On the other hand for digital goods, Paypal is extremely seller (i.e. con artist) friendly. I recently made the mistake of purchasing some expensive marketing materials from a dubious seller. In the end, the product was never delivered. With Paypal’s system, there was no recourse.
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Which Help Desk to Use to Build a Knowledge Base?
Which Help Desk to Use to Generate an Online Set of FAQ? This is another question I’ve answered lately privately. Kayako, Three Pillars Help Desk, Basecamp, Freshbooks – all candidates. My advice – pick any one system get to know it well and use it to the maximum.
WordPress Photo Galleries: State of the WordPress Images War
We’ve spent whole days at Foliovision playing around with what’s out there in terms of WordPress image plugins and there’s nothing I would recommend. Here are the best of the worst.
How to Build a Powerful Silent Computer
Working on quiet computers increases the productivity. Learn how to build powerful yet silent workstation step by step.
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Dropping eBay for Amazon
Using Organic Ranking Profits to Subside Paid Search Ads : SEO Book.com: I am not surprised to hear about Amazon…. A year ago, when someone sold on eBay and Amazon, they did about 70% eBay vs. Amazon in volume.
Link Vices: Selling Virginity
LinkAdage – PR6 Link on Great Non-Profit Website Auction 58744: This non-profit site has a bunch of very nice natural backlinks from other non-profit organizations. This is a very clean site and it is the first time they are selling links.
Alexa Rank: Fact or Fiction
It turns out the situation is even more dire than one would think. Alexa Rank can be wildly wrong – by a factor of ten.
What is an idea worth?
Short essay about what an idea is worth. The right idea could be worth $361 million per person – or nothing.
How to Sponsor a WordPress Theme Successfully | How to audit a theme sponsorship
A hard look at the value of sponsoring a WordPress theme. How many incoming links you can expect and from where. How to choose a theme to sponsor.
Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress: Bookmark Me, AddThis.com, AddToAny.com and Share This
Like everybody in search we are having to get more involved in Social Bookmarking than we used to be. Like most people in search, normally we don’t have a lot of time for social bookmarking. It’s a pretty busy year. On this weblog, we’ve implemented Denis de Bernardy Bookmark Me plugin which gives direct access […]
How to Hack a WordPress Theme: Identifying the Template
Announcing extended post on hacking WordPress template files. Step one – identifying the template files from the front end.
PR Hoarding | Linkocrisy
Some well-known SEOs are advocating using rel=”no-follow” on all outbound links. This kind of occultish trick is so WMW doorway page 2001.
Network Solutions bought for $20 million, sold for $800 million three years later
Is it possible for the medium sized guys to make money? You bet. Network Solutions, bought for $20 million in 2003, was just sold for $800 million three years later. And amazingly enough, this deal was done by a Persian – Iranian American Jahm Najafi. So do the Iranians know how to play a poker […]
Should Software Be Donation Only | Minimum Donation Levels
Philip Dow’s Journler Philip Dow is the developer of the very well received Mac PIM (personal information manager) Journler about donationware. His application Journler had an open donation policy for personal use. Contribute whatever you like. A single commercial use license was/is $25. Phil is going full-time as a developer now and is starting to […]
Why aren’t Ad Agencies buying More Search Companies
Some gentlemen search colleagues are thunderstruck by the acquisition of 24/7 Real Media by advertising holding company WPP for $649 million (a tidy sum it is – congratulations 24/7 – although I’ve always hated your technology). Raycam wonders why more ad agencies aren’t snapping up the smaller search houses. It’s simple. All the assets go […]
XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only – WordPress Error
Lost an hour today to trying to debug Ecto posting to this weblog (if you’re not using Ecto, you should consider it). I was constantly getting this error: XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only Finally I wrote up a nice little support ticket for Dreamhost with all the details. Surprisingly I got the fix back […]
Social network SEO spammers complain Digg closes playground
Some of my SEO colleagues are bemoaning their lack of success in getting their annoying marketing materials to the front page of Digg. Bravo to Digg.
AdSense Arbitrage Coming to an End – Internet Marketing
It’s official – Google will be kicking the AdSense spammers off the network. What AdSense spam is are those sites which you arrive on via either organic search or PPC results (usually the former) and you find nothing but RSS feeds or chopped up articles on a very basic template. The sites rarely have any […]
Stats: Statcounter versus Mint
We’ve compared two real-time web analytics services to find out which one understands site’s visitors better.
