I started writing for Article Base in my “green” years when first conducting my business and providing my decades of aquarium and pond experience on the internet (about 2006).
I read much in SEO forums about the importance of submission to these directories in getting your content recognized and and improving your main website and blog sites up in search engine results.
HOWEVER, over the years I have learned much and tracked many statistics and found NO BOUNCE for these articles placed on Article Base.
This includes articles from Hydroponics Lights, UV Bulbs, and much more
WHY? Well for one I started investigating and found that they have discretely placed “no follow” tags in the code (which i did not agree to).
Worse is Article Base does not ensure that those “borrowing” my copyrighted content (albeit first drafts of my constantly updated full content articles) place correct hyper links WITHOUT “no follow” tags.
Sadly I man finding my content plagiarized all over the internet, without ANY legal reference to the original source vie true hyper links. This in turn has traced back to Article Base.
WORSE, Article Base along with these plagiarizing websites use my content to place Google Adsense on, without ANY revenue sharing (which Article Base dishonestly claims that they share revenue over a certain amount of hits, which I had 1000s).
As well while all these scammers including Article Base are making money of my 3 decades of experience and 1000s of hours researched article, Google Adsense is denying my such an account and illegally not responding to DMCA complaints as to content used without proper accreditation and revenue sharing.
IN SUMMARY; do not be fooled by Article Base or any other article publishing directory; THEY ARE NOTHING BUT SCAMS!
Do yourself a favor if you have good content that others may find helpful, publish them on your site, do NOT share.
If Google Adsense denies you revenue while placing their crappy ads on your content that has been plagiarized, boycott those adverting and write them that their ads are being placed on plagiarized content and if they continue you will cite this in public view on your website.
Also directly sell Adverts on your website (there are brokers who will do this for you too).
The bottom line is you will not improve your SEO (search engine optimization) position on Google, Bing, etc with Article Base, so save yourself the time and many, many futures headaches and do NO waste your time with these people who are only there to TAKE from you with nothing in return!!!
Google Apps Infrastructure Changes Review; Enterprise & Wallet Support
In a nutshell it Sucks!
This was/is a typical Google change; they do everything to make their processes easier and produce more revenue and we as “sheeple” follow along and drink it all in.
The arrogance in their responses (& non responses) is unbelievable with Google expecting me and other “users” to take temporary emails accounts, then move blogger accounts and other apps.
Unfortunately many of our users finally got fed up and left, resulting in less users for our forum generated blogs and more.
Worse is Google Enterprise support; these guys only write late at night (from India) and provide no real knowledge, they just repeat canned responses that expect us to spend hours cleaning up the mess Google made with this transition.
If Google really gave a cr## about their customers, this transition would have been done in a way where all data was stored and even if a new temporary account was needed, this should have been a smooth transition of signing in and all data, profile information, etc would have been moved automatically.
Examples
(1) Even with our paid accounts such as the Google Site Search Bar, “Google Enterprise support” sent us a payment notification reminder to the correct email, yet we could not log in to pay this.
When we finally found a way in (hours later, thanks Google, NOT) it was applied to our temporary account, not our new transitioned account.
So Google told us to then pay for the service on our new account (which should have been the same account if Google used ANY logic at all). However we now had the Ads back on our search box results.
So then Google states we will now have get a new search box and go through our entire websites to paste this back in (estimated 8 hours of work, minimum). Considering the hours of work we have already put into this “transition”, this transfer of “ownership” to the new email (actually the old email if truth be told). We stated this is not acceptable and that Google would have to either fix this or refund our money since we were paying for a service not rendered. Googles response is we had to “jump through more hoops” to get our money back, so in the end we simply contacted our business credit card issuer who then reversed charges based on email evidence of lack of real support from Google.
(2) I maintain several domains for myself and others. In a recent incident a domain re-list payment failed due to Google Apps transition issue along with severe issues in Goolge Wallet.
