How Can I Cloak My Ugly Long Affiliate URL Links?

I bet you have always wanted to effectively cloak your ugly long affiliate URL links, right? I sure do! Well, I have tried several solutions so far and the best two have been:-

bit.ly - the plus side is you get tracking so you can analyse where your traffic is coming from; the minus side is that on many affiliate sales pages the bit.ly link simply reverts to your affiliate URL.

I know a top affiliate internet marketer who says he ran a test to see if having your affiliate link showing in the browser makes a difference: he wanted to test if people rejected your affiliate name or number, and his test concluded that less than 1% of sales were lost against a true link cloaking example. But for me, I want everything to be 100% professional so I sleep well at night!

I don't worry about losing sales: I worry about looking average. I want to ba above average when it comes to managing my affiliate business - if true link cloaking exists then I want to discover it and use it, even though I expect to have to pay for the service.

Well, bit.ly is free but isn't 100% effective so I looked elsewhere. I found Richard Legg's MyLinkGuard which not only cloaks your link as www.yourdomain.com/recommends/product (you can change recommends for go or likes or anything you want since the link is stored as a page in your website file manager, and product can be any word you want) but also displays a bar at the top of the page - when someone clicks on the bar and buys the product you get 50% commission! Good and bad. I don't like distractions: I want visitor to stay on my page.

My main two problem with MyLinkGuard are:-

1. you have two tiny videos to watch to show how to set up the link guard: no matter how often I watch them, I can never remember the sequence for setting up the files in my cPanel and at least once I have put the whole "recommends" folder in the wrong place and needed a lot of help from my webhost team. Too techie for me: I am busy and I need something quick and simple I am not going to mess up!

2. I find because the pages are now in my file manager that everything loads way too slowly. I don't like that at all so although this was the best link cloaker I had found I still wanted something more! I want to find a different product that is easy to use and truly cloaks my link and doesn't let me mess up and no techie stuff to remember or keep learning.

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Learn To Play Piano for Fun and Memory Training

Good Gracious, just look at the date! I have been suffering from this sciatic pain all this time. Of course I should have gone to the doctor, but that means registering here in Sussex UK instead of Wales where my current doctor is. And any day I might suddenly be better! Do you ever think like that? I kind of get used to pain...

Yesterday I did something I have not since June 8th or before and that is, I played the piano!

I felt ok sitting up to the keyboard, so hey, that shows I'm getting better, right? I played a few pieces with a touch of improvisation so as to prove to myself I have not lost the skill, despite having missed a month! And I kept careful time since the window was open and my playing might drift to the street below!

Have you ever considered learning to play the piano? Or perhaps taking it up again as an adult if you had lessons as a child? Age is no barrier and nor is arthritis: one of my pupils began to learn at the age of 85 and is still playing at 93! Since beginning, her arthritis in her hands has vastly diminished and she has a creative fun hobby that keeps her mind in fine fettle! A dozen a day to keep the blues away!

Many adults play for half an hour on arriving home after work and before attending a spot of refreshing gardening: piano is guaranteed to take off your work frame of mind and invigorate you for an enjoyable evening at home without the workday spilling over into your leisure hours.

Few adults gain the heights of pianistic technical development but just a year or two study with a keen and sympathetic teacher will be ample to give you a fine command of playing a tune with left hand accompaniment. Keep your fingers supple with daily scale and arpeggio exercises and don't be shy of singing along as you play! Music brightens your temper!

So if you would like to learn the rudiments and play your favourite songs find a local teacher and arrange a 40 minute lesson with them either weekly or fortnightly. Encourage your teacher to supplement the lesson material with songs you enjoy since your command of the piano improves immeasurably when you play music you really enjoy and understand.

You might consider taking a basic piano exam after a year or two but only do this if you think your nerves can stand the strain of constantly improving the same three pieces over several months plus the big day! There is no real need for an adult pupil to take an exam: some adults enjoy the self imposed challenge however.

Determine what you wish to achieve within each six month time span in your lessons: find a suitably challenging enjoyable piece or song you'd like to be able to play well in six months time and work towards that along with the material your teacher recommends. You'll be very pleasantly surprised at how quickly you progress with a few minutes daily practise!

The biggest initial hurdle is learning to co-ordinate both hands whilst reading the music. Your teacher will provide you simple pieces to begin with that enable you to gain these vital skills and if you will be patient with yourself in the early weeks you will soon be making good progress and building up your skill. You should be well on the way to your first simple song with two hands by your fourth lesson.

