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The Google Keyword Sandbox – Biggest Source of Paranoia Since Y2K?

kalens9112 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:22:49 +0000

The Google Sandbox keeps new websites from rising through the Search Engine Results Page, because it is biased against new sites that it has not yet come to trust. It has created ruckus throughout the Internet community. This is a pretty impressive accomplishment for a phantom that may only lurk in the minds of SEO geeks.

Those who believe in the Google Sandbox protest that there are many pieces of evidence to support their belief. They argue that newer websites have a hard time with their SERPs, therefore Google has a bias against them. This is a dangerous conclusion to draw, because it is based on evidence that could easily support another explanation.

The reason that smaller sites struggle with their SERPs could more likely be supported with the fact that it simply takes time for Google to become acquainted with a website or blog. When a new page or site is published, Google does not immediately index it. First, a crawler must find the site.

The search engine also cannot know how relevant a webpage is to SERPs for a keyword until it has had time to visit it frequently and become familiar with its context. Obviously this takes time. As more backlinks are created, spiders are able to find the site more often and the indexing rate increases substantially. All sites are discouraged from building links too quickly so it is impossible for a site to appear at the top of Google’s ranking page for a keyword right after it was launched.

In a sense, new sites are penalized by Google. Most likely, not because of a deliberate Sandbox on the part of the search engine developers, but because of the constraints of indexing technology itself.

Google itself has stated that the Sandbox does not exist. Many people still refuse to believe this, insisting that Google is most likely lying. They have even made statements referring to the politicians in their home state lying about scandalous affairs.

The question these people must be asking themselves is why Google would lie about the sandbox at all. If Google did create it and told the truth they would not suffer from it. Just like the controversy that was created after the institution of the “nofollow” attribute, the sandbox would only create a few angry developers at the beginning of their site’s life.

Of course, older sites would love the idea because they would not have to risk having their keyword rankings stolen from newer sites on blackhat compaigns. If Google created a sandbox to add credibility to their search rankings, then it would add credibility to them as well. Why would they deny it?

The problem with the sandbox idea is that many sites are extremely paranoid with how they are developing their SEO campaigns. Many claim that because of the sandbox they limit their link-building campaign to a couple links a day for the first three months. Obviously, such caution will probably keep a developer their own sandbox for a lot more than three months.

Major topics on the Internet create a lot of hype. SEO is a topic that has created a lot of concern and conjecture. It is important to be skeptical about SEO advice you receive that is open for interpretation and become part of the circus.

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How To Maximize Your Blog Potential Through Outsourcing

Nitin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:38:32 +0000

For many bloggers, this may seem like blasphemy, yet for many more businesses that are using blogs as a form of marketing, outsourcing is becoming a necessity. If you are a business owner who has added a blog to your website to increase traffic and your search engine results, you may be wondering how you will get it all done. Luckily, outsourcing is a viable option, especially since many more people are turning to freelancing online with the state of the economy. What this means for you as a business owner is that there are reputable freelancers and virtual assistant companies to be had out there, if you simply know what to look for.

Don’t Make These Outsourcing Mistakes!

If you have looked into outsourcing for your company’s blog, you may have heard horror stories from many of your peers about bad freelancing experiences. These may include never hearing from a freelancer again, getting poor quality work, or simply not having a freelancer meet the deadlines that were agreed upon. To help you protect your company while maximizing your productivity, here are some of the top mistakes to avoid when outsourcing:

Not reading a provider’s past reviews
Not asking questions before choosing a provider
Not asking about the provider’s past history of failed projects
Not verifying the provider’s portfolio and references
Not starting with a small project to test the waters

To reiterate, outsourcing for your business’ blog is a wonderful choice to maximize your productivity, tap into the talents of a freelancer to provide stellar blog content, and allow your staff to spend their time marketing and running your company. Still, the above mistakes need to be avoided at all costs when outsourcing to prevent any mishaps or serious detriment to your company. To begin, when you start to look for freelancers or a virtual assistant, make sure to read all of their past reviews on their profile to see their feedback. To be objective, a freelancer may have worked with a very unruly client that left them negative feedback, so it is not necessary for them to have a 100% score. However, it is important that a freelancer has positive past working relationships that resulted in good feedback to indicate their work history. In case you are hiring a virtual assistant company, ask them for verifiable references and look thru their testimonials. You will have a much better insight when you talk to those references.

