Cyber Hackers Declaring War on Websites, IT Systems, Churches, Governments, or NGOs?
They say two-wrongs don't make a right, and most would agree with that, at least most of the time. Now then, lately hacktivists have been declaring war on government agencies, and companies they feel not politically correct, have wronged the citizens, or have not been 'good corporate citizens' - but in doing so they have committed a crime of either breaking into a computer system or launched a campaign to render the website with a 'denial of service' notice.
There was an interesting article on FOX News recently, posted on June 29, 2011 titled; "The 'Anonymous' Hacker Group Reportedly Targets Orlando Websites" and the article noted;
"Anonymous has shut down Orlando-area websites, attacked a tourist site because it was upset that the head of a group known as 'Food Not Bombs' was arrested, a nonprofit that has been feeding homeless people in an Orlando park in defiance of an ordinance requiring permits to feed groups in downtown parks. In retaliation, the hackers said they would continue to take down several websites until the activist is released. "Every day we will launch a new... attack on a different target," the group said."
Okay so, most folks have mixed emotions about the feeding of homeless in the parks. On one hand we want to assist folks who cannot buy food, get a job, or are homeless. Yet, on the other hand we know that 100s or even 1000s of homeless people in a downtown area detracts from any sort of economic development progress, which is critical especially in an economic recovery period when cities need tourists, businesses need customers, and people need jobs.
Now then, I am not calling anyone out, certainly not the hacking group because, hell, I might become a future target, but, in a way attacking a Tourist Destination spot in the United States like Orlando, is in a way economic terrorism. And thus, it is rather serious, lots of jobs are at stake and Orlando, like the rest of Florida has had a heck of a tough time getting through the recession, and the real estate market is horrific still. If the authorities let the arrested person go, then they have given into hackivist economic terrorism.
Maybe they shouldn't have arrested him in the first place, heck I don't even know, but this sort of action by the hackers is a real problem, and if this continues things will get more and more out of control in the future. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,850 articles by July 4, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
By Lance Winslow
Free Traffic to Your Site - 4 Free Tools You Must See
There are several tools online which you can use to generate traffic to your site. There are the paid ones and the free ones. I am going to show you the best free tools and how you can use them effectively to generate free traffic to your site. You will never have to spend a dime on these tools. These tools include Google Business solutions, Website optimizer, Twitter and WordPress.
Google Business solutions provides the best free tools which would help you to maintain your site or blog. You can also use the tools to make your site friendly with Google and avoid the long time it would have taken your site to rank. The higher your site rank on Google the larger the amount of traffic you will get. The tools can be use to analyze your web traffic and this is done by Google Analytics.
The Website Optimizer is used to make your site more effective. With this tool you can use it to get organic traffic from Google. This tool would optimize your site and make it eye-catching and reduces the bounce rate in your site. With this tool your site would be successful and many people would love it. Your site visibility would be improved by using the Website Optimizer.
Twitter also is the best free tool you can use to increase free traffic to your site. Twitter function as a micro-blogging site and you will only be allowed 140 characters or less in your post. Make sure that you include your website URL in your post and the post should not be more that 140 characters. There are also free tools you can use to send the post automatically. You can find these tools for free and others you will have to pay for their services.
Twitter has more than a million page views per month. Therefore if you learn how to use it to promote your site you will get free traffic to your site easily. The other thing is when you put your site URL on your Twitter profile it can be found on Google which means you will also get organic traffic from Google.
WordPress is another free tool you can use to get free traffic to your site. This a basic platform that you can enhance it with plugins. You can use it create mini sites to promote your websites. There are several free plugins online which you can download easily and then upload them to your site. You can download these plugins and then upload it to your WordPress site. Use WordPress to create several mini sites which would promote your site and you will be generating free traffic for a long time.
The tools I just mentioned above are the best for promoting your site. Use them correctly and you will see the traffic to your site increase. Google Business solutions, Website optimizer, Twitter and WordPress would increase free traffic to your site.
There are several other ways of getting free traffic for your site. To learn how you can generate thousands of free backlinks and generate free traffic for site without buying any software visit http://www.freebacklink-system.blogspot.com. You will know how you can get thousands of backlinks to your site for free.
By Siyamak R White
How to Increase Your PageRank And Increase Website Traffic
Get free traffic
In order to attract free web traffic from the search engines, you need to know how to increase PageRank. Building PageRank is mostly about getting backlinks to your website. The more backlinks the higher your PageRank will be, and the more free, natural traffic your site will receive from Google and other search engines.
Search engines are relying on links placed on other websites, which point to your site, in order to decide which web pages to display on top when people make a query. The engines see a link to your website from another site as a vote for your site, so increasing the number of inbound links is how to increase PageRank.
However, it's not the number of backlinks alone that counts when deciding your PageRank; the quality of the linking sites is important, as is the relevance of those sites, as well as contextual linking. The use of anchor text in your links is also important. These factors are weighted for each inbound link.
This means you have to get lots of backlinks to build PageRank. There are a number of ways to gather links. Most importantly, include valuable, high-quality information on your website; create content that users appreciate so much they will come back to your site for more. Then they will link to your pages, they will bookmark them on bookmarking sites, and they will tell their friends who then might link to your site, and so on.
With unique, attractive content on your web pages, you can get lots of inbound links, and your links will grow naturally and come from a variety of different sites. And this is exactly the way Google likes your links to grow. So, if you work hard on creating the best possible, valuable and helpful content on your web pages, the number of backlinks will increase slowly but steadily. This is the best way to increase your PageRank.
There are many methods to create backlinks though, by which you will be taking some action yourself to have other websites link back to yours. Here are some of the most common methods:
Writing and publishing articles
Submitting your website to web directories
Exchanging links with other websites
Participating in forums
Using Twitter, Facebook and other social sites
Commenting on blogs
Bookmarking
Using link building services and tools
These are the most common tactics, however there are many more ways to generate backlinks and increase PageRank.
There are a few other things to take into consideration when trying to build PageRank that you might not have thought of, for example...
Give Away Content
Give your readers permission to copy and distribute the content of your website. Make sure they give you credit for the content, and a link back to your site.
Maximum Up-time
It's important that the up-time of your website is the best possible. If your website is not available for some time, Google may notice and reduce the ranking of your site accordingly. Therefore, make sure you have reliable web hosting that can provide your site with a maximum of up-time.
Search Your Website on Google
When visiting your website online, use Google to find it instead of entering your web address into your browser. Enter your web address into Google's search box instead. The reason for this is that Google is more inclined to improve the ranking of a site that people search for and visit.
There are many more factors Google takes into account when deciding a page's rank, and nobody knows them all. Besides, Google every now and then changes how it calculates a site's importance. Therefore, the safest way to build PageRank is to provide unique, quality content that people appreciate; then the links will come.
Learn more about link building and how to increase page rank, as well as other information, tips and advice on how to start an online business.
By Kanute Fleming
