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Basic principles every Internet Marketer should know in regards to authority and how it's past within and outside of your site(s.) read more »
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Mark Mason has created a script that looks for various stats for the major article directories and ranks them. His purpose for this directory is to help people find the best directories to post articles in. The more popular the directory, the strong read more »
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This is a popular question on blogs and forums and the answers always vary from “Adsense is a waste of good traffic” to “Adsense is GREAT.”... read more »
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Truths and Myths about Duplicate Content. read more »
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In this post, I want to share all the trade secrets I’ve learned about how to craft posts that set StumbleUpon on fire. These are tips and ideas I use on a daily basis to get anywhere between a few hundred and a few thousand (or more) StumbleUpon vi read more »
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Improve the way your customer reacts to your site by changing the way they receive your message. Help them to choose by providing alternative cues which provoke action. This is persuasion through presentation. read more »
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You can do all kinds of link building, but I tend to group things into traditional link building and viral link building. I think you should try a combination of things, particularly since viral links tend to be cyclical (you get lots of traffic the read more »
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How to create and maintain a robots.txt file and a few things to look out for. read more »
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A nice take on ebooks and their rise in value and popularity. read more »
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“How do I promote my blog?”

There is a formula! But… it isn’t magic. And… it takes work. But the formula is proven to get results. You are just going to have to get over the fact that you never get something for nothing. read more »
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Seems another feedburner problem? Wish I had that much of subscriber. read more »
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Dev Basu at Search Engine People writes this great post on how he goes about planning and executing on his SEO goals. By following a theory of GOPST, or Goals, Objectives, Plans, Strategies, and Tactics, he is able to have a clear idea in his mind t read more »
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The other day I was asked the following question: “Should I use active or passive voice in sales copy?” The answer may surprise you. Writers are told again and again to focus on using active voice. But I’m telling you that, in some cases, you should read more »
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Comply with Google and become a pingback spammer read more »
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Don't know why this wasn't sphunn earlier. This is an excellent plugin to defend against comment spam but with thoughtful flexibility. One benefit outside the obvious "spam prevention" is that it trains borderline spammers how to behave on your blog read more »
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Have you made these mistakes? read more »
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Vlad has decided to give Google the boot, at least as far as the Googlebot.
He is looking on this as being experimental, to study the differences, and has even come up with some predictions that he might receive less links because of it due to bein 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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Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position. Now for anyone who might be thinking otherwise, there are still some obvious penalties on place for a few sites, but it is less o read more »
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Yeah, Valleywag and some others reported on it the other day, but most of the chatter is about its bidding system and keyword targeting of that bidding system... I think there is a lot about this feature and its potential value that is being missed read more »
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Wow... just wow... for all you that lost PR today (the green Google kind) here's a cartoon that's sure to make you smile. read more »
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I'm giving away one of the following books to the person who comes up with the best blog contest idea for the other 3.

1. Seth Godin's "Purple Cow"
2. Timothy Ferriss "4-Hour Work Week"
3. Joe Vitale's "Hypnotic Writing"
4. Seth Godin's "Permi read more »
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Mike continues to share his year end review of his online making money journey using free blogs. In doing so, he goes through 2 of the main methods which any blogger should use if they are looking to monetise their blogs. read more »
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Andy points out the fact that Google has been serving duplicate search results for identical URL's lately. This is something I've noticed lately as well and found very strange. read more »
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Are you getting any traffic from BlogRush? read more »
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