While I’m usually not the one to swear on a professional blog, there are exceptional occasions where it’s appropriate, and this is one of them. I’m waaaaaay overdue for a links post, and there are so many quality ones here, that I had to use my affiliate friend‘s expression. Affiliate First of all, one of the …

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 by detritus My friend Gyutae Park recently blogged about making money by tasting domain names based on Google Hot Trends. It’s a neat idea, but there are some caveats you should know. Tasting domain names is the practice of buying them with the intent to return them during the 5 day grace period, while profiting off the typein traffic …

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10. Why yes, those viahra footer links will rank our kids’ toys site higher. 9. We’re experts in the three types of link: the reciprocal link, the paid link and the chainlink. 8. Of course it’s normal for link counts to change day-to-day by +/- 50,000. 7. This will cost you your time, money and …

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That’s a pretty inflammatory statement, isn’t it? But why is it any less inflammatory than “Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach.” You hear that all the time in internet marketing circles (especially affiliate ones) and it’s pretty silly. I was preparing a syllabus for a course I called “How To Learn Internet Law For Fun …

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First, the information that’s valuable to all my readers: Check out my most recent usability guest column for Search Engine Land, How Much Detail Do Product Detail Pages Need? Second, in response to my 4Q visitor surveys, Tara Cervantes wrote me the following in response to the question, “What do you value most about the [company] …

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