Seven Dollars Got My PayPal Account Closed
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What is PayPal’s policy on the popular $7.00 products being offered in the Internet Marketing community?
Typically a report is made on a niche subject such as search engine or for a software product like Joel Comm’s MyContactStation.
Customers who make a purchase of the $7.00 product are given the right to promote the product themselves and receive 100% commissions paid directly into their PayPal account.
This unique and clever script used to instantly grant customers their own money making products after purchase is linked to one of their PayPal emails. TAll you need to do is replace the email link with your own PayPal email address and viola you’re good to go.
No physical products or inventory to store!
No time spent to create your own products!
No time waiting to get paid!
You get an instant product to promote to your web site visitors and mailing list without the headaches of hosting files on your own server!!
So what about those people who have had their PayPal accounts CLOSED?
According to an email I sent to PayPal they found that the $7.00 100% commission system to be acceptable. I used the example of a software product MyContactStation.
Their answer was…
It is not MLM and does not breach any of the policies in the user agreement.
Hmm, so why have several people reported that their accounts were suddenly closed.
Somewhere the lines of communication and interpretation are not working.
It leads me to the conclusion that if you’re using PayPal to promote anything that isn’t a straight forward and conventional single tier affiliate program whereby the merchant pays you a cut of a referring sale after they have processed the customer’s payment. In other words affiliates have to wait before receving commission payments. You should contact PayPal and make sure you get their approval in writing beforehand.
That way you have evidence that you were given authorization to use PayPal for these tranascations.
I’m not sure how some of you got around to getting your accounts reinstated. But as I understand it. You have to first removal all PayPal payment buttons from your web site and then PayPal will confirm this by checking your site. You will later receive an email with a reminder that you should not use your PayPal account in this manner and that you may again be subject to account closure of risk the possibility of forfeiting your account.
Have you been a victim of account closure because you used the $7.00 script to accept instant 100% commissions?
Add your comments to discuss your experience. Or contact me via email.
To your success,
Nancy P Redford
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The Best Rated Keyword Research Tools
Following on from some of the keyword research tools I have personally used or tested out for ads and to optimize web pages. I was reminded by Linda Buquet of the Top Rank Blog readers poll results by over at TopRankBlog - Winner Best Keyword Research Tool
Those being WordTracker, Keyword Discovery and NicheBOT. The main one I have used is WordTracker after using their free trial and upgrading to the paid version.
I have also used Aaron Wall’s free keyword tools, Good Keywords amongst others.
I was surprised that they were not included in the poll and that NicheBOT had a low vote. However the results were based on a reader survey for this particular poll.
What’s is you favorite keyword research tools?
Very interesting results don’t you think?
Tips To Getting Free Traffic From Technorati
Don’t waste your time commenting on other blogs!!
Why?
If you are commenting on high traffic blogs like BoingBoing only to link back to your site. You’re probably wasting your time. Primarily, because of the ‘no follow’ tag you may get traffic but when that post becomes old your link expires.
Some great insights into this are documented in a video from Tinu.
Too many people get the wrong end of the stick when they should try to maximize results by using proven and effective techniques to get free traffic!
Check out the video at Free Traffic Tip Blog.
In this video you’ll learn the importance of relevance and the significance of keywords in your title tags. They usually have a significant more importance when your content is indexed then some of your tags.
I’ve found this to be true with a few videos I have uploaded and performed several searches to check their rankings!
Watch and enjoy!
P.S.
If you haven’t signed up for Technorati you’re missing out on an excellent source of Free Traffic so head on down there and add your blogs or at the least use the service to favorite blogs that you read. You can add mine TOO 
ClickBank Launches Recurring Billing
$$$ Hooray for progress even if it has been a long wait for some.
ClickBank have officially launched their ‘recurring billing’ option for merchants this month.
I’ve seen many membership sites that accept ClickBank payment for one-time fee purchases.
I wonder if we will now see a rise in monthly memberships now that recurring billing is available?
I mentioned this in my recent newsletter. Maybe ClickBank will expand the options for recurring billing from monthly to quarterly, weekly an annually.
Maybe getting a little ahead of myself here after all it has taken them close to decade to introduce this much valued add-on service for merchants.
ClickBank affiliates should be smiling as now they have an opportunity to earn regular long term income from each new customer.
So to all you aspiring ClickBank merchants out there consider adding your membership site and subscription based services to the ClickBank MarketPlace where you will find a healthy number of affiliates eager to promote your services on your behalf!
There have been other very welcome changes at ClickBank like the introduction of campaign tracking and the PayPal payment option.
There’s only one more question to ask and that’s whether two tier plus affiliate program could be next on the agenda. We’ll just have to wait and see! 
Do You Blog For Love Or For The Love Of Money?
Have you wondered why most people are inclined to set up a blog?
Are you self promoting yourself and business, sharing your daily ramblings, or solving a problem for your readers?
As I was getting through a huge backlog of unread RSS feeds I came across the title
“Giving Up on Making Money”
I first read it on Robin Good’s blog which links directly to Darren Prowse.
Blogging for money is a highly debated subject.
Frank Gruber’s weekly tidbits he mentions a post written by Nick O’Neil entitled:
Can You Make A Living Blogging?
