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There were plenty of people who trashed the Microsoft Zune back when it was released, which I mistakenly called a Homerun for Microsoft back in September of 2006.  I was planning on buying one but have since realized that the first generation player from Microsoft is lacking in many areas and choose to stick to […]

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Well I have been on a tear lately about paid links, buy blog comments and Google Requesting Link Narcs and I thought I was about done with it.  Yet after commenting in a few blogs who are all worried about Buy Blog Comments as the fear du jour and seeing the responses to my posts […]

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Long ago before I was a web marketer I was a salesmen and I really came into my own in that industry in the 90's working for a Network Cabling company called DataConnection. (I am in no way responsible for their website, )  During this time I did sales and design specification for a company […]

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Have you heard about PlugIM yet?  If not you may want to check it out, for lack of a better description I would call PlugIM as a clone of Digg that is Internet Marketer friendly.  In other words while you have to be a Michale Angelo of writing to make an SEO or Marketing story […]

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When we began the creation of Marketing ICE back in January we put a lot of the free videos on YouTube.  Initially this was to save bandwidth by only providing hosted videos to paying members and letting YouTube fit the bill for the free members.  The issue was that the YouTube videos were small and […]

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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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Wikipedia (who sucks, practices nofollow and considers all SEO's spammers and therefore does not get any links from me) defines a narc as "A narc is a person who notifies authorities of illicit activity, betraying someone in the process".  Now this is why I call anyone that would notify Google that they have found paid […]

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I am about tired of this topic so before I just become totally fed up with it I had better say my piece on the whole mess.  To me the simple reality is this, there will never be a way to know 100% if links are purchased or traded for or natural.  No matter what […]

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Chris Garrett just did a post on his blog about comment spam and how it may "ruin the do-follow community", you can read the article here, Comment Spammers the End of Do-Follow Movement? Personaly I probally should have nofollowed that link just to poke Chris for making the comments he did about returning nofollow to […]

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Part of the joy of having been online since 1998 (at a time when FFL and Safe Lists worked) is you are so blasted with spam you usually get to be one of the first people to see new types of spam emerge, oh the privilege!  So just when you thought all the dirt bag […]

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Recently I have been playing with a some what black hat script, OK it isn't some what it is dark as they come.  As I began to expand the possibilites of what could be done with this script in tying in several blogs together I developed a need to do a "random" post.  As in […]

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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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Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a new graphic in our right hand margin.  That is the logo from PayPerPost that says "Hire Me" which is part of the an new innoviative way that PayPerPost has given its bloggers (affectionately known as Posties) to make money with their blogs.  The new program is […]

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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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So I am on to topic 4 of my Blogging Without The Internet experiment.  In case this is the first time you have read one of my posts in this series I am on vacation and writing from my get away place in the mountains just north of Hot Spring Arkansas.  It is beautiful 5 […]

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