10 Steps to More Page Views for Your Blog

With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips.

1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as references to what you are posting about.

2. Use articles as static pages. You can reprint articles on any topic for free by visiting one of the many article directories like http://www.articlecontentprovider.com/articlesubmit/ Then refer people to read the articles that relate to the post you are making. You could even add one article as a new page every time you make a post.

3. Refer to other posts you have made on your blog or on another one of your blogs while posting. This gets the reader to click over to previous posts. You can even decide your posts by browsing previous posts and deciding which one to follow up on. Those archives are not to be lost and forgotten. Its great material, (you wrote it right?), so use it.

4. Create a page that links to your favorite posts that are timeless. You browse your old posts, find posts that you want readers to find easily, then build a links page with those posts directly linked. Then add a link to that page from your front page. Call it favorite posts or whatever and you will benefit by those that click through and follow those links.

5. I’ve posted here before about the “more” tag. You write your post as normal, then decide where you want to break the post up onto a new page. You put the more tag in and readers have to click to a new page to read the rest of the story.

6. Write once per week special projects. These are a series of articles on a particular topic. You will be offering it once per week giving readers a week to comment on it, then have them hanging on for next weeks special post in the series. Each time add links to previous posts in that series.

7. Using your content from your other websites or blogs is also a great way to get more pageviews for all of them. Use the target new tag and refer to material on your other blogs and websites. It will open a new window leaving the current blog open while they visit your other website or blog. You can quickly double up your pageviews while also introducing your readers to your other websites and blogs.

8. Make a list of 10 previous posts and the links to those posts. Make a post in your blog about 10 things you want your readers to know and read in case they have not done so before. At your suggestion they will at least go see if they have read those posts before, increasing your pageviews once again plus bringing old material to new readers. That also lets them know they should browse the archives for things they have missed.

9. Using that same list of 10 posts or a new one, visit other blogs on your topic. Find posts that talk about something similar to one of those 10 posts, then instead of adding a link in your signature to the home page, make a comment there and refer to the post that is similar and that contains helpful information to that blogger and their readers. You will also be increasing your link popularity while doing this. Do not spam the link. Make sure it actually contains useful information. Don’t be trolls or spammers and you will end up with new readers and more page views for your blog.

10. Do not stop being creative. Use the tips in this article, plus invent some of your own ways to interlink your blogposts together. Create pages. Don’t just post and forget. That content is valuable, use it. Do not make people search your blog. They are lazy and busy. Bring it to them. That is just good customer service.

I hope this article helps you learn there is more to blogging than just writing a post once in awhile or even daily. If you employ the tips I just gave you into your blog I guarantee you will increase your pageviews which in turn will increase your revenue if using an ad program in your blog.

Article Marketing Is Dead And It Doesn’t Work

That is exactly what some old-time experienced SEO people are still saying. Yet, one of the clients I wrote articles for went from a link popularity of 1 to a link popularity of 457 in 8 days.

I received an email today from a client I wrote an article for on “Free Credit Repair” 3 days ago. He did a search in Google today for “Free Credit Repair” and the article was in the top 100. Tough category, but it was written 3 days ago and appeared in Google for his search term with links to his website.

I can provide dozens of examples where article marketing works and works fast. Once those articles are picked up by other websites besides the article directories, the real benefit comes.

Those websites and blogs that pick up and use the articles as content would not use the article if it were not related to their own topic.

That means relative one-way inbound links for your website.

If you have no use for quick link popularity and relative one-way inbound links to your website, then article marketing is not for you.

First let me explain article marketing for those that do not know what it is. Let’s say your website is about widgets. You write an article on interesting ways people can use widgets.

In the footer of your article there is an author bio section. In the author bio section you place links to your website about widgets.

You submit that article to as many article directories as possible. You can use a service www.isnare.com ISnare.com who for two dollars per article will submit your article to hundreds of article directories.

Once you submit to all of those directories, remember the link in the author bio section, each of those directories is now a one-way inbound link.

Those article directories are not related to widgets, so they are not relative links, but they do still count for link popularity, just not as much as relative links do.

But the real reason that article directories exist is to provide free content to website owners. These website owners can take your article and use it as content for their website as long as they leave the links in the author bio section active and intact.

