Category Archives: Internet Marketing

Online marketing strategies and directions.

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Red Pig Tools Weeders: a Parable about Effective Websites

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How can you do ecommerce and build a name for yourself online on the cheap? Start by being useful.

Paypal Pickpocketing Merchant Fees: How Paypal steals from best clients

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Make sure you apply for merchant rates as soon as you qualify. Otherwise Paypal will silently pickpocket you for years.

Effective comment marketing

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Is there really someone openly running a bordello out of 1121 Bay Street, unit 809?

WSJ Speakeasy Technical Review: Fail

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Mimicing such tracking tomfoolery on small successful sites will not make you more like the “big boys”. It will just drive people to your competition.

Zero Feedburner Subscribers: Dangers of Free Services

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Hosted services are great. Until they are gone. Without notice. Once you have your subscribers on http://yourdomain.com/feed, you can rest easy

Linked In will spam you to death: they never release email addresses

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LinkedIn claim a bug in their system which is not releasing email addresses that were entered at one time and later removed.

WP e-Commerce 3.8 Review: Why WP eComm code is still broken

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Takeaway for shopping site developers: Stay away from WP e-Commerce if you value your time, your reputation and your sanity.

How ZDnet is ripping off advertisers like SAP via click fraud

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ZDnet is sending fake clicks to SAP. Treat both advertisers and readers more fairly and perhaps the lineups will be longer to purchase your advertising, publishers.

First Day at ProSEO seminar with Distilled and SEOmoz

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Just a few pictures from the day one ProSEO seminar and some more of the superb night which Lynsey Little organised for us at the opening night party.

How to Get Facebook Fans in German (and Why You Might Not Want Them)

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In cold war, US and Soviet governments spent a huge part of GDP on its security apparatus of KGB, FBI and CIA. Now Facebook and Google do their work for free.

LinkedIn: How to Delete your Account

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How can one quickly and easily delete one’s LinkedIn account? It turns out nohow. But here’s how you do it, if that’s what you want.

Shortest Amazon Affiliate Links

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Get much shorter Amazon Affiliate Links thanks to our new tool.

Argument against the Cloud or Why you don’t want your data on somebody else’s server

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Don’t give away the store, as Toys R Us and Target found out.

Microsoft AdCenter Setup for Mac Users

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A look at setting Microsoft AdCenter up for Mac users.

The Key to Vaynerchuk’s Success Online

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Want to succeed online? Start by letting go…”You are better off letting the world run wild. You cannot completely control your message any more. Be as authentic and awesome as possible or you will fall like the Berlin Wall.”