Corporate Security for your Home BusinessWritten by Nick Smith
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Maintain an up-to-date computer system. Computers that run slower also have terrible tendency of getting overloaded and shutting down. The internet is one of biggest culprits of bogging down your processing speed, but running several programs at same time will also do it. Keeping your processor and memory up-to-date will help ensure that you are able to perform all tasks that are required of you without having to spend a lot of time waiting for your computer to catch up.Corporate Security: Hardware Chances are good that IBM’s annual technology budget is quite a bit larger than your home business’s budget. Between putting food on table and covering operating costs of your business, purchasing new equipment might seem like a luxury you’ll never have. Protecting your computer system from viruses, spy ware, and malicious software is one of most cost-effective ways to ensure your computer will last as long as you need it to. Know what is on your computer. Viruses can come through email, discs, or internet, and are typically well-hidden on your hard drive. Perform systematic checks of temporary internet files, cookies folder, and rest of your hard drive to ensure that you have not accidentally picked up a virus. Software can be purchased that filters spam and helps you manage internet files and cookies that are downloaded automatically on your computer. A proactive approach in combating viruses and spy ware is usually most effective way to make sure your hardware stays protected. Though corporate security solutions may seem like a luxury your home business can not afford, protecting information and hardware are priorities that all companies should have. Following these simple, inexpensive solutions to common security concerns your company may have will go a long way in helping you succeed.
Nick Smith is a client account specialist with 10x Marketing – More Visitors. More Buyers. More Revenue. For more information about cost-effective corporate security solutions, visit ContentWatch.com.
| | Finding and Managing Quality Reciprocal Links: A Tutorial for The NewbieWritten by Sandi Moses
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Now that you have accumulated several pages of links, you need to be able to keep track of them so that you don’t request exchanges from same webmasters more than once. It would be embarrassing for them to respond to your request with “I exchanged with you 2 months ago” or something like that. So, what do you do if your software does not do it for you? Set up a simple spread sheet. Don’t worry about setting it up to print out on neat pages, because you shouldn’t have to print it out. Make columns as wide as you need to. You will need to set them up as follows: Title / Description / Category /URL / Reciprocal URL. You can add optional columns for webmaster name and e-mail if you want. Your categories in our hypothetical site would be food, training, accessories, etc. As you add a link to your site, add it to bottom of your spreadsheet. You can then alphabetize your spreadsheet by whichever column you need. Not only will you know which sites you already have, but you can see at a glance where on your site you have put it! I have used this system extensively and it works extremely well. One last thing. Please don’t ever refuse to exchange links with someone without a high enough page rank because they are new. Everyone was new once and started out with a page rank of “0” including those who are now at top of list for their chosen key words and phrases. As people help you to get started when you are new, turn around and help others behind you as they get started. In case you might be wondering how to tell difference between a new site with a page rank of “0” and a link farm with a page rank of “0”, new site with have a cached page and link farm will not. The link farm will have a bizillion links and new site will have few if any. To find this information look for icon on Google Toolbar that looks like a blue circle with a lower case white “i” in middle, located right next to little green bar that shows you your current page rank. When you click on that icon you will see a drop down menu that includes both “cached snapshot page” (what your page looked like last time Google checked out your site) and “backward links” which shows how many links Google shows point to your site from other sites. If when you click on one of those drop down menu choices you find that Google has no record of that site, it’s best to wait to exchange links until you find our why there is no record. If site has been up for more than a few days, there should be at least a cached page. If there isn’t, site may have been banned, and you should not associate with banned sites.
Sandi Moses has been involved in internet marketing since November, 2003. Visit her sites at http://www.123iwork4me.com http://www.123-home-based-business-works-4-me.com
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