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    What's The Scam?

    AS brokersteve said, they will always find 'problems', and either: a) charge a small fortune for fixing the problems b) Keep using your card number for more charges c) Install keyloggers, redirects, password stealers and all sorts of other nasties to steal your logins, banking details or...
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    Do follow backlinks from PR7 site

    Further to Tom at Click - google said about a year ago that they were trying to add the intent of a click - positive or negative - into the algorithm. So a bar review or 'this is a spammer' report would not help your rank, and could indeed harm it. No idea if this is still in play - not read...
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    commercial lease - what do solicitors do?

    *I'm not a solicitor* Just reading them. They need to read them, speak to you to see if they match what you actually wanted, understand what you want to get out of the lease you may not have thought of, probably discuss any particularly onerous terms with you and the other side and submit any...
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    Website Threats

    Do be slightly careful doing this. In a contract a single word can be critical, and can make a huge difference to a contract. For instance: 'best endeavours': we will do everything within our power, at any cost, to comply with this clause 'realistic endeavours': we will try but no promises...
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    T & Cs on website - prevent copying?

    In addition to PipeTen - yes a customer may need to copy or print the T&C for legitimate purposes, as that forms part of the contract at the time they purchase from you, and if you subsequently change them on your website the ones at the time still apply. I'd use copyspcape or a simple...
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    China Domain Name Registration- Scam?

    Not exactly a scam - but very misleading. They are hoping you will choose to register the domains rather than the fictional other party, and do it through them. You have a couple of choices: Register the domains you actually want to register to either use or protect your brand, but do it...
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    Having a new e-commerce site designed - pay dev. to learn?

    There's always an element of learning, as every customer has different requirements, but generally you want to either: have a supplier who has a good understanding of the ecommerce system you are using get a substantial discount on normal costs and a really good support/fix agreement (in...
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    Using faces on your website

    One possible issue is that it can make your company look smaller. This may not be a bad thing, but if you want to look bigger, a meet the team with four faces, including the cleaner, might look a bit small. Of course, many organisations have a page for the senior management only, which gets...
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    PPC v organic analytic question

    11.37 minutes is really long for an average web visit, so it may say more about the profile of your organic traffic! Some things to check: Is the average visit length being skewed by a few very long /very short visits? Are you excluding your own traffic, plus your developers, home PC, etc...
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    Is broadband/landline pricing the UK's biggest silent con?

    We're still cheaper for a faster service than the states!
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    Any good article spinner tool ?

    I'm interested from the OP what he wants the articles for? Multiple copies of the same info on your own site is mostly a waste of time, and finding homes for 50 copies of a near identical article that are relevant for the guest site audience and add something to the guest site would be a...
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    Is it possible to rank for a keyword...

    I'd write for people first - it's usually safer in the long term. Link at the point where, as a reader, you think 'I'd like to know more about that'. The difficulty of working to a formula is that it's very likely to change at some point, and that could be bad, but if you have genuine useful...
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    dedicated ip address for seo required?

    The only benefit I'm aware of is a reduced chance of sharing an IP address or IP address range with sites that are considered spam. Don't know for sure but I suspect that's a pretty small part of ranking signals nowadays, with link profile and other aspects having a much stronger effect.
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    Publicising Voucher Codes

    Have a look at affiliate networks too. I've used Affiliate Window, and there are a lot of voucher code and deal specific sites that use it. Be aware, though, that it will eat into margins as the affiliate takes a cut, the affiliate program takes a cut and the voucher code reduces margin!
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    Make Sure your Website Contact Form works...

    True, but then most forms get spammed heavily by bots too. It's all down to whether you value your time clearing out spam more than you value making it easier for customers to contact you. I tend to use Gmail now and it's very effective as a spam filter.
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