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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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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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Today I was discussing things with Mark Barrera and we were talking about blocking IP addresses of clients on Google Analytics so visits to their own site would not count.  This is really simple to do with Google Analytics. In your Google Analytics account, you can enter up to 4 IP addresses to "block", doing […]

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I am going to do something a bit different and I hope something that will be seen as a bit creative today.  I am going to post a list of my favorite Business, Internet Marketing and SEO blogs.  These are all blogs I read every day (or at least as often as they are posted […]

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I really tried to be a fan of the Trump Blog, I mean I really did but I have just removed his feed from RSS reader.  It is a shame too, I really admire Trump as a business person, I loved a few of his books like,

Why We Want You to be Rich
The Art of […]

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Last night we beta launched MarketingICE.com which is an Internet Marketing Training system that I put together with Ben Fitts and Mark Barrera.  We had a good launch with a ton of free opt in members and quite a few that took advantage of our discounted beta rate.  So far the platform has been stable […]

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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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OK, so this is not new, not at all, Google Documents and Spreadsheets has been around for quite a while. My guess is though that it is not yet being used by many people who could benefit from it highly. We here at Comtech News are no exception!
Recently Ben Fitts, Mark Barrera and I […]

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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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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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Part 1 - It is for Affiliate Marketers Too  
Recently Google Announced that Google Analytics was available and free for the asking with instant access to all comers. Up until a few days ago you had to get in a pretty long waiting line to get an invitation code to gain […]

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If you are a current Google Adwords advertiser or are thinking about joining the Adwords program, take notice of recent changes by Google.
Recently Google displayed a notice in all Adwords accounts notifying advertisers of a change in the terms of service and a change in the way an ad’s quality score is determined.
In the new […]

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Building the Perfectly Optimized Page is a series of topics discussing the basics of web page development. Here are the primary areas that will be outlined:

Title Element
META Description Tag
META Keywords Tag
Heading Tags
Alt Attribute
Hyperlinks
Visible Copy
File Names
Directory Names

Title Element
The page title element (some refer to it as the title tag which is incorrect) […]

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