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I find reading self-proclaimed SEO Specialists comments on forums really really funny. I think it might be one of my Top3 things about SE forums. Today I got a golden quote from one from a debate about Microsoft Bing.

Bing is straight trash right now.. No one can figure them out se wise right now

Really? So the Searchengine is “trash” because the selfproclaimed SEO specialists cant figure out how to manipulate it yet?

Where do these SEO experts come from? Is it people that couldent get a job at McDonald’s, and now work from home after reading a “make $5000 a month from 1 hour of daily work” commercial? I have had fun reading peoples theories about religion, warcraft, sex and economics. But one of the universal truth behind those theories, is that they are made up by people who dont have a single clue about what they are talking about.

Dont trust SEO forums, Dont trust SEO blogs and do not - no matter what - trust SEO Experts.

And that is a FACT. Webmasterforums are made by people who dident have what it takes to build their own site, or make customers pay for their knowledge. So instead they installed a (most likely free) forum script, and let other people answer the questions they were unable to answer themself.

95%+ of the users that forums, are people who couldent create their own site, so they spend their time commenting on other people creations. So the anwers you get on foums, will 9 out of 10 times, be from webmasters who dont have a clue what they are saying.

Today one of those idiots “predicted”:

ICANN would make the .xxx TLD mandatory for all sites containing adult content

The idiot completely ignores the fact that ICANN’s ONLY role, is to be the admin to the TLD’s. It have absolutely ZERO mandate, when it comes to the content on the sites, as long as they follow the local laws. Even if they dont follow the local laws, there is not much they can do, unless the local justice-system ask them to.

Even ICANN know this, and clearly state “ICANN would be forced to assume an ongoing management and oversight role regarding Internet content, which is inconsistent with its technical mandate”, when asked if they would enforce a .XXX TLD.

But ofcourse, the above mentioned webmaster know better - because he can see in to the future.

When I see things like this, I return to my statement above, of Webmasterforums being mostly worthless. Maybe I should rephrase it to “webmasters who visit Webmasterforums are most likely clueless”

That it in general how webmaster forums work.

I admit - I fell for the temptation and installed Google Chrome. Mainly because everyone said it was so fast and stable. In fact it was a lot slower than my IE8, less compliant with website standards and generally a pain in the rear to work with.

Long story short, I removed Google Chrome using the Uninstall function about two weeks ago, and everything was fine. But today I happened to have the Windows TaskManager open, and I notice the Googlecrashhandler.exe still running - why?.

It dont appear to transmit any date, or I have yet to see activity on the process in the monitoring tools I use for testing. But why would Google let Googlecrashhandler.exe keep running on the PC after using the uninstall function?

Installation location of Googlecrashhandler.exe

Regentry for Googlecrashhandler.exe

I post the question of “how to remove googlecrashhandler.exe” in the Google supportforum, and get the following reply:

To stop GoogleCrashHandler.exe from running, turn off the sending of usage statistics and crash reports for all the Google software on your computer. Visit Google Help to find instructions on turning these reports off

Thank you very much, but I just told you that I have disabled and removed all GoogleSoftware, including GoogleEarth. And on top of that “Visit Google Help” dont help much, since they dont have a topic about that.

Solution to the Googlecrashhandler.exe problem for me:

• Close all internet Explorer windows
• Stop the process “Googlecrashhandler.exe”
• Delete the files in the install path mentioned above
• Enter regedit, and check for/delete entries
• Reboot

I just became less of a Google fanboy. To be honest - Google Adsense and Google Search is the only two products released by Google that I trust and like. And people think they will beat MS with their new Chrome OS - I dont think so. They cant even get the browser or toolbar working, so how would they manage a full OS?

This is a short warning about what can happen if you install Avast antivirus inthe wrong folder, on a Microsoft Windows7 workstation.

I have been testing and promoting the new Windows7 for some time now, but today I ran in to a unexpected problem with Avast Anvivirus on on a fresh install of Microsoft Windows7. The installation was running at a homeuser that only uses his new Intel I7 920 Workstation for WorldofWarcraft.

Since its still in the testing phase, I did not isntall a antivirus software because I wanted to know the true performance, before a antivirus software would slow it down. This weekend the customer told me he had installed Avast on the PC by himself, and I dident really mind at the moment, since the first two weeks have shown a great performance of the system… But then…

At first the problem was he couldnt install the new patch 3.2.0 for WoW. It looked like a security problem, since he the problem was he couldent write to the folder. But when I sat down at the workstation, it became clear that nobody could create, modify or delete folders and files anywhere in the systeminstall folder.

When I checked the root of the systeminstall folder, I realiced he had installed Avast directly in that rootfolder, instead iof %installpath%/avast.

I thought “ahh, lets un-install Avast antivirus and reinstall it the right folder”, but since every other program on the Workstation was located in a subfolder of Avast’s program path, every programfolder of the programs I had installed got deleted.

This resulted in all the systemfiles of every program I had installed so far, was gone, but the applications still featured as “installed” in the system regdatabase. The good news is that the “remove programs” function in Windows7, works even if the programfolder is missing. But if the customer had installed the antivirus program in the D: root folder, the whole drive whould have been whiped by now.

