Just a heads up that jZip software should be avoided at all costs. This freeware or shareware program by Bandoo Media Inc. loads the nasty searchqu toolbar and malware into your system. It is a major pain to remove.

We contacted jZip and Bandoo directly but to no resolve and note their homepage falsely indicates no spyware or adware will be loaded. It is sad when companies purchase start-up software companies in an effort or as a means to infect the general public. One can only suspect that this in turn will create sales by forcing users to buy spyware software to fix problems.

This one time popular free zip and unzipping software should be avoided and be diligent in checking out what you are putting on your PC that claims to be free.

We recommend you stick with winzip or there are a few other free zipping or compression tools available on-line that are good at the time of this writing.

GoDaddy just incorporated a $5.99 domain registration for new .com’s.  Use the coupon code 50MILLION at time of checkout and it was introduced as a result of this new milestone reached by GoDaddy.   Enter coupon code when checking out or emptying your shopping cart.

$7.49 Promo Code  works for renewals and extending your existing registrations. Lock in your savings.  Domain Sale! $7.49 .com at GoDaddy

Other codes which work are cjc795dom for $7.95 domain renewals for .com domains.  If you have any others which WORK drop us a note.

Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.

Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Sabre is one solution which will stop these robotized visitors!

List of available features:

Inclusion of a captcha in the registration form
Selection of the captcha’s complexity
Selection of the background colour for the captcha image
Inclusion of a math test in the registration form
Selection of the math test’s complexity
Inclusion of a text test in the registration form
Random or fixed choice of the test to run
Unobstrusive tests to detect if registration is done by humans or not
Registration blocked if Javascript is unsupported by the browser
Registration blocked if visitor’s IP address is found on ban lists
The site administrator can validate the user registration (monosite only)
The user can validate his registration by clicking on a link sent by mail (monosite only)
Limited number of days for user confirmation. Without being confirmed within the period of time, the user account is disabled (monosite only)
Log on prohibited before user confirmation (monosite only)
User is allowed to choose his password when registering on the site (monosite only)
User must agree with a warning text, disclaimer or general policy note when registering
User must give an invitation code during registration
Main statistics displayed on the site’s dashboard
Custom logo on logon/registration screen (monosite only)

All these features are activated by parameters. Thus, Sabre is flexible enough and fits the protection policy you define for your blog. Here is a link to this free plugin.

If you are looking for a free audio editor, our choice is Audacity. It like any freeware platform has bugs but it is a great choice for those starting out.

Here is a link Free Audio Editor and Recorder.

Some promotional information on the Point and Click Squeeze tool which makes creating a squeeze page quick and easy.

“Point And Click”
Easy Squeeze Page Template…

It is a super high-converting squeeze page template which looks both professional AND which requires NO WORK on your part WHATSOEVER.

… In fact, the software does everything for you!

Just point and click a mouse, and within minutes you’ll be creating professional looking squeeze pages which inhale new subscribers to build your list like wildfire!

If you are looking for a point and click squeeze page tool we recommend this product.>>> Click HERE

As a result we began on a quest to find a suitable replacement. We needed something that would advise of our search engine rank position for specific keywords in our niche. During this search we found a program called Traffic Travis and it has been around for several years.

Many may or may not have heard about Traffic Travis SEO Tools but we think it is top notch and we have moved over to this new FREE software SEO Tool.

You can check it out and download it at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/traffictravisdomainpro

If you want to learn more about this niche or product here is the site link: ClickBank Gamers

The second ClickBank offer circulating lately involves using coupons to make revenue online. Here is more information and we will let you know what we think after we evaluate it.

Click Here!

3D Cartoon Animation, Industry-Leading 3D Modeling / Animation / Game Design Software Used By Animation Studios and Home Users Worldwide.

• An easy to use interface that does not overlap or block elements

• Fully customizable window layout – You can configure any amount of screen types with custom themes.

• Undo easily at any level – Make changes to your mistakes with one-touch!

• Fast loading with minimum system specs. Interface loads up in seconds.

• Simple one-click rendering and modeling options.

• Open and work on multiple windows and multiple projects.

• A powerful in-build database system with quick access to all features!
• Plus 300 hours of videos and tutorials included with IllusionMage.

IllusionMage – The Complete 3D Animation Software Suite for further details Click Here!

This fantastic tool for web developers will help cut corners and save you time.  I have literally spent hours trying to get all the colors exactly right and this free tool will save you hours of messing with trying to match HTML color codes.

It is extremely simple and allows you to use a tool, Sniff which is a color picker which when placed over any portion of a website will provide you the actual color code you can use to fill a background for an affiliate posting in a sidebar image or use when developing your own website pages just selecting colors.

Here is the link to his website:  http://fabienwang.com/projects/cpicksniff

Here is the description of the product: CPickSniff is a color picker and sniffer, which means it can tell you any color code of a color appearing on your screen, in any window.

This little app will show you the decimal code of a color, the Red Green and Blue values, and the most useful, the hexadecimal code as used in web development (i.e. #FF0000 for Red). Moreover, you can put a decimal or web color code and it will show you the color.

