My Site Was Hacked

One of my sites was hacked on Wednesday :-(

The hackers just wanted cash, so they changed the PayPal email from mine to theirs without doing any damage to the site … not even changing the site’s password, so that I didn’t notice anything when I logged in.

(I was glad about that … it’s a bit like if your house is burgled … you’re almost grateful if all they take is money.)

But other victims did notice and reported them to PayPal, so pretty soon the hackers’ PayPal account was locked.

This meant that for a while you couldn’t buy anything from my site because the order buttons were taking you to a locked PayPal account … until I came home and found an email from a helpful customer telling me there seemed to be a problem.

But everything is fine now … all emails are changed back to mine … password changed to something stronger to keep it safe … so please go ahead and order anything and everything that you want!

Self Esteem PLR ArticlesThe newest offer (currently available at WSO price with 10% off) is my pack of 10 top quality PLR articles on Self-Esteem.

You can get that here (if there are copies left – it’s limited to 50 licences):

Self Esteem PLR Articles

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The upsell is a PLR ebook called ‘How To Boost Your Self Esteem …Fast!’

If you ONLY want the ebook without getting the article pack, you will find that here:

Self Esteem PLR Ebook

Self Esteem PLR Ebook

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… BUT you get $5 off the ebook price if you get it as an upsell to the article pack. So if you want both, please get the articles first.

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Weight Loss PLR Clickbank Product Reviews

It’s not often that I recommend PLR from another marketer but these weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews are an exception:

Download weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews

In this pack, you will get Review Articles on 20 HOT weight loss products from the Clickbank Marketplace. All these articles come with Private Label Rights so you can change them however you want to make them your own.

Putting up Clickbank product reviews and sending traffic to them is about the easiest way that I know of making money online. A good review leading to a top converting product means plenty of hands-free sales. And these products are some of the hottest on Clickbank.

The reviews stress the benefits of the products but they are not all positive. This is extremely important for your credibility and will actually help you make sales.

Of course, you could edit the reviews to make them all positive, but I don’t recommend that. My experience is that it’s better to include some negative reviews and say at the end “so instead, buy this [similar product].” Your visitors are much more likely to trust you, and buy the product that you do recommend.

There’s a screenshot of a sample article on the page so you can see the quality. I’ve seen the whole pack and the others are equally good.

The price is great too. In fact, the whole deal has my full recommendation.

Go here to see all the details of these weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews:

Weight loss PLR Clickbank product reviews

Weight loss is the original ‘hungry niche’ of ravenous buyers – it’s hugely lucrative.

Free Blogger Backup Tool

I have found a great little free Blogger backup tool to back up Blogger blogs easily and fast.

Google’s Blogger blogs are great for getting information online fast, and you can add Adsense and Amazon affiliate links automatically. So most of us have a few, and some people have whole empires of them.

But the big downside with Blogger is that Google can knock out your empire on a whim. Even if you set up batches of blogs under several different Google account names (which you should), in the worst case scenario they can match them all up through your Adsense account or Amazon Associate details. Then what?

Well, then you start over … and it helps mightily if you have your blogs backed up. And it is now very easy, and free.

There are two things you need to do. First, go into the blog and download your template, if you made any changes to it. This option is on the Layout – Edit HTML tab.

Second, grab yourself this free Blogger backup tool to back up your posts:

Free Blogger Backup Tool

It’s open source software so it’s free. You do have to enter your Google account details in the settings. It says it does not save your password – if you know anything about coding you can look at the code to check that.

Two important points:

1. After you enter your Google account details, don’t forget to
SAVE THE SETTINGS. You have to click on File to see the Save Settings option.

2. I found that the actual back up process did not work until I saved my settings, closed the tool and opened it again. After that it is very quick.

You can enter several different Google accounts and it will automatically retrieve all the Blogger blogs associated with those accounts. So you don’t have to enter individual blogs at all.

Great for people with Blogger empires and useful for those of us who just have a few blogs to backup with the free Blogger backup tool.

Reporting Scams Affecting Domains And Trademarks

This post is reporting scams that I have heard about. Martin Avis recently wrote in his Kickstart newsletter about a scam that affects domain owners. I thought I should pass on the warning and add my own experience.

What happens is that just before your domain is due for renewal, you receive a letter in the mail asking you to send anything up to $100 to renew it. Remember, anybody can get hold of your address from Whois, unless you have private registration which usually costs extra.

I assume that these people then instruct you how to change from your current registrar to theirs, and you are locked in for renewals forever, unless you manage to extract your domain for another transfer.

There’s plenty of fine print to make it legal, and many people with just one website are probably taken in by this.

And this is not the only legal business scam …

I had a similar thing after registering a trademark for one of my sites. (Maybe I’m paranoid, but I wanted to make sure that nobody could set up with the same business name, and then come along and demand my domains on the grounds that they held the trademark.)

Anyway, as soon as my registration application went public, I received a very official-looking letter asking for something like $500 (‘reduced rate’ of course) to ‘record’ my new trademark in another country. The company name was similar to the name of the government trademark office – but not quite the same. And in the fine print, they explained that I would be paying for my trademark to appear in a published directory. In other words, it was not for official trademark registration at all.

$500 to appear in a directory that nobody is going to read …
I don’t think so!

Savvy internet marketers will not be taken in by these scams but they could catch a lot of people setting up their first business. And I’m sure there are many other tricks like this that threaten innocent website and small business owners.

Always read the fine print …

Oh and by the way, my latest PLR article pack is on Law and it is selling fast.

This is an extremely lucrative niche … see all the details here:

Law PLR Articles – click here

Only 50 copies are available so I apologize if they are all gone when you click.

And here are some links for reporting scams:
reporting scams in the USA
reporting scams in the UK
reporting scams in Australia

Minimalism: A Short Blog Post

I came across a blog about minimalism recently. You might be interested … for a start, it must be the cleanest WordPress theme the world has ever seen.

Also, this particular post has some good advice that could help you to focus on the essential in your internet business:

mnmlist.com/less

If you like the minimalism blog, you might also like my own blog post from last year on how to de-clutter your inbox:

How To Have An Empty Inbox