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Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic

A look at how Google's aggressive copying and use of your data may be costing you traffic and profits.

Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic

Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic

How I Create and Manage A Wordpress Website

While I do have some issues with wordpress, it is one of my favorite CMS tools, because it's easy to use, manage and customize. In this post I'm going to give you a bit of insight into how I manage a wordpress website.

How I Create and Manage A Wordpress Website

How I Create and Manage A Wordpress Website

How to Speed up Wordpress

Wordpress is an extremely powerful CMS, here are some tips on helping you make it run faster, and potentially improve your rankings.

How to Speed up Wordpress

How to Speed up Wordpress

Is Google Playing Monkey Games With Real Time Search

Is Google playing monkey games and blocking real time twitter results on their employees?

Is Google Playing Monkey Games With Real Time Search

Is Google Playing Monkey Games With Real Time Search

Cleaning Up After Google’s URL Mess

In this post we'll follow a Goo.gl URL through it's course and look at the trail of junk each piece leaves in it's wake.

Cleaning Up After Google’s URL Mess

Cleaning Up After Google’s URL Mess

Sponsored Posts Experiment

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There’s an old saying … You’ll never make the shot you don’t take. It’s in that spirit I’m announcing that, starting today, I’ll be experimenting with some new advertising here in the form of sponsored posts. I’m doing things with a different approach, so hopefully you’ll give me the opportunity to explain the program in [...]

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The Tales Silently Told By The Cannons Of Titles

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What Bestselling Authors Know About Writing Titles
They vary by genre, but the majority of bestselling authors and editors return to the same hooks time and again to routinely sell obscene amounts of books. On the recommendation of Clayton Makepeace, a celebrity in the web’s direct response copywriting world, I decided to visit a bookstore [...]

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Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?

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Post Updated See End of Post
If you read TechCrunch, you may have noticed a post this weekend about Blueprint Cleanse, a health product designed to cleanse your body. On the surface, the piece seemed to be a “California” lifestyle piece; however, after doing a bit of research, it turns out there’s a lot more intrigue, [...]

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TextBroker.com Copywriting Service Review

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Like most people who work in the marketing space, I’ve been hearing more and more about “demand media” and “content farms” in recent months and how they are either the death of quality writers or the greatest thing since sliced bread. Rather than sit on the sidelines, I thought I’d give it a test drive [...]

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Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic

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Google has long been an advocate of “build great content”; however, in reality, it’s turning into “build great content … and if we like it we’ll take it from you, put it on our pages, and deprive you of that traffic. Without compensation.” Strong accusations, sure, but I’m willing to step up to the plate, [...]

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – January 2010

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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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How to Use Tags on Your Blog or Website

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In my opinion one of the more powerful and underutilized tools of a blog or website is the ability to tag your pages and posts. That said, effectively using tags isn’t easy or straightforward. In this post I’ll take you through some examples of how to use tags and get the most out of them, [...]

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Is Web 2.0 Creating An Ad Trend Towards Promoting Content?

If you pay attention to the ads that monetize most of the web, you’ve likely noticed a trend towards ads that promote content.

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How I Create and Manage A Wordpress Website

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While I do have some issues with Wordpress, it is one of my favorite CMS tools, because it’s easy to use, manage, and customize. In this post I’m going to give you a bit of insight into how I manage a Wordpress website.

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Is Your Schlock Writing Dismembering Infants?

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Schlock writing is bad. Schlock writing is bad because it is uninteresting. By uninteresting, I mean that writing in a schlocky manner is generic. Schlock writing is styleless and schlock is flat.

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How to Speed up Wordpress

Tips for speeding up your wordpress installation.

At Pubcon this year Google announced page load time was going to become a ranking factor in 2010 (see video below). Shortly after this announcement, Google started showing load time data in webmaster central. Being a bit proactive, I decided to start looking at ways to speed up this site.

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Upgrade Your Hosting and Save Some Cash with TigerTech

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If you’re like most people at the beginning of each year, you’ll review your business, look at where you are spending money, and look for things to cut or ways to save a few bucks. That’s why I’m going to bring up something we all have to deal with: web hosting. In all the time I’ve been [...]

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7 Tips To Make Training Your Web Team Merry

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Training is easily perceived as a chore by inhouse web teams, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are 7 easily-implemented tips to make training fun and get your staff’s buy-in.

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors

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I’d like to say thanks to our sponsors this month and throughout the year. Without them, there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Google Local Suggest Nearly Broken and Mostly Useless

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Chances are you’ve seen me complain about Google local suggest throwing local results in for queries that shouldn’t be local. IMHO unless I specify a local parameter you shouldn’t be suggesting one. I understand that might be personal preference. Recently, however, I’ve seen queries with local results that contradict the one included in the search term. IMHO [...]

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Cleaning Up After Google’s URL Mess

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Recently Google announced the release of their own URL shortening service, Goo.gl. If we put aside the data gathering aspects for a moment, this product is the third in a series of products that make the web a more difficult place to crawl. In this post we’ll follow a Goo.gl URL through its course and [...]

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Secure Pages, Shopping Carts and Duplicate Content

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Last week at SES Chicago, we were sitting in some site review panels and came across an identical problem on two completely different sites: duplicate content on both secure and non secure pages.

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