How to Put Random Youtube Videos on Your Blogger Blog - It's Easy

30 March 2007 - 17:57

Want to know how to put videos from Youtube on your new blogger blog? Of course you do! Who wouldn't? Well thanks to our friends at Google it just got real easy! Click on 'customize', click on 'add elements' then choose Video Bar, put some keywords in the window and away you go. The videos open up in your blog, and have been known to mesmerize unwary surfers!

Adsense and Sensibilities - Don't Swear at Google - Section Targeting

30 March 2007 - 13:10

Here's something you might like to know about Google's Adsense, if you are interested in making money online, especially if you're new to it (like me). Rule No. 1 : Don't shoot yourself in the foot! I have a number of blogs - this one, one on the stockmarket, one on meditation, and until recently one on technology news.

I have Adsense ads on them (you may have noticed them down the side or up on top somewhere) that are supposed to bring in some dough (doh !). The ads are also supposed to be relevant to what the blog is about. However, on my technology site I noticed that all I was getting were Public Service Ads, which may be very useful to someone but were not what I expected.

I tried re-configuring the site, playing about with the layout and the template etc... etc... and got nowhere. I even wrote to Google (yes I was that desperate!) - they sent back their computer-generated response of course (as they all do - Ebay are masters at it) which told me nothing, or rather told me so much as to be totally useless, as it gave me no clue as to what was going on with the ads.

Then I had a moment of insight! Eureka! I remembered that one of my posts was about a company that generates electricity from the stuff that comes out of the rear end of pigs (very successfully too), and that in the post I had not used the word 'manure' or some other scientific term, I had instead gone for the more colourful 's' word :-) (silly me). I realized in my moment of insight that Google possibly doesn't like profanities, or any other unpleasant or vice-related vocabulary and that my blog had been classified by Google's spiders as 'unsuitable' for its ads ! The solution I decided upon was to abandon the blog and create a new one.

It turns out, however, that this was probably a bit of overkill, but as a newbie of course I didn't know this at the time. Apparently this is a common problem with Google's Adsense site rating system and the way round it is to use 'section targeting' . Briefly put "Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you would like Google to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site's content"

The main use as far as I was concerned would have been to highlight the offending 's' word and tell Google to ignore it which you do by putting :-


google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore)


into your HTML code, check out the full details over at Google help (see below).

Other people have had similar problems. For example if you put the word orange somewhere in your post, you are liable to get all sorts of ads for mobile phones. There are better examples but I don't want to mention them here for fear of getting on the bad side of Google's spiders again.

You can find a whole load of information (more than you want probably!) over at Google itself, in Google Adsense help do a search on 'Section Targeting'.

So maybe I'll revive my ex-blog and play around with their section targeting to see what pops up! So if you've been getting the Public Service Ads and don't know why, it might be something in your text, which you need to instruct Google to ignore. :-)

Clicky - Cool New Web Analytics Program

27 March 2007 : 23:45

Clicky is now out of beta since 13 March. It may sound like a strange marsupial that clicks out its messages to warn its human friends of danger, but it's actually a cool new analytics tool that lets you know everything you've always wanted to know about those mysterious silent beings who visit your website or blog. Up until now I've been using dear old Google analytics, but I found the experience strangely unsatisfying. Clicky on the other hand is a breath of fresh air! Whereas Google seem to go out of their way to couch their tools in jargon and to make their programs as confusing as possible, the folks at Clicky have obviously realized that most people just want everything to work and to be simple to understand!

Innovative features include RSS (Clicky are justifiably proud of the fact that they are the only analyzer on the planet that gives you web stats via RSS).



and Spy, it can also distinguish between regular Google search traffic and Google Blog search traffic and has several more features in the pipeline. For me though the best aspect was that I could actually understand what I was looking at !



Another good thing about it, which we can all appreciate, is that it's free if you have less than 1,000 page views a day, which means most of us. If you're rich or you have more than 1,000 page views on average or you just like spending money, fear not they also have a premium service. The whole installation is simplicity itself. I managed it in around 2 minutes and I'm no genius!

Steve Rubel over at Micropersuasion has just installed it, so we are in good company. If you want to give it a go, clicky here Clicky Analytics

Michael Arrington makes $150,000 a month from his TechCrunch blog !

