Business - What is Workplace Harassment?
Companies differ in terms of their workplace harassment policies but they all take it very seriously.Committing or allowing harassment in the workplace is against the law and can lead to firing of the individual in question and might even be followed by legal proceedings. Therefore, all workers and managers must take this issue very seriously.Harassment can occur not only as sexual harassment but as age-, ethnic background-, religion-, nationality-, politics-, or physical handicap-related harassment as well.Here are some examples of various forms of workplace harassments.Sexual Harassment:Jimmy places his arm over Jane’s shoulder and asks her if she would like to go out with him on a date. Jimmy repeats his offer even though Jane tells him to stop it.Sarah always stands too close be

Genes and Work Ethic
If you have good genes, you are blessed. If they are exceptional, you might be successful on that alone.Add work ethic and you will be successful and remarkable.On Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, Linda Green retired after 23 years as a dancer in “Jubilee!” the longest-running production of its kind in Las Vegas.At 51, Green was the oldest continually working showgirl.A local columnist dubbed her the “Cal Ripkin Jr. of showgirls,” after baseball’s record holder for most consecutive games played.In certain respects, her achievement is more remarkable.In her profession, where a 15-year career is unusual, Green has auditioned ever six months to keep her job. She kept that job despite her competition of 18 and 19-year-olds.Yet, at 5’10”, and 130 lbs. for decades, she is still graceful and stunning.I

Can't Get an Appointment? 7 Rules You Should Know
Are you frustrated with the process of trying to set appointments with prospective customers? You’ve tried every trick in the book to get appointments, and nothing seems to work?Well, stop! THERE’S the problem!Why are you focusing so much on tricks, verbiage, and clever ways to get in front of those who count?Answer: That is how you were taught. People told you that is the way to do it. Well, it’s time to unlearn all of that. You know in your heart that there must be a better way, and you are right!Now, is there a magic wand that you can wave that will get you in front of more people overnight? NO; stop looking for one! There is, however, a certain set of principles that you can follow that will dramatically INCREASE the amount of quality people that you can see in any given week.sted by automated programs that put a short message in your comments that reads something like, "I like your site, lots of good info. Check these out...", followed by about 5-50 links to their websites.

You like my site? Really? Oh, wait... hehe, you almost had me there!

Thanks to my blog software, the nofollow tag is automatically added to all links in the comments. So even if I didn't have the moderation feature turned on requiring me to approve all comments before they post, the link itself will not be of value in the eyes of the search engine. And obviously it's of no value to the reader, either.

But I always assumed that most bloggers would be like me and have some sort of comment approval policy in place. But then I forget, there are a lot of people running blogs for personal stuff and they simply don't understand the whole spamming thing. So blog spammers take advantage of the ignorance of these bloggers and blast them with junk comments. And if their blogging software doesn't use the nofollow tag in links then they just got themselves a link that some search engines (coughMSNcoughYahoo!cough) would record as valuable.

There are two possible solutions here. 1) all bloggers stop allowing comments without approving them. This is unlikely to happen. 2) Search engines find a way to devalue all comment links in any blog whatsoever. This will be unfair to legitimate commenter, but as often happens, the many suffer for the ill-conceived actions of a few.

Scraper Spam Blogs

There are many sites and blogs that are nothing more than a regurgitation of someone else's content. Some are providing a valuable service by being a news distribution source, but many others are not.

The legitimate ones publish free to re-publish articles from article banks on their site and keep the author info and bio (and links) in place. They also often republish press releases which are also in the common domain. For these types of sites there is nothing illegal being done. I don't have problem with these types of sites because they do provide a way for articles such as this to reach a wider audience, a better site is one that takes this information and adds their own comments and reviews. This is providing a real service to their readers by giving their own opinion, not just the regurgitation of others.

But there are a great many blogs and scraper sites out there that steal content and don't give proper attribution. They either republish a summary of articles (sometimes linking to the source, sometimes not) or publish the full article but remove the author and bio info. Still others run the article through a rewrite software program so they can publish "unique" content on their site, even though it's still stolen content.

I found one of these content thieves just the other day. They are a web hosting company that "re-published" my article, "Selecting a Web Host Provider that Meets Your Needs". They also forgot to keep my bio information that came with the article and also failed to attribute authorship. I've sent them one email and, lacking any sort of response, I will contact Google and their web host provider informing them that this site is stealing content in violation of copy write. The ISP will be obligated to pull the site down until they have corrected the breach.

Many of these kinds of sites often run ads provided by Google or Yahoo, or both in an effort to profit from some other person's hard work. In the case of the above, they are using my article to help sell their services.

To eliminate this kind of spam, these kinds of sites need to be found and removed from search engine indices AND the ad division of the search engines need to refuse to allow these sites to publish their ads. The former is more difficult from the latter, but upon finding such sites, I think search engines have an obligation to remove them.

Faux Information Blog Spam

This is one that I've noticed just recently. People setting up blogs at the free blog services such as blogger.com or blogspot.com, throwing up a post all about their site, and then creating multiple accounts so they can post comments that look like they come from others, or ask friends and family to post comments for them. All these comments somehow find ways to included links in back to the site which the blog is promoting. Neither the blog or it's "comments" contain any real relevant information. At best it's a commercial. At worst its Internet feces. (Yep, link condom used here.)

