Search Domination Challenge - A competition and a challenge!

You may have noticed my posts have slowed down a bit over the last month or so.

This is because I have been spending a lot of time writing a book on Search Engine Optimisation and Web 2.0 services. The book is to be called Search Domination Challenge.

In fact most of my posts in July were made as part of my research for this book. I took on Auction Profits Unleashed as a product to promote and tested a lot of Web 2.0 methods for getting results in the search engines. I also did some testing on Auto Auction Income and on Standing Start Profits.

Does this all start to make sense now? The results themselves as posted here also became part of the data.

In the book, I go into detail on the methods I used to gain these first page search engine results and more. In order to be all-inclusive, I also go into the practice of On-page SEO, but a lot of the meat is on leveraging the right Web 2.0 services to lend authority to your search optimised pages.

But Search Domination Challenge is intended to be more than just a book. I like the principles behind Open Source and the user experience of Web 2.0, so I never set out to create a "static" book. It will be published in digital format and invites questions, comments, and suggestions which will be integrated into various revisions over time. I want the owners of the book to be a community and my ambition for it is to become the Web 2.0 users' bible for search engine optimisation.

I have invested months of long hours and late nights in this book to give the reader the best value possible. It is definitely not "another ebook". I'll leave the sales copy to the professionals, but I wanted to introduce the book in a way that demonstates the ethos behind it. Hence the "competition and a challenge" of the post title!

Go to http://searchdominationchallenge.com/ to see an unusual approach to introducing a book to market. Enter the competition there.

The winners, and there will be a good few, will get the book free. You will get it before the book launch and will be able to use the techniques in the book to promote it during prelaunch as a full Joint Venture partner. I don't believe an internet marketing opportunity like this has ever been thrown open to all comers. Prelaunch is normally the exclusive domain of the established "gurus".

The competition also gives all entrants the opportunity to stretch their SEO talents and get search engine placements established in advance of launch. I'm hoping you can earn good affiliate income on sales of the book by having this advance notice.

So what are you waiting for? Click Search Domination Challenge anywhere in this post and grab your chance now!

The return address refused the email

I recently started a thread on Emails and Spam on the Standing Start Profits forum. One post to the thread required a reply that I think you may find valuable here.

 

"Something weird happened to me last night. I got an email from a friend with a picture embedded in the email. My ISP, Charter, won't allow embedded pictures, so they must be attached.

When I attached it and sent it to 10 friends, it got sent back to me with the following message, "the return address refused the email." Well, I was the return address. Charter had accepted the email with the picture 10 minutes before I sent it off.

Since it was a picture of 12 Nuns standing in a line, holding rifles, and the caption was "The 12 Virgins waiting in Heaven for the terrorists are not what they expect," I presume there's a filter concerning rifles or something. I emailed them but no answer."

 

After I had finished laughing at the terrorists getting their reward in heaven, I addressed the issue which is a lot more serious than Pat, the Standing Start Profits member, thought!

 

 

ISPs can choose their filtering mechanisms to suit their market. Charter is geared towards family use and they offer parental control software. This would suggest they would use a strict set of rules on spam determination.

 

The rejection of return address is about to become a very common problem. I was queried a while back on a clients email being rejected this way. He was using a google mail account, but his ISP was btinternet. The receiving mail server was trying to verify with the sending server belonging to btinternet "do you verify the existence of this mail account on your server?". (I am loosely translating into english 'cos you really do not want to read through this the way servers actually talk to each other!)

 

Of course, the btinternet server could only answer that "no, I cannot verify existence of sender@gmail.com on this server" and the mail was rejected with the message "the return address refused the email". 

 

This is a big move in the way emails are being handled and, as usual, the end users will be the last to know about it! AOL introduced this sytem nearly two years ago and were hammered in internet forums over unrouted mails. Microsoft (read MSN and Hotmail) had a deadline for introduction in November last year, and Yahoo!, EarthLink and Verizon, and others will be introducing this filter in the very near future.

 

It would be nice to be able to say that there is an easy fix for this but no, when the big ISPs got together to agree a standard implementation, they actually came away with a more splintered approach than when they started.

