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Tweetglide vs Twitter For SEO

Twitter deciding to nofollow links 2 years ago really annoyed me.

When they decided to close all loopholes in creating an active link within the bio area, it prevented me linking to my disclosure policy – that annoyed me as well, especially with all the terrible attempts of providing adequate disclosure within paid tweets that are currently being used/proposed.
There was a huge outcry from the SEO community.

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Social Power Linking Review

There is only one small detail that prevents me from immediately whipping out my credit card in the next 30 seconds and buying Social Power Linking, but for many people that small detail is actually the primary reason they would make a purchase.

Its Not The Quality Of The Product

I have experienced some of Jacks training in the past, and it is always phenomenal, he gives so much valuable information and presents it in a way that is easy for anyone to understand. I have absolutely no doubt that Social Power Linking will be no exception to the rule.

It Is Not

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Wordpress SEO – Siloing vs Massive Ball Linking With Tags

This is not the definitive guide to Wordpress SEO, and I highly doubt I am the right person to write one, in fact I am not sure who would be. That being said this partial guide on a couple of aspects of Wordpress SEO might offer a broader perspective on what is possible than I have seen previously published.

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Portal Feeder vs StomperNet

This page will finish loading eventually and is certainly killing my bandwidth…

I am sure people’s mailboxes are full of emails with various people promoting these two communities, which are going head-to-head with their launches. Feature wise they are probably only similar in the fact that both provide a backend community for advice and training, but I am not going to compare feature sets.

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Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)

A month or so back I was attempting to arrange some kind of head-to-head comparison between Portal Feeder 2.0, one of their competitors, and what you can do with Wordpress and some free or relatively cheap plugins.

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The Ultimate Wordpress Htaccess File?

Canonicalization is a serious problem for webmasters, just read this latest entry by Matt Cutts or this great post from John Andrews. However telling webmasters that they should fix these issues isn't enough, webmasters & bloggers need solutions.

In Search of the Ultimate Htaccess file

A couple of months ago Alister Cameron posted a simple solution to .htaccess such that you didn't need to use a plugin to convert URLs using www to URLs without.

At the time I suggested a couple of improvements, and also mentioned I would post about it here on my blog, hopefully to help

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Are Press Releases More Cost Effective Than PPC Advertising?

Not long ago I wrote about how PRWeb can be used to grab some useful backlinks on pages that might experience reasonable qualified traffic, especially from members of the press, or owners of quality websites.

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In Depth Review | Traffic Strategy | Stampede Secrets 2.0 – Social Media Marketing From A Unique Perspective?

Stampede Secrets 2.0 is unlike any internet marketing report or ebook I have read…

If spending $97 on an ebook is a major financial commitment, don’t read any further

Ok, for the rest of you lets get on with the review…

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Comprehensive Guide to Creating A Niche Website

Have You Heard of Duncan Carver?

Duncan Carver is one of those niche marketers who just disappears off on holiday for almost a year… because he can!

He is also famous for having created probably the best free link manager script

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Toolbar Pagerank | Ball Linking

Google have finally updated their toolbar pagerank for this site, not just on the front page, but also a lot of the deeper pages. Not all of them – some of those devoid of pagerank should probably have some, others probably shouldn’t especially moved content that hasn’t been given enough love.

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UK Internet Marketing Castrated | SI (3429 of 2006)

I regret to inform you that this is serious news, and if you run your business from the UK, and have a website, this probably affects you.

It affects you even more, and places you at a serious competitive disadvantage, if you are involved with Niche or Internet Marketing, in topics you don’t want your competitors knowing about, especially if click-fraud attacks are a danger.

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Performancing | PayPerPost Deal Off

Nick Wilson has announced that the deal is off.

In some way it is a shame as I believe PayPerPost could have steered metrics into something exceptional.

I will still most likely use it more, but only if I can host the open source application myself without providing it as a service. I wouldn’t want to use a service that is hosted by a “bunch of SEOs” i.e. potential competitors.

