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 a daily basis, as there is with any of the cases in the Chancery Court, Jackson County, Mississippi.

Of course, I answered the lawsuit with a 129 page Answer document. So on Dec. 20, I visited the link to the case … and lo and behold … the entire record of the case has been deleted. Kaput. Gone.  I can only hope that the court also made the douchebag pay the court for wasting the Judge’s and the court’s valuable time with such a frivolous, poorly written, unfactual lawsuit. The  douchebag acted as his own lawyer, which goes to show, he who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client … oh, except for me… because I won.

Thank you Chancery Court, Jackson County, Mississippi for upholding the First Amendment of the Constitution … you know.. the one about Freedom of Speech. The douchebag’s Motion was so lacking in everything (like proof of the allegations and knowledge of Mississippi and US code), that it was ludicrous.

So then he pretty much copies that lawsuit and slaps on a different file number and title, but it’s basically the same lame crap only it’s supposed to be a suing me for 1 Million Dollars. ROFLMAO. There is no “Filed” stamped on it like the previous one and no Clerk has signed it and it can’t be found anywhere in the docket for the Circuit Court of Mississippi, County of Jackson. In fact, the Circuit Court isn’t even in session there until January. Even though it is a completely bogus lawsuit, I already have the Answer document prepared in case I receive something official from the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Mississippi. Hope the douchebag hasn’t earmarked that $1M to pay bills or for his kid’s education or anything important like that.

Of course, since his WSO hit the Warrior Forum, a handful of new douchebags are now copying his GPL/ripoff scheme to profit from commercial themes.  There’s one new site, GPLPress.com who is hiding their identity behind whois protection who attempted to run a WSO on the Warrior Forum much like the Most Shameful WSO of the Day. This new WSO was first placed in Classifieds on Warrior Forum by mods instead of the WSO Forum (since the themes he is selling are not a unique creation of his own), and then deleted completely. It can still be seen in the Google cache. 

Then there’s another douchebag who jumped on the douchebag bandwagon by selling ThemeForest/MySiteMyWay themes (2 of them) and another developer’s theme (1) in a package of 3 for $10. He claimed that they were made for him by the original developer. Funny thing is, I asked the developer of those themes if he was aware of this offer on the Warrior Forum, and of course, it is news to him that he was hired by the dirtbag to develop those themes. But douchebags rarely ever tell the truth, do they?

So thank you again Santa Claus for the early Christmas present and I hope you have an ample supply of lumps of coal to deliver to all the douchebags out there that profit from other people’s hard work and creativity.

Merry Christmas all and Happy New Year.

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 link to report Adsense abuse and spam in their index, so I used that and reported at least 20 sites that were promoting pirated products and running Adsense.

You know what their response was? In spite of sending a DMCA with the infringing page listed and the product name listed, etc., they issued a response saying they didn’t see any infringement and therefore would not be suspending the Adsense account of the [pirate].

All the hoopla over the big, bad Panda update and how Google wants only relevant results and “quality content” and blah blah blah.

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 could provide an informative review of this “product.” This WSO is all about profiting from other people’s hard work, by giving away or selling or leveraging in other ways, Premium WordPress themes and plugins. It’s a tiny pdf that explains GPL licensing for WordPress themes. You can, of course, get all that GPL info for free at the link above or thousands of other places on the Internet for free. There are 3 1/3 pages just talking about GPL. Then there’s two 1/3 pages with all his “creative” ideas on how to monetize all these free premium WordPress themes and plugins. The ideas are a no brainer that anyone with the ethics of this seller could easily conjure up.

The themes he was distributing were old versions of Woo Themes and Gabfire. As an example, I examined six of the Woo Themes he gives a link to and the files were all from 2009. The new Woo framework with all the bells and whistles that provides, plus all the security updates, including timbthumb.php update is not included. Do you know how many updates there’s been to Woo Themes since 2009? A lot.

