Accept Online Payments - Introduction To Online Payment Processing

If you are new to ecommerce and need a payment processing solution for your website, then this article will be of interest to you. There are several different ways to process payments for your internet business. We will outline each of the avenues available to you so you can select one that is right for your particular business.
If you own a store and are simply setting up a website to give your customers the ability to purchase your products online, then you probably already have a merchant account that you use to process credit card transactions. If this is the case, then you do not really need to process customer payments through your website; you can simply post an order form on your website for your customers to print so that they can fill it out and fax their orders into you. Then, you would just process the payments by entering the orders into your credit card terminal you use in your store. However, if you want to process payments through your website, there are a few different ways to do it.The most common method used by internet merchants to process payments is by signing up with a third-party transaction processing service, such as Paypal. All you need to do is sign up for an account with the third-party, and then you link to their order form from your website and they process the payments for you. The processor charges a transaction fee for each transaction, ranging anywhere from 2% - 15%, depending on the company and the amount of business you transact. Most of these companies can process recurring payments as well (recurring payment processing is necessary if your site sells a membership for which you need to charge your customers on a regular basis).Some of these third-party processors also have the ability to process your orders using an automated phone system. With this method, your customers can call a certain phone number to place an order, and are then prompted to enter a certain code. The order is charged to the telephone bill of the customer.
Also, some third-party merchants offer an online check payment option. This gives your customers the ability to pay for their order by entering the account number and routing number of their checking account on the order form, and then their checking account is automatically debited. It is good to offer this to your customers, because not everyone has a credit card. Offering online check payment processing will help you convert more sales.If you do not want to use an outside company to process your payments for you, then you will need to open your own merchant account. This is not so simple to do. If you open a merchant account at a bank, there might be a monthly service fee of several hundred dollars per month. There are several companies, such as CardService International, that offer cheap online merchant accounts, ranging from $50 - $100 per month. After you open the merchant account, you will need to hire an experienced programmer to create an order form that can process payments and connects directly to your merchant account.I hope this information will help you decide which payment processing solution is appropriate for your online business. If you decide to use a third-party payment processor, just make sure that they have a good service record, because if their systems are frequently down or their order forms do not work too well, then your business will suffer as a result of the lost revenue. If you are starting a multi-million dollar business, then you should probably set up your own merchant account and have a programmer create your own order forms to process your payments.

Tips Voip using N95

1. register as member of gizmo project
2.topup 10usd (for Malaysia RM34.5) to call to another landline or mobile and free for same gizmo member
3.go to the gizmo website download gizmo mobile using pc or via sms using wifi for N95 software
4.lastly you can call to everyone in the world with the lowest rate...like call my mom in downtown(kampung) at kemaman Terengganu with cost RM4 or RM5/hour instead of Normal charge about RM30 - RM40..
5. so Happy be gizmo member..... :)

Voip - The Voip Revolution

More and more persons and companies seem to realize lately that technology is working to their advantage. This is how they’ve come to discover the numberless opportunities offered by the VoIP technology and how easy it can be to make Pc to Phone calls.VoIP, meaning Voice over Internet Protocol, is an innovative highly advanced technology that allows audio data transmission by means of an internet connection. The major advantage of the VoIP technology is the possibility to lower the prices very much and maintain a high quality of the Pc to Phone calls at the same time. Thanks to these features, the VoIP technology is now being extensively used not only by large or small companies using Pc to Phone services, but also by lots of individual persons who use Voice Chat or Pc to Phone services. Depending on the VoIP provider, users might need a personal computer, a special VoIP phone or a traditional phone connected to a special adapter. Some VoIP services may only allow you to call other people using the same service, but others are less restrictive and may consent to calling just about anyone who has a phone number, including local, long distance, mobile, and international numbers.There is no joke or dream. Indeed, anyone can make local, long distance or international Pc to Phone calls, which means that the voice conversation initiated by someone from his personal computer (PC) can be routed over the Internet or through any other IP-based network to a phone. In other words, Pc to Phone means calling a phone number from a Pc with an internet connection. The voice is converted into a digital signal that travels over the Internet. When calling a regular phone number, the signal is converted to a regular telephone signal before it reaches the destination. This is by far the most beneficial service, with large functionality, providing an outstanding quality at the same time.Pc to Phone service is qualitatively superior to any other voice chat free service. More than that, when using Pc to Phone services, the person at the other end of the “wire” is not compelled to have an internet connection. A simple phone line will do; and if you don’t have a phone line in your house, then you can use a public phone booth. However, in order to generate Pc to Phone calls, you need to have a personal computer with a standard internet connection, minimally a dial-up connection. The moment the conversation is started, you must be connected to the internet. Specialists recommend using headsets when making calls through VoIP services. The model of the headset you want to use is entirely up to your preferences or budget. USB headsets often offer higher quality than sound card headsets, but they are a little bit more expensive on the market. In all cases, do not use desktop speakers for listening to the call. Although the quality may sound fine to you, the people you call will hear a disturbing echo. All in all, the audio quality on the VoIP-based networks is equal to the quality of standard fixed telephone lines. And when minor details, such as always using headsets during conversation, are complied with, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the highest voice quality and the lowest delays in the communication field.

Initial review of the Nokia N93 VoIP features

The Nokia N93 is clearly one of the most advanced 3G phones available in the market as of today. It comes with an extensive connectivity support via GSM, WCDMA, WiFi, Bluetooth and Infrared connections. One of the most interesting features that made me buy this phone is the availability of WiFi along with a SIP stack. Do not expect however that setting up a N93 for VoIP calls over WiFi is for common mortals. It takes some serious hacking to finally get the WiFi connection up and running and the SIP connectivity configuration to work correctly.

The first thing that seemed unnatural to me is that the WiFi connection setup is not as you may expect part of the "Connectivity" set of configuration applets but rather part of the "Tools->Settings->Connection->Access points " screen. I would say that Nokia did a really good job making it so difficult for users to find that configuration screen. One you got that, it is a pretty usual way of setting up a WiFi connection. I have only used it with WEP security and it worked fine for me in that mode. Surfing the web over WiFi from your N93 is great and I thought that Nokia did a great job with the integrated web browser in their 3G phones.

