Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Top 9 Reasons DoFollow Can Hurt Your Blog
At first, this may seem like a great idea and a way to get more comments on your blog as well as get more community involvement, but it also has some very damaging flaws. Here are my nine reasons why joining the dofollow movement can hurt your blog.
Now, I’ve got dofollow on several blogs in several niches. I don’t receive anymore spam than ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Etsy, eCommerce With a Focus On The Unique
All of the products are hand made and are unique, unlike the mass produced commercial products are sold. Think back a few years, this wasn’t possible, hand made items would be generally limited in distribution to local stores, craft shows, or maybe some type of catalog.
Etsy is definitely something to watch.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
A True Story About a Chair
So, she plopped down two chairs in the heart of this busy corporate campus and put a sign over the two chairs calling out a topic for the day. She occupied one chair and then waited. And waited. And waited for another employee to sit down and discuss the topic she had posted. No technology. No motives. Just a person genuinely interested in her co-worker’s ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
What are Stop Words?
Other search engines store every word, but just don’t “stop” to search on those words. Therefore, speeding up the time to deliver your search results (eg: 0.22 seconds).
Each search engine has their own list of stop words.
I’d never really thought about not only including keywords but also trying to use as few “stop words” as possible. Interesting.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
ShowYourAdHere.com Affiliate Program
You will earn 10% of every dollar an advertiser you refer spends. If you refer and advertiser that spends $1000 per month, you earn $100 per month. As long as the advertiser keeps spending, you keep earning.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Free Backlink from Apple.com
Apple.com has a PageRank of 9, so you can expect it to carry a lot of great link weight. And to do it, you just need to create a Web App made for the iPhone and then submit it to their directory. You can even create something basic and simple (but I would suggest useful). Here are the steps to making your iPhone web app and securing ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
The 3 “Impossible” Conversations for Corporations
Sure these conversations are difficult to have, but they are the same conversations your customer are having with your prospects –so why the veil? Here’s a few ways to think about these challenging conversations because in reality, these aren’t that “impossible”.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Mark at 45n5 asks the question:Easier to make one site that makes $3000 per month or 100 sites that make $30 per month?
I’m also curious what you think? I’m sure the answer might be in the middle, but let’s assume you had to pick one method to get to $3000 per month, would you choose to do it using 1 site or 100?
Interesting discussion, with most people coming ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
It’s the bit about selling ads to yourself that sucked me in.
I was wondering what the hell local SEO is. Oddly, it’s just what it sounds like.
Learn SEO Basics: Internal Anchor Text
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Andy Beard is blocking some pages from Google in robots.txt
When a Banner Ad Becomes a One-Click Stand
Scaling Yourself
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