When this seller was asked if he purchased these and were they downloaded from the source, he said yes, he purchased them in 2010 (liar, liar, pants on fire). When asked to provide proof of purchase, he blew that off. If these were downloaded from the source in 2010, they would not be files from 2009, now would they? I posted the changelogs and a screenshot of one of the 2009 versions he distributed with the version number on it … irrefutable proof that these files had not been downloaded in 2010, as he had said they were. My posts/proof that he is a flat out liar were deleted. Until he was busted, he was distributing 2 year old files that he downloaded from who knows where, containing who knows what malware and links in them.

It’s actually the lure of the Free Premium WordPress themes that are selling this WSO rather than the “course” he’s promoting. If he hadn’t added that little ebook on GPL licensing (which you can find out about all over the Internet for free), the listing wouldn’t even be eligible for a WSO, since none of the themes he is giving away are his work. People love freebies, right?

Listen to this bit of copy from the WSO listing …

I am going to teach you how to legally profit from the hard work of others. Everyday, I leverage the hard work of others to build massive email lists, add huge bonuses to my products (loose description of what he sells), and build loyalty amongst my followers.

It’s all around us… work that is done for us and ready to be leveraged. No, I’m not talking about PLR. I’m talking about WordPress Themes and Plugins.

Premium WordPress themes are big business and my product will show you

How to Legally Sell Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins, while Keeping 100% of the Profits

This of course is a rather parasitic type of business model used by people with not enough talent to produce and distribute their own real products, but hey … if that’s what puts food on his table, good for him. (See Parasitism: Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. There will always be innovators and parasites who live off of innovators. The Internet is full of them … those individuals who exploit the work of others due to their inability to produce anything of value of their own. They live off of other people’s hard work.

Ironically, he is distributing his “course” as an exe file to prevent sharing on the blackhat sites. Seems he would like to protect his “intellectual (and I use that term loosely in this case) property.” Hey Buddy …sharing is caring. Right? And you should have heard him scream and holler like a bitch when another of his products was shared on blackhat sites all over the Internet. Any infringement on his products, whether real or imagined, is met with his wrath and fury, but he doesn’t seem to care about pillaging those who develop WordPress products for his own gain. Legal … yes. He can get away with it legally. Ethical? Moot point. He has no ethics.

If your company wants to develop for WordPress, you have to swallow the GPL licensing for the parts of your code that use core WordPress code. This “software should be free” model is shoved down the throats of any developer that wants to build products to be used with WordPress by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. Contentious? Of course. It’s no secret that Woo Themes and Chris Pearson, the creator of Thesis had bitter confrontations over this issue (and probably many others), but Matt Mullenweg won in the final round and both Woo Themes and the Thesis developer had to swallow this licensing in order to continue developing their themes for WordPress. Quite honestly, if there weren’t talented developers who created themes and plugins for WordPress, I wouldn’t even use WordPress. The default themes given by WordPress are butt ugly and their functionality would be mediocre without the great commercial WordPress plugins available. It took the hard work of theme and plugin developers to make WordPress worth using.

Pillaging for Profit

Matt Mullenweg describes himself as an “Open Source Hippy.”

WordPress.com founder Matt Mullenweg said everything, not just software, should be open source and described himself as an “open source hippie.” Recently, the site’s founder professed his love for all things open source. Mullenweg was cited as saying, “I believe morally and philosophically that not just software, but everything should be open source,” according to ZDNet at the GigaOM Roadmap 2011 Summit in San Francisco, California. Source

From another interview, he describes his philosophy on GPL as being much like the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” It’s people like this seller who then exploit the GPL by interpreting it to give them a license to pillage other people’s products for their own personal gain, hardly the real spirit of GPL licensing.

If anyone doubts that it is NOT Woo’s intention that their themes be given away for free, here is the post on their blog that talks about this.

So what does this mean?

The only thing that really changes, is that there’s no more restrictions on a Standard / Single and Developer License i.e. you can use these themes on unlimited domains irrespective of the package you choose (view a comparison of the different packages here).

