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Grab these “Free Antivirus Software” offers before they run out

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Yes not one but  two offers (Norton Internet security and AVG Antivirus). If you PC is not secured by a antivirus and security  software , its not to late yet , we are giving you the chance to trial these two popular security software’s on your computer for free and then you can decide if you want to buy it.

1. Norton Internet Security 2011 – 60 day trial

“Norton Internet Security 2011” is a versatile suite that includes everything you need to keep your PC safe from malware, online scams and identity thieves.A highly configurable firewall blocks external attacks, while simultaneously looking out for suspicious programs on your PC that are trying to make unauthorized outgoing connections.

Download the 60 day trial from this Link –> Free Trial Norton Internet security

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2. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011 v10.0.1136

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011 is the latest version of AVG’s popular malware detector.

At the program’s heart is a strong core antivirus engine, which monitors incoming and outgoing emails, as well as every file you access, detecting and blocking threats before they can cause any damage.

Download the “AVG anti virus 2011” from this link –> AVG Anti- Virus 2011

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Buy Paid Full version here – Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware – 2 Year Subscription

 

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How to embed your Amazon Astore in wordpress or blogger blog

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I needed to integrate a  “AMAZON ASTORE” into a self hosted wordpress site as a test on one of my websites. I trawled and searched  the internet for ways to best put in the “amazon astore”  to match my blog theme and design of this blog. [updated 18 jan 2016]

I came across  this site “ Robin Maluau – rockstar now geek” and “ Kristella’s blog” that gave me some useful but more technical tips. These tips could probably wont make sense to some , as you ned to have some technical knowledge to understand their jargon.  Since they had published those useful posts and tips  for getting a Amazon store to work with wordpress and blogger ,  blogger and wordpress itself has changed  and got updated. These updates  to new versions  have made  “integrating  you amazon Astore into your blog or website more easy” than ever.

Before i got much deeper into creating a  Amazon store within your blog –

Here is some basic info on amazon store and making money

An amazon store is a quick store that you can build online for free with amazon  to sell products  and earn a commission when a product gets sold. You need to register with amazon as a  affiliate to get this started. You dont need to make a Amazon store to sell products, you can just insert  your affilaite link to the product on your blog or website  and if a person clicks on that links and buys something you earn a commission.

How Do I Get Started? 

1. If you are not a member of the Associates program, start by joining the program.
2. If you are already a member of the Associates program, visit the aStore section of Associates Central.

So, I  had the job of updating  this wordpress blog/website “www.australianpropertymarket.com.au” with a Amazon product store, so  I did a bit of research on the internet  and found many articles – some useful – most outdated. I decided to work it out on my own and managed to get a Amazon store nicely working  with wordpress, just by copying and pasting code provided by amazon  into wordpress. Its that simple now !! ( however this task was made easy  with my blog theme solostream  – which has integration options  to make this task easier )

 

Integrate amazon astore in wordpress blogger website
How to make a Amazon store ?

 

Integrating Amazon A store Into wordpress / Blogger

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How to make a amazon store in WordPress ?

I will show you how to integrate  “your amazon store” in few easy steps with a basic wordpress site .

Make sure you change the theme  while making the amazon astore  to match your store theme colours.

 

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I am assuming  that you already signed up as a affilaite  with amazon  and can now create a  Astore through your account .

Next Step.

Create the Astore in amazon and get the inline frame embed link like above.

Login and Go to your word press blog – Click on add new page

Click the html/text  button  where you write content and  paste the embed  code you got from amazon into the page Next – Click save

Now go to page attributes on your right  and switch the page template column to “page template – no sidebars” so that  your amazon sidebar is the only  sidebar that’s seen on the theme.

Some themes block this feature to not have the regular sidebar option , and you might have to mess around further with their  code to get this option installed or then just get the Solsotream theme that I use it will make the process easier) .

Here is another example  of  australian book website page on a standard wordpress template but without the Amazon sidebar ( adjusting the  width and height dimension in the  inline embed frame code of amazon will get  you this type of amazon page) .

You can check out the example  link below  for the Full amazon astore embed page in the word press website on propertymarket website

wordpress theme settings to integrate amazon code html into website or blog

 

The theme used on  the Australian property website is the same theme that is being used by my blog as well and you can get a $10 discount currently on this solostream theme , Solostream Themes are quite robust and SEO friendly and I do recommend them, you can read a review of some of the themes i recommend over here , but Solostream themes has been one of my favorites for years.

Create word press Amazon page

Y0u can further mess around with the amazon code for width and height and change size as necessary or then change the page attributes while generating the  embed code Or manually   to suit your design. You can also place a link on your blog menu  to your “amazon page”  to promote it.

You can follow a similar way to get this “amazon page on blogger” . I will  post a tutorial  how to integrate  Amazon Astore on blogger   when i get some spare time.

You can check out the result here  at the property  market website  &  another example  of  the Investor property book store page 

All the best  and let me know if you run into any problems implementing this. You can comment below or get in touch with me via contact form  if you need any help setting this up.

