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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by mekerica, Oct 18, 2010.

  1. JamesColin

    JamesColin Prominent Member

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    #21
    "Reported Attack Page!
    This web page at iteracija.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences."
    On your preview design, but I don't need to see it.

    Simply use Drupal for your new site and you won't be hacked.
    As for google insights, you can also use it without entering keywords, simply select a time frame, like 30 last days and a category, a country if you want and click.

    If I were you I would already bought the domain name by opening an account at dreamhost since the first domain name is free for life, included in the account. I would have gone ahead, I'm like this, I don't think for days or weeks and run the risk of having my domain name taken and having to find another one. I would just do it, and then look around the dreamhost interface, and simply start, easy.

    Make up excuses or reasons to wait is also even more easy, I know :)
    But anyway, that's not my problem is it?
    I'm simply following your thread and wish you can report from time to time, not every day, more like each time you get to another stage/level.
     
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    #22
    there is not such a thing than can be hacked! simply is just matter of time, look this forum for instance, why here is captcha for first couple of post ??? :cool:
     
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    #23
    Drupal is very secure. Of course if you never update your install of drupal, after 2 years you might have a lot of security holes open for hackers (script kiddies) but if you update regularly, no problem. :)
     
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    #24
    Of course but hacker first open a security holes then a programmers trying to "fill" it :) industry that runs 24/7 :cool:
     
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    #25
    This is my dream, believe me. This is the best, because you have only one site, so it's easy to work, and you earn lots of money by doing almost nothing. But it's very hard. Every day, and every night, when I go to sleep, when I'm in school (I'm bored in school and I never listen on the classes, so I think all the time) I'm thinking about a unique site, for earning lot's of money but It's hard to find something like that. I think that this cames accidentally.

    Oh, I told you not to open it. I hope it didn't make some damages to your PC. I have Bit Defender 2010 Antivirus, with payed licence and updated regulary, so this virus can't nothing to me.

    I tried Drupal, but it looks so simple to me. At least demo I tried. It didn't have editor, only field for write HTML?? I'm used to wordpress, I know where to find templates, plugins etc. so it would be easy to me but maybe I will try Drupal and see.

    I will try this insights.

    I ordered and payed the domain buzzthisnow.com . It will be live today or tomorrow. Thank you on idea. I will report all my progresess, and believe me, I will ask constantly something :) I'm new in english web so I will have loooooots of questions :p

    Talking about hacking: yesterday one of mine sites was hacked AGAIN :D But this site is being hacked constantly because it's a portal for our gaming community so all jelaous players and concurency are constantly hacking our site and even game servers which I own.

    Thank you all for your help!
    Randy
     
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    #26
    Now, when the site is almost online, I don't know which categories will I create :) I created for know Technology with subcategories News and Gadgets. Now I want to create something with interesting articles but how to call it? And something with useful advices, about internet etc. Your suggestions?
     
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    #27
    Simple, use the categories of google insights. I told you, use google insights everyday, breath throught it. :)

    But you're worrying me. Are you using dreamhost and drupal for your new site?

    If not, you're making a mistake (well if not using drupal I mean, dreamhost is an option)
     
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    #28
    I tried drupal but it's too simple on one side and too complicated on the other site :((( I'm not used to this kind of CMS... Core doesn't have ANYTHING! I need to manually set or add everything! I didn't find where to create categories, where to install new themes, my frontpage looks just like admin panel :(( It's too complicated, I will lost lot of time by learning how to use it unless you told me the basics.

    I still think that Wordpress is farly the best CMS and option for me. And no, I'm not using Dreamhost yet. It's still to much money, since I can use my friends host :p When I start earning some real money, I will go to Dreamhost or Hostgator.
     
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    #29
    OK, so you're making a mistake, but oh well, it's normal let's say, young people need to make mistakes to get experience. Drupal is the best CMS and the hard part is just about one month, the start of the learning curve is steep, but it is worth it.
    Good luck with your project nonetheless. :)
     
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    #30
    I didn't start anything. I planned to start today but I didn't know what categories to add so I said 'go to hell', closed my browser and went mixing music...

    One month????
     
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    #31
    Can you, please, told me at least few things that Drupal has and Wordpress no? To convict me on Drupal...
     
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    #32
    Haha, I don't need to convince you, but watch for the next Packt Publishing awards in november, or watch the previous years. Drupal IS the best CMS ever. Wordpress is good/better for blogging because of the plugins market (everyone does a plugin for wordpress) and it started as a blogging platform.

    Anyway, go with whatever you want, it doesn't really matter in the end, I was simply giving you an advice to invest one month time in drupal that you will never regret, but go for easyness if you want, at least it's easier :)
    The end result is the same, if one day you get stuck with your site because it's based on wordpress and you can't do much more in terms of functionnality, that it would require too much coding, then you will simply not do it, and it will not be the end of the world, but at the back of your head please remember me :)

    Bottom line is you can do your site with wordpress and even joomla, it doesn't matter. It will not get in the way of better adsense earnings and SEO rankings that's for sure.

    Drupal is just a big bonus, but not for everyone and if you have other things to do that you like better than learning a wonderful CMS, then do the other things. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter at all.
     
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    #33
    But I tried and it's complicated too much and there's nothing in the core. I watched it all and in the core it's worse than wordpress... There's no option to create categories, to upload media, I don't know how to change the theme, there's now WYSIWYG editor, nothing! How to add all these features??

