| LED Digest 1880: UK Google Anomaly |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" pair Networks: The LED's Web Host Hosting and Domain Reg. from a Trusted Leader pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam,led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com ............................................... October 12, 2004 Issue #1880 ............................................... .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Anti-Virus Software? ==-- ~ Steven Rothberg "I look at anti-virus software like I look at my city's mayor..." ~ Stephen Mareches "I know of at least one instance where...Norton could detect but not fix and AVG saved the day." --== Alternatives to Authorize.Net ==-- ~ Dejan Bizinger "I can suggest you a service from 2CheckOut." ~ Richard Stubbings "You owe a duty of care to your customers to look after their credit card details." ==== BILLBOARD =================== --== UK Google Anomaly ==-- ~ Dirk van der Werff ===== CONTINUING ================================= From: Steven Rothberg Subject: Anti-virus > Does anyone know a good anti-virus program that > will just permanently delete the infected messages > and tell me it deleted viruses. - Stu Langley, LED 1878 I also use Norton. I use the Anti-Virus Professional version and also have anti-virus protection from my email hosting company. I suppose it is sort of like wearing two condoms. With both the anti-virus software from Norton that I run on my PC and the software that runs at my email hosting company, I've changed the defaults so that viruses are silently deleted. Like Stu, I don't see any advantage to interrupting my work flow just to be informed that software that I purchased is doing its job. I look at anti-virus software like I look at my city's mayor: if I don't hear about him, then he must be doing a good job. Steven Rothberg The Highest Traffic Job Board for Students & Grads http://www.collegerecruiter.com ------- new post - same topic ------- From: Stephen Mareches Subject: Anti-virus Stu, this should be just the ticket: AVG AntiVirus you can visit their site at www.grisoft.cz You'll want to find the English button unless you speak Czech... AVG does the email thing, and when buggies come in they are quarantined and you're given an alert. Then later you can go delete the file or if you want to keep the file AVG can "heal" it. Also has an auto update scheduler. Easy to set up and it has worked great for everyone I know who uses it. I know of at least one instance where a machine was infected, Norton could detect but not fix and AVG saved the day. Stephen Mareches, Web Consultant Sophia Solutions www.sophiasolutions.net ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Dejan Bizinger Subject: CC merchants > This article explains the DDoS attack that is ongoing against > Authorize.Net. http://snipurl.com/9dss [wired.com] > [I am] interested in finding an alternative arrangement > for [my] credit card payment processing. - Martha Retallick, LED 1874 Martha, I can suggest you a service from 2CheckOut www.2checkout.com They are one of the most used service for accepting credit card payments. They have a good reputation and their fees are acceptable. Another, good solution that I know is iBill http://www.ibill.com HTH, Best regards, Dejan Bizinger, Web Producer My CV: http://dejan.bizinger.biz ------- new post - same topic -------- From: Richard Stubbings Subject: CC merchants > ... when Authorize.net came back online, I simply processed > the charges that were missed... If your business relies on any > payment gateway... don't be a victim of their downtime, solve > the problem on your end. - Edward Wimmer, LED 1875 Be very very careful doing this. You owe a duty of care to your customers to look after their credit card details. Any screen or form used to collect credit card details must be encrypted, preferably using a secure SSL server. Credit card details should not really be stored on a database unless you have state of the art firewalls, good encrypted data, and up to date security patches on your server. If you fail to do any of this you could lose your merchant account, at the very least, and you could also be fined / charged excessive fees by your merchant provider if a hacker penetrated your system and stole the card information. It is also possible that your merchant service provider prohibits you from doing this in your contract. Indeed they may spell out in explicit detail the level of security you need to implement before they will allow you to store credit card info on a database. In my case I do indeed have my own payment gateway. It is on my SSL server, it encrypts and sends the credit card details to me encrypted. I then PRINT them and erase them. I have yet to find a hacker who can hack into a locked paper filling cabinet! Richard Stubbings Kulture Shock http://www.kultureshock.co.uk ==== BILLBOARD =================================== From: Dirk van der Werff Subject: UK Google anomaly Hello LEDers! My new website at http://www.plants-magazine.com/ has been live for 8 weeks now. For the particular keywords 'plants' , 'rare plants' , 'new plants' , 'garden plants' 'new garden plants' I have been in the top 10 on Google virtually since it began. I have also been in the top ten (and often top) in the uk version of the site www.google.co.uk Since my revamp (keeping the same meta tags even though, due to a mistake years ago, the descriptive and keyword tags are switched around), the main Google site has kept Plants magazine in pretty much the same places. In the UK version of the search engine, the site and many pages is cataloged, but doesn't appear for any of the search phrases in the first 20 pages? What gives? I can't figure it and received just a stock answer when I sent an e-mail to Google... it can't be a natural 'churn' - can it? In case it helps you, I have had http://www.plants-magazine.co.uk pointed to the main site for many years too , but I presume this would be advantageous in a UK serach engine / directory ... does anyone else have an insight into why I seem to be doing so bad in the UK version of Google - and what I may be able to do. many thanks Dirk van der Werff, Editor / Publisher dirk, plants-magazine.com ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by pair Networks: pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains Copyright 1995-2004 Adam Audette. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world." - Bertha von Suttner |