I received nothing but canned answers that went in circles, never addressing the real issue.
Even though the original Wallet (Checkout) account has worked (& continues) to work, Google claimed this account failed to charge. However in calling my credit card issuer (whom also always sends alerts if there is an issue), my card was NEVER attempted a charge for this by Google.
Google instructed me to get new Wallet accounts for this domain and the email used (two new accounts??). This of coarse was not the answer and did nothing to solve the problem.
I was then told to clear the cache and cookies, which did not solve the problem. I then was told to download a new browser (Chrome) with a clean install (no imported Cookies); this too did not solve the issue.
After this the issues has gone back to the original comments and then the Cookies, Cache, etc.; in other words the same canned responses from dishonest Google Obamanite help.
Here is a screen shot of what I am shown by Google when attempting to force a charge in a clean browser (I know for a fact that I am correctly logged in):
The bottom line is Google would simply not fix THEIR problem (so far luckly only one domain has had this issue, although ALL renew through the SAME account). I know if I treated my customer the way Google treats their customers I would be out of business very quickly, but sadly the media (including conservatives like Rush Limbaugh) continue to talk about Google like they are Gods, so this company can do no wrong in the publics eye.
Further;
We have since suspended our Google Adwords in part as a “boycott” of Google service and also for the dishonest support there whereby Google hides behind a proprietary algorithm that states our keyword “UV Bulbs” is only a 4 out of 10 in relevancy when in fact this exact phrase matches both the ad and the landing page. This is unlike some of the delivered results on Google; both organic and paid whereby this search term requires the person searching for this product to click up to 3 times for the correct result.
The issue here is also based on the fact that this has resulted in bidding going up to $1.25 for good results for a product with a $4 profit margin, which is ridiculous.
I also found Google’s responses insulting in that I know my product well being in this business for over 30 years. Their explanation did not meet with what the industry considers a UV Bulb to be. Google’s response would be analogous to telling a pilot how to fly when they had no concept in the operation of an aircraft.
I should also note Google Adsense which hides behind a veil like the “Wizard of OZ”, claiming they are not Adwords when in fact they are likely just across the hall or even a chair away (like an air traffic controller) from an Adwords employee.
Adsense will NEVER return questions, complaints, etc., choosing to hide behind this secret veil.
My point is, Adsense continues to this day to constantly place content ads on websites that plagiarize my MANY copyrighted (and constantly updated), websites. All the while denying my websites revenue via Adsense on my original content (this has been going on now for 7 years with no end in sight).
Finally;
Google (or more specifically their minions) state that users of Google services (email, apps, etc.) have nothing to complain about when they make changes, abruptly terminate accounts, etc and these services are “free”.
Sorry Pals, they are not free. When a user agrees to one of these Google services they are also giving Google access to all sorts of free information about you, your habits, and much more. THIS IS A TANGIBLE ASSET!!!
This asset you have traded Google rights for their services can used to make Google much $ or even sold, in fact as a business, I can guarantee you Google makes far more off this “Asset” than the cost of providing you these terrible services with absolutely no customer support.
As for me and my business, we have shelled out tens of thousands of $$ to Google; PLUS the rights to our “information assets”, so Google here has even less excuse to treat us with such contempt and terrible customer service
What really perplexes me is the high regard this despicable company is held in, but then the media loves Google and most persons anymore are “Sheeple” and listen to the “Master” (the media)
Based on emails, phone calls, forums, YouTube, Facebook; Rude, Condescending, narcissistic, or simply behavior without any respect for others boundaries are at an all time high.
Why?? i can only guess, but I can certainly put forth a few FACTS that one might draw conclusions from.
First though I will briefly mention what I am referring to;
I receive many “communications” from customers and non customers asking for help with certain aquatic problems, many of these persons are otherwise friendly persons. HOWEVER often these persons have no boundaries when comes to others time and even though I respond to initial emails 16 hours per day, these person will take advantage (or attempt to) of my help by refusing to read the plethora of researched aquatic information I provide to back up and provide further information to their questions.
