=> 1. News From the Net => 2. Feature Article-"It's 3 AM- Do You Know What Your Website's Doing?" => 3. Webmaster Resources => 4. Promotional Resources => 5. Other Ezines of Interest => 6. Just for Fun or Useful => 7.E Books and Things of Interest to Publishers => 8. Freeware and Shareware to Download => 9.Subscribe/Remove Information *************************************** Hey Boys & Girls, Summer is winding down for us here in Northeast Ohio and for those of us who've been here all of our lives we know a cold, long winter lies ahead. I wish it could be summer all year round. I guess I'll have to move to Arizona or California to get that. Someone told me last night that Scottsdale, Arizona is beautiful. Anyone? If you live there and have a spare room and would like a strange girl with a great sense of humor and a lot of Internet knowledge to come and stay with you, drop me a line. On the up side I don't eat much and I have been known to clean once in a blue moon. I'll also be bringing "the boys" with me and they require lots of "blankys" and bones so be prepared. (LOL) You can tell it's fall out here on the Net. When the kids go back to school all of the parents get busy with their Internet businesses and can once again give it their full attention. That's a good thing. When everyone is side tracked the Net get's lonely and sales go spiraling downward. Did you hear about Ask Jeeves? He's been kidnapped. Help, somebody call British Intelligence. What would they want with him anyway. He looks all polite and stodgy. How much fun could an Internet Butler be? On the personal front my "Significant Other" is driving me nuts as usual. And he wonders why we're not married after 11 years of dating. Why are men so difficult? I know, I know you guys say it's us but really it's you. We're pretty simple and easy to please but most times you guys just don't get it. Maybe it's too easy for you to figure out. Maybe I'll get married again someday, dunno. How drunk would I have to be exactly to do that? If you've heard all about John Reese and his new course "Traffic Secrets" and I know that you have, but you haven't gone to his site to see what all the buzz is about go to ... http://MCPromotions.com/johnreese.htm Even if you don't purchase it go and watch the f-r-e-e videos and study the sales copy. You can learn a lot without spending one thin dime. If you're tight that should make you very happy. I'd really like to see you over at the discussion board. Please give me your thoughts at http://www.merlesworld.com/webbbs/ Don't forget to bookmark the Blog. You'll want to pay an occasional visit for extra goodies I find. http://merlesworld.blogspot.com/ This week's winner for a free ad is...Robert Githers of http://OptOnline.net, but he or she has been contacted. For your own chance to win fill in the survey. You'll find the link at the very bottom of this ezine. A winner is pulled twice a month. Enter now. Thanks for joining me, let's get to the good stuff. If you have any comments you can send them to Me. Merle http://www.MerlesWorld.com http://www.EzineAdAuction.com http://www.MCPromotions.com

FindWhat Launches Online/Offline Performance-Based Ads
http://tinyurl.com/5wtzw
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Evaluating Email Delivery Rates
http://tinyurl.com/3tjo9

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Sender ID License Objections Could Force Delay
http://tinyurl.com/3tjo9

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Ask Jeeves Takes a Search Break
http://tinyurl.com/6ga6e

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Survey: Relevant Banners Are Less Intrusive
http://tinyurl.com/5wehg

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Content Listings Loom Large for Google
http://tinyurl.com/5sq5k

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Yahoo Buys MusicMatch
http://tinyurl.com/6w8pd

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ITunes Launches Affiliate Program
http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/

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"It's 3 AM Do You Know What Your Website's Doing?"

By http://MCPromotionsPress.com

It's 3AM do you know if your website is up? What's
that you say, "Of course it is?" Everyone knows the
Web is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Right?
Wrong! If you don't monitor your website you have
no way of knowing if your site is up or down or
just how reliable your host really is.

By utilizing a "Monitoring Service" you can monitor
site performance, availability, reliability and
security. Servers do need to be occasionally rebooted
and depending on the quality of your host, some may
have more problems and downtime then others. The old
adage "you get what you pay for" always applies here
as well.

So how do you keep tabs on your website? Glad you
asked. There are plenty of online services, some
even free, that will monitor your host's server
at specific intervals, for example every 60
minutes and notify you by email or other means
when your site is unreachable.

Let's take a look at a a few of these services:

1) NetWhistle: http://NetWhistle.com

This monitoring service will test your site
from multiple geographical locations and
detects down time within seconds. You can
choose the way you'd like to be notified for
example, Pager, Cell Phone, or Email. Pricing
varies with a basic check on your server
every 20 minutes for one page of your site
starting at 4.00 a month.

NetWhistle can perform a variety of tests
such as checking TCP & Port Responses,checking
web pages for errors, test your SSL Security,
test your submission forms, password protected
pages and more.

Sign up to get your first 15 days free. Monthly
payments are charged to your credit card.

2) AtWatch: http://AtWatch.com

Be alerted immediately when your site goes
down. Pricing starts at 17.95 a month and goes
up from there depending on the plan you choose.
You can select monitoring frequencies of 5,
20, or 60 minutes and be alerted of any problems
via email, pager or Cell Phone. Sign up for
a 14 day free trial.

