Well finally, most of you that follow me know that I just launched “Online Money Coach“, my online internet marketing coaching course. And the main source for my advertising is the IM forums that I frequent and word of mouth.

I do my promotion for a week on one board, and follow the stats, then start on another board the following week. This week, after starting a new and popular IM forum, it took less than 24 hours before I started seeing hacking attempts in my logs. It’s not that had any respect for this particular forum board to begin with, but now any bit of respect that I might have had has left.

So wanted to get this post out because those that do follow my blog here, when I get around to posting something that is LOL, are usually interested in my security research that I come across. This though actually is information for anyone putting up a new site; because, it shows as soon as you start promoting your link script kiddies are going to start using their ‘outdated’ exploits to try and see if your server is patched and up-to-date.

I’ll be keeping you all up-to-date on all the hacking attempts that I come across from all my logs that I check for my domains.

Keep checking back, now that my course has launched I’m going to try and update my blog more often. Keep your fingers crossed!

As Internet Marketers we spend countless hours on building traffic to our site and what exactly does it do after it arrives? I mean think about it, if you could see your traffic would it looks something like the picture shown here?

If you are a newbie, and even some intermediate and advanced, Internet Marketer this might be what your traffic is doing. Wondering around aimlessly on your site not knowing what to do, where to go, looking confused. When this happens your traffic just simply disappears, meaning, they hit the back button and are gone. And for good reason too. I mean after all you didn’t give them no guidance, or even might have mislead them into coming to your site. Was that on purpose or did you just not know any better?

I know, these are a lot of questions right. But none the less questions you NEED to know if you expect to succeed in Internet Marketing or earning a living online. Your main objective in bring traffic to your site, even above building backlinks, is to get conversions. That’s it, the Big Kahuna, AN ACTION.

What is that action? Depends on your objective in bring traffic to your site to begin with. Yea that’s right, this is an answer you were suppose to know BEFORE wanting to bring traffic to your site. Why?

Newbie Internet Marketers are full of How and When questions, but fail to ask themselves Why am I doing something. It’s a basic principal I teach to my IM students, if you answer the Why first then there will never be How or When question to ask.

Life would really be much more exciting if we could do the things we wanted, travel when we wanted, spend time with family when we wanted, you get the picture,  right?  If we could do what we wanted and still be happy  just think how much better the world would be.

So, what’s keeping us from doing what we would like?

The answer to that question could be a number of things but let’s not assume and instead use a simple metaphor. Picture your life as you sitting in a canoe drifting down a river. You don’t know what river, where it’s at, where it’s going, although, you do know that rivers normally head to the sea, usually!

The majority of people would be well content on sitting in the canoe riding along the river and enjoying the sights along the way until life says you’ve reached  the end of your destination. But now that you’re at the end of your life’s journey, you think back and ask yourself, how much control did I have in choosing the route to my final destination?  If I would have put some effort into taking another river maybe my trip would have been much more exciting, or maybe I would still be on my life journey instead of at the finish.

Regrets,  I’ve had a few!

If this post gets you thinking about the journey, river, that your life is currently on and wondering how you can possibly change course, then I hope you bookmark my blog because this is one of the many things I’ll be talking about on my blog. Personal Development and Self-Help. Being a security researcher also gives me a good insight into the psychology of people and their thinking process. After all it’s those cleverly crafted emails, spam, malware, etc, that people click on that gets them infected to begin with.

We all have made mistakes, have our own issues we need to resolve, etc. But most people don’t know how to go about changing things or knowing what’s wrong in the first place. My hope, and goal, is to help those that are searching for assistance and a little direction. Life is full of challenges, decisions, goals, let downs, failures and while it seems the answers are no where to be found, in actuality you just need someone to help guide you to find the answers that are within you.

Our bodies and mind are full of answers; we just need to know how to ask the questions.

Hello Everyone,

I would like to welcome you all to my blog. Finally I’ve gotten around to getting one up and hope to be spending a little more time here updating it as time permits.

I hope you like the title of the first post ‘Hello World’, being that I love programming, it’s basically a default title for one’s first program. And seeing this is my first post, it’s a good title for a first post don’t you think?

Anyhow, hope you like the look and enjoy following all my happenings. For all my Twitter followers, IRC buddies, forum friends, and anyone else dropping in make yourself at home and grab a Pepsi.

Lonnie (CyberSorcerer) Gardner.