The French trader accused of a multi-billion-dollar fraud at banking giant Societe Generale will go on trial Tuesday.

Jerome Kerviel will face charges including forgery, breach of trust, and unauthorized computer use. He faces a penalty of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 375,000 euros ($447,500). The bank also will ask that Kerviel reimburse it for its loss. Kerviel, who is now free on bail, was arrested in 2008 after Societe Generale unveiled trading losses of more than $7.2 billion. The bank attributed the losses to fraud by Kerviel, who traded European index futures for the bank.

Kerviel is the only one charged in the case. His assistant, Thomas Mougard, was cleared of charges.

Kerviel’s lawyers content that the bank “condoned” his trades as long as he was making money for the bank. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Read the rest of this entry

Tutorial browse: First part, Second part

I am going to start a session of tutorials, to explain how you can get informed and how you can create a blog for specific niches, some blogging tips which have helped me. I am doing this because I have a few blogs in different niches and I want to share with you my experience. You’ll see that it is simple, the only thing you need is time and patience, because the results appear after a few months of blogging, four or five months to be more exactly.

In this first part I will show you some tips and tricks for the celebrity/gossip niche. Why this niche? Because it’s fairly simple to write articles about stars, where they go, where they eat and so on. On the other hand there is a lot of information on the internet about gossip that makes this niche important and easy to generate traffic and money.

What should you know about the celebrity niche?

The most important thing you should know when you are in this niche, is that pictures (especially) and videos have an important role in the equation, the content is on the second plan. Why? Because it’s a little hard to get with content on the first page in google for certain keywords. Google images is much more important for this type of blogs, because with a lot of pictures which have a great name and description it’s easy to get on the first page. I’ll explain this method to get traffic later on in this article.
So how should you start a celebrity blog?

The domain name – branding is good!

A lot of SEO gurus would say that including keywords such as celebrity, gossip, stars in the domain name is the best solution. They are right, but not for this niche! If you research a bit you’ll see that:

• 1. Almost all domains which containing those keywords are bought and used.
• 2. I don’t think it is a good idea to buy such a domain, because the keywords are ultra used and from what I’ve seen such domain names influence your pagerank, meaning that you will not pass pagerank 3 or 4. It’s just an opinion!
• 3. Brandable domain names containing such keywords are gone.

You should buy a domain name that doesn’t have any relationship with the celebrity/gossip niche because it will be much easier to remember and create a brand of your own. Here are two examples of domain names that don’t use specific keywords: thesuperficial.com and idontlikeyouinthatway.com.

Design for your blog!

I am going to talk only about wordpress themes because you should use a paid hosting plan with the best blogging platform installed – wordpress. In this niche, your blog’s design is not so important, many of the famous celebrity blogs lack of design. In my opinion you should use a simple wp theme, with three columns and then mode it yourself, especially the header. You should add some shiny things like stars and an illustration depending on your domain name and of course, don’t forget the logo!

Also here are a few wordpress themes you should take in consideration (I am thinking to design one myself soon):
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Nowadays the internet is full of blogs that debate internet marketing problems, strategies, tricks to make money online and so on and I must say that this niche is relatively new, from 2005-2006 when a few guys started this fashion in blogging. The only problem is that they don’t share good tips on how to really make money, just general stuff and lies. It’s really simple, that’s why it’s called Internet Marketing. Now here are a few things you need to know about Internet Marketing Gurus:

1. 99% of the so-called Internet Marketing Gurus lie.

Why do they lie? Marketing!? They actually lie because they want to create buzz, for example some of them at the end of every month, they have a special article about their monthly earnings and of course they can write any amount of money they want. That’s the all magic, noobs come, see that huge amount of money and start to think: “Hey look at this guy, he makes 10000$/month, I’ll try out anything he recommends because it’s so easy”. And the noob tries all the thing the guru says and with the time passing, he realizes that making money online isn’t so easy and of course he gives up.

2. It’s not your fault that you don’t succeed! Experience is all you need.

Yes, it is not your fault! Mr. Guru tells you stories actually, because the only money he makes is trough you, who reads his blog and clicks on his affiliate links. The only good thing in this story is that you’ll gain experience if you don’t give up, because in this way you research for new techniques and you’ll see that without investing money, time and passion, making money online is quite impossible.

3. Internet Marketing Gurus vs Competition!

Let’s say Mr. Guru writes and article about how he made 1 million $ online because he wants to share this information with his readers. Come on, you have a business that earns you money and you share all the information? Why would a wise guy do such a thing, to ruin the niche and bring more competition. Actually he writes such an article knowing that you’ll never succeed and because he is a real “internet marketer” and uses huge numbers, he creates that buzz. So everyone links to him, his traffic grows and he makes money from the newcomers noobies.

4. There are three types of Internet Marketing Gurus!

The ones who really make money online and don’t share any techniques.
The ones who make money and share only general information, nothing special. The only difference between this type and the above one is that they make money on your head and you gain experience following them and not succeeding.
And the last type – scammers – copycats who don’t have even one website with decent traffic and monetization. They only talk of ways to make money online, techniques which are with a question sign for them too! This type represents the majority and here is a good example of internet marketer which tries to promote his website and a product. Pathetic!
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Funny, youtube is full of videos like the one above.

So what do you think?