Higher ranking in search engines – Simok33′s SEO Tips

If you have a website, you want your website to be rank higher in search results. If your site does show up high in the list of Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other search engine, you want people to click on your link. To attract more people you need a good title, meta description and tags.

Here are some tips:

• Use a short, but clever title that is related to the content of your site
• Make sure that your meta description is not to long and more important attractive to your target group
• Support your content / site with Keywords related to the article the visitor will find after clicking on the link
• Try to have at least 10 Keywords for each post
• Do not use to many Keywords, around 20 is more than enough

I hope this tips were useful for you and if they are please leave a comment

Link Exchange – Simok33′s SEO Tips

Getting your website ranked higher is for sure a goal you want to achieve. But be careful what you do, because not everything you can do will help your site. Even worse some action can even harm your site. Today I would like to share a tip about buying links and link exchange in general.

Important thing to know is, buying links for/to your site and building meaningless link exchange is definitely not a good idea. Google has ways to detect paid links and link exchange programs. Therefore those links wont help you to rank your site higher and in the worse case your site can even be banished from search results.

Password security

We all use many different kind of online services such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn as well as Email and online Banking. To access them we need an username and a password. But many people make the mistake and use very easy passwords that often is a combination of their name and date of birth. People ask me how to make a very secure password. Here are some tips to make your password stronger.

First Tip…

The “An important notice about insufficient funds in your Chase account” SCAM Email

I got a new SCAM Email today and would like to share it with you. This time the sender pretend to be from “JPMorgan Chase & Co”. The Email seems to come from Chase <account-confirm@chase.com> and looks like a real Email from that company.

But similar like the Scam that pretend to come from the Canada Revenue Agency (Careful SCAM Email), I posted a while ago, the links in that Email are the fake. Even the link to the “official” website is connected to a site that is fake. Because the scammer really tried to make the Email looking real I would like to post here an image of the Email I got.

To secure that people can find my post based on the text in the Email, I would like to post the text too:

Dear client,

This is your official notification that the service(s) listed below will be deactivated and deleted if not renew immediately.Previous notifications have been sent to the Billing Contact assigned to your account.

As the Primary Contact, you must renew the service(s) listed below:

SERVICE: Chase Online and Bill Pay services.
EXPIRATION: October, 6, 2010

What you need to do:

1. Log in to your account at www.Chase.com, by clicking the URL.
2. Enter your user ID and Password (that you selected during the online enrollment process).
3. Enter the requested information and your Chase Online and Bill Pay services will be renew.

If you have not signed up for online access, you can enroll easily by clicking “Enroll” at the bottom of the Login page.

Please do not reply to this message. For questions, please call Customer Service at the number on the back of your card. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Sincerely,

Carter Franke
Chief Marketing Officer
CardMember Services

This site is directed at persons in the United States only. Persons outside the United States may visit International Banking .

Links to third party sites are provided for your convenience by JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Chase neither endorses nor guarantees any offerings of the third party providers, nor does JPMorgan Chase make any representation or warranty of any kind about the content, use of or inability to use, the third party sites.

© 2010 JPMorgan Chase & Co

To secure that you do not click on a link per accident I deleted all the links in that Email. But all of them are linked to a website where my system was sending me many warnings, not to open it.

At this point I really would like to recommend again the Browser Plugin from WebOfTrust. WebOfTrust (WoT) is a community driven tool, that shows you which websites you can trust and what sites you should better not open at all. If you like just check it out and decide for yourself if you want to install it. I use it already for quite a while and I am very happy.

So I hope my post will protect you from that SCAM and like always I would appreciate any comments on that.

Surf save folks

Bell Canada – payment of bill – SCAM

Got an Email from “Bell” that they where unable to process my payment. The Email was sent from Bell.Canada@turnerbikes.com. I checked the domain and came straight to a website where you can get parts for your bike. I was asking myself if the company knows that someone is using their domain for scamming…

In the Email was a link, of course. Unfortunately the link didn’t worked. To bad I really wanted to see if I would be linked to turnerbikes.com or a different website. For you to review here the Email I got:

This e-mail has been sent to you by Bell Canada to inform you that we were unable to process your most recent payment of bill. This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information. (eg: billing address, phone)
2. Submitting incorrect information during bill payment process.

Due to this, to ensure that your service is not interrupted, we request you to confirm and update your Bell Profile with the billing information today by clicking Billing

Billing <link to a website>

If you have already confirmed your billing information then please disregard this message as we are processing the changes you have made.
After you confirm your billing information you can use your account as usual.

Regards,
Bell Canada
Billing Department

For your protection I disabled the link. I would like to post as well something you can find on the Bell.ca website

Bell takes fraud very seriously. We are working with the appropriate authorities to protect consumers from people who use our name to commit fraud, but it is an ongoing problem for every large service business .

What is telemarketing fraud?

Some of our customers have had calls from fraudulent telemarketing “operators” claiming to be from Bell. For example, the operators may try to sell new rate plans (which are phony) or they may tell you that they’re updating your account and want you to “confirm” details. Their goal is to trick you into releasing personal information like credit card numbers or social insurance numbers, which can then be used for further fraud.

If you get a suspicious call:

• Do not give out your personal information. Legitimate companies will never call or e-mail their customers requesting information such as passwords, bank account information or a credit card number, unless they are responding directly to an inquiry you know you have made (See Bell’s Privacy article.)
• If you suspect that you are speaking with a fraud telemarketer, you should end the call and contact the business or organization through its regular channels, for example, 310-Bell.

If you think you’ve given information to fraudsters

• If you think that you have given personal information to a fraud operator posing as a Bell representative, please call 310-Bell (2355) immediately. Give us as much information as possible about the exact date and time of the call.
• If you think you’ve been a target of any type of phone or internet fraud, you should also call PhoneBusters, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Call Centre, at 1-888-495-8501 or contact phonebusters.com.

Education is your best protection.

• Beware of suspiciously generous offers or prizes from any company.
• Look out for aggressive marketing tactics, pressure to “act now,” instructions to pay administrative fees for the delivery of a prize or product, etc.
• Very short offer-expiry dates are often a sign of a scam. Short expiries reduce the risk of the fraudster being traced by authorities.
• Buy a shredder so you can destroy personal documents that you no longer need. You can be targeted for identity theft by fraud artists who find credit-card bills, etc., in your recycling.
• Be cautious about posting personal information on public websites as those details can be used by fraudsters to convince you that they represent Bell or other companies.
• Learn about “phishing” and Internet fraud and take steps to protect yourself.

Want more information?

See Bell’s Privacy Policy

As you can see Bell takes fraud serious. If you get an Email, especially if it is unexpected, try to figure out where the Email comes from. Many scammer fake that they are the “real” deal. Look at the “Reply To” part of the Email as well. If you are not sure, go to the “official” website like Bell.ca in the case of the Email I posted today, and contact the company direct. Use the number provided on the real website and not the one provided in the Email.

In my post about the Scam Email pretending to be sent from the Canada Revenue Agency (Careful SCAM Email) you can see that they are telling you NOT to contact the costumer service department. Ask yourself, why shouldn’t you??? If they are serious they want you to be able to double check.

I hope my post today will help as many people as my other post:

• The IABL (international association of business leaders) scam
• Trackingyouservice (Hello private client) SCAM

Please be so kind and leave a comment and as always I hope you will surf save the net