Work from home scams are a sad fact of life. A lot of people blame them on the internet, but the truth is that these scams have certainly been around as long as the post office, and probably longer. They used to be run by mail, out of a post office box, with advertising in newspapers, magazines, bulletin boards or leaflets through your door.

These days, the advertisements often arrive in the form of email. Why? Because it’s cheap. In fact, it’s virtually free. There are no direct mailing costs. The spammer (it’s usually spam) has to pay for a web server to send the email from, but this does not cost very much. Still, the ads themselves are often the same old thing that they always were.

1. The Stuffing Envelopes Scam

Filling and addressing envelopes for direct advertising was something that used to be outsourced to homeworkers decades ago, before the invention of word processing and mass mailout machines. These days, it is virtually all done by mailing companies. They can print addresses to look like handwriting if that is what the advertiser wants, and do thousands of envelopes fast and cheaply.

If you see an advertisement telling you to send $10 to find out how to make money by stuffing envelopes, it will probably be a scam. All you will receive will be a letter telling you to put up ads in your local area to have people send you $10 to find out how to make money by stuffing envelopes, so that you can send them the same letter. That is if anybody even replies.

2. The Pyramid Scheme Scam

Pyramid schemes are based around the idea that you pay a sum of money, say $10, then recruit 10 people who pay you, so you make $90. For example you have probably seen a chain letter or email that tells you to send a certain amount to the person at the top of a list, then add your name to the bottom of the list and send the letter on to everybody that you know. That is a pyramid scheme.

Pyramid schemes are illegal. They are different from multi level marketing programs, where you may again aim to recruit a certain number of customers but they are buying a product. If people are buying a product or service that is worth the money, it’s generally OK. If they are just handing over money for nothing, it’s an illegal scam.

3. The Computer Software Scam

This is an updated version of the old work from home scams where you would be sold expensive equipment that would enable you to do some highly skilled job that you were told was in high demand.

For example, when doctors began having to submit claims electronically in the USA, a demand grew up for people to do that for them. They didn’t want to have to buy the special software themselves and then have their skilled nursing staff waste time entering data.

So companies that made this type of software, began marketing it as something that you could do at home. ‘Just spend $500 on our software, train yourself in 24 hours and start making money entering data for doctors!’ said the ads.

A lot of people fell for it, bought the software and then found they had no clients. The doctors were all giving their business to large, reputable data entry companies. They didn’t want random home workers to have access to their patients’ confidential records. The aspiring home workers were out $500 and a lot of wasted time.

Whenever you see an ad that says ‘Buy this and then make $x by using it’, be suspicious. Is there really a demand for the skills that you will have? If not, it could be one of the many work from home scams.

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This is part 2 of this article on auto-blogging.

If you haven’t read part 1 yet you can read it at the link below.

Part 1 – Simple Steps for Setting an Auto Blog

Creating your site is the most important step in autoblogiing. Your site will contain your blogs and visitors will read the contents of your site. Depending on the contents of your site, you can generate traffic and attract more visitors. The uniqueness of articles, use of correct keywords, search engine optimization and domain name and hosting will either make or break your initial efforts. To create successfully a site, here are some factors to consider.

Choose a Niche

Choosing a profitable and personally interesting niche is quite difficult. From the infinite sites discussing the same niche, you have to make yours stand out. Characteristics of an ideal niche include:

1.     Personal interest

It is extremely vital to choose a niche genuinely interests you. If you have passion for the topic, sustaining the site is easier not to mention the enjoyment that it brings about.

2.     Networking foundation

A stable site has to have networks. Pick a niche where you have active network participation. Online forums where you contribute continuously are good options.

3.     Moderate to high search volume.

Choose a niche that has a high search result in the search engine. Determine the number of people searching for the topic. Choose topics belonging to the top searches of online visitors.

4.     Potential for Monetization.

If you wish to generate money from autoblogging, determine the profitability of the topic by knowing what products or articles are selling best in the internet market. Once you have an idea on the top selling products or articles, then you can align your niche with them.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is a practice of professionals to determine the actual search terms that people enter when doing online search. For your to optimize the search engine, here are some criteria when choosing your keywords.

1.      Look for “long-tail” keywords

When you have the keyword in mind, build a list of all possible combinations. You can enter your main keywords in the online keyword suggestions to obtain all possible combinations. This ensures that you cover the keywords of your potential clients.

2.      Find keyword with 1000 searches a month

Use the keyword obtaining more searches from online searching. You can include this keywords in your niche.

3.      Search from the point-of-view of potential customers

When choosing the keywords for your niche, consider the what runs in the mind of your customers.

Create Unique Content

Your site must contain unique and relevant topics. The content should ideally contain 300 to 400 words and keep it informative and relevant to your niche. Unique articles will satisfy your vistors and make them coming back.

Build Your Blog

Using either HTML editor or WordPress, you can start creating your website. Some websites even offer free HTML editors where you can set up your blog site. Of the two, bloggers prefer wordpress as it has more features for bloggers to enjoy.

