1. Download EasyPopulate 4.0 (EP4) module for Zencart by going to https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0
2. Change the name of the admin directory to match your Zen Cart Installation.
3. Using Filezilla (ftp), upload all the files in admin directory to your site maintaining the directory structure.
4. Upload the additional file in zencart 1.5 extra files folder.
5. Create a folder ‘temp’ in the root of your zencart store. You may edit the uploads folder by going to Configuration -> Easy Populate 4
6. Add 2-3 categories and products manually.
7. Then go to Tools >Easy Populate 4
8. Click on Complete Products (with Metatags) to export the csv. This will save the csv to the uploads directory (temp folder)
9. Download this csv file and open it with Open Office Calc or Microsoft Excel.
10. Populate this csv file with your products data.
    • v_products_model has to be unique, any record with blank v_products_model will be skipped
    • Upload all your images in your zencart images folder and add the name of the image with extension to v_products_image column in the csv.
11. When your csv is ready, go to Tools > Easy Populate 4 and Upload EP File (Choose File and then click Import File)
12. When the file is imported, click “Import” against that file and your products will be imported into your zencart store.
13. After the import is complete, you can have a look at Import Results for the no of records inserted and updated
14. For more details visit Easy Populate 4 Support Thread.

1. Login to your cpanel hosting and go to File Manager and select all the wordpress files and then click compress to create a backup (backup.zip) of your wordpress site.
2. Download the backup.zip file by going to yourdomain.com/backup.zip
3. Then go to phpmyadmin and on your left click on the database name and then click Export. Select Custom Export Method and choose Output “Save output to a file “ and then choose Compression “zipped or gzipped” and click Go. This will download the compressed database/mysql dump file.
4. Extract the database file and then open it with an editor (e.g notepad++) and press Cntrl+H to replace all the occurrences of domain with the new domain name.
5. Now login to your new hosting’s cpanel (If the new domain is hosted on the new hosting)
6. Under Databases click on MySQL® Databases and create a new database for the new domain, Add new database user and then add that user to that database.
7. Then go to phpmyadmin and on your left click on the new database that you created and click Import and then click Choose File to browse for the mysql file and then click Go. Database will be imported.
8. Using ftp (Filezilla) upload the wordpress files (backup.zip) and then using File Manager in Cpanel, extract the zip file. You are in public_html folder, so when you will extract the zip file it will create a new folder backup in public_html so open this folder and move all the contents of this folder to public_html folder. If you have added the domain as an addon domain then move the wordpress files to its respective folder.
9. Update the wp-config file with the new database details (database name, username and password)
10. You are done with moving your wordpress site to a new domain

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1. Backup your existing Zen Cart 1.3.9 website by logging on to your Cpanel > File Manager and select all files and then click compress and save the zip file. If your zencart is in a folder e.g /zen then select this folder and click compress to zip the files.
2. Now backup your existing mysql database, go to phpmyadmin in your cpanel hosting and then click the database name on the left and then click export to export the database dump.
3. Login to your admin and make a list of all the modules that are installed like shipping modules (ups/usps), image handler etc in a notepad file.
4. Download the latest zen-cart 1.5 from zen-cart.com and then using ftp upload the zip file to your public_html folder. Extract the zip file to your desktop as well for later reference.
5. Using File Manager again, select the zip file and then click extract to extract the files in a folder e.g /newzen
6.  When you will extract the zip file, it will create another folder “zen-cart-v150-full-release-12302011″  inside newzen so open that folder and then select all the files and move them out of this folder to /newzen folder.
7.  Now create a new database by going to phpmyadmin and then click import to import the database dump that you exported before, mysql database of your Zen Cart 1.3.9 website (Step 2)
8. Extract your Zen Cart 1.3.9 backup files and then edit Zencart 1.3.9 backup folder/includes/configure.php and update the path, database name, database user and password and then using ftp upload it to public_html/newzen/includes folder. Similarly, edit the admin configure file by going to Zencart 1.3.9 backup folder/youradminfolder/includes/configure.php and upload it to your public_html/newzen/admin/includes folder
9. Copy the images folder from your 1.3.9 backup folder and upload it to /public_html/newzen
10. Now go to http://yourdomainname.com/newzen/zc_install and then choose “Database Upgrade”.  If Database Upgrade option is not there, then you will have to look at the configure files as the installer was not able to connect to the database.
11. Delete the zc_install folder and then rename the admin folder. When you rename the admin folder also update the configure file (youradminfolder/includes/configure.php)
12. You may have made many changes to your languages folder so use the tool (WinMerge) to compare the zen cart 1.3.9 backup folder with the zen cart 1.5 folder and note the files that are different. You may have installed custom template so there will be extra files as well. So copy the custom template folders/files to the new upgraded store.
13. Re-Install all the modules (Shipping/Payment) and other modules that you had on your old zencart store. (All mods may not be compatible with the new version)
14. Test everything.
15. Now move your Zen Cart 1.3.9 files from public_html folder to /oldsite and move the contents of /newzen folder to the root and then update the configure files. And if you had the zencart in a folder then rename the newzen to store or catalog.
16. You are finally done with the upgrade of your zen cart store.

