SEO Hosting with Different C-Class IPs

Hi Alexis,

A suggestion for you guys.

I contacted your support regarding the 4 IPs I'm endowed with after I have opened an account with you. They are all in the same C-Class which makes them useless with respect to SEO.

And SEO hosting is in. Search Google for "SEO hosting" and you would find plenty of providers providing VPS hosting with 10 - 100 different C-class IPs at the cost of no less than $5/m for each IP.
You should definitely do this, simply change your IPs to different C-Class IPs.

Instead of offering:

1.1.1.1
1.1.1.2
1.1.1.3
1.1.1.4

You should give us:

1.1.2.1
1.1.3.1
1.1.4.1
1.1.5.1

Not sure if I'm right on this but the point is all the IPs you give us should be in different C-Class. This is a very great selling point. Yet the support got back to me saying it's not easy technically. I don't think it's any difficult to do this. Or is it?

I would very much like to see such a thing implemented on WiredTree and I would choose to host all my future websites with you. The only reason I have my $250 monthly hosting bills spread across 6 different hosts, is the IPs.

Think about it please.

 

Regards,
Yang

A negative Rackspace review translated to English from Chinese

My experience with Rackspace has been absolutely terrible! I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.

First of all, they promise you your own personal account manager but when I signed up it turned out the guy was only part-time. It seemed like he was only available for a couple of hours a week. They also claim to have "fanatical support" -- I was not at all impressed. They may have support staff available 24/7, but their eagerness seems to fade if your problem takes more than five minutes to solve or requires anything more than rebooting the server. They can talk like real professionals but actions speak louder than words.

Second, I'm not real happy with their overzealous sales tactics either. I don't doubt they have the best sales staff in the business, but once they get your signature they've got you locked into a contract that even Houdini couldn't get out of! You'll suffer for the next year or so watching your money be sucked into the black hole of cyberspace.

Third, if you get frustrated enough to try complaining to somebody with any authority, good luck there too. Everyone you talk to passes you on to somebody else, and nobody gives you an answer. If you try to use a support ticket you won't get a response, nor will you be able to track your progress, or the lack thereof, because they don't back anything up.

Be warned: if you're going to use Rackspace be prepared for high blood pressure and lots of migraines!

Public Library of Economics, Small Business, and Personal Finance

Howdy, economists, teachers/parents, students, kids, investors, and business owners! The goal of econguru.com is to provide you with a small but high standard web-based library of resources on economics, finance, and small business. Each resource comes in after several procedures of inspection and evaluation, guaranteed for solid information and concrete content. Moreover, all links are checked on a regular basis, so there should be no broken links. However, please feel free to contact me if you find anything inappropriate or incompetent to be included in this library or if there is a broken link.

EconGur presents you with over 400 selected links to information and tools on the Internet, including economic search engines & directories to do specific searches, educational materials for both teachers and students, economic data from trusted sources, diagrams & graphs for better illustration and understanding of economics lessons, glossary & encyclopedia for reference, calculators, simulators & games to study in fun, business & finance planners, market charters, tax articles & tips for your personal or business life, business & finance news sources, economic & classroom jokes, business & finance cartoons, podcasts, and even more. Some of them are useful and practical, while some of them are funny and interesting. Just follow the hyperlinks in the above navigation to travel to the destinations.

There is also a category devoted to kids and teens, with all childish stuff that helps them learn about economy and money in intuitive ways and related parents/teachers resources. In the miscellaneous, you will find some more excellent and interesting resources on disciplines other than economics on the web, as well as tools that may guide you to use the Internet more effectively in study and research.

For the articles and blogs section, EconGuru also writes some of the stuff. Introduction to Economics guides you through fundamental economic thinking tools like rational self-interest and opportunity cost. Fundamentals of Ecology helps you get familiar with the economic systems of nature. Firms and Industrial Structure gives you a general idea of various legal forms of businesses and how industries work internally and externally. As you see, this site is a work in progress, and more content is to be added in future. So check back from time to time. If you have any questions or comments, please just fill out the feedback form. Okay, help yourself and be my guest!

