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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Help promote TheTAZZone and our FREE services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like TheTAZZone why not post this on your website or blog and help us to promote our FREE services:
Just copy n&#8217; paste the following brief bio of our site/s:
&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.
Title:  TheTAZZone Network of Sites
TheTAZZone.com was founded on December 24th, 2005 by Egaladeist and DaFoxx ( foxyloxley ).  Who tried to establish the first true [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you like TheTAZZone why not post this on your website or blog and help us to promote our FREE services:</p>
<p>Just copy n&#8217; paste the following brief bio of our site/s:</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Title:  TheTAZZone Network of Sites</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetazzone.com/">TheTAZZone.com</a> was founded on December 24th, 2005 by Egaladeist and DaFoxx ( foxyloxley ).  Who tried to establish the first true member-run community on the Internet.</p>
<p>Our forum members have established Committees and played a significant role in the development and direction of <a href="http://tazforum.thetazzone.com">TAZforum</a>.</p>
<p>Our website/s grew out of a desire to give our members &#8216; free perks &#8216; that they could take advantage of&#8230;thus we developed a substantial list of games and avatars/smileys that we host on site for our member&#8217;s convenience.</p>
<p>Members and friends have contributed 100&#8217;s of security/hacking tutorials and videos, as well as several easy to read Photoshop and Networking tutorials.</p>
<p>There are also 100&#8217;s of FREE to Use photos available to members for use on their blogs and websites.</p>
<p>All these services are equally available to non-members&#8230;for FREE&#8230;with certain restrictions.  We request that if a non-member uses any of our services they abide by &#8216; fair use &#8216; and credit us with a link.</p>
<p>No membership is required, no cost ever, we will never ask you to provide us with personal info or passwords&#8230;etc&#8230;</p>
<p>All our websites are closed to user registration, however if you would like to register as a contributing member we will consider it. Our forums are all open for registration and you are welcome to join.</p>
<p>Our members of  <a href="http://tazforum.thetazzone.com">TAZforum</a> are experts in the field of Internet Security and are more than capable of answering any questions you might have, and are a very friendly and laid back group that will make you feel right at home. Be prepared though, we do like to get silly. <img src='http://www.thetazzone.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>We are also available on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTAZZone">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://blip.fm/TheTAZZone">Blip</a>.</p>
<p>You will never come across any site on the Internet quite as unique as <a href="http://www.thetazzone.com/">TheTAZZone</a>&#8230;we are, one of a kind&#8230;and we hope you bookmark us and come back often.</p>
<p>We also love comments ( bad or good we like em&#8217; all <img src='http://www.thetazzone.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  ) &#8230;and we respond to most fairly quickly ( those that need response ).</p>


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		<title>FREE Website Reviews by TheTAZZone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a website or a blog that you think should be reviewed, then post a comment below and we&#8217;ll take a look.
This offer is, however, only open to people on Twitter who are following us&#8230;and we will not guarantee you&#8217;ll get reviewed. We will definitely take a peek though to see if it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.thetazzone.com/wp-content/tazicon2.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-566 alignleft" title="tazicon2" src="http://www.thetazzone.com/wp-content/tazicon2.gif" alt="tazicon2" width="73" height="60" /></a>If you have a website or a blog that you think should be reviewed, then post a comment below and we&#8217;ll take a look.</strong></p>
<p>This offer is, however, only open to people on Twitter who are following us&#8230;and we will not guarantee you&#8217;ll get reviewed. We will definitely take a peek though to see if it&#8217;s something we&#8217;d like to review.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s no cost, at all whatsoever&#8230;nor do you even have to link to us if you don&#8217;t want to&#8230;these reviews are absolutely FREE&#8230;it&#8217;s just one of the ways we like to help out.</p>
<p>If we review your site it will be posted on www.thetazzone.net</p>
<p>here are two examples of other Twitter site reviews:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetazzone.net/?cat=41">TheTAZZoneTech: Computer News, Recommended Downloads, Recommended Services, Computer Security, and much more… » website review</a></p>
<p>if, however, you do decide to link to us we will link back, but you have to tell us ( or we won&#8217;t know ).</p>
<p>One-way links are better than two-way links so whichever site you link to in our Network we will link from a different site in our Network back to you.</p>
<p><strong>But&#8230;you DO NOT have to link to us, and it will NOT IN ANY WAY determine whether or not you get reviewed.</strong></p>
<p>If we like your site and find it interesting enough to review we will review it whether or not you link to us.</p>
<p>So, here&#8217;s your opportunity to get reviewed, get a backlink to your site, and it&#8217;ll cost you absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>You however DO need to post a comment for us to consider your site. If you don&#8217;t tell us we can&#8217;t know you want to be reviewed.</p>


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		<title>What does TAZ offer for FREE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything you see on our sites was originally created for our forum members…or by our forum members…for the enjoyment of our forum members.

