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In This Issue:
Our Christmas Present
We can't believe another year has
gone by so quickly, but here we are looking ole St. Nick in the eyes
again. Hans, Anna, Ronda, Susan, Sachin, and I want to wish you all a
prosperous 2005 and thank you for having us as your webmeisters.
By way of thanks, during the next
month all our client's Web sites will be resubmitted to the major
search engines and directories as ranked by
Alexa and listed below:
Aeiwi,
Alexa,
Amfibi,
BigFinder,
Burf,
Cipinet,
EntireWeb,
ExactSeek,
Google,
Homerweb,
ScrubTheWeb,
SearchIt,
SearchEngine,
SearchSight,
SplatSearch,
Subjex,
SurfGopher,
Uquick,
Walhello,
WhatUSeek,
AOL
Search,
Netscape,
MSN,
iWon,
Go,
Aesop,
OnSeek,
SitesOnDisplay,
MaxPromo,
Best-SearchEngine.com,
SearchWarp,
Excite,
Dogpile,
Search.com,
Info.com,
WebCrawler,
Mamma,
MetaCrawler,
Canada.com,
Ixquick,
Vivisimo,
My Way,
My
Search,
Fazzle,
SurfWax,
Turbo10,
BlowSearch,
metaEUREKA,
Search66,
MoChanni,
1
Second,
IcySpicy,
ez2Find,
Debriefing,
WindSeek,
Window
MetaSearch,
Infonetware,
InfoGrid,
The
Idea Web,
Veoda,
Meta Web Search,
Search-O-Rama.com,
and
Yahoo.
We hope the added exposure on these search engines/directories will
increase the number of visitors to your site.
Google Increases its Index
Google claims it has increased the
size of its index to nearly double its previous size. According to the
tag line on the Google search home page, they are now boasting
8,058,044,651 web pages indexed.
Tracking a few benchmark
sites does, in fact, show that the number in listings for these sites
has just about doubled. Although the index has increased in size,
there doesn't appear to be any immediate change in their ranking
algorithm.
With that said, many predict that
the increase in the index size is in preparation for changes to their
ranking algorithm. The "florida" update is still fresh on the minds of
many, as well as its impact on the holiday shopping season. Could we
see a repeat this year? Not very likely. One thing is certain. -An
algorithm change will come sooner or later.
Beware of Phishers
Phishers (pronounced fishers) typically send spam purporting to
be from a legitimate business, asking recipients to go online to
manage accounts or take care of problems. For example, one piece of
spam allegedly from Citibank asked recipients to verify their e-mail
addresses.
When unwary Citibank customers clicked on the link in the
e-mail, however, they were taken to a look-alike site operated by the
scamsters. At this phony site, they were asked to fill out a form with
personal information including credit card numbers, social security
numbers, account passwords and PIN numbers. The goal of the scam is
identity theft.
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HUEY Productions advises clients
never to click on a link in an unsolicited e-mail. The problem,
though, is that phishing scams target large companies with lots
of customers who may not see the e-mail as unsolicited. With
this latest sneaky refinement, it's better not to click on links
in e-mails at all. |
Other Scammers
We've been receiving notification
that money has been sent using out PayPal account. It's a scam, but
the e-mail looks like:
Congratulations! PayPal has successfully charged $175 to your
credit card. Your order tracking number is A866DEC0, and your item
will be shipped within three business days.
To see details please click this
link.
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE VIA EMAIL! This email is being sent
by an automated message system and the reply will not be received.
Thank you for using PayPal.
The way we detect if it's valid or
not is by right (NOT left) clicking on the link and selecting view
source. Scan the source code and find the LINK word that you're
supposed to click on and the address it goes to will be there also. In
this case the address was NOT PayPal but some other jerk that was just
after my username and password at PayPal.
If you ever have any question as to
the validity of an e-mail you receive, you may always forward it to us
and get our opinion. We've been on the Internet since 1980
(yes...1980) and have seen just about all the scams at one time or
another.
New Clients to Our Family
If you have the time, visit their
Web site and give them a few 'hits' to help with their search engine
placement.
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