Archive for June, 2007

Green Gardening - Clean Free Wordpress Theme 0

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Another great new wordpress theme release brought to you in part by CheapSeeds.com!

Title:

Green Gardening

Description:

Jeff’s new Green Gardening wordpress theme is a great clean mix of simplicity and style.
It uses the traditional right sidebar navigation with two columns ready for your customization.

Download it now

Spyware Removal strategies 0

Spyware/Adware/Malware has got to be one of the biggest pains for any Windows user. Vista obviously isn’t the perfect solution and XP isn’t even a decent solution.

Spyware can only be eliminated through education of the end user. Software tools can help but it takes an educated user to find the right tools and effectively remove the problems.

Spywatchman.com is born.

I just finished a simple post going over The 4 Best Free Spyware Removal Tools. In many cases just using these 4 simple tools is enough to clean your system up and get things running better. If you have more complicated issues that still appear after running the free tools check around the site or ask on the forum.

- Todd

Pownce Invites 2

Pownce, Kevin Rose’s new startup, looks very promising. It’s kind of like twitter, but 5x the efficiency. You can choose who views your messages, and can send links, files, and event invites to selected individuals or groups of friends. It’s in a “limited userbase non-beta beta” right now, and you have to have an invite to get an account. So does anyone have an invite they can shoot to me?

Free Article Spinner Updates - AJAX Thesaurus 0

Jetspinner has recently undergone some great upgrades.  As the first and most advanced free article spinner, all the previous features such as random ordering, data merging, random selection, automatic linking, multiple format selection, and zip file downloads are still included, but now our AJAX thesaurus is in Beta testing for all Jetspinner members. 

free article spinner thesaurus

  Simply click “Activate AJAX Thesaurus” then start typing a section of syntax, such as: “{test|”  - the thesaurus will automatically be triggered and will pull down a list of related words from our database of 33,000 root words and 2.2 million related words.  Play around with it and send your feed back and ideas to us through JetpackedSupport.com, New Ideas category.

Also consider using Jetsubmitter to submit each of your spun variations from Jetspinner to a unique article directory on complete autopiolit.  There is now a 100% automated account creation system (complete with link activation), advanced error reporting, realtime progress spying, 200+ categories, and more.

Colin Web 2.0 3-Column Wordpress Theme 0

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Colin’s Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme is a clean, classy Wordpress theme with all the traditional Web 2.0 styling.
From rounded edges to the crisp and refreshing color scheme this theme is perfect for almost any Wordpress blog.
It’s great to see something that stands out in the Wordpress theme arena.

It’s Wordpress 2.0+ compatible and works flawlessly with 2.2 Widgets.

Sidebar 1 is the 2 left columns and Sidebar 2 is designed to use a text widget to display announcements or other site details.

Best of all, its free.
All he asks is to leave his credit in the footer.

Download Now from the Biz Opp Review

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ScamReview.co.uk website is a scam! 1

I received a quite funny email from the owner of scamreview.co.uk today.

It seems their website consists of trying to create fake scam reports to drum up traffic.

Check this out…

    Last night I beleive I was tricked into giving $1 to download jetspinner.

    I cancelled paypal direct debit straight away ! I have viewed my bank online statement and noticed you have taken 13.98 uk pounds from me without consent.

    I have no interest in your product and DEMAND that the money is refunded.

    I have made a copy of this email and if I do not hear from you I will be forced to take legal action against you.

    I will not publish your scam on www.scamreview.co.uk if I receive a fair response.

    Peter maughan

What’s funny is our sales page clearly states:

    If you decide to continue to take advantage of the huge and unique benefit Jetsubmitter provides and grow your website’s backlinks automatically on a long term basis do nothing and you will be billed only $37/month. You can cancel ANYTIME online, with the click of a button in paypal.

    $1.00 - {Paypal Button}

AND again after clicking the payment link Paypal clearly states you are paying $1 for 3 days and $37/month recurring

ALSO we even have a 30 day no questions asked refund policy!

Instead of asking for a refund and admitting he didn’t read the sales letter he just clicked an order button, he attacks the company and threatens empty legal action.

What a joke.

Websites like this are scum.

What’s sad is they give discredit to the few valid and competent scam review websites out there. I have no respect for this guy or his fake scam reviews.

How can someone who doesn’t even understand the basic payment concept behind Paypal claim to be the source for anything related to e-commerce? Noone sees your credit card details but Paypal, someone must login to your account and order funds to be transfered (or setup a subscription) for anything to be paid via Paypal. Sorry buddy, we couldn’t over charge you more then what you agreed to if we wanted to!

Has anyone else had experience with this joker or is he new to scamming companies?

Why use an Article Submitter or Article Submission program? 0

Sometimes I see people asking on forums about why an article submitter is needed for article distribution.

The answer although it may seem obvious is not always and to everyone.

There are benefits and disadvantages to using an automated article submission solution such as Jetsubmitter.

Pros:

  • Hands free submission to 400+ directories (BECAREFUL: some article submitters will only assist in submission, you will still need to fill in some form details, your category, etc - go for a fully automated solution!)
  • Time release submissions (avoid submitting to all the directories in one day, this can flag you as doing black hat link building if you get too many links too fast and it seems unnatural to Google)
  • Much cheaper then paying someone to submit by hand (this usually costs $.50 per submission while a service such as Jetsubmitter runs less then $50/month for unlimited article submissions)
  • The good directories are all organized and in one place (finding these can be a real pain)

Cons:

  • 5-10 of the very top article directories do not allow automated submission (you’ll want to submit to these few by hand, they’re the only ones worth taking the time to do by hand submissions to)
  • Some article submitters will submit hundreds of links at the same time - avoid this at all costs - it can flag you and get your site sandboxed (use a service that allows time release submissions)

Also keep in mind when you’re doing submission to 400+ directories you’re sending the same article out to them. Google will filter the majority of these articles and the backlinks wont last long. But there is a solution, use a semi-automated article spinning program such as our free Jetspinner tool. You provide alternate words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs and Jetspinner will create unique grammatically correct articles automatically for submission with Jetsubmitter or other services.

