PayPal

They offer a downloadable software utility that is called PayPal Secure Card. The utility automatically detects when a customer visits an e-commerce checkout page, generates a unique MasterCard number, and then helps fill out the payment form. This is done through a partnership with credit card issuer MasterCard Inc.

“From a merchant’s perspective this looks like any other MasterCard transaction,” said Chris George, director of financial products for PayPal. “And it’s just another PayPal purchase to the customer.”

Secure Cards work on Windows computers running either Internet Explorer or Firefox. Users of Apple’s Safari browser have only partial access to the service for now, George said.

Secure Card has been tested by 3 million PayPal customers in the past year. Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, one of them, tells about his experience:

You install and set up the software, and on your taskbar, you have a little PayPal icon. When you want to generate a random credit card number, you double click on it. A little “virtual credit card” pops up on your screen, complete with randomly generated MasterCard numbers, expiration date, and CVV. All payments made with the information are directly and immediately made from your existing PayPal account

The form fill seems to work decently in Internet Explorer, but if you’re a Firefox user, don’t expect it to fill out any forms. It has a Firefox plug-in that seems to do little more than really slow down the browsing experience (and I recommend removing the plug-in as soon as you install the application). It is, however, handy to have, especially for folks like me with a debit card so well worn that the CVV numbers are no longer visible.

The plug-in will be available to U.S. customers on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, with international customers to follow.

The toolbar was started as a convenient way to organize my efforts of building and promoting my VRE websites. I wanted a tool that would be able to guide me through the entire process:

• from picking the idea for the new website >>
• to creating a list of related keywords, >>
• to choosing a domain name and hosting, >>
• to designing the website and filling it with related content, >>
• …and finally, to driving traffic, over and over, and over again.

Many people liked the tool, and I made it semi-public, for The Reese Report subscribers only. That version was for Internet Explorer only, and I started getting requests to create a Firefox version.

After a short period of time, the FF version has been launched, and both versions became public.

Over 20,000 webmasters and online entrepreneurs have downloaded the VRE Toolbar since July 2006. Thousands of them are using it daily.

I would like to thank all contributors and users of Virtual Real Estate Toolbar for your help and suggestions to make it even better.

Andrei Mikrukov

How to delete, uninstall or remove VRE Toolbar

This one is the easiest to remove, because both IE and Firefox versions have the Uninstall menu item. This is why we never receive “how to delete VRE toolbar” questions.

But if you simply need some browser space, use the Hide option, so that you don’t have to re-install the toolbar when you need it again.

How to remove, delete or uninstall just about any IE toolbar, including Yahoo, Google or MSN

You can uninstall Internet Explorer toolbars through your Add/Remove Programs window:

1. Click the Windows “Start” button in the lower left-hand corner of your screen.
2. Select “Control Panel” from the “Settings” menu.
3. Double-click on “Add/Remove Programs”.
4. Scroll down and click on the unwanted toolbar entry. For example, “Google Toolbar for IE” or “Yahoo! Toolbar”.
5. Click on “Change/Remove.”
6. Close any open IE windows.

How to uninstall, delete or remove just about any Firefox toolbar, including Google, Yahoo, or AOL

You can use the Extension Manager in Firefox to remove a Firefox toolbar:

1. Click the “Tools” menu in the Firefox browser.
2. Click the “Extensions” menu item (“Add-ons” in Firefox 2).
3. In the Firefox Extensions Manager window, scroll down and click on the unwanted toolbar entry. For example, “Yahoo! Toolbar” or “Google Toolbar for Firefox”.
4. Click “Uninstall”.
5. Click “OK” or “Uninstall” in the confirmation window.
6. Exit Extension Manager. Restart your browser.

If this uninstall method doesn’t work for you, your Firefox user profile may be corrupt. You might need to create a new user profile for your browser.

That’s it. If you have a question about removing a toolbar from your browser, please, post a comment.

This new feature allowed us to offer our most popular service, Yahoo! (Overture) Keyword Suggestion Tool, as a search service that you can add to your search bar.

How to Add Keyword Research To Your Search Bar

Click on the link above to open the keyword suggestion tool in a new window.

In Firefox 2, look at the search icon. You should see the icon glowing slightly.

Click the icon, and you should see the “Add Keyword Research” menu item in the dropdown menu. Select that item and that’s it.

In Internet Explorer 7, you should see the little arrow next to the search icon highlighted in orange.

Click it, and navigate to the “Add Search Providers” submenu, then select “Keyword Research”, and that’s all you have to do.

Now you can easily access the Yahoo! Keyword Research tool even if you don’t have the VRE Toolbar installed.

Description of the bug: Firefox 2 browser with VRE Toolbar installed and activated failed to display the web page address correctly when several tabs are opened.

How To Update

If you installed your VRE Toolbar from our website, you can choose “Check For Update” menu item as shown �on the �right.