The themes aren’t free and you still need to buy them! (i.e. there’s no hidden download link somewhere)

Will this one WSO hurt hard working, talented developers of Premium WordPress themes and plugins? Yes, most likely it will. This character has a large following due to pandering to the “Make Money Online Without Really Working” crowd, the same crowd that his given Internet marketers the bad reputation that it currently enjoys. Not only will he give away these premium themes, but his gang has been taught to give away or sell other other people’s work to make a buck, so distribution will be widespread before it’s all over. Does he care that developer’s will be hurt? Of course not. He is a parasite and remember the definition of Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. Note the mention of one organism of a different species. While technically he may be the same species, he’s in the same sub-class of humans that the Wall Street bankers, Bernie Madoff and yes, Gordon Gekko are in. Greed is Good. Anything for a buck to hell with anyone who gets in his way.

Of course in the forum that he frequents, you’ll hear him defending intellectual property rights, but in practice, that sentiment is quickly discarded when he can make a buck from other people’s hard work and get away with it. This seller defends his behavior under the guise of legality. Yeah, it’s legal, but anyone with an ounce of brain matter knows that the companies that develop and sell premium WordPress themes and plugins are in to make money, as they should be.

A lot of hard work, talent and creativity go into those themes, and it should be rewarded. Do the right thing and ignore parasitic charlatans. Reward the people who develop for WordPress and bring so much extra value to the platform. If not … no need to waste $10 on the course that teaches you to profit from other’s hard work. In a nutshell, you can get away with giving away, selling … whatever WordPress themes and plugins under GPL licensing. It does not give you the right to give away the parts of their product that are not licensed under GPL. As an example, the Photoshop files for Woo Themes are not GPL licensed, and therefore cannot legally be distributed, but I doubt that will stand in the way of the crowd that does this sort of thing. Do what he did to monetize. This con artist basically launched a WSO that provided filesharing links to around 70 of these themes. Not only does he make $10 a shot for each sale, but he is building a huge list, so give them away, use them to build a big list, stuff the themes with your ads and links and upload them everywhere, use them to get traffic to your website, use them in a membership site or as bonuses or OTOs, put them up somewhere and charge for them, whatever. He even suggests that you acquire GPL licensed plugins and change the Paypal donation button in them to YOUR Paypal button. Anything goes. There, I just saved you $10 bucks.

WHAT YOU DON’T GET WITH A GPL LICENSE

This seller is distributing these themes via the ordinary filesharing sites that you can find all kinds of stolen and pirated stuff on. There’s no telling what he stuffed them with before uploading. After all, do you trust a theme from a guy who advises in his course to stuff that theme with whatever you want in there, your links and encrypt it to prevent it from being removed?

When you buy a beautiful, highly functional theme from a theme company, let’s say Woo Themes for instance, you get excellent support in their support forum for the theme and you get very timely updates every time WordPress is updated or they add new features, which is often. You also get clean code that is free of malware and spam links.

As in the recent update, some updates are security updates. Woo Themes updated all of their blogs when a vulnerability was discovered with the timthumb.php file that many Premium themes use. You get no support or updates from themes that you don’t pay for.

In addition, you never know what kind of malicious coding, backlinks, etc. have been added to these free themes and how it will affect your website. I’ve seen more than one site marked by Google as a malicious site because they were using a free theme that someone distributed with malicious coding embedded in it. That’s the risk you take when you use free themes for your websites.

Because free WordPress themes are so popular, they are a favorite way for spammers, scam artists, and hackers to cash in or just wreak havoc by delivering malware to unsuspecting users. They simply download the themes, alter them by adding base64 encrypted codes in the functions.php file of the themes. When the code is decrypted, they contain malware or spam links. Find out more about malware distribution through free WordPress themes in Anatomy of a Theme Malware and Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else.

The best and safest place to get free WordPress themes is from the WordPress.org official WordPress theme repository. The best place to get Premium WordPress themes are from the theme author’s website. Any other distribution, especially from file sharing sites, is very risky and not worth the few bucks you’ll save by trying to find commercial, free Premium WordPress themes.

It’s up to you to decide whether or not your website is important enough to purchase the themes directly from the vendors and receive clean code that is updated frequently and support is provided. It’s really a no brainer for me, but I build my sites for the long term. I use a lot of Woo Themes … have bought many developer versions of their themes and the support and updates are world class. They’ve fairly recently added a framework to their themes that makes setting the options and adding advertising a real breeze.

