Is this real? I received the letter below in the mail. But because I develop websites and provide hosting I often get questions from clients about similar letters and emails. These offers are for real domain names that we own. Even though the domain names are immediately recognized, the fees and the name of the
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Scam Targets Web Designers – Updated May 2020
I got a simple email inquiry, however, it immediately looked like a scam. Here is the first email. First Contact Hello I’m Herbert do you offer website design for a new company and also if you do you accept credit cards? ThanksHerbert I replied simply with – Yes. You can pay with a credit
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How Agencies Create a New Client Termageddon Account Summer 2019
After obtaining your own Agency account from Termageddon visit your Dashboard. Mine looks like this after adding BlogWranglers to my Dashboard. As the Agent, you fill in the Initial Information as part of creating the account. The client can then edit this information to ensure that it is correct. After this initial information is added,
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Why You Need an Automated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
TLRL: Privacy laws are changing and I am not a lawyer. We use Termageddon to dynamically comply with the changing Privacy laws. Privacy Policies Did you know that European countries and now states in the United States are passing privacy protection laws? Some of these US laws allow citizens to sue businesses anywhere in the
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HTTPS: Do I need to switch from HTTP?
What are HTTPS and HTTP? HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP. Everyone on the web wants to be found. Search Marketers exist to help websites get found through a range of methods including better search rankings in Google. Image credit SearchEngineLand Many focus on the technical aspects of hunting down the hundreds of algorithm factors
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Inbound Marketing and Interruption Advertising
Will more and more brands become independent content creators rather than placing their ads around other people’s content? During the 37th Social Media Breakfast in Boston we heard some answers. The conversation covered a ranged of subjects including one of the Inbound Marketing tenants that says traditional advertising is based on interruption while Inbound Marketing
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Would You Let Google Sniff Your Packets?
Today a shocking invitation arrived from Google at my home. It has all the right buzz-words and features to appeal while allowing the reader to entirely miss what is going to happen. Here is the cover letter, including initial bribe offering. Notice the language. You were Chosen You represent people in your area Important research
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Distilled’s SearchLove Boston 2015
After five years, Distilled continues to bring interesting speakers and delegates to the Boston area to learn and share their love for search. I have been attending this conference since the days when it was called the Pro SEO Seminar and continue to find great value in attending. LinkLove was good as well, but that
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Disk Full: How I recovered 22GB of Disk Space
Two years ago, when I bought my Mac Book Pro Retina, I over bought. The laptop has 16GB of RAM and the hard drive (250GB) was double what I currently was using. This past week operating system messages told me that I was out of storage. In fact the virtual machine in which I run a
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The Shark Tank Formula for Startup Success
Imagine that you have an amazing idea for an app that will change the way people share photos of their food. However, you don’t have the funding available to start developing your app nor do you have enough resources to hire a developer. Because of this, you feel stuck as an entrepreneur and begin to
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