Friday, May 29, 2009

Pagerank Update, May 2009

Hi people!

Google Pagerank start updating in the last two days, too early for a definitive estimate, however it should be noted that recently Google PR is updating very fast compared to past times. Who knows if it continues at this rate or is it just a temporary thing.

May 29, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Online shopping | relationship between scam, buyer and seller

Unfortunately there is a sea of scams on Internet, today there is a greater attention on preserving the buyers, but still some unscrupulous people can not wait to steal money from the others. Although for the purchase of ebooks, software and virtual material (direct download) there is greater safety (support is another thing), unfortunately we can not say the same for material objects.

When you go into a shop near your house to buy something that interests you, if the item you're buying is broken or damaged, once at home where you notice it, you may always go back and talk face to face with the seller. But online? If something is not going good you can’t go through your PC monitor and kick the seller a$$. Buying online is often very convenient and according to some measure you can reduced the risks to zero.

What should do a person who likes to buy online? First, there are some key things we should know and relate these websites:

Ciao.com [where you can search for products, best prices and reviews] – Why is so important to read the opinions of other buyers? Simply because you will know in advance the average evaluation of the item that you'd like to buy, with pros and cons.

Bizrate.com [where you can find products price comparisons & store ratings] – This is a resource a lot helpful if you have found an online store and you are uncertain to trust it. Amazon.com is rated 9.1 for example, safe enough.

Check if there is a padlock when you are making a transaction online for any shop. If not the site is suspicious.



And sellers, what should they do to get the trust of potential customers? Being honest and available to dialogue, whether the customers send you an email to ask explanations about something, not disappoint them by ignoring them.

Better to say things just for those who are, not lies or false promises. If a buyer is satisfied with the item that has bought from you will speak well about you to other people. If not, the buyer will speak evil of you to many other people.

And this is likewise valid to make money online with a website.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Make money writing: Hubpages.com

HubPages.com
Alexa rank: 425
PageRank: 6
Visitors/month: 8 millions

HubPages.com is another profitable way to earn money online writing what you like most. There are topics about anything of which you can write; Business & Jobs, Personal Finance, Home & Family, Gender & Relationships, Entertainment and so on. When you publish an article on HubPages, Google index it in less than one hour.
HubPages allows you to write about what you love and earn cash from it. Sign up for free to: Write content-rich, informative and topical articles on whatever topic areas that you know and love.

Earn money through Google AdSense, Amazon and eBay ads. Many of our users are earning hundreds of dollars per month and some are even earning thousands.

Over 60,000 published writers and 10 million readers every month! High credibility with search engines Google and Yahoo.

Signup and use are always 100% free.
  • You can set up affiliate accounts with Google, Kontera, eBay, and Amazon. This simple process is lightning quick and costs you nothing.
  • Google and Kontera automatically displays ads in your hub that are relevant to your topic.
  • You can decide which products to list in your eBay and Amazon capsules.
You, the writer, receive 60% of the impressions, while HubPages receives the remaining 40%. Any revenue generated while your ad is displayed is entirely yours. So if a Hub is visited 10 times, 6 of the ad impressions are yours, and 4 are HubPages. You keep all the revenue generated from those 6 ad impressions.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The psychology of scams, ebook

In this case there is nothing better than the quote “Know your enemy” - Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, we’re submerged by SCAMS everyday, this ebook is a good to read in order to increase your defence against them.

Prepared for the Office of Fair Trading by theUniversity of Exeter School of Psychology [May 2009]. The psychology of scams: Provoking and committing errors of judgement

CONTENTS

Chapters

  • 1 Executive summary
  • 2 Introduction
  • 3 Previous research on the psychology of scams
  • 4 A new theoretical approach: Scam response as an error of judgement
  • 5 A strategy for researching errors of judgement in falling for scams
  • 6 Study One: extended interviews with scam victims
  • 7 Study Two: text mining of a sample of scam communication materials
  • 8 Profiles of different scam types
  • 9 Study Three: a comparison of susceptibility to errors of judgement in victims and non-victims of scams
  • 10 Study Four: an experiment with a scam simulation
  • 11 General conclusions
  • 12 Implications for policy and practice
  • 13 References

