Keep trying I am sure you'll find some that will fit your needs.

Tom

I, too, have signed-up for EPN, and also saw the proviso regarding US-based employees etc.
As I don't directly employ any of the staff at my hosting provider, my interpretation of Ebay's Terms is different to yours.
If your interpretation was valid, then any money earned through sites based on US hosting would be liable to US taxation. I can't see that happening any time soon, otherwise a large number of US based hosting providers would be losing a significant chunk of their market.

I have come across similar terms in other affiliate sign-up processes and my interpretation has always been that, as I have no directly employed US representatives, I have no need to pay US based taxes.

I am in the UK as well. My hosting is mostly in the US, but beyond that, I have no direct representation State-side.
I'm no lawyer or accountant, but my belief is, that as I am not a US citizen, nor have I any legal entity based in the US, my only taxation liability, is to the UK.

As I don't earn very much from any Internet based activity currently, my liability is negligible, either in the UK or the US.
Should that change, I would take the precaution of taking both legal and accountancy advice. If you are earning a significant amount from your Ebay activities, it may pay you to do the same and be sure one way or the other.
At the very least it may save you from having to hunt down alternative hosting, outside the US.
As another thought, if you found hosting say in Australia, would your earnings then be liable to Aussie taxation? I don't believe that they would.

That's my interpretation, for what it's worth.
As I stated above, the only way to be certain, would be to take legal and accountancy advice from qualified experts.

Good luck with your return to the Internet scene BTW

Kind regards

Ian

Great to have another Brit here!

I read ebay's terms very closely and they specifically mention US based hosting services. The issue is not necessarily having to pay US tax, it's more that you have to sign a US tax form saying that you're not a US resident and that you will pay tax in the UK etc etc because the UK and US have a double taxation agreement. Most affiliate programs don't bother until you earn more than $600 in a year, at which point they do ask you to sign it. I've come across this a few times and I'd rather avoid the hassle altogether if I can.

Australian tax law doesn't come into it because ebay is a US company and they will be (hopefully) paying me in the UK so they're not interested in where my servers are as long as they're not in the US.

As it happens I am an accountant, although international tax isn't my speciality

My Australian hosting provider did actually get back to me today with many apologies so I may give them another chance.

Isobel

Should I use blogbomb to display those feeds or some other script?

bye,
faraz

Bob

It was much easier to update than I thought.

It used to be all templates in the templates folder, but the latest version uses different folders, for ex:

The Older: item_1.template, item_2.template, page_1.template, page_2.template, products_1.template, products_2.template, etc, etc,.

The Latest: Just make a folder associate with; if you were using the item_1.template for the side bar, make folder for the side bar and rename:

item_1.template to item.template and put it in the side bar folder and link to it:

amazon.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Books&Keywords=key word&templates=sidebar&link_templates=fullpage&max_results=5

You can still use the same variables in the templates, but the display variables are totally different:

input_templates --> templates=sidebar

input_link_templates --> link_templates=fullpage

input_max=5 --> max_results=5

Ut

My biggest fear is when I make my store is I don't know if I'll get into trouble using the names Amazon, eBay and clickbank, but I need to so that the visitors know where the deals are coming from.

On another note I was thinking of using blog bomb also in other sites, but not sure if my hosting provider ( Host Gator) can handle it. I have the original blog bomb from about two years ago and used it when I had a VPS account with servant. Had to drop it last November when my car's water pump needed replaced.

I guess I just need to know how to handle the name question.

Tom

Hi Tom,

You can use "Amazon" on your pages. Just don't do use it in domain names.

If Host Gator can't handle BlogBomb, use ZZ Tuel instead. That's what ZZ is for...

Thanks Yoshi...Actually, this is timely as I have a site that still uses Mr. Rat and I haven't updated it yet.

Bob

Hi Bob...

I don't have a clue. I think a person or two have gotten them to work, bu they were very "techy".

Bob,

Sorry, I don't know either. I use Lunix always.

I need to be able to change the IP address of where I submit (my laptop) with Pete's programs... Because I think they are detecting it via IP (blogger is of Google so be careful)

I posted this in the thread of Pete's programs =>
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=106&forum=DCForumID42

Can anyone help me please ? I don't want to get them all flagged, I need to set it up once (then it update via RSS feed alias blackhole pheed)

Tasari

Other than using a Proxy ...

