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Flash-based sites have been a craze since the past few years, and as Macromedia compiles more and more great features into Flash, we can only predict there will be more and more flash sites around the Internet. However, Flash based sites have been disputed to be bloated and unnecessary. Where exactly do we draw the line? Here’s a simple breakdown.

The good:
1. Interactivity
Flash’s Actionscript opens up a vast field of possibilities. Programmers and designers have used Flash to create interactve features ranging from very lively feedback forms to attractive Flash-based games. This whole new level of interactivity will always leave visitors coming back for more.

2. A standardized site
With Flash, you do not have to worry about cross-browser compatibility. No more woes over how a certain css code displays differently in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. When you position your site elements in Flash, they will always appear as they are as long as the user has Flash Player installed.

3. Better expression through animation
In Flash, one can make use of its animating features to convey a message in a much more efficient and effective way. Flash is a lightweight option for animation because it is vector based (and hence smaller file sizes) as opposed to real “movie files” that are raster based and hence much larger in size.

The bad and the ugly:
1. The Flash player
First of all, people have to download the Flash player in advance before they can view Flash movies, so by using Flash your visitor range will decrease considerably because not everyone will be willing to download the Flash player just to view your site. You’ll also have to put in additional work in redirecting the user to the Flash download page if he or she doesn’t have the player installed.
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What is BlogClicker.com?
BlogClicker is a blog traffic exchange dedicated to blog sites and focused on bringing blog traffic to your blogs! You’ve taken the time and effort to put your blog online and we’re here to help you get people to read it!

How does BlogClicker.com work?
It’s simple. You view other member blogs and in return, those members will view your blog. For every 2 blogs you view, someone will see yours! We also offer upgraded memberships and credit packages which give you up to a 1:1.5 view ratio or 1 view per purchased credit!

Is it really FREE?
Yes! Standard membership with a 2:1 view ratio is absolutely FREE. In addition, you’ll also have chances to earn bonus views while viewing blogs which means your ratio gets even better!!

What does downline or referral mean?
When you refer other members to BlogClicker they are your “referrals” and are placed in your downline. All members in your downline earn you more traffic for as long as they are BlogClicker members as you receive a percentage of every credit they earn up to 5 levels deep! If you are an upgraded member, you’ll also receive commissions on every upgrade or credit purchase they make!

How to earn credit?

After you sing up, you can start surf member blogs via the link provided by BlogClicker.com, just like the picture show above, after the 20 second countdown, you need the click on the number showing at the right hand site, just a simple click, you will earn a credit.

PPC (Pay Per Click) is one of the four basic types of Search Engines. PPC is also one of the most cost-effective ways of targeted internet advertising. According to Forbes magazine, PPC or Pay Per Click, accounts to 2 billion dollars a year and is expected to increase to around 8 billion dollars by the year 2008.

Let us take a quick look at how PPC Search Engines work.

These engines create listings and rate them based on a bid amount the website owner is willing to pay for each click from that search engine. Advertisers bid against each other to receive higher ranking for a specific keyword or phrase.

The highest bidder for a certain keyword or phrase will then have the site ranked as number 1 in the PPC Search Engines followed by the second and third highest bidder, up to the last number that have placed a bid on the same keyword or phrase. Your ads then will appear prominently on the results pages based on the dollar amount bid you will agree to pay per click.

How do you make money by using PPC into your affiliate marketing business?

Most affiliate programs only pay when a sale is made or a lead delivered after a visitor has clickthrough your site. Your earnings will not always be the same as they will be dependent on the web site content and the traffic market.
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Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word ?ree?because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

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Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do. Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving?

Base on the page ranking of RapidShare in Malaysia via Alexa, we can aware that Malaysian always use RapidShare to share and downloading hot stuff. RapidShare is a online file storage hosting service, which they claim themself as world’s biggest and fastest 1-click file-hoster.

Since a lot of us may use RapidShare to upload and download a lot of stuff. As a free user (without paying to upgrade to Premium-account), it’s quite annoying when we were face some limitations which is unable to download for a certain period after downloading a big file.

Limitation for free user
Those who don’t have premium accounts may download files but the service will come with limits. Other than the download speed being a lot slower for non-premium users, rapidShare has a download limit of 30 MB per hour for free user. Beside, free users can only parallelly download 1 file at a time, and subject to countdown (waiting) time delay before download start.

In order to avoid the limitation of RapidShare, your can using proxy servers to mask your IP address so you may download more files from Rapidshare’s free service or using third-party downloading software. Of course, you also allow to signing up for a premium account which need you to pay (if you’re an avid downloader). For this reason, i want to share with you how to download from Rapidshare using proxy so that you can bypass Rapidshare Download Limits.

Steps + How To:
1. You can get a list of available public proxy server easily by searching “proxy server” in search engine such as Google or Bing. Choose a proxy server and note down its IP address and port number.

You also can get the proxy address from Proxy4Free. This trick requires the usage of proxy server to work. The proxy address from Proxy4Free will be like this

2. Goto your internet browser,
In Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings. Select (check) the option of Use a proxy server for your LAN. Then key in the proxy server IP address and port in respective box. Click OK to continue.

In Mozilla Firefox, go to Tools -> Options -> Connection Settings. Then select (click) Manual proxy configuration and key in proxy server information. Click OK to continue.

3. That easy, happy downloading. Once you hit the download limit, you will need to change the proxy server again.

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Do not choose proxy with port 80
Avoid choosing proxies addresses beginning with 195 because some of them are slow.