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In the latest round of "If You Can't Build It, Buy It", Yahoo has offered three times the amount of the current valuation of Right Media to gain control of the remaining 80% of the company.  Yahoo had already purchased a 20% stake for 40 million dollars last year.
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I know, I know every expert and every internet marketing guru says start with what you know.   […]

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Now this just seems ridiculous does it not?  Why would anyone ever do such a thing?  Surely no one is going to buy traffic, pay good money for it […]

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Again we are back to a mistake I made in the beginning.  If forced to put a dollar figure on how much money this one cost me over my first […]

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If I had to pick one and only one thing that could almost by itself be the separator of successful and unsuccessful Internet Marketers it […]

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Remember our first lesson was making sure you always developed a plan for each project you choose to start.  There is probably nothing more important then setting […]

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Yes I am serious!  I have personally banned wikipedia links from every site I own including this blog.  I will never link to wiki ever again and in fact I took the several hours to go back through this entire blog from the beginning and remove every wikipedia link we had.
I got the idea recently […]

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There has been a ton of press as of late about the need to update Wordpress Blogs and we do it here, however I consider it a major pain in my rear end!  It is not difficult but it takes time and you mess with everything and pray it all still works when you are […]

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Well I gave it a shot and ran both Google adSense and Yahoo Publisher on our blog in rotation using the Dax Plugin for WordPress.  The results were abismal and while the TOS on both programs will not allow me to tell you what the CTR, (click through rate) was let me just say it […]

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Way back in August of 2006 SEO Black Hat got a hold of the leaked AOL Search data, which was one of the biggest F-ups in internet history.  That was no story as anyone who wanted it could get it, and still can if you search for a mirror download site.  No the story was […]

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BuildDirect who is the world's leading online wholesaler of building materials just announced that Ellen Siminoff has been appointed to their Board of Directors.  Strait from the press release
"Siminoff, who is currently President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, the leading provider of paid search engine marketing (SEM) solutions, has an extremely impressive educational and work […]

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Well not exactly but I think perhaps Donald and his team of bloggers may be able to teach a lot of Web 2.0 companies a missing lesson in their planning and implementation.  Trump blogger Don Sexton just made a post called, Your Marketing Is Your Company.    There were two points made in this post […]

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Just when you think that everyone has surrendered to Google and assumed that Yahoo and Microsoft are lucky to have the smaller shares of search they do and just as you were sure no one would jump into the search engine business, here comes a new player called Megaglobe.
So just what is it that makes […]

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OK, so live.com (aka MSN Search, aka Microsoft Search, etc) is not a great search engine.  It is probably not as bad as its' reputation among Search Marketers.  I mean a good search engine specialist can kinda slap live.com around with some decent content, tags and a link you can almost make it do what […]

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Acording to Search Engine Watch Yahoo just acquired MyblogLog which is all big news if you did not hear the rumors about it for the past few weeks.  The service MyBlogLog, is pretty cool, you can be part of a blog's community and post your profile, etc if you are a fellow blogger or even […]

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