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It is best recommended to have your affiliate program links posted on your website rather than giving them openly.

Why is it so? Simply because you are promoting products or services and by doing so will not likely invite visitors to click that link if it is posted openly like in open forums or  social networking sites. 


Here are some reasons to consider: 

• your website will describe better the products or services that you promote
• you can provide links to other products or services in your site that would enable your visitor to choose
• you can place testimonies in your site or your own personal experience 
• reviews of the benefits that the product or services extend
• you can submit your site to Search Engine Optimization sites (SEO)
• having an affiliate link posted in the open forum or social networking sites will not guarantee your registration if the viewer removes the affiliate code

Take note of this:

Some affiliate programs normally placed your user name at the site's link for you to promote online. Be aware of the code that looks something like this http://www.affiliateprogram.com/?r=myusername. That is precisely your affiliate code and by posting that to open forum or social networking sites will enable the advanced viewer to remove your user name and visit the site to sign up, thus you lose referral commission.


How to make the referral code looks like a site's URL?

You can either join programs that shrinks URLs but the links don't work well in promoting affiliate programs because most are hard to remember and looks like not a trusted site anymore.

Check these sites and how they shrink your long URLs into a compact and short one:

• Adf.ly
• Ity.im

Good luck and happy earnings to everyone!

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Wikipedia defines Internet fraud as:

Internet fraud refers to the use of Internet services to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme. Internet fraud can occur in chat rooms, email, message boards or on websites.

Who really are the perpetrators? 

Usually these computer attacks are done by people called crackers who break into computer systems illegally. Cracking a computer system lately became more of an activity with criminal intent.

Fraud nowadays is everywhere primarily because of the internet. Aside from crackers, there are other malicious individuals who steal money and information. They are the ones responsible for acts such as phishing, spamming, identity theft, and the so called intellectual property theft. They normally enlist the services of crackers when engaging in such activities.

Other criminals simply prey on anyone looking for a way to make money online, disguising themselves offering employment or any form of small online business.




Is your credit card information safe?

The most noted modes of committing fraud on the Internet are phishing and identity theft. The later is the systematic attempt to gain some personal information. These perpetrators copy the information from another person's credit card and use it in purchasing items from the Internet. Phishing is obtaining sensitive information like passwords, credit card details, PINs through deception. You can found it usually in your emails or instant messages. They normally fool you to submit sensitive personal information. 

At times they pose as legal officers of an institution, bank employee or even a private person asking favor from you to transfer their big sum of bank accounts to your end. These form of emails are called spam or unsolicited messages. Avoid such email notification that suggests any kind of financial benefits. Recently, spams do not happen only in emails. You may heard of newsgroup spam, instant message spam and even blog comment spam? Spam messages may also be used for phishing. It contains some form of promoting products and services. These emails normally clogged up inboxes beside getting other people's e-mail addresses purposely for their mailing lists.

How to protect yourself?

The keys to avoid being hit by these malicious attacks are user awareness and due negligence. 

• Avoid e-mail attachments that came from unknown sources
• Do not send your personal information to unknown senders, especially your credit card information
• Be aware of certain viruses like Trojan horse that can be obtained through files from peer-to-peer file-sharing services because these viruses can be used to hijack your computer later on
• Regularly update your anti-virus definition files
• A MUST to install a firewall if your PC is hooked online
• Use file encryption to protect your sensitive files
• Do not share your passwords to anyone
• When purchasing or paying bills online, close your web browser and log off your computer to prevent others from retrieving your information
• Do not input your credit card information if you cannot find a VeriSign trust seal normally found below any web pages

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What is Google Adsense?

Google AdSense is a free, simple way for website publishers of all sizes to earn money by displaying targeted Google ads on their websites. AdSense also lets you provide Google search to your site users, while earning money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.
Source: http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=29574&from=29574&rd=2

Why Adsense?
There are many ways to earn money online and Adsense is the best among them because it's totally maintenance free leaving any worries for you and of course as many other internet savvy say that it is very consistent and has a very low risk. You only need to pay for your own domain name and hosting fees to establish a very good website for you to post Adsense ads.

Your might think that it is a waste of time creating and promoting a website or even writing articles just to earn a few penny from it? Think otherwise. This topic is a must to read for everyone.

What attracts people to click Google Adsense ads?
It simply because the ads displayed are related to the interest of the visitors. Lets put it this way, you might have blog site and your topic is simply about how to create a free website and you have Google Adsense ads in your site, your visitors would likely get interested to click the the ads because these are related about websites.

• a MUST to read first Adsense TOC after signing up
• be sure that your site has no extreme links to paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, or other incentives programs that pays users for viewing ads
• get rid of other ads widgets that competes with Google Adsense
• maximize your website design by having lots of good articles to read and get rid of broken links to another site
• a poorly designed site will not surely be accepted
• apply only for Adsense account if your website is ready 

The easiest way to apply for Google Adsense account is to open a Blogger.com account. Follow this simple steps:

• post a new blog about yourself, your interest, what you want to, and any interest will do
• post another one this time some tips about your interests
• post for the 3rd time tip about your interests
• lastly, post another tip about your interests

Simple? Yes it is indeed. But be sure what you posted are useful topics not just by merely typing few words about your interests or about you.

Apply now for Google Adsense account
In your Blogger dashboard, click Monetize and follow the steps in applying for Google Adsense account. Save everything when prompted and wait for the confirmation from Google Adsense within 1 or 2 days.

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Microsoft Access 2007 has finally resolved the issues regarding image linking through the data type Attachment. The new feature is capable of adding one or more pieces of data or images to the records in your database. Several files can now be stored in a single field. These new data type saves the file in their native formats freeing you from installing additional software to view the attachments.

The older versions only support data type as Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) to store images and documents to the table but is quite not advisable as it may enlarge your database file size.

With attachments data type in MS Access 2007 you can now be able to link images  from different locations or folders to the records of your table.

How to create a table with attachment data type?

• create a new MS Access 2007 file.
• create a new table with the following fields and field types:
  
  • id - Autonumber
  • product - Text
  • image - Attachment
• save your table as Products
• create Multiple Items form and save it as Products
• double-click the form and start entering data
  
  • skip the ID field and type Toy Story 3 in the Title field
  • double-click the Image field and add the image from your folder
• continue adding more records

This how would your work look like after.


Now you can be able to create inventory of files with outrageous images as attachments. Click the attachment field anytime if you want to change the image.

Related article:

• MS Access VB Programming Tips and Tutorial by Eric Dimson