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Okay making your WordPress powered blog search engine optimized can be easy and effective. Just a few plugins, tips and tricks can get it to appear on search engines faster than usual. A site running on any kind of software is actually a bit more difficult to make it search engine optimized unless that software was made while keeping SEO in mind.

WordPress does give you the ability to customize your permalink which is good if you want to make sure that your visitors can remember it. But you need to do a little more than that to make your WordPress powered blog search engine optimized. I would first suggest that you install a plugin called All in One SEO Pack which optimizes your titles for search engines, adds meta tags, etc. It really makes your blog search engine friendly.

Search engines like Google lets you give XML sitemaps to them. A sitemap helps search engines navigate through a site and index it. So, I would suggest that you install this plugin called Google XML Sitemaps which automatically creates sitemaps of your blog. Another thing that would help is FeedBurner which notifies search engines when you post and it even has some great features like tracking your subscribers, letting you add social bookmarking buttons, making your RSS more compatible, etc. You would also need to install a plugin named FeedBurner FeedSmith which is needed to work with FeedBurner.

Those are just one of the great ways you can make your WordPress powered blog search engine optimized and one little secret is that Google loves blogs. I’m telling this because I’ve noticed that if you have a search engine optimized blog and your posts get indexed few minutes after you have published it while it takes days, weeks or even months for a site to appear on Google.

I wonder why people use social network services? Yeah if you ask someone who uses a social network service then he/she might answer that it lets you connect with friends, make new friends or simply because he/she felt like or got an invitation. But, don’t you think it’s just a waste of time?

You must be thinking that I never used a social network service. Well I do have accounts on various social networking, but I don’t actually use them. I signed-up for them because I got a lot of invitations and I thought that I could check it out. Sure it did let me create a profile, upload my pictures, add people and lots of other stuff depending on the site. But I got bored with it, it was just useless.

Don’t you think that it’s just a hype. Well they do make money out of it. How? They put ads on the site and even on the profiles (MySpace puts ads on profiles). So, what do you get out of it? You don’t really make new friends or interact with your old friends (or maybe you do if you consider commenting on profiles interaction). Sure you do meet a lot of strangers and get to show off the number of people that added you. Is the stranger who added you on a social network service or commented on your profile, your friend?

The web is a free place and there is a lot of other things you can do to connect with friends or make new ones. A great place would be a forum where you get to interact more with people and not just focus on your profile. Get a blog where you can express your own opinions, write about the things you’re interested in and a lot of other endless possibilities.

Having an account on a social network site isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it is surely a waste of time if you are looking to have your own individuality and not just be part of the crowd.

Millions of spam emails are sent out everyday worldwide. Everyone gets spam and I’m pretty sure that you also get spam once in a while, at least. You might wonder how this spam gets to your inbox. Well the answer is pretty simple, spammers send them to you. But how do the spammers get your email address?

Well it’s pretty obvious that spammers would need a huge list of email addresses to start spamming. First of all, there are companies who sell millions of valid email addresses. Thinking where those companies get the email addresses? Well they have programs that surf the web looking specifically for the telltale “@” sign that tells them it is an email address. These programs are called spambots. Then there are sites set up to get email addresses. Such as a sites asks you to type in your email address to win $1 million. Most people would have an idea that this is a spam but sometimes they still give it a shot.

Another source of these email addresses would be chat rooms, newsgroups, etc. where new users often leave their email addresses. Then there are also sites that sell email addresses to those companies. Like when you are buying a product, it might say that please uncheck this check box if you do not wish to receive emails from our partners or sponsors. If you did not uncheck it or misread then your email address would be sold.

Spammers also attack email servers of large email hosting companies like Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL, etc. And one of the common attacks is a dictionary attack where a spambot connects to the email server and submits a lot of randomly generated email address then checks for valid ones. Hotmail didn’t have any protection against these attacks back in 2003 and so people used to get a lot more spam on Hotmail than now.

After a list of email addresses is created spammers use programs to send spam emails and they use their own servers to do this or use zombie computers to do this so that they cannot be traced and blocked.

Well if you want to stop getting spam emails then you could do some basic stuff such as put a contact form on your site rather than just putting your email address and never give your email address to strangers or leave your email addresses in chat rooms, newsgroups or put them in suspicious forms.

If have a spammer gets your email address then he/she would probably share it other spammers and leading endless spam into your inbox. So think again before sharing your email address!