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100% Anonymous Online Shopping and Identity Theft Protection?

As the readers and user of the Internet Time Machine know, Identity theft has been a huge trending topic for over 2 years now.  With each new person that signs up for a Facebook account or a new Amazon account, the chances of ID theft increase.

Online debates about privacy are in the headlines every day,  Congress is debating the “do not follow me” legislation, and cell phones are now monitoring your location at all times. Now seems the right time for a counter culture movement to emerge. ConcealMy.Biz is the most pro-active tool in the fight against online identity theft, consumer fraud, and corporate tracking strategies.

Until now on the Internet, the battle against identity theft has been waged by “locking down” your information and by “monitoring” your information.  Defense was the best offense in this case, but not any longer.

ConcealMy.Biz is the first company to offer complete, 100% anonymous online shopping and web surfing. There system of patent pending algorithms allows for your purchase information and web surfing habits to be completely removed from any online areas.  This is not only good for online identity theft protection, but keeping certain purchases off your credit card statement. For example, let’s say it is around the holidays and you would like to get some gifts that you don’t want your spouse or significant other to see or know about, then ConcealMy.Biz would be perfect for that purchase.

ConcealMy.Biz will offer customers a completely virtual credit card number with no plastic card necessary, as well as full anonymous plastic card, that has no name or address attached it.  There will be three levels of membership that include an anonymous web surfing feature, as well as an anonymous email accounts as well.

 

Posted on December 8th, 2011 by in Uncategorized / Tagged , / Leave a comment

If You Blink You’ll Miss The Next Social Media Trend

changes in social media trends

If you blink you'll miss social media trends that can turn into business opportunities

One of the many great things about starting an online business is that there are so many business ideas to choose from. You can sell products that you make or manufacture; you can market your services, you can work as a freelancer in your chosen profession, you can sell digital products and you can even promote someone else’s products (affiliate marketing). While the opportunities are endless, there are two major problems with starting an online business and the first one is making sure that whatever it is that you’re selling is actually wanted by Internet users. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they first start doing business online is that they center their business around a niche that there’s no demand for. The second problem occurs when you try to market or sell something after they trend has already exploded. To show you a good example of this, let’s look at a trend that’s associated with social media.

Social media platforms are changing all of the time. How the platform works, what type of features are included and what people can use the platform for seems to change quicker than most people can keep up with. If you’re marketing anything related to social media and you’re there before the trend gets big, you’re usually good to go, but if you wait until the trend is already in full swing, it’s oftentimes too late to jump in and be successful. Case in point is Facebook’s Timeline and the cover photo space that people are now able to utilize if they have Timeline enabled. Continue reading →

Posted on February 17th, 2012 by in Facebook Marketing, Internet Marketing, Internet marketing in social media, Make Money Online, marketing tips, Niche Marketing, Social Media & Networking, Trends / Tagged , , , , , / Leave a comment

Step It Up By Stepping Out In Public

local networkingRegardless of whether your online business was successful in 2011 or you found that there were areas to improve upon, everyone is always looking for ways to take their success to step things up and take it to the next level. When you have an online business or you market online, stepping it up often involves trying to find new online strategies that’ll increase your sales, goals and overall success. Exploring new tactics and methods in the online environment is always a good thing, but could you also be stepping it up by stepping out in public?

It’s too easy to sit behind a computer screen all day trying to come up with new ideas and strategies. With all of the technology that’s available today, it’s also too easy to get lost online and never put an effort into attaching your name to your face in a public business environment. A lot of online marketers and business owners tend to stay away from local public business functions because the local population isn’t their targeted audience, but is this a mistake? Continue reading →

Posted on February 16th, 2012 by in Internet Marketing, marketing tips, Networking, Small Business / Tagged , , , / Leave a comment

Why People Click Those Horrendous Online Ads

bad online adsWhether you’re an online marketer or you’re simply a consumer browsing the Internet for products and information, if there’s one thing that sticks out about the web, it’s the overuse of horrendous online ads. You know these ads and you probably know them well. They stick out like a sore thumb; they use colors and graphics that designers are repeatedly told not to use and the graphics make you scratch your head in wonder. Of course let’s not forget about the ad copy itself, which is typically written in a fashion that makes you want to walk away from your computer, never to return again.

The question is, why do people click on those horrendous online ads? And yes, they do click on them. If Internet users weren’t clicking on these types of ads, online marketers would no longer implement them and you wouldn’t see them around as often as you do. If you’re an online marketer and you’ve noticed a trend in these poorly designed and written online ads, or you’re a web user who questions the sanity of the people who came up with some of these ads, it can be frustrating to constantly be subjected to them.  Continue reading →

Posted on February 15th, 2012 by in Facebook Marketing, General, Internet Marketing, Trends / Tagged , , , / Leave a comment

Is Your Anchor Text Sinking Your Link Building Ship?

anchor text link buildingWhen you’re link building back to your website (otherwise known as building backlinks), are you paying attention to the anchor text of those links? One mistake that’s often made by people who are just starting out in link building for the first time is that they don’t use good anchor text in their links or they don’t use anchor text at all. By not using anchor text, you could be sinking your link building ship.

