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Domain Squatting with the “Mann”

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Everyone of us in the internet marketing business knows about and most likely has a disgust for the practice of domain squatting.. except domain squatters.  Much like the macro-niche of IM in general, there are just as much snakery and stupidity in the domain business as well. For instance, there’s been times where I’ve conjured [...]

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Ling Broke My Heart

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Many people spend entirely too much time tweaking everything on their site to make it beautiful, but not Ling! If you haven’t seen her site, head on over to Ling’s Cars to check it out.  Ling took her operation in the exact opposite direction, into clutster-f%$& land, and it has worked out wonderfully. Many of [...]

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The Danger of Data-Driven Decision-Making

The Danger of Data-Driven Decision-Making

With the advance of computing power, there is a new game in town: Crowd-Sourcing.  Why spend time, man-hours, paid labor, and server time beta testing your software when there are millions of people on the internet whose behaviors you can measure and extrapolate the data you need to tweak your software? Many companies have figured [...]

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The Great “Above the Fold” Algorithm Misunderstanding

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Many, many moons ago, in an age long-forgotten, there was this thing called “The Newspaper,” which reported the current on-goings to the masses.  This was particularly valuable to advertisers, who wanted their ad to display in the prime real estate on the newspaper, which was the area “above the fold.” Unlike the current sophisticated tablets [...]

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The Annihilation of Public “Private” Blog Networks

The Annihilation of Public

I’m sure you guys have heard the big commotion with what’s been going on lately in the SEO world.  This was the absolute annihilation of public, and supposedly, private blog networks.  Big Brother managed to absolutely wipe them out with such fierce tenacity that the SERPs went nuts for about a week as the deindexing [...]

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So There I Was Smashing Out Content When…

…this beast crawled across my screen!  It caught me off guard because I had never seen a lobster-spider hybrid before.  I tried to save it and toss it out the window but that sucker was fast.  Alas! It’s exoskeleton shattered beneath the weight of my Diet Coke 2-Liter Ban-Hammer!  R.I.P.  

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