The motor activity skills you develop through learning piano will stay with you for life and increase your daily flexibility and general co-ordination no end. So give it a go and start this week! You 'll be very glad you did and who doesn't enjoy a really worthwhile hobby challenge? I myself have taught many adults to play proficiently completely from scratch so I heartedly recommend you learn piano for yourself. Don't be put off at the thought of performing in front of others, even your family: there is no need to play for anyone but your own enjoyment. If you do not have a piano consider buying an electric piano - you will see they are quite inexpensive at entry level price and will retain a good value if you later want to sell or part exchange for a better model. Choose one with a good piano tone and few extra features.

I wish you luck and if you do get started feel free to return here and leave a comment to encourage others. Of course adults can learn - why should only kids get the priviledge?

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Act As If...!

Act as if...!

Today, starting from midnight through til about three this afternoon, I had acute sciatica, oh so unimaginably painful! Ouch ouch ouch! And worse. But I had to go to an appointment at 15:40 so I hauled myself up and out my front door wondering how I would accomplish the 10 minute walk in the 40 I allowed myself!

Fortunately my right leg from toes up my spine had gone comfortably numb so I dragged this leg along behind the fit one, holding the walls of the streets as I went. Walk accomplished in 25 minutes and right leg utterly numbed out!

You see, I had stepped out my door in faith with the idea of "Act as if you can walk ok" firmly lodged in my mind. It took longer than usual but the goal was achieved!

What do you want to achieve this week but are rather nervous of starting off?

Just get on with it, bearing in mind to act as if you were already confident of success! Lots of acts as if make perfect and build your self belief when it comes to volunteering for new tasks! In fact, acting as if constantly reinforces your "I Can" belief to such a high level that you start off every new project with the firm idea that you simply cannot fail. And how much easier everything becomes then!

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Welcome to the UK at any time of year!

What a diverse country the UK is! Just like the weather and climate!

I have always lived here: I have lived in England, I have lived in Wales, I have holidayed in Scotland and I have never visited Northern Ireland, nor the Channel Islands, nor the Isle of Man. I was born on the Isle of Wight. An island of islands!

London is one of the great cities of the world, one of the foremost commercial centres, full of historic and cultural interest. Birmingham has fine shopping, eating places, a world class concert hall and more canal networks than Venice! Manchester is the great northern centre with its own music academy and concert hall and famous football teams! Newcastle-upon-Tyne boasts shopping, entertainment and Roman history, being the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. Cardiff enjoys the fine Millenium sports stadium, great shopping and dining and colleges. The famous university centres of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham are tourist havens with much culture. The cathedral cities of Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Exeter, Lincoln and Coventry are all busy county centres with fine old streets and an atmosphere of learning. York and Canterbury boast universities, a cathedral, and ancient town walls. Many other cathedral cities are regional beauty spots of timeless historic grandeur, such as Chichester and Lichfield.

Yet more towns have sprung up in recent years from a regional need for improved shopping and civil facilities, towns like Telford, Milton Keynes and Redditch have modern road layouts to benefit the local population. Some towns and cities are historic docks and ports: Dover, Aberdeen, Liverpool and Southampton. Smaller seaside places are beautiful ancient harbours and fishing centres: Newlyn, Great Yarmouth, Cromer, Padstow, Brixham, Hastings, Oban, Cardigan, Thurso. In latter years small rural airfields have increased importance: British Airways now fly regularly to Rhoose for Cardiff, Newquay in Cornwall and the Second World War airfield at Lydd has become London Ashford! Birmingham's airport is as busy as Gatwick and many towns have an International airport.

Look at an older map of Great Britain and then a modern one: you will be astonished at the difference regarding road and rail networks. I saw an old map showing the Severn rail tunnel at Bristol but no motorway road bridges: a different way of life is portrayed as traffic had to negotiate the tricky winding road through the Forest of Dean down to Chepstow in order to enter South Wales: now a short journey over the massive River Severn brings you within a few miles of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea. Older maps will show Victorian railways now long since dismantled. As huge lorries tussel for road space in front of annoyed car drivers I wonder if Beeching was wise to axe so many local rail services in the 1960's.

