By Ashley Russell
Guide for Buyers
A Guide for People Buying MMORPG Virtual Goods
If you're one of the many people who play MMORPG games, then you know that earning points isn't always what you need to get the required edge in any game. Sometimes you need equipment and other important items to get the job done and contest with the best of the lot. There is a quick way to getting what you need and usually this is through the purchase of MMORPG Virtual Goods and Services from sellers who offer them for purchase. However, buying can be a risky process as you'll probably be spending some real-world money, so you have to ensure you are well protected in any transaction with a seller of Virtual MMOPRG Goods or Services.
One of the most important and easy things to do is to get the phone number of the seller and negotiate on the phone instead of through e-mail and online messengers (most good sellers will want to contact you via telephone if its the first transaction you do with them and be cautious about the ones who dont). Phone transactions are great because most scammers will refuse to make transactions on the phone, it is a very crucial step to avoid getting scammed. If your using paypal to complete the transaction only send money to verified paypal users. You as a buyer are more protected by paypal and you should always complete the transaction through that. Avoid sending money via western union or the mail.
You should also make sure that you meet the character in the game before you make any trades, never accept character sheets as the sole proof of account existence. Trading for a frozen account is an absolute no-no and should be avoided at all costs. When trading for accounts, you should have the e-mail registered to the account, have the answer to the secret question and know the name on the account as well. If the game allows it then make a new account and transfer the character to that new account.
Stay smart and you will have no problems as there are alot of excellent traders out there who will do you good deals and not scam you.
Guide for Sellers
A Guide for People Selling MMORPG Virtual Goods
If you're selling MMORPG Virtual Goods, you can enjoy the benefits of making money in the real world as well. MMORPG experiences can be more about just the fun part and give you some financial benefits. You can sell Virtual Goods through a lot of online forums (and of course our marketplace http://www.mmorpgsale.net) which are dedicated to such trades and which offer additional facilities which often prove helpful in the process as well. However the ease at which you can make money is often shadowed by the fact that you can lose money as well. Selling MMOPRG Virtual Goods should also involve a great amount of caution on your part and an awareness of some protective measures which can be employed to protect yourself.
Different measures of protection exist and one of these measures is to ensure that you only deal with people who are making use of verified payment systems. For example if you're dealing with people who make use of PayPal as a payment system you should ensure that they deal with you through verified accounts. You can also send an e-mail to the buyers PayPal e-mail address and get them to reply you from that e-mail address, that way you make sure they aren't dealing with you through stolen PayPal accounts. When trading through our popular auction site you can easily check buyer feedback ratings as well to make sure you are dealing with reputable people.
If possible you should always request to make a quick call to the buyer to verify a few things as most scammers will not want to do this. ID verification may also be needed when dealing with new users who have no prior records of trading via any of the online forums or websites where you sell your MMORPG Virtual Goods or in cases were buyers wish to make expensive purchases.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Budget Webmaster's 6 Step Guide to Improving Existing Rankings in Google
By Tinu Abayomi-Paul
The Budget Webmaster’s 6 Step Guide to Improving Existing Rankings in Google
You know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren’t getting more clicks, and you find out that you’re ranked in the 30's, 50's, or heaven forbid, the 300's. “Great”, you think, “I finally get ranked for a good keyword and it’s a worthless ranking”.
Not necessarily.
If you got ranked for a keyword you wanted At All, the game’s not over yet. If your site’s content is geared towards that subject, you can get your ranking in search engines increased, at no cost. How?
The first thing you want to do is find out how well you are ranked for this keyword. For Google in particular, this used to be a difficult chore. In the old days of 2003, you’d spend your valuable time doing a search on your desired keyword, then a sub-search for your site, and crawling through pages of listings to find out exactly where you stood.
Now there is hope in the form of the following website. Direct your browser to:
http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php
You can use this site to find out what number you come up for in the Google listings, which can be very powerful information if used correctly. If you’re ranked in the top 1000, you have a shot at raising your listing for that page by tweaking the page to be a little more relevant.
So, secondly, you have to know how good a shot you have at getting a better listing. Go to:
http://www.searchguild.com/difficulty/
I posted a tip about this a month ago, and it’s also in the free optimization Guide I released the week of March 7th. It tells you how hard it is to rank well for certain keywords in Google. You’ll need a free Google API key to use it.
Now that you know your chances, the third piece of information you need to know is how much traffic you can expect. Digital Point has a free tool that gives an approximation of how many hits per day a good ranking gets. Access it here:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Okay, let’s say everything checks out so far. You rank in the top 1000. The term you want won’t be that hard to get, and will get you enough traffic per month to justify your efforts.