 

这是从archive.org上抓回来的2006年12月写的一篇econguru.com首页介绍词。。。。哈哈，太有趣了！！

技术入股如何操作？

问：

现有一个公司，邀请我技术入股。我是做营销的。有没有这么一种机制，即如果我在一年内使公司的营业额提高50%，就给我10%的公司股份。如果我没有做到，就只给我1%？

答：

还有这种好事？不知道这个公司老板是怎么考虑到？
从实现路径上看，可以实现：
1、签订合作协议，将上述内容约束在协议内，注意约定好如何认定营业额提高50%，是签约金额还是收到帐金额，避免自己被圈进去；
2、同时签订股权转让协议，两份，约定老板将股权以一元价格转让给你。一份是10%的，另一份是1%的，在协议中说明根据那种情况，实行股权转让。注意签字时候不注明日期，待实现营业额后，再填写日期。
3、如果还能做到将工商变更手续资料准备齐全，那就更好！注意也不要填写日期。这样可以避免老板届时赖账，你可以直接拿着这些东西自己去工商变更即可！

不如起床

啊，我睡不着觉
等不及天明
可以起来
但是我不会清醒
我可以纵声高歌
我想着白天
可以浑洒可以笑
可以神经大条
但我不会清醒

白天多么美好
夜晚太过漫长
支离破碎
的梦
和魇
浅浅地如此清晰
现实和梦境
翻来裹去
展转成丝
时间越来越慢
膀胱越来越敏感

啊我睡不着觉
啊我TM为什么这么困却睡不着觉
啊我TM到底为什么睡不着觉。。。。

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The #1 reason I get so much traffic–Neil Patel

This is a message from Neil Patel, the legendary entrepreneur born in 1985 who’s making millions of dollars per year from his businesses. Very very insightful read.

Here's another one by him: 3 Mistakes of Online Business Owners

And another one: How to get affiliate referrals?

Actually, just come here for the most recent mailing by him: KAVOIR BACKYARD ARTICLES

People often ask me how I'm able to get so much traffic to every business I own... how I'm able to find traffic sources where others can't... and so on.

Let me begin to answer that with a question of my own:

On a scale of 1 - 10 (with 10 being "super crucial"), how important is traffic to your business success? Could you survive without traffic? Could you grow your business without growing your traffic?

Most people rate traffic a 10 -- super crucial.

I, however, would give it a 7. It's important, but not the most important element of my success.

Most people think the 3 components of a successful business are: traffic, conversion, and product. I disagree. These are 7's on my scale.

So what are the 10's?

Mindset, market understanding, and habits.

I realize this may be a disappointing answer. It sure isn't sexy. But if you feel disgusted or this turns you off... then, I'm sorry, you probably aren't going to succeed. If all you want is quick, tactical fixes, you should go look elsewhere.

This isn't what most people want to hear. But I see it as my sworn duty to make you successful, even if I have to *force* you into it. :)

These 3 things are the reason I can get so much traffic. Once I mastered my mindset, market understanding, and habits... I could answer any traffic question I've ever faced. They are FAR more powerful than any single tactic like "get good anchor text" (though those are useful, too).

OK, let's talk about mastering your mindset.

Most people right now believe traffic building is hard. You're probably one of them. They believe this for 2 reasons:

Reason #1. They don't have a systematic way to executing their strategies and tactics. They try one technique for a few days, then read a random blog post covering a different strategy and decide to switch to that. They have no guiding process. They don't follow through. Instead, they half-ass a bunch of different stuff and as a result go nowhere.

Then they get depressed and give up.

Reason #2: all the mainstream blogs are telling you it's hard to grow your traffic. They tell you to produce great content for weeks and weeks and weeks and then you might start to get somewhere.  (If I didn't know any better, I'd believe that too.)

This belief is especially detrimental because if you think something is hard, you're probably not going to give it much of a try.

OK. If either of these reasons resonate with you then the coming days will feel like a breath of fresh air...

... because I'm going to give you specific, step-by-step ways to grow your traffic. I've taken the hard thinking out of it.

I have a system that worked for me repeatedly across multiple businesses... so you don't need to come up with your own solutions. You simply need to implement what I give you. (The knowledge you'll receive is only a potential until you take action.)

I'm also going to show you how to think about your traffic... so you can come up with your own strategies.

And as this happens you'll realize traffic building isn't hard. As you'll see, it's actually quite easy.

All it takes is a little bit of intelligently applied effort.

I want to quickly touch on 3 more harmful beliefs and then destroy them.

