ComTech News

At one time I had at least half a dozen blogs but Comtech News was always my first and foremost platform.  Then a few years ago the Google Nazis attacked all bloggers involved in doing sponsored reviews for PayPerPost.  One of the blogs hit with a manual adjustment to zero was Comtech News.
I was pretty […]

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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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Izea is working really hard to get the message out about Real Rank.  Which you can sign up for at IZEARanks.com.  I had my doubts about Real Rank in the begining but I really like the way this service is shaping up.  My biggest concen is in the beginning it looked like Real Rank was […]

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My partner Neil Franklin and I have been fit to be tied lately.  We have been talking about how hard it is to find a good sales person and started joking about making an offer that would be somthing like this,
Wanted, salesmen, no quota, no set schedule and you are not required or even expected […]

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I  have commeted on both the Positive Aspects of Real Rank along with the Negative Aspects of Real Rank.  If you read my negative post you will recall one of my issues was that for advertisers buying posts via PayPerPost/IZEA they specify RealRank in terms of 1-9.  Where a blogger with a real rank of […]

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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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Any good business that is going to make it must have a revenue model for the owners itself.  Shocking?    Of course not anyone knows that so as I am looking at a new pretty cool get paid to blog site I am also asking how are these guys going to make a buck?    […]

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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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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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Since PayPerPost started I have been a huge fan.  They have up until now done everything right.  They kept everything above board with the Disclosure Policy Requirement.  They provided great control for advertisers (I have used them to advertise massively) where you could filter by geographic region, alexa traffic, google PR and many other criteria.  […]

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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 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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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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