Their themes are extremely easy to customize. I use a highly customized version of the Gazette theme for my plrstyle.com sites. The customizations include a larger sidebar for better advertising display and a more attractive header area for customizing your header.

Then there’s the issue of website flipping. Do you really want to use a free theme with no support and questionable coding for the sites you sell? Not me. I want to be able to stand by the themes I use and provide an update or support when necessary.

What it boils down to is that you get what you pay for. Pay nothing … get an old theme, containing possibly malicious coding and backlinks to the distributor’s sites, no updates and no support. Your business is probably worth more than that. I know mine is.

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 of these, he creates Flippa listings to sell them in bulk.

Not only does InvestBeacon sell sites he has no right to sell, he sells the same sites over and over and over again. In his listings, he claims that each listing is an EXCLUSIVE network of blogs. Of course, nothing is further from the truth. Not only do they belong to someone else to sell and have been sold legitimately on the Warrior Forum, but he sells the same ones continuously.

In this post, I point to one such auction but he listed another auction here. I reported this auction to Flippa and they suspended this seller. I was relieved that InvestBeacon was not going to get away with selling other people’s blogs one more time. SuiteJ and Mark (new owner of Niche Blogging Treasure) also contacted Flippa regarding this auction.

After being suspended, I get this pitiful email from InvestBeacon:

from [Offline] InvestBeacon investbeacon@gmail.com

to Suzanne Bucciarelli

date Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM

subject I’m really sorry for selling your websites

mailed-by gmail.com

signed-by gmail.com

Suzanne,

I would like to declare that I will not be selling any of your websites at http://nichebloggingtreasure.com/ or SuiteJ’s blogs ever again on flipppa or any other website. I deeply repent for even trying to sell these sites at the first place. I can only ask you to put this behind us and try to forgive me. I’m only left with the following – good luck with your future work and you won’t be hearing from me about any of this again, I promise.

Regards,

Antoniya

Sounds like this scammer is turning over a new leaf, right? Don’t believe it for a minute. 1/2 hour later, I get another email from him, saying that now that he is a reformed scammer, would I put in a good word to Flippa so he can get his account back. Needless to say, I did not put in that word for him. I have been dealing with this Flippa scammer for a long time.

The truly shocking thing is … that soon afterwards, Flippa UNSUSPENDED him and allowed his auction here to continue and complete successfully, even though the two owners of those sites reported it and so did I.

But wait … it gets even better. While he was suspended, it appears (to me and a lot of other people, at least ((but not to Flippa))), that he created another account under the name of finestcreativity, this time selling Verena’s blogs from the Warrior Forum. These blogs are also created and sold by Verena with personal rights only. There were two brand new, active listings selling blogs he had no right to sell.

So I sat up until 1am and drafted up a DMCA notice to send to Verena and instructions for her on how to send it to Flippa:

_________________________________

Verena (YOUR FULL NAME)

YOUR ADDRESS

YOUR EMAIL

YOUR PHONE

Subject: Notice of Copyright Infringement

The Flippa seller known as InvestBeacon and finestcreativity are selling blogs from me that he purchased from me with no resale rights. The blogs available on The Warrior Forum sold under my name, Verena come with personal rights only. InvestBeacon was suspended for this before, but it is apparent that he has been reinstated and has resumed selling blogs that he has no rights to sell. In addition, he now has the second account to sell stolen blogs from, as InvestBeacon and finestcreativity are one and the same person.

The copyrighted works at issue are from listing for finestcreativity:

https://flippa.com/2639764-25-exclusive-autoblogs-network-of-money-makers-beautiful-design-instant-profit

COPYRIGHTED WORKS THAT HE IS SELLING FROM THE ABOVE LISTING:

ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED BLOG: http://www.warriorforum.com/complete-web-sites-sale/335795-only-25-gorgeous-learn-guitar-niche-blog-comes-e-book-sales-page-ready.html

ON FLIPPA LISTING: http://guitarcoaches.net/

ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED BLOG: http://www.warriorforum.com/complete-web-sites-sale/396034-only-25-gorgeous-day-trading-niche-blog-another-premium-blog-package-verena.html

