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How alarming are Phishers posing as Facebook security on chat?

Have you been the latest victim to the virus spread by Phishers posing as Facebook security on your Facebook chat? If yes, then you are not alone since there have been reports of internet Phishers sending messages to the inbox of multiple Facebook users. This is an attempt to seek sensitive account information and credit card data from Facebook users. Scammers on Facebook are posing as security on Facebook chat sessions where they are trying to trick users in order to fetch their credit card details and other sensitive information. The threat from phishers on Facebook has been confirmed by Kaspersky Lab that has warned users against the scammers.

What do the Phishers actually do to the Victim?

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The world of search engine optimization has changed significantly in the last 12 months. Why? Because the social media sites have come to the fore and quality content has grown even more in importance. So now the question is, how do search engines use social media to help rank websites and ensure that the content on a website does truly have high quality content?

The answer to the first part of the question is all about the activity on social media sites, sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Quite simply put, people need to be talking about your website or blog, re-tweeting your tweets and sharing the articles you put out with their contacts or connections. The very fact there is interest in your posts will indicate what you are writing or publishing has some sort of value, and is of good quality.

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Online marketing is like no other marketing, in the sense we are not only trying to get our message out, we are also trying to be found. The Internet is the only medium where users, can actively search for the content of our website and additional content we have posted on other sites. It only makes sense to develop content in a strategic manner to make it easier to be found by users. It only makes sense to develop content that is useful for clients and potential clients. In this sense, our content is our marketing. Here are some ways we can approach marketing through content sharing, and link it to the content we have on our website design and ‘news’ or blog.

• How to Videos. It only makes sense to use YouTube videos and a YouTube channel to distribute videos to help potential clients. Some people prefer to watch videos instead of reading text. YouTube is a search engine, and a heavily used one at that. If you have a blog, you can use YouTube to host your videos and embed them into your blog. We can save on our own storage space, and we can take advantage of being directly in YouTube’s search results. Make sure you use appropriate tags and proper descriptions of your videos so they can be found by YouTube and Google’s search engine. Google still cannot actually watch your video.

• Forums. We often turn to forums when we are trying to find particular information. This makes them the perfect place to be a part of when we are actually marketing ourselves. Again, we should be conscious of our keywords as forum results will also come up in Google search. We should spend the time to find the appropriate forum for our business with the right type of user – one that matches our potential target client. We can link to our existing online content to assist with answers to user questions and issues on the forum.

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Guest Post from Nadia Jones discussing the recent and sweeping changes to Facebook.

Over the past few months Facebook has enacted (without warning) a tidal wave of changes to its website interface, often to the chagrin of fans. These recent monumental changes put forth by the king of online social networking explain just how competitive the field has become. Relatively long-lasting social networking sites like LinkedIn and Twitter adding thousands of users every day, and new-comer Google+ can boast over 50 million users in less than 6 months.

Even with 800 million or so users, Facebook continues to overhaul the way they connect people so as to make themselves more attractive to their users. But Facebook’s recent facelift in the wake of so much competition begs the question: is Facebook scrambling just to keep up, or are they innovating meaningful changes for the future?

Most recent changes

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Using Twitter should not be a challenge to anyone that knows even the most basic elements of finding their way around a computer. It is a web page based social media site that is accessed via your Internet browser and it doesn’t matter which browser you use to access it. It could be IE, Chrome, Safari Opera or in fact a very fast and secure browser that is finding its way onto many laptops worldwide and is a part of the Smart Media Desktop program that can be downloaded in its entirety completely free.

So just open your browser of choice and enter http://www.twitter.com/ in the URL address box and press return. You will be presented with a sign on page for Twitter and all you need to do is put in the user name you want to use on Twitter with a working email address and a password.

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