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You may not know how to wipe your hard drive, but you should be aware of the process. Computer security is a major concern for both business people and individuals, these days. If you want to keep your data safe, you should consider clearing all of the files off of your computer using a wipe disk tool, when necessary.
What is a wipe disk tool? Well, it’s a tool designed to completely delete all files on a hard disk drive. It even detects and deletes files that could potentially be used to restore regularly deleted data. There is no better way of cleaning files from your computer permanently than using a wipe disk tool.
What possible reason could you have for wanting to wipe your hard drive completely clean? Well, if you personally or your business decides to get new computers, you may want to wipe the data from the old units. That will guard against it falling into the wrong hands.
Another scenario where it could be useful is if your company is going out of business and you are selling your computers. This is especially important for business owners who have client confidentiality to consider. There’s no telling who will wind up in possession of the computers, after all.
Simply using the delete key or dragging files to your recycle bin is not going to remove those files from your computer completely. You are probably only deleting short cuts, if you delete things that way. It can take hours and be totally useless for your data security.
If you don’t learn how to permanently wipe your hard drive, anyone can access files on it. All they need to do is use some sort of system recovery software to access the files. System recovery software can be found all over the Internet.
You might also try clearing files from your computer by simply formatting the hard drive, but that doesn’t actually protect your files. A skilled specialist in data recovery can still retrieve them. So, using a wipe disk tool is a much better and safer idea.
Disk wiping is one of the most secure ways of wiping your hard drive. It is a very thorough process, too. It can even delete licensed programs. How does it work? Well, a disk wiping tool is designed to overwrite your whole hard drive multiple times with data. That way, it’s impossible for anyone, no matter how skilled, to recover files that were created before the disk wiping process was done. Not only that, but such programs are so thorough that they also usually wipe out the master boot record and partitioned drives, too.
The government has set a medium security standard that says that a hard drive should be overwritten six times, over the course of three different steps. The first step is to remove the hard drive data. The second is to replace it with a series of zeros. The third assigns a code, 246, to the wiped drive. It takes a while, but it’s very important to wipe your hard drive, if you don’t want people to access your files.
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MySpace makes it easy to express yourself, connect with friends and make new ones, but please remember that what you post publicly could embarrass you or expose you to danger. Here are some common sense guidelines that you should follow when using MySpace:
Don’t forget that your profile and MySpace forums are public spaces. Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want the world to know (e.g., your phone number, address, IM screens name, or specific whereabouts). Avoid posting anything that would make it easy for a stranger to find you, such as where you hang out every day after school.
People aren’t always who they say they are. Be careful about adding strangers to your friends list. It’s fun to connect with new MySpace friends from all over the world, but avoid meeting people in person whom you do not fully know. If you must meet someone, do it in a public place and bring a friend or trusted adult.
Harassment, hate speech and inappropriate content should be reported. If you feel someone’s behavior is inappropriate, react. Talk with a trusted adult, or report it to MySpace or the authorities.
Don’t post anything that would embarrass you later. Think twice before posting a photo or info you wouldn’t want your parents or boss to see!
Don’t mislead people into thinking that you’re older or younger. If you lie about your age, MySpace will delete your profile.
Placing images above AdSense ads is not necessarily prohibited by program policies. However, depending on the method of implementation this could be considered encouraging users to click on ads. So you should include a border line between the ads and the images. Don't show specific products in your images, in order not to mislead the visitors. Just use generic images that will increase the visibility of your ads.
As I have stated over and over again here, that content is KING. Good content will attract traffic to your site and some of those will click on your Adsense Ads giving you revenues. Good content means having multiple pages of content focussing on your chosen niche topic. These topics can be anything like babies, baby photos, pets, automobile tires or Adsense like mine. So the first step obviously is to find out your niche topic and then religiously post information on your website regularly. The benefits of having good content are many, some of them are:
If the visitor likes your content then the probability of him lingering on longer at your site is quite high and in the process he might click on those strategically placed ad units.
Search Engine spiders will crawl your site easily and more visitors will get to reach your pages.
If you have rich content, then most visitors will make it a point to revisit as reading all information in a single visit is not possible. The subsequent visits will also ensure a steady traffic. If your site has more data in the next visit your site might become a regular feature for many netizens.
This loyal set of visitors will then subscribe for the RSS feeds from the website and also recommend your site to their friends.
Other sites or blogs will link to your site to provide good content to their own readers.
Your site will as a consequent of the above will get a prominent rank in most popular search engines and therefore get even bigger traffic.
The key to create good content website is to get the attention of your reader and then provide him with good information in a lucid way to get his undivided attention for as long as possible. The main things to remember here are:
Write medium sized articles which the reader is able to read in about 5 minutes. But keep in mind that it should not be so short that it just gives an overview of the topic and the reader is forced to whet his hunger for knowledge in the field from another source. You will lose an potential regular reader this way every time a new won visits your site.
