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The Traffic Player Review – Thumbs UP!

Well, Here’s The Traffic Player Review you’ve come to read. First off, I have to say this is a wonderful program. It’s free to download and try a copy. I downloaded a free copy of it about two days ago. I have a “????” site (can’t tell you the niche – shish!) and there are several great videos out there that are unbranded.

Hehe… It always amazes me to see people upload videos on Youtube that only have their links in the description but not actually on the video – their loss – our gain!

You need to see how this software works to understand the true value. Click here, watch the video, then come back and finish reading this review if you need more info. I’m going to help you understand the value of it in just a sec. But… it would help if you watched the video so you will know how it works. Click here now, come back after…

Okay, you watched the video yes? Great. People who take action are the most successful people I know. Le’ts get to it…

Why I Give a Thumbs Up for The Traffic Player Review

If there is one thing I am careful about, it’s anything that has to do with automation. This program or rather the Traffic player software has nothing to do with automation. But it has everything to do with helping us rank better, get more traffic and keep our videos branded to our own sites.

Plus, you can snag videos other people have created and have them appear to be branded to your site as well; Double bonus.

The Traffic Player Review – About the Skins

This is a really nice feature and you’ll get one FREE skin just for downloading and trying this software out while it’s in it’s launch phase. Sweets! By the way… if you’re new, I’d like to just let you know that I OWN this software. I only give reviews that encourage people to try the product on programs and software I use and own. Okay… let’s continue.

Basically a Skin is just the framing of the video. Click here, and go take a look at the free skin you get with the freebie download.

The Traffic Player Review - How to Use It

One of the best ways to create websites online is to use WordPress (WP). Google loves WP and WordPress has tons of plug-ins that you can use to enhance the SEO of your site as well as make all sorts of chores a lot easier.

Using the Traffic Player for Your Own Videos

Okay, one thing about creating your own videos is where to store them? Well, you can upload them to Youtube, but then if you post them to your site you risk people clicking on the ads for other videos at the end. NOT with The Traffic Player. This is a cool feature guys.

With The Traffic Player your video is not branded to Youtube. Did you watch the video yet? No? Hm… Click here, watch it come back. Shish!

The Traffic Player Review – What it is Not

This is super cool. Now then… The Traffic Player is not software that creates videos, it’s software that downloads videos from Youtube and puts them into a frame that strips the branded Youtube info and simply looks like it’s your own video. It’s so cool!

If you want to create videos, you can use a few different tools. I use Camtasia, but it’s expensive. You can get a free trial of Camtasia studio for 30 days. I also like another video that helps you create article videos really fast. This Article Video Creator is really cheap, just $27.00 and you can see how that software works by clicking here.

You can also create short 30 second videos for free using Animoto, which I do all the time. I’ve upgraded so I could create them any length I want, but you don’t have to. The only thing about Animoto is you can’t really have a lot of content on it, it’s more like little advertisements.

Anyway, that’s some tips on a few ways you can create your videos. After you create your videos upload them to Youtube, then use The Traffic Player to add them to your site totally branded by YOU, not Youtube.

When you add videos that are from Youtube that you did not create. Look for the ones that don’t have Google Ads in them or those that are not branded by some type of URL added to the video itself.

Click here, and download your free copy now.

Feel free to comment on The Traffic Player Review.

Article Video Robot Alternative

Yes, there is an Article Video Robot Alternative! It’s fast, simple, and it’s VERY affordable! Before I go into this alternative, I want to share a few things about the Article Video Robot that you may not be aware of. You can try it for free and if you like it you can continue to get a discount using the link and code on this page.

If you want to jump to the video showing you how the Article Video Robot Alternative works, click here.  This program is only $27.00 without any monthly fees. You can compare the pros and cons of each program and then make a decision on which one is best for you.

If you want to try it out, you can do so now with this link at a 25% discount off your first month (after your free trial) . You must add in this code: 46EE958D and you need to use the link below.

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/specialoffer/getitnow

First thing to note is that I have personally used Article Video Robot and I really do like it. You can do some very impressive things with this program. The music is good and the robot voices are pretty amazing in how they can mimic a human voice. It’s fast, it’s easy, and you can pretty much copy and past an article into this program, select a voice, select the music, and WALAH! your video is done.

You can actually create a video very fast right now to test this program out. It will take you less than 2 minutes to create a video from Ezinearticles.com. If you have an article on that site, just copy and paste the URL into the text field when prompted.