As the N93 comes with a complete SIP stack that is supposedly ready to allow you to use the N93 over an all-IP network to establish SIP sessions for voice calls and other SIP based interactions, it immediately assumed that such a thing would work pretty fine with the WiFi access point. The SIP configuration setup is clearly not an obvious thing for common users but it is pretty straightforward for anyone familiar with SIP network architectures (or 3GPP IMS by the way) and the SIP protocol. Accessible from the same place than the WiFi Access point configuration, you can start using it by creating a new profile.

A couple of things that I found out through ethereal traffic captures and multiple tests in different configurations may save you some time:

1. First and foremost, you can not establish any SIP session unless your registration was successful. Honestly this has nothing to do with the SIP protocol itself but is rather a way of ensuring some control over what things you can do with your N93 phone. Mandatory registration makes it more difficult for common mortals to just use the N93 to make VoIP calls in a P2P configuration without going through a SIP or a 3GPP IMS infrastructure.
2. You can not have a successful registration unless the SIP proxy and the registrar server (or the CSCF) are in the same subnet than the IP address that you obtained via the WiFi access point. Again, this is simply another restriction to ensure that you can not freely use your N93 to make VoIP calls. By restricting the registrar to be in the same subnet than your N93's IP address, you are forced to register with a server in the WiFi service provider's network. It appears to me that Nokia has integrated WiFi and VoIP over WiFi only to meet the needs of enterprise customers for calls made only within the enterprise's WiFi network or for a combined offer of WiFi and other access networks from the same service provider.
3. You need to specify the registrar and the proxy addresses as a SIP URI and not simply as an IP address. The registrar server URI should be "sip:domain" where domain is just your domain name not including the host name. In general this is the same thing than the realm.
   
4. There is no integrated SIP phone client in the N93, so you need to find one or you need to create your own Symbian client :)

I have only tested the IETF profile and not yet the Nokia 3GPP profile of the SIP stack. Soon I will be testing the phone SIP capabilities to establish SIP sessions both in an IETF SIP network architecture as well as in a 3GPP compliant SIP architecture. As I could not find a usable free SIP client, I will be using one of our own IMS application clients for Music Sharing.

Stay tuned....

Step by step configuration of the SIP stack on the Nokia N93

Now that I finally found a free screen capture program that supports the Nokia N93 (thanks to the excellent 3lib page and to Antony Pranata for his free tool which really works on S60 3rd edition), I can finally include screen shots of the N93 to support this step by step guide.

Before jumping into the SIP stack configuration, I am using WiFi to provide the IP connectivity for the SIP stack and therefore a WLAN access point needs to be configured. This procedure is pretty straightforward once you know where to start :)

1. Go into the "Connectivity" screen and select the "Conn. mgr."
2. Select "Avalab. WLAN" to browse the available WLAN access points
3. Select the WLAN access point you would like to configure and then select the menu option "Define access point" to configure that access point and make it available to applications requiring a data connection.

Once the access point is configured, Go to the "tools->Settings" application to setup the SIP stack.

1. Select "Connection"
2. Select "SIP settings"
3. Select menu "Options->Add new" to create a new SIP configuration either using the default profile or an existing profile. This should open the configuration settings for the new profile where we will setup the stack parameters as well as the proxy and registrar servers.

4. Give a name to the profile, select IETF as a service profile for the SIP stack and select an access point to be used for the data connection. This could be the WLAN access point configured just before.
   Setup the public user name of the SIP user that will be used in sessions created via the SIP stack. This public user is in the form of a SIP URI ( sip:user@domain).
5. Do not use compression or security as this will activate SIP header compression and secure connections which require special features in the SIP stack on the other side (network) unless of course you need them and you are sure that the servers on the other side support them.
   Leave the "Registration" option as is for now.
   
6. Select the "Proxy server" option to setup the proxy.
   

7. This will open a new screen that allows to setup the parameters for the SIP proxy available in the network.
   Setup the proxy address using a SIP URI in the form of " sip:hostnameaddress" where the host name or the IP address refer to the proxy server.
   Setup the real name for SIP authentication. This is in general the same thing than the domain name for simplification but can be different.
   Configure the user name and password used for the SIP authentication. The user name can be the same than the user part of the public identity or a completely different name. Just make sure that this corresponds to the user configured at the proxy level or at the HSS in an IMS network.
8. Set the "Allow loose routing" to "Yes".
   Make sure you use the "TCP" transport for the SIP connection and set the port number according to what the proxy/CSCF configuration. The UDP transport has problems and does not work. If you find out why or how it make it work, please let me know.
   

9. When done with the proxy configuration, select "Back" and then "Registrar server" to also setup the registrar. Without that, the SIP stack will not be usable.
10. Setup the registrar address using a SIP URI in the form of "sip:domain" where the domain corresponding to the domain name/security real for the SIP servers. Note that contrarily to the proxy server, you do not need (and it will not work if you do so) to specify the server address. The reason is that the REGISTER messages sent by the stack will actually go through the proxy and not directly to the registrar. Traffic routing rules (like Initial Filter Criteria in the CSCF) will proxy that message to the appropriate registrar.
11. Configure the user name and password used for the SIP registration. This is in general the same name used for the SIP authentication.
12. Make sure you use the "TCP" transport for the SIP connection and set the port number according to the proxy/CSCF configuration (see step 8 above).

When done with the proxy and the registrar configurations, the stack is ready to use and we can test that by requesting an immediate registration with the SIP network. To do so, you can go back to the SIP profile configuration and change the "Registration" option to "Always on". That will have the effect of immediately attempting to register with the network.

If things go wrong, check again the proxy address, port number and that it does support the TCP transport. Check the user name and password used for the proxy authentication and the registration and that the user is actually configured at the proxy/registrar/HSS.

When nothing helps, there is still ethereal (wireshark as it is called now) that can be run at the CSCF/proxy level to capture the traffic and analyze the SIP messages sent by the N93 to the proxy.