Use of Auto blog Software

With the auto blog software, you can automatically update and post your articles. The system automates all previously tedious tasks like article writing, updating and posting.

This is part 2 of this article on auto-blogging.

If you haven’t read part 1 yet you can read it at the link below.

Part 1 – Simple Steps for Setting an Auto Blog

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Introduction To Auto Blogging

Blogging is one of the hottest craze in the internet today. People use blogs to interact with people using social forums and to make money online. The insufficient time of many bloggers, the need to update constantly their websites with articles and constant maintenance of the blog are some of the problems that bloggers encounter. Due to these foreseen crises, many bloggers consider autoblogging as the key to their quandary. This mini-course has 5 sections that will teach you how to set up an auto blog that will help you generate income.

1. I. Understanding Autoblogging
2. II. Creating Your Site
3. III. Generating Traffic
4. IV. Making Money Online
5. V. Promoting your Auto blog

Understanding Auto blogging

Auto blogging is the choice of bloggers who lack time to blog everyday, explore new ideas and market their articles. Most of all, it is the option of those who fancy earning six figures annually. As more and more people earn money online, auto blogging is in demand. However, before you start creating your site for your blogs, is best to understand auto blogging.

Definition of Auto blogging

Auto blogging uses automated ways for blogging. Because of automation, you do not need go through the usual way of writing the contents or posting the articles manually. With auto blogging, you can automate the contents of your articles and link them for your blogs.

Benefits of Auto blogging

1. Get your work done

It only takes a few hours to set up an auto blog. When you follow the step-by-step procedures, you can leave your blog on its own and it automatically updates itself.

2. An Up to dated blog

For a blog to get constant traffic, an up to date site is crucial. If you do not constantly update your blog, you will be out of the search engine. The heart of blogging is the visitor who reads your articles. Without an updated blog, you will soon lose visitors to your site and this is not healthy for your blogs. However, constant and regular writing can take much of your time. With auto blogging, you become worry-free because it automatically updates your site.

3. Income generating

Writing is the passion of many bloggers. But nothing is more rewarding than getting income from your passion. With your hobby and interest, you can generate money online. Although for starters the earning is not much, it is still gratifying knowing that you earn by simply posting your articles. As you progress with blogging, an auto blog helps you create hundreds to thousands of blogs. The more blogs you create, the higher your earnings will be.

4. Maintenance-free site

Once you set up your auto blogging, you do not need to visit constantly the site except to check if everything is working well. You can let your computer do all the work. Take away the hassle and enjoy other things that interest you.

Tools for Auto blogging

1. Auto Plug in

Using software, you can leave your site and it will still produce innumerable articles and update your site

2. RSS feed aggregator

Article posting and data feed posting need the RSS feed aggregator to work.

3. Social Bookmarking Sites

Using famous social bookmarking sites, your blogs get better ranks in the search engine results.

4. Virtual Private Seller

A Virtual Private Server handles your domains and individual accounts for each of your blogs.

I hope you have enjoyed this introduction to auto blogging

Look out for part 2 of auto blogging in the next few days.

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I’ve always felt that having the right “Mindset” is the difference between success and failure in any venture (life, business or otherwise). Because of this I’m always on the lookout for good books, quotations, interviews about successful people and mindset.

Here’s a compilation of different interview with Will Smith talking about success and mindset.

Totally worth the 10 minutes you spend watching this video.

Enjoy!

Craig

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Free Traffic System is a new project that helps you to get top quality one way links for free – unlimited number of one way links, because you build as many as you need. Moreover, Free Traffic System has integrated a brand new concept of viral marketing, rewarding its members with bonus one way links.

Before getting to the viral part of the project, it is important to explain where exactly you are getting these backlinks. The backlinks are built inside real blog posts, not in the footer or blogroll – in the very body of the real, unique blog post. This is the most safe way to build one way links, because you give real unique content to the visitors in the blog posts and search engines will always welcome it – search engines were created to help people in finding quality information in the Internet.

You get backlinks from relevant sites that belong to real people in different niches. Natural, safe and smart way to build backlinks for free. You submit one article to Free Traffic System and it converts into up to 60 top quality one way backlinks! And – unlike traditional article marketing – no one will delete your backlinks from the article, like they do when stealing your content from article directories.

The viral part of Free Traffic System is simple – they reward people for bringing others into this free project. You are receiving a BONUS backlink on every 3rd post that people whom you referred to Free Traffic System are making. This means you get bonus backlink on article No 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, etc. of all people who got into the system via the affiliate link.

As every article can be republished on up to 30 sites in Free Traffic System, this means that one article with your bonus link equals to 30 backlinks from Free Traffic System. 2 articles = 60 bonus backlinks, 3 articles = 90 bonus backlinks. And this is in addition to the unlimited backlinks that you can build inside Free Traffic System yourself.

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- free backlinks that you build yourself
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