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Simply setup your profiles, upload your portfolios, bid on projects, setup your payment methods and get started.

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Every website has a meta area of coding. Adding in specific keywords that can be read by search engines and that show relevance to your site is one of the main components of getting higher in rankings. To do this, go to your page source and at the top, add in a meta title and 1- 3 headers.

2. Meta descriptions

Meta descriptions are categorized by search engines and are noticed under the main title of a search engine. Writing meta descriptions into your HTML code or website with the right keywords helps search engines and your potential target market to recognize who you are.

3. Keywords

The keywords that are used on your site are added in to create recognition of what your site is about and makes you ‘searchable’ with specific words. Before adding in keywords, make sure that you look at the topic of your site and what competitors use.You want to mix in unique words, as well as ones that show your specialized topic, as this will be used when potential customers are looking for you.

4. Submit to Search Engines

An overlooked and invaluable way to get your search engine rankings up begin with submitting your website to search engine categories. Make sure that you take your URL and manually or automatically list it in areas such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN, then find specific search engines for your region or by category.

5. One Way Links

Linking is one of the strongest ways to drive traffic to your site. To do this, go to other sites, such as directories or social media areas, and place your website URL on the sites with a one way link back to your home page. Both search engines and potential traffic will be able to notice the activity going to your site.

6. Reciprocal Links

Reciprocal links are also known as two way links. You will submit your link to a website or directory, and in return, you will place the link of that portal onto your site. While this does not get as much notice ability as other types of links, it can still help with showing there is activity on your site.

7. Blogs

Blogs, or web logs, allow you to add content to a moving platform. You can use this not only to add information about your expertise, but can create a link to your website. The more activity you have on this, such as through links and comment responses, the more you will get noticed.

8. Directories

There are hundreds of directories and listing areas where you can list your URL or place ads about your website and products. Some of these are used directly for shopping, while others consist of basic URL links by category.

9. Social media networking

The latest tools in technology are linked to social media networking. You can use places such as Linked In, Facebook, Twitter or other social areas to connect to others directly.Within each site are specific areas where you can place ads, connections, links and other sources that connect you directly to those interested in your expertise or products.

10. SEO article marketing

Writing and distributing articles to article directories is an effective way to promote your website. You will want to write about your areas of expertise and connect this to your website through article directories.

To fix this error,  if you are on cpanel hosting, Error Log will really help solving/fixing this error.

Normally changing the file permission on index.php file will solve this problem. If you check the error log in your cpanel, you will find “/index.php” is writeable by group

So in your cpanel, go to File Manager and then change the file permission of index.php file from 664 to 644.  Also change the permissions of downloader/index.php file to 644 as well otherwise when you will try to access System > Magento Connect >Magento Connect Manager (after magento installation) by logging to magento admin,  you will get 500 Internal Server Error.

And if magento is installed in a folder e.g yourdomain.com/magento, in this case you will also change the permission on magento folder to 644.

You can also fix this error using SSH by running the following command

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

This will change the file permissions on all the folders to 755 and files to 644 and will fix the Internal Server Error.

