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I wanted to share with you another SEO (search engine optimization) and link building spam email one of my clients received and forwarded to me. If you remember my previous article about how to tell whether a company that sends you unsolicited email is virtuous, you should be able to decipher this one yourselves:
Tonight just for grins and giggles, I decided to see who owned Aldebaran.com - it redirected to another website, which meant to me that it wasn’t being used - so I figured I’d contact the owner and see if they wanted to sell it.
I’ve just receive an email spam that attempts to prey on folks who are having trouble paying their mortgages - which is pretty cruel. I’ll use this an an example of how to identify potentially fraudulent spam emails, what the CAN-SPAM act is, and how you can report folks that violate it.
I received a classic email scam today that I wanted to share, just in case there was someone out there who was actually tempted to call the phone number. The email is from “George Aguie” of the “Abidjan ivory coast west Africa” and the return email address is “aguei11111jorge@yahoo.co.jp“.
I receive link exchange requests often, and will share the most ridiculous ones I receive with you for two reasons. First, I want you to know when to decline these. Secondly, I don’t want you to actually hire a company that has people send out these awful, illogical, useless requests.
Like many of my blog articles, this one comes as a result of a client asking me to look into a suspicious correspondence received concerning their website. In this particular case, my client received a fax from a company called “Domain Registry Rights”. The fax was chock full of legal-speak, with scary words like “protecting a domain registrant” and poorly written warnings like “you are required to advise the domain notification processor of you intent to license this name or the expiration of this notice”. Very scary stuff, even with the grammatical errors.
I had one of my clients tell me she had gone to a workshop held by the “Internet Marketing Center” and that she was glad she went because she gained some knowledge about internet marketing techniques. So I decided to check out the website of the organization to see if it might be of help to my clients. This blog article gives just a brief overview of what I found.
I received a phone call from a very frustrated prospective client the other day that I’d like to share with other people who might be thinking of starting their own website design businesses or shopping for a website designer. Here’s a tip: Hey all you web designers! Take care of your clients AFTER you finish their website design. Sound simple? Apparently not.
I had a client recently forward unsolicited emails she had recently received that claimed to offer SEO (Search Engine Optimization) services. I wanted to share these emails with you and to give you my comments on their legitimacy, or lack thereof. Read the rest of this entry »
This article is written for those of you who are in the process of looking for a website designer. One of the good things to do when you’re shopping, is to look through the web designer’s portfolio. Most folks looking through a portfolio of websites will notice the obvious, like what the websites look like. This article was written to hopefully help you notice something a big less obvious: whether the web designer is using “real” domains, creating “sub-domains”, or “directories” for his website clients.
If you’re like me, you do quite of a bit online activities that utilize secure websites. Shopping on online stores, banking, and investing all require a secure connection between your browser and the website you are sending your private information to.
But how often do you notice whether the little padlock in the upper right hand corner of your browser is actually there? This article serves as a reminder to always, always, always check.
I recently had a good friend ask me to figure out why her friend’s website was not coming up in Google. After a quick review, the answer was obvious: the site had no text content, it was 100% flash. It also had zero backlinks. There was no reason why Google would rank this site, in fact, it wasn’t even in the Google index at all. It had a splash page, and played the same music on all pages. Which leads me to a familiar theme that keeps running in my head: who should you select to design your website: an Artist or an Engineer?
I’ve just had yet another Aplus.net customer service problem. I’ll keep sharing these so that folks who are thinking of using Aplus.net for their website hosting will consider other companies like DreamHost.com. If you are shopping for a website hosting company, please read this article on how to select a GOOD website hosting company.
Thinking of selecting Aplus.net as your hosting company? Please think again. As a website designer, I have to deal with many different hosting companies. Often, I have to contact them for support while working on a client’s website. If you’ve read my other posts, you know I only recommend DreamHost as a website hosting company. And I decided to start collecting my experiences with with other companies, like Aplus.net, so you can see how frustrating it can be. Here’s today’s installment: Jill, Aplus.net, and getting a spellchecker.
I’ve just had a particularly frustrating experience with the hosting company, 1&1, and wanted to share, or perhaps vent. I’m allowed to vent in my own blog right? And if on the lucky chance that someone is shopping for a website hosting company and is considering 1&1 (aka 1and1), I may spare them and their website designer many frustrating phone calls, wasted time and wasted money.
Beware of Pay-Per-Click Advertising on Citysearch!
After spending many months focusing on getting good organic search engine rankings for my own website, I decided to get some experience with pay-per-click advertising for two reasons. First I wanted to see if it would increase my own site’s traffic. Secondly, I wanted to be able to recommend a pay-per-click strategy for my clients. I decided to start with well known Citysearch. (Update: I now am confident in recommending Google AdWords for those clients who need pay-per-click traffic - but you must actively manage the ad campaign. If you want help managing a Google AdWords campaign, click here.)
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