Understanding and Using RSS Feeds for your Blog

You love reading blogs but you don’t have the time to search from blog to blog finding a story that interests you. Try setting up an RSS feed to that blog instead. It’ll save you boatloads of time by making all the latest blog updates and news stories available for you right on one screen.

An RSS is basically is a set of web feed used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. It actually stands for really simple syndication and usually contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. An RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with your favorite websites in an automated manner that’s much easier than checking each website or blog manually.

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reCAPTCHA To Stop Comment Spam

I receive at least 2 to 3 comments spams from furtive IP addresses per day spamming me about porns, sex, illegal downloading sites, sex-enhancing drugs, debt reconsolidations and others! It’s really annoying to the extent I know I have to do something about it. And that’s the beauty of wordpress blog. Simply do a search and you get a great plugin to combat this comment spam issue.

Go to this site, http://recaptcha.net/, do a simple registration, enter your blog name and the site will generate a public key and a private key privy to your blog. Now go to the “Resources” page and click on “Wordpress” to download the zip file.

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Exciting beach cruiser bikes that I love

Beach cruiser bikes are very popular here in California. Many of my friends have one at home and they drive to the beaches during the summer days to have a fun time biking along the beaches.

And right now if you are looking for a beach cruiser bikes to ride along the beach, you will have to check out this site that sells awesome looking beach cruiser bikes. The site is called XYZbikes.com

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How To Hide IP Address

Before I will start the talk about the net security it’s better to scatter the most stable myth concerning Internet anonymity. No, I do not want to say that people think it is impossible to get any information about a person through the Internet. I mean the next proposition: “I don’t need anonymity because I have no “dark” deals. It must care the hackers…” And now think: is it good when strangers know your home address and want to enter your home without your permission?

They always follow you wherever you go and they try to find out all about you. I’m sure you won’t be happy about it. So, tell me, please, why the majority of Internet users does not care about their security in the Net? Besides, recently more and more resources provide a man with different information according to home location. For example, a lot of US informational business projects do not show the most important data to people outside USA. Is it not fair? Not half! Today we’ll try to correct this unfairness. If you know IP address of a computer you can know a lot of things about its users.

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How Did Facebook Become So Popular?

Have You Heard Of Facebook?

By now, you are probably familiar with the popular social-networking website called Facebook.

According to Wikipedia, Facebook has more than 19 million registered users across 47,000 regional, work-related, college or high-school networks.

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Credit Card with Mint

Everyone knows that credit card is very useful if you don’t have enough cash in your wallet or you are paying for more expensive items like electronics, tour packages and etc. You got to enjoy what you buy without paying for it until nearly a couple of months later.

However, the high interest rates rolled over can cripple a person’s financial future if the bills are not fully paid. That’s why a credit card with low interest will always get some attention in this competitive market. I’m talking about the Mint Credit Card.

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Keyword Suggestion Tools

Getting the right keyword for your website can be viewed as the most important stage of your overall marketing plans. You need to know what people are searching for and what terms are not that competitive yet with decent traffic (profitable). It is unwise to go for a popular keyword which is extremely competitive unless you have super content to offer and I think most people know about this advice.

Here are some great tools to use when you are doing keyword research!

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Googling the Sky

Google Earth (version 4.2) now comes with sky imagery, or a “virtual telescope,” as Google calls it. Google explains you can now explore star constellations, see planets in motion, or look at supernova explosions. The New York Times reports that these images were “stitched together from more than one million photographs from scientific and academic sources, including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Palomar Observatory at the California Institute of Technology and the NASA-financed Hubble.” To see this in Google Earth, select View -> Switch to Sky from the menu.

Google already has imagery of earth, moon and Mars available as online services. Wonder if the sky pictures will make it to the web as well?Another new feature in Google Earth is the addition of super-high resolution photo content, which you can see by adding the layer Primary Database -> Featured Content -> Gigapxl Photos. Unlike Google Street View, these photos however are only available for a few select places (like buildings), so there’s not a lot of random fun stuff to be found.

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Getting Website Traffic with Social Bookmarking

In making the Internet an easier place for users to navigate, the concept of bookmarking has become quite the commonly used tool. Whether you surf the Net using Internet Explorer, Firefox, or other selections, storing your preferred website links for future use is easy to accomplish when using “bookmarks” and “favorites.” Today, this same concept is being used to drive traffic to websites through a technique called “social bookmarking.”

The availability of social bookmarking has increased over the years with sites, such as Digg, Reddit, and del.icio.us. With these services, bookmarks are stored online instead of on a computer, making accessibility possible from any computer that connects to the Internet. Instead of using cumbersome folders to store bookmarks, these sites rely upon “tags.”

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Heating up your place

Nowadays you can practically find any product just by searching internet. Therefore since I’m looking for an additional convection heater for the coming winter season, I searched the internet as I’m getting lazier going to town to look for one. I browsed through a few sites and came across this company Desatech whose specialization in heating products impresses me. I decided to explore Desatech site more.

Desatech offers great heaters, fireplaces, stoves, tools, lightings, doorbells and many of their accessories. I really like their collection of products and the website gives you a warm family feeling as well. Not as corporate as some other similar sites. There is a easily navigable user menu where you can click and choose what type of heater you are interested in. It’s pretty easy to use and within a few minutes, I have made my selection (as I had done some homework before that).

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