1. Go to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Categories and then add few categories.

2.  If you want to add extra attributes for your products then go to Catalog >Attributes >Manage Attributes and click Add new Attribute. You can also save your Attributes sets based on the attributes you have defined.

3. Then go to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Products and add 4-5 products manually.

4.  Then go to  your Magento Admin > System > Import/Export > Export

5. Select Entity Type > Products

6. Choose the Entity Attributes by checking the checkboxes and then click Continue

7. The csv will be downloaded.

8. Open this CSV file with Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc and populate the file. When you will be populating file, consider the following points.

• sku should be unique
• _category will have your category name e.g Furniture. If you want to add your product to a sub category then use Furniture/Living Room.
• If you want to add your product to multiple categories then you can add “,” comma separated e.g Shoes/Men,Shoes/Women
• For images, first upload all your images to media/import directory using ftp. Then update “image” column in your csv file with the image names e.g if the name of the image is furniture.jpg, you will add /furniture.jpg to the image column against that product that is you will use a forward slash before the image name/extension.
• To import multiple images,  use/create  ”gallery” column in your products import CSV file.Under this column enter images name separated by semicolon ( ; ) . Please enter relative path of images  e.g.    /furniture1_1.jpg;/furniture1_2.jpg

9. Then go to Go to Admin > System > Import/Export >Import

10. Select File to Import *
Import Behavior * Delete Entries, and click Check Data and then click Import

The products will start importing from the csv file. If you have any questions, do leave your comments below.

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1. Start with small projects, go for data entry/forum posts etc
2. Try to bid as low as possible, when you are new to vworker your focus should be on building your profile, making your ratings and getting good feedback from the buyers rather than making money.
3. Do post your portfolio or reference websites/projects that you have worked on other than vworker.
4. Your bid amount should be justified according the project requirements.
5. Your selection of words also matter a lot while making a bid, dont beg the buyer to accept your bid. Writing/Communication skills matter a lot.
6. Dont post generic bids without reading the project description as most of them are ignored as they give buyer an impression that you have not read the project bid request. The new My no-bidding-spam guarantee feature on vworker gives the employers/buyers option to require all bidders to fully read the project before responding. So thoroughly read the project requirement, bid only if you are sure that you can do it and if you have any questions, ask the buyer/employer.
7. Dont bid on projects which you cant do. This will result the project into arbitration and losing the arbitration will ruin your ratings/feedback.
8. Demonstrate enthusiasm for the employer’s project in your bid.
9. Ask specific, intelligent questions that show that you took the time to read the project and aren’t a spam bidder.
10. Be smart with your deadlines: If you’re going to be late, let them know weeks before the deadline when you start running late so there is time for them to adjust. If you wait until the last minute, there may not be any time and you could end up losing the project and having a bad mark on your record.

Credits: Ian Ippolito

The reasons for which PAYPAL is inactive in Pakistan are

Regulations of State Bank

Certain rules and regulations laid by State Bank are unimaginable which made it tough for PayPal to land in Pakistan even though it tried to sort out things with Ministry of IT, Pakistan but things didn’t favored PayPal. The bureaucracy put little commitment to get things done right.

High Internet Fraud Ratio

Pakistan stands high on the Internet High Fraud Ratio that is main reason for PayPal to withdraw their services in spite of being having a registered domain paypal.pk specifically for Pakistan.

Local Pakistani laws

The indifferences between the PayPal organizations policies and some of the laws of Pakistani government don’t meet end to end. Neither of them agrees to take a step down and merge down as one to continue.

High raised rumor

A very popular rumor which pretends people of Pakistan to force it’s government to bend down or which can shake the PayPal office so that it can start it’s operations in the country is that people here believe that PayPal is a registered company and Israel and Pakistan cannot agree upon the Identity of Israel but in reality PayPal is a US based firm currently owned by eBay

Credit card fraud ratio/Suspicious credit cards

As the PayPal suggests, demands you to collaborate your credit card details with the PayPal account for smooth operations, the credit card fraud ratio is a bit high in the country.

Visa Cards

Until now Visa is not fully operational in Pakistan. The Visa Inc. has launched Visa Debit Card through UBL Bank as late as in November 2008, which is the first prepaid visa debit card in Pakistan.

