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For about a month and half now I have been including posts on this blog that are sponsored by advertisers using a service called PayPerPost.  When I first started doing posts for them it was paying on average 5-7 dollars per post.  Given I could find an interesting subject, make a post and […]

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Google announced a few days ago that if you use Google's Blog search from with in Blogger you will notice some changes.  Apparently that means it won't effect your view if you use Google's Stand Alone Blog Search engine.  Here is a part of the Google announcement,
"new functionality for the Blogger look 'n feel, notably […]

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As our readers have noticed back in January we started adding paid postings to our blog and introduced a disclosure policy to keep everything above board.  I have been asked a few times if there is any money in actually doing PayPerPost advertising which is the primary source of our sponsored posting.
Well, here are the […]

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As many of our readers know we are currently developing a Internet marketing and seo training course known as Marketing ICE.  I thought I would share one of our preliminary free lessons with our readers.  This is a pretty simple video that shows you how to use the new Blogger's (formally Blogger Beta) features to […]

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Spured on by the same reviews and discussions about Wikipedia's decision to add rel="nofollow" that led us at Comtech News to kill all use of rel="nofollow" on our popular blog and give our readers full credit for comment links, Michale Gray (known as Graywolf) has done what I must say is one of the best […]

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I was surfing the web and saw some people complaining about the new Wordpress Upgrade.  They didn't know how to upgrade and were afraid it would be too hard.
Our own blogger, Jack, recently wrote that he thought someone should go into business offering wordpress upgrades.
So I decided to do a little Camtasia video […]

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Yesterday, Wikipedia made the big announcment that they are now applying the rel="nofollow" command to all out bound links to combat what they consider "link spam" which the elitists Illuminati at wiki seem to consider any link added that goes to any site with any commercial content, by a person that owns the site or […]

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At first MySpace was all about bands reaching their fans, next thing we knew it took off like wildfire with high school kids, college students and then it seemed that every person under 27 had their own MySpace page.  Now MySpace is not just a social networking site any longer, major corporations have their own […]

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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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Like a lot of marketers I keep track of the Shoemoney blog.  I am also pretty sure that Shoe was not one who figured out this little tip himself he was my source for learning it.  If you want to read the entire version of it you can do so at Shoe's Blog post called, […]

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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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As you may have noticed I recently like just about every blogger in the internet marketing space added a MyBlogLog widget to my blog.  Of course MyBLogLog is social networking for blogs and it led me to meet a user that calls herself Spicypage.
So what is a Spicypage?  According to her profile on MyBlogLog […]

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No! Gasp! a bug at Technorati! , OK all teasing aside Technorati seems to have corrected  a persistent bug. As a result, nearly everyone's link counts will increase, as will most authority figures.
So what does this mean in the grand scheme of things?  Not all that much, your authority may go up but if everyone […]

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What's a Fakapster?    Well, I am glad you asked, Fakapster is a brand new XML-RPC update service that is still being developed.  If you would like to ping Fakapster you can use xml-rpc url : http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
For Word press users this is pretty easy you just
1.  Simply goto your Wordpress Administration panel2.  Goto Options, then […]

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Google announced about a week ago that you could now use your own custom domain on your blogger blog for free.  Set up seems pretty simple.
The most complicated part for people that do not generally know how to host a web site will be changing the DNS for your domain name,  Google gives detailed easy […]

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