27 March 2007 - 14:25

$150,000 a month is serious money from a blog ! But apparently that's what Michael Arrington makes with TechCrunch blog. Mr Arrington created TechCrunch in June 2005 and it has been so successful he now has five full-time writers and five part-timers. He used to be a corporate lawyer (until he saw the light !) specializing in venture capital start-ups and makes use of his connections to write his blog, but even so $150,000 a month from advertising revenue is a lot of advertising and a lot of clicks on those pesky little ads.! http://www.businessinnovation.cmp.com/articles/strat_061215pg2.jhtml

He says “I don’t cover news unless it’s interesting. I write stories companies don’t want me to write”. He also operates on rumor and insider information, which may be illegal in stocktrading, but not here . He also says the secret is to write passionately about something you love. So now you know, except I suspect there's other stuff he ain't letting on about too.

According to other bloggers his success is based on the fact that he found a niche and exploited it; he gets stories first; his blog actually contains some useful information; his opinions are worth paying attention to; he negotiates special advertising deals (so he's not getting all his money from Adsense or putting all his eggs in one basket - and as a lawyer he is no doubt an expert in negotiating good deals); he has contacts within the industry; his blog has a brand (although it didn't when he started out a year ago). He used to post 3 times a day - but not anymore, as stated above he has people posting for him.

There are apparently other bloggers who make similar amounts - Problogger could be one and Gigaom another (allegedly).

Other factors which may contribute to the success of TechCrunch, Mr Arrington has lots of other businesses on the go and is on the Board of Directors of a number of companies. In addition TechCrunch :

• was featured in a front page story in the San Francisco Chronicle
• the Financial Times wrote about it in December, 2006.
• Michael Arrington was named a 'Web Celeb' by Forbes on January 24, 2007.
• he was also named one of the 50 Most Important People on the Web by PCWorld in March 2007.

I have looked at his blogs. They are well put together and certainly look more like websites than blogs but I see nothing so compelling on them that would bring in $150,000 in advertising from people clicking on stuff !, but WTFDIK, I could say the same about many other blogs too. One blogger says he gets 2 million visitors a month, his blog is certainly interesting but even so the numbers are surprising to say the least. I guess the blogosphere is a 'really big place'!

So the way to do it seems to be have something you're passionate about, write about it, make the content interesting (how many times have I read that before!), it also helps if you have a few contacts that can get you information before anyone else has it, and people will be unable to resist, they will simply flock to your site to find out what all the fuss is about !

How to Incorporate Adsense ads. directly into Your Text

26 March 2007 - 01:54

Well I've finally found time to describe how to incorporate Adsense ads. directly into the text of your blog, using the new blogger. The guy who worked it all out is Louiss so respect to Louiss as it seems it took a long time with a lot of trial and error.

Once you know how it's not too complicated but you do need to follow the instructions carefully. I have also slightly tweaked the instructions to give a further possiblity which Louiss doesn't mention. First you need to get your Adsense code from the adsense site. You need to choose Adsense for content, then text ads. only, but you can choose any size you want. Then proceed as follows :-

1. Go to your blog and click on 'customize'
2. Click on 'Template' then on 'Edit HTML'
3. Click in the 'Expand Widget Template' box
4. Scroll down the HTML code until you find the line: div class='post-header-line-1'/
5. Paste Adsense code just below this line
6. Look in the Adsense code and delete < !-- from the end of the first line
7. Find Line 13 in the Adsense code and delete //-->
8. Click on 'Save Template'
9. Click on 'View Blog' - the Adsense ads. should appear just below the Blog header

If you don't want the ads. just below the header you can move them to the bottom of the post.

1. Carry out 1-5 as above
2. Scroll down a further 2 lines to : p data:post.body / / p
3. Insert the Adsense code just below this line
4. Carry out 6 - 9 as above - the ads. should appear at the bottom of the post, like in this post.

You may be able to place the ads. elsewhere in the text, I haven't experimented with that yet, but if you decide to experiment yourself please leave a comment - I'd be interested to see what you discover.

Congratulations to Louiss, to me and to anybody who implements this code!

Optimization - Submit Your Site to Search Engines

25 March 2007 - 15:50

Just a quick SEO Optimization note to remind myself and others to submit their sites to search engines to increase their rankings


Yahoo - http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
MSN - http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm
Google - http://www.google.com/addurl/

Increase your Income from Adsense

23 March 2007 - 18:04

If you ever wander over to the Google Adsense forum one of the questions that comes up time and time again is 'How can I get/increase my revenue using Adsense ?' And one of the most popular searches on Google is 'how can I make money online ?'

Well hopefully I can provide you with some useful information that will allow you to increase your revenue !