Article Marketing Doesn’t Work? Yeah, right.

How Can I Benefit From Article Marketing?

With information technology on the rise and gaining relevance in the world today, article marketing has become a very significant tool to promote businesses on the Internet.

While it is well-known that articles make consumers understand a product better, a well-written article can be one of the main reasons why any product sells. These days, article marketing is so advanced that it has become the foremost advertising strategy for many online businesses.

Central to the effectiveness of article marketing is the implementation of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The primary function of this form of article writing is to achieve prominent rankings on the search engines by utilizing keywords which are popular among Internet users.

When a user enters a search term which is identical to your keyword, the web page of your article will be displayed as a search result. With effective SEO strategies, you can rank among the top search results and benefit from a steady flow of incoming traffic, which will ultimately lead to increased sales.

Due to the fact that SEO article writing involves a great deal of research and expertise, most website owners prefer to employ SEO experts to manage their web content. These specialized professionals will provide you keyword-rich articles that will dramatically improve the visibility of your website and win customers over with their convincing content.

SEO article marketing is such a proven success in the world of online business that many website owners are willing to hire the services of top SEO experts to help them launch their businesses into greater heights of profitability.

Other than its overall contribution to the betterment of sales, article marketing also brings professionalism and prestige to your website. With comprehensive articles that offer expert information about your products, your website will be widely regarded as an authoritative entity.

It will assume a position as the favored destination for consumers seeking specialized knowledge pertaining to your products. As reputation grows, your brand will be established as a trusted name in the business and this will in turn translate to a long-term influx of web traffic.

Compared to other forms of online advertisements which incur quite a substantial amount of financial investment, article marketing is basically free advertising.

Since your articles are included in the information base of search engines, they will automatically show up whenever a search term coincides with one or few of their keywords.

In a way, an article is a living advertising implement on the Internet and it grows in recognition from time to time, without you having to pay extra for each and every appearance.

Web owners who understand the full potential of article marketing will also post their articles to article directories and ezines to boost their chances of drawing more visitors to their websites.

As the Internet continues to extend its influence in our livelihood, article marketing will prevail as the most important means to distribute information, whether for a product or a mere matter of general interest.

There is nary a website that can communicate effectively without web content, and articles are indeed the most significant bridge between webmasters and users. By adopting an elaborate article marketing strategy, you can be sure that your business will achieve new heights of success.

Trademark Owners and Domain Acquisition through Intimidation

I am 100% supportive of the right to file a trademark, patent, or service mark. I want to get that out of the way first. America was built on the greatness of it’s inventors and innovators and they have a right to be protected.

That being said, the US Patent and Trademark Office have gone completely off their rocker. Corporations have muscled their way in and began to make trademarks and patent a total joke. The USPTO has led trademark owners to believe they actually OWN the string of letters that make up their trademark.

First of all what is a trademark? According to USPTO.gov; (Don’t type it into the browser without the www because our government isn’t smart enough to hire webmasters who know how to make the domain name work without the www)

“A trademark includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods. In short, a trademark is a brand name.”

Note: It says; “to be used and not owned”. Some may think there is no difference there. Ah, but let’s take a closer look.

Trademark Classes

When filing a Trademark, you must choose a “CLASS”, like Medical Apparatus, Firearms, Jewelry, etc. Therefore, you DO NOT OWN the string of letters or words; you have the right to USE them when doing business in your particular category, while someone else can use the same string of letters to file a trademark in another CLASS.

Why File a Federal Trademark vs a State Trademark?

Federal registration is not required to establish rights in a trademark. Common law rights arise from actual use of a mark. Generally, the first to either use a mark in commerce or file an intent to use application with the Patent and Trademark Office has the ultimate right to use and registration. However, there are many benefits of federal trademark registration.

How is that relative to domain name registrations?

This is directly relative to registering domain names. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers) turned over domain name disputes to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization, with a very loose definition of the word Intellectual).

In many cases, a person has filed a domain name, then long after the filing of the domain name, someone else registered a trademark for the same string of letters. But remember the trademark registrant had to choose a specific class for their mark. They did not register OWNERSHIP of a string of letters.

However, in 80% of these cases, WIPO has found that the trademark registrant had the right to take the domain name away from the person who registered the domain name long before the trademark was filed.