This will still not allow you to make VoIP calls with the N93 unless of course you have a SIP phone client that runs on the S60 3rd edition, but that will be another story...

Pay Per Click Formula - Pay-Per-Click - Formula For Success

Affiliate marketers are keen at finding ways to get merchants in front of potential customers. There's article marketing, building niche websites, forum marketing, social network marketing, and pay-per-click, to name a few.

Which Formula Is Right For You?

Each of these marketing strategies varies widely in the amount of time and money invested to capture targeted traffic to merchant goods and services. For instance, forum marketing and social network marketing require very little time or money. Article marketing requires no investment of capital, but can take a great deal of time depending on how efficient you are as a writer. Building niche websites is even more time-consuming, plus you have to shell out funds to purchase a domain name and cover hosting fees. All of these methods are great ways to earn income by driving targeted traffic to merchants who pay a commission on each sale you generate for them.

But there is another highly lucrative business model that you might want to consider. Now be warned, perfecting this method is not easy. Simple mistakes in your execution could cost you hundreds of dollars. But if you can decipher the formula, pay-per-click advertising, or can pay off handsomely.

More specifically, we're talking about the pay-per-click to cost-per-acquisition business model, also known as PPC to CPA or traffic brokering. If you have been in the internet marketing arena for any length of time, you have at least a general idea about the marketing methods discussed above, but very little is talked about or even known about using PPC to drive laser-targeted traffic to lead offers. Now generally, CPA offers pay less than a few dollars for each lead generated, but if you know the formula for capturing pay-per-click traffic that converts, there is the potential to make hundreds and even thousands of dollars a day.

The method behind using PPC to drive traffic to high-converting CPA offers is to get your pay-per-click ad in front of as many qualified visitors as possible. There are many different underground techniques to do this (they are "underground" because a very large majority of PPC marketers do not use or even know about these strategies). Now, you shouldn't be buying ads targeting general keywords and phrases, that would be silly. Not only will you get tons of untargeted traffic, your ad costs would be astronomical. What you want to do is target some of the lesser-known search terms – terms that even the most savvy PPC marketer wouldn't think of bidding on. You essentially want to cast a wide net which targets as much traffic as possible, while keeping your costs as low as possible. This is the key to creating the perfect pay-per-click formula.


Why Is Pay-Per-Click to CPA Info Hard-To-Find?

There is very little information on the Internet about PPC to CPA marketing. Maybe it's because this method is so new and smart PPC marketers are still trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. Or maybe it's so obtuse that there is no one right way to do it. The most likely reason is this – the guys making the big bucks have secretly discovered the ideal pay-per-click formula and are keeping it all to themselves.

What You Need To Know About Gps

What It Is and How It Works – For those who are unfamiliar with the term, GPS stands for Global Positioning System. It's a method of finding a receiver anywhere on earth or in orbit, and it's probably one of the most important inventions of the 20th century. GPS has so many different applications that many technologies and ways of working are continually being improved in order to make the most of it. Now why is GPS so important and useful? First, we have to understand how it works.

In order to work, a satellite network orbiting the earth is used. These satellites each broadcast a specific signal, which is received by inexpensive aerials and passed on to GPS devices where it is then decoded and used by dedicated software. The information garnered from these signals allows the GPS software to identify the satellite, its specific location, and even calculate the exact time it took for the signal to travel from the satellite to the receiver. Using different signals from different satellites, the GPS software can now analyze the position of the receiver, in terms of latitude and longitude.

Mapping It Out – Knowing where the device is in space is one thing, but it is fairly useless information without something to compare it with. This is where the mapping comes in handy; thru this, GPS can analyze our location and maps out possible routes. In fact, it is often the mapping data which elevates the price of the GPS solution. It must be accurate and updated reasonably frequently.

There are several kinds of maps, and each is intended for different users with different needs. Road users, for example, require that their mapping data contains accurate information about the road network in the region that they will be traveling in, but will not require detailed information about the lie of the land. On the other hand, hiking GPS users might wish to have a detailed map of the terrain, rivers, hills and so forth, and perhaps tracks and trails, but not roads. On the other hand, sailors will need specific data about the sea bed, navigable channels, and other related information that will allow them to navigate safely.

And what about fishermen? They also use marine GPS to keep track of the movements of fish in real time and to predict where they'll be the next day. In fact, cooperative fishing has become much easier with GPS, allowing boats to relay locations to each other while looking for the best fishing spots. There are also GPS devices called "fish finders", which combines GPS and sonar functions to track and store detailed fishing and maritime information.

Get Started with GPS – Consumers can avail of several GPS devices that are specifically designed for a variety of uses and functions. In-car systems have advanced features like voice guidance, dynamic route calculations, and even upgrading your maps from a CD-ROM. Rugged handheld GPS devices, like those from Garmin and Magellan, have a map inside and are usually used for outdoor activities. They do not have detailed road information and the user has to find his own way from point A to point B without any route calculations.

A more recent solution has appeared on the market which uses the power of a PDA to run the actual GPS software. A GPS receiver can be easily attached to these devices, which makes them possibly the cheapest and easiest GPS receivers to use in the market today. Bluetooth technology has also started to make use of GPS, using a single PDA device wirelessly connected to several receivers.

Giliran Pelaburan Buy Barrel di Semak

SOALAN

"Mohd.Fuard Kasri" < per_7869@yahoo.com.my > wrote:

Assalamualaikum Ustaz Zaharuddin.

Sekarang timbul pula satu lagi pelaburan di internet sedang 'panas' di utara iaitu http://www.buyebarrel.com/. Dari pelan yang dinyatakan ia samalah dengan yang lain-lainnya. Saya cuba mengedarkan risalah yang telah ustaz ulas.Saya kata khinzir kalau kita tukar nama lain, ia tetap najis mughalazzah.Minta ustaz buka laman web ini dan ulas segera, di Perlis depa tengah giat promosi. Please reply

JAWAPAN

wa'alaikumussalam,

Saya telah buka web di atas dan membuat bacaan perlu dalam semua info yang boleh dibaca oleh public.

