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That's what I did. I know, it sounds like a crazy idea, but bear with me. There's method to my madness.

One of the big problems with link trades is that your link usually gets stuffed into what I call a "caveman" links page -- a page stuffed to overflowing with totally unrelated links.

Since...
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Displaying other people's RSS feeds on your website (a.k.a. "syndicating") is an easy way to get an automated stream of fresh content for your site. But is it ethical? There are actually two ethical questions involved:

1) Are you "injuring" the publisher of the content?

2) Are you "injuring" third parties?

(Required disclaimer: I'm not...
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If hoarding PageRank is part of your SEO strategy, you may be shooting yourself in the foot. I woke up this morning thinking about how lots of people cling to their PageRank with a death grip, even as their SEO ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean, so I wrote a post about it...
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...and so must all other tools that do the same thing. I don't know which is responsible for the sudden flood of new Twitter followers I started receiving the other day, so I'll name the one I found most prominently mentioned in a recent blog search.

Hummingbird is a Twitter Spam Tool

I'm sure I'll...
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I just posted a new case study video on YouTube showing how I've used an affiliate bonus offer (offering a bonus product to people who purchased something through my affiliate link) to earn $3,759.96 on auto-pilot.

Internet marketing "gurus" often use bonus offers to steal affiliate sales from other people (and each other!) during big...
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Russell Brunson's making some changes to his affiliate program. One in particular caught my eye: refer at least 100 leads, and in addition to the commissions you'll earn, he'll send you a free Kindle 2.

There are other prizes at different levels (everything from a fruit basket to a home theater package to a Segue...
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Internet marketing multi-millionaire Russell Brunson's birthday was yesterday, and since he obviously doesn't need anyone to buy him presents, he's arranged for YOU to be able to download a TON of presents instead. (The event runs for a few weeks -- so you haven't missed it!)

I found out about it Friday when he started...
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Yesterday, I told you about Russell Brunson's Zero To $100 Million Challenge. I've only been in it for a day, and already I can tell you that this thing is genius on so many levels. But it's not only what he's teaching, it's also what he's doing.

First, you may already have noticed that he's...
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Russell Brunson launched a new free internet marketing training series last week which I highly recommend. It's called the "Zero to $100 Million Challenge". In case the title sounds like hype ("Yeah, right. He's going to teach me to make $100 million. Ha!"), here's what it means: his goal is to help the people who...
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I'll be 100% up front with you -- I'm linking to a product I haven't seen yet, and I have an ulterior motive. But the product is free, and when I do get a chance to look at it, I'll post comments about it here. So here's where you come in...

Alok Jain has released...
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