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OK so do we really need yet another social bookmarking online community (aka a Digg Clone)? At Franklin Spirko we decided that yes indeed we do and hence the launch of HatedOrLoved.com
The reasoning was simple, there are so many sites like Digg, Mixx, etc that utilize a community approach to share news, stories and just […]

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There are a lot of internet marketers out there that work really hard to build websites that produce money day in and day out.  In fact more today then ever.  I myself have income from many different projects even some of my early "failures" over time turned around and spit out some cash on occasion.
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A lot of people seem to believe that SEO is about nothing more then getting a web page to rank well for high traffic terms on Google and the other major search engines.  Back in the dawn of SEO that was pretty much the case and anyone that could do it consistently was quickly able […]

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OK, right off the bat I am going to fess up and admit that this post is mostly me venting about my trip to Best Buy at lunch time today.  I have unfortunately broken the last two cases I purchased for my Blackberry and stopped by Best Buy during lunch to see what I could […]

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OK when Real Rank was first announced it coincided with the giant vicious Google PR smack down.  At that time I reviewed it and was pretty hard on it.  I have since discussed it directly with several People at PayPerPost and Izea and in fact I am even doing a bit of "fully disclosed evil" […]

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So what exactly are frying pods of fire, well it ain't what that link points to that's for sure.  For the moment at least they are a secret, something that is used as a tool to gain an answer to something else.  Is this a sill post, sure looks like it right?
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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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We talk a lot here at Comtech News about online marketing, SEO and other Internet Marketing techniques.  We have never really spent much time discussing gold old fashioned branding.  To be fair about it, this blog is about technical stuff and we come at most subjects from that vantage point.  Yet recently I was reviewing […]

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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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I was recently asked to do a review of PeekYou and compare it to another People Seach Engine called Spock.com.  I decided to try two names in each to get an idea which had more features and overall was just more useful.  Having a bit of an ego I choose first myself and the second […]

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I would imagine most readers of Comtech News have seen the 90's classic movie known as Office Space.  The movie is one of the true cult classics of all time and tells the story of three men working for a software company going through a down sizing.  It is a story of incompetent management and […]

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Pictured on the left is my long time friend Kevin Anderson with his loving wife Laurel.  On Sunday August 12th I got some of the worse news of my life when I learned that at far too young of an age Kevin passed away due to health complications.  Kevin had been battling some heath issues […]

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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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