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Izea is working really hard to get the message out about Real Rank.  Which you can sign up for at IZEARanks.com.  I had my doubts about Real Rank in the begining but I really like the way this service is shaping up.  My biggest concen is in the beginning it looked like Real Rank was […]

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I have been doing a lot of posting for PayPerPost lately and it has as always let me blog about very cool stuff all while making some extra money.  What I love about PayPerPost is the way they are helping so many people make money.  To me the money I earn buys me some new […]

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OK look I am not an "I told you so kind of guy" in most instances but I feel vindicated here and I just have to say it this time.  I reported back BEFORE ANYONE that some sort of deal was being brokered between Yahoo and Microsoft with MS being the buyer and the big […]

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Wordpress has what they call the famous 5 minute installation of the Wordpress blog platform.  Can you do it in 5 minutes?  Sure if you have done it before, know your web host's back end well and if you know how to set up a SQL database, edit a raw config file and a few […]

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Any good business that is going to make it must have a revenue model for the owners itself.  Shocking?    Of course not anyone knows that so as I am looking at a new pretty cool get paid to blog site I am also asking how are these guys going to make a buck?    […]

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I recently wrote a very long article about how to protect yourself from Google, if you are a paid blogger.  The article is very long and covers everything I could think of in regard to building traffic and protecting the value of your blog.  For those that got nuked down to  PR0 (like Comtech did) […]

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Originally I was going to do a video course on all of this showing how to do it step by step and sell it for say 19-29 dollars.  I still will if enough people commit in advance to buying it and I think it would help a lot of less technical people get it all […]

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Thanks to the new PayPerPost back hand attack that Google has handed out Comtech News has gone from a previous high Page Rank of 5 down to a zero.  Why?  Mostly because I have participated in PayPerPost and offered links on my blog with out using the nofollow condom that Google says I have to […]

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I built my early sales career as a young man in Dallas - Fort Worth Texas in the technology sales arena.  From the early through the late 90s I spent a lot of time at Business Mixers, Chamber of Commerce Meetings and other places where professionals gathered.  During that time I learned a lot […]

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Recently at Franklin Spirko Media Mark Barrera and I have been working on some link building and blog marketing with our new client, Trump University.  One of the things we have targeted is to improve their traffic and ranking from web surfers that want to know more about real estate training programs.  To accomplish this […]

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Well I have been on a tear lately about paid links, buy blog comments and Google Requesting Link Narcs and I thought I was about done with it.  Yet after commenting in a few blogs who are all worried about Buy Blog Comments as the fear du jour and seeing the responses to my posts […]

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Have you heard about PlugIM yet?  If not you may want to check it out, for lack of a better description I would call PlugIM as a clone of Digg that is Internet Marketer friendly.  In other words while you have to be a Michale Angelo of writing to make an SEO or Marketing story […]

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I try to avoid over promoting my personal companies and agendas on this blog and keep it primarily informational and conversational but I did want to toot our horn a bit about Marketing ICE.
Marketing ICE (ICE stands for Interactive Creative Education) is a company founded by myself along with Mark Barrera and Ben Fitts.  Together […]

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I am about tired of this topic so before I just become totally fed up with it I had better say my piece on the whole mess.  To me the simple reality is this, there will never be a way to know 100% if links are purchased or traded for or natural.  No matter what […]

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Chris Garrett just did a post on his blog about comment spam and how it may "ruin the do-follow community", you can read the article here, Comment Spammers the End of Do-Follow Movement? Personaly I probally should have nofollowed that link just to poke Chris for making the comments he did about returning nofollow to […]

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