ON FLIPPA LISTING: http://tradingmanual.org/

ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED BLOG: http://www.warriorforum.com/complete-web-sites-sale/352660-only-25-gorgeous-hybrid-car-niche-blog-another-premium-blog-package-verena.html

ON FLIPPA LISTING: http://drivinghybrids.org/

ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED BLOG: http://www.warriorforum.com/complete-web-sites-sale/357634-only-25-gorgeous-bodybuilding-niche-blog-another-premium-blog-package-verena.html

ON FLIPPA LISTING: http://bodycourse.net/

ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED BLOG: http://www.warriorforum.com/complete-web-sites-sale/352927-only-25-gorgeous-cruise-vacation-niche-blog-another-premium-blog-package-verena.html

ON FLIPPA LISTING: http://specialcruises.net/

ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED BLOG: http://www.warriorforum.com/complete-web-sites-sale/351650-only-25-gorgeous-satellite-tv-niche-blog-another-premium-blog-package-verena.html

ON FLIPPA LISTING: http://satellitereport.org/

ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED BLOG: http://www.warriorforum.com/complete-web-sites-sale/349619-only-25-gorgeous-solar-energy-niche-blog-another-premium-blog-package-verena.html

ON FLIPPA LISTING: http://solarenergyreports.net/

You can reach me at (YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS) for further information or clarification. My phone number is phone number here and my mailing address is address here.

The email address of the website owner, who has reprinted our content illegally, is their email address is investbeacon@gmail.com.

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

YOUR NAME HERE

DATE HERE

_____________________________________

Got a message from Verena that she did indeed send it, but by then, finestcreativity had been suspended. See a pattern here? How long before finestcreativity is magically UNSUSPENDED and allowed to continue defrauding customers on Flippa once again?

I got an email from Flippa stating that they could find no fraudulent link between InvestBeacon and finestcreativity.

Really?

Let’s see. Both from Bulgaria with verified Bulgarian telephone numbers. Both with identical titles in their listings. Take a look at the images below. In the first one, you can see he tried to hide his identity by claiming that he is from the US. But his mobile phone is from Bulgaria and you can’t hide that. The second are the listings. Identical, aren’t they?

Do these listings look identical to you or not. They sure look like the same person created them to me.

OTHER FLIPPA SCAMS

The sad truth is that a lot of scammers sell on Flippa and it is a minefield to try to buy a site from Flippa without getting ripped off. Take for example the rash of “Traffic” selling websites. There are sellers that sell the same traffic selling and other websites over and over again. For a real eye opener, check the same Flippa Leaderboard for all duplicate sites being sold on Flippa. A few of those are actually different sites … just listed with the same titles like the first listing there, but many are just clone websites being sold over and over again.

Buy from Flippa with extreme caution. Use Google to Google the title of listings and the Flippa Leaderboard to check for duplicates also. Of course, duplicates are not the only Flippa scams going. There are plenty of sites with fake income screenshots and sites that buy fake traffic to inflate their traffic numbers (I got one of those gems awhile back). It requires some real due diligence to buy from Flippa without getting ripped off.

UPDATE: The seller InvestBeacon had a lot of communication with Flippa and promised never to sell sites that he did not have the right to sell any longer. But this long time Bulgarian scammer couldn’t and had no intentions of keeping that promise. He opened a new account, FinestBusiness, and listed another person’s blogs from the Warrior Forum that had personal rights only. Someone pointed me to the auction, and I located the original source of the blogs and reported the auction. I had proof that this account was also InvestBeacon. In addition to InvestBeacon account, this scammer Antoniya, whose real name is actually Ivan Kolev, has operated under all of these previously banned Flippa accounts that I know about:
vanko007a
kolevgroup
creativity
finestcreativity
FinestBusiness

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 NicheBloggingTreasure.com and some from SuiteJ, all purchased with private rights only … NOT RESELL RIGHTS.

Not only is he reselling blogs that he has no right to resell, he is calling them EXCLUSIVE in his listings. Of course, there’s NOTHING exclusive since he is reselling them over and over and over again on Flippa and on Ebay.