Next, take the opportunity to send a provider a message to talk with them before awarding a project. This will allow you to ask specific questions about their skills, and it is also important to inquire about any bad past working experiences. Their response will indicate how they are able to handle conflict and whether or not they have created past problems when working on a project. From there, take the time to verify their portfolio by asking for further samples and references, and conclude by offering them a small project to test out their professionalism and working capabilities.

Still, how can you guarantee you won’t make these mistakes?

With all of these concepts in mind, it is important to understand that working with an outsourcing company far surpasses an individual freelancer. Not only will this help you to save on training, but outsourcing companies will replace your staff for you to dramatically reduce the risk for any bad experiences. You can develop rapport with your outsourcing agency to create dependability in your working team. More specifically, outsourcing companies provide trustworthy infrastructures so that you won’t have to worry about small snafus, like a freelancer’s Internet not working at the last minute of a project. All outsourcing policies will be clearly documented, and you will be able to handpick a team that has solid work experience. This provides you the great advantage of working with an outsourcing team because if one team member is not up to par, the stronger members will be able to take over to complete the project.

All of these tips may seem obvious when outsourcing, but they are a must if you want to have a productive outsourcing experience to significantly enhance your blog and traffic to your website! It can be done…

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T3Leads: The Affiliate Network of the Next Generation

ZK — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:30:44 +0000

As an affiliate marketer you need to be aware of the different affiliate networks in the industry, most of the networks have affiliate programs that are niche based. Once such niche based network that caters to the financial segment is T3leads. All their affiliate programs are based on the CPA model and are in the financial sector.

T3Leads covers many verticals, including: debt, auto warranty, home improvement, and more. Payday is one of T3Lead’s strongest lead types that continue to grow; with over 40 payday lenders, T3Leads promotes the highest quality leads making them the best in the industry.

I had earlier blogged about T3 Leads, but since then T3Leads has gone through a major face lift, lets see what the new T3 Leads network has in store for you. The core offering of T3 Leads still remains being an affiliate network for lead generations.

A ) Contemporary Design:
The new site has a very cool design, the team has given a lot of importance to the colors that have been used in the new look. They have used two prime colors across the site, first up is black, this usually inspires promptitude and trust for clients as well as security and performance. The other color used is a Golden tinge, that shows flexibility and modernism, thus balancing the black and obtaining a perfect design for this site.

B ) Superior Site Navigation:
The new revamped site has a very special design that not only provides visitors to access information rapidly, but also allows a good flow of the informational systems provided. When you log into T3leads.com you’ll see the difference in the new dashboard. The new dashboard has six top navigational tabs to help you navigate the core sections of the site.
The six buttons are my account, reports, channels, payments, T3leads V.1 and Exit.

C) Better Affiliate Tracking:
If you are an affiliate with T3 Leads, here is some good news for you. The affiliate network system has undergone a revamp and now has a better tracking mechanism with the new interface. Some of the new features include;
- More than 12 fully customizable java script forms
- Sophisticated tracking system to track leads, conversions and referral links.
- Customized payment options

The reporting utility is allows you to filter your options based on date ranges, product, channel type, and more. T3leads pays its affiliates twice a month with a minimum payment threshold of $100. If you generate more than $1000 in leads a week, you can accelerate this process.

D) Flexible Merchant Interface:
Not only do the affiliates have a better tracking system, the new design even has something for the merchants. The new system provides access to an interface with
- The ability to view and print invoices.
- View pertinent information, such as how many leads they have purchased, current filters, and the redirect and accept rates of their leads

E) 24/7 Customer Support:
- I noticed that the new site tends to rely on a lot of feed back, one can contact an assistant for any questions related to the provided services. Customers can do this by calling a free phone number that is posted on the site, or they can e-mail the company. Either way, an answer is shortly to appear due to the big interest that this company provides for costumers.

F) Better Converting Offer:
The landing pages of affiliate products have also undergone a big change, the new pages are highly optimized for conversion. Better converting pages mean better sales for you as an affiliate. You can pick up an affiliate product and promote the same, I guarantee you’ll get a much better conversion rate with the new product landing pages.