Bagaimanapun, saya pohon maaf kerana tidak sempat untuk tulis panjang-panjang. dan membaca satu demi satu tentang buy barrel. Terutamanya info lengkap tentang pelaburan ini hanya boleh dilawati oleh ahli buy barrel sahaja.

Saya hanya nak sebut satu point berkenaan buy barrel yang pastinya menjadikan ia syubhah. Saya tak kata 'haram' kerana tidak buat kajian menyeluruh lagi dan tiada masa untuk membuatnya. Cuma dengan kajian ringkas pun telah dapati pelabagi masalah yang boleh menjadikan pelaburan ini antara haram dan syubhah. Tiada yang 'pasti' halal. di dalamnya.

Isu Pertama : Keterlibatan Dalam Pasaran Matawang

iaitu disebutkan di webnya bahawa

Who manages the funds?
You can rest assured that the funds are managed by a team of professionals of high calibre and knowledgeable about current trend of the oil trading and foreign currency trading industry.

Respond :

Cuba anda lihat apa pelaburannya ?

1. Oil trading - inshaAllah ok dari sudut hukumnya

2. Foreign Currency trading - ini bermasalah besar.

Ini kerana bagi pelabur matawang seperti mereka, kebiasaannya mereka akan terlibat dengan RIBA..Sebagaimana yang telah saya sebutkan beberapa cara mendapatkan untung dari perniagaan foreign currency. telah diputuskan oleh Majlis Fiqh Sedunia bahawa terlalu banyak instrumen haram di gunakan dalam foreign currencies trading. Ini pasti apabila pihak buy barrel sendiri telah mengaku mereka guna semua instrument yang ada di pasaran untuk cipta keuntungan .

Di sebut di web mereka

"Buyebarrel is fully dedicated to each and every of its members by ensuring their investments are handled by diligent and highly experienced professionals using the most high tech trading tools and mechanism available in the market today."

Ini jelas menunjukkan ia menggunakan semua instrument pasaran mawatang yang ada di dunia, yang mana hampir kesmeuanya instrument tersbeut telah dibicnang oleh Majlis Kesatuan Ulama Sedunia dan keputusannya adalah haram dengan sebab yang pelbagai. Sila baca masalah Shariah dalam perniagaan matawang di link ini :

http://www.zaharuddin.net/v1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=157&Itemid=72

Isu Kedua : Gharar dalam Aqad Pelaburannya

Selain itu, tahap 'gharar' atau 'uncertainty' bagi jenis-jenis pelaburan ini juga amat tinggi. Ini kerana pelaburan ini tiada mempunyai apa-apa dokumen perjanjian pelaburan yang boleh di bawa ke mahkamah jika berlaku penipuan.

Cuba anda bayangkan, anda hanya boleh monitor pelaburan anda di inetrnet. dan jika anda lupa password, di jawab di FAQ Buybarrel:-

What if I have forgotten my password?
Please send a message to our customer support on "Contact Us" page. Your message should include your user name,nick name, email address and identification number. Our customer service will check and contact you.

Itu sahaja?? apa akan jadi jika mereka tidak call, bolehkah anda call mereka? no, tiada sebarang nombor diberikan. tiada sebarang alamat. Perkara ini walaupun anda nampak kecil, tetapi ia boleh menyebabkan orang yang melabur duit ribu-ribu ditipu.

Apabila unsur gharar fahisyh (besar) seperti ini wujud, maka telah ijma seluruh ulama bahawa jenis gharar ini menyebabkan sesebuah aqad terganggu kesohihannya atau terbatal menurut Shariah Islam. (Bidayatul Mujtahid Wa Nihayatul Muqtasid, Ibn Rusd Al-Hafid, 2/153)

Semua jenis aqad pelaburan internet yang tiada 'proper investment contract' , termasuk dalam katergori ini juga adalah Winlifund, ABB fund, Arabic Fnd dan yang sepertinya. Ia semuanya termasuk dalam kategori gharar yang ditegah oleh Nabi SAW.

Dalil pengharamannya adalah dari hadith Nabi SAW :

نهى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن بيع الغرر

Ertinya : "Nabi SAW melarang dari berjual beli dengan kewujudan Gharar" ( Riwayat Muslim, 5/3 )

Isu Ketiga : Isu Seperti Jaminan Untung

Disebut juga dalam web buy barrel

We also provide a team of highly trained and experienced customer support group to attend to all your queries in every aspect of your investment promptly. Buyebarrel gives you the assurance of a peace of mind while your money is multiply.

Sesebuah pelaburan Islam tidak boleh memberi sebarang 'assurance' your money is multiply. Ia mempunyai elemen jaminan untung yang sama seperti abb, winli, arabic dan lain-lain. So hati-hati, akibat tiada penasihat Shariah mereka berkata seperti ini.

demikian kajian ringkas,

terpulang kepada anda untuk meneruskannya atau berhenti. tanya Iman, adakah ia boleh memberikan keuntungan kepada alam barzakh dan akhirat kita sebelum tanya apa yang duit itu boleh bagi kepada kita di dunia yang sekejap ini.

Pelru dinggat bahawa info yang saya tulis ini adalah berdasarkan apa yang tercatat di webnya pada tanggal 27 Feb 2007. Jawapan ini tidak lagi 'valid' jika terdapat sebarang perubahan di sana.