GAMES: we have over 1000 games  on our sites http://www.thetazzone.com and http://www.thegameszone.org and http://www.thebikerzone.net with a spattering of games on other sites as well.
ALL these games are full-screen and ad-free, just you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="postdiv668" class="postbody"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Everything you see on our sites was originally created for our forum members…or by our forum members…for the enjoyment of our forum members.</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GAMES</span></span>: we have over 1000 games  on our sites <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="../">http://www.thetazzone.com</a><!-- m --> and <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thegameszone.org/">http://www.thegameszone.org</a><!-- m --> and <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thebikerzone.net/">http://www.thebikerzone.net</a><!-- m --> with a spattering of games on other sites as well.</p>
<p>ALL these games are full-screen and ad-free, just you and the game, no accidental clicks, no annoying blinking or distracting ADs…</p>
<p>we are NOT in the business of selling games, we do not try to sell you games…we just offer them FREE for you to play.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">You do NOT have to be a member, you do NOT have to contribute, you do NOT have to provide us with any information ( nor do we even ask for any ) …all we ever ask is if you play our games we would appreciate a link back to us if you have a website or blog.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SMILEYS</span></span>: we have several 100 smileys here that you are welcome to download and use for FREE</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">You do NOT have to be a member, you do NOT have to contribute, you do NOT have to provide us with any information ( nor do we even ask for any ) …all we ever ask is if you use any of our smileys we would appreciate a link back to us if you have a website or blog.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AVATARS</span></span>: need an avatar for your blog, your Twitter account, Facebook account, etc…? We have several 100 avatars here to choose from…that you are welcome to download and use for FREE</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">You do NOT have to be a member, you do NOT have to contribute, you do NOT have to provide us with any information ( nor do we even ask for any ) …all we ever ask is if you use any of our avatars we would appreciate a link back to us if you have a website or blog.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PHOTOS</span></span>: We have several 100 ( and constantly adding more ) photos that you are welcome to use on school or website projects that you can use for FREE at<!-- m --> <a class="postlink" href="http://www.thetazzone.org/">http://www.thetazzone.org</a><!-- m --></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">You do NOT have to be a member, you do NOT have to contribute, you do NOT have to provide us with any information ( nor do we even ask for any ) …all we ever ask is if you use any of our photos we would appreciate a link back to us if you have a website or blog.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WRITTEN COMPUTER SECURITY and HACKING TUTORIALS</span></span>: are offered FREE to read …you are even welcome to post an excerpt ( a small fair-use piece of the tutorial ) on your site PROVIDED YOU DO LINK BACK to the whole original tutorial.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">You do NOT have to be a member, you do NOT have to contribute, you do NOT have to provide us with any information ( nor do we even ask for any ) to read our tutorials.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">VIDEO SECURITY HACKING TUTORIALS</span></span>: are offered FREE to view ONLY…sorry but we cannot give you permission to use them in whole or in part other than to view on our site<!-- m --> <a class="postlink" href="http://www.tazforum.com/">http://www.tazforum.com</a><!-- m --></p>
<p>They are not our videos, they were created by a friend of ours ( Irongeek ) and are offered by us to view on our sites with his permission.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">You do NOT have to be a member, you do NOT have to contribute, you do NOT have to provide us with any information ( nor do we even ask for any ) to view our videos.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #00bf00;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS</span></span>: are offered FREE to read …you are even welcome to post an excerpt ( a small fair-use piece of the tutorial ) on your site PROVIDED YOU DO LINK BACK to the whole original tutorial…you can find some of them here on this site and many more on<!-- m --> <a class="postlink" href="http://www.thetazzone.org/">http://www.thetazzone.org</a><!-- m --></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">You do NOT have to be a member, you do NOT have to contribute, you do NOT have to provide us with any information ( nor do we even ask for any ) to read our tutorials.</span></p>
<p>…………………….</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">PLEASE</span>…if you enjoy our site, use our FREE services, etc…give us a courtesy link back on your site.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">name</span>: TheTAZZone</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">url link</span>: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="../">http://www.thetazzone.com</a><!-- m --></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">alt tag</span>: where internet chaos becomes an art form</p>
<p>NOTE: We provide hacking tutorials and videos for educational purposes&#8230;experienced hackers already know these things&#8230;we do not endorse using any of the information we provide for illegal activities, we however do endorse &#8216; ethical hacking &#8216; , and educating schools, institutions, governments, etc&#8230;about how hacking works.</p>
<p>The best way to protect yourself  is to know.</p></div>


