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In its pathological form, perfectionism may result in an obsessive-compulsive attention to details, high sensitivity to criticism, long term anxiety, stubbornness, insular thinking and procrastination, the biggest obstacle to success.

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When I did a recent Q&A thread one of the recurring themes with sites that were struggling was AdSense ads positioned above their content. Many websites are never given the chance to grow because they monetize too aggressively and look to spammy to read more »
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If you search Google for Sphinn.com, the #2 listing is Viagra spam. Why is it ranking so highly in Google and not MSN or Yahoo, and why is this post still up on Sphinn since it's clearly spam? read more »
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We recently had a Digg submission go Hot. This is the first one that I was personally involved with. Given that I didn’t have anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon, I thought that it might be fun to Chart the # of Diggs and resulting traffic t read more »
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An interesting article discussing the theory and economics behind the "tail" of search engine marketing - the less obvious, lower volume terms that provide an opportunity for keyword aggregation at lower costs to attract more targeted traffic. read more »
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Earlier in the month I asked readers to share their blog earnings for the month of October. As usual this poll was a popular one with 3054 responses. I’ve run this survey previously so will compare the results between this and last time I ran it bel read more »
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In today's online game Internet Marketing goes way past SEO. Social media is where its at. To get you started here are 8 Social news sites to get you going. read more »
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Google is selling PR7 links on their google.com mini pages. All it costs is $1,995 per year! And they don't use the nofollow! read more »
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Yes, it's important to blog with consistency. You can't put a blog up and only post six times a year. That said, the days of needing to post every single day, or even multiple times a week may be gone. read more »
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This entry contains a bunch of tips that you can use to get on the front page of Sphinn.com. Everything from getting noticed, to the times to submit your article.
Quality content is still needed, but this will help your best work not get passed ove read more »
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When a new visitor comes to your website for the first time an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly. A good first impression will drastically increase the chances of that visitor returning again. This list looks at 21 factors that will i read more »
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The tips and tactics used to grow and keep traffic at 14th Colony. Includes tips on how to help visitors return for more and how to increase page views. Topics include SEO, link building, social networking and so much more... read more »
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The more visually interesting you can make your posts the more your post will draw the eye all the way through and the more your words will get read. The good news is it’s fairly easy to do if you keep formatting in mind as you write and remember a read more »
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Showing genuine interest in people is not only a good virtue to live by, but is also beneficial to your landing page conversion rates. read more »
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What a great way to start off a new internet marketing blog! Send out an email announcement to everyone in SEM when you have two posts on it, and the latest one dogs on Marketing Sherpa who contributes more to the internet marketing public than just read more »
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Feed subscribers are quite possibly your most loyal readers therefore it's important to grow your subscriber community as much as possible. With Google's purchase of FeedBurner as well as their own proprietary subscriber calculating technology don't read more »
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To the casual reader, Donna's rant might seem like just another funny complaint about how some things just don't work like they should. But anyone who works hard to GET traffic to their blog knows that the other half of the equation is RETAINING it read more »
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A brief article that shows how Al Gore's blog about Climate change has been hacked to point over 50 Drug related links to parasite hosts for "SEO Reasons."

And his blog isn't the only one, there's thousands of other Wordpress blogs that have also read more »
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Lately I’ve decided, in addition to leaving comments at blog sites, if I really like a post I’m going to take the time to Sphinn, Digg, or Stumble it. This is easy of course because almost all of the sites I visit have links for doing this. If I’m read more »
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Some great tips from Patrick Altoft about how to get the best from your website. read more »
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You've just spent the past 2 days researching and writing your best work to date. It's an engaging and informative read yet is quick paced enough that no one will get bored with it. To top it all off it is on a subject with universal appeal. In shor read more »
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Are you currently blogging to generate income, or have you recently thought about monetizing your site?

As I prepare to leave my steady job with a guaranteed paycheck and (hopefully) move on to blogging or working online full time I have looked a read more »
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The potential upside of a linkbait driven marketing campaign is growing smaller by the day. Dave Naylor hinted that he believed that Google is looking at how natural a site's link growth profile looks like, and discounting many of the rapid growth 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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Getting a user to convert on your landing page is an uphill battle. The experience can be analogized to climbing up a one mile long hill. If the first quarter mile is fairly easy with the next half mile progressively getting harder and then much har read more »
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