(These are crucial. If you don't believe, deep down, that you can achieve your traffic goals... then you won't. That's why we're taking so much time to get our mindset right.)

1. Belief: you need all the paid tools you see out there.

Truth: You already have everything you need. The problem is you've been kept in the dark about what really works. (Since traffic is so crucial, most experts DON'T share their very best stuff. Why would they tell their competitors what is working?) I'm no longer in that game... so now I can share everything to set you right.

2. Belief: it takes a long time to build up traffic.

Truth: Actually, it doesn't. The reason it takes *some* people a long time is they're doing it wrong. They waste a bunch of time on the 3 Big Mistakes (which I'll cover in a few days). With the rise of social sites, it's never been easier to jump start your traffic. And it's getting easier every day.

3. Belief: You need to be an "expert" to build a high-traffic site.

Truth: you just need to be a little better than the average person in your market. If you're focused on your own learning, it's easy to rise above average. People fail at promoting their content because they don't believe in the content they've created and end up self-sabotaging themselves. If you aren't confident in your topic area, spend the next few weeks reading and trying everything you can... then come back here and my methods will turn that knowledge into quality traffic.

OK this email has gotten pretty long. I realize you may not hear beliefs like these from many others... but then again, not many people can charge the consulting rates that I do :)

The point is, my main concern is giving you the keys to explosive growth. And the foundation to doing so is the belief you can.

Getting you to believe that is the hardest part of my job... which is why I opened your eyes to new possibilities today.

Now it's time to deep-dive into my personal "traffic-getting" system.

Look for that tomorrow.

Neil

PS -- actually, one more thing. A reader recently asked me why he should join my newsletter when he's already reading traffic blogs. It's a great question.

My thought on that initially took me back to math class. If you needed to learn calculus, would you do so by jumping around and studying random chapters?

No. You'd start at chapter 1 and work your way forward. Each chapter builds on the previous ones. You learn it systematically, step by step.

To me, learning from random blog posts is like jumping around the book. No blog out there starts you at Step 1 and walks you through becoming a master. Think about the last 3 articles you read. Did they build on each other in any way? I doubt it.

I created this newsletter to fix that... to finally provide entrepreneurs a systematic way to get lots of good traffic.

Plus, few other folks have the breadth or depth of my experience (not to toot my own horn, hehe). I've shown corporations as large as Viacom how to do this... and I've also helped the "little guy." I built my website from scratch and now get 150,000 uniques every month.

And now I can pull from all those experiences to show you what works -- and what doesn't. So you're going to learn from someone who not only "did it"... but also took the time to figure out how to teach it.

All I ask from you is -- take action.

That's what separates the A-list, well known sites from the forgotten ones.

So go back and review one more time the mindset you learned in this email. It's far more important than any traffic-boosting strategy or tactic you could receive.

I'm teaching these to you first because I want you to succeed. These are my true secrets.

Now get ready for some SPECIFIC tactics coming your way tomorrow. There are 3 Big Mistakes you need to know about...

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开公司成本（各种税和金）

以下是我一个会计朋友给我写的开公司的各种税和上缴经费：

国税

增值税 税率3%

地税

营业税 收入*5%
城建税 营业税(或者增值税)*7%
教育费附加 营业税(或者增值税)*3%
地方教育费附加 营业税(或者增值税)*2%
水利基金 收入*0.08%
印花税 收入*0.03%
个人所得税 起征点3500
企业所得税 利润*25%

以上按月申报

工会经费 每季度申报 工资总额*2%
残保金 每年一次 按人数*系数
房产税 每年一次 按购房合同或者租赁合同计算

为什么刚需是虚伪的？为什么不可能人人有其房？

有位同学在BBS上发了一篇贴子，内容如下：

房子只是人的消费品之一，逃不出经济和市场调控的大规律。有一点必须坚信，房价不可能只涨不降，因为没有哪件商品只涨不降，但也不可能暴跌，不会也不应该跌破它实际的价值，包括地价、建造材料价加上税。

房子不像电子产品，比如十年前的一部座机电话要几千块，而现在爱疯才卖几千块，虽然它们可以算是他们那个时代最先进的通讯工具，是科技在进步。但房子的高科技含量没那么高，它本该值多少钱就值多少钱，刚需是重要，但房子也不断地在造不是么？事实是很多有先见之明的人已经通过房地产狠赚了一笔甚至几笔。人口高速增长的时代缓慢过去了，房子，会回归到它的理性水平的。

