This post is regarding verifying paypal accounts using virtual credit card.

Paypal is the easiest and the most common way of receiving and transferring funds online and almost everyone who is working and earning online through any medium either by freelancing or affiliate commission have paypal accounts.

But ease of use comes with some restrictions and its there with Paypal too. The problem is, you need to verify your account to lift the cap of fund transfer from your account.

You can easily verify it, if you have a credit card, but in India most of the people doesn’t have credit cards (As we do not believe in the culture of credit ) and they find it hard to verify their paypal accounts.

There is an easy method by which you can easily verify your account even if you do not have a valid credit card and that is by using Virtual Credit Card or VCC.

There are lots of websites which offer valid virtual credit cards from $5 to $7.5. One such website is shopvcc.com and they charge $7.5 for paypal verification card.

Process:

1. Order your VCC and they will send you an email within couple of days giving your credit card and security number along with the instructions about adding your card.

You will receive your email like this:

“Your Card is generated, please use it within 24-48 Hours or else the card will be canceled by the bank, from the time of creation.

VISA Card number: 4788938818771265
Expiry Date: 01/10(mm/yy)
CVV2: 225
Your 4 Digit Verification Code (Expanded use Number) will be provide after you added the vcc details to your paypal account. Reply me after adding the card details.”

2. Add your details in your paypal account and reply the email that you have done
3. They will send you a paypal verification code, which you have to add in your paypal account.
4. Congratulations! You are now an owner of a verified account with no amount cap and transfer limitations.

This post will be helpful for all of my Indian friends who want to verify their account but do not have credit cards.

Hope you have enjoyed this information. I would love to hear your opinions and comments.

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Google Earth has big plans to prepare a detailed map of Kerala (a province in India situated at the south end of the country), for which Google has planned to hold a Kerala Mapping Party on February 05, 2010.

It will help Google earth to present a clear and detailed view of both natural and political geography, but the plan got a big hurdle from police and security officials.

Security official have genuine concerns over the exposure of some sites which are of strategic importance and could pose a threat to the country’s security.

The main sites which security officials have pointed are Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Southern Naval Command, Cochin Ship Yard, and Southern Air Command.

There are also some sensitive locations like Guruvayur and Sabarimala temple spread across the state

Now let’s see what will happen in future. Good Luck Google

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If you are using Google Analytics, you would be well familiar with the word bounce rate. Let us see what the definition of bounce rate according to GA is?

According to Google Analytics:

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.

You can read the original explanation here at What does Bounce Rate mean?

In a simpler sense, a user visits your website either through your listing in the organic SERPs or through clicking your paid ads and exits from the same page, where it lands without visiting any other page on your website is called bounce and the percentage of bounce is known as bounce rate

There may be two factors which causes this to happen.

• The visitor might be searching for a very small and to the point (say one word) information and your page is highly relevant for what he is searching for, he got what he wanted and quits. For an example, if someone searching for “where was the president George Bush born” and lands to your webpage and finds the answer in the first few lines, there are 99% chances that he will quit the next moment as he has his answers handy.
• The second case is, the visitor does not find what he was searching for and this is the reason for most of the cases of bounced visitors. A visitor searching for information on topic”XYZ”, lands on your webpage and doesn’t find it and pushes the back button without waiting any more.

This is the main case of bounced visitors and you should take every step necessary for reducing it.

You can test different elements on your webpage to reduce bounce rate and increase visitor engagement with the website. I have written some posts regarding how to chose different elements for your webpage and how to prepare great content for your visitors, which you must have a look, it may help you minimize your bounce rate.

Now the question is whether bounce rate affects your organic rankings?

Different SEO’s have contrary views over this topic. Some say yes and some No. But I have experienced that a high bounce rate definitely affects your organic rankings.

Think it in this way. Google always try to provide high quality and relevant results to its users for their query, why would they list a webpage for which they know that users do not like it for a particular query?

Or take it in another way with an offline example. Suppose you are a consultant whose job is to refer people to the persons (list a number of webpages) who can provide solution to their problems (query). Will you keep referring them to a person about whom people complain a lot of time that they didn’t provide the solution they needed. The obvious answer is NO, you won’t.

So now you can think over this that bounce rate really affects your organic rankings, so apply every effort to reduce it.

Do not use blackhat ways: Some webmasters install some malicious script which disables the Back button of the browsers once their website is open, or some other script which blank the referrer when they hit the back button in their browsers, so that the user appears a new one to the search engines. Never try these shady methods, as sooner or later you will be banned for your malicious activities.

In coming posts we will discuss different factors for reducing the bounce rate.