Create a bunch of articles around a topic covering all the aspects and allied subjects. This will provide information not only on the core subject but also cover allied subjects thereby, attracting even more visitors.
Categorize your articles and place the category list on the first page itself. This will make the job of a potential visitor easier as he does not have to sift through all your articles to search the ones he wants to read.
The content rich site thus created will be able to catch a lot of new visitors, but to get a loyal audience you will need to put up such good content on a regular basis. This will inturn result in a marked increase in your adsense revenues.
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About 2,000 years ago in the area of the world that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, lived a group of people called the Celts. The Celts’ lives revolved around growing their food, and considered the end of the year to be the end of the harvest season. So, they celebrated new year’s eve each year on October 31st with a festival called “Samhain,” named after their Lord of the Dead (also known as the Lord of Darkness). Samhain (pronounced ’sow-in’) was presided over by Celtic priests called Druids.
Back then, winter was the time of year associated with human death. The Celts believed that on the night that marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead blurred allowing ghosts of the dead to return to earth. Celts thought that the presence of the ghosts made it easier for the Druids, their priests, to predict the future. These predictions were an important source of comfort and direction for the Celts during their long, dark, frightening winters.
To celebrate Samhain, the Druids built huge sacred bonfires around which the Celts gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to their ancient gods. During the celebration, the Celts dressed up in costumes consisting of animal heads and skins and tried to tell each other’s fortunes.
The Celts eventually were conquered by the Romans, and by about the year 43 AD two Roman festivals were combined with the Celtic Samhain festival. The first Roman festival was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of “bobbing” for apples practiced today on Halloween.
By 800 AD, the influence of Christianity spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1st as All Saints’ Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. The combined and updated celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
Chances are you cannot view MySpace from work or school, this domain is usually blocked… by the way, web based email systems are also usually blocked, most businesses are concerned about security problems, so they disable many web sites from work or school… there is also the “distraction” factor that MySpace would be for many people, so it’s no surprise that MySpace (and many other web sites) are blocked at work or school. Some people try to “unblock” MySpace by using a proxy server to gain access to MySpace, sometimes this works, but often it does not work, because many proxy servers are also blocked b y work or school locations, they are always blocking new proxy sites. But you can try to find a proxy server that is not blocked at your site, just do any Google or Yahoo search, you’ll find many proxy servers, and maybe your location does not block one of these… I suggest using the Google advanced search, just (1) place proxy server in the exact phrase field, and (2) put myspace in the all words field… I get thousands of proxy servers with this search, maybe your site does not block one of these servers… yet (smile).
Canadians granted Conservative Leader Stephen Harper a minority government Monday, putting an end to more than 12 years of Liberal rule.
Results show Conservatives won 124 seats, versus 103 for Paul Martin’s Liberals.
“Tonight, friends, our great country has voted for change,” the prime minister-designate told a crowd of supporters at his home riding of Calgary Southwest.
“And Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change. Tonight I am saying to all Canadians that we will respect the trust you have given us, we will keep our word, we will honour that trust, we will deliver on our commitments.”
Harper then reached out to the regions, repeating a campaign promise to solve the fiscal imbalance and promising to let the Atlantic provinces keep their offshore resource money.
The West, he said, will now have the voice in Ottawa it has long sought.
But Harper fell short of the 155 seats needed to lead a Tory majority, meaning he’ll have to wheel and deal and curry favour of at least one opposition party to support him in the 308-seat House of Commons.
The Bloc Quebecois won 51 seats, while the NDP took 29 — a double-digit gain from the 2004 election. All four major party leaders won their ridings.
By the end of the night, the Tories won roughly 36 per cent of the popular vote nationwide, compared with 30 per cent for the Liberals, 17 per cent for the NDP and 10 per cent for the Bloc.
Martin to step down
Addressing a roomful of cheering party faithful in his Montreal riding of LaSalle-Emard, Martin said: “There will be another chance, and there will be another time.”
But that next chance won’t come under his stewardship.
Martin said he will continue representing his riding, but he will be stepping down as Liberal Leader.
“My dedication to the Liberal family will never wane,” said Martin. “But I will not take our party into another election.”
Martin said he called Harper on the phone to congratulate him on his victory.
“The people of Canada have chosen him to lead a minority government. I wish him the best,” said Martin. “We differ on many things, but we all share a belief in the potential and the promise of Canada, the desire of our country, to succeed.”
Region by region
Support for the Tories took off when the polls closed west of Atlantic Canada.
As expected, the Conservatives dominated in the West, taking 48 out of 56 seats in the Prairies and sweeping all 28 seats in Alberta.
Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan could not hold on to Alberta’s lone Liberal seat in Edmonton Centre. She was defeated by Tory Laurie Hawn, a former fighter pilot.
But it was in battleground Ontario where the Conservatives made a breakthrough, seizing 40 seats after winning 24 in the last election.
Canada’s largest city, however, remained solidly Liberal, with a few notable exceptions: NDP Leader Jack Layton won his Toronto-Danforth riding, while his wife, Olivia Chow, won her Spadina-Trinity riding for the New Democrats. The two have become the Commons’ second husband-and-wife team. Peggy Nash of the NDP also defeated Liberal incumbent Sarmite Bulte, who was seeking a fourth term.
Belinda Stronach, despite her infamous decision to cross the floor to back Martin’s minority Liberal government last year, rode to an easy victory in her Newmarket-Aurora riding north of Toronto.
In Quebec, the Conservatives won 10 ridings and increased their share of the popular vote by more than 17 per cent in the province — gaining a significant foothold in the province that shut them out in 2004.
Tory candidate Lawrence Cannon — a likely member of a Harper cabinet — won his Pontiac riding.
The Bloc Quebecois, however, held its ground, winning 51 of Quebec’s 75 ridings, although its popular vote slipped seven per cent while the Liberals’ was down 14.
Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe promised Quebecers a “responsible” opposition in the next Parliament.
“We will make sure Quebec moves forward because we know everything that makes Quebec move forward moves us forward toward sovereignty,” he said.
The Tories won 10 seats in the Atlantic — including Deputy Tory Leader Peter MacKay, who was re-elected in his Nova Scotia riding of New Glasgow — but it wasn’t the breakthrough they were hoping for.
A late surge in the polls had the Conservative Party gaining momentum, but the Liberals managed to hang on to their traditional stronghold, winning 19 of the region’s 32 seats.
There were concerns Liberal Public Works Minister Scott Brison could lose his Nova Scotia seat of Kings-Hants to the Tories, but he recaptured it easily. Indian Affairs Minister Andy Scott also hung onto his Fredericton, N.B. riding.
The Grits, however, lost more than four per cent in popular vote in the region, while the Tories saw theirs climb to about 5 per cent.
Praise from a former PM
Brian Mulroney, the last man to lead the Tories to power, praised Harper on Monday for engineering the merger of the old Conservative party and the Canadian Alliance.
“Reaching out to Peter MacKay to unify the party, then to move the party to the centre, then to devise a campaign strategy and finally to execute it flawlessly, these are marks of leadership,” Mulroney told CTV from West Palm Beach, Fla..
Mulroney said he was particularly thrilled with the gains the Tories were able to make in Quebec.
Indeed, the gains allow the Tories to claim they now form a truly a national party. The Liberals, however, fared better than pollsters expected.
“They’re sticking around,” said CTV’s chief parliamentary correspondent, Craig Oliver. “They’ll be a significant opposition force, and in a good position to restore itself, to rebuild their credibility and rebuild their party.”
Power broker
NDP Leader Jack Layton, meanwhile, was able to increase his caucus with 29 members, up from 18 at dissolution, and improve on his party’s share of the popular vote to levels not seen since the 1980s.
His determined effort in the final weeks of the campaign to tell voters that his NDP is the only choice when it comes to protecting social programs and public health care seemed to have worked.
Layton hailed his party’s gains as a victory for “ordinary Canadians.”
“Our Canada puts ordinary Canadians first, and tonight, ordinary Canadians by the millions put their trust in the NDP and took a big step forward.”
The campaign
Martin ended up in the fight of his political life against Harper.
Despite Martin’s repeated warning that a Tory government would sacrifice Charter rights and limit access to abortion, the Liberals took a pounding in the polls with voters upset over allegations of government scandal and a rash of urban gun violence.
Harper capitalized on those concerns, promising to get tough on corruption and to crack down on gun crime with mandatory minimum sentences.
In the end, Harper succeeded in convincing voters that it was time for a new leadership.
But although Harper never suggested it himself, Conservatives were hoping a majority was in the cards. In the end, Canadians may have heeded Martin’s message of caution, trimming the Tories’ power and forcing them to cooperate with other parties in the next Parliament.
Allan Gregg, chairman of polling firm The Strategic Counsel, said the fact Tories didn’t win one seat in any of Canada’s three major cities — Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal — should concern the party.
“They have some huge holes to fill in the basis of their support if they ever want to form a more stable government than the one they have today,” said Gregg.
Meanwhile, Green Party hopes of picking up a few seats were dashed. They did, however, pick up 4.5 per cent of the popular vote across the country — comfortably passing the 2 per cent threshold needed to secure public funding.