Below Are Some products and books that can help you in your amazon journey

Book from Amazon  – How to sell on Amazon for beginners 

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Product from clickbank  Marketplace

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Amazon Selling Blueprint – How to Find and Launch Your First Private-Label Product on Amazon in 90 Days or Less

More..

Kindle Money Mastery 2.0 no 1 Amazon Kindle Training

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Making money with PPC Advertising and Blogging

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Every day thousands of make money on-line affiliates or website owners ask the same question –

“Why I cant sell anything online?

Do you know why most people fail ?

It is the topic/niche .

Almost every beginner starts in network marketing/make money online  niche and to cut long story short this niche  is overcrowded. Not many know of pay per click (PPC) adverting. To give you stats here, less than 1% of them are interested in how to make money from home.

What Are Bing Ads?

Bing Ads is the advertising platform you use to show ads on the Bing and Yahoo search engines – also referred to as Yahoo Bing Network. You also have the ability for your ads to show on their syndicated partners such as Facebook, Amazon, Monster, WebMD, CNBC, and Viacom. They are the direct competitor to Google adwords and PPC. Bing ads is normally cheaper to run than google as they are rated No#2 search engine  and get cheaper clicks for advertising

PPC GAME WITH  CLICKBANK

You can make money with your website and clickbank by using the relevant search terms in your ppc campaigns and advertisements. Here is how-

Go find buying keywords using the Google keyword tool.

Type in keywords like where to buy {item}, where to purchase {item}, buying {item} (get creative) and take the results and research them again until you find more buying keywords that you didn’t find before.

If you do this multiple times you will find a lot of purchase keywords that people are entering in google to find a specific item.

They might not get a lot of traffic but typically people who type in these keywords into the search engines  have their wallet in hand. Use these buying terms in your PPC ADS, I did this for a acai berry product and had some good success.

Hot targeted Marketing with PPC & CLICKBANK

If you are spending money on PPC, use every bit of it (dont waste it).You should be pushing these people(traffic) to an opt-in page for an email list. That way you can significantly seo Vs ppc and ppc marketingincrease the chances of converting them later on  through your email campaigns /Newsletters and this will reduce some of your expenses.

Free resources are great like SEO organic traffic . However Using  PPC even for at least for a short period of time, you can find out the best converting keywords. Then you can take those keywords, build optimized pages, and promote them via SEO to get high search engine rankings and make money. This way you can make money both with SEO organic traffic and paid traffic at the same time.

How do you make money with PPC such as Bing OR Google Adwords?

Bing advertises your webpage and every time someone clicks it you must pay Google. You pay anywhere from 0.2 cents  to 0.30 or even more for a click on your ad. People who are interested in your ad will only click, so it is targeted traffic.Conversion depends on how good your ad  and content on that page is. You will need to do the maths to get  good returns and profit from PPC, but you can just get lucky if the niche is not too competitive

Promoting Affiliate Products (pay per click internet marketing method :-

If you want to promote an affiliate product and expect higher level of purchase, you can choose a particular item from sites like Commission Junction or ClickBank. Try to select a high selling item from the site’s list. After this you can create a pay per click ad for the affiliate product which will send traffic to the site. This can be an excellent step to get as much traffic for their product.

Sometimes PPC seems to work much better with physical items than digital downloads. If you manage to get regular sales with PPC  and make a profit then its gold, as you will have a regular  income on auto pilot. You can always refine your PPC strategy  to get more out of it and increase your income, by learning more on how to improve your PPC skills.

Here are some free Bing PPC coupons If you are interested In trying out PPC/Search engine Advertising ?

These coupons are only good for new customers.

New Business and website customers in the following markets receive free search adverting credits to help them get started:

Italy – €50 in Bing Ads credit (New market!) –

 

Email Virus going around

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Not to sure  about how this is being spread  , but  the way its been spreading  it definitely looks like a “email virus” . First my sis   started spamming me ..  unintentionally offcourse because somebody else was doing  it from her email account.

Email virus spreading

I contacted her immediately to know that she had not sent me that email , soon enough  my other sister would  got infected  and she too started sending me spam emails .

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Now the only way  i see it is , she possibly  got infected from the previous email sent  from my other sis hacked account , because that email went to everyone on her list. Now possibly  people clicked on that link in that email  and  got the virus  and  then  the virus continued to attack that person email list  and email everybody else from  this new list.

How to avoid this  email virus ??

Email virus that sends out emails with links

Questions i got asked from  friends !!

1.I was infected by some kind of virus which started sending out emails like crazy.What puzzles me is why I don’t see any sent messages in my MS Outlook ( this could be hotmail or yahoo mail as well)? How is the virus sending email and not using the email program? And is there a way to block the computer from sending email…at least long enough to search for the right tools to fix such a problem?

2. My yahoo email is sending out links that i didnt send (virus?)

Answer: It is not uncommon for these sophisticated virus’ to include their own smtp email program or just login to send messages from your account without any traces. Other reason could be Your pc could very well be seriously infected and even owned by some bot-net.