3) AlertMeFirst: http://AlertMeFirst.com

With this service you can choose to check your
server from every two minutes to once an hour.
You choose the way in which you'd like to be
notified of any problems. Again with your
choice of email or pager. All results are
put into easy to read reports so you can
watch for any trends. Only 24.00 a month.

4) SiteUpTime: http://SiteUpTime.com

A free website monitoring service that logs
detailed reports of your sites downtime/uptime
each month. This service will alert you by
email if any problem is found when trying to
connect to your site. You can choose monitoring
intervals of 30 to 60 minutes. If you need more
options they do offer a "Premium" Service starting
at only 5.00 a month.

5) WebSitePulse: http://WebSitePulse.com

Offering a free monitoring plan for one host,
they'll check your site every hour. The alert
notifications are by Email or Cell Phone and
includes the different types of errors and
the date and time that it occurred. Real time
reports are available with daily and weekly
logs of server activity.

Other, more full featured monitoring accounts
are available starting at 9.00 a month and
going up from there.

6) SiteProbe: http://SiteProbe.com

Checks the status of your website hourly, 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. Offering a free
service that alerts you by email when your
site can't be reached. For a small fee you
can upgrade to have your site checked more
often. In order to keep the service free they
do request that you log in every 30 days, or
your account will be deleted.

Remember, just because a site is open 24-7 it
doesn't mean your host is. By using a third party
monitoring service you can stay on top of problems
with your Website instantly.

If you run an Ecommerce site every time your site
is unaccessible you lose money. By keeping a
watchful eye on your web host you'll find out just
how reliable their service is, and that's important
to your bottom line.

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Merle http://www.EzineAdAuction.com
"Where some of the BEST Deals in Ezine Ads are Made"
Buy & Sell Ezine Ads in a live auction setting!
Publishers sell off your excess inventory and Buyers
pick up some Fantastic bargains. Go now.
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FreeHostShop.com

"The ultimate website generator loaded with templates,
buttons, effects and features. Building a website has
never been easier. Upload his program to your Internet
domain, follow the easy setup instructions and start
working on your website immediately." Did I mention
it was F-R-E-E.

http://www.FreeHostShop.com/

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Site Report Card

Offering free website analysis, optimization and
promotion reports. Their tools offer valuable
information to help improve your web pages and
increase your search engine ranking. Providing
detailed reports on various aspects of your web
pages including: site popularity, keyword analysis,
search engine inclusion, broken links and image
optimization.

http://SiteReportCard.com/

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Useful Tips
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Yahoo Search Tip

Need to look up a word's meaning? Do it easily by
typing this into Yahoo's Search Box the word
define then the word you need the meaning of:

For example:

define radiology

LinkPartners

"LinkPartners is a free categorized directory of
quality websites that trade reciprocal links with
other sites." Browse the listings until you find
a site that's related to yours for the best match.

http://www.LinkPartners.com/

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EquipMint

"How About A Free Membership
To The Largest Online Marketers'
Resource Site On The Web?"

http://www.Equipmint.com/index.php

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Ebayers That Suck

Think Ebay is all about fun and great deals? Here's
a site started by someone who obviously got burned
and wanted some revenge. It's sole existence is a
place where you can go and post your negative
experience on any auction.

From the site itself it states " So next time you
deal with a swindler and don't want to leave negative
feedback for fear of retaliation, post them here.
You will get the last laugh when they are officially
branded with our puke green " you suck" logo and
the on-line auction world can see what a deadbeat
they really are. "

http://www.EbayersThatSuck.com/main/

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Last Wishes

A simple idea but still kind of creepy. Yes, we all
have to die someday, some of us sooner then others.
Last Wishes allows you to set up emails to be sent
after your death. Just think of the fun you could
have with this. All those people you've always wanted
to tell them what you thought of them, now you can
after your dead with no repercussions. Tell your boss
he sucks as a human being and more. There's also other
things you can do like document your property and
accounts so that you can be sure that all of these
items will be found and distributed correctly, and
final plans so that you can be given the funeral and
burial/ cremation that you wish to have. Interesting
concept.

http://www.LastWishes.com/

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F-R-E-E Ebook

"How to Sell your Crafts or Anything Else on Ebay"
http://www.CraftSearchEngine.com/ebay.zip

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Free report on "How to Prosper With the
New Google". If you're trying to raise
your position in the search engines you'll
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John Reese is an Online Marketing Genius.
In this Free 16 page report he gives away
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X-Setup

Known as a tweaker program it allows you to make
changes to Windows, changes that are usually deep
within the system and hard to change. Just choose
what you want to tweak, select the setting in question,
make your changes and hit the "Apply" button.

http://www.x-setup.net

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Tight VNC

"TightVNC is a free remote control software package
derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC,
you can see the desktop of a remote machine and
control it with your local mouse and keyboard,
just like you would do it sitting in the front
of that computer." F-r-e-e, GPL-licensed.

http://TightVnc.com

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JAlbum

Free software to make web albums from your digital
picture. Very powerful and easy to use. Runs on
Windows or Mac.

http://JAlbum.net

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