A yet older means of transporting goods were the cleverly designed canals and before even those, the great rivers like the Severn, the Humber and the Tamar. Surprisingly, the deepest natural harbour in Europe is the mouth of a small Cornish tidal river, the Fowey. Ships dock in Fowey to load china clay from the Cornish mines. Cornwall once mined tin in great quantities. South Wales mined coal and much of the wealth of Cardiff grew from the coal industry. Northumberland once mined gold! Welsh gold, mined commercially since Roman times, has long supplied the family rings for the British royal family and is the rarest metal in the world.

Few nations have held so much influence on the world and its events as the tiny island fortress of Great Britain. Regions are amazingly diverse: how different is Cheltenham beside the Cotswolds to Skipton, gateway to the Yorkshire Dales, yet both areas have gained their wealth from sheep farming and the woollen trade through the centuries.

The King in earlier centuries enjoyed the hunt in the great royal forests - few now remain but some glimpse of former glories is seen in Sherwood Forest and the New Forest: the forestry of Scotland and Wales is mainly new commercial evergreen, but the ancient forests of England once supplied oak for the hulls of Nelson's navy!

What is your favourite part of the UK? What are your local traditions? Local dishes?

Whatever your pastime or sport you will enjoy this country! Skiing in Scotland, walking in Cumbria, fishing around the coast, soccer and cricket everywhere in season, rugby in Wales.

Vive L'Angleterre!

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Which type of person are you? Trend-Setter or Dyed-in-the-Wool?

Isn't it funny how you always get basically one of two types of person?

Which are you? Do you set trends or are you fervently dyed-in-the-wool and basically distrustful of change? I am a Trend-Setter! I love change, I love to move house, I have a camper van so I can sleep under the same sky each night under a different tree! I love to create things which in themselves develop and change like blogs!

Change and fast development is the very nature of the internet. I recall a time before computers existed in PC type format - I was about 7 years. At 8 I met my first Commodore 64: wow, you were really something if you had one of those back then! The computers at secondary school played pacman and the computers at college were for word processing: one of my friend's dad worked at home for IBM! What a nice stay at home job, I thought, and determined to learn more about computing! That was 1990 and the internet was of the future. And now is that future! Twenty light years on. Well, I mean, they weren't heavy years.

I am at home in the UK right now living by the sea with my laptop and a dongle mobile broadband connection - didn't you hate dial-up? That horrible whirring sound on the phone line and everybody created websites loaded with glaring graphics that took so long to load and then blasted your eyesight with bright lime green! A bit like this blog loading really! Green is not a nice colour on screen! Trees yes. Screen no. I can self publish now pretty much as fast as I can type and press Enter! Doesn't mean it's all worth reading...but I like to think a little bit here and there is!

Is there a place in our super fast modern world for the dyed-in-the-wool personality? Guess farmers and fishermen don't change much: a new tractor, sattelite navigation, basic principle of sowing and reaping and casting a net don't change. Human nature doesn't seem to change much either, nor improve over time! Plenty folks around grumping about how bad everything is.

It all begins with BELIEF. What your underlying beliefs are dictates the way you react daily. Which people identify as your personality but it's just your reactions coming out of your core beliefs about the world around much of the time. Change those core beliefs and you change the person - your personality changes as your beliefs change. Mostly it's just a casual drift in no particular direction, not enough for anyone to notice over the years! Examine your beliefs: what makes up the skeleton of your personality? Anything you want to change? But it's near impossible to shift a tightly welded belief!

I believe largely in hope. I always hope things will improve for me, that I will find opportunities, make the best of them, succeed. I try hard! But when things go bad, when I meet people with big black negative beliefs what can I do? Usually I run! Because even being near such a person ruins my week, makes me feel bad about myself and my achievements. Which are damn good as it happens; yet no matter how much you excel, there's always some negative spoiler to appear and make you feel real bad about yourself. How do they do it? They begin by deciding you are no good. Obviously they don't know you and haven't checked out the facts! But in all your dealings with that type of personality you will fail! You might even keep trying to please them, probably to prove yourself. Just run a mile! Learn to recognize this type of person a mile off and hide!

Why would anyone do that? Make you feel bad about yourself? Like you are taking up space they could be better occupying, indeed anyone on Earth could better occupy! Maybe they feel bad about themselves? Must be a daily reality! They sure have some kind of nerd need to put other people down. Spot this person, run a mile, hide, don't even try! And the really odd thing is: I take an age afterwards trying to feel good about myself again! Their nasty attitude soils my spirit. Like I actually feel a need to remind myself that I have been a teacher for 18 years with great results and I play some fine musical instruments and I am on occasion a poet and an artist and (this you will not believe!) a writer...See it's all that negative energy chasing in and around on itself - that's all negative energy does - inwardly destroys.