Jika anda mengeluh sambil berkata "apa ni, semuanya haram", jawapannya anda silap dan saya sertakan sekali lagi tempat pelaburan Islam alternatif yang telah di 'COP' HALAL:-

a) Anda boleh buka akaun pelaburan di mana-mana Bank Islam di Malaysia, cuba buka senarai bank dan perbankan islam yang menawarkan tabung pelaburan Islam Mudarabah di pautan berikut:-

http://www.iplanner.org

atau

http://www.freeforum101.com/jordanian/viewtopic.php?t=92&sid=8cdb2b6fae7b713e3cae18b4f39271b4&mforum=jordanian

b) Anda boleh melabur di luar negara di Tabung Pelaburan yang Menuruti Shariah di http://www.investaaa.com/ atau http://www.albaraka.com/index.htm

c) Anda boleh membeli saham-saham atau melabur di saham amanah islam di tawarkan oleh mana-mana Bank Islam, Institusi Kewangan dan lain-lain Syarikat yang menawarkannya dengan syarat ia diktiraf sebagai Saham Amanah Islam. Selain itu boleh juga membeli 'Islamic bond' atau Sukuk' yang diiktiraf menepati Shariah oleh Majlis Penasihat Shariah, Suruhanjaya Sekuriti, untuk info lanjut sila buka:-

• http://www.sc.com.my/eng/html/icm/listofIBond.html
• http://www.sc.com.my/eng/html/icm/listofMIF.html
• http://www.sc.com.my/eng/html/icm/sas/syariahOct06.pdf

Adapun, untuk mengetahui cara membeli, terpaksalah anda membuat sedikit usaha mencari nombor syarikat-syarikat dan institusi terbabit. Dengan ini saya harap, tiada lagi individu yang mempertikaikan tiadanya alternatif untuk pelaburan yang memenuhi syarat-syarat Shariah. Jika anda keliru dan was-was untuk menggunakannya walaupun ia telah di sahkan halal oleh Majlis Penasihat SC atau Institusi-institusi yang menawarkan itu, anda bolehlah membaca artikel saya bertajuk " Haruskah guna sesuatu dengan tanda 'halal" atau "islam" tanpa selidik?" atau terus buka di pautan :-

http://www.zaharuddin.net/v1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=194&Itemid=72

sekian.

Ust Zaharuddin Abd Rahman

http://www.zaharuddin.net/

27 feb 2007

Mp3 Players And Your Hearing Health

So many people are using mp3 players and iPods on an everyday basis more and more. This rising trend attracts all people who like to listen to non-stop music on the bus, in the car, while working out or just while relaxing at home. While there have been many studies on the positive effects music can have on a person, having small earphones stuffed in your ears while playing loud music can be detrimental to your hearing. Studies have shown that using small earpieces that are inserted inside of the ear creates a sound that is nine decibels higher than that of regular headphones that cover the whole ear. Nine decibels may not sound like a lot, but to put it in perspective it is about the same difference of an alarm clock to a lawn mower. It is also important to note that the type of earphones that fit inside the ear are less effective at blocking out background noises, giving the listener more incentive to turn up the volume. While no one can be sure what the average volume mp3 listeners are cranking their volumes to, a recent study compiled in Australia showed that a quarter of the listeners between the ages of 18 and 54 are listening to music at levels that could potentially cause long term hearing loss.

High levels of music produced by mp3 technology can cause hearing loss because the sound waves damage the hair cells in the cochlea; a part of the ear which transmits sound information to your brain. Any sound higher than 90 decibels can cause long term hearing loss if the sound is prolonged, and most mp3 players have the technological capabilities of reaching 120 decibels. That is equivalent to an ambulance siren.

You can’t measure the decibel level of your mp3 player, but you might be listening to your music too loud if your player is over 60% of the maximum volume, you can’t hear conversations that are happening around you, other people can hear your music, or you find yourself yelling or talking loudly to people nearby.

There is no need to stop using your mp3 player, and most people wouldn’t anyways, considering the great joys they get out of the technology, but there are ways you can ensure your hearing is healthy. Just follow the steps above and you will be sure to have excellent ear health as well as pleasurable non-stop music technology for many years to come.

Four Companies Win WiMax Licences

KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 (Bernama) -- Four companies -- Bizsurf (M) Sdn Bhd, MIB Comm Sdn Bhd, Asiaspace Dotcom Sdn Bhd and Redtone-CNX Broadband Sdn Bhd -- have won the 2.3GHz broadband wireless access spectrum or WiMax licences.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) announced Friday that all the licences, except that of Redtone-CNX, would cover areas in Peninsular Malaysia.

Redtone-CNX has been awarded the licence to operate in Sabah and Sarawak.

Bizsurf is a unit of YTL e-Solutions while MIB Comm is owned by Green Packet Bhd.

The MCMC said all the winners are expected to quickly roll out the service to 25 percent of the population in the area given to them by end of this year, with a service provision of at least 1MBps at affordable rates.

"At the end of third year, it is expected that they will be able to roll services to at least 40 percent of the population in the areas given to them," it said in a statement.

Each of the companies is expected to invest between RM250 million and RM300 million in the first three years of the WiMax implementation.

According to the MCMC, the evaluation of applicants for the licences took into consideration several factors, including the multiple technology strategy that will be used in expanding broadband, which is fixed line (fibre to the home), wireless broadband as well as 3G High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA).

Another factor was the wireless broadband spectrum on 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.4GHz that have been allocated to last-mile operators (small and medium enterprises or SMEs) in the past few years.

The evaluation also took into consideration that 2.3GHz similar to 2.5GHz and 3.4GHz is designated more for SMEs, the commission said.

The MCMC said the roll-out of the 2.3GHz band will complement the implementation of the MyICMS 886 strategy whereby it is targeted that broadband penetration reaches 75 percent of households by 2010.

"The MCMC hopes that the provision of lines by way of wireless technology, which is faster and more affordable, would assist in meeting the targets of the MyICMS 886 strategy," it said.

According to the commission, the roll-out of WiMax service will also support secured and reliable networks compared to the use of WiFi (wireless fidelity).

"As consumers are demanding more reliability and availability, service providers have to use spectrums that can give bandwidth and speed," it said

WiMax, which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is described as a "standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last-mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL (direct subscriber line)".

While it allows for triple play (voice, video and Internet), it is expected to include quad play as well (voice, video, Internet and mobility).

WiMax enables deliverables of bandwidth between two points or between a point to multipoint to consumer.

The usage of WiMax requires certain bandwith of spectrum to be allocated to the service provider, in accordance to the channelling plan approved by MCMC.