Article Video Robot Alternative – The Pro’s

1. The software program for instant article videos is a once time purchase.

2. It takes about 5 minutes to create a simple video using this software.

3. You can add in images and your own music.

4. It comes preloaded with both music files and sounds.

5. You can add your own voice.

6. The BEST part is there is NO monthly fee!

7. The price is totally affordable. Camtasia is $300.00 and there’s no automation, AVR requires a monthly fee.

Article Video Robot Alternative – The Con’s

1. Article Video Robot includes the ability to have a robot read your articles, the Instant Article Video Robot alternative Software does not.

2. Article Video Robot includes a really nice selection of special effects, the Article Video Robot alternative does not.

That’s about all I can think of. Really, I would say that for the price of the Article Video Robot alternative, it’s well worth it to get this software. If you decide to buy the instant article video software from “This Link“, send me your receipt and I’ll give you a free copy of my BYOBM (Be Your Own Boss Method” program.

Overall I would say the Article Video Robot alternative is the winner here – get it here.

Clickbank Complaints – Affiliate Theft

Have you heard anything regarding affiliate Clickbank complaints? Perhaps you’ve had weeks of sales for some of your affiliate products and then suddenly nothing. It happens, the question is why?

Clickbank Complaints – Owners Cheating Affiliates

Affiliates work hard and spend time and money trying to promote Clickbank products. Many times affiliates have felt that the problem has been due to some hacker figuring out a way to steal their sale. However, there is another thief that people need to watch out for.

Who is it?

It is the owner of the product themselves. How do they do it? There are probably several ways of doing this type of thing.

1. The owner creates a sales page where the visitor can opt-in to their newsletter. Once they have them in the newsletter they can promote their product using a different sales page to make the final sale. This removes the affiliate link from the sale since it’s a totally unique sales page.

2. Offer a type of down sale. The visitor clicks out of the sales page and a pop-up message appears offering them a special deal. The special deal is on a different page where their affiliate link is again removed.

How do you avoid getting cheated by Clickbank owners like this?

Take the time to check out their entire sales system. This includes their newsletter. Opt-in to their newsletter and check out the links that should lead to a sale of the product. Click all the way to the page where you see the price of the product and option to buy it.

Next, scroll down to the bottom of the order page and look for your affiliate ID. If it says, “Affiliate = none” you know you’ve been cheated, or that you will be.

Clickbank Complaints – What to Do When it Happens to You

Here’s your opportunity to do two things.

1. Report it to Clickbank.

2. Email the owner and tell them you see how they are cheating their affiliates and you have reported them to Clickbank as well as to your own subscribers and forum readers. Let them know they have “blown” their opportunity to have affiliates like you work for them.

WHY would people want to steal profits from their affiliates is beyond me. Once an affiliate discovers this type of theft, is makes sense that they will stop promoting the product and spread the word about it to other affiliates.

I’m not sure how affective it is to send an email regarding this issue to the Clickbank complaints department, but if enough of us affiliates do this I would imagine it would get their attention and perhaps they would strive to make some changes in their policy. It would be nice if owners that doe this would be Slapped like Google slaps poor content sites.

You might also be interested in my other post on EzineArticles Google Slap, click here.

Be sure to send a email to the Clickbank complaints department if this happens to you.

Hi Everyone,

I found this article at Article Productions today and I thought it was a good one to add to my site. My programmer mentioned to me the other day that there was a vicious virus attaching WordPress blogs older than 3.0. Which means…

A. You need to update all your blogs so they are at least 3.0.
B. I thought it would be a good idea to get an idea of what weaknesses hackers look for in WP blogs and this article covers that very subject – enjoy.

Hack Attack: Just How Secure Is Your WordPress Blog

People with Internet and web experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers. However, the hackers practice an old baseball saying which goes, “If you want to be a success you have to hit ‘em where they ain’t.”

The weakness that the hackers have found is the WordPress Blog. Many may have never considered a blog to be worthy of a hacker’s attention, yet with the way that advertising and marketing dollar potential have soared, that’s what sets a hacker off on their hunt for a victim.

The hacker attacks on WordPress Blogs take the person who wants to come to a particular blog to a different site that’s full of ads, many of them obscene and many of them virus filled, which obviously does not present what was the assumed landing point blog in the best light. In fact, one hacker attack, no matter how quickly it’s spotted and dealt with, can destroy all the work that the owner of that blog has done. If it’s a blog full of content with years of archive material, a hacker’s attack will turn all of that work into worthless untrustworthy words.

The attacks launched on WordPress Blogs by hackers get even worse for the blog owners. Google, for example, when (not if) their robots detect something suspicious about a WordPress Blog will include the following in the search result for that WordPress Blog.