The result is further question after question, en though the article I suggested reading contains answers to these continued questions. Worse though is when I tell these persons that I have no spent copious amounts of time I do no have (often during my little amount of family time), they get mad!.
A common reply is “I do not have time to read your articles”.
Of so my time counts for nothing? What about my time I spent researching along with the 30 plus years that has gone into these article that are provided free of charge (no need to go to Amazon and purchase a book that is likely very much out of date and anecdotal on the subject)?
This is just one common example.
Others although thankfully not a daily occurrence, but still occur with regularity are the downright rude emails where we provide a plethora of information, documentation, cite references, etc. YET these persons feel the need to challenge our/my responses in very condescending and rude manners. Aquarium Lighting & correct UV Bulb replacement are common subjects of these persons.
Sometimes these persons demand we not follow the business practices we installed in 2009 after suffering through years of no profit an losses as we were attempting to be everything to everyone, so most of our time was in email and phone calls. The result was losses that we are still paying back to this day in loans we had to take out.
Bluntly these persons have no right to tell me or anyone else how to run my business and especially in ways we know result in losses just so to be someone’s personal answer person.
Other issues are forums especially local (which I no longer waste my time on) ignoring what I have to say.
Facebook is a place where narcissism runs amuck even among otherwise “nice” persons.
I follow others posts when time allows (for this reason I try and keep my friends lists short). Yet anything I post often updating my life’s work (which also is what pays the bills and hopefully will dig us out of the hole I have been in since being forced to move to Oregon in 2002), it is never read, “liked”, etc. but for one or two persons. Even my nieces refused to ever “peek” at any of my posts, yet were on constantly posting about their adventuress. What ever happened to looking out for each other? I know that search engines rank these likes, so being in an online business it is important to me and it would simply be nice to have such favors returned one in a while.
However since this boils down to a relatively minor issue compared to the above emails & phone calls; I simply do not visit the waste of time the narcissistic social media is of late.
What are the Causes?
While the causes of this pervasive rudeness, lack of boundaries, and extreme narcissism are speculation (subjective), the facts that support this are not and are in fact objective.
So what I will give are a list of FACTS and let readers mostly draw their own conclusions.
(1)FACT; when tracking these rude and clueless (without boundaries) persons via name or any other identification to web sites such Facebook or Blogs; what I (& others) have found that over 90% display very liberal political views.
Even among the other slightly less than 10% with more so called “conservative” views proclaim an Evangelical religious view point.
(2)FACT: .gov and .edu emails address make up a disproportionate percentage of these before mentioned emails. While these two email suffixes are well under 5% of are general emails (of which we receive 100s counting sales), these two suffixes make up nearly 20% of rude, & narcissistic emails
(3)FACT: When you go to liberal enclaves, especially YouTube; you will find that most of the of the insulting language and support for strange causes comes from these liberals or libertarians (such as Truthers of supporters of the Occupy movement).
As well when my videos for my business get rude or condescending remarks (that I usually delete), I look at the persons YouTube account that made such comments and sure enough in almost every instance I find a person with far left Michel Moore type views.
A few Subjective Observations based on these and much of what I have seen/witnessed in life
With the most Narcissistic President in history along with places such as Twitter and Facebook that also champion Narcissism, I believe this to be suspected.
Dishonest News Media.
This same media has been able to convince many that Democrats are for the “working man” well this could not be any further from the truth other than “country Club Republicans (RINOs) also are not at all for the working man either.
Democrats are only for those who blame others for their problems work the “working union man”
Occupy Movement; that amount of disinformation that persons believe from this mob (mostly of thugs, but sadly made of up many “good person” that are so woefully mis-eductated as to the facts of business finance and much more about life and believe anything the left leaning media tells them)
YouTube; there is probably no more better forum for sleaze other the owner of YouTube; GOOGLE which is a corporation that would not know honestly if it hit them in the face with their rampant plagiarism of small businesses and small entrepreneurs.
