Ready to Kombat? – New Competitive Intelligence Tool for Domains
I just received notification that SpyFu Kombat was launched today. SpyFu Kombat is an add-on to the classic SpyFu online service by VelocityScape. For those...
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Carsten Cumbrowski has years of experience in Affiliate Marketing and knows both sides of the business as the Affiliate and Affiliate Manager. Carsten has over 10 years experience in Web Development and 20 years in programming and computers in general. He has a personal Internet Marketing Resources site at Cumbrowski.com.
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ANTI versus PRO – Two very different Approaches to Solve a Conflict or Issue
If you do not like something, then you have two options to do something about it. Either you decide to do something AGAINST it or you decide to...
Google and the SEO Benefits of Affiliate Tracking Links
Brian Klais wrote in June, 2008 in his post “Amazon’s Secret to Dominating SERP Results” at the Natural Search Blog about how Amazon.com leverages the inbound...
YouTube Support – Not Existent… Again
You think that somebody learns from past mistakes and does not repeat the same mistake over and over again. That does not seem to be...
Book Review: ProBlogger
My post with my book reviews in April this year was so well received that I decided to continue with this and write another review....
Social Media Marketing Law #1 – Give Away your Best Stuff
Complicated things are often explained the best by making an analogy and using a simple real life example where people can relate to. Practical business...
Digitizing Books with the Help of Millions of People around the World
I came across this video podcast episode of PBS’s Wired Science with Luis von Ahn, the guy who came up with “Captcha“, those fuzzy looking...
A Search Engine Fairy Tale
I revisited today an older post of mine that talks about paid links and the problems that I have with the way how Google is...
Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)
In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...
Social Media Guide for Big Brand Corporate Businesses
The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites...
AdWords Automatic Matching – Lamborghini-Ad for: “reelect obama 2012” Query, Right!
Google launched without making much public fuzz about it, the beta tests of a new feature for Google AdWords called “Automatic Matching”. Dan Thies over...
Why Mahalo will Fail and the Problems with General Search
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web...
SEO Industry Survey Conducted by SEOMoz.org
In case that you are not a frequent SEOMoz.org Blog reader (something I suggest to remedy :)); they are currently conducting a very detailed SEO...
It is Time for Putting on Some Link-Condoms!
Warning! This post uses metaphors and some phrases that are not suitable for children’s eyes and ears. It is directed towards other bloggers and not...
Google Account Consolidation – Real World Security Concerns – An Involuntary Case Study
About Security There are rarely talks about security breaches and problems that did or could result from those breaches in the public. The reason for...
There is No G.com, Y.com, M.com, Why Not?
Google’s acquisition of the one character g.cn domain for China, reminded me of the old question about one and also two character domain names in...
Spam for the Search Engines and a Smile for Matt Cutts
I wanted to call the post “Website Scraper, Trackback Spammer and Cloaking Bundle” at first, but then thought that the current one is a bit...
Hardcore SEO Fundamentals: Markov Chaining Points and Term Vector Modeling
Heather Paulson from Paulson Management Group wrote a post for ReveNews.com titled “SEO Matrix’s- Markov Chaining and Term Vector Models“. It is basically a rundown of the...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part II
This is the second part of my series about bugs and usability issues with various Google services. My previous post was about Google Picasa and...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I
It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs...
MS AdCenter Affiliate Program Launch and Some Historic Affiliate Marketing Insights
Despite the not so perfect reputation that affiliate marketing has are companies like Microsoft and even Google using this advertising and marketing channel with thousands...
Paid Reviews Examples by Matt Cutts and Paid Links
Matt Cutts wrote two weeks ago at his blog a post about selling links that pass PageRank. I wanted to comment at his blog, but...
Google Knol”edge”, Wikipedia and Trias Politica
Arnold Zafra posted about Google’s KNOL service (derived from the word “knowledge”) already on Friday here at SearchEngineJournal.com. Yesterday Brook Schaaf from Schaaf Consulting reported...
11 Steps to Successful SEO for Your Business
I wrote in November a long article for my website about the necessary steps for a business to successfully engage in organic search engine optimization....
About URL Tracking Parameters and Duplicate Content Issues
How do you deal with links that have tracking parameters in the URL for referrer measurement for analytical reasons or in case of a partner...
How to Add Content to Wikipedia the “White Hat” Way?
I gave tips to people about editing Wikipedia or getting missing content into Wikipedia over and over again, via email, blog comments etc. So I...
Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until...
The Oracle of Mountain View
The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more...
Fun Ways of Learning What Should Not Do
There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line....
Podcast Marketing and Distribution 101
The Podcasting & New Media Expo and SMX Social Media just past and the next conference for bloggers and podcasters is just on the horizon,...