Get Submitting!
Todd Dickerson

Benefits of Internet Article Marketing 2

In this day and age, it is safe to surmise that most businesses have already jumped on the dot-com bandwagon and established some sort of online presence. However, presence alone means very little in the virtual world of the Internet, without the requisite number of visitor hits. A lesser known, web-based business site with little or no traffic would be tantamount to the second last lemonade stand set up along a neighborhood street lined with nine others just like it. In other words, merely filling in space.

As the strategists will have us know, marketing trends are constantly evolving, especially within the context of an environment as fast-paced and as prolific as the World Wide Web. With buzzwords such as viral marketing and ambient marketing being bandied about, one cannot fault business owners for being a wee bit confused. Into this mix, is thrown yet another-article marketing.

Upon examination, article marketing seems to bear much resemblance to the oft-mentioned guerilla marketing. It can almost be said to be a subspecies of the latter, sharing similar benefits. Primarily, this sort of marketing is conducted in a covert manner, that is, the audience would not be under the immediate impression that they are sales targets. Given the borderline abhorrence that most of us feel when we are on the receiving end of an open sales pitch, this sort of marketing-on-the-sly works well.

Guerrilla marketing and by that token, article marketing, is also preferred for its lower costs. Compared with, say, advertising your website via banner ads, article marketing is more affordable. If you are able to write the articles yourself, then that would ensure that the whole strategy is almost cost-free. Even if ghostwriters need to be hired, the return on investment is still high. From my experience, anywhere between USD3-USD10, you get a 500-word article. And once the article is listed on any of the article directories, you can be assured that the marketing agenda is ongoing. As opposed to hard-to-replicate events developed for the purpose of one-off viral marketing, a marketing plan implemented via the article writing method could go on for years.

To better understand this concept, one needs to dig deeper into the actual mechanics. Let us say you own a small business, not immediately recognized outside your town. Perhaps your business sells vintage book collections. You paid good money to develop a website dedicated to the business. But at the most, you get about two or three visitors in the same number of days. And no one stays long enough to shop around either. A cursory glance through the search engines, tells you that most people who search for “books” are led to the most popular sites-Amazon, Barnes & Noble etc. Maybe, just maybe, if people bothered to look further, they would find your site listed somewhere after the eighth page or so. How now, brown cow?

Without wanting to spend a pretty penny, what other alternatives are there? Article marketing advocates would tell you that it is still too early to throw in the towel. By utilizing the back link method, you would be able to see positive results soon enough. This method forms the backbone of internet article marketing-if your site is not popular enough to be given a high page ranking on the search engines, then the next best thing to do is to piggyback on sites that are. So, write an article about vintage books or get someone to write it for you. Then distribute it via article directories or article banks. Granted, some such services may charge you a nominal fee but dollar-to-dollar, it still makes better commercial sense than the traditional forms of Internet advertising. Simply because in a landscape that is already jam packed with pop-up and banner ads, Internet users have become desensitized and are almost blind to these conventional marketing methods.

By making your article available for distribution, it will soon be picked up by interested Netizens and linked via their own sites. This serves to increase the number of links to your business site and in turn, will increase your search engine page ranking in a shorter period than it would otherwise ordinarily take. The benefit is manifold because now, you will have your niche market nicely marked out-you can be sure that all those who picked up your article or even those who merely skimmed through are those who found it relevant. They were on the lookout for that subject matter and their search led them to your article.

So now, instead of hunting for your niche market, your market will soon come to you! Just remember to include the resource box or what is sometimes known as the “bio box” at the end of the article. This contains key details you would like readers to know about you and your business, plus the necessary contact information and links to your site.

Having written the article, you would have also established yourself and by extension, your business as somewhat of an expert on the subject at hand. With trust earned, pre-sell is all but complete. Thus, when they drop in and are further convinced by what they see on your site, the deal is clinched.

And all this because of one cleverly written article focusing on the subject of your business. Who says all guerrillas are bad to the bone?

Recommended Tools for Internet Article Marketing:

  • Jetspinner (free) - Avoid Google’s duplicate content filter by creating alternate words, sentences, phrases and paragraphs then having them combined into hundreds of unique articles for distribution
  • Jetsubmitter - The first service to ever allow you to submit a unique version of your articles to 400+ article directories automatically

Happy writing and SERPs climbing,
Todd Dickerson

20 Great Looking One Page Websites 6

Here at Jetpacked, we absolutely love great design. So every once in a while, we’ll show you some of the best looking sites around in any given category. Here are twenty great looking one page designs. It takes a good amount of design skill to cram all of your information onto one page and still have it look fantastic.

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EngineDigital.com

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InvisiblePresence.com

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EoghanMcCabe.com

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ChrisZawada.com

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Monopilot.com

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SidebarCreative.com

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SeanKlassen.com

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Kontruct.com

giant.jpg
Giant.cz

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Sciant.net

mopa.jpg
EstudioMopa.com

gloamine.jpg
Gloamine.com

rocketsurgeon.jpg
RocketSurgeon.com

daninko.jpg
Daninko.ca

midnightleaf.jpg
MidnightLeaf.com

cuban.jpg
CubanCouncil.com

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VisualElixir.com

zenil.jpg
Zeniltuo.com

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BPDesign.ca

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BryanVeloso.com

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