I received a “threatening” email yesterday from Jeremy Wyss at Peak Studios that I just have to share here after posting it last night on Twittter.

Spurred on by ReTweets from internet marketers like Todd Mintz, Greg Boser, Aaron Chronster,  David Mihm Michael Dorausch (OK, sorry, that’s too much work, but here are dozens more )  I ended up getting over 500 visitors to my old 2008 post from the Retweets alone in one night.

We just fixed an instance of a domain which appeared fine when visited directly, but when coming from the search results, all users were being redirected.

Because of my recent personal virus experience  redirecting my visits from search results I was thrown off at first,  but it turned out that all users coming from search engines to that website were being redirected in a completely different way.

I was 45 minutes from leaving for the airport, moving stuff to my laptop, and tying up loose ends before traveling to Affiliate Convention. The last thing I needed was a computer problem.

Update 12/8 – I just got back, and it’s not fixed! Please see the bottom of this post where I’ll continue to add notes about resolution, or so see if  I give up

There seems to be a new scam going around, that’s a new twist on an old game.

The old scams set out to steal your domain names under the banner of Liberty names of America“  or “Domain Registry of America“   and the way they do it is to send domain owners what appears to be an invoice for domain registration renewal.

Did you get a twitter message that says this? rofl – this you on here? – Then that’s followed by a link to see a video, but is appears as if you’re suddenly logged out of Twitter? Don’t be fooled and DON’T log in !

It’s a Twitter phishing scam to get your password, and then to spam your own followers, to get their passwords!

In light of recent news about Microsoft and Yahoo search, I almost fell for this bogus e-mail, which is a phishing expedition for usernames and passwords.

The fact that I’ve been advertising an affiliate offer heavily in Yahoo Sponsored Search over the past three weeks, and the fact that I just read about a new user interface coming soon, put Yahoo it in the forefront of my mind.

In the fall of 2008, a Portland Oregon small business owner found a local developer, and told him that she’d like to have her website redone, and she wanted some search visibility.

Her current site was old, not showing in the results, and she’d lost track of the original web designer.

A dozen years ago or so, I had one password that I used for everything, and it wasn’t until some bad experiences that I understood the wisdom of having stronger passwords.

That said, to this day, I have some very simple passwords for literally dozens of online accounts I have in various places, because there’s really only so much need for security on certain accounts, but they’re not common words from the dictionary.

Peak Studios is a “search marketing firm” in Colorado that deserves special recognition for being incredibly stupid. Apparently, they’ve decided to leave fake negative reviews on my local business profile in Google, and they’ve done the same thing to several other members of the SEMpdx board of directors.

I was at a friends home a couple of weeks ago, and he was complaining about a virus on his computer. Try as he might, he could not get rid of this virus. I total look and thought I was able to remove it, but he said that the next day it came back.

There is nothing worse than computer problems, and there’s nothing better than free software to prevent them in the first place.

One of my favorite utilities of all time, Winpatrol,  has just updated to their 2008 version, and the company owner has provided me with an affiliate version that I can give away at no charge.

Here’s what I went through on Christmas Day, just to get songs we legally purchased through Itunes to play on my kids new MP3 players…

I will never spend another dollar with Itunes after what I went through. Tell me again why anyone would pay $.99 a song, only to (eventually) figure out that you’re not allowed to listen to them on any device other than an Apple brand music player?