There is no guaranteed way out of the Google sandbox blacklist - anyone saying differently, dont know what they are talking about, is trying to sell you a magic cure or maybe both. 95% of the times someone goes in to the Google Sandbox Blacklist, its their own fault. Some use paid incomming links, and others just forgot to build a site and focused only on SEO.

Here is a few things you can do BEFORE contacting Google:

• 1 - Find out what got you in to the Google Sandbox Blacklist
• 2 - Stop doing what got you in that situation
• 3 - Make sure your site is indexable
• 4 - Make sure your site isent “over SEO’ed”
• 5 - Make sure your site contain actual content
• 6 - Sign up for Google Webmastertools [link] and check for errors
• 7 - Validate your site frontpage through W3C HTML Validation Service [link]

Your lack of knowledge, or whoever you hired as a SEO experts lack of knowledge, brought this problem on to you and your website. To undo it, you need to educate yourself - Read Google webmasters blog, and start optimizing for surfers rather than Searchengines.

Final step in getting out of the Google Sandbox Blacklist:
When all that is done, and not before, you log in to your Google Webmaster Tool, and request reconsideration of your site (you find it under “Help topics”). Read the feedback the Googlesupport gives you, and make sure you dont repeate the mistake in the future.

This quote comes from a adult webmaster forum I visit. The quote fell in a debate where two people defend content theft in relations to Tubesites.

PersonA asks if its OK if he use a flashvideo that he know is stolen, and found on a site with stolen content. PersonA wants to use the video to promote a program he is already a affiliate of.

On to the scene steps PersonB, who is a program sales person for a site that deals with erotic niche sites, and he say:

If you make sales you’re unlikely to get into trouble for using unauthorized content.

This do not come a surprice to me, since i know for a fact how many fo the affiliate programs think and act the same way. But im surpriced that he say it in public.

It looks like Mansef Production, the owner of the adult site “Brazzers”, no longer likes to have his name out in public. At the website where the company had the full staff info public, they have now removed names and images of the brazzers crew. The funny thing about it is, that instead of removing the data, they just rem’ed it out so the searchengines would still pick it up. Apart from Brazzers, they also run juggcash.com, tube1.com, allvideoservices.com, sexinyourcity.com, trafficjunky.net and many more.

I think you need to be a webmaster to understand this quote, or at least have some webmaster knowledge to understand the joke in it.

click here to make money online
If the link above is broken, there is no money left.
By BradM from Herbal Revenue

It sums up the current sutuation in the webmaster world fairly well. A lot of Webmasters who made easy money before, have had to realice that train have left the station, and aint comming back.

I dont know if anyone said this before BradM, but its the first time I see it, and I will most likely use that webmaster quote again if I get the chance.

I was asked by one of my customers to take a look at his Windows XP workstation, because every time he tried to use the Windows picture and fax viewer, it would take 8-10 seconds to open a imagefile. I know many have had this problem before, so I would just like to descripe the usual problem.

When the Windows picture and fax viewer is slow, its usually because there is a dead shortcut in the file folder the image is saved in. So before you check anything else, please check if there is a Shortcut in the folder, and check if it leads to a folder. Please click on the shortcut to be absolutely sure.

If there is a dead shortcut, you can be 99,95% sure that the problem with a slow Windows picture and fax viewer will be fixed, as soon as you delete the shortcut.

Sometimes think you dident expect anything from, end up making you re-think a few things and projects. I have had two of those experiances this week. For almost 10 days I had to stay in bed for health reasons, and needless to say, my mind was racing during that time. Every project was revisited and evaluated. The prioritylist have been changed a little for some of the upcomming sites.

First of all - all those Penis enlargement programs out there - move the FU** over, and let FastSize through, because they are way ahead of any of you out there. I placed a banner on a parked domain, and bought textlink bannerspace on a few hightraffic sites leading them to the parked domain ( www.blivstor.dk ). I did this because I was bored and just wanted to test the CTR - I did Honestly NOT expect any sales from a 2 day textbanner spot - But I was wront. 3 sales, and a total of $375 income from a $20 dollar investment and a ration just below 1:200.

Second surprice was not as big a surprice, but more of a plesant confirmation of a theory I have always had. To sum it up: If you dont have the time to do a site right the first time, then make a halfarsed attempt, place one related banner, and one banner from somthing completely different on the site - and then just let it sit there and let the 20-100 daily SE-hits make it profitable. I did that to a iPhone domain I had, and it was in the Top5 on Google for 3 days this week, but is gone again now. But I had 18k+ hits in those few days, and a 3%+ CTR.

So - what I’m trying to say is, waste your time on other things than building your websites, because if you are lucky - you might make a few thousands in a week anyway. Flexing your E-penis on webmasterforums could be a good thing to waster you time with. But if you dont belive in luck, there is alays the oldfashion “hard work” approach to sucess, and it still works.

PS. I did not check this post for spelling errors - I dont have time :)