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My Review of Affcon 2010

I attended Affcon 2010 several weeks ago and I’m finally getting around to putting my thoughts about it on my site. This is the first time I’ve ever been to an affiliate specific conference, but I have been to a couple of internet marketing conferences before such as SES and Pubcon. The conference took place over [...]

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Fortitude Online Mag Getting a Reboot

Turns out that new memberships at Fo.rtitu.de have come to a halt, which you can see from that link that they haven’t had a new signup since May 21st. This is requiring that they take a look at their processes and figure out what needs to be done to keep the online magazine going, meaning [...]

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How Does Indexing and Ranking Work at Google?

The way Google previously worked was by crawling the web for a period of time and then pushing those updates out every so often. For example, they would crawl for 30 days, take down an old data center and then push out a new datacenter in it’s place. This is what caused the “Google Dance” [...]

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The 30 Day Challenge: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Part Three

The Ugly This is the third and final part of my series on The Thirty Day Challenge: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I’ll admit that I’ve done the Thirty Day Challenge for three years straight now, despite what the Wickedfire forum thinks about it I also admit that there are some things worth [...]

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The 30 Day Challenge: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Part Two

The Bad This is the second part of my series on The Thirty Day Challenge: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. While the 30 Day Challenge can teach you a lot as a beginner, there are a few things that can be very annoying about the program. One of the first things that I noticed when [...]

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The 30 Day Challenge: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Part One

The Good This is the first part of my series on The Thirty Day Challenge: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I put this post together in anticipation of the 30 Day Challenge, now renamed as The Challenge, which starts on Thursday, or July 1st, 2010. I’ve enjoyed participating in the 30 Day Challenge for the last [...]

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Using Competitive Link Intelligence From Majestic SEO

To analyze link data from your competitors websites using Majestic SEO, you will need to purchase a paid subscription. There are plenty of plans available for whatever your needs may be and it’s very affordable. Judging The Level of Competition This is probably the most useful if you’re an affiliate marketer or someone deciding on selling a [...]

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Fortitude is a New Online Magazine That Pays You To Write For Them

Fortitude is a new service from the creator of the popular Qondio service (formerly Quassia) created a couple of years ago. Fortitude is very similar to Qondio in that you write articles and submit them for everyone to read, but what makes it different is that on Fortitude you get paid for what you write. [...]

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Google’s Playable Pac-Man Logo

Being a video game nerd AND an SEO, in my opinion today’s Google logo is probably the coolest logo they have ever created. If you go to the Google home page today (or this permanent Google Pac-Man page, you’ll see that they have actually created an interactive Pac-Man Google logo in celebration of the Pac-Man 30th [...]

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Reclaiming Links From Sites That Have Shut Down

Often when I’m doing competitive analysis, researching niche directories or reviewing industry related “round-up” articles, I’ll come across a few dead links. If you come across a domain that no longer exists that tightly matches the content of your own site, you can try to reclaim their incoming links to point to your own site. First, [...]

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