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Just how many blogs can you I link to in one post anyway? A funny story, creatively written :) read more »
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If you’re reading this blog, or a number of other blogs about making money online, with the hopes that they will tell you exactly how to do it, you’re looking for something that isn’t there. There’s nothing wrong with reading blogs, forums, and eboo read more »
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The moderator has ties to Google and told me that some of the most popular SEO gurus have been secretly using this technique for years. All it requires is typing in a special prefix before a search term to take you to an admin area where you are abl read more »
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Jonathan reveals just how Hare Krishnas are way ahead of the rest of us when it comes to the concepts behind link building.

"he asks if you might donate $1 in exchange for a beautiful pocket copy of the Bhagavad Gita. You don’t want to, but some read more »
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The biggest challenge all new bloggers face is getting people to notice them. Even the highest quality of blog posts won’t do you any good if no one is reading them. Building a large audience for a blog takes time, but fortunately there are a number read more »
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One of the most common complaints I hear from small businesses who have launched blogs is how difficult it can be to get on the radar. After all, it doesn't matter how great your content is if no one can find it. One of the best ways to build up you read more »
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My October stats revealed that my blog commenting strategy had brought in almost 700 direct visitors resulting in a large growth of RSS subscribers (large for me anyway). In this post I lay out all the details of the strategy. read more »
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Rand delivers part III of his re-write of the beginners guide to SEO. read more »
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My RSS numbers took a plummet today and at first I was worried until I saw that the numbers of a load of big blogs had dropped - some come on, who broke Feedburner? :-) read more »
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I have a confession to make... Yesterday I hadn't checked Sphinn in a few days and I felt a bit guilty about it. I was pushed for time so I whizzed through the front page, and the upcoming submissions (new ones, and most sphunn so far) and I began c read more »
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Darren (ProBlogger) thinks we should all lighten the mood around the recent PageRank drops and I couldn’t agree more. So here is my take on it… read more »
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Lucia has creatively written 10 haikus about the recent PR fiasco. Cute. read more »
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Most markets have the potential to be profitable if you just figure out the secret combination. Contrary to what many might think, the way to find this secret is not through a bunch of expensive ebooks or membership sites. Instead, you must test for read more »
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PageRank is just a number, it’s a means to an end, and not the end itself. Why are people obsessing over it? If Google came around and gave everybody a PR10 tomorrow what would happen? read more »
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Most of the time, when we think about our landing pages, we’re thinking “what will give me the highest CTR?”. We don’t always think too heavily about pre-selling an offer and how to focus on higher conversion rates once the visitor does in fact clic read more »
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Everybody knows the importance of links for every blog's performance in the search engines' ranking. However this diminishes if not properly optimized. Moreover, the trend nowadays is quality over quantity. This post describes 7 mistakes that many b read more »
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When Tony Northrup from Microsoft published an article entitled 10 tips for improving your wireless network he followed pretty much every rule of linkbaiting and the article has 1831 links as a result. It's also been on Digg twice. read more »
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Marshall Kirkpatrick has found 5 of his latest 11 stories from Twitter. 6 of his recent stories have hit the home page of Digg... read more »
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Everybody talks about the value of TARGETED traffic don’t they? But if you happen to get a lot of untargeted traffic too, don’t be too quick to dismiss it. I touch on 5 specific ways in which you can really benefit from generic, untargeted traffic. read more »
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Hamlet shares some of his most closely guarded SEO tricks for checking out your competition. Warning - it requires a little programming skills! read more »
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Courtney realises that SEO is NOT the answer to traffic and success on his blog... read more »
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With Google letting developers leverage Google Custom Search opportunities are springing up. With the ability to find almost any sort of file, smart webmasters are coming up with one off solutions to provide value add services that also can be monet read more »
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After finding that all the pages I had been working on had dropped out of Google, I have been on a quest to pick some new strategies for making money online. I’ve found many ideas and whittled down the list to just 10. read more »
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I was browsing around the user profiles and noticed that Lyndon had racked up a nice 999 sphinns. I snapped it, here's the picture:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11265659@N02/1558968637/

I wonder which post will get his 1000th sphinn? :) read more »
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DoshDosh explains his detailed method of considering bloggers to be prospects and how he nurtures relationships with them over time. read more »
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