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The #1 Way to Get Google/Yahoo/Bing to Love Your Website
Everyone wants to rank #1 for a higly-competitive, highly advertised, and high traffic keyword. If you could be in the 1st, or top 5, or top 10 for debt consolidation, would you leap at the opportunity? However, it takes more than a willingness to work to rank highly in the search engines.
The Way of the [...]
Google Ranking and the Changing SERPs
While doing an experiment with Google, I learned something that never occurred to me before. It may be true it has been discussed in the webmaster forums. Or, Google may have made an announcement. Or, maybe it was always this way and I just never noticed it. But, did you know Google’s results are not [...]
Making Money with Yahoo and Google – My story
Getting Started as a Webmaster
I first decided to make money off the web, in 2005. Back then, there were two big players in the contextual ad game, Google’s Adsense, and Yahoo’s Publisher Network. Really, it was just Adsense and Yahoo decided to join the party later in 2005 because of Google’s success. In those days, [...]
Domain Front-running
If you are searching for a good domain name, be careful who you use to do searches.
In the past, it has been confirmed that certain registrars would analyze domain searches. If they decided enough searches had been made for a domain name, they would register it themselves.
The purpose of this is to resell [...]
How to fight a chargeback
Preparation.
When someone does a chargeback, check the transaction for a valid AVS, CVV2. Get the IP address for the ISP and location information. If everything is in order, send a registered letter with return receipt to the customer (who did the chargeback) explaining you’re from the loss prevention department of company X.
Your letter should [...]