The three things you need to do

  • First is how to stop the outgoing traffic
  • Second is how to clean up your system.
  • U need to learn how to keep it from happening again

Do this by : Clean your pc with a antivirus , change your password and keep a anitvirus that also scans emails and keeps your browser safe always active on your pc

iF you want to be even more secure or take more precatutions

Immediately change your email password, security questions, and if you have a secondary email account associated with it change that as well.
There are a number of reasons that can explain how your account got hacked:

  1. Your password was easily guessable
  2. You entered your credentials into a phishing site
  3. The website where you had your account had a security breach
  4. Your hacked account used the same password as a different, breached site
  5. There is spyware on your computer

You can tell if your account has been hacked if:

  1. The recipients of the spam-email includes a bunch of people you know
  2. You try to access your account and the password no longer works
  3. You try to access the “Forgot Password” link and it does not go to the expected email
  4. Your Sent Items folder contains a bunch of spammy emails you’re not aware of sending

 

Someone’s sending emails from my email address! How do I stop them

Don’t click e-mails with suspicious links even if it came from someone you know.( if in doubt email them via another  sms, email or Facebook etc and confirm if they sent that email before clicking the link)

Update the to and from field in your email if  the email is sent to many people , proceed with caution.

Update your browsers

Update your   Anti virus ( if you don’t  have one get the free  AVG antivirus Or Avira free one

Run a a whole pc  antivirus scan if you have a antivirus

If you want some more info on this  check out leo’s Blog  ( thanks leo)

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Tablets popular for christmas Gifts

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Despite the gloomy economy, shoppers all over the world  are expected to shell out for tablet computers this December making them one of the hot gadgets gifts  this Christmas and holiday season

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Amazon Kindle Fire pictures above

This new Techo gadget are the most-desired electronic devices this holiday season. Of all the gifts people are craving, tablets with clothing taking the no 1 spot according to a consumer Association.

Bob 56, plans to purchase an iPad for his son and his sister  who lives in  Washington. His parents live in Florida. So he’s excited to be able to video chat with his parents – them on the new iPad, him on his iPhone.

Tablets were on many peoples wish lists last year, but they were too pricey and they technology was still new so was still getting adapted too, now with smartphones  everybody is getting more exposed to the new touchscreen technology.

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Barnes and noble tablet pictures above

Two of the most promising competitors come from online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and book seller Barnes & Noble Inc.

Some price released recently for the

  1. iPad’s $499 base price
  2.  Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which costs $199
  3. Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet, which costs $249.

Tablets are popping up in unexpected places, too. with  the ipad being used to control customised helicopters that can fly indoors , buggys made to be controlled by the iphone and ipad and many more gizmos.For some people, the device has become indispensable for playing and working.

But while many think of the iPad as synonymous with the word “tablet,” plenty of shoppers will be looking for a more affordable tablet to give this year with heaps of new customised software versions coming out with new android software.

“When tablets start to get  below $200, sales go up dramatically,” says technology analyst Rob Enderle and is going to be evident in the good cheaper prices for these gadgets these years. Check out some reviews and pics on the latest tablets here. “PC TABLETS REVIEWS”

Holiday Gifts and online spending surge benefits e-marketers

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Its that part of the year  when everybody is ready to splurge  and indulge in a little bit  a fancy gadgets  or  clothing. With the increase in online presence of  designer clothing lines, perfume shops and gadgets and  electronic and computer accessories  anyone or everyone can now compare and shop with a click of a mouse , also to benefit of many in the e-marketing  Industry. The ease of set up of a e shop  has the e-commerce advantages in the price factor over setting up a brick and mortar shop has further advanced this  sector.

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Online spending habits for 2011- 2012

The boxing day sales  and then the Christmas rush will see the online sales booming over this holiday period , so what has been selling like hotcakes online.

According to many online news and  electronic websites, gadgets seem to be one of the favourite gifts this happy season wether if was bough online or then  through a brick and mortar shop.  Australian online news journal SMH says its Bricks versus clicks this holiday season , as online stores battle with retail shops. In fact  the brick and  mortar shops have joined the Online shopping revolution  with J B HI FI  and  Harvey Norman opening their very own cheap prices Direct import online shops.

Top selling / Sales  for Online Gadgets

PC magazine says “iOS Devices Dominate Mobile Online Shopping” which will certainly see the smart e-marketers make a move on this one. They say “Statistics released this week from the retail analysis firm Rich Relevance indicate that iPads and iPhones are the top mobile devices that consumers use to make retail purchases”  . According to IBM, the iPhone and iPad ranked first and second for consumer shopping on mobile devices on Black Friday on of the High traffic Sales day in the US.

“For the holiday season through Dec. 18, nearly $32 billion has been spent online, a 15 percent increase versus the corresponding days last year” says ecreditdaily.com.

The guardian.co.uk says that e-retailing group Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) forecasts in “UK consumers will spend £186m online on Christmas Day, a retail group forecasts, with the Boxing Day spend expected to be in excess of £365m” One of the popular UK online selling websites is “Argos” .

Popular online sales In UK

The most popular items were audio equipment, laptops , tablets  and gaming items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners which were also popular in the stores.

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