Annexes

  • A Literature review on the psychology of scams
  • B Study One: Details of the interview method
  • C Study One: Further details from the analysis of interview transcripts
  • D Study Two: Details of methods used for text mining analysis of scam materials and results
  • E Study Three: Details of method
  • F Study Three: Text of the questionnaires
  • G Study Three: Tests of the significance of group differences in questionnaire responses
  • H Study Four: Text of the letter inviting participation in study 4b
  • I Study Four: Questionnaire used in both studies 4a and 4b
  • J Study Four: Results of factor analyses of responses to the questionnaire items
  • K Study Four: Tests of the significance of group differences in return rates and questionnaire responses

From MastersOfMindControl.com: The psychology of scams Download

Sunday, May 17, 2009

SearchWiki: Google buttons to Promote and Remove website

SearchWiki lets you customize your Google Web Search results by ranking, removing, and adding notes to them. You'll see your changes whenever you do the same searches while signed in to your Google Account, or until you decide to undo them. You can also see how other users have tailored any given search results page with their own notes and changes.

Some time ago, browsing through the pages of Google, appeared something new. Usually, when something changes on Google pages, you immediately detect it, Google home is so plain. But somethimes the little changes may escape. Did you ever notice this two new icons?

What are they? Can those two buttons affect the position of the web pages? No.

Your rankings and comments are associated with your Google Account, so they affect only your search result rankings. A listing of your changes is visible on your 'SearchWiki notes' page, which is visible only to you.

In fact, you can see those two icons just when you’re logged in a Google account. In practice they may be useful to build a search engine with your preferences always activated when you log in your Google account.

It’s a pity, at the start some webmasters were just thinking to resolve all their promotional campaign pains with just one or two clicks ;)





Source: Google guide

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Template updating...

Sorry for probable mess around...

Edit: Ok, MMB blog is updated now. Feel free to post your opinion.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Twitter Traffic Machine by Bill Crosby

Twitter Traffic Machine



Author: Bill Crosby

Who is? Not the actor, of course, but an internet expert particularly skilled in social networks, with a passion for helping people to succeed. “Real Estate Investor & Social Media Evangelist” – as he says in his Blog. Bill Crosby has 35.243 followers on Twitter, until now. Imagine how advantageous would be for your online business (or to start it) if you have even 1/4 of that followers. Just with a click you can send a link to all them, and if turns out that just 500 people got to visit it? How much can be worthful?

Twitter Traffic Machine system explains how to grow a twitter account rapidly w/total automation via 5 videos. Video 6 then will show how to create a viral affiliate business. The system is automated for affiliates using your twitter account. Turn it on, forget, & make money!

- Discover another advantageous alternative to search engine traffic
- Learn how to get 16,000 targeted visitors to your site in 90 days
- This is not a SCAM but, if you’re doubtful, keep in mind that there is a 60 Day, 100% money back, guarantee

Here to know more about: The Twitter Traffic Machine

What is Twitter.com?


A free service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Twitter is a networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates to their status with text messages, long no more than 140 characters, through the site itself, via SMS, instant messaging, e-mail, or by various applications based on Twitter API. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Obvious Corporation in San Francisco.

TwitterTrafficMachine
by Bill Crosby, $27

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Automatic use of Yahoo! Answers to populate your new Forum

Pros:

- No need to post hundreds of new topics by yourself to fill up your new empty board.
- Extracting new questions from Yahoo! Answers will ensure that these can be answered automatically as it happens.
- Your forum can run on autopilot, threads will be started, answered, and updated automatically.

Cons:

- In some board, like phpBB3 for example, the questions that exceed a certain length are cut, therefore the title of your topic may end with a word cut or an incomplete sentence, like: How to make money online using a free sy
- Having to grant access to your forum at the script that the services below offer, defenses against spam are lower because you have to consent automatic registration.