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4 Blog Niches That Always Remain Popular

BaileyD — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:35:57 +0000

A blog or a web log was intended to be a personal diary of sorts on the Internet, one that you wanted to share with your friends and anyone else who wanted to read it. But today, unless you’re a celebrity of sorts or write the most scandalous things on your blog, it’s impossible to sustain a high level of traffic on a blog that details your personal life and all that is associated with it.

In general, there are a few niches that remain popular throughout the years:

Technology: The technology juggernaut rolls on and stops for no one, not even for time. It’s the one thing that is advancing by leaps and bounds, and when you stay on top of all the news from the world of technology and report it on your blog, you’ll find that it generates a high volume of traffic. The key to making your blog different from all the technology sites out there is to personalize what you write, and tone down (or up) the level of sophistication and complexity to the level of your readers.

The Internet: Who wouldn’t want to read about the latest news on the evolution of the Internet? Social media is what rules the roost today, and with Facebook, Twitter and others providing more than enough fodder for blogs, it’s easy to find something relevant and interesting to write about. And with all the scandals and muck being raked about regarding privacy issues, the silent and not-so-silent wars between Facebook and Google, and the never-ending stream that originates from social media, you’re never going to run out of topics to write about.

Health: People are waking up to the fact that health is becoming an important issue nowadays and that everyone is looking for ways to become healthier. So include news from the health industry, ways and methods to exercise safely and healthily, and diets for all reasons and seasons. There are so many sub topics on this subject and each of them have enough material to fill their own blog, so you could choose a niche within health or go all out and cover any general topic that relates to health.

Beauty: Mankind craves for attention – its a social need, the beauty markets across the global have shown increasing growth years after year. No doubt the market and demand is big, if you can blog about a sub niche like skin care or hair care you have a good chance of building a community around the beauty conscious audience.

So you see how blogs can be popular over time, if only you choose the right topic and know how to put the right spin on what you choose to write about.

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5 Simple Ways for Generating Blog Content

Anna Cruz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:19:28 +0000

The results of writing a good blog post is only limited by the amount of posts you write. Some say that in order to make money with your blog, you need to post 5-10 new posts daily. The more pages you have on your blog, the better standing you will have with Google Adsense and other ad companies, but a viable amount is thousands of pages per blog. So, how do you build a blog with thousands of pages? Use some simple tricks for generating blog content, and eventually your blog will have an impressive number of pages.

Build Your Blog Over Time
If your goal is to write 3650 blogs this year, you may overwhelm yourself. When you are overwhelmed, you may not write the best content of which you are capable. You may not even write at all. So instead of looking at the long term goal, look at a daily goal. Try to post 5-10 blog entrees a day, even on the weekends. Before you know it, you will have several hundred pages on your blog.

Pick a Topic that Interests You
You will be far more likely to learn about and then blog about something that naturally interests you. If you are interested in posters, then you should blog about posters. Blog about printing posters, hanging posters, and selling posters. When you run out of personal knowledge about posters, then it is time to do the research and find out more.

Start More Than One Blog
If you are running out of things to say for one blog, then it is time to start a new blog. Now instead of posters, you can write about books or interior design. As long as you are truly interested, you will find something to say. When you have multiple blogs, you have even more opportunity to earn money, but don’t take on too many blogs as you will still need to post 5-10 new pages a day for each blog you start.

Find Blog Worthy News Online
Read hot topics on Google news or Bloglines.com’s news aggregators to find blog worthy information. You will be able to see what others are blogging about, and in return it will give you something to blog about.

Get Others to Write for You
You don’t have to hire writers to get more blog entrees. You can trade links and articles with like-minded bloggers. This way you can get fresh input and add pages to your blog at the same time. The new links and associations will be great for your rankings as well.

The time you invest in your blogs can pay off if you write great content and plenty of it. Just take a steady-on approach and avoid overwhelming yourself, and one day your blog will be one that other bloggers envy.

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Download The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers

ZK — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:35:32 +0000

Darren Rowse is an authority on blogging, he runs the very successful Problogger.net and is also nick named Problogger. Darren has authored some very powerful ebooks that have helped more than 19,000 bloggers kick start their blogs and make money from it. His previous book 31 Days to Build a Better Blog has been downloaded more than 50,000 times, the book is a guide to get your blog into the money making gear in 31 days.

