XFactor’s Forum is Permanently Closed

by Bo on September 1, 2010

Who would’ve thought this day would come? I’m really saddened by this. XFactor‘s private forum was one of the only few forums with real information for Adsense publishers. That was the only forum I visited every single day religiously, and now it’s gone because of some random jerk :(

The forum is permanently closed due to a legal issue I have been dragged into between a 3rd party seller and a 3rd party buyer of several websites that were advertised on this forum. Between this and many other member problems behind the scenes since the forum opened a year ago, it has totally soured my enthusiasm to continue a discussion group in any fashion from this point on. It essentially boils down to one member of the forum who paid another member thousands of dollars for some websites. The buyer never received his websites and went on a severe rampage on me personally, because he claimed since it was ‘my forum’ then I should be responsible. He then got a lawyer with a cease and desist involved, and its just too much stress for me to handle. This has become a very disheartening situation because the forum was designed to help people, not create personal liabilities due to the actions of others.

I don’t know where to find back those wonderful members of the private forum. I wish we had an alternative forum for XFactor’s Adsense Masters Course members.

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Leaving Rack0 Hosting

by Bo on September 1, 2010

I’ve been using Rack0 hosting for few of my niche websites on a popular reseller package for some time.  Last week their servers were hacked and everything got wiped out including all of my sites and databases.  I couldn’t retrieve anything.  They didn’t even have  a backup.  I really liked Rack0 because of their fast customer service, but I’ve decided to take my business else where. SingleHop hosting has been great for my business for many many years. They are getting another account from me this week. :)

Because my sites were built with WordPress, I didn’t have backups of the databases on my PC.  It was a great reminder to regularly backup your WordPress databases for events like this.

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Aweber.com is Down

August 13, 2010

I just noticed Aweber.com is down.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen it go down without any kind of notice to its users.  I’m little frustrated because I need to schedule an email which has to go out in 3 hours.  I can’t stay awake all night long!  My friend just told me that GetReponse.com [...]

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RSS2HTML Slows Down Your Website

July 24, 2010

RSS2HTML has been one of my most favorite free scripts for very long time. I used to use the script on many of our sites to display RSS feeds using keywords. Just recently, I noticed that one of my sites was doing 5-7 sec loading time on average. First I thought the site was slow [...]

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How I Fixed “Can’t find the ‘commentformid’ div.” Error

July 13, 2010

After installing WP Thread Comment plugin on this blog my previous blog, but it wasn’t working properly. Whenever I clicked “reply” it popped up an error message saying “Can’t find the ‘commentformid’ div. What the hell? So I played with the plugin setting for about 5 minutes and found an easy solution. Here is how [...]

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Google Ranking Update – Niche Marketing, Niche Marketing Blog

July 12, 2010

Surprise! Finally my blog started appearing on the 1st page of Google again for “niche marketing” as #10 result. My blog is currently #1 for “niche marketing blog” but it was on the 2nd page for “niche marketing” for very long time. I remember ranking #3 for “niche marketing” and #1 for “niche marketing forum” [...]

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Why Choosing a High-Paying Keyword is “Still” Important for Adsense

July 9, 2010

As promised, I will share with you a case study which explains why choosing a high-paying keyword is still important when it comes to Adsense. In my last post, I explained how a 1 page website generated thousands of dollars for me with small traffic. Not only that, but it also generated one of the [...]

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How a 54 Word, 1 Page Website Generated Over $2389.36 with Adsense

July 5, 2010

In this post, I want to prove my point that micro-niche sites still do work and it is still a great way to make money online. Since I started building micro-niche websites, I saw people arguing back and forth whether micro-niche sites are dead or not. I really didn’t care about what people think. I [...]

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$1 Hosting?

June 29, 2010

In today’s post, I’d like to introduce to you Dynadot, a domain registration company that offers $1 hosting. I’ve been using Dynadot for many many years for all of my domain registrations. Now I get bulk domain pricing because I spend so much money there. But that’s not the point of this post. I want [...]

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Why FIFA Related Keywords Are Hot Right Now

June 24, 2010

In my last blog post “Top Three Events in 2010” I mentioned that FIFA 2010 will gain huge search queries. Guess what? USA has advanced out of group C today. It was an amazing game. Everyone thought USA had little chance of advancing, but Landon Donovan made a goal during the injury-time, giving the U.S. [...]

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