From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Thanks to this Months Sponsors – September 2009

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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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Wikipedia: The Guide To Complete Idiots

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I was browsing around Wikipedia and couldn’t help but laugh at the stupidity of some of Wikipedia’s editors, or wonder how Google can love thieves like these…

Wikipedia editors can’t spell, yet they want us to make a better ‘choise’ of words.

So let me get this straight. The content was garbage, but you still thought it [...]

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SEO Testing – Is Your Zipper Down

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Today’s post deals with a much more harmless form of SEO Outting, accidental outting and invalidating testing. To teach this lesson I’m going to use a story …

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Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

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If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts she brought up is Living URL’s. Danny Sullivan has an excellent write up on it on Search Engine Land. The basic concept is a story lives at a single URL and gets added to/edited/updated over [...]

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Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

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For this post we’re going to be taking  look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are a lot of different options, and there isn’t a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.

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Wordpress SEO: How to Use RSS and Scrapers to Build Links

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When you run wordpress or any other blog for that matter, chances are your blog is getting scraped, and re-used without your permission. In this post I’ll show you how you can use this to your advantage to build links with the anchor text of your choice.

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Wordpress SEO: Wordpress Security Why it Matters to SEO

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In recent weeks wordpress security, or more correctly the lack of wordpress security has been getting a lot of attention. While most people consider this a site maintenance issue, it has implications that affect your SEO efforts, in this post I’ll explain why, and look at some things you can do to protect yourself, and reduce the [...]

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Wordpress SEO: How to Maximize Your Internal Link Strategy

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While there are hundreds of thousands of posts on maximizing external links for your blog, like a red headed step child no one pays much attention to internal links. Internal links can be very powerful in helping you distribute the link equity that those external links bring, and they can decrease your bounce rate and [...]

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The Affiliate Marketing Newbie’s Guide To Finding Niches

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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.

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How I Got Lost Using Google Maps and the iPhone

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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 [...]

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My Email Inbox Reduction Experiment

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So this summer Matt decided to try biking to work for 30 days, Quadszilla tried blogging for 30 days, both worth while endeavors but I was looking for something to do that had value that would last longer than the 30 days … so I decided to reduce my inbox.

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