If you’ve ever wondered why when you search for “scam” and “ripoff” along with a business opportunity or anyone in marketing, you find places like scam.com and ripoffreport.com at the top of the results, there’s actually a reason behind it. (more…)
Archive for February, 2010
The reason why the scam and rippoff sites do so well on the search engines.
Posted by Nick Bentley on February 26th, 2010
Posted in Home Business, Internet Business, Most Popular, Search Engines 
Tags: ripoffreport.com, scams.com 
2 Comments »Merchant Account Fees Explained: If You’re Not An Accountant…
Posted by Nick Bentley on February 22nd, 2010
If you have a merchant account already or shopping around, there’s several different fees on a merchant account application. Knowing what they mean, and which ones you can negotiate, is the key to getting the best deal. If you call your merchant provider and they don’t drop at least $100 a year in fees, I’d shop around. (more…)
The easy way to find broken links on your blog or website.
Posted by Nick Bentley on February 20th, 2010
One of the tools that’s a must have for any blogger or webmaster is a program that checks to make sure your links all work, and report the broken ones. I bought this program years ago for another project and just got the idea to run a report on this blog to check things out when I saw on another very high traffic blog that had several broken links. It’s virtually impossible to do it without a tool like this. (more…)
Posted in Internet Business, Most Popular, Recommended Tags: broken links, html validator No Comments »If you have a blog and someone steals your content, and how to avoid it.
Posted by Nick Bentley on February 20th, 2010
There’s a lot of blogs and unfortunately, there’s also a lot of scrapers and copy and paste thieves who try to make a living off the works of others. I’ve read a lot of articles on the topic, and here’s some of the best ways to prevent it, and take action if it happens. (more…)
Posted in Internet Business, Most Popular, Search Engines Tags: copyright, scrapers, stolen content 1 Comment »Easiest way to make web site forms that email the results.
Posted by Nick Bentley on February 19th, 2010
The last few weeks I’ve been on a new project and it required several forms to be integrated to a template I got from Dreamtemplate. To be honest, it’s been a nightmare. In case you’ve never done it, this involves (more…)