If you frequent any of the AdSense forums chances are you’ve come across the phrase ‘AdSense Arbitrage‘, while it’s been around for a while a lot of people don’t understand what it is, or how it works. While I’m not a big player in the arbitrage model I’ve been doing it profitably for a few months, so I can explain … [Continue reading AdSense Arbitrage: Tips, Tricks and Secrets]
Skittles Twitter Experiment I Call it a Win for Skittles
Post Updated: July 19, 2018 - By
In case you missed it, the official skittles website located at Skittles.com last night redirected their entire homepage to a twitter search for the term [skittles]. I applaud their effort to embrace bold new ideas but their execution leaves a lot to be desired. I thought I’d run through some of them in hopes some of you might learn something:
Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part II
Post Updated: May 17, 2018 - By
In Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part I, we looked at some examples of screen resolutions, and content placement. In part II I’m going to show some examples of how I look at and approach design considerations, specifically where the important “money making” parts are in relation to the screen break.
Ichthyosaur Didgeridoo Asterism Velutinous
Post Updated: April 21, 2018 - By
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Matt Cutts on Link Brothels
Post Updated: April 7, 2018 - By
So one of the more interesting panels at Pubcon was the organic site review with panelists, Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, Barry Lloyd, Bruce Clay and Baked Jake moderating. In the first part of the session they reviewed bargaintravel.com and Matt recommended they stop interlinking all of their sites together. Later in the session they reviewed lendingtree.com and the footer section … [Continue reading Matt Cutts on Link Brothels]
Google and Deep Crawling
Post Updated: March 10, 2018 - By
I’m having quite a bit of difficulty getting deep crawls from Google recently. Adding new subdomains to existing sites in some cases sites that are 4 and 5 years old are taking over a month to get the just the main page on a new subdomain indexed. Yahoo seems to be doing ok by comparison, and you gotta luv’ that … [Continue reading Google and Deep Crawling]
Don’t Trust Jason Calacanis
Post Updated: March 7, 2018 - By
It’s been five days since Jason posted his new rules on linkbaiting, five days may not be long IRL but in blog time it’s … like well forever … all I have to say is Dude Where’ My Link?
The Affiliate Marketing Newbie’s Guide To Finding Niches
Post Updated: March 5, 2018 - By
When I started out in internet marketing, I browsed around various lists of high paying keywords as well as some arbitrary lists that veterans just decided to share [without explanations] on their blogs.
Las Vegas Pubcon 2008 Wrap Up
Post Updated: March 2, 2018 - By
As I try and dig my way through my overflowing post conference inbox, and mostly overdue Remember the Milk to do list I thought I’d take a few minutes and share my thoughts on Pubcon 2008.
Two WordPress Plugins That Need to be Developed
Post Updated: February 26, 2018 - By
After my SEO plugins for wordpress and backend plugins for wordpress most people would think that should cover most of the things anyone would need. However I can think of two that are needed right off the bat.
Pubcon Recap
Post Updated: February 20, 2018 - By
This post will be my brain dump for all things pubcon.
FeedProxy.Google.com What The Heck is That
Post Updated: February 17, 2018 - By
So What the heck is feedproxy.google.com why is it out there, what’s it being used for, why is google letting it be indexed, why are 164,000 pages in the index [site:feedproxy.google.com] and why is it ranking? it’s not like google places to much value on domain authority or anything … photo credit: dannysullivan
SMX Advanced 2009 Wrap Up
Post Updated: February 16, 2018 - By
Last week I attended SMX Advanced in Seattle and thought I’d share my thoughts about it.
Is Matt Cutts Pulling the “I Did You a Favor” Card
Post Updated: February 15, 2018 - By
C’mon Matt you either do things because they are the right thing to do or don’t do them at all, I don’t think you want to get into the Google’s did you a favor, now stop bad mouthing us card at all. Bringing up stuff like this just makes people question your motivation … Why get into a back-and-forth? It … [Continue reading Is Matt Cutts Pulling the “I Did You a Favor” Card]
How to Add Search Shortcuts to Google Chrome.
Post Updated: February 2, 2018 - By
Last week Danny Sullivan twittered he was looking for a creative commons image to use. Christine Churchill poked a little fun at me wondering how I was able to get that so quickly. The trick is using search shortcuts, and I’m going to show you how to do it.
How I Got Lost Using Google Maps and the iPhone
Post Updated: February 1, 2018 - By
Over the years chances are you’ve seen stories about Google Maps or similar services sending people off course, sometimes by hundreds of miles. When you use any of the mapping or GPS services you always have to use common sense, but I’ve always wondered if this happens because these people maybe aren’t the most technologically savvy people out there. However … [Continue reading How I Got Lost Using Google Maps and the iPhone]
Google Sandbox Patent?
Post Updated: January 29, 2018 - By
I picked this up from Rustybrick who got it from SearchEngineWatch. Looks interesting the whole thing is here. [0077] The dates that links appear can also be used to detect “spam,” where owners of documents or their colleagues create links to their own document for the purpose of boosting the score assigned by a search engine. A typical, “legitimate” document … [Continue reading Google Sandbox Patent?]
Facebook and Google+ Competing For Your Attention
Post Updated: January 28, 2018 - By
With the launch of Google+, the inevitable tech fan boys preaching the downfall of Facebook–because a new shiny cat toy caught their attention–was laughably predictable. As SEO’s, internet marketers, and social media consultants, we have to be involved in these games, or we risk losing our competitive edge. However, what we really need to understand is that this is a … [Continue reading Facebook and Google+ Competing For Your Attention]
Why Big Brand Media Sites Are The Real Cesspool of the Internet
Post Updated: January 19, 2018 - By
Eric Schmidt of Google famously remarked last year that “The internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives” and that brands were the way out. Well Eric I’m going to show you not only did you get it wrong , but you got it very wrong, not only are big brands just as responsible for the pollution of … [Continue reading Why Big Brand Media Sites Are The Real Cesspool of the Internet]
Adwords Pricing – Things That Make You Go Hmm…
Post Updated: January 18, 2018 - By
So I’m bidding on a keyword where I’m the only person running an ad. It’s getting between 1,000 and 1,500 searches a day and getting between a 3-4% CTR. I’m a little baffled how they come up with the $0.12 a click figure since there’s no one under me.
