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Seventy-Fourth Internet Marketing Podcast September 3rd 2010.  Third page of Show Notes

What is the value of Phone Call tracking and Pay Per Click

Chris: All right, well that brings us to nine, which we thought we might not even mention, but I’ll throw it in there. Never fool a visitor. And that really has to do with really — yeah, I mean that’s extreme, okay? If you sell puppies, don’t advertising under movers, right?

Paul: Yeah, there you go. Don’t be a douche.

Chris: Yeah, don’t be a douche.

Paul: Don’t be. I mean that’s just douchy.

Chris: But, you know, we’re really talking about take it to the next level where if they’re looking for movers, they need to find mover information. It can’t be storage information, which is somewhat related, it’s got to be mover information. It’s got to be very targeted.

Next one is optimize pay-per-click campaign regularly.

Paul: Okay, if you can do this on your own, you are an internet marketing company.

Chris: Yeah.

Paul: [Laughs] Seriously. Because things like your click-through ratio, those are things that are extremely important. If I get a hundred impressions of my ad and 10 people click on my ad, I have a 10% click-through ratio, which is retarded like… [Laughs] Continue reading “What is the value of Phone Call tracking and Pay Per Click” »

The SEO Rapper gives a World Wide Exclusive to E-Webstyle

Social Media Marketing by The SEO Rapper

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Chuck Lewis (AKA The SEO Rapper) visited E-Webstyle on Friday for an interview on the regular Internet Marketing -Unknown Secrets of SEO podcast.

While on the Air Chuck dropped a bomb on the co-hosts of the podcast, Chris Burres and Paul Hanson.  Not only was Chuck anouncing the upcoming release of his new SEO Rap he was going to allow E-Webstyle to release the audio for the new song.

Here is the new Social Media Marketing Rap by none other than The SEO Rapper.

 

Watch the video of the podcast here http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9179840

The Search Engine Baidu and SEO

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Sixty-eighth Internet Marketing Podcast July 9th  2010. First page of Show Notes

The Search Engine Baidu and SEO

Chris: Hi and welcome to the Unknown Secrets of SEO podcast!

Paul: What’s up, everybody? Welcome back and guess what? It’s 9:15 Central Standard Time. Whoo hoo!

Chris: Give or take, E-Webtsyle time.

Chris and

Paul: [Laughter]

Paul: Don’t expect us next week. [Laughter]

Chris: Oh, yeah. Actually, we’re — I’m glad you reminded me or maybe you were just saying it. [Laughter]

Paul: Oh, yeah, I was just saying that.

Chris: Next Friday, I’m going to be in court. Don’t worry, it’s just traffic ticket. So we’re going to do our podcast on Thursday morning. So if you’re going to tune in for the videocast Thursday morning, I’ll put something out on USTREAM to kind of warn our listeners of which it looks like we have this one today. Thank you for watching. Maybe it’s Darren Booy. Maybe it’s — whoever you are, thank you for watching. We really appreciate everybody. You are listening to the most popular SEO podcast on iTunes. You’re watching the most popular SEO podcast on USTREAM.

Paul: I would say you’re probably watching the biggest, baddest, best one.

Chris: The biggest, baddest, best SEO podcast in perpetuity.

Paul: There you go. That was — dude, I like that. That was good.

Chris: Somebody should write that down later. As usual, we like to cover what we covered on the last podcast. Last podcast, we talked about pay-per-click. This is an SEO podcast, why would we talk about — Paul, why would we talk about pay-per-click?

Paul: How about, it works? Continue reading “The Search Engine Baidu and SEO” »

Register.com SSL certificate does not work in FireFox

I had a bad experience with a Register.com SSL certificate.  It seems that FireFox does not recognize the Register.com SSL certificate as  trusted.  This is the same to FireFox as creating your own SSL certificate.  I got a refund and now I use one other.  RapidSSL (purchased through one of their resellers is much less expensive)  http://www.clickssl.com.

