27 January 2012
I run a couple of membership sites and protecting your membership content can be challenging and expensive. If you sell digital downloads from your blog, that too can be challenging to protect your download page from thieves. I recently bought a plugin that takes care of both of these problems quite handily … and won’t [...]
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20 January 2012
The Funniest There were many sites that blacked out, went dark or just had anti-SOPA/PIPA messages on them for the protest, but there were some that deserve special recognition for being just plain out hilarious. The Oatmeal page, above was my favorite. Then there was FARK: While a bunch of other sites are going “dark” [...]
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20 January 2012
There are some Internet Marketing courses floating around that advise you to register an exact match domain name for trademarked products to promote those products. There are numerous reasons why this is a bad idea. The number one reason why it is a bad idea is that using a company’s trademark can get you into [...]
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18 January 2012
Contacting your representatives is easy! Contact your Represenative. – All you have to do is enter your zip code in the box on the right and hit “Submit Zip”. Your representatives information will be displayed, then all you have to do is CALL THEM or FAX them! You can use this FREE Fax service to [...]
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18 January 2012
It takes a lot of hard work to get your website to the point where it is profitable and has a lot of traffic. You might want to cash in on all that time and money you’ve spent, but you want to get the most out of your investment. Before you list, make sure you [...]
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17 January 2012
If you’re thinking about buying a site on Flippa, you must … must …. I repeat, must do due diligence. This Flippa scam I’ve seen so many times it isn’t funny. The seller will buy some cheap crap blog from Tradebit for less than $5 and put it on a $10 domain and then list [...]
17 January 2012
Paypal is so convenient and so many people use it, that it is very tempting to buy and sell websites using Paypal. Sellers have to be very careful when using Paypal to sell websites. Paypal does not support the sale of digital goods, and a website is a digital good that is downloaded after payment. [...]
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15 January 2012
When I first started flipping websites, I basically created my own start-up sites and flipped them on Flippa at about $300-$320 each. That was a couple of years ago and the start-up market on Flippa has become very saturated and the quality of start-up sites on Flippa has decreased to a large degree. There are [...]
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14 January 2012
PageRank: Wikipedia: Principles of PageRank A PageRank results from a mathematical algorithm based on the graph, the webgraph, created by all World Wide Web pages as nodes and hyperlinks as edges, taking into consideration authority hubs such as cnn.com or usa.gov. The rank value indicates an importance of a particular page. A hyperlink to a [...]
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22 December 2011
Santa Claus came early for me this year. Yea Santa! Some douchebag from Ocean Springs, Mississippi attempted a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order/Injunctive Relief to try to take down my article about his WSO. The hearing was supposed to be on Dec. 20. There was a link online where I could follow the case on [...]
17 December 2011
I was sending out some DMCA notices for something that belongs to me that was being uploaded to filesharing and BlackHat sites … you know the drill. Typical low life pirate crap. I came across several sites that were promoting pirated products and running Adsense at the same time. I know that Google has a [...]
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09 November 2011
Legally Sell or Giveaway PREMIUM WordPress Themes – Comes with Over $1000 Worth of PREMIUM Themes My Review How to Leverage the Hard Work and Creativity of Others for Your Own Personal Gain See Also Bogus Lawsuits and Douchebags Get a Lump of Coal for Christmas Yep, I purchased this seller’s “product” so that I [...]
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29 August 2011
I recently wrote about a Flippa seller, InvestBeacon, here. This guy, whose first real name is Antoniya, and profile on Flippa is InvestBeacon, creates nothing (except Flippa listings) with sites he rips off from other people. He buys sites for $17 that have NO RESELL RIGHTS (personal rights only) and after he has acquired 25-40 [...]
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28 July 2011
Some of you know that I created and owned NicheBloggingTreasure.com. I sold the site to a very nice guy named Mark. He has sole ownership and is the only person who has the rights to sell NicheBloggingTreasure.com blogs. Well, there’s this Flippa Seller, InvestBeacon (Flippa profile here: https://flippa.com/users/427164) that is re-selling sites he purchased from [...]
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