Recent content by datomcat

I vote for Shopify because; - it is a fully managed service on awesomely fast servers - they provide a fully integrated payment gateway (Credit/Debit Cards, as well as Paypal etc.) - anyone can get it setup and start selling, you do not need a web developer to get going - you can find free/cheap...

Many of the premium themes you can download for free from dodgy sites have been modified by the 'hacker' who released them. Sometimes their modifications are as innocent as adding their own links into the template, other times it might be popup ads (which they get money for), worst-case...

If you were Google, you would have a 'profile' of what a normal backlink profile looks like (DNS & hosting providers etc.). It would probably match quite closely to the data shown on sites like BuiltWith: http://trends.builtwith.com/hosting What this shows you is that Google would expect...

You've essentially described the start of your own Private Blog Network, while you must do your best to hide the fact that you are the owner of all 10 domains there are some free services to help steer your choice of providers. http://trends.builtwith.com/ns (then click 'The Entire Internet'...

Coffee shops, private proxies, VPN's or tether your mobile phones data connection. Just think, the Google evil machine of numbers is running statistics and algorithms 24/7 to look for connections, abuse, suspicious activity etc. You really want to avoid giving them any help in finding you out!

Good to hear that, I would err on the side of caution and use non-Google email services like Yahoo! / Hotmail etc. wherever possible - the less data available to Google to join the dots with the better. Gmail accounts linked by phone number verification, IP addresses you access them from, or...

In terms of using Google's services like Web Master Tools and Analytics, there has been recent discussion on this form about Googles' increasing use of Analytics data to influence SERPS. For example, if you run a website without GA all Google will see is that someone clicked your link from a...

naqib83, Any of the bots you can find will generate "fake likes" these are bot accounts that do nothing apart from "like" your page. Facebook is starting to delete this likes very quickly. If you want to get "real likes" very quickly try using Facebook Ads. You can choose Age range...

+1 for using Linux as your hosting-machine .. for starters you can run it for years without reboots provided its well looked-after and locked down securely. Secondly, all the Virtualization software is provided free from the major distros (CentOS, Ubuntu etc.). I have a dedicated server...

I'm gob-smacked :) I definitely recommend signing up for Affiliate Window (www.affiliatewindow.com) I am running their ads as well as adsense on my Food/Cooking niche sites and its looking very promising. Just can't help thinking how much of a killing you could make by putting Amazon products...

That's mightly impressive! How long did it take you to ramp up to this many visitors?

Very little has changed, the general consensus in offline/online marketing is that it can take 7 "touches" to bring in a sale. So to that end you should think about creating an autoresponder sequence with at least that many stages. Your initial communications should be very non-salesy, of...

lakim0, Going into Internet Marketing when you are broke and desperate to pay the bills is a really terrible idea. To make it successful you will always need to make a significant investment of both time and money. Find a job, any job, trade your time for the money you need at the end of the...

URL "Fragments" (the bits that start with #) are intended for Browsers only, the "Canonical URL" will be "www.website.com/blog/post" in both cases. So yes, backlinks to the # URL will count towards the canonical url.