Terrorism related Issues

PayPal is a complex system of eTransactions and companies like PayPal needs a very stable environment at least if not stable then just “acceptable” environment which one does not see unfortunately in Pakistan now.

Hacking and cracking

Ethical hacking and cracking practices are high in Pakistan and when the PayPal registered it’s domain for Pakistan i.e. in 2006 the practice was at its best in Asian countries including Pakistan. The PayPal cannot keep on repaying money to all those who claim there passwords are cracked or their accounts are hacked. If a PayPal account is ever operated from Pakistan’s IPs PayPal immediately freezes such an account.

Addressing issues

For withdrawals PayPal offers two possibilities cheque facility and bank transfer. For the check facility the PayPal required an address not more than 35 characters which is a problem with Pakistan as people’s name itself sometimes are more than 35 characters.

I got this article written through a worker on vworker.com so you may or may not agree to his points. However, if you  agree or disagree to the above points, do leave your comments.  

You then have to verify your bank account and for this I think you have to withdraw a small amount perhaps 14$ or less and they send you a verification code with the transfer. If in case you dont get the verification code, you can visit the bank and get a bank statement of your account showing the moneybooker’s transaction. I remember I used to withdraw money from moneybookers and I never did this step. But once I wanted to withdraw amount of more than 1000$, I was asked to verify my bank account. When I contacted the moneybooker’s they sent me this email

Dear Usman Shahzada,

Thank you for contacting Moneybookers Customer Service.

We would like to offer you to verify your bank account details at Moneybookers.com. The completion of the previous would increase your outgoing transaction limit with additional 15000.00 EUR, which would allow you to further make payments at our system.

Please note that we could manually complete the procedure if you provide us with a copy of your bank statement, displaying the details of a recent withdrawal transaction, instructed to the bank account, which details are due to be verified. It should correspond to the following requirements:

- Document could be a scanned paper statement or an online screen shot
- Document should provide complete bank details including bank name, account number, bank code, etc.
- Document should show bank account holder name
- Moneybookers transaction should be clearly displayed on the statement (for instance the bank withdrawal, requested on the 27th of January), the required details are the following: date, amount, currency, sender (Moneybookers) or at least Moneybookers transaction ID number.

Please upload the file via our Support Center. Simply, go to My account>>Email support>>Account/Security>>You have requested information and/or documents from me. Do not forget to enter the Ticket ID number which could be found in the subject of this e-mail.

Once we receive and review the requested document, we would be able to update the status of your bank account in the next two business days.

In addition, please note that due to processing reasons we no longer accept MasterCards that are issued in United States for uploading funds. Please excuse us for any inconveniences related. We would recommend you to use another credit/debit card or consider regular bank-wire deposit in order to credit some funds to your Moneybookers balance.

Do not hesitate to approach us, if you have further questions.

Thank you for using Moneybookers.com.

Best Regards,
Ginka
Customer Service

So I went to the bank and got my bank statement, highlighted the transaction and uploaded the file by going to My account>>Email support>>Account/Security>>You have requested information and/or documents from me and then received the following emails. You can see the scanned copy of my bank account here

Dear Usman Shahzada,

Thank you for contacting Moneybookers Customer Service.

We appreciate the document provided and we would like to kindly inform you that we have forwarded it to our department in charge, in order your bank account to be manually verified.

Please, note that it may take up to 48 hours for this information to be updated in your Moneybookers profile. We might get back to you in case we need any additional information.

Once the verification is completed, your outgoing transaction limit would be increased additionally with 15 000.00 EUR and your profile would be authorized for withdrawals over 1 000.00 EUR.

Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,
Anita,
Moneybookers Team

and

Dear Usman Shahzada,

We would like to herewith gladly inform you that your bank account at BANK ALFALAH LIMITED has been successfully verified. Thus we have increased your
transfer limits and allowed all payment options with Moneybookers.

If you want to check your current transaction limits, please go to Profile > View limit.

Thank you for using Moneybookers!

The Moneybookers Team

Thats it! If you have any questions, leave me comments below.