Have you tried turning off or unplugging the power of your Cable/DSL modem for five minutes or so?

THat sometimes does it.

If it doesn't work try it again, or do it overnight while you are sleeping. Wake up and plug it back in. You should be good to go then.

Now if you use Braodband you might want to contact your service provider.

Hope this helps...

Mary

I have cable connection, I will try that, but I will have to keep each IP address to be sure not getting flagged.
I ask this because I think blogger checks IP addresses and put the sites after the 1st one as "spam" or am I wrong ?

Tasari

I don't use proxy either.

And yes, you are correct about Blogger.

The thing about the cable modem is that once you do it, the IP cahnges permenantly.

I didn't realize you wanted to keep the IP addresses.

Umm ... it seems to me Kurt gave a resolution for this in one of his threads, but I cannot remember which one that is.

I'll try looking for it later this eve if you'd like. Or you can ask Kurt about it.

Did you try Googling for a service that does this? There might be something out there too.

That's the best I've got....

Mary

Where did you all run off to?

Kurt? Anyone?

You guys still alive and kicking lol?

I've been wondering how the newer Bombers have been doing with their Bombs. Have any of you succeeded in putting up any using the bombs and tuelz?

Just curious ...

Mary

>You guys still alive and kicking lol?

Hahahaha! But yeah, I was wondering the same thing, although I'm a bandwidth waste lurker here...

I'm doing great, enjoying my life and websites building.

How's everything everyone?

Ut

Very good to hear that somebody is still watching the boards UT!

I figured everyone is busy building their sites and stuff.

I apoligize for things being slow lately. I've had massive PC problems and to be honest, I've has some creative "blocks" recently.

I need folks to comment on stuff to help get me going. For example, I did the StumbleUpon thread and it got no responses at all (although Kelvin did make a post).

When something gets no response, I figure there is no interest. I had planned on us doing StumbleUpon, but when there is no interest/comments, I figured "why bother"?

This month we'll work on RSS again, as well as mTurk.

Na, no need to apologize chief! We still love ya!

Seriously though, we know what you've been going thru.

I guess I wanted to see what other people were doing, and possibly shake the house a little lol.

I know many of us have been working on our networks and sites, so my guess is that it's not a matter of what you are posting or what topics you post.

Besides, I remember what I was like when I first got my Bombs and Tuelz. They were like new toys to me as they still are, so it's easy to get working without poking my head up to see what's going on.

You have to remember that you posted a ton of ideas in this forum, plus people added to them. It's a lot to grasp, apply, and keep up the pace.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with regarding RSS and Mturk.

Mary

Yeah Kurt, I think Mary's right - sorry, talk about "piggyback posting" lol! - But really, here are a lot of info to digest and apply (I thank you Kurt and everybody here for that), and its kinda easy to get lost here, coz everything here related to some other things.

Of course, its not your fault Kurt, but I tend to side tracked one thing to other. Guess I need more focus.

Thanks again, talk to you later everyone.

Ut

Don't worry, just post in topics...

Tasari

Lol Taz,

Glad to see you too!

Hey, I have a quick question for you ...

ServInt updated their PHP to 5.2. Are you having problems running BBX2 on your servers or sites/blogs?

I've been talking back and forth with support all night and keep trying to tell them it is a parse error. They are telling me I have something missing in the script.

True I had to reinstall the script maybe a week ago, but it has been running fine until last eve.

Matter of fact, I have the feeds showing on my site here:

www.gamedome4u.com

The problem or error comes up when I add an RSS feed.

If you have the same problem, or did have, how did you get it fixed lol???

Inquiring mind wants to know!

Seems to me I had this same problem when they upgraded the PHP to 5.0 too, but no one seems to know what they did to get it to work again.

I'd appreciate any advice you can give ...

Thanks!

Mary

I've had that problem with Hostgator.

They recently re-compiled the Perl modules to upgrade them the latest version, and they didn't include one of the XML::RSS modules and my 'zon script stopped working.

I'd hazard a guess you'll find something similar has occurred with your hosting.

I hope you get it sorted soon

Kind regards

Ian

OH and I'm still here, just very busy with other projects at the moment.

