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Ebay Bastards & Paypal Pirates

2006-04-11T23:02:00.000Z

Ebay are Bastards and Paypal are Pirates

Do you hate eBay and Paypal as much as I do?

I fucking doubt it!

Never in my life have I come across such arrogance and blatant piracy as displayed by these two fat cat, sorry obese mega bastards.

Ebay have suspended my account because I refuse to pay their fees. Why? Because they have not reimbursed me for listings they have terminated that were supposedly in violation of their listing policy. Mmmmmmmm, what policy have I violated ebay? No response. Errrr, excuse me ebay, what policy have I violated oh and by the way, where are the credits for my incurred listing fees that I am supposed to receive for your ending my listings. No response. Well fuck you then, I'm not paying. Also I have no access to my account so I cannot reconcile the figures they say I owe. Well fuck you even more then. Wankers, I cannot believe their arrogance. Also Paypal, who belong to eBay, rob you blind if you don't watch them. I will provide more details of this internet robbery very soon.

Anyway here you will find details of how to contact these two mega bastard companies by phone. Gosh, shock! You may have had great difficulty in finding a phone or fax number that works but here are some that do, at the time of posting that is! Good luck.

Tel: 0208 605 3000 Fax: 0207 681 2348

Can you believe it? Billions of $$$'s in turnover, but no address and no phone number anywhere on their super slick web sites! We must be crackers!!

Give them grief, they are pirates of the modern day. Big business ripping you off by profit skimming to the extreme and then pointing their stinky middle fingered salute to you, the dumb ass who puts the dollars in their fat bastard pockets in the first place. Monopoly is the name of this game here so up yours Mr and Mrs customer who pays the bills for us, take your business elsewhere, if you can, ha, ha, ha.

Come on internet entrepreneurs bring some much needed competition to this market and kick these two arrogant c**** into touch sharpish.

Up yours ebay and fuck you Paypal!

http://www.davidheywood.com

Tags: Ebay | Paypal

Google Live PageRank Tool

2006-03-10T03:18:00.000Z

The Live PageRank calculator gives you the current PageRank value in the Google index, not just the snapshot that is displayed in the toolbar. Google updates its internal PageRank value continuously as the web changes and their index is updated. Only once every third month or so this value is exported to be displayed in the Google Toolbar.

What senior Google engineer Matt Cutts has to say about updates Calculate Your Live PageRank Tags: pagerank

Technorati Ping Link

2006-02-26T02:22:00.000Z

The code for manually pinging is: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping Technorati Ping Help Page Tags: ping | pinging | blogs

Big Duke's Blog

2006-02-26T02:21:00.000Z

Big Duke's Blog I'm blogging my own blog to see what happens, if anything. Tags: fool | idiot

Tracking Organic SEO Benefits

2006-02-26T01:58:00.000Z

Tracking Organic SEO Benefits: By Rob McGann | February 7, 2005 It's common knowledge over half of all Internet users abandon their searches after reviewing the first two SERPs. Consequently, it's long been search engine optimizers' goal to incur the benefits of ranking as highly as possible in search engines' organic results pages. Quantifiable data as to what the average Web site can expect to achieve by doing so in its first few months is less widely available. Seeking to assign numbers to this scenario, a new study by Oneupweb finds a site entering Google's top natural SERP for the first time can expect an exponential increase in traffic and double the number of conversions. The study analyzed Web sites entering Google's first, second, or third SERP for the first time in 2004. Of the 114 search terms tracked using the company's ROI Trax analytics tool, 56 were three-word terms; 50 were two words; 7 were four-word terms; and one a single-word term. Brand name keywords were not tracked. Traffic change for sites appearing on Googles first page of results: In the first month a site appears on Google's first SERP, its conversion rates rise 142 percent, according to the study. The second month, conversion rates nearly doubled (194 percent) compared to the month prior to entering the top SERP. In terms of unique visitors, the average site appearing in Google's top natural SERP could expect a 337 percent increase in traffic in its first month and a 627 percent increase in the second month. 'The important thing to note is that when a company first gets listed on Google's first page, the traffic in the first two months goes up almost exponentially, and conversion rates also improve strongly,' said Rachel North, Oneupweb's marketing director. 'It draws a more qualified customer that converts more frequently.' Tags: traffic | seo | pagerank

