Email might have been hacked! Ouch!

Boy we have heard this alot in our lifetime, "My email is not working!"  Well recently we have heard the following, "People are trying to send me emails and I don't get them."  Here are a few remedies.  1.  Check your Spam folder.  2.  Make sure they are using your correct email address and did not accidentally put an extra character in it.  3.  We need to make sure that certain providers are not blocking your mail for different reasons.  Recently we ran into a situation where a customer had their email account hacked and this is what happened. 

Account listed [deleted this]  have been hacked recently and used to send large volumes of spam from the server. This occurred because the accounts' passwords were either hacked or stolen through malware or a trojan and the accounts need to be secured as soon as possible or this spam will continue to be sent from the server. The accounts should have their passwords reset to a much stronger password using the server's own password generator or removed from the server, if the account is no longer being used.  Currently, we do not have any further information on how the passwords were stolen as the hackers were logging in directly through a mail client, which means they already had the passwords in their possession and there is no evidence of a brute force attack occurring. 

If this has resulted in blacklist issue(s) for your server, we are working to get these removed from public blacklists. However, there are certain private blacklists, such as those in use by many ISPs, that we cannot publicly query to see if the IP address is listed, so our detection tools will not show those listings. If you have bounce backs from such lists, please provide them as soon as possible so we can investigate and get those removed as well. Please note that blacklist issues do take time to resolve and are not immediately fixed simply by securing the hacked account identified above. Now that we've stopped the source of the spam and are working to get any publicly known blacklisting issues cleared up, email delivery will improve; however, it will not occur immediately nor in the span of a few hours. It typically takes a few days to clear up, sometimes longer depending on the source of the blacklist. We are working to get these cleared up but we do ask for your much appreciated patience in advance while we work on it as we are solely reliant on 3rd parties honoring our removal requests, and it is entirely up to them to either honor or deny those requests. We truly understand how important this is to get this fixed and we greatly appreciate your time once again. Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.  How important it is to protect our passwords from the outside bandits!

Importance of keywords for your website

I want to quickly write to you about a subject called the Golden Rules of Keywords.  It's a common subject taught, but rarely understood.  Very simply put, this is important so you can drive the right traffic to your website with ultimately the goal of turning your traffic into leads and then into customers after you have provided them a bid.  I tell people all the time that if there is no traffic on the highway your billboard will never be seen.  So with this in mind I will give you the Golden Rules of how keyword research works.
 
There are 4 rules:
 
Relevancy
 
Traffic
 
Competition
  
Commerciality

 
Keyword Research:
 
What is a Market
A community of people that share common interests or themes.  This group of people often have their own language which is slang, acronyms and terms.
 
For an example 
1.  there is a market of people that are "homeowners looking for flooring"
2.  their area of interest is the flooring within their home
3.  their language includes things such as floors, flooring, need new floors, carpet, etc.
 
Within this market is a Niche
 
1.  A niche will include members of the "homeowner looking for flooring" looking for a wide variety of topics related to flooring.
2.  This niche will include topics related to carpet, marble flooring, tile flooring, wood flooring, etc.
 
Each one of these different type of niches will be of specific interest to the "homeowner looking for flooring" market
 
a community with its own interal language

Keywords are what is typed into a search engine to explore a niche
 
 
"It takes the same amount of time to build an UNSUCCESSFUL business as it takes to build a SUCCESSFUL business."
 
The main reason people fail is they do not do the online market research upfront.  Instead they rush in, choose a random niche, random keywords, (or no keywords at all) and hope for the best.  This is usually a recipe for disaster.
 
The companies that succeed online take a different approach:
 
1. They research carefully
2.  Target specific keywords
3.  and follow a specific plan
 
 
When you first submit your website to Google  a "googlebot" or "spider" visits your website and looks at the following elements of your webpage:
1.  Content 
2.  analysis of links that point to your site
 
As your webpage develops more authority will be gained
 
 
It is better to be online and be ready when the leads are available.

Picture Upload to Picasa Photo Gallery

Instructions for picture upload are following:

1.  Visit picasaweb.google.com

2.  login with the following:

yourgmailaccount

your password

3.  click on "My Photos" tab at top middle (this will show all photos)

4.  click "upload" at top middle of page

5.  Choose to add photos in "add to an existing album" or change the name to add new name

6.  Final step "select photos" (in middle of page) to add the photos.

How to Add Photos once your into Picasa

1.  Login to your Picasa Web Album - 
2.  Click on the appropriate Album to where the photo should go.  (If your not sure you can always move the picture later.)
3.  Click Add Photos
4.  Select where your photos are at on your computer and upload.  If you want to add multiple photos hold down the CTRL and click the photos to upload more than 1 photo at a time.
 
After your photos are uploaded
 
6.  Click on a photo
7.  Below the photo add a caption to describe the photo.  You must be descriptive and think what a user would search on the Internet to find this picture.  Use adjectives, the location in the format (i.e Los Angeles, CA)
8.  Next, on right side find the "Tags" and click the + to add words that descibe the photo.  Use words (not sentences) separated by commas.
9.  Next, on right side find the "Photo Location", click add location and put the address or the city, state where this photo is located.
10.  Save 
 
Your done for now.

What is a GoogleBot?

What is a "Googlebot"

"Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web. Googlebot uses an algorithmic process: computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages to fetch from each site.

Googlebot's crawl process begins with a list of webpage URLs, generated from previous crawl processes and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters. As Googlebot visits each of these websites it detects links (SRC and HREF) on each page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New sites, changes to existing sites, and dead links are noted and used to update the Google index."