Hi Mary...

Looks like Ian has the answer...Pay attention.

Thanks for that info. I've forwarded it to support.

It may have been the perl they updated. For some reason I wrote PHP in the fisrt post.

Hopefully they'll get it fixed.

Mary

Btw Kurt, lol yes I saw that....thanks!

You won't believe what the problem was, and it took my host and me till about 6:00 am to figure things out.

The feed I entered led to nowhere!

Man, this has turned out to be one heck of a week, andit's starting to show because I'm making stupid mistakes.

So now everyone knows that if you enter a feed that leads to nowhere in BBX, you will get an error message saying to contact the webmaster.

Kurt,

I know, and don't you say one word lol!

Mary

The feed I entered led to nowhere!

Yup! That'll do it every time

As Kurt points out, you must pay more attention.

Glad you're sorted out anyway

Kind regards

Ian

First of all, I still use latest version of PHP4 ( version 4.4.8 )
Secondly, they didn't upgrade to PHP 5, you can choose to go with version PHP 5

How to help ? Not needed any more

Tasari

I meant to say perl, not PHP lol. I ended up using PHP to support too, and I think Kurt. What can I say, it was a very long night.

Btw, I am using PHP 5.2 now, and it is working just fine. What ServInt did was re-add the XML Parser.

Put that together with a usable feed, and it works like a charm!

Thanks for responding, and take care ...

Mary

P.S. I think that's about the dumbest thing I've done in years lol.

One item I retrieved was my Outlook.pst file. When I move it into the Outlook folder, were it belongs, Outlook 2002 doesn't see it.

How do I get Outlook to see, and use, the .pst file? Many have directed me to the MS website but trying to follow their ideas is like pi**in' in the wind.

There's gotta be a way to do this. Anyone have an answer?

Thanks,

John

hope it helps regards
Karsten

I arrived at dombom via Warrior Forum, and after reading your WSO I joined at dombom.

So, I thought we got all the perl scripts with our membership. It looks like we have to pay/wait for them.

Should I join through the WSO and save a bunch of money? And/or not have to wait.

Right now I just want to follow your and Dan's advice:

>1- Blog bomb install, config, set up
>2- Get to know RSS inside and out,
>3- get pheeds to make pheeds
>4- Make tin sites
>5- add content to sites, rewrite them for silver sites, add
>gold content to gold sites, and monetize them
>
>6- then fat bomb

But it looks like all I have access to is blogbomb. Is that all I need? Thanks.

HI Dave,

If my memeory is correct, you didn't purchase the WSO, instead joined using the normal DomBom membership.

Contact me via email and include your Paypal receipt and we'll work something out...

I would guess this application would be a "gold" site, but I may be wrong. That's actually my question. Use SNB with outlying Silver and Tin as pointers? Still deciding on which niche to go for first.

If you use SNB, there are two things you have to be aware of:
1. Must be uploaded to the domain ROOT directory. Too much to change if you put it in a sub-folder.
2. Captcha may not show up if your host hasn't got it "turned on."

Other than that, it was a snap! Then, add Bombz and Tuelz and I see possibilities developing big time. Script also uses a "bad word" file which you can add to. Poster uses a bad word from the list and they can't log in next time. Good safety catch.

Just a little review and a question.

John

Which bomb/tuel did we use to "insert" a "blog" into a page?

I remember in the "old days," we went round and round on this one and found that one of the above did the trick. Not a full-blown blog, mind you, but something that would suffice on a page.

Thanks,

John

Are you talking about Commentz? It adds the ability to take and add reader comments to standard html pages.

That ring a bell?

John

Both ZZ Tuel (desktop) and Godfather (server side) will do that.

It was before "Tuelz." So, it must be GfB as I was using it on the site where I remember seeing the "archive" feature.

Right now, trying to figure out which niche I want to attack. Then, upload the software that I'll be using and get everything configured. I'll be posting about what I'm running into and how things are going so the new bombers can see what's going on.

Once I figure out the niche, I'll get a long-tail-domain-name and I've got hosting covered. Then, as I'm working on it, I'll let bombers come "in" and look around. Explanations will be posted in this private forum. No need for the "cluck-clucks" to follow us.