JetConvo.com [phpBB, Invision, vBulletin, SMF]

With JetConvo Full Edition ($47/year) you can:

  • Automatically populate an UNLIMITED number of forum categories on autopilot! Yes this means you can have different keyword specific posts for each sub-forum on your forum
  • Have posts appear daily on a time delay so any visitor sees nothing more then an active forum that gets new posts daily by its members.
  • Logical, Related, Interesting content Auto posted daily
  • Complete control over post signatures
  • 5000 threads & answers per day
  • Unlimited sub-forum, keywords, and more
  • Automatic creation of all new user accounts for posting!

With JetConvo Free Edition you have:

  • Automatic posts are limited to 5 threads per day
  • Limit to 20 threads per subforum
  • The signature is locked and it will show Jetconvo.com link

Instadigi.com [VBulletin 3.x, Invision Board (IPB) 2.3.x, PHP-Nuke. phpBB, Simple Machines Forum (SMF)]

Features Account, $70 one time payment:

  • Forum Posts Generation (Specify Keywords)
  • Fresh user generated content (No chat bots)
  • Supports unlimited threads/forums
  • Large variety of topics
  • Automatic user account creation
  • Easy installation - Upload and run!
  • Realistic posting time intervals
  • Unique Content! (Duplicate content prevention)
  • Works with various forum systems
  • Easy setup and installation
  • No alteration of existing forum database
  • Secure Administration
  • No programming knowledge required!
  • User-friendly GUI interface
  • Lifetime updates and support
  • Customer Pages

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Payment proof, Blogsvertise and Easyhits4u

Some time ago I wrote a post on Blogsvertise - Make money with Blogsvertise - and another one on Easyhits4u - EasyHits4u, not on autopilot but free traffic for real - now it is the time to show you some payments proof, on a PayPal italian account:


               

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Adbrite plus Snap LinkAds


From a few months Adbrite started to show Snap LinkAds a lot more than the previous text ads (Adsense style) in its publishers' sites. 


Snap is one of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet, already reaching 9% of the US audience and 35 million unique global users each month in 48 languages. Over 100 times per second, we reveal the content that users want, in the best form possible, and deliver it to them right where they are, without forcing them to click links or conduct searches.

Our Snap Shots products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs, who appreciate the improved experience we provide their users along with the additional advertising inventory we create. Our Engage products help major content owners add depth to their own offerings and extend their reach across our network to build awareness, traffic and revenue. Together, they comprise a complete solution that’s helping to reaggregate content and users in an increasingly fragmented Internet.

Launched in 2006 by Founders Bill Gross and Tom McGovern, Snap is backed by Mayfield Fund and Idealab. We are always open to build new relationships with Publishers, Advertisers and building our Team.


Adbrite is a great alternative to Google Adsense, never had any rethinking on this fact. I'm using both righ now, Adbrite ads on this site made me earn an average of 0,30-1,00 dollars per click,  just lately the gains are varied to worse (maybe is just my case) since Snap LinkAds appeared in the place of the classic ads. Now I do not know what to think, if this is a test from Adbrite team or if they have permanently changed their publishers option to make money online

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Constant Content: where to sell your articles, photos and video online

You don’t need a Website to write an article, to take/create a picture or make a video, but just to publish it, right? Even better if this file will be showed on a site through which you can make some money. Maybe a showcase site that will sell your file, in your place, to potential customers which in turn will publish it on their sites. At this can provide a service like: Constant Content

Constant Content is a marketplace where freelance writers sell their original work and potential buyers come to shop for it. The site acts like an agent bringing client and author together and maintains this site where articles, tutorials and reviews will be showcased until they are sold.

Guidelines for Writers/Customers: http://www.constant-content.com/about/help.htm

How to start?

  • Register a new account for FREE
  • Payments are made online through Paypal or 2Checkout. There is a payment threshold of $50
  • Make money with also with referrals: make 5% on each sale of other authors.
  • Constant Content retains 35% of the gross proceeds from each sale (writers earn 65 % of each sale)
  • To get an idea of the gains, take a look at the contents in Constant Content categories.

Constant Content provides FAQ, tutorials and a forum to help authors and customers.