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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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OK sometimes I am just stubborn, I heard all the blogs buzzing about Crazy Egg after they were on Webmaster Radio but I just did not see the point.  I just wondered what could this possibly show me that Google Analytics would not?  Well apparently a lot, but more to the point I can get […]

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I just discovered a new free way to store and share photos that is similar to Flickr with some additional features.  This new Photo Sharing Service is called Pixamo.  The service allows you to control who sees your photos from a broad audience to just the people you choose.  They also offer some advanced tagging […]

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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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I am just now starting to catch up on a lot of the reading I missed between Christmas and about the 5th of January.  So I just got around to reading a post in the official Google Analytics blog called, "Absolute Unique Visitors" versus "New and Returning".  After reading that post for just a moment […]

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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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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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Could it be? Is MSN.com really first in search? Well, yep you bet they are at least according to Google that is!
Let me explain becaue this is a cute little occurance but it doesn’t mean in any way that Microsoft is winning the search engine war. However, it is kind of funny […]

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Search Marketers have a tendency to put anything they do online and find a way to monitize it. Here is you chance to look over my shoulder on one way I will use a free resource like Blogger Beta to create what I call an “integrated effort” which will let me link several […]

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Note: The below article was my orginal view of the Zune before many problems came to light.  I no longer have the positive view of the product as in the following review.  Read, The Music Industry is Stupid, to learn more.  I have left the original review to show how I was very much wanting […]

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iPod fans have plenty to be happy because Apple just introduced its latest generation iPod devices. The new iPods will feature longer battery life (up to twenty-four hours) and brighter displays. The new iPod features three updated editions.
The new iPod Shuffle, about the size of a Bick Lighter, is now officially the smallest portable MP3 […]

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In the last year or two social book marking sites have become all the rage. Del.icio.us was probably the first truly successful such site but now there are quite literally dozens of such sites. In this post I don’t want to go in depth on the how and why of social book […]

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Today one of the hot news stories is that a new music service called SpiralFrog will allow users to download any universal music file for free and that the revenue will be derived from advertising. As intelligent as this might sound, trust me we have already hit the peak and it is now going […]

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The entire staff of Comtech News uses the FireFox browser for our daily browsing needs. Not because we are anti Microsoft, heck I even run the Microsoft adCenter Code Blog, we use FireFox in short because it works better then Internet Explorer and other common browsers.
Partly because it has greater security and partly because […]

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