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Something that I have notice about letting my articles freely propagate throughout the net is that some webmasters are so rude that they will just post it up on their crappy sites without giving me proper credit and a link. I don’t think that it is so much to ask and I would definitely give credit for the work that some poor sucker did. All I could do was just ask them to add my link. I was polite. But I just did that this morning and will probably never get any responses.

I have been at this article marketing thing for about two months now and have posted four articles online. I’m quite pleased with my work and it has actually gotten me about six extra hits a day but only one back link. I don’t know if that is any good but I’m going to keep at it for as long as it keeps increasing my traffic. I really want this to work. Sitting in front of a computer and watching money roll in is my idea of the perfect job. I have signed up for quite a few of those make money online programs but the problem with those are that they all say the same thing, post online advertise and make money. Well that is a bloody brilliant scheme but it is not quite that easy. If it was, everyone would be millionaires. That would be a pretty scary world to live in.

Back to article marketing. I have found about a hundred or so site that will accept my submissions but when I check search engines I find no trace of my submission through their site. I have whittled it down to about a half dozen site that I submit to. I do this not to limit my exposure but to prevent myself from wasting time.

Article marketing can be a double edged blade. One side is the bit of added exposure that your site will get but the other side is the amount of time and creativity that it takes to actually make these silly things. Oh well, I’m going to keep at it until I figure out a much easier legal way to spread my messages across the net. I think you should too, although it may be frustrating it is definitely worth the small amount of work that you actually have to do.



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Justin has not written many articles but would like everyone know that he is an up an coming web designer with dreams of ruling the internet from behind his computer. You can contact him through his website at icefishingpro.com


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If you live in a tropical climate, I pity your lack of ice fishing. Maybe you should live in Canada, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, Russia, or Germany. Those places are where the real action occurs. I personally live in Canada and unlike my fellow Canadians, I never complain about the cold, I revel in it. The only problem is global warming.

I have noticed that the earth is heating up. Now I’m not saying that it is due to cars or pollution, because I just don’t know, but one thing that I am sure of is the fact that my ice fishing expeditions are happening later and later each winter. Some times, I can only get out three or four times per year. It would seem as though I will just have to take up regular fishing, off the ice.

Now let me tell you about shelters. I personally don’t believe in them at all. My style, like many others is the purest form of ice fishing. Just bundle up with as many warm layers as possible. But some folks realise that they want to be comfortable while they sit on a frozen lake for hours on end. These wimps have little shacks that they can tow onto the ice and they can sit right in them and be warm. I suppose they are a good idea because they have no bottom and you can just fish through the floor of your shelter. I have heard of all different types of shelters. Some are as basic as possible and some are almost mansions on ice. I guess they can just have their servant fish for them while they eat their fish eggs and frog legs.

Make sure the ice is thick enough! I can not stress this fact enough! Usually you are a bizillion miles away from any thing and the last thing you need is a very long, very cold walk after you fell through the ice. You might even die. I guess that makes ice fishing an extreme sport. Ice is pretty strong, and usually three inches is good to walk on, five to six inches for sleds and snowmobiles, twelve for light cars, and sixteen inches is strong enough to support a full sized truck.

Now before you head out on your expedition, make sure you have all of the right gear. The first and most important thing that you need is beer. Don’t worry about the beer getting warm because you are surrounded by ice and snow, duh. And be sure to pack enough beer for the length of your trip. A good rule to live by is, twenty-four hours in a day, twenty-four beers in a case. I have always followed that rule and it has never failed me. But make sure that you have the right beer transportation with you as well. If you are just going out for a week or so, you can pull a sled of two-fours behind an ATV or snowmobile, but if you are staying a month or more then you are definitely going to have to bring a truck, or two. Also bring a saw
or auger, bait, rods, ass padding, and a gun. There is nothing like getting drunk and shooting at fish.

Now you know just how fun ice fishing can be and now you can try it and know the joys that this humble extreme sporting event has brought me. Have fun out there, and don’t forget the beer.