Our fifth step is to take the term you chose and optimize your page.
This site does periodic reports on the search engines, and their February report gives their analysis of what the best ranking pages in Google have in common. And as a free bonus, it will also tell you what Yahoo wants. Follow the following link for details-http://www.gorank.com
Now that you know what to shoot for, you need to know how the page you want will measure up- you need to calculate your keyword density. You can also do the sixth step at gorank.com - it has a free tool that will calculate it for you. Prepare your page with that in mind, re-upload, and you’re almost done.
Great, you’re all set. Now you should submit your site to Google, right?
Wrong. Absolutely not. If you can help it, you should never, ever submit any page of your site to Google. Let it find you. HOW it finds you can affect your page rank. I don’t mean that there is a standard penalty for submitting. There’s been speculation on that for a while but I have yet to prove it matters.
What I DO know from personal experience and testing on my member’s sites, is that getting the Googlebot search engine spider to happen upon your site shaves up to 6 weeks off the standard time it takes for indexing. You can show up in Google in as little as 4 days.
Which site links to you can also affect your Google Page Rank. While this is not as important as it once was, it still carries significant weight– my site didn’t start getting spidered on a daily basis until my Page Rank increased to 5.
So even if the spider comes to your site on a Monthly basis, you’re better off waiting for the spider to come back by. That’s the seventh step, let your page be re-discovered with it’s great new changes.
And yes, there’s an even faster, better way to get Google.com’s search engine spider to re-index that page, but that’s another article, isn’t it?
The Budget Webmaster’s 6 Step Guide to Improving Existing Rankings in Google
You know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren’t getting more clicks, and you find out that you’re ranked in the 30's, 50's, or heaven forbid, the 300's. “Great”, you think, “I finally get ranked for a good keyword and it’s a worthless ranking”.
Not necessarily.
If you got ranked for a keyword you wanted At All, the game’s not over yet. If your site’s content is geared towards that subject, you can get your ranking in search engines increased, at no cost. How?
The first thing you want to do is find out how well you are ranked for this keyword. For Google in particular, this used to be a difficult chore. In the old days of 2003, you’d spend your valuable time doing a search on your desired keyword, then a sub-search for your site, and crawling through pages of listings to find out exactly where you stood.
Now there is hope in the form of the following website. Direct your browser to:
http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php
You can use this site to find out what number you come up for in the Google listings, which can be very powerful information if used correctly. If you’re ranked in the top 1000, you have a shot at raising your listing for that page by tweaking the page to be a little more relevant.
So, secondly, you have to know how good a shot you have at getting a better listing. Go to:
http://www.searchguild.com/difficulty/
I posted a tip about this a month ago, and it’s also in the free optimization Guide I released the week of March 7th. It tells you how hard it is to rank well for certain keywords in Google. You’ll need a free Google API key to use it.
Now that you know your chances, the third piece of information you need to know is how much traffic you can expect. Digital Point has a free tool that gives an approximation of how many hits per day a good ranking gets. Access it here:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Okay, let’s say everything checks out so far. You rank in the top 1000. The term you want won’t be that hard to get, and will get you enough traffic per month to justify your efforts.
Our fifth step is to take the term you chose and optimize your page.
This site does periodic reports on the search engines, and their February report gives their analysis of what the best ranking pages in Google have in common. And as a free bonus, it will also tell you what Yahoo wants. Follow the following link for details-http://www.gorank.com
Now that you know what to shoot for, you need to know how the page you want will measure up- you need to calculate your keyword density. You can also do the sixth step at gorank.com - it has a free tool that will calculate it for you. Prepare your page with that in mind, re-upload, and you’re almost done.
Great, you’re all set. Now you should submit your site to Google, right?
Wrong. Absolutely not. If you can help it, you should never, ever submit any page of your site to Google. Let it find you. HOW it finds you can affect your page rank. I don’t mean that there is a standard penalty for submitting. There’s been speculation on that for a while but I have yet to prove it matters.
What I DO know from personal experience and testing on my member’s sites, is that getting the Googlebot search engine spider to happen upon your site shaves up to 6 weeks off the standard time it takes for indexing. You can show up in Google in as little as 4 days.
Which site links to you can also affect your Google Page Rank. While this is not as important as it once was, it still carries significant weight– my site didn’t start getting spidered on a daily basis until my Page Rank increased to 5.
So even if the spider comes to your site on a Monthly basis, you’re better off waiting for the spider to come back by. That’s the seventh step, let your page be re-discovered with it’s great new changes.
And yes, there’s an even faster, better way to get Google.com’s search engine spider to re-index that page, but that’s another article, isn’t it?
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