, has a clear and unique advantage that is not available in any other product in the same niche. This will always justify the product in your visitor’s mind and make it easier for you to run an advertising promotion.

2- Choose High Paying products; High paying products are often much harder to promote, but if you do the right amount of research and really get to know your product and your niche, you will succeed in your plan. Why bother promoting an affiliate product that only gives you $10 per sale when there are products out there that can give you $50, $100 or more per sale?

3- Also if there is an affiliate program that offers similar product, offers lesser commission as the price is lower, it will be great. More people will be able to purchase the product as the price is low. You will be able to convert more people into customers which will ultimately increase your profits.

4- Make sure that your product is not over promoted, with so many people promoting a product; it is difficult to run a unique campaign to promote it.

5- Would you buy the product? If the product does not grab your imagination and have you reaching for your credit card, then don’t expect others to buy it from you it will be unfair.

Choosing a good affiliate product to promote your customer is an important part of the successful business. There are many affiliate programs that are available on the internet and it will be easier for you to know how to choose a good affiliate product, after considering the previous tips.

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Paid Surveys Scams, How to stay away from them

May 27, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Scam No Comments →

One of the pitfalls for new people coming online and looking for ways to make money are paid survey scams. The promise of making money for very little work is appealing to all of us.

There are plenty of scammers who have happily flocked to the world of paid surveys online. Unfortunately they can show an outward appearance of professionalism that matches the big buys in just about every way.

Unfortunately, some of those providing the tools online are not entirely doing so for your benefit and in the survey arena, spotting paid survey scams has become a bit of an artform. It’s an unfortunate circumstance but it’s simply part of the online landscape which novices need to be aware of.

A paid survey online scam is easy to identify, as first it will ask you to pay for the information provided to you. A paid survey online scammer will never provide his or her contact information. Most of the time these scammers only provide their email or post box number and never provide their contact address, phone number, fax or other details.
Here are some ways with which you can keep away from paid surveys scams:

- Do not be fooled by any seals or stamps that these websites use, you should see how they present themselves. You will find them trying to use a bunch of cheesy testimonials as their main draw, promising huge rewards, and their graphics professionally done. These are usually the first clues that should give you that little sense of unease.

- Utilize Google searches to the fullest. Search for the survey site’s name and the word scam. That will usually pull up a watch list with real reviews of it. There are several websites available that offer full reviews of the many survey sites on the internet, and can help you identify the legitimate paid surveys. You can even use Whois.com to check the details of a survey site.

- Guarantees which seem outrageous should signal a red flag. The truth is, paid survey sites can really only offer to refund your money so there really is no incentive other than that for a site to make a guarantee. If you’re being asked to pay money for a list of survey opportunities then don’t.

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Most Common Black Hat Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

May 25, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO No Comments →

Black hat SEO techniques are also known as spamdexing and generally considered illegal and unethical by many. They can achieve the same benefits provided by white hat SEO techniques but they differ with the ways they use to achieve them.

Some of the tactics include link farms, keyword stuffing and hidden text:

- A link farm: is a group of web sites that all link to each other without any regard to quality or relevance. People create websites and the sites are then cross-linked to other sites in the same network, and would also include one-way links to the primary site with varying anchor text. Once the visitor has arrived to the website, the owner of the website will often use some kind of cloaking or redirect to show the visitor a sales page of the products, that is the really goal of the Black Hat SEO technique.

- Doorway or Gateway Pages: These are very simple and poorly designed web pages that act as doorways or gateways to another but just as poorly designed web page. Doorway pages often contain a link you’re asked to click if you wish to obtain more information about a given topic. Clicking on the link, however, will lead you to a useless page, but as far as black hat SEO marketers are concerned, they’ve done their job because they’ve got you to visit and search engine spiders will count that in their favor.

- Keyword Stuffing: is one of the most popular Black Hat methods. In this method, the website is ’stuffed’ full of any given keyword; content and readability of the text is severely compromised. The text is often pushed to the bottom of the page and put in a small font, the hope is that the search engine will see the keyword is used many times and rank it well.

- Hidden Text: is a similar method where a keyword is written repeatedly in the same color as the background; this usually gets the site reported by its competitors quickly and results in the site being blacklisted.

- Page Hijacking: these are websites containing very similar content to popular and original websites. They hijack the content of other websites as a deceptive means of gaining traffic.

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