In addition to that, nowhere in your trademark application are you guaranteed a domain name that matches your trademark.

The domain name is NOT in a particular class, therefore it does not match your trademark, even if it is the exact same string of letters. The exception to that is when you register a domain name that is an exact match to a creative and original word or a word that is a famous trademark and that is not a generic word or phrase.

Example: If you register any domain name that contains Microsoft or Xerox in it, you are infringing on those trademarks. The only exception is if you register XeroxSucks.com to complain about them or something that is clearly a parody making fun of that company.

Fan sites are at risk of being found as trademark infringement. If you register DodgeChargerFan.com and write all about how you love Dodge Chargers, Chrysler can take your domain name away from you. They’ve done it under similar circumstances before, even after they wrote a positive article about the site in their own newsletter.

About First Use and Domain Names

Registering a domain name is EXACTLY like first use or intent to use. The domain name registrant, if it was registered before the mark, should have MORE rights than the trademark holder, not less.

ICANN and WIPO have consistently misapplied trademark law to suit big corporations.

Corporations missed the boat on domain names

Many large corporations missed the boat in the first rounds of domain name registration when many of the good names were registered.

They didn’t bother with filing good generic domain names nor even their own company names because they thought the Internet was a passing fad. Honestly, you would think that corporations hire the best and the brightest people, but that isn’t necessarily so.

Examples: None of the big three automakers registered cars.com, autos.com, trucks.com, etc. None of the large jewelry chains registered jewelry.com. There are hundreds of examples where corporations missed the boat.

As soon as they became aware of the enormous potential of the Internet and found that many of the good domain names were taken, they put their lawyers to work to try to steal good domain names from others who had previous rights to the domain names due to the first come first serve policy of domain name registration.

Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

This been occurring for a long time now. The big corporations get all the publicity when a Cybersquatter registers a domain name that matches their trademark. And the publication of those stories makes them sound like poor helpless victims.

What does not get reported is the fact they have teams of lawyers searching for domain names that are owned by individuals that they want for their own. When they find one they want, they send threatening letters to the individual, threatening expensive lawsuits, etc. etc.

In many cases the individual is scared, does not understand, and simply turns over their domain name to the big bad corporation. That is their game; Domain name acquisition through intimidation.

Why doesn’t this get published to the public more? Because individuals don’t buy advertising, corporations do. The media slants these stories in favor of those who pay for their ads and those that might publish it don’t understand the issue in the first place.

People need to understand trademark law and it’s relationship to domain names so they can protect themselves. Do not just turn your domain name over to someone who threatens you.  Just say no! Threaten to defend your domain name all the way. Tell them you will take it to regular court and not the kangaroo court of WIPO arbitration (the UDRP). Likely they will simply move on to an easier target.

Chris McElroy has bought and sold more than 1500 domain names, has been a member of the DNSO (Domain Name Supporting Organization) working groups, a member the General Assembly of individual users under ICANN, and is currently on mailing lists to advise and monitor the actions of the GNSO (Generic Names Supporting Organization). He continues to fight for the rights of individual users of the Internet and domain name holders. His website, http://www.seoserviceprovider.com offers free domain name consultation and free SEO consultation as well.

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How Do You Determine Selling Price?

I sometimes like to read Aaron Wall’s blog. And sometimes I don’t. He’s a guy whose insights range from brilliant to ridiculous. At times he whines (as in when he takes on Google for some supposed injustice) and borders on pedantic immaturity. Then there are times when I actually learn something and enjoy reading every sentence right down to the last line. This post on fake website buyers is one of those posts that I thought was near genius.

Last year I put up a blog for sale and had the privilege of selling it fairly quickly. I was actually hoping that I’d find a local buyer since it was a local geotargeted website. But a buyer is a buyer.

The offer came in from an investor in Europe. He looks for websites with value and turns them into passive income machines. That’s cool with me. Everyone has their own method of making money. A few years ago when I was into real estate investing I knew other investors who were flippers, others who were landlords and some who were into other types of investing. As long as it’s legal, cool.

I know I priced my blog low. I know it for two reasons. First, it sold quickly. And secondly, the buyer didn’t balk at the price. No quibbles, no questions, he just said “I’ll take it; your price is fair.” That, to me, means I priced it low. I probably could have got twice as much for it as I did.