Here is a list of recognized certifcates

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=ttwCVzDVuWzZYaDosdU6e3w&single=true&gid=0&output=html

GoDaddy SSL certificate does not work in FireFox

I had a bad experience with a GoDaddy SSL certificate.  It seems that FireFox does not recognize the GoDaddy SSL certificate as  trusted.  This is the same to FireFox as creating your own SSL certificate.  I got a refund and now I use to others.  Register.com and RapidSSL (purchased through one of their resellers is much less expensive).

Here is a list of recognized certifcates

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=ttwCVzDVuWzZYaDosdU6e3w&single=true&gid=0&output=html

This organization’s certificate has been revoked.

If you are here and you are the owner of the website you might be interested in my experience.  If you are a user and wonder what this is it probably means the SSL certificate has been revoked, in my case it was for non-payment.

If you read my other blog entry hsphere register.com ssl certificate installation you might remember that I was supposed to call register.com and uncancel the certificate which I had refunded. 

Well I forgot to do that and my certificate ended up on a revocation list.  I don’t have a resource for checking revocation, let me know if you find one.

So I installed a new certificate on my server and all is now well.

Cant get SSL to work with oscommerce

I spent the better part of a day working on the problem of oscommerce not using the SSL certificate at the appropriate time.  I already had the SSL certificate installed properly.  I visited the confige.php until I had it memorized, you can test me.  My server, IIS on an HSphere cluster, worked fine with the standard install on application_top.php of
$request_type = (getenv(‘HTTPS’) == ‘on’) ? ‘SSL’ : ‘NONSSL’;
so I did not need to change it to
$request_type = (getenv(‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST’) == ‘ssl.perfora.net’) ? ‘SSL’ : ‘NONSSL’;

But no matter what I did I could not get the ssl to work.  I gave up.  That takes alot, but I gave up.  I was later working on another issue when I relized that the config.php file I had memorized had the wrong database information.  How is that possible you ask??  Because there is another config.php file in the includes/local folder.

Once I set the setting correct in this folder everything worked perfectly.  Yeah me!! Yeah osCommerce.  And of course Yeah my happy customer.

Hsphere, register.com SSL certificate installation

I was trying to install a register.com SSL certificate to one of my domains on hsphere and the following process led to problems.

You do need to:

• Give the domain a fixed IP
• Turn on SSL
• Generate a self signed SSL certificate
• —-At this point you will notice two choices Import SSL certificate and Generate self signed SSL certificate you will choose the second option
• Get the right details for the certificate these are the details for the owner/contact for the domain for which you are getting the certificate
• Now you will get a screen with three parts SSL Certifcate Signing Request (CSR)(Which you need to copy SAVE and paste on register.com at the right time) also copy and save the Private Key. (let me stress SAVE both of these)
• Now go to register.com and login.  Purchase a SSL certifcate and then get back to you main register.com screen and click activate now.
• You will copy and paste the SSL Certificate Signing Request into the form on register.com
• Register.com will email you a link and a code.  Click the link and enter the code.
• Now go back to register.com and check the status of the certificate
• When I was using the rapid ssl certificate I would press the submit query at the bottom of this page.
• Now you wait for your certificate from Register.com
• When I got the certificate and “click to edit” the certificate on the ssl page of the hsphere control panel there are a couple of boxes.  The first is Install certificate based on previously generated Certificate request.  When I was using rapidSSL. This is where I pasted the certificate.  You must open the .crt files in notepad and then copy the contents into the specific boxes.
• Register provides 4 files and no combination of those files and the original (CSR) would work.  I always got Wrong key and certificate
• In Hsphere click Disable SSL support
• Then Click Import SSL Certificate
• Past the Private Key, remember the one I stressed that you save, in the Private Key area
• Open the crt, right click and open with notepad.
• Copy all the stuff
• Paste the stuff in the certificate area and submit
• BINGO!!

I actually called register and got my money back.  Then I was going to install an new certificate from godaddy.  To make sure I it would work I wanted to start from scratch.  So I clicked Disable SSL support on the Edit SSL screen in Hsphere.  Then I noticed the import SSL certificate link.

Now to call Register and ask them to not undue the charges;)