Why Search Engine Traffic Is Still King

January 13, 2010

Even in the new Twitter/Facebook/Foursquare/Digg/Reddit Social Media onslaught, for an ethical marketer search engine traffic is still by far the BEST source of traffic for most sites, especially newer sites.  You sometimes read other places about sites still doing fine after getting canned from Google rankings because of some grey hat (more on that later) [...]

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The Electron Plumber Adds DoFollow Trackbacks

January 11, 2010

Found another great WordPress plugin the other day, this one called DoFollow Trackbacks. If you link to any article on The Electron Plumber you get a dofollow link in return back to your site from that article! What is dofollow? By default, WordPress has a built in feature for both trackbacks and pingbacks, both methods [...]

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Don’t Use The Amazon Site Stripe To Create Links To Non Product Pages

January 1, 2010

I’ve been an Amazon Affiliate for almost a year and a half, not on this site (although I really should add some links to books down the sidebar there someday) but on a couple of other sites.  Last year before Amazon basically killed the practice, I was doing what is generally called Affiliate Arbitrage, where [...]

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Google Profits Kit and Travis Made Cash Scam

December 29, 2009

If you want the summary, yes, Travis did actually make cash.  But he did it by stealing from you.  And while you can work from home posting Google advertisements on the internet, you will get nothing but a giant headache and major screwing (and not the good kind) if you give these people your credit [...]

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Google Kit Scams Are Breaking The Law, Don’t Call The Victims Names

December 21, 2009

Every once in a while, someone with a misinformed opinion adds a comment to one of our Google Kit scam posts similar to the following.  This time it was courtesy of someone named “Jonathan” on our post about the Easy Google Profit scam: I think you guys are idiots, how can you guys not read [...]

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Why Free Site Hosting Is A Waste Of Time And Money

December 11, 2009

We get asked a question all the time when helping friends and family learn to make money online by setting up websites and writing content.  That question is, “I see all these free webhosting places advertised everywhere.  Can I just do that?” The answer is of course not.  There is not a free host on [...]

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Avoid Terribly Written Comments On Other Blogs – 100 Rules For Bloggers #18

December 6, 2009

We have a bunch of niche WordPress sites that target various semi-popular search engine keywords.  Some are newer and earn less than $20 a month, some are about a year and a half old and earn over $1000 a month, others fall somewhere in between. And on all of them we get complete junk comments [...]

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Write In Your Native Language – 100 Rules For Bloggers #17

December 3, 2009

There seems to be a misconception out there that since English is the dominant language on the Internet that one should create and write sites in English. Do not fall into this trap. If English is your first language, learn to write it correctly.  Go read www.bartleby.com/141/ and www.economist.com/research/styleguide/ for all the rules you need [...]

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www,articlecash,cn – Yet Another Facebook Virus Variant

December 1, 2009

A commenter named Steve pointed out yet another variant of the latest Facebook virus, this one posts a message with the web site called “www,articlecash,cn”. Seems like the perpetrator of this virus is trying hard to stay one step ahead of their URLs being branded as attach or scam sites by changing the web address [...]

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www,ArticleCar,cn – Another Facebook Virus Variant

November 29, 2009

There now appear to be multiple variants of the ArticleGet,cn Virus that are hitting Facebook.  The latest creates a post on someone’s wall that looks like this:  “Is this something you can do ? www,ArticleCar,cn” Articlecar.cn appears to link to a traditional Easy Google Profit scam fake news site, but there very well might be [...]

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