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		<title>Our Sites are all McAfee Safe</title>
		<link>http://www.thetazzone.com/our-sites-are-all-mcafee-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every site in TheTAZZone Network is &#8221; SAFE &#8221;

so play our games, view our tutorials and videos, download our smileys and avatars, and use our photos knowing that you are completely secure.
thetazzone.com &#124; Web Safety Ratings from McAfee SiteAdvisor
In our tests, we found downloads on this site were free of adware, spyware, and other potentially [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every site in TheTAZZone Network is &#8221; SAFE &#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetazzone.com/wp-content/screenshot265.gif"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1482" title="screenshot265" src="http://www.thetazzone.com/wp-content/screenshot265-300x147.gif" alt="screenshot265" width="300" height="147" /></a></p>
<p>so play our games, view our tutorials and videos, download our smileys and avatars, and use our photos knowing that you are completely secure.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/thetazzone.com">thetazzone.com | Web Safety Ratings from McAfee SiteAdvisor</a></p>
<blockquote><p>In our tests, we found downloads on this site were free of adware, spyware, and other potentially unwanted programs.</p></blockquote>


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		<title>Free Website/Blog Promotion</title>
		<link>http://www.thetazzone.com/free-websiteblog-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, everytime I hear or see the word &#8216; free &#8216; my first thought is &#8216; ya, right &#8216;&#8230;but in this case it&#8217;s true.
As you already know we are a non-commercial site, everything we offer ourselves is FREE&#8230;we have over 1000 ad-free, full screen games you can play for FREE, we have 100&#8217;s of photos [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright, everytime I hear or see the word &#8216; free &#8216; my first thought is &#8216; ya, right &#8216;&#8230;but in this case it&#8217;s true.</p>
<p><em><strong>As you already know we are a non-commercial site, everything we offer ourselves is FREE&#8230;we have over 1000 ad-free, full screen games you can play for FREE, we have 100&#8217;s of photos you can use for FREE, we have 100&#8217;s of smileys and avatars you can download and use for FREE, all our tutorials and video tutorials are FREE to view or read&#8230;</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>you don&#8217;t have to be a member of TheTAZZone to utilize any of the things we offer FREE to you, you don&#8217;t have to give us any personal information, you don&#8217;t have to give us your e-mail address&#8230;we ask you for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING&#8230;</strong></em></p>
<p>we only request that if you do use our site that you give us a courtesy link back&#8230;and we don&#8217;t even demand that&#8230;and we could&#8230;and probably should.</p>
<p>So, when we say we can offer you FREE Website/Blog Promotion we actually mean it.</p>
<p>If you have a website or a blog and want our help go here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bliptalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&amp;t=107">TwitBlip: Where Twitters and Blippers meet in the more than 140 Character World&#8230;.when 140 Characters just isn&#8217;t Enough!</a></p>
<p>Join up at TwitBlip, it&#8217;s FREE too&#8230;and post in the Website Review section and we&#8217;ll see what we can do for you.</p>


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		<title>Getting Established on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.thetazzone.com/getting-established-on-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetazzone.com/getting-established-on-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are literally millions of websites on the Internet&#8230;and billions of pages&#8230;in 2007 it was estimated that there was approximately 110 million &#8216; distinct websites &#8216; and approximately 30 billion pages&#8230;these numbers have obviously increased since then&#8230;
so the competition to succeed is ferocious to say the least.
Very few websites make huge strides without tons of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are literally millions of websites on the Internet&#8230;and billions of pages&#8230;in 2007 it was estimated that there was approximately 110 million &#8216; distinct websites &#8216; and approximately 30 billion pages&#8230;these numbers have obviously increased since then&#8230;</p>
<p>so the competition to succeed is ferocious to say the least.</p>
<p>Very few websites make huge strides without tons of capital behind them&#8230;small budget or no budget sites have very little promise of success&#8230;however some do make it.</p>
<p>Most of the most popular websites were popular companies before the Internet&#8230;such as the New York Times, Sony, Walmart, etc&#8230;companies that brought their off-line success onto the Net. Some of the most popular website/services became popular on the Net&#8230;having no previous existence outside of the Net&#8230;such as Google, Firefox, AVG, etc&#8230;by providing a service that could be used by everyone to better their enjoyment of the Net.</p>
<p>But&#8230;for most of us&#8230;success on the Internet is a daily struggle&#8230;to keep your place or rise above it in an ever-increasing sea of sites that are vying for that same attention.</p>
<p>Our own site has seen and participated in that struggle&#8230;going from an Alexa rating of over 800,000 our first year&#8230;to just over 190,000&#8230;back up to 400,000&#8230;back down to 170,000&#8230;and presently sitting just under 200,000&#8230;with no capital spending&#8230;just hard work, a little luck, and the consumption of a mass amount of time.</p>
<p>A rating of 200,000, or thereabouts, is a respectable figure for any site, but it wasn&#8217;t easy&#8230;and it takes a lot of work to stay there&#8230;especially when you do not have deep pockets.</p>
<p>To succeed on the Internet today&#8230;is the same or more difficult than succeeding in the off-line world&#8230;ultimately you want to have very deep pockets, a great idea, and a workable plan&#8230;barring that, you want to have a lot of time to invest, a great idea, and an extrodinary plan&#8230;</p>
<p>or a whole lotta luck. <img src='http://www.thetazzone.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>


