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A firewall is software or hardware that controls your internet traffic, making sure to keep all the bad stuff away from your internet experience. Most people may have heard about software firewalls, and if you have a home network then you’ve already seen a hardware firewall in the form of your router/gateway to the internet.

In order to communicate to other computers on the internet, you have to “open a connection” to them. But, usually only one kind of communication goes through the open connection, or the networks expect certain communication to come through the same connection all the time.

You can think of the connections as phone numbers and the communications as a caller. You wouldn’t expect someone to contact the library when they’re trying to reach the fire department.

Every single program that you use for the internet uses a particular port (open connection) for its purposes. Some can be changed more easily than others. A lot of times, a computer’s default setting is to allow all communications on all basic ports. This simplifies things since under most circumstances you wouldn’t need these to be monitored or policed. But that would be in a perfect world.

The truth is you can accidentally install a file that will wait for a call on a port that it will open when you accidentally installed it. When that program gets the call it’s been waiting for, it will respond with a special message.

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Often times, simply sitting down with your partner and having a heart to heart will help you get back to the place you once were. It's like a "reset" button where once you voice your concerns, share your feelings and get it off your chest, you feel new again. You feel understood, and in return, you better understand your partner.

Once you have had a heart to heart, and you believe that you truly understand how your partner is feeling as well as what your spouse desires and needs, you need to put an immediate plan into action.

It's far too easy to slip back into old habits, so sit down and think about how you can spend a little time each day nurturing communication with your spouse, and giving each other the time together you need.

This might involve modifying work schedules, getting the kids to bed a bit earlier, or waking up earlier so you can have a conversation over breakfast.

Whatever you have to do, it's important that you develop better habits concerning your marriage, so that you can demonstrate to your spouse that you're taking it seriously, and that you're truly committed to getting your marriage back on track.

Of course, your spouse needs to return the communication and attention to you as well, and if either of you feels that the other is getting off track again, you need to voice your concerns early on.

Keeping a marriage on track requires dedication on both your parts. You need to understand that it's not always going to be easy, but that you love each other enough to stick it out, and make it through the rough spots.

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Looking to get the most out of your training? Consider downing a high protein shake an hour before your session.

Carbohydrates and protein is incredibly important in building mass muscle and helps your body repair muscle tissue from previous workouts. High protein shakes will put your body into an anabolic state, providing an extreme energy boost that will help you maximize your workouts.

As you are weight training, your muscles receive an increased amount of blood flow, and by drinking a high protein shake an hour before your session, your body is able to effectively utilize this extra protein and equalize the blood flow so your muscles are able to work at their hardest.

You'll want to keep a record of your workouts and overall progress, ensuring that you do not duplicate the same exercise within a 72 hour period.

Purchase a small notepad and write down the workouts you've done each day, the amount of time you worked out, what you've eaten, the amount of repetitions and how much weight you were able to lift during your session. Keeping a personal journal that documents your progress will also help you stay on track until you reach your goals.

When working out, give your muscles a 20 second rest in between repetitions being careful not to rest too long, otherwise your muscles will cool down and you're session won't be as effective.

To really ramp up your weight training, consider adding in 20 minutes of cardio a day to get your blood pumping, heart racing and to increase your energy and endurance. Go for a jog, grab a jump rope, or run the treadmill for 20?30 minutes before you begin strength training.

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There are so many fad diets out there, and most of them either don’t work, or are actually dangerous or unhealthy. It’s very important that you carefully evaluate any diet program before you decide to try it.

For one thing, you should never try a diet that is severely lacking in any particular nutrients. Some diets are so restrictive that they are incredibly unhealthy, so you need to be sure to avoid those.

Some diets are also so restrictive on calories that they can actually be dangerous. When you get far too few calories, it can actually damage your organs.

Even those that aren’t actually dangerous can end up hampering your weight loss efforts. Diets that are very low in fat or calories can slow your metabolism down so much that your body goes into starvation mode, and you hold onto fat more than ever. This will make it much harder to lose weight.

