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Growing Your Business with Google – Preview Call
Yesterday I came across an interesting course called Growing Your Business with Google (aff link) that I’m really impressed with. It’s by two guys – Dave Taylor (pictured) and Steven Van Yoder. I know Dave’s work pretty well and respect him as a blogger after both reading his stuff and ...more
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Pixel Ad Site Targeting Bloggers with Deception
This morning I received an email from someone promoting his pixel advertising site which is targeting bloggers to buy space by deception. The email was actually reasonably well written and outlined an opportunity to buy pixel squares along side other prestige blogs. It mentioned by name some very large blogs ...more
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Speedlinking – 23 March 2006
Philip Greenspun writes some useful tips for starting up a company – via WorkHappy Neil Tortorella explains how to work out how much to charge as an hourly rate (a problem I always have – in the last year I’ve been paid everything from $0 up to over $2000 per ...more
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Blood Boiling Blogging Practices
I’ve had one of those hours that makes my normally calm demeanor disappear – in fact my blood’s close to boiling point tonight. Warning – this could get ugly…. It happened as a result of three online interactions in quick succession: 1. Pyramid Scheme Advertising – I was IM’d by ...more
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Should Sites Republish Blog’s Content?
There’s an Interesting post and comments thread over at Mobile Jones where Debbie Jones talks about another site that is republishing her RSS feed without permission and is running ads on the site with some fairly prominent advertisers. This is an increasingly common occurrence and one that I’m asked about ...more
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Engadget accused of Unethical Blogging
There’s an interesting story emerging on Digg with regards to Engadget and their acknowledging of sources of stories. The controversy is around this story at dapreview.net. Whether Engadget are at fault or not I’m not in a position to say – but the story is an important one for bloggers ...more
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Speedlinking – 20 March 2006
AdSenseBlackList.com a way of filtering low paying ads on AdSense. Wayne takes a look at Visitor Traffic Logs and how to put them to work for you. Aaron attempts to answer a question about whether to using pay per click marketing or organic SEO. You’ve probably seen little icons like ...more
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Australian Blogs Index
Yaro points to a new service called AustralianBlogs.com.au that bookmarks Australian blogs. If you’re an Aussie, have a .au domain or are writing about Australian stuff they’re looking for your submission.
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TypePad Users Unite!
TypePad users unite! That’s what John T. Unger is hoping for with his new blog TypePad Hacks which has three main objectives: User Design: Collect useful hacks for extending the capabilities of TypePad blogs. User Forum: Provide a forum for issues, news and user concerns about SixApart products and service. ...more
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