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I’m going to keep my Google bashing streak going…

This time all I want to do is use Google services.  Google Apps to be specific.  I want to set up a domain with Google Apps for email.  I use it for other domains and I love it.  But when I went to sign up with this new domain a couple months ago I got an error:

This domain has already been registered with Google Apps. Please contact your domain administrator for instructions on using Google Apps with this domain.

Fun right… So Mr Google is telling me to contact my administrator… OK.  well, that’s me. I contacted me and I can’t help.  Now what?   So I search and search, I find other people that have the same issue, and I try the suggestions but nothing works.  Google says to go to the control panel and click on something like “I am the administrator of this domain” well, I go there and get “Sorry, you’ve reached a login page for a domain that isn’t using Google Apps.”   I’m stuck in a loop….  “you need to create an account” then “And account already exists” over and over…   Some documents say wait 5 days and try again, the unverified accounts will be purged… nope.

Since there is no support from Google, there is nothing I can do but hope that someday I will be able to use Google apps with my domain.

I think Google took my lunch money too….

Design Coding – Rap Style

I thought this was awesome.

We all know know Google is an unstoppable freight train…  Get on or get out of the way.  That’s fine I suppose, but what do you do when you get kicked off the train?

Google rules their domain with an iron fist. They don’t have time to worry about what’s fair.

Here is another example of Google raining down on it’s PAYING customers with the blind fury it is becoming famous for:

http://www.wiseaff.com/2009/11/google-forgiveness-hard-to-achieve.html

You all know I’m on the Google bandwagon….  I have been for a long time.  I have about 5 email addresses coming into my gmail and a couple domains on google apps.  I have noticed that gmail gets flakey sometimes, especially on firefox.

Fine, whatever, I can deal with it…  but this morning I am trying to get to my email and as usual I’m refreshing and trying other browsers, no luck.  But then Google keeps popping up an annoying captcha box saying google thinks I’m a robot.  great.

After getting the boot from Google adsense with no explanation I am getting concerned that they could at any time decide that I am a robot and disable all the things I use EVERY DAY:

• Gmail
• Google Docs
• Analytics
• Ad Words

I’m not really too worried about Ad Words, I have a feeling that because I pay for it they will keep me around.

Knock it off Google.

I’m sure you know I use almost every Google service that’s out there.  I have been using Google Adsense for a year or so on some of my sites, and after all that time I had finally reached the magic $100 mark and was looking forward to my first Google check.   Well,  soon after that I got the email: “Your Adsense account has been disabled”  apparently I pose a significant risk to Google advertisers.  I have no idea how,  and really I don’t care.  I may appeal the action at some point if I have a high traffic site that I need ads for but It seems far too evident that Google does not care about the little sites.

Goodbye Google, Hello Yahoo….    even though that hurts to say.  Maybe I’ll go to Bing.

Ok, day 4…5…10…. they all passed quite uneventfully and that’s ok, I am caffeine free and perfectly happy.  I do fall asleep faster but other than that I have not noticed anything else.

I still reconmend you give it a try…

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman trailer

Well, I’m at the end of day 2 of my caffeine detox.   It hasn’t been horrible, although the migraines really kicked in sometime around 3:30 am.   somehow, I have been able to hold back their severity by drinking large amounts of water. 

I have also been careful to get ‘enough’ sugar, as I don’t need to go into carb withdrawal at the same time….

I guess the constant headaches and strange tingling of my entire body hasn’t been too bad, I just hope it doesn’t get much worse, I read somewhere that day 4 is the worst.  If that’s true that sucks.

We will see…

Today is Day one of my fight against caffeine.  It’s only been about 13 hours since my last taste of the tempting toxin.  The migranes haven’t kicked in yet but I have begun to feel the anxiety.   Awesome.

I’m not a big health nut or anything but I have been pumping myself full of caffeine for most of my life and it’s time to quit.   (that’s what heart palpatations will do to you.)

Check back soon for more on my withdrawal….

You know how there are always ’satilite’ sites built around a brand once it’s established? for instance iPhone fan sites, WordPress Theme sites, Windows support sites, and the list goes on ad infinitum….

Well, I had a couple domains surrounding the Domain Parking service that I was happy with at the time WhyPark. I say “at the time” because I am not a fan of being threatened.

so much for my sites that were something like (but not exactly) ‘whyparkthemes’ and ‘whyparkhelp’, both promoting the use of WhyPark services.

I received two somewhat cryptic email from whypark telling me I was infringing on their copyright and that I either have to transfer the domains to them (yeah right) or seize using them immediately. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not scared off that easily, but I am pissed off quite easily by a brand that has no respect for their own evangelists so, I canceled the domains that day and never recommended WhyPark again. (hence my almost exclusive use of AdSense for Domains) I am still a proud Google evangelist.

I’m sure once WhyPark get’s a look at this post they will send me out another love note, but they are out of luck this time. They have successfully ‘turned’ this evangelist. Great Job WhyPark. Congrats.

I’m Out.

I have said before that I has put all my faith and trust in google. And that is more true with every passing day…

Unfortunately, Google (more specifically AdSense) is letting me down. I was excited when I registered my newest domain name antisocialentrepreneur.com but I’m not ready to develop it yet, so I figured I would just park it with AdSense for Domains. (in case you don’t know, while parked with AdSense your page will come up with a google search box and some sponsored links etc…) Just like those Godaddy ‘This page is reserved’ sites except I will get some ad revenue (if any) instead of Godaddy hogging it all!! (Yeah, the Daddy is a selfish jerk sometimes)

Turns out that google thinks my domain name does not comply with their policy. I have no idea why they think that, unless someone at google is very bad with their vocabulary and thinks an entrepreneur is something obscene. Or maybe they think “anti-social” is some kind of hate speech… who knows….

Oh well, I guess I will have to put it over at WhyPark. (another domain parking service) for now.

Guess at least one of my eggs (albeit a small one) is not in Google’s basket for now.