Any diet that is extremely restrictive, either in fat, calories, particular food groups, or scope of foods you can eat is not something you should consider, because it can harm your health and even make it harder to lose.

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Once you’ve got your content for you web 2.0 pages, you simply go through the process of setting up web pages at 6-8 feeder sites to develop the spokes for your linkwheel.

Now here’s the important part. On this page that you’ve created, you’re going put two different links. You’re going to have one link that points back to your money site, and one link that points to another page in your linkwheel system.

By doing this, you’re not only generating a prominent link to your main page, but you’re also getting your other web 2.0 pages hit by Google as well.

What this does is lead the spiders or robots from Google through your entire link wheel and boosting the ranking of all of those pages in Google’s eyes which, in turn gives you stronger backlinks pointing to your money site.

So let’s say that you’ve created a link wheel with Squidoo, Wordpress, Hubpages, Quizilla, Vox, and Weebly. You’re squidoo page would link to your money site and your Wordpress page.

Your Wordpress page would link to your money page and your Hubpages. There you have it. Now you’ve created a simple link wheel that will drive you up in the search rankings and will be good solid backlinks that people will find to drive them back to your money site!

Another strategy that you can try out is to use different keywords for each of your web pages that you set up in your rim.

For example if you’re promoting a flower shop, you might make one of the keywords for a page “flower shop.” You might make another one “flower arrangement.” In this way you’re able to target different keywords that will ultimately drive traffic to your money site.

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When split testing, beginwith only one element at a time.

For example, if you change the headline on your ad, you want to make sure that everything else is left un-touched while you test the headline long enough to determine whether it needs to be improved. Then, you change another element and re-test and so on.

If you change different elements at once, you won’t be able to determine what change resulted in the increased conversion rates.

Since you are split testing various advertisements, you don’t have to get it right the first time, as long as you consistently work to tweak your copy until you are able to significantly maximize conversion rates.

Once you have determined what headline works best, change another element of your ad such as the body text or the destination URL.

Always test the original against the variation and give it enough time to accurately determine whether your changes have increased your subscription rate before making any permanent changes.

You also want to split test your landing pages as well.

Regardless how well you design your site, or how thoroughly you analyze each section of your landing page, there is no way that you will be able to accurately predict how well your visitors will respond to your offer, without comparatively testing alternative layouts.

One easy method of testing your pages and evaluating conversion rates is by using Google’s Website Optimizer, a free tool that will help you run simple split tests of any websites you own.

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Marketing on Twitter is very simple. In fact, the very nature of Twitter makes it practically impossible to get too complex with your Twitter marketing.

Twitter limits the size of posts to just 140 characters. This means you must keep your posts very short and succinct. You can’t ramble endlessly, so you have to get to the point!

It’s a very good idea to read your Twitter page daily and respond to messages your followers post. By interacting with them directly, you can establish “friendships” with some of them. This is very important, because your followers can “re-tweet” (RT) your messages (post your message) to their own followers, allowing you to potentially reach a MUCH wider audience than you could on your own.

People will not be likely to RT your messages if they don’t feel like they know and like you, so it’s very important that you try to establish a friendly relationship with as many of your followers are you can. This will really help you maximize your reach.

Whenever you want people to RT a message for you, just add something like “please re-tweet” or “please RT” to the end of the message. Don’t do this often, or people will start to ignore you. Only do this for very important messages.

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When it comes to developing your content so that you are optimizing your website for the search engines, you should pay attention to keyword proximity, prominence as well as the order of your content itself.

The prominence of your keyword is based on the first instance of where it appears within your content.

A keyword phrase that is used at the end of your content will be considered less relevant than a keyword phrase that appears in the first portion of your content or article.

This means that you need to ensure that you implement your primary keyword phrases into the first half of your content, so that it is given more weight when search engine spiders index your website.

Keyword proximity is also very important in terms of search engine rankings because it indicates to the search engines that these keywords are related to one another.