With files from The Canadian Press
Still thinking to cheat AdSense? Stop that. It will never bring you anywhere. You might pull it off with smaller ads network, but definitely not with Google. Here are some detection methods they might use. At the very least, they have the resources to do so.
IP Address
If the AdSense click is originated from the same IP Address as the one used for accessing your AdSense account, your account is flagged.
Cookies
Most home users do not use static IP Address for Internet connection. In most cases just disconnect and reconnect will give you a new IP Address. But don’t forget, Google has set cookies on your computer.
Other Google Services
Thinking that you are safe just because you do not access your AdSense account? Think again. This time, consider these: GMail, Google Earth, Google Calendar, Google Search, Google Toolbar, Google Talk, Google Sitemap, Google Desktop, Blogger, and so on, and so on. With the wide range of services they provide, Google can trace the originator of most (or probably almost all) clicks.
Click Pattern 1
Oh, why this computer / IP address / person is so trigger-click-happy on this particular website but never click on the ads on other sites?
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And why is it that people accessing these sites direct (type-in URL or from bookmark) tend to be very active ad-clickers compared with those referred from search engine or other sites?
Click Pattern 3
And why the ad-clickers like to hit and run, compared with non ad-clickers that surf a few pages before leaving?
Click-Through-Rate (CTR)
Your CTR may range from 0.5% to 10%, but if it exceeds a certain point (probably around 10%), you are flagged.
Geo-Location
Used Urchin (Google Analytics) before? Then you should know that Google can trace traffics origin down to the small town. Different IP doesn’t mean much. Unless you site is really targetted to one small geo-point, a high number of clicks from nearby location will get you banned quickly.
Search Engine Ranking
Your website is not indexed on any search engine, not linked by any prominent website, but get consistently high traffic? That sounds like something is in play. Regardless of whether it is an adware-embedded software, spam, trojan clickbot, or intentionally installed click-exchange network, it doesn’t sound right.
Webpage design
How about the “click here” or “support us”? Google has the best search engine in the world. Is it really that hard to find those words?
Combo
Each of these detection methods might seem rather weak. But combine them together, and not many click-fraud can pass-through these filters. Even the smartest clickbot will have a hard time.
Google is placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search engines, and become the indisputable leader in search engines from then until now. Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep the shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance.
For this same reason, doing the wrong things in the Adsense and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated. Nothing like a good action taken to keep wrongdoers from doing the same things over again.
So for those who are thinking of getting a long-term success with Adsense, you should not just think of the strategies you will be using to generate more earnings. Consider some things first before you actually get involved.
Hidden texts
Filling your advertisement page with texts to small to read, has the same color as the background and using CSS for the sole purpose of loading them with rich keywords content and copy will earn you a penalty award that is given to those who are hiding links.
Page cloaking
There is a common practice of using browser or bot sniffers to serve the bots of a different page other than the page your visitors will see. Loading a page with a bot that a human user will never see is a definite no-no. This is tricking them to click on something that you want but they may not want to go to.
Multiple submissions
Submitting multiple copies of your domain and pages is another thing to stay away from. For example, trying to submit a URL of an Adsense as two separate URL’s is the same as inviting trouble and even termination. Likewise, this is a reason to avoid auto submitters for those who are receiving submissions. Better check first if your domain is submitted already an a certain search engine before you try to submit to it again. If you see it there, then move on. No point contemplating whether to try and submit there again.
Link farms
Be wary of who and what are you linking your Adsense to. The search engines know that you cannot control your links in. But you can certainly control what you link to. Link farming has always been a rotten apple in the eyes of search engines, especially Google. That is reason enough to try and avoid them. Having a link higher than 100 on a single page will classify you as a link farm so try and not to make them higher than that.
Page rank for sale
If you have been online for quite some time, you will notice that there are some sites selling their PR links or trading them with other sites. If you are doing this, expect a ban anytime in the future. It is ok to sell ads or gain the link. But doing it on direct advertisement of your page rank is a way to get on search engines bad side.
Doorways
This is similar to cloaking pages. The common practice of a page loaded with choice keyword ads aimed at redirecting visitors to another “user-friendly” page is a big issue among search engines. There are many SEO firms offering this kind of services. Now that you know what they actually are, try to avoid them at all costs.
Multiple domains having the same content
In case you are not aware of it, search engines look at domains IP’s, registry dates and many others. Having multiple domains having the same exact content is not something you can hide from them. The same goes with content multiplied many times on separate pages, sub domains and forwarding multiple domains to the same content.
Many of the above techniques apply to most search engines and is not entirely for Google only. By having a mind set that you are building your Adsense together with your pages for the human users and not for bots, you can be assured of the great things for your ads and sites. Not to mention avoiding the wrath of the search engines and getting your Adsense and site account terminated altogether.
