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Stomper 999 – Why Now Andy?

By Andy Beard | Published: September 9, 2009
The reasons I am promoting Stompernet 999 cover a multitude of deep themes within my own blogging, not just SEO and other forms of optimization, but also my future startup, any product I produce in the future, and my desire to help people the best way I can. Somewhere down the list I am also going to mention money but when you do the math, and then look at the way my bonus is structured, I will effectively be creating the closest thing to a J.O.B. I have experienced for the last 8 years.
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Disqus – Why 95% Of Bloggers Should Switch

By Andy Beard | Published: June 16, 2009
When Disqus first launched, I was a little critical because I like to maintain control of comments, give commenters the benefit of Dofollow links, and ultimately retain control of their user generated content. I now feel that 95% of bloggers should switch to using Disqus, though I have some reservations. These are some of the reasons why:-
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Keep Startups Simple?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 18, 2008

This is something that distracts me from my long-term goals.

Paul Graham of Y-Combinator

Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

I suppose that works for a lot of situations however there can always be complications

  • Google and compensated links
  • Patents - not so much to defend the idea, but for barter
  • Major competition from the likes of Amazon & Ebay
  • Competition from other people in affiliate marketing
  • I am not a programmer

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The One Million [blank] Day

By Andy Beard | Published: August 21, 2007

In the realm of Internet & Affiliate Marketing, John Reese with his $1,000,000 Day certainly got his name in the history books, and many others have emulated his achievement.

You can start multiplying the number, or adding zeros, but that is rarely as impressive.

The One Million Link Day

One million links from separate legitimate domains owned by different people

A pretty awe inspiring concept

With the right planning and concept, I do think 10,000 is easily possible within one day, 100,000 would take extreme planning.

Counting Links

These things are hard to quantify from external sources. Yahoo reports almost all links, including those with nofollow, and

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Looking for a “Chief Technical Officer”

By Andy Beard | Published: November 10, 2006

Something most people hopefully are not aware of is that I am slowly trying to launch my own “Internet Marketing meets Web 2.0″ startup.

I am keeping all the details pretty much under wraps, because some of the technology is likely patentable.

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