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I've been building online businesses (i.e. web hosting, web design, online tools, niche marketplaces, niche technologies, etc) for over a decade.

Now, it seems my free service has the most potential. A new venture ranking system called "KillerSta read more »
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Making money online is possible but it is so plagued with pitfalls and scammers that I am often discouraged.

This article highlights the reasons for a deteriorating marketplace as well as pitfalls to avoid. It then goes on to give helpful insight read more »
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In this post, I want to talk about the most often overlooked aspect of what is required to write content with strong potential on Digg (and the same principle applies to StumbleUpon, Reddit, or any other social media service you can imagine). read more »
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Many bloggers have received social media ’stardome’ and constant diggs, stumbles and votes. They never looked back and earn thousands of dollars a month.

Reasons and examples to use social media sites like sphinn. read more »
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Looking to get more active on Digg? This piece is the 2nd in the series and details what I've learned from my experience building friends on Digg. It's served me well! read more »
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I rarely ever just go with the flow, so I occasionally branch out and try new tactics. I decided to buy some traffic from Bux.to for my forum in their exact niche market, and the fact that the traffic didn't convert wasn't what irritated me the most read more »
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Stop words, one of the oldest and most useless "features" of the SEO landscape, are on their way to dinosaur status. When did this happen? Did I miss a memo? read more »
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As many of you would already know, the Adsense referral payment system was today changed and brought back to the old module. According to the Adsense Blog, this is how things will be from now on. read more »
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It seems to me that [my websites are] getting as much -if not more- traffic than last year but the conversions are down. Could it be that my newer content is so poor that it no longer converts? Or, is it more likely that the quality of traffic has g read more »
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Make the SU Error Page say whatever you want it to say. Here, check it out:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php?error=Everett%20Is%20The%20Man%20and%20Sphinn%20Rocks read more »
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The buying and selling of text links causes quite a commotion, but is it all a rouse or distraction? Google is going to end up causing BIGGER problems for themselves in the long run and might just open the door wide enough for a newer, better search read more »
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