My buyer wasn’t shady. He didn’t ask me for any analytics data and I don’t think I’d have given it to him if he had. My goal was to sell the site and I knew I had it priced fairly (What I didn’t know was that I’d priced it so low). So my question to you is, What criteria do you use to price your websites when you sell them? What do you base your asking price on? Is it traffic value or do you evaluate your web properties on search engine rankings or income it has produced? Maybe it’s a combination of these. Let’s discuss.

Dashes or Underscores? That is the question

I get asked all the time about whether it’s better to use underscores or dashes between keywords in a file name. I’ve always said dashes are better and I still say dashes are better and people still argue the point.

In a domain name, you aren’t allowed to use underscores, but you are allowed to use dashes. That should be your first clue.

But this is from the Google Webmaster Blog, just so you can see why you use dashes instead of underscores.

Underscores vs. Dashes
Webmasters asked about the difference between how Google interprets underscores and dashes in URLs.

In general, we break words on punctuation, so if you use punctuation as separators, you’re providing Google a useful signal for parsing your URLs.

Currently, dashes in URLs are consistently treated as separators while underscores are not.

Keep in mind our technology is constantly improving, so this distinction between underscores and dashes may decrease over time.

Even without punctuation, there’s a good chance we’ll be able to figure out that bigleopard.html is about a “big leopard” and not a “bigle opard.”

While using separators is a good practice, it’s likely unnecessary to place a high priority on changing your existing URLs just to convert underscores to dashes.

I hope that resolves the issue for anyone wondering whether dashes or underscores are better.

If You Don’t Follow Me I’ll Unfollow You and I’ll take my toys and go home!

People are always asking how to get more followers on Twitter and how to manage an effective Twitter account. First, define effective. I want to ask you some questions myself.

1. If someone follows you on Twitter do you feel obligated to follow them back, even if what they talk about doesn’t really interest you?

I don’t. It isn’t bad etiquette to not follow someone on Twitter if the topics they talk about do not interest you. It doesn’t mean you don’t like them. It isn’t an insult if I don’t follow you.

If I follow you and never read your posts, then what’s the point? Think about how you get traffic to your website or blog. You choose keywords to get a specific target audience to visit your web pages.

Targeted traffic is the key, not the number of people who come to your website. So why, on Twitter, do you think that basic concept doesn’t apply?

10,000 visitors to your website that are not interested in your products and services doesn’t do anything for you. 10,000 followers on Twitter that don’t care what you say doesn’t do anything for you.

2. If someone you choose to follow doesn’t follow you back, do you unfollow them because of that?

It isn’t a popularity contest. You should only be following people you are interested in and you should not feel insulted when someone doesn’t follow you back.

You should be choosing to follow people whose tweets interest you. And each person in turn should do the same thing. So what if everyone you follow doesn’t follow you? So what if you don’t follow everyone that follows you?

If a person doesn’t follow you on Twitter, it isn’t a vote against you. It isn’t an insult. Each person has their own interests. Those that are interested in what you have to say will follow you. You will have a targeted audience. Isn’t that what you really want?

3. Are you using a Twitter Tool to get more followers? If you say no and you have only made 49 tweets and have 49,000 followers, we know you’re lying.

Seriously? Is what you have to say so uninteresting that you need automated software to get followers? Did you not have friends in high school? OK, that may sound mean, but using software to get followers is like paying people to be your friend.

And it doesn’t get you a targeted audience that cares about what you link to or say. Is it because you want the bragging rights of having thousands of followers?

People who say they have 1000 friends usually don’t. You have a few friends and a lot of acquaintances. That’s in real life. On Twitter, you can have 50,000 followers and only have 100 followers who actually read what you tweet. How is that an effective marketing strategy?

4. What percentage of your posts are about you and your services?

Go to your own profile and actually count. Some of you don’t need to because every single tweet you make is about you. You are the center of the Twitterverse and we are all just on Twitter to serve you.

If you show interest in others, they will show interest in you. Post stuff that isn’t about you at least 2/3 of the time and you will naturally get more followers. Comment on the blogs that the people you follow write. Post some funny stuff. Everyone loves humor.

