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  1. Sharksfan

    Data manipulation

    So I'm up late tonight for my real job running a data migration from an old system to a new system. I'm doing a test run of a migration of a total 12,000,000 or so records. I've been doing this kind of work for far too long and I've gotten really, REALLY good at manipulating data. So - just...
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    Civilian to soldier to deployment photo essay

    I found this fascinating: Captured Photo Collection Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos
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    CNAME issue

    Okay so...I have a CNAME issue I think I bought a domain on namecheap and have the DNS set up elsewhere. On the host I added a CNAME record with the alias as www (no dot) and the server name as @ which is valid in every example I've seen on here and elsewhere. Does that take time to...
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    2009 World Market report on...

    ...nearly anything you might want. The price is a bit steep - $795 - but if you are geo-targeting that's probably worth it since it is segmented by city (not aff links): Amazon.com: The 2009 Report on world market: Books My favorite: Amazon.com: The 2009 Report on Sex Toys: World Market...
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    How long for Namecheap DNS updates?

    I used namecheap for the first time (good stuff!) and bought some domains. I updated the DNS and after 24 hours I didn't see the update in WHOIS information, etc. Now - another day later - no change still. The domain routes to namecheap's standard "This is a new site" page. I double checked it...
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    The definitive answer for "What is a good niche for newbies"?

    I had the same question of course....if you can't manage to figure out a niche - do this. I swear I did this non-stop for like two months - and I still do it now. It keeps me thinking at a minimum. No one is going to give you an answer - why? Not because they are greedy - but because there...
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    Who clicks ads? Good read...

    Source article is here: I'm not pasting the article in due to the tables, etc, not looking good but here's an excerpt:
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    VPS

    Okay - I am ready to move from crappy shared hosting to a VPS - I started to do this before and it ended poorly - long story - moral of the story is "don't trust your friend who can totally host anything".... That said - I've seen various ads in here for a VPS. I am intimately familiar with...
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    Financial/Business Content Writer available

    Hi all - My brother just registered on WF after I referred him here. He is an insurance agent who's recently out of college and looking to augment his income doing financial, etc, article writing. He is US born and bred (upper Midwest) college educated, etc. He's currently working on his...
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    Sharksfan Update

    Okay, so I haven't posted much for a while. There's a reason. I quit reading and started doing. And what do you know...I got my cherry popped. I made a few bucks actually. I still come here and read when I have SPECIFIC questions - but otherwise I have been DOING. Right now I am up...
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    JV with Ad Networks and website owners

    I have a friend with a fairly high volume website. 163,000 unique visitors a year and 38,000,000 hits a year. That's roughly 438 unique visitors/day with 104,000 page views/day. And yes, he's sent me his actual stats so I believe him. His site is VERY under-monetized. He makes somewhere...
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    Getting into the EPN

    I am having a LOT of trouble getting into the Ebay Partner network. I read the stickied post above regarding the Auction2Post plugin -and also read the thread mentioned within there about various tricks to use to get accepted. So far I've been up against a wall - nothing has worked. I just...
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    WP Hack attempt?

    I was looking at statpress logs on a wordpress site of mine tonight and saw this "page visited" link: forum=-99999/**/UNION/**/SELECT/**/concat(0x7c,user_login,0x7c,user_pass,0x7c)/**/FROM/**/wp_users/* I tried viewing that URL on my website and it doesn't return results from MySQL...
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    SENuke?

    I did a bunch of searching around the forums but I haven't seen any specific comments on this tool. Anyone have any opinions? I am starting to get traction helping small businesses promote themselves online (aka the Local thread...) and a guy in California I was talking to was using it. Any...
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    Single tooth whitening domain for sale

    www.blancoteeth.com - ie, in spanish - white teeth. Never been used - I decided I am not going to go after rebills so...that's that. The domain is up for grabs to the first decent offer.
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    I need to buy a lawn mower

    Stick with it to the end before you flame me. This is going somewhere. And it's 100% factual. I'm dropping $17K on landscaping on the new house this week. The guy tells me I'll need to start mowing in a couple weeks. I really need to find a lawn mower. I have 2.5 acres of grass coming in...
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    Website valuation as a corporate asset?

    I know this is a little off topic but then again I know a lot of the AM crowd around here has worked as SEO types for companies. I am an owner in a company. I've been doing a lot of SEO stuff for our small company lately for the product lines we work with. Last time I checked I had 3 of the...
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    How to double meta refresh (affiliate cloak linking).

    I had to learn this today so I thought I'd explain how it works in newbie talk. Keep in mind this is explained elsewhere but if you REALLY are new to this whole thing this should help you a bit more. Double meta refresh both... hides your referred cloaks your links Here's how to do it...
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    Landing Page review please

    I have been trying to do more and read less. I have some PPC credits and I want to throw them at a few different offers, including the one on this page: Car seat installation made easy | Great Products All the Time Please be gentle - it's my first one. Second thought - don't be gentle. I...
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    Advice needed for niche site

    I have a niche site doing product reviews for some higher end brand name appliances. I have an affiliate offer for these via CJ. Here's the problem - the domain has the manufacturer name in it. This was my first site I did out of the gate doing AM and I didn't know that you weren't supposed to...