-- BERNAMA

make money online

We all heard about making money online. The question is how do you rely start making money online today. I am going to share with you on how you can start making money online without having a website, not knowing anything about web design, and not spending much money. That is right you do not have to have any knowledge of HTML code. All you have to know is how to type. There are hundreds of courses on the internet charging you hundreds of dollar for the information I am about to share with you. Do not spend any money on any online marketing tools until you read this.

The one way to take advantage of Google AdWords is to become affiliate. Affiliate marketing is where someone advertises for another website and in return that person receives commission for each sale their advertising brigs to that website. Here's an example: Let's say I want to sell Laptop Computers, but I don't have a website and/or I don't have any computers to sell. Well instead of starting a company, I can just find a company online which already sells computers and offers an affiliate program. Now that I have searched and found a company, I look at what they offer. Let's say they are giving 10% commission on every sale I make. I decide to use that company and I set up my affiliate account with them and they give me a special URL (a web address that will let the company know that it was my advertising which gave them the sale), which I use in my advertisements. Now I make ad advertisement, and display it on Google. Whenever someone sees and clicks on my advertisement it will go to the company's webpage. Let's say that one hundred people clicked on my text advertisement and one of them buys a computer that cost $1,200. Because that person who bought the computer clicked on my advertisement that company will give me 10% of $1,200 which means that I made $120.00

Most online companies offer affiliate program. Companies like Best Buy, Circuit City, Office Max, Amazon.com, Buy.com and many more, literally tens of thousands. There are also companies online which all they do is offer other online business a way to have an affiliate program. These affiliate Companies manage affiliate programs for thousands of online companies. This means that if you have an account with Affiliate Company (they are completely free), you can advertise for any of the thousands of companies that use them to manage their affiliate sales. If you want to, you can search Google for affiliate programs just to see how big online marketing currently is.

By using AdWords and high paying affiliate program you can start earning money today. The AdWords advertisements are Pay Per Click (PPC), which means that the owner of that advertisement pays Google every time someone clicks on their advertisement. The main reason for wanting to pay for traffic is because it is very very difficult to receive free traffic on Google. When you sign up for Google AdWords Pay Per Click advertising your advertisement will be displayed almost immediately in Google's search results (usually within 5 minutes). You can also decide which page you want your advertisements to be displayed on ( the first page receives more visitors than the other pages).

It is very simple to start Google AdWords account. Go to www.google.com and look toward the bottom of the page. You will see a link says "Advertising Programs". Once you there, you should click on the link which says Google AdWords. After clicking "Click to Begin", you will be taken to a couple of pages which will ask you how you want to set up your advertising group(s) with Google. Google will send you an email to the email address you specified which will contain a URL that you will need to go to in order to activate your account. After you go to that URL you can log into Google AdWords using your email address as your user name. Now that you have an account set up, you are ready to learn how to create a Campaign so you can begin making money online.

Here is how to create a AdWords campaign in Google. First off to create a new keyword campaign, click the link" Keyword-Targeted" campaign. You will be prompted to name your campaign. Your campaign name is what will be displayed on the first screen when you log into your Google AdWords account. Since you will most likely have several campaigns, when you name your campaign you will want to make sure it is unique name that will let you know exactly what you are advertising in that campaign. Next you will need to name your AdGroup. Remember, you will have several different AdGroups with one Campaign, so name it something that will help you know exactly what keywords are in that AdGroup. Next, you should choose the area(s) where you want your ads to appear. There are three different ways to choose where you want to advertise. You can choose to advertise by Countries and Territories, Regions and Cities, or Customized.

The most important thing you need in order to have a successful Google campaign is a text ad with a high CTR. Text Ads with a high CTR will increase your Quality Score which will increase your overall position.

Things You Should Know:

1. You are not required to have "http:" or "www" in your display URL.

2. Google will not let you capitalize all the letters in all your words, but they
will let you capitalize most of your words.

3. The website must not require additional software to load (example: it
cannot be a .pdf instead of .htm).

4. Back button must be able to go back to Google with one click.

5. You can't have websites that mirror other websites that are advertised for
the same keyword (example: having the same pictures and text but using
a different web address). I know many affiliates do this, but I don't know
how much Google enforces this rule.

6. The website you are advertising cannot have a pop up or pup under ad.

Another key to having a successful online business is making sure that every single person who is even the slightest bit interested in your product sees your advertisement. The best way to do this is by creating a very huge keyword list (thousands of keywords). Some products have many keywords, while others have very few. Usually the more keywords there are available for the product, the better. Not because it is searched more often, but also because most people who are also selling the same product will only select a few general keywords which may be very broad keywords.

When you bid on Google, you will not always pay the price you enter. The price you enter is the MCPC (Maximum Cost Per Click) you are willing to pay for that keyword. Google constantly updating the bids for the keywords in their search engine. For example if your MCPC is $0.15 and the advertiser in front of you is bidding $0.16 and the Ad one position behind you is bidding $0.05, you will only pay $0.06 per click, because there is no reason why you should have to pay $0.15 per click if you can get the same Ad position for $0.06 per click.

Google is a most searched search engine on the internet and with that they are consistently making update and improvement. If you are really serious about making money online or promotion you current business I will make a recommendation that will make you an absolute pro on AdWords. I've spend thousands trying to research best possible ways to market in the internet.

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Making An RSS Feed - Article from Search Engine Watch

RSS is a method of distributing links to content in your web site that
you'd like others to use. In other words, it's a mechanism to &quot;syndicate&quot; your
content.

To understand syndication, consider the &quot;real world&quot;
situation where artist Scott Adams draws a daily
Dilbert cartoon. The cartoon is made
available to any newspaper that cares to run it, in exchange for a fee -- and
2,000 papers in 65 countries do so.

Unlike Scott Adams, syndication of web content via RSS is
unlikely to make you rich. However, it can be an easy way to draw attention to
your material, bringing you some traffic and perhaps a little net fame,
depending on how good your information is.

What Is RSS?