[Note : If you want to cut to the chase you can scroll down 7 paragraphs (I got carried away!) - but you will miss my valuable insights into the blogging business and assorted bloggeratis !]

I have noticed that there seem to be two camps when it comes to making money from blogs - camp 'A' where people make no or very little money despite trying hard and spending a lot of time and effort (a couple of dollars a day maximum) (I am in this camp in case you were wondering) and camp 'B' where people make thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions every day/week/month (delete as appropriate), names in this category which spring to mind are Darren Rowse (Problogger), John Chow, Steve Pavlina, TechCrunch ($150,000 a month apparently) and a variety of people over at forums like earnersforum. As a cynical beginner I am slightly sceptical about some of the claims, but I assume there must be some truth in them. I am just confused, like many people I guess, as to why there should be such a large discrepancy between the haves and the have nots. The people who seem to know what they are doing and who make money in their sleep by merely moving their Adsense ads. from one corner of their screen to the other and the rest who seem befuddled and clueless and who are constantly trying to wheedle the secrets out of the 'cognoscenti'. Of course if people think that you know something that they don't then they may be tempted to visit your site in a desperate search for the 'secret knowledge' thus creating a sort of pyramid selling or multi-level marketing effect, i.e. people visit the site to find out how to make money from websites/blogs and while they are there they click on a few ads. or sign up for some affiliate program, or buy a book or two, thus making money for the guy who is supposedly telling you how to make money, but is in fact telling you to go off and create a website just like his so that people will come along looking for your 'secret' and click on your ads.. For example I have had a good look around Problogger to see how he 'did it', but I very much doubt that he has been checking out what I've been getting up to! Problogger does of course have some useful information, as he has a camera review site, but I suspect most people to his sites are looking for information on how to monetize their own sites.

When you read the blogs of 'succesful' bloggers to find out how they do it, you end up with a vague idea that you need 'high quality content' (although to tell the truth I see precious little of it around) or you need to work your 'ad placement' or SEO optimization (directories, swarms, communities, you scratch my back I'll scratch yours) and of course you need to build your traffic by writing 'quality content' so that people feel obliged to come back to your blog again and again or link to it, because you 'give good content'.

It should be noted however that you must not write stuff just to get people on your blog so they will then click on the ads and make you some dosh for your efforts, no sirreee! There is among some bloggers an almost religious zeal about serving the community, doing good, providing useful/useless/inaccurate or downright dangerous information etc... At the same time you are also advised to 'blend' the ads into the site so that they are barely noticeable. Lol - you gotta smile sometimes. Then any money that you make is just reward for all your good work/karma or whatever.

I can't help feeling that there is something wrong, or possibly even ever so slightly hypocritical, with this model. People trying to make money from blogs can't stick up a big notice saying 'click on these ads. before you enter!', as clearly people would be so disgusted they would just hit the back button. Yet they are not averse to letting people know they are making a small fortune just by writing a couple of articles a day (how many journalists make the sort of money some bloggers apparently make?).

It would seem to me that if bloggers are making vast amounts of money, journalists would be better off quitting their day jobs and joining them. They would probably get a wider audience on the Internet and make more money at the same time for a lot less work.

I digress, but you get the picture. There is a well-known businessman in the UK called Alan Sugar. He started off as a market trader then created a company called Amstrad and made his fortune selling consumer electronics (PCs, printers, faxes, videophones etc...) One day he said he was sick and tired of hearing company executives claiming all they wanted to do was serve the public by providing them with 'quality products', as if they were in business to be philanthropists. Sugar said "Our motto at Amstrad is 'We want your money!'"

This I suspect is the motivation for the vast majority of bloggers who put ads. and affiliate links on their sites. They want your money. Not 'your' money literally, because usually it's some advertiser's money. But in the end it is your money, of course, because companies merely put up the prices of the goods to include their advertising costs. Providing useful information is of course 'useful', but the purpose of this information is to attract readers and thereby make money, like TV programs which are there not to entertain or inform the audience, but to attract as many people as possible to see the ads. that are paid for by their sponsors. On some sites you do sometimes find some 'useful' information but 'useless' information often seems to serve the same purpose. You merely have to re-define 'useless' as 'useful'.

So if you're reading this you presumably want to know how to increase your Adsense revenue. Well here is some 'useful' information I have come across which like I said at the beginning will hopefully help you increase your revenue. The guy I got it from says that within 2 days he increased his revenue 4-fold, from 40 cents a day to $1.60 a day. He actually said 400% but his maths ain't too good ! It's really only 300% but I'll let him off that one, as the increase is nevertheless impressive even if the amounts are pretty paltry (not poultry as I read on one blog! [Lord give me strength]).

