Don’t Keyword Spam!

Beware! The readership of your blog/website may even come down if you start giving importance to the search engines rather than your faithful visitors, and followers. And, above all, even if you succeed in ranking high for certain keywords by stuffing in extra keywords without disturbing your regular readership, search engine traffic isn’t going to appreciate a highly optimized article for a specific keyword.

Something similar is applicable to Blackhat SEO tactics, as most of the folks who try out Blackhat SEO strategies succeed in improving the PageRank of their website considerably. However, once the search engines identity association of link farms, and SPAMMING BOTs with your online venture, you can kiss a good bye to all your dreams of making money from it. It is quite possible that your website(s) on which you’re using BlackHat SEO tactics, may be completely dropped off from popular search engine results.

And, in such cases, you’ll not be able to run even popular contextual advertising programs like Google Adsense on these websites/blogs as well.


It is imperative to understand that you’re going to rank high on search engines & make a lot of money online only with genuine ways, rather than fraudulent activities and trying your luck with short cuts like stuffing words to maintain high SEO keyword density.

You can read more on maintaining right SEO keyword density here

• To drive traffic to your blogs
• To build your profile or perceived expertise in a niche/industry
• Just as a branding exercise
• To use it to network with others in your niche
• As a social exercise and past-time
• Show your personal side and opinions to your followers

However, it is important that you don’t try to use Twitter for all these reasons at a time. Just as it is important to learn how to use Twitter effectively, it is equally important to remember to create one account for a specific reason. For instance, if you’re trying to promote your business via a Twitter account, it just makes no sense to write your personal views and trying to drive some traffic through your Tweets.

Even if you try to do so, you’ll end up spoiling your business identity and also failing in achieving the other goals. So, what do you do? Well, nobody is stopping you from creating multiple accounts and you can definitely Tweet around via multiple accounts, with each account targeting a sole aim.

While learning how to use Twitter for branding and business promotion, it is important that you load the avatar as the logo of your organization, not your personal photo (even if you’re the founder, CEO, COO, chairman or whatever).

Moreover, remember until you learn well how to use Twitter, don’t try to spam around, because you can badly hurt your identity as well as your business promotion campaign. It is highly necessary that you tweet only original info. Don’t forget that Twitter users are smart enough to discover the duplicate content pretty easily, and once somebody realizes that you’re Tweeting duplicate content, nobody would be interested to read the junk anymore. Henceforth, all your posts will be treated as Spam and Junk, irrespective of how informative they may be.

Furthermore, until you master how to use Twitter, you should mind the fact that you must not sound too self-centred. It is important that you don’t forget that everybody hates selfish and self-centred writers as well as individuals as a whole, so something similar applies to the Twitterers too.

Give every good tweet that you write, you learn how to use Twitter in a better manner, and every tweet counts. It is possible that you might be trying hard to drive good traffic to your website/blog but failing to do so. Suddenly, you come up with some really useful info, and just 2-3 of your outstanding tweet loaded with quality content start driving in massive traffic to your website for quite sometime.

Lastly, you must remain fully active, promote your twitter feed, and monitor your “reply ratio” closely, until you succeeding in figuring out how to use Twitter best to your advantage.

There has been no official information/announcement from PayPal yet; and poof! All the transactions to and from India are being reversed without any prior notification.

If you try to contact PayPal support, they’re mentioning that if it was a personal payment, it has been sent back, as they’ve stopped this feature in India.

And, they’re claiming that business/commercial transactions, especially those in which ’shipping address’ has been specified, are being entertained. But, the reality seems to be far different…

Most of the customers who have business accounts and even have requested for money or raised money for services are being tortured, as literally every single transaction coming in, and going out of India, is being reversed; that too without any prior notice.

Can’t Withdraw Your Own Money Anymore

Apparently, Indian customers who’ve requested for any money withdrawal after February 1,2010 haven’t received their money in the bank account, but the payment status shows up as ‘completed’ in their paypal account summary. Everybody is puzzled as to where has ALL the MONEY in such transactions gone!!!

Upon contacting the support, customers are getting variety of responses from the support agents – some have even been accused of being involved in fradulent activities. And, that PayPal is carrying out a ground check against their account; so it may take up to 20-30days for things to get normal again.

On most occasions, currently PayPal telephone support team is advising their customers to be patient, and wait for 8-10days before they get an update.

Transactions Reversed; But Money hasn’t Come Back Yet!!!
Far worse, the biggest sufferers are those who’ve sent big amounts of money to India! Despite the transactions being reversed and PayPal notifying them of the reversal, they haven’t got their money back!

What PayPal has Got to Say?
There hasn’t been any official announcement yet; but here’s what every Indian customer has got as a standard reply from PayPal -

Hello ,

Your payment of has been sent back to the sender of the payment.

We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may contact the buyer and have him or her resend the payment as follows: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment such as a gift, then we have requested that the sender find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you,
PayPal

If You Raise a Support Ticket; Standard Reply

Thank you for contacting PayPal regarding the recent payment issues. We value you as a customer and regret the delay in responding to your service request.

We’re glad that you’ve come to PayPal for receiving money. Unfortunately, we’ve had to stop allowing personal payments to be sent to and from India.

Any personal payments that have been recently sent to you from India have been automatically reversed, and the money returned to the sender.

If you’re receiving money for a personal payment, such as gift, then we
have requested that the sender find another way to pay you until we’re able to restore personal payments to and from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a
personal payment, then you may contact the buyer and have him or her resend the payment as follows:

> #. Have the buyer log in to their PayPal account.
> #. Click “Send Money.”
> #. Enter their email address in the “To” field.
> #. Enter the amount of money they wish to send you, and choose the
> currency from the list.
> #. Select “Goods”, “Services”, or “eBay Items”, depending on the
> purchase.
> #. Click “Continue.”

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

…

However, reality seems to be quite different! All accounts – personal, premier and business, have been affected and all kinds of payments to and from India (even commercial payments for goods/services with shipping address) have been reversed.

Only time can tell what is PayPal up to, and what’s gonna’ happen to ALL the money under dispute!

Look for a PayPal Alternative Soon!

All the big freelance markets including getafreelancer.com, rentacoder.com, odesk.com and many more have started recommending their users to use MoneyBookers as an alternative; is PayPal sleeping??