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When it comes to buying UK domains I’ve always been a fan of 1and1 because of their cheap prices. However I did find their nameserver chaning very slow compared to godaddy, but I was prepared to accept it as it was cheaper. Today I emailed 1and1 about the procedure when I want to sell a domain to another 1and1 user and they kindly pointed out their FAQ, which states:
Does it cost anything to move a domain from one 1&1 Customer to another?
Domain Type Transfer Fee
.co.uk £2.99
.me.uk £2.99
.org.uk £2.99
.com £8.89
.org £8.89
.net £8.89
.info £8.89
.biz £8.89
.us £8.89
.name £8.89
.net £8.89
.eu £8.89

What a joke! The only business they must get is from people who don’t sell their domains as I shall definetly be not using them again. I think I may have to keep to goDaddy even for UK domains. Atleast then when I want to sell my domain to someone else its FREE to do so!

We all like to comment on blogs when theres an interesting article but often I’ve wondered if certain blogs ive been commenting on are no follow or not. Firstly let me explain what “no follow” means, for those of you that don’t know. “no follow” is html code that indicates to the google bot crawling a site not to follow that link and therefore in terms of SEO purposes renders is useless, but never the less could still give you traffic.

Now there is the DoFollow Blog List but I cant be bothered to look through that! My time is too precious! I want a quick and easy way to find out if its worth it to comment on the blog I am reading. ( dont get me wrong I will comment on blogs that are no follow if the article is really good or I can relate to it.)

So one thing you can do is install an easy firefox plugin called Search Status which will highlight any no follow links on command.

Once you have it installed you will find that there is a little “q” in the bottom right hand corner, right click that and select “HighLight NoFollow Links“.

Hey Presto you now know if a site is using nofollow or not! You can thank me by buying me a beer bellow

A while back I posted about the recent craze which was creating eBay affiliate mini sites.

I am now pleased to be able to show you my results from the last 3 months:

Now please remember these results are in pounds and not dollars. The earnings in dollars are about $88.

So lets look at the whole picture I bought the original script for $49 and bought 4 different domains totalling $32 being a grand total expenditure of $81. So that’s only $7 profit from about 8 hours worth of work for setting up the sites. I have not promoted the sites in any way at all. All the traffic they receive is free organic traffic. Another thing to point out is that not all of the sites were made at the start of the 3 months some are only1 month and a half old.

Am I please with the results?

Well yes and no. I don’t like the fact that they don’t make that much money but I do like the fact that once I have made the sites I can just sit back and relax and never have to look at the site again and I know it is making me a little bit of money to add to other incomes. Anything I make from now on is pure profit and I don’t have to do anything to make that money its great!

One tip I would give to anyone going into this type of market would be to only make sites targeted to the country your hosting is as I think this effects traffic a lot. Also think very hard about what niche you are going to go in.

Do you have eBay mini sites? How are you results compared to mine?

Graphic design is not my strong point what so ever and I think a lot of people have problem with it. I often outsource my graphics work, but found a great tutorial on how to create web 2.0 style logos very easily in Photoshop CS2.

1. Download and Install style file

First of all, you will need to download a style I’ve created and load it into Photoshop.

1. Download Photoshop style here. (Right-click -> Save as)
2. For Photoshop CS2 users, put this style file into
   “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe CS2\Presets\Styles”
   Photoshop of other versions, put the file inside Presets\Styles

2. Load style Call up your Style Dialog box in Photoshop Windows -> Styles Notice a small arrow button on the top right corner. Click on it and select Load Styles from the drop down Find web20 from the list and click Load. If you don’t find web20, try close Photoshop, re-open it repeat Step 1. Click on the arrow button again and select Large List from drop down Your result should look something similar to the image on the right.

Then all you do is use the write some text then click on a style for example ‘mixd-label’ and the text will be styled with that style!

You can see the full tutorial here: How Web 2.0 Logos are drawn (Photoshop)