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All Hypnosis web site owners should be aware of this spam campaign currently underway by HypTalk dot com (link not shown here on purpose). 

The email communication will try to get you to email your mailing list to promote their products as an affiliate partner.  The email says your site was reviewed and out of all the sites "yours was the best" (they say this to everyone). They use canned generic text with a macro that personalizes the message by adding your name into the text at various places. They may even have hired a third party company to do the spam campaign for them.

We know the campaign is bogus as they never visited our site (since we are promoting the exact same products) and they emailed us using our Domain Name Registrar listed email address (one that is not listed online anywhere within our web site).  Also they did not use their real email address in the "reply to" address but instead used a third party email address: g559aad@talktalk.net.  Most all spam email is done this way to keep the main domain name from being reported as a spammer.   

Shame on Victoria Gallagher and HypTalk.  Someone must have given them some bad advice to get them to go along with spamming fellow Hypnosis professionals in this way. If you know her maybe you can direct her to this post. 

Hello,

Two new blogs have been added and several have gone away due to inactivity.  I won't go on about that - just say "welcome" to the new people.  Feel free to look over their content once they get in to post. 

Be well,

James

Happy Holidays to everyone!

All the best in the new year.   

Hello all,

Today we cleaned up the HypnoBlog and removed some of the unused and un-updated Blogs.  We have had numerous requests to add new ones but we have been unable to keep up with getting them online.  So much to do and so little time...

I hope the new people are active and post relevant content - we look forward to their input. 

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So many things to do and so little time.  OK, enough cliches... here is a quick catch up on changes to the HypnoBlog site. 

We are more than happy to set up a HypnoBlog for anyone in the Hypnosis Profession but please dont ask unless you are going to use it.  It is such a waste of time to set it all up and then see it never used.  This is part of the problem with offering any thing for free - people don't really appreciate it and since it is free they don't give it much thought.  Most likely we will switch over to some type of a paying set up, at some point in the future, just to cut down on the non-serious sign-ups.  If and when we do it won't be much money - just something to drive the non-serious people away.  Yes, money talks...   

What's up with Google Adwords these days? 

Has anyone else noticed how they have changed their keywords system so they can drive their prices higher.  Strange new "qualifying" system where they get to do all the qualifying and you don't even know what basis they use to judge the keywords.  A review of their web site just leads you around in circles if you try to find out more details about the process.  I don't know why they just don't say it like it is: They are changing the way they charge for bids on keywords to a more secretive process so they can drive the prices up any time they want.  I much prefer Overture (now called Yahoo Marketing) as they even show you who you are bidding against, what rank your ad will post in the order of the ads and several other things that Google just doesn't offer.  Wouldn't it be great if a lot of people stopped paying for Google ads within their new "secret" service and they had to change the way they are doing it?  Most likely that would be the only way to make them change to a more fair system. 

That is my rant for this month.  I will find someone new to pick on next time or maybe I will just bash them some more... time will tell.

As always I invite your comments - click on the comments link below to send them in. 

Here in the US of A the holiday weekend is upon us, signaling the beginning of summer weather for those of us in the Northeast and... we are finally finished tweaking the new Hypnosis Blogosphere.  How was that for a segue?

We have added a FAQs section that you may find of interest if you are new to blogging.  There are some things in there of a more advanced nature too, so feel free to look it over even if you are a blogger pro.    

A special thanks to everyone who helped out to make this Blogosphere a reality.  Take a look at our credits page for the low down on all that.   

I have automated the sign up form for new blog requests.  If you are a Hypnosis Professional, advanced or just starting out, I invite you to sign up and use the new HypnoBlog web site as your own.  You can find out more about that here.   

Have a great holiday weekend. 

Today I created the infrastructure for HypnoBlog.com  

Looking to advance the documented side of Hypnosis using the Blog format.  Offering Hypnosis Professionals a community where they can post, comment, interact and publish their web logs.   

I will start by offering those actively involved within the HypnosisOnline.com forum a free Blog site.  Those who have really joined into the conversation and are actively posting would be the best candidates.  Others who may come in from the HypnosisOnline web site links I will most likely require a set up fee of some kind.  This should act to keep out the rift raft (highly technical term for those who abuse free things).  You will find the link to the sign-up form on the home page www.HypnoBlog.com

The great thing about this is that people can post thier own comments within their own Blog and then simply use links to point people to them within other forums and publications.  That and the fact that they can publish up to the many reader and indexing services that are now available for web logs.    

I have been toying with the idea of a yearly fee for the service but I am thinking instead to just keep a small section of the blog pages where we can run some ads for HypnosisOnline.com and it's sponsors.  I think this will be best in the long run and it will really get the project off the ground quickly. 

All of this automation is now possible with the powerful servers set up that we have through our web hosts TELEsites.net.  It also helps when you own the hosting company.  The software is an ASP program and the work of many people - see the credits page here.  

I found an excellent article on Blogs for those who want to know more about the technical side of things.  It is titled All About Blogs and RSS.  

Also I found this interesting article about being quoted as an authority by what you posted online somewhere.  It is a very interesting read: How to Know What's Being Said About You Online and Why You Need to Be Paranoid

What is a Blog?

Blog is short for weblog.  Although the actual word weblog seems to me to be pretty short as it is, the Internet, in it's infinite wisdom, has taken to shorting it to Blog, we suppose this is to save space.  By whatever name you call it Blogging has become one of the fastest growing areas on the Internet today.  

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