By using a proxy site, you have the opportunity to increase both your privacy and your security when you are online. Please do not assume that the Internet is a safe and anonymous place because it is not. Everything you do online leaves a digital footprint. Not only are records kept of your activities, viruses, adware, spyware and all sorts of nasty bugs exist that could potentially damage your Internet connection and/or computer.

The short answer is NO.

There are many webmasters who spend a lot of time managing duplicate content, either within their site or from external sources. The fact of the matter is, the issue of duplicate content is often overly emphasized by some over-zealous webmasters. According to Google (and also in my personal experience), having duplicate content does not normally have negative effects on your site's presence in the Google index.

Niche Marketing is the last great frontier for the small business entrepreneur. Out there in the real world, small businesses don't have a half fair chance of competing against the giant international corporations of the world. The Internet has evened the odds for small business.

The Internet has created a real equal opportunity for those who are willing to use it.

When considering web video for your website, you need to look at all the different ways in which a person can benefit from either viewing or offering web video. There are good reasons why web video has become one of the most popular ways of viewing information on the internet. Web video has many purposes- the main one is to hook or grab the attention of the viewer, and entice them to take action.

Despite the importance of the Robots.txt file in getting your website indexed with the major search engines, many webmasters don't offer one on their site. What is the robots.txt file you ask? If you don't know, you are far from alone. The robots.txt file is a simple text file (no html) that is placed in your website's root directory in order to tell the search engines which pages to index and which to skip.

If you are an Internet entrepreneur, your reason for setting up a website is to make money. And you would probably like to make lots and lots of money from the comfort and convenience of your own home. But to get that money, you must have targeted traffic.

Targeted traffic means visitors to your website who have a very high probability of already being interested in buying the products or services you offer.

Many people now a days own a computer, have online access and have a website. More than likely its either a blog of some sort for personal or business reasons or it's a business website. Websites, templates, and hosting packages can be very cheap as long as you research some sites and see what each one offers. Web hosting is by definition a person or company that hosts your website online.

Many people are attracted to the idea of running an internet business. Start up costs are very low, and almost anybody who can send an email and edit a simple document can get started! And we do hear about big winners, those who get to give up their commutes and bosses, and who get to enjoy running their own business.But the sad truth is that most of the people who attempt to prosper online do not make it that far.

When you're building an online business the last thing you want to do is spend your time manually creating html or php files for your website. That's the main reason why content management systems have become so popular. They make it easier for you to focus on getting good solid content online. In the beginning getting a content management system was very expensive.

The large number of businesses that have begun the migration over to the Internet has changed the way that we do business forever. While many of the techniques and methods that have served us well so many times in the past remain effective and in wide use, the nature of the Internet has made it necessary to come up with new ways to manage our businesses.

Almost a week ago I found out that I couldn't send emails using my desktop software such as (Outlook / Thunderbird). After speaking with my high speed internet provider I was told that they had recently started blocking port 25 -- basically stopping me from sending emails.

So after speaking with the tech support staff they told me to try port 587 which didn't work.