These kinds of spammers don't care how high their blog ranks for any particular keywords, but they use it to provid

. 1) all bloggers stop allowing comments without approving them. This is unlikely to happen. 2) Search engines find a way to devalue all comment links in any blog whatsoever. This will be unfair to legitimate commenter, but as often happens, the many suffer for the ill-conceived actions of a few.

Scraper Spam Blogs

There are many sites and blogs that are nothing more than a regurgitation of someone else's content. Some are providing a valuable service by being a news distribution source, but many others are not.

The legitimate ones publish free to re-publish articles from article banks on their site and keep the author info and bio (and links) in place. They also often republish press releases which are also in the common domain. For these types of sites there is nothing illegal being done. I don't have problem with these types of sites because they do provide a way for articles such as this to reach a wider audience, a better site is one that takes this information and adds their own comments and reviews. This is providing a real service to their readers by giving their own opinion, not just the regurgitation of others.

But there are a great many blogs and scraper sites out there that steal content and don't give proper attribution. They either republish a summary of articles (sometimes linking to the source, sometimes not) or publish the full article but remove the author and bio info. Still others run the article through a rewrite software program so they can publish "unique" content on their site, even though it's still stolen content.

I found one of these content thieves just the other day. They are a web hosting company that "re-published" my article, "Selecting a Web Host Provider that Meets Your Needs". They also forgot to keep my bio information that came with the article and also failed to attribute authorship. I've sent them one email and, lacking any sort of response, I will contact Google and their web host provider informing them that this site is stealing content in violation of copy write. The ISP will be obligated to pull the site down until they have corrected the breach.

Many of these kinds of sites often run ads provided by Google or Yahoo, or both in an effort to profit from some other person's hard work. In the case of the above, they are using my article to help sell their services.

To eliminate this kind of spam, these kinds of sites need to be found and removed from search engine indices AND the ad division of the search engines need to refuse to allow these sites to publish their ads. The former is more difficult from the latter, but upon finding such sites, I think search engines have an obligation to remove them.

Faux Information Blog Spam

This is one that I've noticed just recently. People setting up blogs at the free blog services such as blogger.com or blogspot.com, throwing up a post all about their site, and then creating multiple accounts so they can post comments that look like they come from others, or ask friends and family to post comments for them. All these comments somehow find ways to included links in back to the site which the blog is promoting. Neither the blog or it's "comments" contain any real relevant information. At best it's a commercial. At worst its Internet feces. (Yep, link condom used here.)

These kinds of spammers don't care how high their blog ranks for any particular keywords, but they use it to provid

ny blogs and scraper sites out there that steal content and don't give proper attribution. They either republish a summary of articles (sometimes linking to the source, sometimes not) or publish the full article but remove the author and bio info. Still others run the article through a rewrite software program so they can publish "unique" content on their site, even though it's still stolen content.

I found one of these content thieves just the other day. They are a web hosting company that "re-published" my article, "Selecting a Web Host Provider that Meets Your Needs". They also forgot to keep my bio information that came with the article and also failed to attribute authorship. I've sent them one email and, lacking any sort of response, I will contact Google and their web host provider informing them that this site is stealing content in violation of copy write. The ISP will be obligated to pull the site down until they have corrected the breach.

Many of these kinds of sites often run ads provided by Google or Yahoo, or both in an effort to profit from some other person's hard work. In the case of the above, they are using my article to help sell their services.

To eliminate this kind of spam, these kinds of sites need to be found and removed from search engine indices AND the ad division of the search engines need to refuse to allow these sites to publish their ads. The former is more difficult from the latter, but upon finding such sites, I think search engines have an obligation to remove them.

Faux Information Blog Spam

This is one that I've noticed just recently. People setting up blogs at the free blog services such as blogger.com or blogspot.com, throwing up a post all about their site, and then creating multiple accounts so they can post comments that look like they come from others, or ask friends and family to post comments for them. All these comments somehow find ways to included links in back to the site which the blog is promoting. Neither the blog or it's "comments" contain any real relevant information. At best it's a commercial. At worst its Internet feces. (Yep, link condom used here.)

These kinds of spammers don't care how high their blog ranks for any particular keywords, but they use it to provid

eliminate this kind of spam, these kinds of sites need to be found and removed from search engine indices AND the ad division of the search engines need to refuse to allow these sites to publish their ads. The former is more difficult from the latter, but upon finding such sites, I think search engines have an obligation to remove them.

Faux Information Blog Spam

This is one that I've noticed just recently. People setting up blogs at the free blog services such as blogger.com or blogspot.com, throwing up a post all about their site, and then creating multiple accounts so they can post comments that look like they come from others, or ask friends and family to post comments for them. All these comments somehow find ways to included links in back to the site which the blog is promoting. Neither the blog or it's "comments" contain any real relevant information. At best it's a commercial. At worst its Internet feces. (Yep, link condom used here.)

These kinds of spammers don't care how high their blog ranks for any particular keywords, but they use it to provide link value back to their own, or their client's website. With these free blogger services you can throw up dozens of these fake "on topic" blogs all with a link back.

The solution here relies solely in the hands of the search engines. It's up to them to discount all these types of blogs as well as their links. Unfortunately, the many search engines still seem to eat this stuff up as legitimate.

The problem with all blog spam is that it relies on SEO "tactics" that the search engines hate. Sometimes a nuisance, sometimes illegal and almost always results in more garbage on the Internet. There is nothing worse than having to wade through someone’s garbage to find good quality information. But one thing is for sure, for as long as blog spam works, one man's garbage will continue to be a spammer's goldmine.