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Justin G. is an extremely accomplished angler, who loves to go fishing as frequently as possible. He has put his expertise online at: icefishingpro.com


Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/security/eauction-tradeworks.com-and-pacificwebworks.com-stole-my-money.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/security/eauction-tradeworks.com-and-pacificwebworks.com-stole-my-money.html Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0600 Eauction, Tradeworks.com, pacificwebworks.com - WARNING! What ever you do, DO NOT deal with with any of these companies. I was promised secrets to making money online from eauction but what I got was eight pages telling me to sell stuff on ebay in a nice looking folder. I thought, oh well, whatever, I only paid $7.99 for shipping so it was no big loss. When a charge for about $50 from eauction showed up on my credit card I called the bank to have it removed. The bank immediately had it removed credited my account and checked for fraud. Then I noticed the exact same charge from tradeworks.com the next month. I called the bank again they credited my account and checked for fraud again. The next month I got a letter from the bank saying that the charges were legit and they were taking the hundred dollars from my account. Also, eauction charged me another fifty dollars. I went back to their website, did some research, read all of the small print legal jargon in detail. I had accidentally agreed to a subscription to their visual web tools when I paid $7.99 for them to ship me a few pages of bull. WARNING! DO NOT deal with any of these companies! It only cost me $150 for a few pieces of useless paper, but it might cost you more. COMPLETE SCAM!
To sum it up. This is just a warning to all of you online entrepreneurs that you should be able to read the small print and never deal with these companies. If you want to try it, go ahead and lose your cash, It does not bother me at all. I have found out what works, but I am still sympathetic to those who are struggling through all of the same crap that I went through.
There are many more ways to lose your money online but there are just a few of the hundreds that I have discovered and been ripped off by. So if you want to find out for yourself, go right ahead, but if you want to know more then check out http://www.sample13.com, where I explain exactly what does not work. I can also tell you about the best programs too.


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Justin G. Has been an unsuccessful online marketer for the past two years. Only within the past month has he found out what works and is willing to share the secret that he paid $77 for, for free at http://www.sample13.com.


Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/spam/how-to-get-ripped-off-by-online-money-making-scams.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/spam/how-to-get-ripped-off-by-online-money-making-scams.html Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 There are other ways to get ripped off, but online money making scams are by far my favourite. Another one was filling out online surveys. Basically I was paying a monthly fee of $19.95 to get access to a list of other websites that were just links to online surveys. They promised me the world. Easy work for about $75 per hour filling out surveys and just giving my opinion about whatever crap they wanted me too. The only problem with that is none of the surveys actually paid cash. All of them just offered points to be earned and spent towards crappy merchandise that had no practical use to me what so ever. Another thing about surveys that bothered me was the fact that I was giving out my personal information online to dozens of survey companies every day. I gave up on that scam about 2 weeks after I started it, not a penny earned and now I was and still am getting at least 5 marketing phone calls everyday. Not only did I get scammed but I explained in detail how to contact me at home.
Referrals. Garbage. I paid another $50 to learn that there are forums out there where people pay other people to sign up for some free offers. You have probably seen enough of those things out there, sign up, do a free offer, get seven other people to do this, get a free iPod or whatever other garbage they have to entice you. This is such a complete scam because the forums are full of jerks that are more than willing to rip off the newbies. I completed my first offer for someone that said they were going to give me $20 for doing it. Not too bad for ten minutes work right? Nope I had to send him an email every week for about 3 months before he deleted his account and I was unable to contact him. This happened 3 times before I quit that particular method of wasting my time and money. Another thing that bothered me about this was the fact that not only was I giving out my personal info to whatever company I had to, but I was also giving out my credit card number. Yeah, I know, I’m dumb. Anyways after I noticed the first $100 that was stolen from my card I had to cancel it.
There are many more ways to lose your money online but there are just a few of the hundreds that I have discovered and been ripped off by. So if you want to find out for yourself, go right ahead, but if you want to know more then check out sample13.com, where I explain exactly what does not work. I can also tell you about the best programs too.


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Justin G. Has been an unsuccessful online marketer for the past two years. Only within the past month has he found out what works and is willing to share the secret that he paid $77 for, for free at sample13.com.



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