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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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Looking for a chuckle or two and some reality at the same time?  Then you may want to go check out the Alternative Webmaster Glossary at a U.K. based website called Experienced People. 
The glossary smacks of satire and sarcasim but what makes it great is the trueness of the humor.  For instance my two […]

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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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Web 2.0 may be the most over used buzz phrase on the Internet today.  Anything with soft graphics and some VC money behind it seems to be a "New Web 2.0 Company".  Yet the concept known as web2.0 is real and it is important to be implementing some web 2.0 principles if you expect your […]

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This post started out as comments I was making on Mark Cubans blog as I started to type the comments it quickly became apparent that I had far more then a few comments on the situation.  However, given that this post is still at least in part a response to Mark’s post you may want […]

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Well Microsoft just did something really cool for search engine marketers and web masters. They just introduced a new command that you can use to research a website’s link structure. The command LinkFromDomain:domain.com (of course replace domain.com with the domain you want to research).
Doing so will produce a list of all the outbound […]

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I have always been annoyed by the fact that the titles of word press blogs always seem to end up “Blog Title - Post Title”. (in other words this post would appear in search engines and blog services listed as, “Comtech News - Simple Word Press Modification”) Yes I was annoyed but not enough to […]

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Recently, a federal judge issued a ruling that is shaking up the way that websites are designed. The ruling lets a lawsuit by the National Federation of the Blind against Target Corp. to proceed. This does not mean that Target has lost the suit, only that the case would not be dismissed and […]

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Back in August I posted an article called “Is Yahoo Crazy?“, well my friends I think the answer is now a clear yes . In that article I picked mostly on the fact that Yahoo Released a service called Yahoo! Search Builder that lets you build your own search engine and customize the results.
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Part 2 - The Hidden Gold in Your Analytics
In Part 1 of this series (It is for Affiliate Marketers Too) I discussed how with just a little creative math and and adding a few redirecting URLs can allow an Affiliate Marketer a much better view into the metrics of their site. This next […]

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On August 14th Google Announced the release of a new version of Blogger called you guessed it Blogger Beta (is everything any Search Engine does always Beta?). We did not pay that much attention here at Comtech News as we keep focused mostly on stuff like SEO, Local Phone Service , Digital Music […]

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Yea you read that right. I think they are just nuts in certain ways. First I want you to go to yahoo and try to run a search with their blog search engine. Good luck with that it is almost impossible, now if you do a news search you will see some […]

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