    It's not the matter that I have other things, I'm just curious and want to start my site as soon as it's possible and also I'm soooo lazy. Which is tha fastest way to earn Drupal (in 2-3 days)?
     
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    #34
    You could install the drupal installation made by the creator of drupal, it has essential modules already installed: http://acquia.com/downloads

    There's no shortcut to drupal apart from this acquia thing. But the time invested in drupal will be very important for your future as a webmaster, believe me I talk from experience. I have now about 5 years experience with drupal and I'm so happy to have invested time learning it even if it is harder than joomla or wordpress at first (first few weeks), after I can do so much more easily.
     
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    #35
    Ok, I will try this version. If you told me so, maybe I will spend I few hours to learn Drupal.

    PS: today, 100€ has been transfered on my account :-D First, I guy from Slovenia buyed and sponzored article on my webpage for 30€ and he transfered it on my bank account. Now he was interested for sponzored article on other site and links on homepage of my websites so he transfered to my bank account 100 € more for this :-D
     
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    #36
    Be a little careful about selling links, as you may know google penalizes sites which sells links when those links are used to have effect on search engines rankings.
    And most often the guy buying links on your own site also buy links on mnay other websites, so it's easy for google to notice that trend and penalize all sites participating in this.

    But most often if done discreetly it's ok, just be careful when you accept this, make a little research first about the guy/site being linked to.
     
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    #37
    I heared that Google penalizes for this but I don't believe in this. Actually, Google is going on my nerves... Penalizing?? They are acting like they are owners of the internet... Penalizing?? I can do whatever I want on my page and sell whatever I want, and only thing that I can't do is warez. I won't let Google to telling me what I can and what I can't... Actually, Google can BAN me ONLY from their search engine, but this means the end for any webpage. I know that they can do whatever they want on their website so they can BAN me from their search engine but It's still going on my nerves. It's not their problem how I'm earning money or how the site's owner gets backlinks...

    And I don't think that they actually care about this. For example, look on service called Text Link Ads. It's very popular. All my pages are active there and have scripts installed so I'm seeling lots of links (once I have 4 links together, in one time, on my site) and earning a good ammount of cash.

    If it's forbidden, Google would BAN their website and service, or destroy them in the court.

    This guy is actually buying a lot of links, because my friend sold him links on his pages too. And he is ready to pay lots of money. Every ammount I told him, he accepted. Firstly I sold sponzorized article and he pays me 200 kunas (Croatian valute). I have up to 2000 visitors daily. My friend sold him sponzorized article for 200 kunas too, but he has up to 200 visitors daily. This pissed me off so next time I told him much bigger price, and HE ACCEPTED! Now, every new page I open, I tell him and if he is interested for advertising, I sold him immediately. Every $ is welcome :)
     
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    #38
    Do what you want, but your example text links ad is exactly what I'm talking about, research history of the web you'll see many sites have been penalized heavily because they had text link ads code in their page, that's why TLA evolved in hiding more and more their footprint. and OF COURSE don't count on TLA to make you aware of this problem, they don't give a shit about publishers who lost their Google PR and the advertizers who left soon after.

    But anyway life is so unjust yes, no need for crying, just adapt yourself to reality :)
     
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    #39
    Then I found a reason why my site svijetigra.com dropped from PR 4 to PR 0. And then it went to PR 2 again but now it's PR 0. But actually, I don't care. I earn at least 9$ monthly from TLA, and number of visitors is just growing so, visitors are the only important thing.

    The only problem is that, when I had PR 4, I was selling more links, now I have only one sold.

    My problem (it's not problem in my view but it is a problem) is that, not only on the web, I'm a person who likes to talk and philosophize too much. There are things which I never accept and I'm always complaining about. I shouted on my parents and teachers few times and once I was beaten up because I was arguing with a local gang :-D I was listening music and they told me to turn it off (normally, I was drunk) and I started shouting on them that they can't command me in public place, hehe. I'm always fighting for my rights, even if I'm just thinking that I'm right. I'm very stubborn and I'm always complaining and arguing. When I think that I'm right, nobody will convice me that I'm not! Lots of times I refused to adapt myself to something, even sometimes I refuse to adapt to the world I live. I want to live on another way sometimes, which never has tried before. For me, sometimes is stupid to live an ahead planned life. I want to do what I want, there's no matter if other people do this or not and how they will react on this. That is the reason I started doing web because I fint boring go to university and the work all my life the same job, every day the same working time, the same partners, the same boring boss :(( Very boring life... I want to do something special, have lots of web sites or my private turnover and work whenever I want and as much as I want.
     
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    #40
    Don't worry, this illness will pass with age. You'll learn not to bother and simply adapt to the stupid laws and rules. You'll still know they're not right, but just comply with them and get on with your life.
    Personally I was earning way more than $9 a month with TLA but totally finish with them, because I don't want to risk anything and the money they give is totally stupid, not interesting.

    Think about it, you have a PR5, you register on TLA. Advertizers there look at the sites by their PR/Alexa, etc. They want a link on your site at $XX per month. Then google finds out (easy for them since you're not the only one to sell links for the same advertizers) and drop your PR. Now the advertizers can pay $X per month for a site with low PR, but instead they prefer to switch to sites which still have high PR.
    So you're left with a few advertizers paying $X per month, and no PR.

    It's better to keep your high PR, make direct link sales via your contact email, after doing research on the advertizers/sites being advertized. Then you keep your PR, you cut the $ part of TLA, so you get more money and are in total control of your advertizers, you can even offer them more ad space / special formats, for more money.
     
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