See: Google Lies, Dishonesty, Plagiarism; Adsense, Adwords & Google Search Fail
Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg, is another example of a condescending narcissist
The education system itself which although many will disagree, it is over paid in my view based on “market value” of the work they do. Tenure is the primary evil as I have seen the good teachers that were not tenured let go at our local schools and going back to my school days I had a downright evil teacher put me down in class in the 4th grade only to have this ridicule follow me to my High School Graduation. She should never been allowed to teach and had she worked in the private sector she would have been fired immediately.
This are just a few opinions of mine, others may draw different conclusions, however the facts noted earlier speak for themselves
This post is more of a referral of what I think are articles anyone in business should read.
In the case of Google, PayPal, or Pet Mtn, these are must reads for anyone who places morals above business.
(1) Google Panda Update
This article proves that Google’s Panda update of 2011 is nothing more than a sham.
The company line is that Google is attempting to get rid of content farms (hence the nickname “Farmer Update”; however this article proves otherwise.
This article puts forth that this is basically a cover for “Content Scrapers” that plagiarize excellent original content websites then post this content on their websites for Google Adsense.
IMO, from what I have seen this may not be always the case, but certainly spammy content sites have jumped over good content web sites.
This article also has links to further Google information as well
(2) Google Apps, Enterprise, Adwords, & Wallet Review
This article reviews Google’s total lack of customer service with their extremely misguided Google Apps transition that resulted in lost accounts, lost paid site search and much more.
The canned, circular responses from India never solve any problems.
Combined with the dishonest or non responses by Google Adwords & Adsense, this article shows that Google is NOT a company small business person would want to be in a business relationship with
(3)PayPal
This article is both positive and negative; providing an opinion on PayPals excellent and simple website integration, simplicity of sales, and more.
As well the unfortunate negatives are also explored such as poor fraud protection and a technical department with absolutely no interest in whether their clients succeed or not.
(5)FedEx Claims, Technical Support
This article is from this website/Blog, but I though I would include it too.
This article deals with an otherwise excellent shipping company, that has absolutely no understanding of customer service or honesty when they do make a mistake and damage others property (their technical support could get some “Schooling” in customer service/respect as well).
These points define a person that can be addressed by the description of an “Obamanite”.
Updated 5/07/12
Not all points need to be observed in a person to be described as an Obamanite, although at least 50% should be present.
It is also noteworthy that just because a person voted for Obama in 2008, this does NOT necessarily make this person an Obamanite.
A reader might ask my reason for even writing this post? A fair question, so in a nutshell I have worked in a field of business (Aquarium Supplies & Resources) for over 3 decades that is probably one of the most liberal fields one can work in and while being liberal does not make one an Obamanite (I know many liberals who are most definitely NOT Obamanites!), I do get so many lazy and nasty emails, phone calls, etc from persons that then get upset just because I attempt to help them help themselves (they want their aquarium information spoon fed and refuse to read many of the articles I send them to back up what I tell them in an answer to a question) or get upset when I call the out on their false accusations or anecdotal information; I felt such a post here was necessary to clear the air from my perspective.
If you are offended by this post/article, you likely are an Obamanite (even if you fit less than 50% of this points)
Truth has no meaning, Lying is a means to an end
A person who cannot see truth and is believes they are in the right even when the facts are presented otherwise
Often condescending to others, yet rarely can see this themselves and think that they are the nicest most reasonable person you would ever meet
Narcissistic Behavior (similar to above point), where these person act and may even think the world revolves themselves, all the while showing no respect for others and their talents and knowledge.
