Making sense is NOT what I’m known for. You are warned. Success is a shadow of rarity. Try to be rare before you try to be successful. 99% of the people takes whatever they can while 1% gives whatever they can. 1% is a rarity. So they are 100 times more likely to get what …
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I officially signed up with Magento Go‘s Going Places plan for $25 / month and paid $99 for my SSL to be installed. It’s been 3 days and I wish I had better things to say about them. And this is my review. Uptime: 4.7 / 5 It’s too early to tell because I’m only …
Magento Go Review – Sucking Support & $99 Ripoff for SSL Setup Read More »
So I’ve tried the Pro version of SEOmoz, an online SEO software application, for a few days and I think I’ve got to write a review. This would turn out to be very ugly. Many years ago the features that this system brings to the table could have been useful for the SEO novice, but …
Someone approached to sell me a grandfathered .EDU name. I never thought .EDU domain can be traded so I started to research a little bit. Ain’t they owned only by educational institutions of United States? Turns out .EDU names in existence as of October 29, 2001 were more freely registered and thus many non-educational entities …
I’ve been a happy Amazon affiliate for over a year now and the monthly revenues have been steadily climbing up ever since I started promoting their products galore. The most recent month, Mar. 2011 has ended up making me over $400 in commissions or advertising fees. Attached on the right is the screenshot. Considering I …
A few Amazon affiliate tips and my earnings of Mar. 2011 Read More »
By default, only the forum name / title is displayed in the <title></title> tag of the homepage of your vBulletin forum, which is far from ideal in terms of SEO. One should give a much more descriptive title to the home page of the forum other than the mere name of it. To do this: …
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Haven’t come up with any solidly helpful posts recently so I thought I’d throw in this one. These are some of the things I learned the hard way in the past few years for ranking my websites in Google. Hopefully you would find something new in here. I rely on SEO to get traffic — …
A not-so-commonly employed content strategy is to automatically generate custom content by user searches. For example, if you’ve got a popular blog, there will be a lot of users searching for things they want to find on your blog. It’s an obvious sign that they want you to write about them. While you are recommended …
Had a bunch of .info, .net and .org to be renewed yesterday and after searching for quite a while, I was unable to find any promo source code deals better than this one: gdbb776 It places a 17% discount ($6.99 .info, $7.49 .org and .net) off your cart for domain renewals. I had 17 domains …
Best renewal promo code for non .com domains at GoDaddy Read More »
If you accepted GoDaddy’s offer of the first-year-free private registration service for your domain, you would not be so happy when you are renewing the domain for more years because you will find the private registration is bound to that domain. You can either renew the domain WITH the private registration which costs an extra …
Shady GoDaddy: How to cancel private registration for your domain renewals? Read More »
There are primarily 2 ways for merchants to set up an affiliate program, one is to offer coupons that are assigned to the affiliates and can be spread out. When someone uses that coupon, the merchant knows it’s a referral by that affiliate. The other is to create dedicated links with the affiliate ID in …
How to hide and force the visitor to click your referral or affiliate link? Read More »
MilitaryFictionBooks.com is actually an old domain, I registered it over a year ago and parked it ever since with a custom page of my own. It has been indexed in Google for 1 year. So what you are seeing now may very probably not happen for you if you just registered a fresh domain name. …
MilitaryFictionBooks.com and StandingDesk.org Status Report Read More »
Go to Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com There are tens of thousands of different affiliate programs out there you can use to monetize your traffic. A few of the biggest players are ClickBank, eBay, Amazon, CJ and Google Affiliate Network. Unlike CJ and Google Affiliate Network who are simply brokers of merchants and affiliates, Amazon and eBay are independent …
Amazon Associate (Affiliate) Program Review: Why I love them Read More »
Update: Here’s the latest coupon code of Godaddy – $1.49 / year .com God knows why they have raised the .org registration fee to $14.99. I don’t know if it’s temporary or just the way it will be for a long time to come but it’s outrageous. Fortunately I have found this .org domain registration …
Godaddy $7.69 .org domain registration coupon promo code Read More »
I made a sale months ago when someone purchased a few website scripts for over $1,500. A few days after the transaction he fired a chargeback dispute. I thought, well ok, I’m puked. I almost gave in. But then I thought I couldn’t let him win this easily. So I provided everything I can with …
Way to go PayPal! – Fraudulent Chargeback Successfully Resolved in Merchant’s Favor Read More »
Very rarely you may encounter this error after you have clicked the “Pay Now” button on PayPal to send payment to someone / merchant in purchase of something: This payment cannot be completed and your account has not been charged. Please contact your merchant for more information. At first, I blamed my website payment integration …
If you were like me who accidentally closed the browser window of his PayPal account AND immediately tried to reopen it by typing in www.paypal.com in the browser address bar, chances are your PayPal account is instantly limited. It was really weird at first but soon it makes sense. This is to prevent session hijacking …
PayPal Account Access Limitation after Closing Browser Window and Opening It Again Read More »
A quick post to share with my readers some interesting findings regarding email marketing. Outlined by the ninth bi-annual Email Marketing Metrics Report by MailerMailer, these data is based on 300,000 email messages dispatched over a period of 6 months that ended on December 31, 2008. Here are some key statistic discoveries from the report …
Email Marketing Statistics and Optimization of Open / Click Rates Read More »
Update: Here’s the latest coupon code of Godaddy – $1.49 / year .com A quick deal for my readers. Found this coupon code of GoDaddy that enables you to renew .com domains at just $7.49: Zine10 Just used it to renew tens of my .com names at $7.49 (plus ICANN fee $0.18) each. If you …
That is, to host all static content such as ready-made images, scripts, style sheets on a different domain rather than the primary one that hosts the page of the current URL. For example, if you intend to add static images to the web page located at http://www.example.com/page.html, you should not place the images on www.example.com, …
2 reasons you should host all static content on a different domain Read More »