So I for one am going to follow his advice and see if I can increase my $1 a month to $4 !

This is how it is done :-

• Put an embedded 728×60 link unit just under the header image,
• Put a 120×600 link unit in the sidebar (he didnt' say which sidebar, but it is generally accepted that the left-hand sidebar is better) and
• Embed a 250×250 link unit in every post.
• Make the colours match the blog itself (so that cunningly the ads. look like part of the content you have created [hehehe])
• Then worry about getting the traffic in.

So I am off to do it and I will keep you, and me, posted as to the results (or not) thereof.

[EDIT : Well after much fiddling I have managed to do it, almost. The 728 x 60 no longer seems to exist so I chose 468 x 60, the link unit in the sidebar was OK. The difficult part was getting the 250 x 250 in the body of the post automatically (without having to put it in manually for each and every posting), at the bottom of the post. Fortunately I found a post explaining how it can be done for the new blogger, congratulations to the guy who worked it out, I will be putting up another post later today or tomorrow with acknowledgement to him and also explaining how it is done and how I tweaked it a bit further. I may also try and tweak it a bit further still to see if I can move the ad. to a different spot in the body so check back later (it's 14:00 UK time on Saturday 24 March 2007 at the moment - EDIT : Check out my post 'How to Incorporate Adsense Ads. directly into your Text']

How to Give Your Blog a Real Domain Name - Part II

22 March 2007 - 19:55

How To Give Your Blog a Real Domain Name

[Updated 13 August 2007]

Last month (28th Feb) I thought it would be a good idea to change my blog's domain name from the name allocated by blogger to a 'proper' URL. The name allocated by blogger was - moneyfromdomains.blogspot.com - I decided to change it to - netmonetization.com -, which I thought would be easier to remember and given that I am learning about blog monetization might be better for the search engines.

I thought I had managed to change the name on 28th Feb. but it turns out all was not as it seemed. The address http://www.netmonetization.com was fine, it took you directly to this blog, but if you left out the www and just typed in http://netmonetization.com it took you to a godaddy parked page, which was of no use to me. Changing the DNS and re-directing it was more complicated than the blogger instructions made out.

I had followed the instructions given in the blogger help pages but there was extra stuff to do that they don't tell you ! Godaddy (the registrar for my domain name) were no help by the way.

The following are the step-by-step instructions of what needs to be done should you decide to change your blog's domain name and use your own URL.

1. Get yourself a domain name. I bought my domain name (netmonetization.com) from Godaddy - cost around $7. Tip 1 : when registering a domain name it is apparently better to register for 2 years or more as search engines rank your name higher if it is registered for more than one year. Tip 2 : if you use Godaddy you can type in the coupon code 'SPEED1' when it comes to paying - this should get you a 10% reduction off the price. If you use another registrar you can have a look here for coupon codes http://www.retailmenot.com/
2. (This is only for those of you using the new blogger.) Go to your blog then click on - customize - settings - publishing.
3. Click on 'Custom Domain'
4. Type your new domain name in the blank 'Your Domain' window - include the www and click on 'save settings'at the bottom of the page
5. Click on 'Setup instructions' (just underneath the window) in the middle of the page
6. Read the instructions and then click on the blue 'here' in paragraph 3
7. Click on 'godaddy.com' if your registrar is godaddy. If you used a different registrar then I'm afraid you're on your own from here on in. (Although some of the instructions may be similar).
8. Read the instructions and log in to your godaddy account.
9. Click on 'My Account', then on 'Manage Domains'
10. From the list of domain names displayed, click on the domain name you want to configure (i.e. the domain name that will be the domain name for your blog)
11. Click on 'Total DNS Control and MX Records'
12. In the list of CNAMES you need to delete the first one (the one with the www in the left-hand column) - you delete it by clicking on the cross in the right-hand column
13. After you have deleted the original CNAME - Click on 'Add new CNAME Record'
14. Where it says 'Enter an Alias name' type www
15. Where it says 'Points to host name' type ghs.google.com
16. Click 'OK'
17. (This is the bit they don't tell you and which caused my blog to be pointing to the wrong place half the time ! ) Click on 'Domains' in the top left-hand corner. (This should take you back to the page with your name and address and the details of the domain you are configuring). Click on 'Forwarding' (Alternatively you can go back to the page 'Manage Domains' mentioned above in Point 9 and click on 'Domain Forwarding' in the list on the left-hand side of the screen)
18. (You should now be on the 'Domain Forwarding' screen which has three tabs in the middle of the page - 'forwarding' 'masking and 'help'
19. Click on 'forwarding' then click on the 'enabled' radio button to enable it
20. In the window to the right of 'Forward to' type in the blog name previously used to access your blog e.g. http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/ (do not type 'xxxxxxxxx', type the new domain name you registered :-)
21. Click on the 301 'moved permanently' radio button
22. Click on the 'masking' tag
23. Click in the 'Mask Domain' box (a tick should appear)
24. In the 'Masked Title' window, type the name of the domain as registered with godaddy e.g. xxxxxxxx.com i.e. your new domain name without the http and the www (while you are in this window you might like to add some keywords etc... in the two windows at the bottom of the screen)
25. Click 'OK' then click 'OK' on the next screen
26. You are finished - go and have a lie down.
27. After a few minutes/hours, depending on the Internet - check to see if it has worked by typing your blog domain name directly into the address bar - the problem I had when I did what the blogger instructions told me to do, but without carrying out the 'forwarding' instructions above - points 16 - 24 - was that if I typed in my domain as http://www.netmonetization.com/ then everything was fine, but if I left out the www and only typed in netmonetization.com then I was sent to a godaddy parking page. So you need to carry out a test with and without the www to make sure both addresses display your blog correctly.