These persons are the type that will post on Facebook all about themselves yet NEVER take the time to look at others activity, even family and even when receiving “likes”. In my particular case, my online business depends upon a Google algorithm that includes Facebook popularity, however even though I have spent the time looking at others endeavors, I can find weeks where I track only 1 click from Facebook (versus 1000s elsewhere as a comparison). Sadly even my nieces act this way, but this is in part based also on other condescending Obamanite world views IMO
Narcissist who thinks they are “all that”, their poop does not stink, and that they most important person.
Often simple “Body Language” will ‘tell much’ as to this very common symptom of an Obamite as displayed with this sickening and disgusting picture of President Obama.
Makes up falsehoods about others, often believing their own lies.
Often text book Sociopath behavior typical of what may seem on the surface as likeable, ordinary persons, but in reality only have intentions to make themselves look good, OR WORSE!
I have met a few of these persons in my life, with one causing great harm to my family, the other more person destruction that still hurt me and others around me.
As is obvious Barack Obama also shows these traits, but he is not only destroying one family, but a nation.
Accuses others of not providing help for themselves (or others), when never looking into the facts that scream otherwise
Believes others are placed on this planet to help them, at any time, hour, etc.
Refuses to read anything for themselves, believing others should provide all the information they desire
Believe rules are for others to follow, as they are above rules or policies (I see this constantly in business with persons who leave phone messages that make running my business unprofitable because they are above the rules/policies).
Others are not entitled to make a living from their hard work (this is one I observe constantly where persons treat my time as worthless and then get upset when I attempt to get them to help me help them, all after putting in 14 hour days)
When they fail at something, it must be someone else’s or somethings fault.
Again I see this when a product I have tested, which few if any other in my business ever perform for customers prior to shipping; then will state that I am screwing them or sending defective products when in reality it is their application, installation, or product that they have placed the new product in that is not functioning (this is especially common with UV Replacement Bulbs and a recent sale of T2 Lights where the person made false accusations and when the lights were returned they were fully functional [sadly 95% of returns, since I pre-test, end up not being defective!]).
Often such a person will look their inability to make something work or inability to perform a task and despite overwhelming statistics of others succeeding with this same task will still blame others, the product, or the task itself.
This person I referred to with the T2 lights is an example as even after returning the fully functional & tested lights for a second time claims the lights cannot/will not work. A reasonable non-Obamanite person would realize that maybe they simply are doing something wrong in installation.
This analogy applies to all aspects of life an politics and is sadly how many persons think; just listen to all the clueless persons in the early stages American Idol who get mad at the judges when told that they simply cannot sing (I for one cannot either, as well cannot perform other tasks such as hanging dry wall correctly, but I do not blame others correcting me or the dry wall as being defective!!!)
Believe Government is the answer to many if not most problems (the government is not your “Daddy”)
Refuses to read or believe anything for themselves, even when the truth or references are right in front of their face!
Rarely can apologize
Will Personally Attack those they disagree with when confronted with known facts.
I do NOT mean this specifically in the arena of politics either.
As an example, I have read the forum “Reef Central” many times where nearly everyone will pile on in criticising well written articles about the use of LED Fixtures often using the “straw man” complaint that the articles are biased toward a specific brand (in particular TMC AquaRay LEDs).
So What?? If I or others have done their research including my personal use and consulting with my professional “sister” aquarium maintenance companies whose use of many different LED fixtures have found one brand to shine well above others, why should I or these other authors not be biased??
These are ridiculous Obamanite responses. What would be dishonest would be for me or these other authors know the facts about a TMC LED Aquarium Fixture yet recommend others LEDs just so as to appear unbiased.
The facts are these types “biased accusations” are a popular Obamanite “Straw Man” argument thrown about in many aspects of life.
Google by definition is an Obamanite company with many Obamanite minions.
So while this is not actually a definition to apply, this is more an example OF an Obamanite and based on my dealings with dishonest Google staff, chances are if you work for Google; you ARE an Obamanite!