The new owner of NicheBloggingTreasure.com, SuiteJ, and myself have reported this auction and it is still running, with some poor sucker who will inevitably win the auction of stolen blogs. Below is the email I sent to Flippa.

InvestBeacon is his profile on Flippa, Ebay and the Warrior Forum
investbeacon@gmail.com is his email in Paypal
From Bulgaria

From: Username: sbucciarel
Reported Auction: http://flippa.com/auctions/2629073

Customer’s message follows:
—————————
I am very surprised this auction is still running and you have not banned this scammer. He is reselling blogs that he purchased with NO RESELL RIGHTS from Mark Alves of Niche Blogging Treasure and from Suite J. Not only is he a thief, but he is claiming in his sales copy “A Network Of 40 EXCLUSIVE AUTOBLOGS”. There is nothing EXCLUSIVE about blogs that he stole from someone else and is reselling over and over and over again on Flippa. Look at his profile and see the EXCLUSIVE blogs he resells over and over.

The poor buyers who end up shelling out dough to this scammer run the risk of getting their sites taken down with DMCAs.

I am the former owner of Niche Blogging Treasure and I sold the exclusive rights to the blogs that he is reselling to Mark Alves. Only he has the rights to resell them.

Specifically, the sites that he is reselling on this auction that he has no resell rights to are below and they can all be seen on NicheBloggingTreasure.com with NO RESELL RIGHTS specifically stated:

SAVE MONEY

http://MoneyBootcamp.org

PREGNANCY HEALTH

http://HealthyPregnancies.net

TRAFFIC MACHINE

http://TrafficBomb.org

BABY NUTRITION

http://BabyNourish.net

WEDDING PLANNING

http://WeddingAdvisory.net

TWITTER MARKETING

http://TweetRevenue.org

POKER GUIDE

http://CoachPoker.net

PPC MARKETING

http://PPCBomber.net

PUPPY CARE

http://PuppyCaring.net

TEETH WHITENING

http://SmilingTeeth.net

SKIN CARE

http://SkinCareBliss.net

BLOGGING MOMS

http://BloggingMommies.net

BABY SHOWER

http://BabyShowering.net

ECO WEDDING

http://EcoBride.net

GARDEN VEGETABLES

http://GardeningCourse.org

IDENTITY THEFT

http://IdentityReport.net

BREAD MAKING

http://BakingBreads.net

YOGA GUIDE

http://YogaAdvisor.org

ECO FAMILY

http://EcoFamilyFun.net

NICHE MARKETING

http://NichePower.net

FLOWER GARDENS

http://LushGarden.org

FITNESS GUIDE

http://AdrenalinePump.net

DIET TIPS

http://DietExpertise.net

GADGETS & TECHNOLOGY

http://NerdReviews.org

BLOGGING DADS

http://BloggingDads.net

STRESS RELIEF

http://StressHealing.org

CAR CARE

http://CatCaring.net

VAPING GUIDE

http://VapingGuide.net

Suzanne

A lot of my customers and other newbies do not know how to ftp files to their server. This is a skill that anyone who owns domain names should acquire. It may seem complicated at first, but once you learn it, it really isn’t and you will then be able to upload a website or single files to a domain. This is a valuable skill to have if you have a lot of domains that you plan to develop.

It’s very simple to get a WordPress blog installed on a domain, using Fantastico in your Cpanel hosting interface, but if you want to upload a sales letter or minisite, you must use ftp to upload the files to the root directory of the domain.

I use Filezilla for uploading. You can find a detailed Filezilla tutorial here: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/ftp/filezilla.htm.

The complete tutorial on uploading files using Filezilla and other ftp clients can be found here: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/ftp/.

If you use wordpress, you should check out this new tool. It clones your ENTIRE blog in seconds, so you can move it to anywhere you want… back it up…

Or if you do a lot of blog set ups, you can automate them and save a ton of time. I personally do a lot of blog setups and this is a lifesaver.

Also, it comes with some “already cloned” stuff you can “one click” and deploy. Nice.

If you haven’t been backing up your blogs, this is also the ultimate backup tool. takes a second to back up a blog completely.

