I just got an email from a guy at More Digital, which claims to be a "UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy."

Here's the email (I substituted my domain name for privacy purposes):

Hi,

Kind regards,
Andrew Webster

I checked out MoreDigital.com and it appears to be a legitimate website. I'm trying to decide if I should reply and at least see what the offer is (ie. rates for the text-links) or simply ignore this. It is an unsolicited email (mailed to my domain's whois email address), so I'm of course a little suspicious and wary. Any thoughts?

I'm trying to add a Facebook Like Box from the FB developer's social plugin page. The first thing the code asks me for is the "Facebook Page ID." Of course, when I click the help icon, it simply says "The ID of the Facebook page for this like box." Uh, thanks, that really explains it. Those wise guys.

Anyways, if anyone could help me find the ID of a Facebook page, I would be very grateful. By the way, the page is already aliased, so the ID doesn't show up in the URL as it does with un-aliased pages (those withour usernames).

All the constant adjustments Facebook is making to its privacy settings are driving me bonkers. Don't get me wrong - I think more privacy fine tuning options are good, but it seems like every time they make an update it gets harder to find what I'm looking for.

Does anyone know where, currently, the setting is where I can add specific friends to my custom profile lists? For example, I have a "limited profile" list, members of which don't have access to my Wall. How can I add a specific friend or two to this list that's not yet on it?

Is anyone else seeing this? When I use Google's External Keywords Tool, I get different numbers depending on whether I'm logged into my Adwords account or not.

I got a letter in the mail recently that looks like a total scam to me. I'm wondering if anyone here can confirm, or if you've gotten a similar letter - please comment.

The letter came surface mail and is from ICLS.net. According to their website, they are the "Internet Corporation Listing Service." I didn't actually visit the website - I got this from the Google SERPs. They claim: "ICLS.NET is a search engine ranking and submission services firm. Our goal is to improve your rankings on search engines."

Hahaha! Don't make me laugh. They tried to get me to purchase a search engine listing for one of my domain names. Guess what? Search engine listings don't exist/ work anymore!

Just to save the next person the trouble, if you get a letter from ICLS.net, shred and recycle it immediately.

They wanted me to order their "internet listing" service for two of my domain names, with the claim that "with payment you will become a customer and receive domain name submission to 25 established search engines, quarterly search engine position and ranking reports for eight keyword/ phrase listings from 25 major search engines."

Here's the problem ICLS: There are only 3 major search engines that make up 99% of searches (Google, Yahoo, MSN). Here's the other problem - it does you 0% good to list with them.

ICLS.net wanted $65/ year/ domain name for this service. Don't fall for it folks!!

Has anyone heard of BetterLinkAdvertising.com? I just got the following email from them:

Hello,

I'm interested in placing a promotional link on your page: [I removed the link for privacy purposes]

The link would be for a website which offers about data security software.

I don't have the biggest budget, but hopefully there is a reasonable price we could arrange.

Please let me know if you're interested, and if not thanks for your time.

Thanks!

nicole

I'm trying to upload photos using Facebook's upload utility. I had to restart Internet Explorer to get the "Active X" thing to pop-up. I did that, and now I finally see the upload utility. I'm able to browse my PC and select photos for upload. They upload all the way and then the program crashes, along with the webpage.

The second time I tried the Facebook uploader it finished, but then stayed stuck at "waiting for response from server." No matter how long I wait it doesn't seem to get past this step. I ended up using the basic (manual) uploader, but since you can only do 5 at a time this takes forever when you have dozens of photos. Is anyone else experiencing the response from server problem/ or have an idea as to how to get it to work?

Is there anywhere I can search in bulk for domain names ending in .co.uk? My registrar, Fabulous.com, allows me to search in bulk for up to 1000 .com domain names (which is great), but it doesn't support .co.uk.

My UK registrar - 123-reg.co.uk, appears to only support searching for one domain at a time.

Any suggestions?

What is the WS domain extension all about? I'm guessing it's a country extension, but it sure seems like it's more popular than the average country extension...just curious what all the hype is about regarding the ws domain extension.

I forgot to re-register my domain name - it just expired. I heard that there was a domain name redemption period, in which I still have time to renew my domain? I'm not sure how this works, however, or if there's an extra fee?

I live in NC and one of our main affiliate program's, Amazon.com's associate program, was axed as a result of an Affiliate Tax law that made it into the budget this year. As much as that upsets me, I'm starting to realize that Amazon was paying measly commissions anyways. On top of that, it seems like it's not the best idea to have all my eggs in one affiliate basket, as this situation clearly shows.

So my question is - what is everyone using in lieu of Amazon? I heard there were thousands of affiliate programs closed in NC, so there must be quite a few of you out there that have found alternatives to Amazon?

I'm trying to sync up Google Adwords with Google Analytics, and it's asking me if I want to auto-tag my destination URL. To do this, I'm supposed to carry out a test first to see if auto-tagging works, but I can't figure out what they mean by my destination URL?