 

Rules for now: Always send mail through the SMTP server that owns the account in the reply to box. In other words, you@btinternet.com if you are using the btinternet mail servers as ISP. you@yourdomain.com only if you have set the outgoing mail server to be mail.yourdomain.com.

 

Many users will end up being bounced back and forth between ISP and hosting provider over this. Transporting mail has an overhead cost on a server and to avoid this many hosting providers recommend to their clients that they set their outgoing mail server to that of their ISP. If you were told to do this, change it now!

 

I bet you didn't think your post was very serious, Pat! :lol:

 

Social Bookmarking Experiments

Take a look at the posts for Auction Profits Unleashed - these are part of a social bookmarking experiment by the products author, Lee McIntyre. In an email 5 days ago he said: "The doors will swing open on Monday 16th July at 1pm EST. This is a HUGE opportunity for those that move fast... There are almost no results in Google for Auction Profits Unleashed or Lee McIntyre despite the fact that the term must be getting nailed right about now. And I've locked out the 'big boys' giving YOU the chance to grab a big slice of the pie for once." The results are starting to come in and they are mind blowing! ... A Squidoo Lens I created under the name IanP is ranked at #3 in Google for the term "auction profits unleashed" and a Digg for the same lens is ranked at #5! Secret Growth Publishing is an articles blog of mine and ranks at #8. My sales site for Auction Profits Unleashed http://www.auction-profits-unleashed.com/ is at No. 1 in Yahoo!, AltaVista and Lycos, No.2 in Dogpile (after a sponsored result for "profit"). This is not bad at all after only 5 days mixing in... Another social bookmarking experiment is under way at "Make Money With Kassper". Kassper is holding a contest in which he is giving out a lot of linky love for anyone who writes a short post or a review of his site. All you have to do in the post is link ONCE to his blog which is all about Blogging Tips on how to Make Money Online and link ONCE to any of his posts. This is my favorite: Get In The Google Top 10 - Post Title Optimization. In return you will get more than 50 backlinks to your blog. We live in interesting times....

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WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!

Had a nice bit of regular work to do today - MailScanner Logwatch reported:

 

    WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
    WARNING: Local version: 0.90.2 Recommended version: 0.90.3
    DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq

 

Now I don't believe the information provided at the ClamAV support FAQ is very clear for users with a mailscanner setup, so I thought I might give a quick tutorial here.

 

First of all go to http://clamav.net and download the latest stable ClamAV distribution. While the development releases are available via svn, unfortunately, you have to go to sourceforge.net to get the production quality releases. Download the tar-ball from Sourceforge (clamav-0.90.3.tar.gz in this case). If your server is not local you will have to upload this tar-ball via ftp a directory on your server.

 

1. The first job is to back up your configuration files - I stick the copies in the backup folder for convenience,

cp /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf /backup/clamd.conf

cp /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf /backup/freshclam.conf

 

2. In the directory in which you placed the tar-ball, you need to expand the distribution,

tar -xzf clamav-xxx.tar.gz (the xxx is replaced by the version of the distribution 0.90.3 here giving tar -xzf clamav-0.90.3.tar.gz)

 

3. Go into the expanded directory and run the install,

cd clamav-xxx (this version cd clamav-0.90.3)

./configure --disable-zlib-vcheck (parameters are not always needed - include them just in case)

make

make install

 

4. Copy your configuration files back,

cp /backup/clamd.conf /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf

cp /backup/freshclam.conf /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf

 

5. (If you are using the perl clamav module (that would be unusual with a mailscanner install), update it now

/scripts/perlinstaller --force Mail::ClamAV) Otherwise, run freshclam to get up to date definitions,

freshclam

 

6. Restart MailScanner,

service MailScanner restart

 

You logwatch will report the outdated warning one more time as it appears to give the version details from the last time it was run (at the top, it states "Date Range Processed: yesterday"), but after that you will only see the main.cvd and daily.inc status messages.

 

You might want to bookmark this post as version 0.91.0 is coming soon!! 

 

Have a virus free day!!