The real cool feature though is “deploying” your clones – this will save you hundreds of hours, and I mean hundreds if you want to get a lot of sites up fast. Very good way to get those domains you have laying around doing nothing monetized with sites. It will make them more valuable for resell if they have a site on them and are getting some kind of traffic. I have a ton of domains that are just sitting around and that’s going to STOP now.

BONUS: Just grab the “sales letter clone” bonus. Deploy the clone on your site. You’ll have the following ready and done for you:

A sales letter set up A special plugin with 7 fill in the blank sales letters! A download page set up Special plugins already optimized! See the Video Here

There are two good methods that I use to find end users for my domains. One is a slightly better way than the other, but takes just a little bit more effort.

The first one is to Google the keywords in your domain. In the Google results you get, you’ll get a lot of companies with similar domain names as yours, or at least using tags with those keywords. Gather up contact emails either from Whois or from the contact info on the sites of the Advertisers in the right hand column of the Google results. These are the people that you will be sending an email to.

It’s important not to spam these people. Send an individual email to each of them, simply telling them that you have xxxxxx.com available for acquisition and you’re offering it to companies that may benefit from the domain.
Here is a sample letter that I use. It is the basics. You need to add any additional benefits that this domain would have for this company. Continue Reading

One of the easiest and best ways to do so is to make money flipping domains.

The benefits of flipping domains:

• A website isn’t necessary if the domain is valuable.
• Can be a quicker method of making money online than most other
• methods of making money online.
• You’re paid through Paypal for most transactions… meaning instant cash!
• Domains can make you money. Some of the top domains (one word high quality domains) have sold for millions of dollars. You can buy premium domains that sell for hundreds for as little as $18 each here.

Of course, it’s unlikely you’ll find a domain today that is worth millions unless you buy one yourself. You’ll need a lot of capital to do that. However, you can find decent quality domains that are available to be freshly registered. This is where you can make a lot of money. Some brand new domains may even go for $100 or more than that if you know how to pick them.

Right now I’m making around $500 -$2,000 per month selling simple domains with no content on them. This is with little effort. If you put in the effort you can make more than I do. Continue Reading

Are You a Domain Junkie?

I am. I just found this fantastic opportunity to be a domain flipper and to have access to over 500 premium domain names to sell without taking on the risk of buying all those domains yourself.

It’s called the Domain Profits Club and here’s the deal.  They set you up with the website that automatically displays the domains that are available to sell.

You Keep 100% PROFIT on Every Domain Name You Sell From this $250,000.00 Portfolio,

And YOU Decide the Price.

When you receive an offer by email, you can accept it or refuse it and keep 100% of the profits when you sell. Here’s an example of this fully stocked, ready to profit domain flipping website that you get: Diva Domains. Continue Reading

You can download the full Moving a Site from One Host to Another Host pdf at http://flipace.com/transfer.pdf or buy the full Flip Ace Ebook here.

How to Transfer a Site From One Host to the Next

These instructions are for hosting with cpanel and for transferring one site from one host to another host.

First, you go into the File Manager in the cpanel where the site is currently hosted and choose the domain you want to transfer.

When you have a list of all the files, choose select all to select all the files. Once all the files are selected, you can use the Cntrl key to deselect the folders you don’t want, like cgi-bin. Continue Reading

Some of you may have heard about Google’s latest Brain Fart … Sidewiki. It’s an add-on to your browser that sits right on the left hand side of your website, taking up a large amount of room (room that would have been your website), and allows any Tom, Dick and Harry to literally say whatever they want to about your site, without you having the ability to moderate these comments. Google says you can report abusive comments, but it’s entirely at their discretion as to whether or not it is abusive. Essentially, Sidewiki is a parasite on the Web that free rides on the hard work and the investments website owners.

To top it off, they have not even given website owners the option of opting out of having Sidewiki comments alongside of their site.

There are many reasons why I find this objectionable … more than objectionable … it’s downright evil.