How does RSS syndication work? Say you publish a new web page about a particular topic. You want
others interested in that topic to know about it. By listing the page as an
&quot;item&quot; in your RSS file, you can have the page appear in front of those who read
information using RSS readers or &quot;news aggregators&quot; (explained more in
my sidebar article, RSS: Your Gateway To News &amp; Blog Content). RSS also allows people to easily
add links to your content within their own web pages. Bloggers are a huge core
audience that especially does this.

What does RSS stand for? There's a can of worms. RSS as
introduced by Netscape in 1999 then later abandoned in 2001 stood for &quot;Rich Site Summary.&quot; Another version of RSS pioneered
by UserLand Software stands for &quot;Really Simple Syndication.&quot;
In yet another version, RSS stands for &quot;RDF Site Summary.&quot;

History buffs might be interested that there's been some
rivalry over who invented RSS. This is why we have both different names and
indeed different &quot;flavors&quot; or versions of RSS. Mark Pilgrim's written an
excellent article,
What Is RSS,
that charts the different versions with recommendations on which to use. I'll
also revisit the version choice you'll need to make. But first, let's look more
closely at some basics of what goes into any RSS file.

How Easy Is RSS?
I've been exploring RSS because it was time that Search
Engine Watch offered its own stories in this manner. I've read several tutorials
about making a feed, and they generally suggest that it is easy. They often
offer code that you can &quot;cut-and-paste&quot; and link over to specifications that I
actually don't find that clear.

For example, the RSS 2.0 specification has an &quot;cloud&quot; element that's optional but which a lay
person might still wonder if they should use it. Meanwhile, heaven help the
person who stumbles into the
RSS 1.0 specification and its
complicated RDF syntax.

Sure, making an RSS file IS easy for many. If you
understand HTML, you'll probably understand enough to do a cut-and-paste from
someone else's RSS file to make your own file. Don't know HTML? Start a blog,
because several blogging tools automatically generates RSS files.

As for those non-technical people using WYSIWYG page building tools or personal home page building systems,
have faith. Even you can build an RSS file from scratch, as long as you dispense with some of the extra features you
probably don't need. We'll go through
how to do this below. Later, I'll also mention some
tools that will even do some or all of the work for you.

The RSS File
At the heart of an RSS file are &quot;items.&quot; No matter what
version of RSS you settle on, your file will have to include at least one item. Items are
generally web pages that you'd like others to link to. For example, let's say
you just created a web page reviewing a new cell phone that's being released.
Information about that page would form an item.

To enter your item into the RSS file, you'll need three bits of information:

Title
Description
Link

The title and description of your item need not match exactly the HTML
title tag of the web page that the item refers to, nor the meta description tag, assuming you use these
(don't know what they are? See my How To Use HTML Tags
article). You can write any title and description that you think will describe
the page. However, using your page's title and meta description tag certainly makes it
easy to copy and paste to build your RSS feed.

In the case of our example page, let's say this is the
information we settle on to define it as an item:

Nokia 3650 Combines
Phone And PhotosI've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the
combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html
Now we have to surround that information with XML tags.
These are similar to HTML tags, with the exception that unlike with HTML,
there's no set definition of XML tags. Anyone can make up a particular
XML tag. Whether it is useful depends on the program that reads the resulting
XML file. In the case of RSS feeds, they have their own unique set of XML tags
that are defined. Use these correctly, and then anything that reads RSS will
understand your information.

Did that make your head spin? If so, don't reread -- just
carry on to see how simple it is. First, open a text editor like Notepad. We're going
to build our RSS file using it.

For
your title, you need to start it with the &lt;title&gt; tag, then follow this with the
text of the title, then end with the &lt;/title&gt; tag. It looks like this:

&lt;title&gt;Nokia 3650
Combines Phone And Photos&lt;/title&gt;

For your description, you do the same, starting out with
the opening &lt;description&gt; tag, then following with the actual description, then
&quot;closing&quot; with the &lt;/description&gt; tag. Now you have this:

&lt;title&gt;Nokia 3650
Combines Phone And Photos&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got
the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities
right!&lt;/description&gt;

Next, we add the link information, beginning with &lt;link&gt;,
following with the actual hyperlink, then closing with &lt;/link&gt;. That gives us
this:

&lt;title&gt;Nokia 3650
Combines Phone And Photos&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got
the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities
right!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html&lt;/link&gt;

Now there's one more thing we need to do. We actually have
to define all this information as forming a particular &quot;item,&quot; which we do using
a special item tag.

You place the opening item tag, &lt;item&gt; at the top or start
of all the information we've listed. You then place the closing item tag,
&lt;/item&gt;, at the bottom or &quot;end&quot; of the item information. The finished product
looks like this:

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got
the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities
right!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

Congratulations! You've now made your first item. There's
a bit more to do to finish our RSS file. First, what if we have other items we
want to syndicate? Then we simply add more item elements, just as we did above.
You can have up to 15 items. New items tend to be inserted at the top, with old items removed from
the bottom, to make room for new stuff.

With our example, let's see how things look if we add two
more items:

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got
the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities
right!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest
from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon's
MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use
properly&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

Having defined items we want to distribute, we now have to
define our site as a &quot;channel.&quot; You'll use the same tags as with the items:
title, description and link. However, this time the information will be about
your entire site, rather than a particular page. That means our channel
information would look like this:

&lt;title&gt;All
Gadgets Reviewed&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;If it's a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and
what's not!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com</link>

Now, how does something reading our RSS file know that
the information above is for our &quot;channel&quot; when it looks just like item
information? Simple. As long as we don't surround this information with an
opening and closing &lt;item&gt; tags, it won't be seen as item information but rather
as channel information. That gives us this:

&lt;title&gt;All
Gadgets Reviewed&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;If it's a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and
what's not!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com</link>


&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got
the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities
right!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest
from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon's
MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use
properly&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

There are a few last things we need to do. First, we need to
add a tag at the very top of the file saying that this is written according to
the XML 1.0 specifications. Right under this, we also have to say what RSS
version we are using.