5. How do I know what will interest my followers on Twitter?

I know you think everything you are doing or selling is what will interest them. But, get real. It’s not just about you.

In order to post stuff you know will interest your followers, you have to actually know who they are. Go down your list of followers. Have something to write with ready.

As you view each follower on the list, write down a category or categories that you think would interest them. Let’s say the first one on the list is a real estate person, write down real estate, mortgages and loans as topics.

If the second follower on your list is a gamer, write down games as a topic. If the 3rd person is also in real estate, add a number under the topics you attributed to the 1st follower.

Continue down your list and keep doing that. Look at the categories that have the highest numbers and put them at the top of your list of topics, then build your list according to those numbers.

Tweet about the most popular topics more often than other topics. Then mix in something you are promoting about every third tweet. You’ll build trust and users will click on things you tweet, including those that are about you.

5. How many retweets have you done for other people?

Again, have you shown interest in what others tweet about? Do you even care? If you don’t, your followers will know you don’t care and they won’t care what you have to say either.

6. How many times have you commented on someone’s blog after seeing their tweet?

Is it really too much trouble to make a comment on someone’s blog? You get a link back for doing it and you let that person know you are listening to them. They in turn will listen to you.

7. Do you even read the tweets from those you follow or are you just after traffic to your own website,blog, products and services?

If you really are just using Twitter to post your own services, products, etc. then you have missed the entire point of Twitter and all other social networking websites as well.

You may think you are a social media guru because you have 100,000 followers, but if you are not reading what other people tweet and responding to that, you’re really just a dweeb whose “popularity” will fade in the long run.

That’s my opinion. What’s yours?

Uh Oh, The FCC has discovered the Internet

It was only a matter of time. A government agency was bound to find the Internet and take it seriously sooner or later. This is from a story at the NYTimes website;

Effort to Widen U.S. Internet Access Sets Up Battle

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation’s media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country’s dominant communication network.

The blueprint reflects the government’s view that broadband Internet is becoming the common medium of the United States, gradually displacing the telephone and broadcast television industries.

About a third of Americans have no access to high-speed Internet service, cannot afford it or choose not to have it.

Oops, they are on to us. They have figured out that network television is secondary to the Internet.

The Rest of The Story here

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Domain, TLD, and Trademark Myths and Facts

I started buying and selling domain names in 1995. Domain speculation began sometime in 1994. I did appraisals and was one of the biggest advocates for registering generic domain names rather than made-up names or those that violated trademarks.

I made a good income from my domains because I did not just sell domain names, I sold domain names that had a business plan and a website while others were just trying to sell their domain names with no traffic, no business plan and no website.

Today many are still doing it that way. Although now they park them at SEDO or Go Daddy or somewhere to try to make adsense revenue while they list them for sale. So my background in domain names is good enough that I can dispel a few myths.

First TLD stands for Top Level Domain. .COM, .NET, .ORG are all examples of TLDs. The domain name most people refer to is what goes before the dot. The TLD is what comes after the dot.

These are some Common Myths about Domain Names;

.TV is for television or multimedia websites. Pure myth. Any domain name in any TLD can work for television, video, or multimedia. The TLD .TV does not give you any special tools for creating multimedia-rich content. .TV does not stand for television. It is the ccTLD or country-code TLD for Tuvalu Island. An island in the pacific that had no real use for owning a TLD so they sold the rights to sell domain names on their TLD to a company that leads people to believe it stands for television. It works. People buy them and use them and associate them with television and that is ok. It’s just a myth that .TV was created to mean television.

Another Domain Name Myth: If you want to build websites that people can access by their cell phone or PDA you need to get a .MOBI domain name. Just like dot tv does not give you any special capability for television or multimedia, dot mobi does not give you any special tools for mobile-capable websites. Any website on any TLD can provide content to cell phones and PDAs if it is made compatible for them. Many will lead you to believe that dot mobi somehow gives you the advantage when it comes to cell phones and PDAs. it doesn’t.

.ME Domain Names Myth: Coming soon to a domain registrar near you. Soon domain names will be marketing for the TLD dot ME. They will market them as great domain names for personal websites. They may be. But it was not created as such. It is the Country-code top-level domain designated for Montenegro.