This is the fun part of Bombing and Tueling around. When you have your concept in mind, all your pieces ready and then, on to solve the "puzzle."

Maybe someone here can help me with one final question: There's a software, I know I have it and can't think of the name of it. It's either a tracker or tracker-like script that does NOT show your CB affiliate ID in the Address line, only at the bottom of the CB purchase page. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I think it's been on several giveaways as I don't remember buying it.

Now, what niche/name to use????????

John

I just looked over the recent WSO and somehow I did not get everyhing listed there.

For sure I do not have INZ.

Is there some download that has everything from the WSO?

Was I supposed to get the full Tuelz package? Or some of the full versions? I have LTD and TuelzBS99

TuelzBS99 is the full versions and includes the Inz Tuel.

sometimes i get this error in firefox

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:12345.

Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

* Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later."

I turned off the firewall and that did not help.

yesterday I re-booted and then it worked, but today no such luck.

using win xp pro with sp 3

Yesterday when tuelzBS99 did open INZ was not on the list of programs.
I tried to open INZ by clicking on it and that did not work.
Windows sees the .mod extention as a video file, I changed properties to have the .mod open with tuelz.

anyone have this kind of thing happen just sometimes not other times?
What else can I check?

Using Tredn micro PC-Cillian 2007 and wondering if that could effect tuelz somehow

Hi Warner,

You posted this problem on the Tuelz forum and I repsonded. Did you read my response?

No, sorry did not see that, will go look now

If you had this chore, how wold you tackle it?

Thank,

John

Standby on this...

Jeff

I need a favor from some of you that are successful at making money from using Fatty and BBX on their sites and blogs.

Iam planning to run a WSO in the WF for fully loaded niche businesses and need some testimonials.

These are Joomla! sites with professional templates, content, affiliate products, and the whole 9 yrads.

If you think you can give me a testimonial, please PM me. I'd greatly appreciate it.

Btw, I did contact a couple of Bombers today, so if you were already asked, please consider it.

Thanks ...

Mary

P.S. Btw Kurt, if this isn't the place to post this please feel free to delete it.

Hey Jeff,

Did you have something cooking on a script that will break down XML to individual RSS?

That would be good if you do. I know I'd buy the product because I've been looking too.

Mary

Hi Mary,

I was thinking about something along those lines. But it may not be worthwhile due to some potential support issues involved. Still thinking about it though.

Jeff

I'm wondering:
Applicant - US Citizen
Bank on file - US based
My location - Non-US based

Wonder what they'll make of that?

John

Hi John,

I've had one for years. It's nice to have, because you can have instant access offline to your Paypal funds. No waiting 3 days or more for bank transfers, etc.

It takes a couple of weeks to receive it, & they send you renewals every couple of years I think. You get a PIN for ATM cash withdrawal, etc., & I think you have to call from your home phone to activate. Not sure how that will work where you live, or if you can use in ATMs etc. there.

Jeff

Love my Paypal card.

Only problem I've ever had is right now...I was supposed to have gotten the replacement a month ago, but it hasn't arrived.

Part of this is likely due to me still using a LV mailing address. And this isn't any more a Paypal issue and could happen with anything.

Hey Jeff and John,

Actually, activation is done through your Paypal account, if and when you get your card.

Tom

This is my first site in over a year http://shopermart.com I used to have 14 sites and mostly was using AD Sense. They were making pennies and I needed the money to keep paying my med bills. So I droped them and kind of backed off, and just work at my part time job.

Could all of you take a look at my site and give me some suggestions, and advice. I would appreciate it. Oh I almost forgot.

I have another domain name that I haven't done any thing with as it's my name tomeleam.com. What kind of site can I make out of it?

I read somewhere that having your own name as a domain name is good for branding?

Tom

Hi Tom...

Site looks fine, however Amazon will be as tough or tougher to make money from as was AdSense.

My question is, what's your marketing plan? How do you plan on getting traffic?

You need to make blogs and mini sites about each and every topic on your main/gold site. Start another site about mp3s. How to make them, download them, etc.

Also, look for song and musuc reviews, etc.

Remember, getting the first site is only 1-5% of the work. Marketing/promoting it is the other 95% .