So far, everything we've done is compatible with UserLand's popular RSS 0.91 version. However, it also matches UserLand's latest
RSS 2.0
version, as well, so we'll define the file as meeting that specification. This
will allow us to add other neat features in the future, if we want.

Finally,
after the RSS tag, we need to add an opening &quot;channel&quot; tag. That gives us this
at the top of the file:

&lt;?xml
version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;

&lt;rss version=&quot;2.0&quot;&gt;

&lt;channel&gt;

At the bottom of the file, after all the items we want to
syndicate, we have to insert a closing channel and RSS tag, in that order. Those
look like this:

&lt;/channel&gt;

&lt;/rss&gt;

This means our complete file looks like this:

&lt;?xml
version=&quot;1.0&quot; ?&gt;

&lt;rss version=&quot;2.0&quot;&gt;

&lt;channel&gt;

&lt;title&gt;All
Gadgets Reviewed&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;If it's a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and
what's not!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com</link>


&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got
the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities
right!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest
from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon's
MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use
properly&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html&lt;/link&gt;

&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;/channel&gt;

&lt;/rss&gt;

Mind Blowing
Options
Everything shown above is the bare basics you need to
create a file and start syndicating content from your web site. However, there
are additional things you could do.

For example, rather than your entire
web site being a &quot;channel,&quot; you could actually have different content from
within the web site be defined into separate channels. That's something I'm not
going to explore in this article, but some of the resources below will guide you
through this, when you feel more comfortable.

As hinted at, RSS 2.0 allows you to insert all types of
additional information into your feed. It can make your head spin to look at
these and decide what to use. The easy answer is, don't bother with anything you
don't know. Not every aggregator supports all the options offered. As long as
you provide the minimum information suggested above, you should be fine.

Did I Choose The
Right RSS Version?
Earlier, I'd mentioned there are different versions of RSS.
Even though we entered the bare minimum of information, it turned out that we
were able to have a file that was easily considered to be RSS 2.0, the latest version promoted by UserLand
and which is widely used.

Indeed, the Syndic8 site
reports that the most
popular format of RSS by far is RSS 0.91 -- and though we've used RSS 2.0, our
file as shown is entirely compatible with RSS 0.91. In short, we're in safe
company.

What about that RSS 1.0 version that I said was
complicated. Well, it is complicated. However, some people might want to make
use of some of the special capabilities that it offers. If you are interested in
it, then check out the official
specification.

Saving The File
Now that we're done adding to the file, we need to save
it. But what name shall we give it? I've looked and not seen any guidance on
this. I imagine that's because as long as the file is valid (more below), it
probably doesn't matter what it's called.

To make my own decision for Search Engine Watch, I decided
to imitate what I saw out at UserLand, which promotes the RSS 2.0 standard that
we used. UserLand's example feeds all ended .xml, so let's do the same. As for
the first part, that really can be whatever you like. For our example, let's say
we just call it feed.xml.

Now that our file is saved, we can place it anywhere we
want on our web server. Let's say we put it in the root or home directory. Then
the address to our RSS file would be:

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/feed.xml

Validating The
File
Now our RSS file is done, but did we do it right? To find
out, we need to validate it. Use the aptly named
Feed Validator service. Simply enter the address to your RSS file, and you'll
be told if everything is OK -- or if there's something wrong you need to fix.

How about a quick preview of how your new feed actually
looks? Then pay a visit to
Wytheville Community
College News Center. Again, enter your feed URL, and you'll see the
clickable headlines and story descriptions nicely assembled inside a box.

The service will also generate a JavaScript code that you
can post on your site. Anyone copying the JavaScript can automatically have your
feed syndicated into their pages -- pretty neat!

Get Syndicated!
Now that your file is validated, you want the world to
know about it! To make this happen, visit the RSS directories and search engines
listed in the RSS: Your Gateway To News &amp; Blog Content article. They generally offer submission
pages, where you can inform them of your feed.

You also want to make sure people who come to your web
site see that you provide a feed. It's very common to post a link to the feed
somewhere on the home page of a web site. If you&nbsp;have a dedicated news
page, you may want to put it there, as well.

You can link to your feed with an ordinary HTML link.
However, many sites use a small orange XML icon to link to the feed. I've also seen
some sites use blue RSS icon. I could find no standard about using these. So, to be safe, I did all three with Search Engine
Watch. Look on the home page, and
you'll see how it's done (and help yourself to the icons, if you need them).

Finally, it's good to &quot;ping&quot; one of the major services
that track when web logs and RSS content changes. By doing this, you ensure that
other sites that monitor these know to check back at your site for more content.

Weblogs.com is one
of these major sites. Enter your site's name and the URL of your feed into the
manual Ping-Site Form, and
it will know you've updated your feed. The
Specs page explains how to
set up automatic notification.

blo.gs is another major
change monitoring site. It is supposed to receive any changes that come from
Weblogs.com, so you shouldn't need to notify it separately. However, if you want
to be on the safe side, it's easily done. Use the
ping form, which also explains how to set
up automatic pinging, as well.

Tutorials &amp;
Resources

RSS Headline
Creator allows you to skip coding and manually choose the number of headlines you'd
like to include in your file, up to the 15 maximum allowed. Then a form with
boxes that you fill out will be made. Enter the right information, then push the
&quot;Make The Code&quot; button. Your RSS file's code will be generated, for you to copy
and paste into a text editor and save.

How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated is a Dec.
2002 tutorial by Kalena Jordan and Dan Thies from which I drew inspiration to
get my own feed going.

Syndic8's How To
Section lists a variety of tutorials that discuss how to build RSS files.

Content
Syndication with RSS is a book by Ben Hammersley that was
just released in March 2003. I haven't read it, but everything I've heard is
that it should be excellent.

RSS
Resources Directory from UserLand categorizes helpful information related to
RSS, in different categories.

Postscript:

Search Types: Blogs &amp; Feeds and
SEO: Feeds
are sections of the
Search Topics area available to Search Engine Watch
members with
lots of information on the topic of feeds since this article was originally
written.

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