作为刚需人群，我是希望房价低到我认为合理的价位才会买，但是什么样的是合理的。我们，有时候必须为这个社会的发展成本买单。不是你，就是我。

心平气和，多提高自己的能力多赚钱多往高处爬才是王道，到时候你不会为这几十万的房价闹心，挥手就是一套，多爽！！

下面是我的回应：

关键是什么叫理性水平？现在是不是理性水平？如果不是，为什么不是？那多少才是？谁来定呢？该值多少钱就值多少。。这话等于没说，那到底该值多少钱呢？

房子的本质是土地。土地是最没科技含量的东西了，而且不可再生，这样一种东西该值多少钱呢？不要说土地其实很多，农村大片大片的土地，中国2/3的山地，但你们不是不愿意去么。好土地/地段永远都是稀缺的，这点没得跑。你又不想多花钱，还想拥有好地段。。。这个就说不过去了。

现在好多刚需可虚伪，老觉得先买房的、多买房的抬高了房价，剥削了他们，对他们不公平。口口声声说他们是刚需，而房子造出来是住的，应该只具备消费属性，不应该具备投资属性拿来炒。既然你只要消费属性，你租就是了，何必买呢？结果还是眼红房价上涨，在亲戚、朋友、丈母娘面前要面子，觉得“必须”有一套自己的房子——这已经不是消费需求了，你们想要的还是资产，而不是住处。

然后有刚需就嚷嚷，你是人，我也是人，富人是人，穷人也是人，凭什么你们就能有资产，而我们不能有？！这个问题，别说家宝，就是一百个镕基都解决不了，绝对的公平是不可能存在的，也是不经济的。最完美的情况，人类的财富分配不可能也不能平均，而应该和每个人对社会的贡献成正比。有的人生来聪明过人，有的坚毅过人，有的美丽过人，有的口才过人。。。这些都造成了最后财富分配不均。这是绝对正常的，人类社会要前进，也是绝对必要的。

所以有的人有房，有的人没房，这再正常不过了，这就是理性。

为什么信用货币的通货膨胀几乎不可避免？

信用货币时代，只要货币发行机制不改，货币必然会持续增加。社会有用物品的积累很难跟上货币的积累。可交易的有用物品更难跟的上交易资金的增长。钱可以全部拿出来买东西，但并不是所有东西都可以拿来卖。一单位钱可以流动无数次，但物品特别是消费品肯定会有沉淀或损失，同一物品可交易部分极有可能会减少。

货币的流动性本质上远大于物品的流动性，也就是说，如果货币供应量没有收缩，流动性泛滥几乎是必然的。即使收缩，在个别商品门类上，还是会出现流动性泛滥。货币供应量收缩可能也意味着个人收入的降低，除非人口总量减少，而生产效率提高。

I signed up with Magento Go. And it's far from good - actually opposite of good

This is an old review which I did when I was still in trial with Magento Go. Things actually turned out very ugly when I officially paid to sign up with them and experienced their CRAP support.

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I have been trying to start an online shopping store. After looking through a few possible solutions such as wordpress eCommerce / shopping cart themes, opencart, zen cart, oscommerce, and DIY my own, I think I’ll give Magento a Go.

Magento Go is a paid service but you can get a full trial of 30 days completely free. They are also offering $15 / month discount for a whole year from the 1 million stimulus package. If you happen to want to build an online store right now, I have only 2 words for you – Sign up! With the stimulus discount, the entry plan is totally free for the first year.

I had many problems in mind when I was hunting for a perfect ecommerce solution. None of the solutions solved them all until I found Magento. It’s the best eCommerce solution I have come across in these years.

Still familiarizing myself with the whole application which is fairly complicated and would require weeks to master, especially the theme customization / editing part, which I think is yet to achieve good user experience – it’s not easy to build a theme of your own. For now, you can only edit existing themes and customize it wherever you need to.

Unlike wordpress, it’s very easy to build a theme and customize it like a breeze, Magento is known to have a steep learning curve for theme developers. The whole system is heavily designed rather than evolved. It’s a bit pain for the end users / developers to chew in the design.

You’d probably need 2 – 3 times the normal budget to build a decent Magento theme. Other than that, everything else seems fascinating. I’ll catch up with a detailed review later after trying all the functionalities.