I am Andrei Mikrukov, the creator of this website.

Do you have a software idea or a web project that requires programming? Do you need help of a trusted professional? I am open for custom programming tasks using the following technologies:

• C#, .Net – for Windows desktop applications, like Website Toolbox Pro
• Javascript, PHP and MySQL – for web applications, including data mining and analysis, databases and so on.

I can help you develop your idea into a profitable solution. My hourly rate is $15.

Are you interested in search engine optimization for your internet marketing website?

Have you seen my Top Article Directories page? It is #1 in Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and in many others for article directories, top article directories key phrases and alike. Did you know that I completely ignored onpage optimization for this page? I mean, no keyword analysis, no keyword density count, no tricky combination of H1, H2 tags, and so on. I don’t even have a description tag on that page (a huge SEO mistake!). Yet, this page is #1 for its main key phrase in most popular search engines with competition over 11,000,000 in Google alone.

How did I do this? I have my own little secret. No black-hat tricks. It is completely white-hat (legal). It won’t win you the #1 spot overnight, but it can set up an autopilot system which will gradually increase your rankings.

If you are interested in my services, please, post a comment to this post or use this contact form.

NOTE: Any comment to this post which contains personal information, like your project description or details,

Why submitting to article directories is important?

Submitting your article to article directories achieves several goals:

• Readers will recognize you as an expert on the topic you write. This will enable readers to trust your business. It is a great advantage to you against your competitors.
• Some website owners will republish your article on their site along with links back to you. Thus, more poeple will get to know your online business by reading your articles.
• It is a free advertising for you when you publish your articles on Article Pool and other article directories. You can then have more money to spend on other types of advertisements.
• Links from article directories increase your link popularity that improves your chances to achieve better positions in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Why Article Pool?

Among hundreds and hundreds of article directories, Article Pool is one of the most valuable places to submit your article. Here is why -

• Good traffic. Alexa rank less than 15,000 allows this site to take spot in the top 20 article directories by traffic.
• Google Pagerank 4. The better Pagerank, the more value Google gives to links from the directory to your site. This is important for search engine positioning.
• Article Pool doesn’t use nofollow tags in their external links. Nofollow tags devalue links to your site.
• Almost all topics covered, such as computer, finance, food, fashion, art, politics, writing, shopping, self-help, and so forth.
• Sign up process is easy. Approval is fast.

Besides these major benefits, Article Pool offers paid manual article distribution to 500+ major article directories. They provide such a service since 2005 and have distributed over 20,000 articles. Article Pool is designed professionally, easy to navigate and is a great example for other article directory builders.

Take advantage of this resource – ArticlePool.com

• aPlus.net, now Codero, is web hosting I use. This site is hosted there. I have a dedicated server with them.
• BlueHost
• GoDaddy – I read some negative feedback about their hosting, but my personal experience is quite positive.
• HostGator – HostGator is a very popular, feature rich and not expensive ($4.95) hosting service.
• HostMonster
• Lunarpages

These links are affiliate links. I receive a compensation from the company when you buy hosting after clicking on my link. If you don’t want me to get compensated, simply go to their website without clicking on my link. Usually, adding dot com to the company name will give you a correct address.

Checkout By Amazon

Checkout By Amazon is a complete checkout solution. It lets web site visitors sign in to web sites using an Amazon Account login and buy items using the familiar Amazon’s 1-Click® button. Checkout By Amazon service provides tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks..

Amazon Simple Pay

Amazon Simple Pay is a service that allows consumers to use their Amazon account information to pay for purchases on other web sites. It is for those merchants who don’t need sophisticated checkout and order management capabilities, but who would like to incorporate Amazon’s customer login system to sell products.

Amazon Simple Pay differs from Checkout by Amazon in that Checkout by Amazon provides additional capabilities to support real-time shipping and tax calculation, promotions, and order management-tasks including order cancellations, order reports and shipment tracking. If you don’t need Amazon’s end-to-end checkout pipeline and order management capabilities, but still want to enable your customers to use their payment information already on file at Amazon.com, use Amazon Simple Pay.

Amazon also offers the Amazon Flexible Payment Service, a developer-oriented money-transfer API, which is currently in limited beta testing mode.

Checkout By Amazon competes with PayPal and Google Checkout. The Amazon service costs 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction for transactions of $10 or more. Transactions less than $10 cost 5% + $0.05 per transaction.

Google Checkout costs 2% + $0.20 per transaction. PayPal charges on a sliding scale, starting at 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction for monthly sales up to $3,000.

The key differences between Checkout by Amazon, Amazon Simple Pay, and Amazon’s Flexible Payment Service are summarized in this comparison chart.

In the article, How to Fail at Online Business – Neglect Niche Marketing, he explains why franchise businesses and MLM schemes fail on the Internet due to (1) competition and (2) fewer geographical market limitations.

According to Dr. Wilson, the answer is in researching and clearly defining a market niche with sufficient demand but without overwhelming competition. Nichification is the key.

Read the article on the Web Marketing Today website: How to Fail at Online Business – Neglect Niche Marketing

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Mashable! has just published an interesting list of Top 10 Template Generators for Blogs and Websites.

If you are not satisfied with ready-made blog and website templates and want to build your own design, having a bare-bone structure might make it easier. We’ve created a list of top ten tools to help you create that basic structure to kick-start your creativity.

Some of them are really able to speed up your process of creating new websites or blogs.

Visit Mashable: Top 10 Template Generators for Blogs and Websites

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.

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Today, we are adding another resource to the toolbar’s Design menu: Free CSS Templates.

They are currently providing 230 professionally looking website templates, all of which are:

• Released for FREE under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license
• Very lightweight in terms of images
• Tables-free (ie. they use no tables for layout purposes)
• W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML Strict)
• Provided with public domain photos from PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons

All of the templates are free to use for both commercial and noncommercial purposes provided you link back to FreeCSSTemplates.org in some way. The website is updates regularly adding new templates.

Enjoy!