.PN Domain Names: I own Blogs.pn. I would love to tell you it stands for Publisher network or something like that but it doesn’t. It is the Country-code top-level domain designated for Pitcairn Island. Another pacific island that did not have much use for a TLD so someone was authorized to sell dot pn domain names.

Soon ICANN will be allowing more TLDs to be created and domain names will be marketed in these new TLDs. More and more countries will also offer domain names for sale in their ccTLDs. So the market will be opening up and it may be confusing to some. The truth is what comes before the dot matters most. Getting a domain name in a TLD that makes sense to users can help you though.

Shorter Domain Names are better than Long Domain Names Myth: Only in certain circumstances is a shorter domain name better than a long domain name. Many domain gurus disagree. I don’t care. They talk about people being able to remember your domain name. Truthfully more traffic comes from people clicking links in search engines, on other websites, and on social bookmarking sites than comes from people who type in the domain name.

What is more important is that the domain name help you capture a phrase you want to target in the search engines. I can give you a ton of examples where having the exact phrase you want in the domain name has helped get a top position in Google and other search engines. So if the phrase is longer, do not abbreviate it just because you heard shorter domain names are better. Get the phrase you want to target.

If you are planning to advertise your domain name OFFLINE, in advertising on TV, radio, or even magazines and newspapers, shorter domain names ARE better. Offline, people have to be able to remember your domain name.

The best of both worlds: If most of your traffic comes from the web, shorter means very little. To cover both, get a domain name that matches your key phrase and put your website on that domain name. Then get a second domain name that is short and catchy and redirect or point it to the same website. Use the shorter-easy-to-remember domain name for your offline marketing and the domain that matches your key phrase for the search engines.

Anything other than a dot COM is worthless Myth: This is a favorite myth spread everywhere. It is based on the same myths about shorter domain names. If people have to remember it, then yes, they do remember dot com more often. If you are doing offline marketing, use a dot com.

Online your website can be on any TLD. People are clicking links. So again, get the domain name that matches your key phrase for your website whether it is on .com, net, org, tv, pn, cc, ws, or whatever. Start with dot com, try your phrase. If it is taken, move to the next TLD and try your phrase again. If it is taken, repeat your attempts to register until you find a TLD that your phrase IS available in and register it in that TLD.

These are some Myths about Trademarks and Domain Names;

Domain Name VS Trademark Myth #1: If I own a trademark I need to register my trademarked name in every TLD. Pure Myth and a worthless, time-consuming strategy promoted by Intellectual Property Lawyers who need to justify what you are paying them.

Domain Name VS Trademark Myth #2: When you register a trademark, you have to choose a classification for that trademark such as “entertainment television”, “clothing and apparel”, “beverages”, etc.

You do not own the phrase you trademark. You are being allowed to use that trademark in commerce within the classification you chose. Someone else can register the same exact trademark and choose a different classification.

In addition to that, the geographical area you registered your mark in only covers that area. Someone could have the same trademark in the same classification in a different geographical location.

So again, you do not own the phrase you trademarked, so no need to register every TLD in existence. It could even be construed as anti-competitive business practice to do so.

Domain Name VS Trademark Myth #3: If you chose the trademark, “goofball lawyer stuff” and chose the classification “clothing and apparel”, I could still register the domain name http://goofballlawyerstuff.com or net or org or whatever.

As long as I do not sell clothing or apparel, link to anyone who sells clothing and apparel, or try to confuse people into believing my website is owned by you, I have not violated your trademark rights. Get over it.

I hope this helps you dispel a few of the most common domain name and trademark myths you may have been reading about.

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Have You Been Phished By The FBI?

Wired Magazine reports that online fraud has doubled in the last year, primarily because phishers posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation are targeting consumers via e-mail. I can honestly say I have not seen any phishing e-mails purportedly to be from the FBI. Have you?

Still, this is likely something that will get worse before it gets better. And now that the bad guys are posing as the FBI, the government could use that as justification for providing oversight or regulation over e-mail marketing. Is that something you would welcome? Tell us what you think.

UPDATE: Wouldn’t you know it, about the time I say I’ve never seen a phishing e-mail from the FBI I get one. Just five minutes ago. And, no, I didn’t click any links.

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