If you want to get an idea where some ideas for scams are hatched, look no further than the nightly news. The biggest stories are the best fodder for scammers. Last year when gas prices soared to over $4 a gallon, it was a huge story. Soon thereafter, ads for water for gas started to [...]
Ah, Google. Can’t live without ‘em, but it’s hard to defend ‘em, too. Scams are rampant online, and Google is the biggest ad delivery system online. They take a lot of heat for playing a part in the machine of online scams.
There are no Myspace trackers that are very good. Most of them work as follows:
You insert a code into your page title. This code actually displays a hidden image hosted on the tracker’s machine. The tracker grabs the IP address and tells you that someone visited your page at a certain time. It is up [...]
Link building is still the lifeblood of a website’s success. Here are a few ideas to kick around that might help you get started in your link building efforts.
1. Build a “Top 10″ or “101″ list related to your site and submit it to Digg
2. Create an article debunking myths on your site’s topic
3. Send [...]
Aside from blogs by experts or celebrities, have you noticed that the most successful blogs are the ones focusing on how to create successful blogs? And so many of them all say the same things, too. It seems there is a huge network of blogs that are popular because they tell people how to be [...]
I thought it might be a good idea to keep a simple updated list of the sites I believe are scams or misleading in some way, most of which I have either seen advertising on sites such as Facebook or Myspace.com, or are sites that I have found related to or linked to from these [...]
After my first posting about a phony ad I saw on Myspace yesterday, I thought I would be done with it. But then today I noticed a very similar ad, with similar promises. When I went to the site, it was all similar. Too similar.
Not only that, but it boasted the SAME check that “Kevin” [...]
Here is the code for hiding your Myspace comments, without any ads or images included in the code (as 99% of the sites out there will do).
Simply copy the code below and paste it anywhere in the “I’d Like To Meet” section of your profile.
There are of course ways to still view your comments, but [...]
It was Fall 2001. And before the World of Warcraft, there was Everquest, at the time it was THE online game of choice.
I never really used the Everquest test servers, but I heard talk of a new feature coming out called an MPC, or Monster Player Character. “Project M” it was called. As I recall, [...]
I’ve discussed ways to overcome addiction to the World of Warcraft, but in that article I only briefly touched on the reasons why people become addicted. I will look into that further here.
Different people get addicted for different reasons, but there are some common causes that exist in the appeal of the game.
Because first-hand knowledge [...]