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Quoted from an email: At one point, sellers boycotting eBay due to an increase in Final Value fees claimed a drop to 12 million listings would represent a victory. One third party count at DealsCart found a low of some 13.5 million listings on one day last week. Ebay shrugged off the boycott without comment, other than to claim the action had no effect. We don’t see that as being completely true, since thanks to the Internet this boycott received significant attention leading into its run.

In our humble opinion Ebay seems to have forgotten without sellers there are no buyers and without either they have no business. OR do they?

We know quite a number of decent people that have been banned from Ebay the people wasted the time sending in the forms Ebay sent them only to hear nothing back.

Thinking of ebay the way it was last century in 1998 when we first signed up to sell we couldn’t because we were in Australia. The endless draconian rules and regulations still apply 10 years on.

We spent $5000 to setup our Ebay shop properly & get it marketed only to be kicked in the teeth by Ebay. Then on the other hand Ebay seems to ignore and give second chances to those who are dodgy. Which we have been told by the people themselves.

We ourselves being on the up and up or the level. YOU WILL BE PLEASED TO KNOW nowadays do not associate with these people. So you are now warned as to the waste of money Ebay causes.

We support the sellers on principal however would it not be good the idea they have if they were to give a bit more thought to the idea and say give discounts for multiple items listed with the one campaign on Ebay.

I have just been over to www.jonathanleger.com/links-from-blog-comments-update and posted a comment.

I too have been following this study closely as I wish to try to get more links. I think the work you are now doing Jon is great so far not many problems.

I have found that I get around 25-50% of my comments to stick on blogs even like 5 years later pretty amazing since I thought they would have lost value since archiving.

Just goes to show you that those people who deny your comments obviously are ignorant with relation to learning anything. As I am a smart cookie I sit and read all the comments and I LEARN NEW TIPS AND TRICKS.

Thanks again Jon for all your help over the years.

I just posted the below comment to the link below and felt the  need to say it is a great service many of us webmasters are doing to help out others of us who wish to learn more from a wide range of experience. Keep up the good work Jon thebest way to learn more on this subject is go check out Jon Leger articles & sites, I am looking forward to seeing the results of your project. Remember blogs bloggers & blogging are hot property. BTW I do like your style Jon… Thank you for reading, I welcome your relevant comments.

Jon Leger’s links-from-blog-comments-case-study

By the way with all your efforts have you been rewarded by the big hearted Google. YES they do have a heart FIND THE LINK TO GOOGLES HEART HERE

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I found it works great posting comments as long as they are relevant. I have a couple of blogs you can add to your list Jon and anyone wishing to comment feel free. In my experience if you link back to the same blog but a different post from your blog or site it works better than to the actual post you commented on.

AND it does not matter the page rank you comment on you still get link value PLUS say you don’t comment today and the owner decides to stop allowing comments, where do you get your link in 1-3 years when the page has a high rank???

I added or kept only these below reciprocal links in the last 3 years to my page when it had 0 rank it jumped to 1.

Ogloszenia motoryzacyjne
Dzialki
Baza ogloszen
Praca w Polsce
Noclegi

I added more links to other sites of mine dropped to 0 a month later i found by taking off the extra links I am back up but this time to 2. What I did was I put all the extra links on a new page & it went from 0 to 2 in about 3 months. My first links page has 3 links on it  & the secondary link page has 150 on it, including the adsense links and a range of sites for Search engine Submits.

Original link page
http://www.ausis.info/page7.html
secondary link page
http://www.ausis.info/helpful_links.html

page rank 0 1 & 2
http://www.googledm8.net/
http://thebestisit.com/wordpress
http://the-doctors.info/wordpress/
http://www.tecacentre.net/wpress/
http://www.ausis.info/wordpress
http://www.discountshop.net.au/MoneyTalk/

even bulletin boards work too
http://www.ausis.info/liveBB

Only thing I ask is you link back to whichever site you link out from please.

Hope this helps…

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Managing wordpress through SQL I have found is quite easy once you understand tables. Say you have one wordpress install configured the way you like categories links etc. You can copy the relevant tables to the new install.

I recently had the fortune of damaging an install and had to do this 1 table at a time as the BACKUP failed. Well that learnt me a great lesson. Now I am combining all my data this way so I can unilaterally copy my installs.

How I did this was I installed a new version of wordpress, I got the full backup and found that all I had to do was match up the sections in the tables to the sections in the database. I then exported each section of the database saved as a notepad file which is a backup now, copied over the user data and the rest of the stuff I wanted and imported it to the relevant table.

After doing this some of the features were a bit disassociated but that fixed easily each time I accessed a category or the like it re activated. The comments I just went back to the database after all the posts and pages were up and then I associated each with the right post, by changing the number as needed.

Difficulty-Level: Medium to Hard. I would not recomend the faint hearted do this full install like I had to this way without the aid of a net or a good backup TEST IT FIRST!!!

Difficulty-Level: Easy. However you can try it now one table at a time easily just make sure you can access phpmyadmin and can read and compare things such as wp_links with the same. So I did not get confused I saved the backups each as the name on the table in each domains backup folder locally. This is due to the fact I was working on 8 domains at the time.

If your stuck drop a line here I will try to help asap. JUST DO NOT delete anything we have the power to help. MAYBE… ;-)