What is your opinion on “bounce rate and organic ranking”, please let us know by posting them in comments.

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There are many crucial factors which should be always considered while planning a new online project. Many newbie internet marketers make this mistake frequently; they do not spend time in doing research and project planning. Their decision is just based on hype, they hear from somewhere that there is money in any niche; they just start running and copying in a blind manner.

Beware and stay away from this mentality….

So what we basically need while doing our research for a new project?

In a simpler sense you need to know lot of things while designing, developing a new project as well as during content preparation.

Basically you want to know (you need to research your market)

1. Age group of the audience
2. purchasing power of the audience
3. educational status of the audience

Let us take an example. Suppose you need to start a website for car insurance (you made up your mind for this, however this niche is super competitive and saturated and starting a new website in this niche is not a very good idea if you are new to this field and have small budget, this is just an example to make you understand the point) J

Now let us check which website has the Google number 1 crown for the keyword “car insurance”

Number 1: www.progresssive.com

Number 2: www.geico.com

Now let us check them one by one

Site: www.progressive.com

Page Rank: 6
Alexa Rank: 6270
Backlinks (Google): 708
Backlinks (Yahoo): 214531
Pages Cached (Google):2080
Domain Age:
Created on…………..: Mon, Nov 17, 1997
Expires on…………..: Sun, Nov 16, 2014

Site: www.geico.com

Page Rank: 07
Alexa Rank: 3702
Backlinks (Google): 676
Backlinks (Yahoo):86203
Pages Cached (Google): 1800
Domain Age:
Creation Date: 22-jul-1995
Expiration Date: 21-jul-2010

I think the data from the top 2 is sufficient to establish the competitiveness of this niche and it will be very hard to appear on first page in a short period of time. Here I am not suggesting you any niche to start with, our topic is something else from this. Now back to the topic.

So we have got some pretty impressive data, do I need something else?

Yes you do. Up to now you have just checked the competition and feasibility of a niche you wish to enter. You need more data about the 3 points which we have discussed in the starting of this article, for planning and developing your website. Ok I got it… Now how and where can I find those data?

There are many ways to research it. The simplest one is to use a website called www.quantcast.com , visit QuantCast and you can get audience data of any website on the internet.

Now in our case let us see what happens, I opened quantcast.com and entered the URL progressive.com for information.

Data you get:

1. Visits per month, people per month with daily, weekly and monthly comparison of visits.( you can know how many people use the website)

2. Which subdomains of the website, are receiving most and least traffic.( you get the data about the various segments of the website, where people are visiting and get an idea of demand)

3. The most important factor is demographics, which tells you about the percentage of male and female visitors, age group of the visitors, ethnicity, percentage of households with kids’ visiting the website, the income level of the visitors and their educational status.

4. At last Lifestyle which tells” People who visit this site are likely to visit sites in these categories” and which other website visitors go apart from the one in question.

Oh my God, now you know everything about your prospective audience. Yes now you have the power, you can now plan the design, look and feel, colors and graphics, content and all other factors of your website. The best part is, as you now have an idea of the educational background and purchasing power of your audience, now you can decide how to market your website, which offers to use and which products to sell.

I would be happy if I was been able to convey the right message to you.

So use QuantCast in your market research and make your planning better.

I do not know what your reasons to join internet marketing are, but the general thing which underlies in every new online project is to invest minimum time, effort, money and gain profits. Atleast I have the same reason when I joined the cyber world.

Like this article or have some questions, post in the comment section and I will try to reply it.

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You would have heard a lot of cases of Google banning Adsense accounts citing the reason to protect their publishers from any type of fraud. But you will get astonished when you will learn that Google has not paid any tax on its £1.6 billion advertising revenue in Britain last year. This news was published in a leading news paper the Sunday Times.

How much tax they evaded and how they did it: They haven’t paid tax amounting to £450 million in corporation tax to HM Revenue & Customs in 2008. Actually Google diverted all its earnings from advertising received from customers in Britain to its subsidiary in Ireland.

Citing accounts filed with the Companies House in the past week, the daily said, “Google’s 2008 UK corporation tax bill amounted to just £141,519 and that was tax on the interest generated by its cash pile in UK bank deposits.”

The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable, has urged Google to “pay its fair share” of tax. “Google’s reputation will be severely damaged if it continues to behave in this way. It is ducking its social responsibility,” Cable said.

Yes Google must pay its taxes because they always try to showcase themselves as the president of fair business practices and ethics, now it’s their turn to prove themselves.

What do you all think of this story…. Post your responses in comments

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