“This site may harm your computer.”

If a person clicks on that phrase, which appears as a link within the search result listing, they will be taken to a page that will repeat the warning of harm to their computer and suggest that they go to
another site or blog that came up in their search results.

Even if a WordPress Blog owner catches the damage quickly, the time it will take to repair that blog’s reputation will be costly at a variety of levels. People will remember the warnings of computer harm no matter how strongly it’s presented that all with that WordPress Blog is well. A loss of blog traffic will mean a loss of ad revenue. In many cases this could mean the loss of advertisers since many affiliate ad
programs require a specific level of traffic activity.

WordPress Blog owners make the mistake of thinking that since the warning signs that their blog has been hacked are so obvious that they’ll be able to catch the problem before it becomes a major disaster. They would have to be proactive rather than reactive and monitor their WordPress Blog every minute of every hour of every day. Just five minutes under a hacker’s control can destroy the connection that WordPress Blog had made with the thousands of people who visit it at any point.

While WordPress does the best they can with security updates, that’s still just a reactive option for the WordPress blog owner. There is a proactive step every WordPress Blog owner can take to prevent hackers from destroying the work and reputation of their WordPress Blog.

Internet developer and expert James Stein, with 15 years experience in the development of programs that assist and educate people, has created WordPress Secured. Instead of one plug-in fix after another, WordPress Secured brings total security to every WordPress Blog that anyone can learn and benefit from.

WordPress Secured teaches how to close the many open doors WordPress Blogs contain which hackers exploit. It teaches how to find a blog’s softspots and strengthen them. Users discover how to protect their important avenues of ad revenue. WordPress Secure makes the blog owner not only more secure but more smart and aware about their blog.

WordPress Secure also includes a special feature called BadBot Killer. This program stops the scanning bots that seek out a WordPress Blog’s weaknesses that are the welcome mats for computer hackers. BadBot Killer stops the hackers even before they can find the front door to a WordPress Blog.

The amount of knowledge and information required to do a WordPress Blog post-hacking repair is large and above the heads of many WordPress Blog owners. WordPress Secure is one easy and educational package that keeps the WordPress Blog owner steps ahead any hacker.

Visit WordPress Secured now and get your WordPress Blog secured from hackers. Visit WordPress Secured

Copyright 2008 James Stein All Rights Reserved.
Owner of TheRichJerks.Net
http://www.therichjerks.net

Stopping spam email is not difficult if you have the right program or rather the right email control program. I have tried several different ways of controlling spam and nothing was working as good as I’d like.

Until this year anyway. The only way to stop spam is to use a program like Spamarrest. This is the company that I use to manage my email. And I love how it works. If you want to check it out, click here. Let me explain how it works.

The key feature of Spamarrest is the “verification” link that anyone who emails you, that is not in your address book, must click on to verify they are a real person. So, let’s say you want to email me. You can email me at chrisi@netwoozy.com. Once you email me you will be placed in a sort of “limbo” land. This is actually my spambox. As soon as anyone emails me an automated email is sent out to that person with a link to confirm that they sent the email to me.

Most spammers do not have a return email that is monitored. This is why this works so well. VERY few people who are trying to spam me actually get through to my email box. If they do get through, it is because they took the time to read the automated email that was sent back to them from me, and actually clicked on the link.

In my automated email I actually warn people that if they are trying to sell me something or email me anything that could be considered spam I will report them. And I do. There is a button that you can hit to report anyone who sends you an email that was uninvited.

Now then… sometimes I get people requesting things from me like a link exchange or something of that nature. I do not consider those spam.  I don’t partisipate in link exchanges but I am ok with someone asking for one because it’s a legitimate thing to request.

Everyday I will visit my spambox and at a glance I can skim through the spam, which can be as many as 50 to 200 spam emails. Once I determine that it is all deffinately spam, I click a little box that checks them all for deletion and that’s it. It takes me about 30 seconds to look over my spam and dump it.

The reason I have to check my spam box is because I often times subscribe to newsletters and other programs that require me to confirm my subsrciption and since I have not yet included them into my address book they end up in my spambox. Spamarrest is truly the best way of stopping spam that I have tried and still use now. You can email me to check it out if you like. Just remember, I won’t answer your email if you don’t verify my automated email.

The best part of this deal is…

1. You get to try it for a month for free. This way you can experience it for yourself and decide if it’s all that it’s cracked up to be.

2. I think it’s $4.95 a month. Totally worth it.

You can check out Spamarrest by clicking here.