1. First off … it creates a huge distraction. Here you are, working your butt off and maybe even spending cash to get traffic to your sites, and now you have this enormous conversation hosted on Google going on about you and your site completely out of your control.
2. Google is stealing your comments. Many site owners work very hard to develop a relationship with their readers and get a lot of comments on their blogs. This dialogue with their readers is an important part of their blogs and makes your blog more valuable. Well, Google is stealing that. Now they can just use Sidewiki to comment, but it isn’t moderated in any way and it isn’t really threaded so you can’t respond to a particular comment.
3. Google is providing the means for spammers and for competitors to sabotage your blog. Competitors can drop by and pretty say anything they want to discredit you or attempt to ruin your reputation. Spammers can drop by and offer their bill of goods … cialis anyone? How about some viagra? Maybe a little peep show? Blackhatters and other garden variety spammers are already testing it’s usefulness for getting traffic from your site to theirs using Sidewiki and it’s only a matter of time before the programmers have bots that can do this to thousands of sites at a time. This is very evil.
4. How long do you think it will be before Evil Google runs ads on Sidewiki that competes directly with your own ads, thereby stealing your ad revenue that you’ve worked so hard to get?

So how do you fight Google? Are they likely to listen to the feedback of webmasters? If past history is any indication, I doubt that there is a Google solution on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean that you have to just take whatever Google decides to dish out.

If you want to block Sidewiki on your blogs and your static sites, here is a script that does just that. The Evil Sidewiki sidebar is still shown by the website and a user can leave a comment, but as soon as the page is refreshed, the comments do not show. Poof … gone!

If you’re as outraged at Google hijacking the Internet and your websites, send Google feedback here.

Send Toolbar feedback – Toolbar Help

If you do business online and receive payments via Paypal, you probably already know that Paypal does not protect sellers of digital downloads from unscrupulous buyers.  A buyer can, and many do, purchase an item and then immediately file a Paypal dispute.  Many sellers will just issue a refund to keep their Paypal accounts in good standing, even if they know that the dispute has been filed fraudulently for the sole purpose of receiving the product for free.

I have heard over and over in forums that there is little you can do to fight back against this type of Paypal fraud, but that isn’t exactly true.  You can’t recover the money they sent if you refund, of course, but you can prevent them from using the product they bought on a website. Continue Reading

I’m writing this because probably a lot of my readers are newbies who buy sites and may be buying from Sitepoint and other forums/auction sites.  I use Sitepoint to sell my sites and occasionally buy some sites from Sitepoint.

If you buy sites on Sitepoint, you really need to do some homework. There are a lot of sellers who are purchasing MMR products that cost $10 or less, setting it up on a domain, and selling it for $167 more or less.  When I say a lot, I mean a lot.

Some of them even try to pass these MMR sites off as unique.  They advertise them as unique, but they are far from unique.  I saw yet another one of them two days ago that advertised the site as unique.  I found it for $49 by Googling and this scammer was charging $797 for this site.  I pm’d him and gave him the $49 link to the exact same site.  His response?  He gave me a link to the exact product that costs $5.99.   What can you say to that kind of arrogance and pure rip-off mentality?

Apparently this type of thing is not against TOS, so it is up to YOU to research the site before investing your hard-earned cash.

How to Flush Out the Rip-Off Artists

Use Copyscape.com for starters.  It will tell you if a site has duplicate content.  In addition, you can use Google.

Take a headline or paragraph and do this

“place headline here or paragraph or sentences” in Google with the quotes.  It will return any content within the quotes.  When you look at the results, look for Master Resale Sites listed and check it out.  You may find that there’s a Master Resale Rights product for a couple of bucks identical to what is being sold as a unique product on Sitepoint for over $100 or you may find that the site being sold is using PLR articles that are already all over the Internet.

Here’s another tip on how to spot the scammers.  Click on their profile and check all the sites they’ve been selling.  Click on each of them to see if they keep selling the same sites over and over.  Right now there’s a little scammer on Sitepoint who is selling the exact same “traffic selling” site over and over, just changing the template and domain name, but it’s the same site and he’s listed well over 20 of them so far.  And people keep buying them.  Not only is the market completely oversaturated with this BS site he’s selling, but Sitepoint is now overrun with people trying to sell “traffic” from these clone sites.

Take the time to do the research.