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What Kind Of Soap Gets Your Hands Clean?

Organic or a bunch of chemical?

Lye soap or made from potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide etc?

Vegetable oil or animal fat?

Hot or cold process?

Mixed with titanium, nickel, aluminium or silver?

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Google Come Between Me & My Loved Ones

Have Google changed the way they handle Double or Indented Listings, removing them from some SERPs from some datacenters?

I love my double or indented listings, but it was not to be.

We have been together for a long time, but fate has determined that at least for the present, we must separate.

The Google giveth, and The Google taketh away

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How To Screw Up Your Internet Business

Jeff over at Coding Horror has just been taking a small pop at Yelp for requiring email account access to find friends

Email is the de-facto master password for a huge swath of your online identity. Tread carefully:

* As a software developer, you should never ask a user for their email credentials. It’s unethical. It’s irresponsible. It is wrong. If someone is asking you to code this, why? For what purpose?
* As a user, you should never provide your email credentials to anyone except your email service. Sites that ask you for this information are to be regarded with extreme suspicion if not outright distrust.

This is the same terrible system used by many large social networks, and 2 scripts I recently strongly advised internet marketers not to use.

  • Optin Accelerator – due to be relaunched soon
  • Then there was Viral Optin Generator
  • Coming soon is Viral Inviter which has some redeeming qualities, it works with old address books from Outlook etc, but it is still asking for highly personal passwords, and there are some other security faults.

Viral Inviter, with even heavier marketing and endorsements, will have a huge long-term negative effect on email marketing, with the rewards quickly being overtaken by a backlash of negative sentiment and poorer email delivery which will be universal.

Plurk which has very recently become very popular also suffers from this evil invite and finding friends method, but at least has a redeeming feature.

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Some People Don’t Want To Fish

I think almost everyone knows this saying

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

How many people have old fishing rods in their shed or loft?

I bet they even know how to use them, but for some reason a takeaway Chinese, microwave dinner, or eating out is a much more convenient way to eat.

Sure, catching fish is satisfying, relaxing and fresh fish on a charcoal grill is extremely appetising.

Then of course there is the fun of playing with fishing line…

Fishing Line
Photo by John2008

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Affiliate Evolution With Ustream

A number of internet marketers are now using Ustream extensively for training.

  • Ed Dale with the 30 Day Challenge
  • Sherman Hu with his WordPress Huddles
  • Michael Cheney frequently holds free training sessions combined with special offers (I sat through 2 hours of one the other night)
  • I know that crazy guy Jason Moffat is now into Ustream big-time

Another guy who has always been extremely forward thinking with video for affiliate marketing is Russell Brunson. He must have spent a fortune creating his “Zoobie” internet marketing videos. I am not sure whether it was a big success, but I am sure he learned a lot from the experience.

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Sphinn Moderation An Insult To Gary Halbert

Whilst this might be personally biased, it is my opinion that my Gary Halbert quote in my recent Players With Money Review is probably better content than 90% of what is submitted to Sphinn, and on its own might even have been front page material if posted on a blog that was actively promoting their content on Sphinn.

The whole article is better than 99% of Sphinn content

I wonder how many people on Sphinn have even heard of Gary Halbert?

It seems like the Sphinn moderators were having another hissy fit – they see an article written intended to promote a

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13 Year Old Wisdom

My life has been pretty hectic for the last few weeks, the good news is that young Timothy is now "home" and final paperwork we have been informed will just be a formality, and will be completed much quicker than we hoped.

Now things are a little settled I have had some time to go back through correspondence I read whilst travelling, but didn't have time to take action on – the idea of "touch once" broke down for the last couple of months – the "to do" list grew.

I am glad I took the time to revisit previous correspondence

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Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

There seems to be a new trend with internet marketers running some kind of mentorship or bonus program.

It runs something like this (though I haven't signed up to one to get exact details)

  • You sign up to the mentorship program
  • One of the tasks is backlink building from Dofollow blogs
  • The new internet marketer runs around leaving comments on Dofollow blogs, but uses backlinks to the blog or salespage of the internet marketing guru
  • After dropping a certain number of backlinks, the new internet marketer qualifies for a bonus

The backlinks are sometimes the link reserved for the comment author, or sometimes product mentions

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31 Niche Websites In March

March is almost upon us, and for many it is a time for spring cleaning.

It is also traditionally when new life is brought into the world, so it is an ideal time to clean up some niche websites and turn some ideas into revenue streams and to experiment a little.

I am frequently asked by email all kinds of beginners questions

  • How to choose a niche?
  • How to go about keyword research?
  • How to promote niche websites?

    I am going to steal some quotes from Franck

    Taking about John Reese and Blogrush

    1. Release crap (improve later, but start making money with your crap)
    2. Test everything

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Sphinn All Unsphunn

I had intended my next post to be a small tribute to the great articles that have been selected as finalists for this year's Semmys, with links to all the finalists and a subtle link through to the SEO category where one of my articles was selected as a finalist.

But that would be gaming the system based upon whatever level of popularity I have achieved within the Online Marketing community and it seems that popularity of whatever kind isn't necessarily a good thing, because the masses or individuals start accusing you of gaming the system for your own

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