I do agree that the friendships you make through networking can be a lifelong asset as well as giving you the opportunity to partner with other like-minded people.
Of course, building trust and a relationship with your readers is of paramount importantance.
With blogging you are in control of what you write so in theory the most logical course of action is to pick a subject of interest to you. Or get other people to write on your behalf.
In fact if you have a passion for a subject that others also enjoy then making money from advertising or products that you review or recommend can be an added bonus.
So if there is value in your writing and you enjoy blogging then making money along the way is an added bonus.
Do you consider that earning a substantial income from your blog is the main reason you continue to write or are the people you connect with through your content your most important aspect of blogging?
For me personally if I didn’t enjoy writing I wouldn’t blog regardless of any monetary gains.
I do treasure the lasting friendships I have made and the new contacts, especially through MyBlogLog, Bumpzee and many other social networks.
People from many backgrounds, countries and topics of interest to me but not necessarily on the same subject field as my current blogs.
Have you stopped to think about why you blog - for love or FOR the love of money?
WordPress Upgrades and Web Hosting Migration
Hi everyone,
I’m back!
Well I didn’t real go anywhere but my sites certainly did.
Finally the migration to a new web host went fairly smoothly except for this
very blog.
The much loved ‘Connections-Reloaded theme has gone due to the HUGE break when
my installer, Adam from down-under in Australia upgraded to WordPress 2.2!
So me not being much of a techie I switched to a previous ‘Connections’ theme.
There are a few things I need to change to the sidebar, footer and header.
However I am planning on revamping the whole blog design altogether.
Sadly a lot of plugins are no longer supported including my trusted ‘WordPress Database Backup’ by Scott Merrill. Looks like a lot of programmers have given up with the ups and downs of recent WordPress updates.
Did you know every time an upgrade is made these un-paid programmers have to develop a patch?
Well some are doing alright because after the acquisition of FeedBurner by Google the ‘FeedBurner Feed Replacement Plugin’ has now been taken over by FeedBurner and has a new name ‘FeedSmith‘.
So I’ll be on the hunt for some new replacement plugins!
Strange things have been going on.. like the incredible level of Spam seemingly from
Kosovo , or so the comments implied!
Plus aliens make you feel so good that you’ll want a business degree.
Yeah, right!
Spam makes sow mutch cents. LOL
It’s good to be back but I must check out all of my scripts and contact my subscribers.
Hope to have another great Practical Marketing Tip by tomorrow.
Thanks for your extreme patience during this time of uncertainty.
All the best,
Nancy P Redford
Important Updates and Web Host Change Announcement
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note to inform you that my blogs will be updated and changing web hosts over the course of the next day or so.
Please bear with me while the changeover occurs.
I hope there will not be any major disruptions in service.
I’ll announce when all is OK.
Thanks,
Nancy P Redford
How NOT To Request Reciprocal Links
How NOT To Request Reciprocal Links!
At some time or another you may find that other web sites are asking for reciprocal link requests.
Link building is just one of many ways to improve your ranking due to people being able to find your site on other locations on the Internet.
Think of in-bound links as portals pointing back to your site where visitors will come.
OK, so you do some research and you look for sites that match your content then you email the web site owner via their contact details on-site.
I take this matter personally and would believe many other webmasters would too.
Here’s my suggestion as what NOT to do to make FIRST contact.
1. Bypass the "contact us" page and use the WHOIS email address.
The contact us page is there for a reason.. TO MAKE CONTACT! The Whois information is primarily for your domain registration. Probably one of the main reasons more people use Private Domain Registration!
2. Ask ambiguous questions because you have not bothered to look over the site for detailed information.
Take the time to go through some web pages within the web site. What is the point if you can’t be bothered to have look?
3. Don’t ask to put a link on a page that has NO reciprocal links.
Don’t tell a website owners to put your link on a specific page, especially a web page with NO OTHER reciprocal links. You will not only risk annoying the site owner and will seldom get a reply back.
**Some ideas of what to ask a company before they seek out links for your site(s).**
1. Ask them not to contact webmasters through the WHOIS records. Instruct them to seek out the on-site contact form, email address or support desk.
Don’t bypass the available contact methods. This shows that you couldn’t be bothered to check the basics before making a formal enquiry.
2. Ask them to check for a reciprocal links directory or links page.
This question may seems like common sense but if you don’t ask… If the site has an automated links directory then that is the preferred method of adding link requests.
3. Ask them for a sample of the initial contact email they will be using on your behalf.
Know exactly what terminology will be used and make amendments where necessary. The results of which could have a lasting affect on your reputation.
What I find tiresome about delegating work to someone else is finding out the hard way that there are questions to be asked that may not be immediately apparent.
You’re best course of action is to brainstorm a list of the things you want done and don’t be reluctant to ask as many questions as necessary.
If you’re paying for a service make sure YOU know exactly what tasks are being performed and gather as much information about how they will carry out the work.
Get EXACTLY what pay for. Not what you THINK you are paying for!
How do you know what to ask if you didn’t know it was an issue?
We learn by trial and error. Things are seldom as straight forward as they seem!
If you have a similar experience or would like to share you ideas and thoughts on paying for links do add your comments.
Best of luck,
Nancy P Redford
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