It all started on a cold winter day in November, when we referred a personal client to sign up for a PayPal business or premier account. After providing our client the merchant referral link which in itself is very challenging to locate, they gladly signed up as we provide SEO Services and other online support to this large organization.

After completing sign up, their first transaction was over $1000…which met the #2 criteria (has to be over $200 and not eBay related).  Needless to say at some point we expected to see some sort of indication from PayPal that we had in fact gained a referral. Weeks passed so we attempted to navigate the PayPal maze to discover whom we should talk to about a merchant referral.  After many painful attempts using their web-form inquiry contact sheet and their standard  boilerplate responses, we opted to call. Well, it did not get any better….25 minutes on hold, a  complete re-hashing of all our past emails we were finally directed to yet another agent.  So far, three layers and no answers. Finally an agent agreed to take it up with technical support…their response “the link we provided has never been clicked or used”.   We know the end user, we provided the link, an account was set-up, we met all the criteria and boom nothing in return.  This really stings and stinks!  How many other clients have we sent them without any benefit?  There is zero transparency or controls in place when it comes to these types of affiliate programs and one has to wonder how many millions of dollars are being syphoned from web masters like you and me.

PayPal Merchant Referral Program receives a score of 1 out of 10. It is without a doubt the worst affiliate program in the marketplace. Their customer service for Merchant Referrals  also scores a lowly 1 0ut of 10, primarily because they do not have it as an option on their web-form and their agents are unable to provide assistance directly to affiliates. Lastly, there is no transparency or trust.

I have often wondered what encourages someone to register a domain name, build a website and create a forum ( www.paypalsucks.com ) to slam a corporate entity but after our experience it no longer seems that far fetched.

Has anyone else had a good, worse or similar experience … kindly fill us in as I truly hope this is an isolated incident. Sometimes articles or blog posts like these force corporations like PayPal to revisit their processes and do affect change. Let’s hear your story!

Optimize Your Images

Many people, including me, neglect to address this or forget about this task when we add images to our sites. Every image you add to a blog post, is an opportunity to capture traffic from the search engines.

However, since the search engines still fail at image recognition, you have to help them by indicating what’s on the image. You start doing that with the post wording or content around the image and with the alt and, to a lesser degree, the title tag.

The content in the alt tag should describe what the image is about, and it can’t hurt to add a keyword or two in that description. It’s also perfectly fine to have an alt tag that is longer than 3 words!

Search engines build libraries of images and having your images correctly labeled in this inventory is just another way to secure free traffic.

If you are already using some of these babies give us your professional opinion.

COOL internet tools:

#3 – Gmail via Webhost – To improve deliveries to our contact list or all our readers we use Gmail!

So info@domainprotege.com for example is actually delivered directly through my Gmail account. An added bonus is all emails are saved, stored and are easily disseminated anytime and on-line. Got to love it.
http://mail.google.com

#4 – Google Reader – Google Reader enables you to quickly and efficiently access all the websites we follow and read. You can also post topics to the social networks in the click of a button.  What normally could take an hour is wrapped up in 15 minutes and it allows me to stay on top of what is happening in the marketplace!
http://www.google.com/reader

Visit our previous post for the #1 and #2 or the first two internet resources we listed…more tools to follow.

Here are some things you can do to get recognized:

1. Submit your site to the search engines. This usually flags the engine to crawl your site.  For Google here is the submission link  Google AddURL or Submit
2. Build some social contacts using blinklist.com, furl.net, stumbleupon.com etc.
3. Add your site to aboutus.org and there are many others…these instantly create back-links to your site and will help Google and other search engines expedite the indexing of your webpage.  www.statbrain.com is another…after you enter your URL or domain you should notice the link to your site at the top of the page. This is good!

For a complete list of social media sites and link building sites we use for each new website start-up please subscribe and we will forward the report.

There is a good chance you are already using some of these babies and maybe some which are not quite as familiar. Please drop us a comment or note if you have any other tools that you find useful. We know our readers would love to hear about them as well.

Internet tools:

1. Google Keyword Tool – This tool is key for anything you do online. We use it frequently to find what are the keywords that could be optimized better for our website and also to monitor what is happening with the market trends
Google Keyword Tool

2. Skype – This is a super cost effective way to communicate with users, consultants, contractors or whatever you might use in your online business. It is free and simple to use.
http://www.skype.com/

Stay tuned or subscribe to keep current with our posts. We will be adding more tools regularly.

https://www.dropbox.com/

Having a secure on-line location which permits manual or automatic sync with certain folders is an excellent productivity tool for internet people on the move. If you use different pc’s or devices then this organizational tool is a must.

Pros:

• Free 2GB.
• Web interface to upload and access files.
• Multi Platform Support – Mac, Windows, Linux Compatible
• Allows sharing of files.
• Easy to use
• Offers a mobile application for iPhone and Android.

Cons:

• No Blackberry application available.
• Mobile applications limited in functionality.