Microsoft needs to be less arrogant with Internet Explorer and allow it to be uninstalled as you can with Firefox or Chrome.
I do not say this because I hate IE8 or other explorer browsers, I only say this because for all Explorers many positives, it is a very “buggy” browser and the only option to clear this is to uninstall the browser.
I might add, I would not have spent so many hours trying to fix this bug if I did not like Explorer, because I do. What I do not like is the company’s arrogance toward their products (I had a similar issue with Office after my computer crashed and I cleaned the hard drive and attempted to re-install an expensive Office program and their company support was arrogant at best)
I cannot log in & out of my many accounts such as my Google account (which I run many business application through), the browser defaults to a another family member (who rarely uses this computer I might add).
Being able to manage my multiple business account and websites is essential, & this is my primary computer for business. This problem only exists on Explorer.
Believe me, I have attempted to clear the problem by clearing all cache, cookies, and even a restore back to the original browser settings. I also went into the control panel and ran IE Performance check (this was about as useful as that silly dog that searched for files in XP and never found a darn thing)
I changed to IE9 (which really stunk I might add), this too did not solve the problem.
I decided to give Google Chrome a try (& I am far from a fan of Google and their liberal dishonesty and plagiarism), Google Chrome runs reasonably well and although this browser cannot perform all the tasks I can with IE8, it certainly runs vastly smoother.
My only complaints with Chrome is that it does not open all the website templates properly to view HTML and it often has issues loading pictures on websites, requiring me to hit Ctrl+F5.
BTW, I also have Firefox, but is loads sooo slowly that it often drives me nuts and it often “hangs”. But at least I can uninstall these and then reinstall if need be.
While I realize that browsers are offered for ‘free’, as business person I also realize that the more a company has person utilizing these “freebies” the more that they might utilize products for sale (not to mention I paid for Windows 7 & it ought to work considering what it cost me for the upgrade from Vista).
Sadly, what Microsoft and all their so-called brilliance does not seem to understand from a business perspective is that by forcing IE on consumers in a way that they are part of an operating system (Windows) it does not allow one to fix the problem of a defective software crash. This is kind of like Ford telling a customer that they must replace the entire car to fix bad ignition system.
What is the result?
The result is I no longer use IE8 and likely will never use this browser on this computer (as I am not going to either buy Windows or even perform a re-set in time which would nullify many other important programs I have added), while now good ole Google has one more tentacle around me via a browser that works and if it ever ceases to work, I can simply uninstall and reinstall.
Shame on Microsoft for such stupid business decisions.
Update 2/07/11
Well after using Chrome for a few weeks, I have to say while it is still a very “smooth” browser with few “stalls, hangs, etc.”, it cannot do much either.
Chrome cannot:
*edit my main business template
*edit html on other templates such as Yahoo Groups
*Is totally useless for PayPal control panels (business use)
The bottom line?
*This is a nice browser for basic internet browsing, however it is totally useless for anything beyond this, which really surprised me as I expected this to be similar to Firefox as I have heard (maybe incorrectly) that many of the designs were taken from Firefox.
*I should also note that Google Chrome has a known issue with pages not loading well as per text and pictures; this requires depressing the control key and F5 key simultaneously for the web page to properly align (sometimes more than once too). Google should have fixed this problem a long time ago, but seems to ignore my computer “geeks” advice for the fix.
*So I must use Firefox on my main work computer despite its problems with being slow & hanging (even after a re-install).
Again, as was the purpose of this blog post, my reason for writing this was not to condemn IE8, as despite many many others not liking this browser, I found it the most overall useful, but since I cannot get a cookie out and uninstalling and re-installing is not an option, I no longer can use IE8 anymore (IE9 just kept this cookie). So my main option is Chrome for everyday browsing and Firefox business work.
It is just too bad that Microsoft is so desperate to make their products proprietary, they do not realize that a simple uninstall option would solve so many problems.
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