Positive energy renews and recreates! I like to see the bright side and think the best of people so it often doesn't hit me that I am working with an intensely negative person until a little too late! Then I run and keep running! Is the Trend-Setter negative or positive? What about the Dyed-in-the-Wool type? I think there are many personality opposites and these do not necessarily match up. Someone who is opposed to change is likely to have a dampening effect on everyone whilst a trend setter is going to be more lively, flambouyant, devil-may-care, go getter.

To me, negative gets older and positive gets younger.

And what about belief? Belief is neutral. It only exists when you allow it to take root, generally as a definite one way or other dogma. But it is so subtle that it is unlikely you are even aware of your beliefs on a daily basis, nor how they affect your decisions and attitudes. Perhaps Great-Grandmama refused to bring May into the house. Now you won't allow green paint in the sitting room. You are victim of a hand-me-down superstition you are not even aware of. Does it matter? Can you do anything about this? Can you alter your belief patterns? Can you change your inner attitude? Or your daily attitude? Is your attitude the product of your emotion about an event and based on how you felt when you got up this morning? Or is it deep rooted inside your personality so you cannot change it? Can you trend set your emotions, your beliefs, your reactions or your daily attitude?

I believe you can work on yourself to become broader minded by learning more about the world and the peoples of different countries, see more points of view, determine always to see everything from at least two differing points of view and read daily motivational quotes. It's too easy to get bogged down in the gutter press and see your daily life through a thick film of grime. Clean the windows of your lens and marvel at the technicolour instead!

Tell me about one great trend setter and one person opposed to change in your life! :)

Adios
Adwello
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Welcome to Adwello! My Homepage Bio Blog

My name is Adwello and I am a keen internet marketer and totally enthusiastic about the astonishing new dimensions blogging and the world wide web add to our modern-day lives. Suddenly we can meet like minded people and chat for hours in forums or on social networking sites. Suddenly we can publish our thoughts to the world instantly and for free just as I am doing right now! I have a pasta bake cooking in the oven and I am just taking time-out to publish a new blog about me and my interests.

If you have similar interests, disagree or agree with me or have any views at all you would like to air then please feel free to comment on this blog and make your mark!

I am in my thirties, live in England on the South Coast in East Sussex, love the sea and have lots of interests. I first got online in 1998 when I got my first super PentiumII PC, a webcam, printer, scanner, the works! I got online with freeserve and loved every minute! Search is the greatest thing, being able to immediately locate information on anyone and anything and anywhere; then communication with people and then I discovered ebooks (pdf files) and the incredible concept of sharing free information plus pdf plus video plus mp3 audio plus skype - wow!

Then I discovered paypal and ebay and that was it, I am hooked! The internet is the major part of my day every day now and if my computor breaks down, what will I do? Go to an internet cafe before buying a new laptop! Come on, peoples of the world, let us share information like never before! The world wide web is the modern day tower of Babel/Babylon. EM Forster prophesised the internet in his remarkable short story "The Machine" years before even TV became reality. Today we witness this dimension! Our parents and grand parents at the age we are now could never have envisioned such amazing facility! A phone, typewriter, library joined world wide... This is a frontier for our era greater than the Rockies, the Wall of China, the Space Age! This is truly the new Rocket Science!

Do I need to shop? I just order food and clothes, holidays, gadgets online! I play games, chat to friends, write blog posts online! I still enjoy a daily walk in my local park however! And I love to dine out in London restaurants!

My big interests are: chess - I play for Hastings, oldest chess club in the world; playing piano - I used to teach but nowadays spend more time practising my repetoire for performance - later this year I intend to place some cool videos of me playing piano on YouTube. I cycle, walk, swim. I am interested in Roman History and mosaics; I have walked Hadrian's Wall and collect Roman coins. I want to design and build my own villa! Last week I visited the Mueum of London's Roman exhibition. The best two museums I know are in Caerleon in Wales and Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. I can't wait to explore all the Kent Roman sites later this year and next!

I am always keen to learn new skills: I want to learn freshwater fishing and improve my violin playing which is very basic! I want to design and grow a beautiful garden. I want to study the English language in more depth. I love reading history! I collect antique hardback books. I am attempting to learn to sketch and paint! I am about to write my first ebook!

Well, I will keep you posted on these attempts as the year moves forward! Have fun!

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