One final point you don't need a web hosting service, you continue to host your domain with Google free of charge.

change domain name
change blogger domain name
register own domain

How Much is Your Blog Worth ?

21 March 2007 - 00:35

I just stumbled across an interesting utility that works out how much your blog is worth. According to its calculations this blog is worth $564.54 (see left-hand margin) which is a little bit odd as I have other blogs that get more visitors but which are apparently worth a lot less, perhaps it's got something to do with the name being a 'proper' domain name and not a blogspot name. So is it true or just a way of getting visitors to his site,I'll let you decide for yourself! The tool computes a dollar value for your blog using a link-to-dollar ratio. How Much is Your Blog Worth ? You can also be nosey and see how much other people's blogs are worth. for example problogger.net is apparently worth $3,265,299.36 !

Another very good site with plenty of useful information on making money from your blog is Steve Pavlina

Ebay - an Update

15 March 2007 - 10:50

I have moved this article to my other blog as it was messing up the adsense ads. on this blog by putting up ads. about books all the time!

http://firsteditionbooks.blogspot.com/

Families.com sells for $650,000 - Realestate.mobi goes for $85,000

13 March 2007 - 18:30

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference and domain name auction has just finished. If you have domains for sale then you will be pleased to hear the news from Matt Bentley of Sedo that sales data from DNJournal.com combined with Sedo’s own sales database reflect a huge increase in sales activity for 2006. Reported sales and the overall dollar value of sales doubled in 2006, the total value doubling from $50 million to $100 milllion.

The average sales price of domains sold at Sedo increased from $1,500 to $2,200. .Com is still by far the most popular TLD, accounting for 73% of all reported sales volume, although this represents a fall from 81% in 2005 as investors appear look for additional opportunities in new markets. Bentley said the biggest increase was in country codes such as .cn (China), .ca (Canada), .it (Italy), .se (Sweden) and .it (Italy).

In the auction $4.3 million worth of domains were sold and the percentage of names sold was an all-time record, hitting 67% - approximately double the success rate from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East auction in October. There were no 7-figure sales so the record live auction total of $4.7 million in sales at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East. remains intact. There were, however, seven six-figure sales, led by Families.com at $650,000, Greeting.com at $350,000, Blogster.com at $275,000 and settlement.com at $200,000. The other three selling for over 6 figures were two-letter .coms; ET.com ($225,000), OL.com ($150,000) and PX.com ($120,000).

There were also a number of nice sales in the new .mobi extension topped by RealEstate.mobi at $85,000 and Casinos.mobi at $52,000. This new extension is seen by many as representing the new investment opportunity for domain namers. To see a list of all the winning bids check out moniker Final Prices

The online auction is continuing until 14 March. The next auction is scheduled for June in New York.

AGLOCO - GET PAID TO SURF

10 March 2007 - 00:55

Get paid to surf via Agloco. This company is just starting up, basically you get paid for having ads. on a viewbar while you surf, you also get paid for any of your referrals that sign up for the program. It is planned that they will list on the UK AIM stockmarket soon. The beauty is that this company is new which represents a chance to get in at the start. Check out their website here AGLOCO
From their PR department

Do you realize how valuable you are? Advertisers, search providers and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you making? NONE!

