| LED Digest 2395: Selling Domain Names |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" Data > Information > Knowledge > Wisdom www.GetWebContent.com/LED : the LED's Key Sponsor The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. April 24, 2007 Issue no. 2395 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ====== NEW ===================== <Moderator Comment> --== How to Sell Domains ==-- ~ Lyn Jolley "How and where is the easiest way to sell domain names?" --== SSL Certificates ==-- ~ Jon Langley "I want a low-cost but accepted SSL certificate." ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Blogs, RSS & Sitemaps [was: Platform...] ==-- ~ Michael Martinez "...now you can just create an XML sitemap and ping Google directly." <Moderator Comment> --== New Trends in Checkouts ==-- ~ John Barendrecht "Cookies are vulnerable to cross-site scripting." ~ John Smart "I need your card number to be able to get money from it. You type it in." ~ Gwen Chambers "Why aren't you storing your passwords on your Blackberry / PDA...?" =========== NEW ================================== <Moderator Comment> Greetings from the road... I'm traveling, so don't have a lot of time to work. But I wanted to publish a few of these interesting issues I've been reading about: First for some F.U.D. -- this blogger claims that Yahoo representatives told him his site was being penalized because low-quality sites were linking in. Here you go (read the comments for some feedback): http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/how-to... This "SEO Playbook" makes good reading: http://www.stuntdubl.com/2007/04/18/seo-playbook/ Sitemaps can now be autodiscovered through your robots.txt file, supported by all the major search engines (see my comment about this under Michael Martinez's post): http://blog.ask.com/2007/04/sitemaps_autodi.html A great way to perform keyword research is with PPC -- here's a post by Aaron on this technique: http://www.seobook.com/archives/002104.shtml Have a great week, Adam Comment? ------------------ From: Lyn Jolley Subject: Sale of domain names How and where is the easiest way to sell domain names? Lyn Jolley Comment? -------- new post - new topic --------- From: Jon Langley Subject: SSL Certificates [was: Checkouts...] I was wondering if I could ask for some advice. (Based on the account creation / Login topic.) So far, all SSL certificates on my sites are provided by a third party which I wasn't able to change. I am now looking at a different system where I can install my own ( http://www.aspdotnetstorefront.com ). These new people have suggested Comodo as a certificate. I have never heard of these people. I want a low-cost but accepted SSL certificate. Verisign or Thawte are the first ones to spring to mind, but what others do you all know about? Who would you recommend. I just went to a number of sites that I have bought things from, or looked at and not many of them have any certificates. Do you look for any of these? Have you ever thought about looking for these? Would it influence your decision? Do you just "See the Logo" and think nice... Or do you make a special effort to see "Which" certificate they have? eg, Verisign have about 6 different ones... Did you know that? Jon Langley Jons All Sorts Comment? ======== CONTINUING =============================== From: Michael Martinez Subject: Speeding search engine crawls > Blogs seem to get read by the search engines > much more often than ordinary web pages. - James Miller, LED Digest 2394 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1797/55/ It's the RSS feed. Your blog pings RSS distibution points and Google polls those services for recently updated RSS feeds. You can create a static RSS feed for a static Web site and get the same effect. Of course now you can just create an XML sitemap and ping Google directly. There are already a number of third-party XML sitemap generation tools (I have been using xml-sitemaps.com) that enable you to grab some or all of your pages and create XML sitemaps. Once you place these XML sitemap files on your site (you should check the files to be sure they only include URLs you want crawled), you can either tell Google Webmaster Central to grab the file or you can use these ping addresses (replace "www.example.com" with your domain or sub-domain"): [Replace "URL" with the full path to your sitemap] Ask: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=URL Google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=URL Yahoo!: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=URL I don't yet know of a ping address for Live Search. At some point, someone will write a script you can install on your own server to generate sitemaps on a schedule or as you publish content and then to ping the search engines. A lot of people may start doing this on their own. You can place a sitemap anywhere on your Web site, but it can only point to pages and directories branching out from the sitemap's own directory. Although search engines will respond to the sitemaps, there are no guarantees that crawled pages will be included in the indexes. In fact, I am sure that as people abuse these ping services the search engines will apply filters, penalties, check, balances, etc. Enjoy it while it lasts. Michael Martinez http://www.michael-martinez.com/ <Moderator Comment> A python script you can install on the server to generate sitemaps and ping Google automatically is right here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html You can set it up to run via