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		<title>Where to Advertise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really depends upon what you are selling and who your target audience is.
If you are selling/promoting a product, website, or service to whom are you selling/promoting it to? Who generally buys it? What age group? These are all things you need to consider before spending a dime in advertising.
Are you marketing your product to men [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really depends upon what you are selling and who your target audience is.</p>
<p>If you are selling/promoting a product, website, or service to whom are you selling/promoting it to? Who generally buys it? What age group? These are all things you need to consider before spending a dime in advertising.</p>
<p>Are you marketing your product to men or women? Americans or Australians? To kids, adults, or senior citizens?</p>
<p>Obviously if you are marketing a website that caters to teenagers you don&#8217;t want to advertise on a site that sells wheelchairs and walkers&#8230;no matter how great the price is to advertise there.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re marketing your web design services you want to advertise on sites that cater to the 20-45 crowd.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re marketing software you want to advertise on computer-based sites that cater to tech-minded people.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t throw money into a wasted effort&#8230;think, before you buy.</p>


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		<title>Why Advertise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;you really don&#8217;t have to&#8230;unless you want to &#8216; drive &#8216; traffic to your site&#8230;if you&#8217;re content to just let the search engines do the job for you you will eventually get picked up, and over time traffic will come on it&#8217;s own without any help&#8230;provided you are maintaining your site and regularly updating content.
But&#8230;if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well&#8230;you really don&#8217;t have to&#8230;unless you want to &#8216; drive &#8216; traffic to your site&#8230;if you&#8217;re content to just let the search engines do the job for you you will eventually get picked up, and over time traffic will come on it&#8217;s own without any help&#8230;provided you are maintaining your site and regularly updating content.</p>
<p>But&#8230;if you want traffic, and you want it now, you have to advertise&#8230;there&#8217;s no way around this.</p>
<p>Promoting your site on your own using free services out there ( that we will discuss another time ) you can help generate some traffic&#8230;but even that has a cost&#8230;the cost of time&#8230;you can spend hours over days and even weeks or months using free traffic vehicles and still get only a spattering of traffic.</p>
<p>Advertising is really the only vehicle you have available that will generate decent traffic fast&#8230;how much traffic will highly depend upon how much you are willing to spend.</p>
<p>And more importantly&#8230;how smart you are in spending it.</p>


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		<title>How to utilize my time to promote my site?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several things you can do for free to improve your traffic&#8230;
mind you these may be free but they still involve a cost&#8230;if you place any value on your time&#8230;
there are places where you can issue &#8216; press releases &#8216; &#8230;these free press releases will draw some traffic to your site if you do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are several things you can do for free to improve your traffic&#8230;</p>
<p>mind you these may be free but they still involve a cost&#8230;if you place any value on your time&#8230;</p>
<p>there are places where you can issue &#8216; press releases &#8216; &#8230;these free press releases will draw some traffic to your site if you do up something people will want to read.</p>
<p>There are &#8216; directories &#8216; where you can add your link and site information for free&#8230;they won&#8217;t produce much traffic but they will help get your site out there for people to find.</p>
<p>Beware&#8230;link farms&#8230;they will not help you and can sometimes hurt you. Also avoid places that offer you automatic submission&#8230;most real directories consider automated submission sites as spam houses&#8230;you&#8217;re better off taking the time and submitting your site manually.</p>


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