AGLOCO thinks you deserve a piece of the action.

AGLOCO collects money from those companies on behalf of its members. (For example, Google currently pays AOL 10 cents for every Google search by an AOL user. And Google still has enough profit to pay $1.6 billion dollars for YouTube, an 18-month old site full of content that YouTube’s users did not get paid for!

AGLOCO will work to get its Members their share of this and more.

AGLOCO is building a new form of online community that they call an Economic Network. They are not only paying Members their fair share, but they’re building a community that will generate the kind of fortune that YouTube made. But instead of that wealth making only a few people rich, the entire community will get its share.

What's the catch? No catch - no spyware, no pop-ups and no spam - membership and software are free and AGLOCO is 100% member owned. Privacy is a core value and AGLOCO never sells or rents member information.

So do both of us a favor: Sign up for AGLOCO right now! If you use this link to sign up, I automatically get credit for referring you and helping to build AGLOCO.
AGLOCO

FORBES LIST BILLIONAIRES

9 March 2007 - 20:46

If and when Adsense starts paying out any significant amounts of money you may join the billionaires of this world as listed by Forbes (in your dreams !).

No prizes for guessing who's No. 1 - Bill Gates 56 billion No. 2. Warren Buffett 52 billion 3No. . Carlos Slim Helu (who ?) 49 billion - the whole list is very long and diversified so check it out for yourself in the links on the left.

Garry O'Connor Chaucer's Triumph Gary O'Connor

9 March 2007 - 13:40

First Editions

A gratuitous plug for Garry O'Connor's new book 'Chaucer's Triumph'. Why am I plugging it? Because it is a self-published book with a necessarily short print-run, but it has got some interesting fans, including Sir Derek Jacobi and Garry O'Connor has just been on Radio 4 and may well appear in other media forums to talk about his book and also self-publishing in general. I am a book collector myself so I advise you if you want to buy the book, to make sure you get the First Print of the First Edition, signed by Mr O'Connor if at all possible.

I shall at some point be creating a blog about collecting first editions.

If you want to buy it do me a favour and get it through this link ! The Central Line

Tips for Making Money from Websites and Blogs

8 March 2007 - 16:10

I have just stumbled upon an excellent forum aimed at showing newbies (like me) how to use their websites and blogs to make money - earnersforum.com - I haven't had a chance to really study it yet, but it looks like there vould be a wealth o information there. One interesting feature is that the posters show in their sigs. how much they are making a month (over $50,000 a month according to some of them - are they telling the truth? Who knows? But some of them may be).

Another interesting article can be found here

Pavlina

Use the Web to Get a Pay Rise

4 March 2007 - 18:08

For those of you in gainful employment you may wish to know how to get a pay rise. This article in the New York Times might help : "Using the Web to Get the Boss to Pay More " Basically you check out what salaries other people doing similar jobs are getting, by visitng specialist websites, and then complain !

You can start by going here:-

New York Times

GODADDY DELETES DOMAIN NAME RATHER THAN MAKE A PHONE CALL

2 March 2007 - 12:45

Beware if you have your domain names registered with Godaddy (and yes, I do). If your e-mail address is out of date then they can, and will, cancel your domain and sell it to someone else, rather than picking up the the telephone!

The guy this happened to had registered the domain familyalbum.com, which is obviously a valuable name to have. Somebody complained to Godaddy that the contact information was inaccurate (it was only the e-mail that was inaccurate, the telephone number and street address were fine). So after waiting 8 weeks for a reply to their e-mail Godaddy cancelled the guy's account and sold it to the other guy for $18.95. Why didn't they pick up the phone? Or, given that they waited 8 weeks anyway, why didn't they send a letter, are they such cheapskates they can't afford a stamp? All in all a lot of very bad publicity for Godaddy.

There is a problem with having e-mail addresses listed, you get spammed ! There are also various assorted people you may not wish to give your street address too. Godaddy provides a service where this information can be hidden, but you have to pay for it. Other registrars provide this service for free, so it will be worth looking around to check on prices before registering your domain names. I wll certainly be looking into it further.

For the full story go here :- http://domainnamewire.com/2007/02/27/godaddy-deletes-domain-name-for-inaccurate-email-address/

For Godaddy's response go here : http://domainnamewire.com/2007/02/28/godaddy-responds-to-deletion-over-invalid-email-address/