To get to new smiley face ranking system to show up on bar, you'll need to click on Google's logo located on far left and choose "toolbar options." Scroll down to "page information" and put a check mark in "voting buttons" box. Save your changes and look at bar again. It should now contain a happy face and a frowning face. These faces allow you to rate websites as you visit them, in essence giving them a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down."

So far Google is saying this new voting system is simply a test, but if they do keep it and start using it to rank pages on their site it could make a major impact on search optimization firms and others who are trying to get a top Google listing.

Sort of reminds me of my elementary school days and stickers teachers would put on my homework. So what rating is your site going to get, a happy or a sad face?

Item 8 does not assume Stupidman would read this book so with reluctant assistance of Greased Lightning I will expand on this instruction. Put cursor on "with value" field and click, then, use right arrow on keyboard to move text. Delete what you don't want then type in your stuff. If you spot a screwup before you hit ok press cancel and try again. If you press ok before you notice a screwup I don't know what to tell you. (This is not to say Stupidman didn't screwup, merely that it was not noticed. Ignorance can be bliss.)

Some companies have several affiliate programs (like roibot). If you signed up for one you're probably in all of them, so brand all versions of same company.

I spent a lot of time,unsuccessfully, trying to check my branded links. Finally gave up but I'm sure I did it right.

I emailed author to inquire how to upload to IPP hosted site but was told (I thought his tone was kind of snippy) there was NO WAY he would allow Stupidman to upload and that I needed to email branded book as an attachment.

A new challenge, but this turned out to be surprisingly easy. Our email uses Outlook Express and Help is at top of screen. Help leads to Contents which is where I found Attachments. Using selective printing function described in an earlier issue, I copy "insert a file in a message" instructions. Hard copy in hand I attach branded book and send it off into cyberspace (hopefully in general direction of author).

Coming Soon: Stupidman Creates SIG File,Opens Lock Can Stupidman Use IPP and Be a Bazillionaire Stupidman Explores Alt key,Printing W/O Paper

P.S. My son, Greased Lightning, has critiqued first three (already published) issues and (agrees with my name) says there is no Pkzip, should have said PKWARE. Sorry.

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