Darren recently launched a new ebook titled – Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers . The book is co-authored by SEO specialist Glen Murray who authored SEO Secrets – one of the simplest and the best book on SEO that I’ve read and recommended on this blog.

What is Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers ?

The ebook is a full proof system to measure the success of your blog post. Designed to help bloggers get their posts optimized for readers and search engines so that the posts reach the potential with Google and other search engines. The book is like a virtual editor by your side to look over your next blog post before you hit publish. It’s designed to help you ensure that the blog post is really ready to be published.

A Checklist of Recommendations and Pitfalls to avoid

The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers is a downloadable eBook providing a list of recommendations to follow, as well as pitfalls to avoid, as you write your next blog post. It’s a checklist of things that are common in most great copywriting and mistakes that are commonly found in ineffective copy.

The ebook tackles 63 things to consider while writing a post and before pressing on the publish button, all comprehensively explained and divided into these four easy to read sections:

Writing — How to write engaging compelling posts.
Scannability — How to ensure your posts are easy to scan read.
Search engine optimization (SEO) — How to write posts that Google will like.
Grammar — How to avoid errors that undermine your credibility.

What is your blog score ?

The concept of Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers goes beyond just the level of teaching, it gives you an interactive element in the form of a score to check how many recommendations you’ve incorporated into your blog. You can add the score for a total out of 100. The higher you score the more effective your post is likely to be ( I scored 89 /100 on this post )

The blog goal should be putting this into practice for all the post, you should have a score for all the posts that you write and work accordingly to ensure that every post has a high score. This will help you identify areas for improvement before you actually publish your content on the blog.

You’ll quickly identify things you can improve to help your post reach its full potential – all before hitting Publish button in your wordpress panel.

How will the book help me ?

The book is meant not just for bloggers but for all internet marketers, it covers important aspects of how to write engaging content for your website audience and search engines.

The ebook also answers questions such as :
- How do I get more readers to my blog
- How do I become more authorative in my niche
- How do I make my blog more profitable

The book is easy to read an contains more than 100 pages of useful, engaging and professional written content to achieve your blogs goals – whether you are build a personal brand, or selling your own information product, or making money with affiliate products or advertising or simple blogging to build authority and trust with your readers.

Power packed value at $29.97

The 100 page downloadable PDF is priced at $29.97 and is an ideal companion for internet marketers and bloggers to improve their writing skills to build an engaging audience. Darren will soon announce a bonus for people who have downloaded the book, this could be in the form of FREE podcast interviews of top internet marketers and bloggers or a one on one question answer session with Darren himself.

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UPrinting: Eco friendly online printing for your business

ZK — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:12:37 +0000

Uprinting is a high quality online printing company, that you need to check if you are looking to get your business cards or your marketing co laterals printed. For over 25 years, UPrinting has been a trusted leader in online printing, featuring its signature easy-to-use website and the famous Free File Review, a complimentary proofing service which requires no upfront payment.

UPrinting – The online printing company offers a variety of choices such as business cards, brochures, greeting cards, calenders and posters. There target market is the small and medium sized business enterprise. UPrinting services offer convenient marketing support services such as design, lists, and direct mailing to help grow small and medium-size businesses nationwide.

Poster prints:
Their poster printing services provide you with high quality posters and fliers in various sizes. They also help you design digital posters whose resolution and clarity is stunning. These are also available with a special matte or glazed finish, to give your poster an amazingly sophisticated look. These are extremely cheap, and are totally worth their weight in gold.

Canvas prints:
Canvas prints are the ideal solution when you need to put up your ads on a huge billboard. The trouble is that in the US, most of the bill boards go unnoticed. There are just too many of them, and thus, to enable your customers actually notice the poster is a huge task.

Uprinting ensures that with their quality canvas prints, your customers will sit up and notice. The print is extremely clear, and their resolution is simply amazing. It makes your customers feel like you are actually talking to them through your poster.

Easy to use website:
- Their website is one of the smoothest and most user friendly ones today. The interface is very simple and easy to use. All you need to do is select your templates or upload one, fill in your details, make the payment and send it for printing. You can load this website within no time, and find all the information you need.