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Stomper Net 2.0 – Joint Ventures Redefined

Lots of people may have watched the launch of the Original Stomper Network a few months ago. From all accounts those who joined are happy they did, but this is definitely a course for people already making serious money online. If a small percentage turnover increase won't pay for the course many times over, it isn't something to seriously think about.

This is now quite an old article

For more recent coverage of Stompernet Going Natural 2.0, Going Natural 3.0 and Stomper Site seer, please check the Stompernet tag.

Stomper Net 2.0 has just launched, boasting a lot of new faculty

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Google Banquet and Google Feast

Whilst working on an elevator speech suitable for non-technical potential seed investors, I was chucking loads of word combinations around and came up with two very unique definitions that describe what I am trying to achieve with my startup projects (I am looking for a CTO partner).

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How a Blogroll can kill your Pagerank

I followed a link from Digg a few minutes a go, read the story, and as I frequently do on any site I visit, I snooped around a little.

I actually do exactly the same every time someone writes a blog post referring to me and pings my blog. It is the polite thing to do, and maybe I can add something to the conversation. It also allows me to relate any comment to the person who is writing about me, either positively or negatively. Everyone is entitled to opposing views. What is often important is why they have an opposing view, and it isn’t always obvious.

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Revenge of the Mininet | 3rd Party content | Blog Comments | No Follow

For those that haven’t picked up a copy of Revenge of the Mininet

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Download Revenge of the Mininet for free (It is honestly worth signing up to Michaels list)

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Wordpress | Mininet membership site

I have been planning for a long time to launch a membership site based on custom wordpress plugins, and also taking advantage of various mininet strategies, especially those discussed in Revenge of the Mininet (which you can now get free). It is honestly required reading.

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Portal Feeder – 9 months on

For the latest information on Portal Feeder 2.0
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)

I cancelled my subscription to Portal Feeder fairly early, and probably a good thing in hindsight as not long after that my internet marketing career took a 9 month hiatus.

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Forget Dripping, the Content is going to Flow

For the latest information on Portal Feeder 2.0
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)

I have been a little quiet for the last week, mainly cobbling lots of things together, and brainstorming a load of projects for my newly out-sourced programmers.

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Portal Feeder vs …

For the latest information on Portal Feeder 2.0
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)

I just lost a very long post, going into extreme detail the differences between Article Miner and Portal Feeder.

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Portal Feeder – more interface thoughts

For the latest information on Portal Feeder 2.0
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)

Whilst still clearing up a HD for a fresh XP installation, I have been struggling along with the web interface… trying to at least create one small site with it.

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Portal Feeder – Web Interface

For the latest information on Portal Feeder 2.0
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)

I am giving up with the web interface.

Now regular readers of this blog, and some of my posts on forums might understand that quite frequently I can be quite harsh describing products I am absolutely delighted to own, such as Blog Auto Publisher.

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I am in… well sort of

For the latest information on Portal Feeder 2.0
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)

I know my Win98SE installation is severely messed up, so Portal Feeder (desktop) not working on it is no great shock. Maybe it is fixable.

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  • RAP Bank

    I have just signed up for RAP Bank myself - call this a mini-review.
    It seems to be one of the smartest ideas for a long time as a great way to consolidate 100s of affiliate programs under a single entity for promotion.

    It is also one of the best implementations of WordPress I have ever seen.
    It is not without its bugs, as this is effectively pre-launch. For example I just found a bug in the keyword based search RSS feeds (yes RSS feeds for any term will be hot), but it looks like they might be onto a winner.
    Check it out - signup for the basic service is free.

    >Affiliate Program

    P.S. It is not immediately obvious who is running the site, but looking at my Paypal receipt (yes I signed up for Vendor Plus) I believe the site is run by Bill Ortell From Rap-Extras.com who is RAP certified and does the membership add-on that is highly popular.