again in case of disaster. I saved the changes. I closed cpanel and logged into my site. To my amazement the Amazon graphic was on the page and functioning correctly, randomly changing the display. But it was totally in the wrong place.

Obviously the next step was to move it by erasing my previous change and putting it in the “Left Column”. It was still in the wrong place as it went to the top and I wanted it at the bottom. After a lot of study and experiment I inserted

<td align="center"> above the new script and BINGO it was exactly where I wanted it.

That should have been the end of the task but I couldn’t help but notice that in rest of the page text

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That should have been the end of the task but I couldn’t help but notice that in rest of the page text

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That should have been the end of the task but I couldn’t help but notice that in rest of the page text

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That should have been the end of the task but I couldn’t help but notice that in rest of the page text

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That should have been the end of the task but I couldn’t help but notice that in rest of the page text

“<echo <div style="float:left;position:relative;width:200px;padding:10px;"><a href="/article/48037/advice--Home-Office-Shredders.html"> How to Get Paid to Take Free Surveys Online</a><br>You can now get paid to take free surveys online. This is made possible because of recent changes in the way traditional consumer surveys are being made. The low cost and fast turnaround of the Internet now makes it faster and cheaper to contact potential survey participants and get back quick responses.The problem at first was to get people to volunteer. Now market researchers and the survey makers they set up or hire, have a solution. They have found that if participants get paid to take free surveys online, then they get more volunteers.O.K. So how do you get started? What do you </div> again in case of disaster. I saved the changes. I closed cpanel and logged into my site. To my amazement the Amazon graphic was on the page and functioning correctly, randomly changing the display. But it was totally in the wrong place.</p><p>Obviously the next step was to move it by erasing my previous change and putting it in the “Left Column”. It was still in the wrong place as it went to the top and I wanted it at the bottom. After a lot of study and experiment I inserted <xmp><td align="center"> above the new script and BINGO it was exactly where I wanted it.

That should have been the end of the task but I couldn’t help but notice that in rest of the page text

“<echo php” was constantly appearing. If I can only use php why do I have to make this statement? Needless to say I took the original html script and pasted it, it worked just the same.

Now I know where to paste my reciprocal links. This time put them in “Footers” at the bottom of the page using html. It works fine and looks like it should do.

During my experimentation the worst thing that happened was that when I reopened my webpage after alteration I often got “syntax error” I found that it was no big deal I just erased what I had done previously and all returned to normal.

To me, messing with my php files was like messing with the “Holy Grail” at first. One interesting point. I get dozens of emails every day from the internet gurus making all sorts of claims about how they can change my life etc with their superior knowledge so I wrote to every one of them asking for help on reciprocal linking and I never got one reply. I have read that lots of websites never make attempts at linking. Is it because they are as hesitant, as I was, to interfere with their files? Maybe they don’t know how to do it and more importantly where to get help on the subject.

In writing this article I will be over the moon if it helps just one person not to go through the trauma and time that I went through..

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