Services
- Uprinting services include simple and easy to use marketing aids – like design templates, e-mail lists and direct mailing to various small and medium businesses worldwide. Their professionalism has been appreciated all over the world, due to their state of the art Komori presses and direct-to-plate printing services.

With the help of these tools, they ensure that you get completely error free and cost-effective services. Their website also has a free proofing service, which can be used to proof read your prints before you finalize them.

Eco-friendly edge
- The main competitive advantage of Uprinting is that they provide you eco-friendly printing services. The papers that they use are recycled, and are of extremely good quality. Thus, you can enable your company to develop a social perspective to its image, which will earn you a lot of goodwill. You will be able to get all your printing solutions at a very inexpensive rate, and at the same time, you would have added a feather in your organization cap for choosing to save the planet. This helps you move a step towards sustainability, which is the norm of the business world today.

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How To Implement An Awesome Website Design For Under $87

Justin Davis — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:44:05 +0000

If you have a business website or blog that represents your business or personal brand, a strong design is highly desirable. A well designed blog or site can communicate a high level of professionalism and build confidence and trust from potential customers. Furthermore a well designed site will have a better chance of being shared through social media and can make it easier to earn links. Few people want to share or link to a site that has terrible design, because it can reflect poorly upon them. While many businesses pay thousands of dollars for a web designer to build their site it doesn’t have to be expensive at all. This article explains how you can set up an elegant business site or blog for under $87.

WordPress

Most everyone has heard about WordPress, one of the leading tools for starting a blog. However, a lot of people don’t know that WordPress is also a website platform that powers thousands of websites that you would never suspect are using WordPress. WordPress.org has a showcase of popular sites that use WordPress like Lafayette College, TechCrunch, and Atlantic Southeast Airlines. The default theme for WordPress is pretty plain, but you can install third party themes that look like a site that costs thousands.

Thesis Theme for WordPress

Thesis Theme is one of the best resources for implementing an awesome blog, all top bloggers and online publishers use the Thesis Theme for WordPress. The theme is highly customizable and works like a charm on being persuasive with its design. The Thesis WordPress themes has two options: Personal Option or a single blog user license with cost you $87 and Developer’s License or the multiple blog license will cost you $164. Both the licenses come with life time updates and a 30 day money back guarantee. Thesis Theme has an amazing support community in the form of members only access forum. This blog runs on the thesis theme, you can see the value that the theme brings to the blog.

ThesisDiscounts will give you mega bonuses of $477 with the purchase of the Thesis Theme.

Installation of the Theme

Installing the theme may be a challenging step if you haven’t had experience with this in the past. You will need a domain name and a hosting account if you don’t already have one. The domain name registration is about $10 from GoDaddy or Netfirms. A hosting account is typically under $100 per year. You can also get a FREE domain name alongwith webhosting for a year with BlueHost for $6.95 per month.

Fortunately many hosting accounts have software that can install WordPress for you in a couple minutes. Then you just have to upload your theme. Typically the best way to do this is using FTP to upload the theme files into the “theme” file folder on your hosted server. You can also find tutorials online that will help you through the process like this one.

Read the documentation

The Thesis WordPress Theme comes with documentation that explains how to set up unique features of your theme such as a slideshow or adding your logo to the header or showing thumbnail images on your homepage. The Thesis Theme is customizable the way you set up your site’s slideshow or logo may vary from theme to theme and it’s not always intuitive so it can be helpful to read the documentation. If you still can’t figure out how to get something to work, you can access the members only Thesis Theme forum support community for help.

That’s it! You just saved thousands of dollars by setting up a professional quality website design yourself and have accelerated your path to profits.

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The Top 5 Books for SEO

jlbraaten — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:45:24 +0000

Blogs are great to stay on top of your industry with the latest trends and insights. But sometimes blogs are too brief as a medium to fully communicate an idea. Sometimes you need a gold old-fashioned book to immerse yourself into a subject to fully comprehend the depth of the discipline.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is no different. In order to know the tricks of the trade, you have to know the trade first. What follows is a list of both intuitive and not-so-intuitive books that should be on any SEO’s bookshelf.

