Black Hat tool - GDrive Now.

Speculation about a “G-Drive” has been around for years: A GDrive being hard disk space in the cloud, accessible from anywhere on the bullet-proof infrastructure of Google.

Articles from 2006 Claim “GDrive, Not a Rumor“. Even yesterday, we saw Internet abuzz with Google GDrive rumors.

It’s called vaporware folks. All this buzz about something that may happen someday.

But you don’t have to wait anymore; and you shouldn’t. You can have a “Gdrive” right now.

Why would you want a “Gdrive”?

It’s a Fact: Shit Happens.

In the USA In 2007 there were:

• 414,000 Residential Fires

• 2,179,140 burglaries

• Water damage and freezing claims occur about 1.5 times for each 100 homeowner’s policies per year, with an average severity of over $5000.

• Something like 50% of marriages end in divorce. With all those crazy” ex”s, friends and relatives running around your personal property is NOT 100% safe.

If all your physical computer property were destroyed or stolen tomorrow, would you be up shit’s creek without a paddle? Would you lose all your personal photos, videos, documents and working projects? If so, you need a bullet proof backup solution. You need a GDrive.

Now, if you could get a scalable 50 Gig “Gdrive” for around $10 / month - would you want it?

Because if you cross out the word “Google” in G-drive and fill in “GAMEY”, a “Gdrive” is already available. (GAMEY = Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Ebay, Yahoo).

About Amazon S3

From Amazon:

“Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.”

You Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee.

Storage is $0.150 per GB / Month
Transfer is $0.100 per GB Upstream and $0.170 per GB downstream.

When you do the math, it’s so cheap to store your date on this bullet proof service that you really can’t afford not to do it. 10 GB of storage would run you less than $2 a month.

How to Setup a GDrive Using Amazon’s S3

It’s easier than you thought.

Step 1: Sign Up For Amazon’s Amazon Simple Storage Service.

Step 2: Install the S3Fox Organizer for Amazon (S3Fox) Firefox Plugin.

Step 3: Go to Tools -> S3 Organizer and Set up an Amazon S3 account with by Naming the account and entering your Access Key and Secret Key.

Step 4: Create your first “bucket”. When you right click on the left side you will see an option for “Create Directory”. Any root level directory created will be a “bucket”.

Step 5. Double click the bucket, and start uploading. There’s even an option to sync with a folder built into s3fox.

For Video and Photos, Flickr Pro is a better bet

If you have more than 10 Gigs of personal photos and videos, Flickr Pro is probably a better backup solution for those filetypes. For $2 per month, you get unlimited transfer, unlimited storage, a nifty file interface, good privacy and sharing options, and a desktop uploader. You can even upload photos via an email attachment.

Facebook or Myspace are also worth considering for video and photo management depending on your needs. But just keeping those photos on your hard drive with a DVD backup means that you lose all those “memories” if your house burns down. How much would that suck?

People know they should back up their data. For me, $100 or less a year to have my data safe on GAMEY is a no brainer.

How much is your data worth?

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Want A Higher Alexa Ranking? Here’s How . . .

Alexa ranking is one of the metrics people use to measure the size and traffic of a site. A better ranking will, at least in theory, make you look more popular and therefore more credible.

You probably spend a fair amount of time on at least some of your own sites. I mean, they can’t ALL suck - can they?

If so, there’s a simple, passive way you can slightly increase your Alexa rank. Toolbars, for the most part, are crap, but there is an Alexa fireforx addon, built by Alexa, that doesn’t suck that much. It’s called Alexa Sparky.

Alexa uses the data from surfers that install this Plugin and their toolbar to determine Alexa rank. If you install this addon, you will be increasing the alexa rank of all the sites you visit.

It’s that simple. So go ahead and add this addon.

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Top 10 SEO Tips

The practice of search engine optimization (SEO) is part science and part black art. Keeping up with what search engine algorithms deem most worthy for high page rank is ever changing and highly secretive. Aggressive SEO hacks who try to "cheat the system" may earn a web site a high rank one day, but possible banishment the next. Beware of optimizers who promise you #1 rankings; they may do more harm than good.

It's no secret that search engines (such as Google and others) like content — lots of it, fresh and steamy. The more pages you publish in your area of expertise, the more exposure you will have to the search engines (they love archived material too). And the more strategically you headline, title, metatag and link those pages, the higher they rise in rank.

While all search engines work a little differently, they all attempt to provide the best, most relevant information based on search queries. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is: Publish. And be relevant. I've had great success with client web sites scoring well on search engines by publishing pages that avoid schemes to "trick" search engines and implement the following tried-and-true tips for search engine success.