a cron job. Set it and forget it -- just be sure to monitor the pages it's including (especially if you're running a CMS). Also, the major search engines have announced the end of submiting sitemaps: http://blog.ask.com/2007/04/sitemaps_autodi.html . They can now be autodiscovered by including a line in your robots.txt file. Google, Ask, Yahoo and MSN all support this now. Adam Comment? ============ Sponsor Message =========== GetWebContent.com has a few words just for you. Relevant words, search-engine optimized words. Words that will impress both your customers and visiting search engine bots. Exclusive words custom written to meet your specs. Many other writing services recycle web content, at http://GetWebContent.com/LED we create it. ============ Sponsor Message =========== -------- new post - new topic -------- From: John Barendrecht Subject: Checkout > ... the information you supply to any website is > stored on your computer, not theirs, in a cookie. - Robert Bassoff, LED Digest 2393 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1796/55/ My computer deletes all cookies on shutdown and "wipes" the free space. So, when I delete the cookie and go to their site and hit "forgot password" button, how can they email me my password? Psychics? > ... because your IP address is part of the encryption Bad news for people on AOL, dial up and others who have no permanent IP. From Miva: To work with your store data offline, you can conveniently export your customers & with multiple export utilities built into MIVA Merchant. Or from Jewelex: CartManager shall retain full ownership of all data submitted by either Merchant or Purchaser through the CartManager Shopping Cart including, but not limited to name, mailing and shipping address, email address, phone number... Most likely this stuff is in database not cookie. Cookies are vulnerable to cross-site scripting. > You can't get any charges reversed > just on your say-so. Actually, yes you can. I just did that 3 weeks ago. I asked if I would have to mail in the proof and he said "... if the merchant re-charges this item, I will need to see the receipts. So you should keep them." The last time I did this, 1983, I had to mail receipts. To paraphrase Gill Fernandez (LED 2393), the merchant is always "wrong." > You don't have to answer a million automated > questions till you get to a human. My bank is Canadian and the only automated question is which official language I want to be served in. Best regards, John Barendrecht Comment? -------- new post - same topic -------- From: John Smart Subject: Checkout > ... it is a requirement of having a merchants account with > any credit card company. When you provide your log-in > information it accesses the cookie on your own computer... - Robert Bassoff, LED Digest 2393 This is an interesting idea. So I shop at shopping.com, and enter my credit card number - which is placed into my cookie, and magically, their site gets my money? How could this work? I need your card number to be able to get money from it. You type it in. Why would I place it in a cookie back on your PC, a cookie is used for tracking things - I can see storing your cart contents in a cookie, but your credit card number? In fact, if I start bouncing your card number over the internet, I am putting you at risk, and also risking my privilege to take credit card orders! I think you are confusing this with Microsoft Wallet - which works in a similar way to what you describe, For credit card transactions though, you have to send your details to my site (or to the Authorize.net or other site if simple integration is being used). When you enter your card number, name and approval for amount, I send details to Authorize.net (or whoever) with some security items in it, and with: cardnumber,owners name, amount, address, exp date, cv2. Now, it is at my discretion what I do with that. If you have not created an account, I probably should just 'forget' those details (which is what my cart does) but I have no obligation to - I can store as many card details on my server as I am able to collect, and so long as I do not get hacked, no one will ever be any the wiser. I hope that helps to explain the concept. John Smart InternetDesign.com A Human Touch in a Digital world. Comment? -------- new post - same topic -------- From: Gwen Chambers Subject: Blackbook of Passwords Dear John, Pray tell... Why aren't you storing your passwords on your Blackberry / PDA -- the electronic "black book" compact enough to fit in your pocket. I don't even want to think about the angst you'd experience when and if your current black book is lost. If you lose the PDA, you'd at least have a backup of some / most of the info on your computer at home. To gain access to the millions of passwords stored on your PDA would require that someone knew your secret password to access the locked files on your electronic black book. Enjoy Life... Reduce the Stress Gwen Chambers HobbyMatch.com Comment? ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by GetWebContent.com The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. Free no-obligation proposal: http://GetWebContent.com/LED The Archives: http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/126/120/ Subscribe: http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/52/77/ Unsubscribe, Change Email, or Hold / Resume Delivery: http://www.led-digest.com/content/category/4/17/86/ (c) Copyright 1995-2007 Orange Wheel, LLC. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway." - Edward Abbey |
