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Cyber Shoplifters, How Do They Get Their Kicks?
What do people who steal from others on the Internet get out of it. I call them cyber shoplifters, petty thieves.
In the off line world, shoplifters get a bit of an adrenalin rush when they get away with stealing from retail stores. They’ve beat the security system and the store detective/detection.
But in the online world, where or how do they get their kicks? Do they get any satisfaction from sitting in front of their computer, 
Googling all the different words that will get them through to a download page to steal someone’s product…..the mind boggles at the mentality….you have to feel sorry for them. What a life they must have or NOT!!! Some achievement.
I know there are forums where they pass around how they got to these download pages but they are still nameless/faceless, they use avatars and nicknames so no one really knows who or what they are. Still with achievements like they have, maybe that is the idea.
Recently someone got through to a download page of mine, well to actually get there they had to subscribe to my list for that product and as soon as that happened and no payment, I sent them an email asking for their receipt number so I could put them in a draw for ‘money’ prize competition. Naturally I didn’t hear….lol.
But then I went to the site and checked on a great WordPress plugin called StatsPress Reloaded. This plugin shows you the terms searched and the page on your site that is accessed.
There was only the one search that qualified. So I went and changed everything that this ‘petty thief/cyber shoplifter’ could have passed on.
Then for several days everytime the search term appeared in the StatsPress they went through to another page. So my little cyber shoplifter looked like a ‘BIG DUMBE DILL’ to those on the forums where he big-noted himself.
Not the most satisfying experience for the poor little no-name/no-face.
So if you want very up to date stats, take a look at StatsPress Reloaded, it’s a free plugin and well worth adding to your favourite plugins list. You can take a look at it here
Well that’s my little tip for today, take care and I’ll catch you later.
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Wordpress Plugins
A Lil’Bit About WordPress You May Not Know
I had payed and signed up for a membership, registered and confirmed my subscription and waited for the next step.
Nothing…..no email telling me how to access, checked the trash folder…..nothing.
Now this membership was set up with WordPress, which is fine, I’ve joined many membership sites set up with WordPress. Actually I’m getting ready to set up one myself. And….I’m very thankful that this happened as you will see.
Anyway, I was about to contact the person who owned the site when I needed to check a few of the folders that I have emails directed to and there it was…Guess who sent it? WordPress….that’s who it was from and I have a folder where anything with WordPress in the ‘From’ goes directly to that particular folder(the folder is called something else, not WordPress but that’s my filing system).
I have never had a site where ‘anyone can register’ so had never come across this before.
Now I was adding the plugin Web Invoices to one of my sites to make sending accounts to clients easier. This is a great plugin, actually there are two of them, I’ll tell you my pick later.
With this plugin, you need to enter your clients, they don’t register, that’s how my site is set. They need a username and password to access their past invoices and the WordPress will send that to them automatically the same as if they were registering as a new user.
So that was the email that would go out to clients and they would have no idea why they were getting an email from WordPress and who the heck is WordPress anyway? (these clients don’t do much stuff on the Internet)
So Google, being such a good friend of mine, helped me to find a plugin for WordPress that would solve this problem.
There are a couple, actually three that I considered. The one I chose has templates of the emails which can be easily changed to suit and now the clients will know just who is sending them an email.
If you install it through your dashboard, which is very easy, that should be the latest version, (I had to upgrade mine as soon as it was activated) so check just in case, because the latest version has some really good ‘Settings’ options. You can reword the email that goes to the client/user and even send a test so that you are sure it is right.
This is the plugins site.
http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/
And it works like a treat!!
Now read all about Web Invoice here
Dust Off The CyberDust – WPUnique Is Here! An Update -
This is an update about the WPUnique, WordPress Plugin.
Late yesterday I was finishing off a site and there was some content needed on three pages. So I thought I would try using something I already had.
I had submitted articles for this site to EZA and the content in three of them was perfect for these pages. I didn’t need the content for the site to be as much as the articles contained so I took sections of them about 200+ words and added them to the relevant pages.
On this site I had installed WPUnique and had it set to ‘unique’ all the pages and posts, you can do that with an option in the settings.
Now on the individual pages and posts there is also an option to change that setting to something else.
I wanted to see how the ‘spin’ option would work on these articles, I’m not a great lover of spin unless I have set up the options in Magic Article Rewriter.
I also have a program that checks the original and the spin or rewrite version of an article for the percentage of uniqueness.
So, with setting up nothing for the spin options, using it ‘out-of-the-box’, the uniqueness from the originals came out at – 32.58%, 37.45% and wait for it 55.56% and…….there was only one word that needed changing.
Now that’s what I call – Uniquely Brilliant!!!!!!
I did check some of the PLR articles that I had included on another site through my checkup program and guess what – from the original to the article on the site, it was 100% unique, now reading that article on the site, it read exactly the same as the original but my checkup program, when I copied and pasted it into there, from the live page, it was 100% unique…….that is how the search engines see it – 100% different from anything else out there on the ‘Live WWW’.
That’s why WPUnique is – Uniquely Brilliant – all this duplicate content – well is simply disappears, no-more, not-a-worry, no-no-dupe. Love It!!!
I know there will be those who say you still have to rewrite PLR articles, (yes you do – for submitting to article directories, not EZA though, they don’t accept rewrites of PLR)
And…there are those who say you still have to wash your dishes by hand and dry them by hand too, all the while having a perfectly good automatic dishwasher.
Or…those who say you still have to install WordPress manually while there is a perfectly good Fantastico sitting on their Cpanel.
Or…those who say the only cricket to watch or go to, is a test match while eveyone is out having fun at a 20-20 or a One Day game and it is the 20-20 and One Dayers that is putting bums on seats and allowing the test matches to continue…….
Sorry got off the track a little there, but you know what I mean. If you have PLR articles sitting on your computer with, as they say, cyber dust all over them, blow the dust and cobwebs off, go get WPUnique while it is at this great price (I can’t see it staying there, it is too good), set up your niche sites and make some money, add Adsense, Clickbank, make your own product, whatever……..just do it!!!!
Click here, yes it is my affiliate link and I do stand to make a few dollars and so can you, but you won’t unless you – and you know what’s next – TAKE ACTION!!!!
Catch you later,
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Wordpress