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...
Carsten Cumbrowski
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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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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Jason Calacanis Confirmed as Keynote Speaker for Affiliate Summit West 2008
Sam Harrelson broke the story over at ReveNews that Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, has been confirmed as the keynote for this winter’s Affiliate Summit...
Google AdWords and Paid Search: CPA vs. Existing CPC-Model
While I was in Miami at Affiliate Summit this July did I had some discussion via email with Andreas Reiffen from Marketing2null.de, about a post...
New Google Maps Drag and Drop Feature
Google added last Thursday a nice little video to their YouTube account without mentioning anything significant to their blogs as they usually do for announcements...
Plaxo 3 Beta Review
Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform...
How To Find Wikipedia Links
Although all external Wikipedia links are using the nofollow attribute since January of this year, links from the encyclopedia are still important because of other...
Yahoo! Feedback NOT Wanted. Be Quiet, Or Else
Here’s some advice to anybody who is silly enough to provide feedback to Yahoo! Services, keep it for something else or you might end up...
Trellian Keyword Database Change
The popular keyword research tool from Trellian, called Keyword Discovery, changes their database to rely on their tool bar users only (like Alexa) instead of...
Matt Cutts Update on Paid Links Discussion – Q&A
Instead of writing a new post did Matt Cutts add a long update in Q&A form to his existing post from April about “How To...
Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style II
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 3 and...
Ranking Factors Simplified Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was...
Google’s “Claim Your Content”?
End of last week did Google acquire a large amount of domains around the phrases: “Claim Your Content”, “Claim My Content” and “Claim Our Content” CLAIMYOURCONTENT...
Google & Kinderstart : As You Shout Into the Woods…
Matt Cutts noted briefly at his blog that Google’s motions to dismiss the 2nd amended complaint case without leave to amend and for sanctions against...