Blog Security - Tips on Keeping Your Blog from being Hacked
Quite a few people have asked me questions about ProBlogger being hacked last week. Questions have ranged from ‘do you know who did it?’ to ‘have you found out how they did it?’ to ‘how can we protect ourselves from being hacked?’By the way - my blogging buddy Andy Wibbels has had his blog hacked […]

Lesson for the day - Renew Your Domain Name
Don’t let your domain names expire.Easy to do - especially if you’re changing your email addresses around.PS: I’ve been going with 10 year domain registrations recently to help with this - but also because a patent released by Google last year indicated that they look at length of domain registration when ranking a domain. I’m […]

Online Money 2006 July 04
Online Money i worte here a while a go..and i was wondering where I got that ChikitaMiniMalls in my archives..I found it just rught there.

Email Laws That Could Bring You To Jail Even If You’re Not Spamming

Email Laws That Could Bring You To Jail Even If You’re Not Spamming

By Mohamad Zaki Hussein

Firstthings first, I’m not a legal expert and so this article DOES NOTrepresent any legal or professional information and nor can I guaranteeits accuracy. I only wrote this article to introduce you to these emaillaws that might affect us, email marketers.

OK, so what’re these email laws?

They’re the Child Protection Registry laws that have been taken into effect in the State of Michigan and Utah.

Theselaws established"Do Not Email"registries into which individuals orinstitutions that primarily serve minors can enter minors’ emailaddresses or any email address to which minors may have access.Institutions or entities that primarily serve minors can also registertheir entire domain names.

People are prohibited by these lawsfrom sending email to the addresses that have been in the registriesfor 30 days or more if the email contains material or link to materialthat is illegal for minors. And it doesn’t matter whether the email issolicited or unsolicited, you still can’t send such email.

Youmight think that the materials must be something obvious such aspornography, gambling, alcohol, etc. Yes, but they’re only part of thematerials.

The other part consists of less obvious stuff, namelystuff that looks fine, but might be illegal for minors because minorsare prohibited by law from viewing, receiving, participating,possessing, or purchasing this stuff. This includes automotive sales,etc.

And according to the Institute for Spam and Internet PublicPolicy, these laws apply to almost all people in the United States andeven those outside the United States who have a physical presence inthe United States. (seehttp://www.isipp.com/child-protection-email-address-registries.php)

So,imagine you have some email addresses in your list that happen to bealready in the"do not email"registry for 30 days, but you’re notaware of them. And one day, you send an email that contains a link to awebpage that has some Adsense ads that advertise some automotive sales,guess what may happen to you?

Well, your action may beconsidered as a computer crime and you might face civil suit and finesor/and you might even face criminal suit and penalty.

So far, there are two things that you can do to prevent you from getting trouble with these laws.

First,make sure that you never send email that contains material or link tomaterial which is illegal for minors. This is so obvious, right?

Second,if you think that you can’t comply with the first option, then you canpurge your list by matching it against the registries in a regularbasis. But there are fees for this.

Don’t panic about theselaws. Instead, find more information about it. You can start learningmore about these laws by visiting the references below:

- Michigan Children’s Protection Registry site:
https://www.protectmichild.com

- Michigan Public Act No. 241:
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2003-2004/publicact/htm/2004-PA-0241.htm

- Michigan Public Act No. 242:
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2003-2004/publicact/htm/2004-PA-0242.htm

- Utah Code - Child Protection Registry:
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE13/13_26.htm

- Michigan government’s press release:
http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-23442_21974-121645–,00.html

About the Author: Mohamad Zaki Hussein is the webmaster ofhttp://www.webtrafficideas.com.To learn how to increase online traffic to your website by using acombination of Viral Marketing, RSS and Blog, grab the FREE"InstantTraffic Formula"report athttp://www.webtrafficideas.com/getviral.

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Diet blogs: Muscle madness
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News, NV - Sep 12, 2006 The following two blogs touch upon weight lifting and the benefits of the sport. Stacey Rae blossomed from a 150-pound softy to a 140-something hard body.

How To Really Profit From Domain Names

How To Really Profit From Domain Names

By Stephen Pope

Haveyou heard about domain names that sold for over a million dollars?Inspired by this, you imagine registering a great domain name, hangingonto it for a while, and then selling it off to become the nextmulti-millionaire. It could happen, but don`t count on it!

Firstof all, many of the truly great domain names are already taken. Second,the dot com bust took some of the wind out of inflated domain nameprices. (If you sell your domain name for millions of dollars worth ofstock in a publicly traded dot com flop, what is the name really worth?)

Thecybersquatter buys domain names totally on speculation. Sometimes hewill register names of famous brands, companies, or individuals. Timeand again, these domain name speculators learn the hard way that theymust respect intellectual property rights. They hope that some largecorporation will pay big bucks to them for the use of the company`s own(already trademarked) name. Instead, they end up with threateningletters from a law firm for their attempts at extortion.

However,you can still make money from domain names if you are sensible in yourapproach. Here are some suggestions on ways to profit.

1.Affiliate Programs: Use your domain name to promote an appropriateaffiliate program. Either redirect to the affiliate site or write areview that links to them.

2. Informational Sites: Createcontent and then profit from it by earning advertising revenue throughGoogle AdSense or a similar program.

3. Redirect to Your OwnSite: Some reasons you might want to do this include preventingcompetitors from using a particular domain name and benefiting fromsearches some users perform by domain name. (For example, if theywanted to order flowers, they might just type"flowers.com"in theirweb browser. You could get some traffic and sales this way.)

4. Product Sites: Create your own or sell someone else`s product appropriate to your domain name.

5.Park Your Domain Names: You might feel that your name has realpotential for resale value. There are companies that will allow you topark your domain on their servers, advertise that your name is forsale, and split advertising revenue with you.

The trick is togenerate traffic for your domain name. That traffic in turn will createrevenue. Then, when you go to sell your domain name, you will have afew things going for you.

First, you will have a fully developedwebsite. A fully constructed building on a piece of land increases thevalue of the real estate property. Similarly, the value of your domainname is enhanced by a complete and operating website.

Second,you have traffic. Just as a shopping mall with no traffic results in nosales, so a website must have traffic to generate income.

Third,you have income. An income property, such as an apartment building, canbe appraised on the basis of its income (as well as other factors).Similarly, the gross income, net profits and cashflow of a website havevalue. For example, if someone offered you $1,000 for your domain nameand website when it was generating $10,000 per day in profits, youwould likely laugh at him.

You really can profit from your domain name investments by adding value and properly developing your web properties.

Aboutthe Author: Stephen Pope, President of Pope Consulting Inc., has beenhelping clients to earn maximum business profits for over twenty-fiveyears. For further information about domain name profits and other Workat Home Small Business Ideas, visithttp://www.yenommarketinginc.com/domain-names.html

Source:www.isnare.com