>
>My question is, what's your marketing plan? How do you plan
>on getting traffic? I am planning on writing a few articles, some
for my site and some to submit to ezine articles and other directory sites.
>
>You need to make blogs and mini sites about each and every
>topic on your main/gold site. Start another site about mp3s.
>How to make them, download them, etc.

I plan on doing just that, but will use either subdomains, squidoo, and other free places. I am in a bind now as I don't have my part
time job anymore, can't walk now (only for short distances) so my
total income right now is $967 a month so things a a little tough
right now and I just stay at home and work on my site. I can't do
to much at a time though as I tire easily.

What can I use my other domain name that is my name for? I hate to
see it go to waste.

Tom
>
>Also, look for song and music reviews, etc.
>
>Remember, getting the first site is only 1-5% of the work.
>Marketing/promoting it is the other 95% .

There are a number of ways to use your personal domain name.

Most use it as a blog. Many others use it just to be able to use the name as an email address. Still others use it as their main marketing site.

I use mine as a blog.

Kelvin

Hey Tom,

Sorry to hear about your health...The good news is, there's now tons and tons of free places for you to use and exploit, so you don't need to spend money on hosting and domain names.

I sent you some info a while back. I think you should follow that plan.

I think I'll use it for a blog too.

Kurt,

oops I forgot to update my email address it's
themage(at symbol)comcast.net

I switched back to comcast when DSL be came
unreliable. Also I will be switching Phone
service.

BTW have a great vacation you deserve it.

Tom

A few days ago I ran Kaspersky Labs anti virus software to remove ad.yieldmanager. I have recently noticed that tuelz will no longer open. I don't know if the Kaspersky is related to tuelz not opening; howver, I mention it because noticed that tuelz stopped funtioning sometime after doing the run. When I click on the tuelz .exe, I get an hour glass for a few moments and then nothing.

Also, the tuel bar appears to have vanished from my computer. But that's another issue.

I'd appreciate any advice or suggestions.

Thanks,
Evan

Evan,

Does your version of Kaspersky include a firewall? If so, that may be the cause. If it's a firewall issue, you'll need to add Tuelz.exe as an allowed application.

You should be able to shut down Kaspersky - usually a right-click and choose Exit or something similar. I'd try that, then run Tuelz.exe and you'll know for sure.

Jeff

Thank you. Right. I was a little bleary this morning when trying to sort out tuelz. I'll turn off Kaspersky (trial version) and see what happens.

Evan

Basically, to summarize, Tuelz has stopped working, and this appears to be correlated to running Kaspersky Labs anti virus software. However, I have turned it off and even replaced the tuelz.exe but for some reason, tuelz will simply not open. Regarding the tuel bar, I did a reinstall and that is working fine.

By the way, I'm running XP, and in the recent past, Tuelz has run like clockwork. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Evan

Hi Evan,

This should have been posted in the Tuelz forum...But while we're here...

Exit Tuelz.exe
Restart
Open Tuelz.log in a text editor
Email the contents to me at lvha@aol.com

Thank you. I apologize for posting the Tuelz question here. The other day, I tried to ask the question in the Tuelz thread, but for some reason it wouldn't post. Perhaps I was too impatient. I'll send you the information later today as soon as I get to the computer with Tuelz installed.

Evan

SE here: http://www.cuil.com/

Story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392021,00.html

Looks good, too.

John

What tools do I need to use to scrape a public domain site?

Ultimately, I want the scrapings to end up in a word press blog. (if that makes any difference)

Charles

Hi Charles

Try HTTRack http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html .

It will copy all the pages on the site down to the level you specify in the setup before you set it running. You may need to experiment a little with settings to obtain optimal results.

HTH

Kind regards

Ian

Charles

You can use a variety of the Tuelz to do what you want.

Replacez, Tagz, Listz and Linez, together with Textpad are the Tuelz I use regularly to manipulate text.

HTH

Kind regards

Ian

New guy with questions.

I've been reading a lot and I found Kurt's Plans and Goals
post.

I see that step one is just to stick to understanding
BlogBomb, but then I've noticed in other threads that
it seems like Tulz does what BlogBomb does without all
of the cgi and perl stuff.

Is that correct?

If so should I focus on BlogBomb or Tulz to start?

Thanks,
Blase