It is not hard to be barking up the wrong tree when it comes to getting search engine traffic because there is so much out of date information being circulated.
That is why it is always best to also learn many other traffic generation methods like viral marketing for example.

Not only is there out of date or invalid SEO advice getting around, there is also information which if acted upon, can result in your pages being banned.

The SEO tips below should assist the reader in forming a basic understanding of how to create human friendly web pages which are easily understood by the most popular search engines.

Know this. There are thousands of search engines but only two of them will bring you most of the traffic. They are google and yahoo. Another search engine that brings me a little traffic is msn but I do not focus too much on tactics for that engine.

Focus your attention on the engines that will bring you the most visitors first and work your way down.

Basic SEO

1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. The title tag is located right at the top of your document within the head tags. Inserting a keyword or key phrase will greatly improve your chances of bringing targeted traffic to your site.

Make sure that the title tag contains text which a human can relate to. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result. Treat it like a headline.

2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.

3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.

Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.

Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.

4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.

I always use the headline of my pages as the title tag to help the robots know exactly what my page is about. A good place to insert the headline is within the h1 tag. So the headline is the same as the title tag text.

5. Do not spam the description or keyword meta tag by stuffing meaningless keywords or even spend too much time on this tag. SEO pros all agree that these tags are not as important today as they once were. I just place my headline once within the keywords and description tags.

6. Do not link to link-farms or other search engine unfriendly neighborhoods.

7. Do not use doorway pages. Doorway pages are designed for robots only, not humans. Search engines like to index human friendly pages which contain content which is relevant to the search.

8. Title tags for text links. Insert the title tag within the HTML of your text link to add weight to the link and the page where the link resides. This is like the alt tag for images.

My site contains navigation menus on the left and right of the page. The menu consists of links not images. When you hover over the link with your mouse, the title of the link appears. View the source of this page to see how to add this tag to your links.

9. Describe your images with the use of the alt tag. This will help search engines that index images to find your pages and will also help readers who use text only web browsers.

10. Submit to the search engines yourself. Do not use a submission service or submission software. Doing so could get your site penalized or even banned.

Here is the submission page for google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Submit only once. There is no need to submit every two weeks. There is no need to submit more than one page. Robots follow links. If your site has a nice link trail, your entire site will get indexed.

My site has a nice human friendly link trail which robots follow easily. All my pages get indexed without ever submitting more than the main index page once.

More SEO Tips

Get the facts here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/. This page will explain most of what you should focus on along with what you should forget about.

If you have been thinking about handing over the task of SEO to someone outside of yourself, you should read some warnings before you part with any money. http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html

SEO Discussion

Most SEO Professionals will not tell you about the goose that laid the golden egg. The following link will take you to a jealously guarded FREE SEO discussion.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general

You can search the forum for specific questions you may have. I like to just lurk around and read the messages.

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Advertise

How to Advertise on SEO Maven Chat


SEO MAVEN Chat is a popular blog with content dealing with SEO Tips,professional blogging, internet marketing, social media, affiliate programs, search engine optimization, get-paid-to websites and online monetization strategies.

Because it ranks well on search engines for several money related keywords, visitors to the website consists of casual internet users who are seeking information on how to make money online.

It’s audience also includes a substantial number of bloggers, webmasters and small business owners.

Why Should you Advertise on Seo Maven Chat?
Seo Maven Chat has rapidly established itself within its niche while steadily developing a strong audience and subscriber base. It has received links from several authority publications such as Newsweek, Guardian UK, San Francisco Chronicle, Problogger, Smashing Magazine, Search Engine Journal, LifeHack, and Copyblogger .

Here are some traffic and third party stats:

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Advertising Options and Rates
If you’re interested in receiving an ad rate card with all available ad options and their corresponding prices, please click here to email me and I’ll send it to you as soon as possible.

Please indicate in your email, the URL of the website to be advertised. Unless otherwise stated, all ad space is sold on a monthly basis.

Here are more details on the advertising options currently available:

Premium Ads (Image Ad Blocks)


This consists of 125 x 125 ad blocks which are displayed in the sidebar. An excellent way to promote your brand, the ads do not rotate and are easily visible to all visitors. There are only 8 spots available. All images are subjected to editorial approval.

You’ll only need to send me your ad image, which will be hosted on Seo Maven Chat and linked to your specified website.

Need more information?
Still not sure about placing an ad? I’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have concerning Seo Maven Chat and the ad options available.

Feel free to contact me via email.

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Contact

Please send me an email if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.
Due to the high volume of emails received, I might not be able to guarantee a reply but your email will definitely be read.

Email: seomaven@gmail.com

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