1. The Art of SEO

The Art of SEO is a tome of SEO knowledge. It contains over 500 pages of SEO strategy, concepts and tactics from popular industry authors/business people Rand Fishkin, Eric Enge, Jessica Stricchiola and Stephan Spencer. Although specific tweaks in the search engines’ algorithms happen constantly, this is a solid foundation of SEO knowledge that won’t soon be outdated.

2. Marketing in the Age of Google

Marketing in the Age of Google is a great executive-level explanation of SEO. Former Googler Vanessa Fox illustrates important concepts of search engines and SEO at a level that is easy to understand for clients who are new to SEO. Sometimes being able to clearly communicate concepts to your stakeholders can be as important as having the right strategy in the first place.

3. Web Analytics 2.0

You can hardly call yourself an SEO if you don’t know your way around your web analytics platform. Avinash Kaushik’s Web Analytics 2.0 is the definitive guide to understanding Google Analytics, Yahoo Analytics or just about any other tool you might be using. SEOs would be nothing without their web analytics packages. This book will help you become a web analytics ninja.

4. Don’t Make Me Think

The best SEOs know that SEO and website usability go hand-in-hand. You’d never want to optimize for topics that aren’t relevant to your business. And you’d hate to lose the visitors you do get because your site is confusing or unresponsive. Don’t Make Me Think is a high level introduction to website usability from industry expert Steve Krug.

5. Letting Go of the Words

Once again, the usability of your website is of critical importance. It’s tempting for SEOs to jam keywords into headlines, image captions and other places on the page. Ginny Redish’s Letting Go of the Words shows you everything your visitors are expecting from you – in addition to your keywords – in the titles, headers and content of your site.

So there you have it. Have you read one of the books on our list? What did you think? Or am I missing a must-read? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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The Art of Large File Sharing

Selena Narayanasamy — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:58:09 +0000

One of the greatest days in a person’s life is the day that individual figures out how to attach a file to an email and send it to…whomever. This task seems especially challenging for the people who got to know the Internet after they got to know their grandchildren. Unfortunately, this means that “poor etiquette” in sending large files is fairly common. This issue is bigger than titling the email in all caps. There’s a set of basic courtesies that you’ll want to use whenever you send a file that’s bigger than a few kilobytes.

Shrink/Compress the File

This is pretty simple to do. If you’re sending lots of files at the same time, add them all to a zip file. If you’re just sending one large file, zip it up anyway to save space. Advanced compression with programs like WinRAR is also possible, but you’ll need to check with the recipient to be certain that person also has the software prior to sending the files in this way. If you’re sending especially large images, you may want to shrink them or reduce the pixels per inch to get a more reasonable file size–just check what size and quality your recipient needs.

Use External Services

There are many services out there that can act as a middle man for your files. You can sign up and have your files sent to the recipient’s email address- so it’s really no extra steps for them to download and open the attachment. Some of them have a time limit as to when the files are available, and of course you run into the issues of file security when sending confidential and secure documents. I don’t recommend this for anything but personal use.

Let the Recipient Know

Rather than just sending your friends a five or 10 megabyte file that they aren’t expecting, potentially causing issues with their email, let them know that a large file is on the way. This prevents them from being surprised by it, and more importantly, can let you know if it doesn’t get to them. Often, an email with a large attachment sent without notice will “bounce,” and no one will ever know because there wasn’t adequate communication from the sender.

Have Trustworthy Virus Software

Put your files through a good virus scanner prior to sending it to be certain that the attachment won’t be blocked by the recipient’s email. If you don’t, then it’s possible the person will never even see the email, and if they do, you might be giving them an accidental present. Of course, there’s a whole host of other problems with virus scanner scams, so make sure you do your research.

Use a Trusted Email Host

Some email hosting servers can scan the files for anything malicious prior to sending it off, allowing you to skip the previous step. A trustworthy email hosting server can also ensure that no tag-along viruses grab a hold of your file prior to its electronic voyage, will make that voyage faster and more reliable, and will reduce the chances that the email hits a snag on your end.

As a final resort, you can go for an FTP upload and download instead, but that’s far more technically complicated and difficult to pull off for beginner users; anything over 10 megabytes is still worth that effort, though. In all other cases, following these simple protocols will help ensure that you don’t accidentally annoy someone to tears, and will increase the odds that your attachment makes it safely and quickly to its destination.

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