Otherwise (if you downloaded from Firefox Add-Ons website, download.com or any other site), please, uninstall the toolbar and then install the latest version from our website.

Related Link: VRE Toolbar for Firefox (latest version).

In the news:

Mozilla has released Firefox 2 Release Candidate 3, the preview release of the next version of the Firefox browser.

Key features of Firefox 2 RC3 include:

• New interface
• Enhanced search capabilities
• Built-in phishing protection
• Live titles
• Previewing and subscribing to web feeds
• Improved tabbed browsing
• Improved add-ons manager
• Extended search plugin format
• Updates to the extension system
• Inline spell checking
• Support for the svg:textpath specification
• Client-side session and persistent storage
• New Windows installer

Reminder:

The latest version (1.31 or later) of the VRE Toolbar is fully compatible with Firefox 2. Download the latest version.

Oct. 24, 2006: We’ve issued the toolbar version 1.4 fully compatible with Firefox 2.0 Final. Please, download from the link above.

New features:

• Refresh ToolbarReloads the toolbar’s content. Useful when you started the browser in off-line mode, and the toolbar was unable to load its content from the server.
• Check For UpdateThis menu option will check to see if you’re using the newest version of the VRE Toolbar, and provides an easy way to download an update if you’re not. You must have an active Internet connection to use the Check For Update command.This is what you have to do now — download the latest version.

Firefox users: If you downloaded the toolbar from Firefox Add-ons website, than you have to wait until the newer version is approved by a Mozilla Update editor. This may take up to seven days or more. Want the latest version right now? Uninstall your toolbar, then download and install the latest version from this page:

Download VRE Toolbar for Firefox

Internet Explorer users: We decided to drop the built-in RSS reader in order to improve between-browser compatibility and performance. Also, while nice, it caused IE failure on some systems. Sorry, if you it was your main RSS reader. Please, save your feeds in another one.

New tools recently added per your request:

• Nameboy domain name suggestions (use the toolbar’s search box to search for keyword related domain names)
• HostMonster webhosting ($4.95/mo.)
• Install For Me free script installation service (WordPress, phpBB, Article Dashboard or any other PHP, MySQL, CGI or Perl script)
• Template Monster web templates (now they have WordPress templates too)

Know of another great tool useful for niche empire research and development? Share it! Use the Suggest a resource menu option.

What’s in it for you?

Faster response to your requests, because the browser doesn’t reload the entire page, but only receives the information that was changed.

For example, when looking for a niche, you usually reload the Niche Generator page over and over again until you find a niche you like. With the new technology, it works much faster, because you don’t have to wait while the entire page reloads. You get another niche suggestion in a moment.

Tested with IE, Firefox and Opera. Let me know if it doesn’t work in your browser.

– Andrei

The term Virtual Real Estate Empire was coined by John Reese. Have you seen his famous $526,744 Video?

John spent less than 120 hours setting up what he calls a “little side business”. In just over a year, it generated 17.1 million page impressions and $526,744 in AdSense revenue, with NO advertising.

See John Reese’s $526,744 Video

Very compelling!

Privacy note: The VRE Toolbar collects anonymous statistical usage data but it DOES NOT spy on your browsing habits. It does not track webpages you visit or keywords you use in the search box. Please see our Privacy policy.

1. Keywords Suggestions & Research
   Grabs the Overture search counts for different geographic markets. Offers suggested monthly regional search volumes by market for Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Provides links to price estimate tools from Overture and Google AdWords.
2. Niche Generator
   Randomly suggests niche topics. Provides links to keyword research and domain lookup.
3. 43 Things
   Lists other people’s goals related to a keyword. Helps discover people’s interests, that can give you great ideas to create websites around.
4. Adwords Traffic Estimator
   Gives you keyword traffic and cost estimates at a glance. For any keywords you select, you’ll see the following information: minimum bid, maximum cost-per-click (CPC), search volume, estimated avg. CPC, estimated ad positions, traffic estimates based on an unlimited budget.
5. ColorImpact
   This software allows to create beautiful color schemes for your website with a single click.
6. DomainsBot Ideas, Suggestions
   Helps find great domain names.
7. DigitalPoint (Wordtracker)
   Shows the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often. Gives suggestions for alternate (but similar) keywords.
8. Rapid Niche Websites
   Quickly create cash-pulling web sites by following this easy step-by-step system.
9. Google Sets
   Automatically create sets of items from a few examples. For example, when you enter ‘armani, versace’ subset, it returns Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Calvin Klein, Fendi, Dolce Gabbana etc. Fun and very addictive!
10. The Reese Report
    A highly regarded monthly publication (a printed newsletter & companion CD-ROM) that demonstrates and teaches tons of little-known online moneymaking strategies, provides techniques and methods you can use today to start building an online empire made up of tons of tiny content sites.

What’s your favorite tool?