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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Mark Worthen made a post on his blog titled "My Best Marketing Strategies". Since his and mine aren't quite the same, I thought I'd post my own list. * Make a free version of your product and giving it away to drive people to your commercial version. * Use an autoresponder like AWeber-- for my...
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I read a post by Jonathan Leger today about the SEO benefits of an affiliate program, in which he recommends that merchants do a permanent redirect from the page their affiliates link to to their sales page (for example, from http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/?assoc=1 to http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/ -- ie., just remove the affiliate ID). The idea is sound, but...
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I registered Guru-Stalker.com a few days ago, and already (at least temporarily), it owns the numbers one and two spots on Google for "guru stalker" (out of 280,000 results) and "guru stalking" (164,000 results), as well as several less common search terms like "Russell Brunson stalker", "Russell Brunson stalking", "Russell Brunson stalk". Of course, I...
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There's been a lot of screaming about John Reese's new "Blog Rush" service over the last few days. I finally got around to signing up ("finally"? The service just launched this morning!) and have some initial impressions for you. On the plus side, it's falling-off-a-log easy to set up. You just enter your blog name,...
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