To see why this is, it’s first helpful to know what anchor text is and how it’s used in link building. Anchor text is the text which is clickable on a web page that links to another web page or website. The following link below (linking to another post on our website) is using anchor text:

This other post on our website

“This other post on our website” is considered the anchor text. Now obviously, in a perfect world, you wouldn’t want backlinks to your website linking with the text “this other post on a website” or anything of the sort. If you’re guessing that your keywords is what should be used as the anchor text in links pointing back to your website, you’re right. Continue reading →

Posted on February 13th, 2012 by in Internet Marketing, link building, marketing mistakes, marketing tips, Search Engines, SEO, Small Business / Tagged , , , , / Leave a comment

6 Reasons Why Your Website Content Isn’t Being Read

why your website content isn't being readHave you been looking over your website’s analytics lately and have noticed that a lot of your content isn’t being read by Internet users? There can be several different reasons why your website content isn’t being read and those reasons can range from simple mistakes all the way up to more complex situations. Unfortunately, if you want your website to be respected and you want to maintain website traffic, your content needs to be performing like you intended it to perform.

Let’s take a look at 6 reasons why your website content isn’t being read:

1. Your website isn’t being easily found in the search engines

In order for any of your content to be read by Internet users, your website as a whole needs to be found in the search engines under keywords that are relevant to your website and that users are searching for. If your website as a whole isn’t being found in the search engines, some possible reasons for this include: Continue reading →

Posted on February 11th, 2012 by in Blogging, Content Marketing, marketing tips, Search Engines, SEO, Small Business / Tagged , , , , / Leave a comment

5 SEO Tips You Might Not Know

5 seo tipsNew to SEO? As you’ve probably figured out by now, search engine optimization is a vast field that includes several different sub-areas. Even if you’ve been trying your hand at optimizing your website for a while now, it can take years to learn a good deal of information about SEO. Then of course, once you actually feel like you’re getting ahead, search engine algorithms change and you’re back to square one. All you can do is learn what the current best practices are and go from there. To add to your knowledge base, here are 5 SEO tips that you might not know.

1. Lacking a Meta description may be confusing Internet users

If you don’t define a Meta description for your website, one will be defined for you by the search engines. Not only will one be defined based on what the SE’s consider to be relevant information about your site (even if it’s not), the description may change if you update the page with new information or if the search engines feel that another piece of content is now more important than what used to display. Continue reading →

Posted on February 9th, 2012 by in General, Search Engines, SEO, Small Business / Tagged , , , , , / Leave a comment

5 Reasons To Outsource Tasks You Hate

outsourcing tasksEveryone can name at least one thing about their job that they don’t like and this isn’t any different for online marketers. The problem is that if you continue to do the tasks that you don’t like, your work isn’t going to be at its best level and therefore, your overall online marketing campaign is going to suffer. There are quite a few facets to Internet marketing, making it impossible to like every aspect of the job. Luckily, if there are parts of Internet marketing that you don’t like, you can always outsource them. Outsourcing the tasks that you hate is a good way to keep yourself and your marketing campaign on track.

If you’re not sure that outsourcing is right for you or your business strategy, here are 10 reasons to outsource those pesky little tasks that you hate: Continue reading →

Posted on February 8th, 2012 by in General, Internet Marketing, marketing tips, Small Business / Tagged , , , , , , , / Leave a comment

Are You Wasting Your Time On Article Marketing?

article marketingArticle marketing is a subject matter that we’ve touched on quite a few times before and with good reason. It used to be a viable way to build inbound website links and it used to be a decent way to gain a little extra website traffic. However, ever since Google implemented the Panda update a few months back, article marketing has received the cold shoulder from website owners, content marketers and general Internet marketers. The reason is that article directories were given lower search rankings in Google and that’s left many people wondering if they’re simply wasting their time on article marketing. If you’re still using article directories to build links and drive traffic to your website, are you just wasting your time?

Sort of.

It’s true that ever since Panda, article directory links don’t hold the same value. It’s also true that article directory content doesn’t show up as high in the search engines as it used to. Matter of fact, an article that we wrote about one of the niches we covered last year used to show up as the first result on page 1 in Google for a certain key phrase. Ever since Panda however, that same article has fallen to page 3. This is a huge loss and it’s unfortunately not uncommon at all. Continue reading →

Posted on February 7th, 2012 by in article marketing, Blogging, Content Marketing, General, Internet Marketing, link building / Tagged , , / Leave a comment

Will Website Flipping Land Cash In Your Wallet?

website flippingIf Internet marketing, affiliate marketing or working as a freelancer isn’t up your alley but you still want to make money online, another option is website flipping. Website flipping works a lot like house flipping, but will it land cash in your wallet? Let’s take a look at what exactly website flipping is and what the potential is when it comes to making cash.

Website flipping involves taking a website that’s already in existence and making it better. You can improve the design, improve the content, improve the search engine ranking and anything else that the website is lacking in. Sometimes the term is also used for when a person starts a new website with the intention of building it up and then turning around and selling it for profit. Once a website is where the flipper wants it to be, they list the site for sale online through a website auction service or through private sale. It’s really no different from taking a house that’s run down and putting work into it so that you can turn around and sell it for more than what you paid for it- only in this case, you’re working with web content and web design instead of paint and landscaping. Continue reading →

Posted on February 6th, 2012 by in General, Make Money Online / Tagged , , , / Leave a comment
 
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