Robot Project

It’s another one of those boring, not-quite-esoteric topics that can make or break a web site: Meta Tags. These are a series of “additional information” blocks between the < head > and < /head > tags on an HTML page that give the spiders and people using search engines more information and a better way to determine if your site is what they’re seeking.

There are five big META tag categories you should use on every page in your web site:

• Author: That’s you, the person who created the web site.
• Description: The description META tag content is what appears in a search engine results description of the page. If you don’t have it, the spider just posts the first text it finds, which is usually some meaningless string of text ending in “…”. For those of you who’ve seen this, you know how unprofessional that looks. You should keep this to 200 characters or less, or your description will end in “…”
• Robots: The robots META tag tells the spiders that come to your site what to do with your page. I recommend the command “index, follow”, which tells the spider to index your page in the search engines and follow all the links to their destination pages. “noindex” tells the spider not to index your pages into the search engines, and “nofollow” tells it not to follow the links. These are good for specific purposes, but if you’re just starting out, use “index, follow” until you’re more adept at web theory.
• Keywords: The keywords META tag is a big one. It contains the search terms for which you want your site to appear and is a big part of search engine optimization. How close your pages appear toward the #1 position in a search for a keyword depends on it’s page rank and term relevance, so choose the words you put in this tag wisely. Keyword manipulation is a major topic of its own and is something I recommend you study further if you want a successful site.
• Title: This is the description that appears in the title bar on top of the page. While this one is not specifically a META tag, it is important because it shows one of the first things your visitor might see and use to determine the nature of your site. You place it between the < TITLE > and < /TITLE > tags in the form:

  < TITLE >(Your page’s site title here)< /TITLE >

  I usually use my site name plus the page name in my title blocks. For example, “Financial Self-Reliance - Web Site Articles”.

As far as how to make a META tag, use the following form:

< META NAME="(what this tag is)" CONTENT="(what this tag has in it)" >

For example:

< META NAME="Description" CONTENT="This is the I Love Dogs Web Site. It's about dogs and how to take care of them." >

When this comes up in the search engine, the indexed view of this site would appear as

(Page Title as listed between the < TITLE > and < /TITLE > tags)
This is the I Love Dogs Web Site. It’s about dogs and how to take care of them.
the site URL)

META tags are the small touches that can help make your site better. They’re of great benefit to people surfing search engines trying to find information and could mean those people choose you over someone else. In the case of keywords, they’re critical, as the spiders use them to index you to the keyword searches where you want to be shown. So don’t neglect your META tags.

Ryan Ambrose is the webmaster of Financial Self-Reliance, a web site about how to actually make money online. The Web Site eCommerce section with this article and more can be found here.

Copyright 2006 Ryan Ambrose

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The Japanese Robotic Researchers and Scientists are far ahead of the American robotic teams when it comes to android type human like robots. In fact the Japanese have created sophisticated artificial intelligence which enables many of their robots to do human like tasks using human like movements. They mirror your non-verbal communications and even speech patterns with voice recognition and the latest facial recognition features.

These robots are also available for commercial applications in Japan. Many of the current commercial applications for in the United States robotic companies are still on the ground floor scaring the household cat. For instance the Romba or iRobot robotic vacuum, which does work well but others say it merely sucks. The Japanese on the other hand are developing blonde “babe” sex robots, which do a whole lot more than suck and have more than one orifice to assist them in their specially customized robotic features. It figures they would be ahead of us in such endeavors and it also stand to reason that Japanese Business Men are lining up to get their very own blonde babe sex robots which currently are not available to the general public, like the android type robots like the full scale soccer robots or maid assistant robots that we have all seen in the science magazines.

You see, so often things, which are involved in the entertainment of the human animal instincts are by far the best sellers and in the industry of robotics it is no different. Once these super model Blond babe sex robots hit the Japanese buying consumer they will be sold for $4,000. Right now you can by a robotic dog for 3,500 and those prices are coming down due to the shear number they have already sold. Soon perhaps you can get a robotic girlfriend to keep in the garage or closet for under $3500 such a bargain. Isn’t it funny the kinds of technologies, which propel this species; silly humans. Think on it.

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Everyone who has an ISP, understands, or at least knows about how hackers use viruses, Trojans and other web nasties, to infect and mess up your computer. No headline news there. (Unfortunately, we still don’t understand why they do it, or at least I don’t.) But hackers don’t have to write malicious code or hijack your browser to do some serious damage to your system. Oh no… A well written email with no attachments, can do the trick. They only have to start a rumor.
Hackers can easily manipulate you into trashing your own computer. All they have to do is begin a hoax.

What do I mean by that? Let me explain.

Have you ever gotten emails from people you know that say something like: Scan your hard drive for such and such a file! If you find it delete it immediately! Pass this on. Warn everyone you know!

These emails are originally generated by a hacker and spread throughout the Internet to get you to delete files you need, thus creating havoc for your system. They are hoaxes.

Hoaxes work incredibly well for getting average people to cause their own computers to malfunction. the hacker doesn’t have to spend any time creating malicious code and a method of distribution, all they have to do is play on the human tendency for hysteria; send out a warning that something evil is spreading, and if you find it on your computer, get rid of it!

Recently I was tracking a thread on a forum, where the moderator warned everyone about a file that he found on his system that was a keylogger. (A keylogger is a malicious program designed to track your every move through monitoring your keystrokes.) He warned everyone to search for a file, ans2000.ini and, “delete the booger.”

I scan my system every day, with several different virus/ spyware programs, and I never picked up this file with any of them, so I decided to do a Windows Explorer search for it. Sure enough, I found it on my hard drive. Oh My God!

Before hitting the delete key though, I looked it up on the web. I Googled the specific file and found quite a bit of information on it. The file ans2000.ini is used in the keylogger program known as ProBot SE. However, it is also used in many other legitimate programs as well. Ok, so now what do I do?

Well, I contacted my go-to guy, Jim Gray, owner of Quikonnex, and asked him what his thoughts were. He told me to open the ini file, in Notepad, and read it. Sure enough, this file did have an association to another program on my system. It is part of ActivEbook Compiler. It was right there in print, at the top of the file.

Now had I just freaked out when I found the file, and deleted the booger, I would’ve trashed my ebook compiler, making it useless to me. Two points for the hacker who started the hoax!

Hoaxes are just as dangerous as live viruses, because they inspire you to destroy your own programs. I am sure they are a particular kick for the one starting the hoax, as they are getting you to do bad things to your own system. Fear is a powerful motivator, and hoaxes, by design, are created to cause panic and fear in the less experienced Internet traveler.

So, before going and deleting files from your hard drive, go check them out. Do a search for them and read the information you find. Don’t just go deleting things without learning about them first, or you just may end up cutting your own throat. And, NEVER forward these types of warning emails to others until you know for a fact that the information is correct, or you’re likely to have your friends and family after you for misinforming them.

Resources for validating virus/ hoax information:

http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp
http://www.vmyths.com/
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax/

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The Trii-Zine Ezine
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Trina L.C. Schiller is a professional network marketer, the publisher of the Internet marketing ezine, “Trii-Zine” and owner of TLC Promotions, as well as a founding publisher at Quikonnex.com, and President of AdsOnQ.com, the Internet’s first syndicated advertising agency.

She has also authored the following ebooks:

“Your Beginner’s Guide To Syndication” http://www.ads-on-q.com/booksales.html

RSS, Blogs and Syndication… The Facts vs The guruese” http://www.ads-on-q.com/RSS.html

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