Protecting Your Email from Spam

Bloggers and website owners use many different tricks to curtail having their contact information harvested by spam bots while still making it easily available to humans. Spam bots are a spin-off of the same sort of automated programs used by search engines, which are called spiders because they crawl the Web gathering information about site pages. The spiders collect data primarily from meta tags in the page’s code. These include the description and keywords meta tags. Spam bots, on the other hand, look through the page’s code in search of terms like “mailto” or the “@” symbol. These are dead giveaways that an email address is contained in that part of the code.

Find out how you can foil the spam bots from getting your email address. Read the full article Protecting Your Email from Spam on the Resources page.

A little tech help with The Writer's Coach

Just the FAQs has been invited to join Suzanne Lieurance on the last Wednesday of every month for her weekly teleclass, Build Your Business Write. I'll be answering questions about technical issues you face when trying to establish an online presence for yourself and your business.

Once you register, you’ll receive an email invitation to this event.

Join us for this informative teleclass Wednesday night and don’t forget to submit a question you would like to have answered during the call. There will also be special discounts on Just the FAQs eBooks for those registered.

New Seven-Part Series on Writing and Selling E-books

Children's author Katie Hines has invited Just the FAQs to guest post on her blog about writing and selling e-books. The seven-part series titled What I Need to Know About Writing and Selling an Ebook, is a preview of articles that will appear later this year on the JTF site.

Each post will cover different aspects of writing and selling e-books including:

- Print or Digital Format: Which is Better for My Book?
- Target Audiences for E-books
- Maximizing the E-book Format
- Costs Involved with an E-book
- E-book Layout
- Selling Your E-book Online Using PayPal
- Protecting Your E-book File

A topic from the series will be posted every few weeks and runs through July.
Visit Katie's blog now to read the first post.

Effectively Branding Your Blog

Establishing your brand with your blog visitors is critically important in setting yourself apart in the online marketplace. Making a good impression begins with viewers being able to clearly identify the source of the information that they being are presented. It is the first step in establishing trust and loyalty. If you are selling a product or service, these are key components in building a customer base of folks who purchase what you have to offer. More importantly, if they like your product, they are much more likely to give you word-of-mouth referrals.

Statistics show that viewers have to be exposed to a brand up to seven times before it becomes fixed in their memory. The examples given in the article Branding Your Blog will show you ways to be creative and sneak your brand name and image into the nooks and crannies of your site. It will make a lasting impression on your viewers.

Visit the More Resources page at Just the FAQs for lots of free downloads for online marketing tips and articles.