If you’re selling online you probably are familiar with PayPal – and the gouge they take out of your incoming income. With the PayPal Fee Calculator you can avoid the aftershock by knowing what your fees will be in advance. That way, you can adjust your price to have the buyer absorb some of the cost. Cool.
This is a free tool – so enjoy freely.
Since MySpace is drowning in a sea of spam and no relief seems to be in sight, now would be a good time to start looking for a new online meeting place. If you want to get in on the ground floor of a social networking site that offers chat, photo albums and mp3 downloads (that’s very cool), join 3gb community www.3gb.biz.
3gb is so new in fact, their TOS reads: “This is the terms of service agreement.” OK. I can deal with that. Expect the usual bumps in the road as the platform develops. This is the best time to become part of a new community.
Decent web directories that you can submit your sites to are getting pretty rare. Either they want a couple hundred dollars for each submission or what they have to offer for free is worthless. Sometimes listing your links at these sites can actually be harmful to your rankings instead of helpful. If you’re looking for a free web directory, you should look at Dirmania.
DirMania is a business web directory that provides free website advertising. The site has a PR 3, if you care about that kind of stuff and offers a direct link to your small or medium sized business/website. The directory is organized by categories and is very search engine friendly. Your listing can go live in less than 24 hours if you meet the listing requirements. (Not hard to do if you don’t try keyword stuffing or other lame 2002 tricks.) Be sure and provide a good, human friendly description of your site with appropriate keywords and a catchy title and you’re in.
The submission form has all the instructions and advice you need to determine if your submission is quality or not. Think common sense. Make sure you are submitting your link in the most relevant category to its content and make sure that the content is offering something useful to the visitor. It is, isn’t it? Then you’re good – otherwise, anything that is submitted to a blatantly wrong category or is nothing but spam will be removed from the directory.
Play by the rules and scoop up some link love. We all need it.
Want to see yourself as others see you? Or at least how search engines see your pages? SEOmoz’s crawl test tool is open to the public.
This tool is used to test how accessible your site is to search engines and can help you quickly diagnose potential crawling issues and give you an overview of your site’s search friendliness.
To run the crawl test tool you just need to register for a free SEOmoz account. Basic members are limited to one report per 24 hour period and the tool will only test 5 pages at a time. Premium Members can run as many reports as they like and the crawl test will test 50 pages at a time.
Knock yerself out.
If you haven’t tapped into the hot search spot known as “Spock” you’re really missing out on a cool way to find people and things you’re looking for. Spock is not like most search engines in that it doesn’t simply return a dry list of text links.
Say you use a keyword search to look for web design or a web designer. Hit enter and Spock bring up a list of people – with their photos when available – and all of the links associated to each person. It will show you their community links like LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and their professional links like their education, affiliations and associations they belong to.
Spock also lets you create widgets of your searches that you can embed in your own pages or blog posts. This adds cool functionality to your site, allowing you to offer information for other searchers. Spock is still in beta but it works without a hitch. It’s definitely not a “bares bones” beta, as you can see from the widget of my search result below:
Spock’s search engine allows you to search people by their names, by tags related to their work or profession, and – this is really cool – by their email address. Try that with Google and see how far you get. You get a document not found message. Once you register with Spock (don’t worry, it’s free and easy) and try the same search you will find what and who you are looking for.
But enough from me. You’ll only get the full flavor of Spock.com by checking it out yourself. You don’t even have to register to do great searches, but once you do you can access even more features. Enjoy your search for a change. You will find what you need – and, dare I say it – “prosper”?
Who suspected those nice pronographers would ever do something as underhanded as this? And to FaceBook? This is not MySpace, Buster, so take your feely cracking elsewhere.
Seriously, this for-profit hacking is not hacking at all. What do we learn from their efforts to break in? Only that people are greedy and greedy people suck. Teh loosers.
When you’re in need of an Internet Service Provider, usually the last thing you have a lot of is time. But if you’re just getting out of a contract with lousy service and poor uptime, you really can’t afford to pick the wrong provider.
You need GetISP.info. This site analyzes DSL, cable, dial up, satellite and wireless connections and gives you the results that will help you decide. Pick the type of access, speed and features you need and the site brings up the companies that offer what you’re looking for and helps you make comparisons.
But that’s not all GetISP.info offers. There are numerous articles that make all the aspects of life online easier to understand and overcome. Their information on how to block spam is right on. They even have a “brief” History of the Internet page that is interesting reading and may teach you a thing or two you didn’t know.
Are you one to get away during the holidays instead of spending all that time with the relatives? If so DialAFlight has some great holiday offers including flights to Auckland and other New Zealand flights.
It’s not hard at all to get lined with DialAFlight’s cheap flights – in fact a phone call is all you need. Simply speak with a UK travel consultant and they will make sure your holiday is exactly as you want it. And it’s not just flights. DialAFlight can also hook you up with hotels and rental cars and have options like beach or spa holidays, short weekend breaks, and more.
Enjoy your trip.
Commercial Mortgages, you know you need them. Perhaps we all need them at some time. OK, with that settled, the question is just how do we get them? You know I’ve got your answer here.
Simply take a look at the free commercial financing advice and quotes available online at Money Magic. Through their contacts to virtually all commercial lenders, they can help you find the best deal possible. And they can get you access to mortgages of up to 70 percent loan to value, and in some cases, they can boost that to 90 percent loan to value.
You won’t have to wait forever for an answer either. They can give you a “decision in principle” within 48 hours.
If you’re a financial company in need of top level employees or if your training is in finance and you don’t currently have a job (is that even possible?), I have a link to some well-placed financial job recruiters. Willis Consulting has the recruiters who have the best corporate finance jobs now available, whether you are searching for entry level jobs or executive placement.
Willis Consulting focuses solely on the financial services industry and has been serving clients since 2000. If your business is in anything from investment banking to asset management, independent brokerage to insurance and you want the best employees, this is where to look. Willis knows the recruiting process from beginning to end.
