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Greg Grothaus one of Google Search Quality Engineers discuss duplicate content issues.  It’s a great discussion and he touches on a number of duplicate issues.  Greg couldn’t have been more direct and logical in his conclusions about the way duplicate content can pose a threat or simply not be an issue at all.

Richard over at SEO Gadget discussed a touchy topic.  He did the research to determine the ranking ratio for  authority of the page vs. the relevancy of the page.  Shockingly surprised for some the authority of the page means much more than the relevancy of the page.  However, it hard to say if this would stick in the long run or if its only a short term solution.

I believe it is very dependent on [...] Continue Reading…

I use various strategies for affiliate marketing.  One of more better strategies involve creating local blogs on local news websites, basically I create niche specific blogs (if local niche then even better), I then write blog post on topic which fester opinion and views — I always give a link to more details or where to purchase (if a selling item) which redirects through one of my domains to my affiliate links.   These [...] Continue Reading…

I am actually one of the ones who like Skype, even though I don’t use it, because its forgettable.  I forget it even exist.  What I’ve learned about Skype is that most people don’t use it because the non-techie don’t know how to use it.  They find its difficult and confusing.

Let me ask you?  How do you make a free call with Skype?  Do you know?

It’s really simple, but they have lacked educating the [...] Continue Reading…

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PrestaShop is an open source eCommerce solution. This is a great and flexible software for selling your products. It has an easily customizable frontend and easy to use backend. [...] Continue Reading…

Surprisingly it seems Google is at it again with their behavioral targeting technology.  I  can’t be too sure, but either it was a freaky coincidence   or Gmail behavioral targeting software is sending me junk mail, based on my own messages.

Earlier I wrote a message that used a specific and unpopular phrase.  I sent the message to its recipient.  Later today I got a message in my main inbox from a mailer which usually would [...] Continue Reading…

I’m a long time fan but first time caller!

Today, was my first experience with Google customer service.  First, I fired off a support email to Google — in hopes to get a live response, instead I got a auto-generated message that explained they received my message and here’s what I should do.  It listed a bunch of links to areas in their support forum about questions which may relate to my problem.  Stuff I [...] Continue Reading…

So, I got my account deactivated on Mailchimp because they say for SPAM complaints, but that is totally bogus because my subscriber list of about 15 subscribers were all opt-in on their own accord.

I once had a newsletter sign up form on Self Taught SEO, it was for the promotion of my upcoming book.  The basis of the newsletter was to publish pages of my book through the newsletter so essentially subscribers get spoon [...] Continue Reading…

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Have you ever had an exercise work out routine with the plan to build muscles so you are bigger and stronger?  When working out for muscle and mass if you don’t follow a plan then failure is usually around the corner.  If you skip too many days of your workout routine then in most cases you’ll never accomplish your goal.  If you build your muscles to a great size then make the decision to [...] Continue Reading…