Blog Readership Surged 58 Percent in 2004

2006-02-26T01:52:00.000Z

Blog Readership Surged 58 Percent in 2004: By Rob McGann | January 3, 2005 If 2004 was, among other things, the Year of the Blog, that development occurred in terra incognita for most online Americans, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Pew found blog readership increased sharply, up 58 percent, between February and November 2004. This, despite the fact 62 percent of adult American Internet users still have no clear idea what a blog actually is. 'The story is, blogs are catching on,' said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & Amercian Life Project, 'Not just on the creator side, but also on the demand side. Blog readership took off in 2004.' The Pew report was based on two nationwide phone surveys conducted in November. The first polled 1,324 Internet users; the second involved interviews with 537 users. The report found as of November, 27 percent of the 120 million adult Internet users in the U.S. read blogs, up from 17 percent recorded only 9 months earlier. This means that by the end of 2004, approximately 32 million Americans were blog readers. In terms of authorship, Pew found 7 percent of online Americans, or 8 million people, have created a blog. That figure contrasts with the 3 percent who said they'd created a Web log in the spring of 2002, when Pew began asking about blog creation in its surveys. (See Graph at bottom of page.) The report drew conclusions about Blog creators: * Gender: 57 percent are male. * Age: 48 percent are under 30. * Connection Speed: 70 percent have broadband at home. * Internet veterans: 82 percent have been online six years or more. * Income: 42 percent live in households earning over $50,000 annually. * Education: 39 percent have college or graduate degrees The "conversational" dynamic of blogs also seems to be catching on. According to the study, 12 percent of American Internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. This represents a total of 14 million Americans -- a threefold increase from April 2003, when Pew first began inquiring about contributing to other's blogs. While the Pew data don't explicitly indicate it, Rainey attributes the surge in blog creation and readership primarily to the fact 2004 was an election year with a sharply divided electorate. "The election year drew awareness to political blogs, which then spilled over into other areas," Rainey said. His insight is substantiated by other statistics on the blogosphere showing a spike in blog activity during January's Iowa caucuses, when Howard Dean's infamous "scream" became a top download. Other top-blogged events included the beheading of American civilian Nicholas Berg in May; the political conventions in July and August; the Kryptonite lock controversy in September; and Election Day, when political blogs averaged roughly a 130 to 200 percent traffic increase. Capping the year tragically, the number of blogs referencing this month's southeast Asian tsunami catastrophe is likely to yield the largest spike in blog activity to date, Rainey said. Finally, the Pew study found six million (5 percent) Americans online consume news and information through RSS or XLM aggregators, a trend that Rainey expects will grow in 2005 and beyond. "If you're looking at the future," Rainey said, "the number of people who read information online through RSS feeds is going to continue to proliferate. Because there are only 24 hours in a day, and the amount of information sources are multiplying online, it raises the question of how this will change the way people learn and spend their time. Will people become more insular, filtering out information and perspectives they do not agree with? Our initial finding is that the opposite is true, that people tapping these new online sources are getting a wider variety of information, not less. But it's too early to say."

Tags: blogs | traffic | web statistics | stats

Spiders, Crawlers and Indexes

2006-02-19T22:50:00.000Z

Spiders Crawlers and Indexers!

Indepth info on search spiders and how they index your page. The focus is on increasing your sites rankings and visibility on the major search engines.

Search Engine Spiders:

Infoseek (go.com) Sidewinder ,
Altavista Scooter,
Lycos T-Rex,
Excite Architext,
WebCrawler Excites Architext,
Google Backrub or GoogleBot
Northern Light Northern Lights Gulliver
Site Directories: Looksmart, Snap, Yahoo, (ODP).

Spiders: IP Addresses A large listing of search engine spider ip address. Also some followup pages that include search engine ip blocks and names.

We also have setup a sub-message board in our Support Forum to discuss spider issues. There is no cost, and is advertising free.