I went to Rip Off Reports website and found the complaint. First, the person who filed the complaint called themselves Mr. R. I guess RipOffReports is not concerned with people having to give their information. I looked through ripoffreports scam of a website and found that they will not remove any information from their site even if they find out the information is incorrect.

Nice to know that the real scam is Rip Off Reports. At Geeks On Steroids if I find out information is incorrect I’ll remove it from my site.

Speak of the devil, tax authorities in the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Britain and Canada have built a web-spider called “Xenon” that looks for people earning unreported online income. From what they are saying it’s a lot easer to catch people online then off line.

The United States said that they were not part of “Xenon” but would neither confirm or deny rather they had a bot out doing the same thing.

The Whole Story

But the tide has turned, 20,000 emails had been mailed to Roselli calling him every name in the book. Mr. Roselli took the time to write back to every emailer and explain what it was he was trying to do and contacted some online bloggers to help get the facts straight. He is not trying to cure the gay community.

Read more about it here.

Perez Hilton has become quite famous due to his blog. He made in excess of $100,000.00 last year blogging, as well as building quite a name for himself. My understanding is that he started out totally broke and I’ve even herd rumors that he was homeless. Either way I was intrigued by his story and decided to spend some time studying his blog.

Perez Hilton will make as many as 24 post or more per day. You can start reading one page and by the time you get to the bottom of that page you can hit refresh and start over. Most of his post are short and include a picture. To give you an idea of the amount of traffic he gets, his website served over 3.97 million unique visitors in a 24 hour period.

The short post and pictures keep you reading. If you write a long article most people want read all the way to the end, but short little post are easy to read and if there interesting, people will read more of your post and even continue on to page 2. The number of post are equally important, the blog is pinging other websites while at the same time getting picked up on the search engines for all the different keywords in each post. Enough posting per day and it is just a matter of time before someone takes notice.

I’ve started playing with this a little in the last week. Step one was finding a topic that I felt I could make 20 post a day or more about. I feel like I can do this on my Bible blog and think that I can find enough information and I’m interested enough in the topic that with some effort on my part I can make the 20 post per day mark. I posted a little but found the same problem I’ve always had with blogs and that is that my last post shows up first. But I found a way around this, by creating a page and then putting links at the bottom of the page to each of my post, I’m able to write and put things in the order I want them to show in.

But because I’m writing about the Bible there was the problem of writing short post and being able to show Bible proof for each of my post. The post become long and are no longer short little post. I’ve now figured out a way to work around this, I place a little link that when clicked on opens a new window with the Bible proof.

The next problem is in finding pictures for each of my post. Its time consuming and all most impossible to find the pictures online. I’ve decided to hire an artist whose only job will be drawing pictures for my post, I’m interviewing people for that job as I write this post.

The last step is the design. I’ve got my guys playing with the design now. I want something that is different from all the other Bible sites that are online. If you land on my site I don’t want you to have to wonder if you’ve been there before.

As I workout both of the above problems I’m going to go ahead and move forward with the project. I’m going to attempt to make 20 short post everyday on the blog and see if just making these post, is enough to get the site to getting thousands of visitors per a day. In case anyone is wondering the blog was not getting any visitors when I started. I have started getting some links to the blog but I’m trying to get a couple 1,000 visitors per day so I’ll need some links to get the search engines interested in what is going on.

I’m also going to do the same with JanethD.com but will have Magda one of the girls here in the office making the 20 post per day on that blog along with myself. There has been a small change in plans, we are going to use Magdda.com instead of Janethd.com.

They said a lot of other stupid stuff like they were suing because they don’t like him but I don’t think Perez gas got 7.5 million and he has a pretty good case His attorney, Bryan Freedman, said Hilton has a legal right to make satirical or humorous use of newsworthy photographs.

If the copyright lawsuit succeeds, “the effect would be to eliminate the ability to comment on and transform photographs under the fair-use exception to the Copyright Act,”

I think X17 should put their money and time to better use by figuring out ways to secure their business.

But that’s not why I spent the day looking at http://perezhilton.com/ my interest in the blog is to see what made it so popular. Now the lawsuit has helped him out in that popularity area but here are some other things I’ve found that he does.

1.Updates his blog two dozen or more times a day.
2.Uses a lot of photos
3.Breaking news
4.Short and two the point
5.Rude

He’s made a six figure income this year and his office is a corner booth in a coffee shop. Might be worth looking into ways to use what he does in our own businesses.

1. Have your heart in the right place. Post on forums to help people and not to promote your own business. The business will come but don’t look for it.

2. Everyone knows more about something then you do. Try and learn something from everyone you meet. Don’t put anyone done, they could be a potential client.

3. Always try and improve your website. You should not be making self promotional post on forums, you’ve got one shot to make the sell and that’s through your website. Always try and improve your design, text, logo and images as well as the way your site operates.

If your going to make money on forums your website needs to be the best, there is a lot of competition.

4. Debates are good but never let them get personal.

5. Bad information, I think a lot of people post bad information just to get people posting on a topic they started. I would never do this, it not only makes you look bad but also causes people to become confused about the topic being talked about.

At the end of the day you end up with links pointing to your site from forums, blogs and other websites talking about something you’ve said or done.

This helps your website rank in the search engines not because of link exchanges or submitting your site to directories but because you were out helping someone.

When your website does rank it’s the best it can be, you’ve been improving it everyday to help sell your product or service, while your competition has been submitting there site to directories and doing link exchanges.

You’ve also been making money from day one instead of worrying about the search engines and were you rank.

People need to forget about the search engines and start learning how to make money online.

He also claimed to be getting swamped by all the people wanting to advertise on the site but was unwilling to give a whole lot of information about how he did it or show a site to back up his claims.

The thread went into about 8 pages of people wanting to see proof and got way off topic, I tried to bring it back on topic because I wanted to better understand how he did it but the other members wouldn’t allow it.

So I decided to take my test else where, now one of the moderators wants to say I’m trying to steal the thread.

How sad is it that people feel that if you don’t want to fight and want to test the results others make claims about that you’re the one doing wrong.

Once you start your obligated at that point, the same as if they were a paying customer because if you don’t get it right, you not only have the wasted time and an upset customer but they can talk bad about you and cost you even more business.

All the reasons we are stopping.

1. We do the work and get the design perfect so another web design company can show the client and say look what we did for you.

2. I don’t have the time to do other people’s design work.

3. Most web design companies can only send us a couple designs a month, they can’t keep one person busy.

4. The other design company gets to put our design in their portfolio and show it off as something they themselves did.

5. A lot of companies will pick the design apart asking us to make 15 or 20 different design changes, then they will show it to the customer who will ask for another 20 or so changes a lot of which would have been ok if the web design company had shown the client before asking us to make the changes.

We will continue to build website for our customers but will no longer build websites for other design companies.

I’m finished ranting now.

Most of them either work for someone else or do a lot of off line marketing along with their online marketing. I’m constantly getting spam emails and phone calls from these so called experts. I have to wonder, if SEO is so good then why are they resorting to phone calls and spam emails?

I live in a third would country (Colombia South America) and not have the option of doing things off line, I have to figure out what works and make it work for me. I think it’s sad that all these other people that are unable to make a living online are trying to get me to pay them to do for me what they can’t do for themseleves.