Developers VS Users

It's an age old battle for many web projects, users versus developers. If the wrong party wins the end result can doom your project to failure.

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Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic

Are you acting like an ambulance chaser going after traffic, or are you a journalist ... because you can't be both.

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How to Deal with Expired Product or Auction Pages

Tips on how to deal with product pages that are no longer valid from an SEO and search engine perspective.

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When To Pay Top Dollar for Copy

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could… [more]

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Is Wordpress Good or Bad for SEO

Is wordpress the right CMS for a website with SEO efforts? The answer depends on a lot of factors, in this post we'll look at several of them.

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How to Handle Old Directory Listings, Links and off Topic Traffic

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Today’s post is another answer to a question–this time from Nathan Schubert, who wants to know what you should do with old links from directories and websites that still drive traffic if you’ve changed the content on your website.

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Developers VS Users

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Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to [...]

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Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic

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When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don’t make direct sales yourself or commissions via affiliate traffic, you almost always look for other revenue streams. The most common revenue stream is CPM based advertising or something like adsense. However, once many publishers start down that path, they almost [...]

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Outrank Your Competition By Taking One More Step

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I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche, and outrank everyone. There are two niches that I hold the top 5 spots [...]

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When Google Local Gets it Wrong

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Now, don’t get me wrong. Google Local and Google Maps are extremely valuable tools that I use a few times every week. But every so often they get something wrong–so wrong, in fact, that I’m not sure where the wires got crossed.

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Hey! Editors! Leave Them Links Alone!

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There’s a trend of editors in the SEO world uptight about linking out.

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – February 2010

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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month. Without them, there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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How to Set up Caching on Your Blog

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The question for today’s post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching on Wordpress.

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How to Deal with Expired Product or Auction Pages

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Today’s post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks “How to handle expired product pages on a classified / auction site.” I’m going to expand the topic to cover expired product pages as well, since the concept it basically the same.

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Creating Better Auto-Generated Text

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Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a look at different aspects of copywriting, including aspects such as the value of good copy, outsourcing your content, and tools to make your content better. To round out the series I thought I’d touch on auto-generated content and how to make it better.

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When To Pay Top Dollar for Copy

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It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out as many words for your website for just $9,200 (at 2 cents a word) over the course of a few weeks.
Added to this, standards of literacy and attention spans on the web are plummeting.

We’re all [...]

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Use Scribe SEO to Optimize Your Wordpress Posts

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As you know I’m a big fan of the Wordpress platform. Although it’s not the most optimal platform, there’s no question that it makes it easier to run a website. I was recently asked by Brian Clark of CopyBlogger to review Scribe SEO a new service/plugin for Wordpress, one that was designed to help you [...]

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Is Wordpress Good or Bad for SEO

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Earlier this week there was a post on SEOBullsh*t that talked about how Wordpress was inadequate for anything more than a personal blog. Since I’m a big advocate of Wordpress and use it more than any other platform, I thought I’d provide a little balance to the argument.

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Sponsored Posts Experiment

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There’s an old saying … You’ll never make the shot you don’t take. It’s in that spirit I’m announcing that, starting today, I’ll be experimenting with some new advertising here in the form of sponsored posts. I’m doing things with a different approach, so hopefully you’ll give me the opportunity to explain the program in [...]

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Interview with Michael Streko of Knowem.com

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The following is a sponsored post and part of new advertising option I’ll be announcing later today.
For this post we’re going to be talking to Michael Streko Co-Founder of KnowEm.com. For my readers who might not know, you can you tell us a little about yourself, and some of your experience in search marketing.
Michael Streko: [...]

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The Tales Silently Told By The Cannons Of Titles

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What Bestselling Authors Know About Writing Titles
They vary by genre, but the majority of bestselling authors and editors return to the same hooks time and again to routinely sell obscene amounts of books. On the recommendation of Clayton Makepeace, a celebrity in the web’s direct response copywriting world, I decided to visit a bookstore [...]

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Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?

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If you read TechCrunch, you may have noticed a post this weekend about Blueprint Cleanse, a health product designed to cleanse your body. On the surface, the piece seemed to be a  “California” lifestyle piece; however, after doing a bit of research, it turns out there’s a lot more intrigue, [...]

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TextBroker.com Copywriting Service Review

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Like most people who work in the marketing space, I’ve been hearing more and more about “demand media” and “content farms” in recent months and how they are either the death of quality writers or the greatest thing since sliced bread. Rather than sit on the sidelines, I thought I’d give it a test drive [...]

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Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic

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Google has long been an advocate of “build great content”; however, in reality, it’s turning into “build great content … and if we like it we’ll take it from you, put it on our pages, and deprive you of that traffic. Without compensation.” Strong accusations, sure, but I’m willing to step up to the plate, [...]

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Google’s Social Search – Affecting a SERP Near You

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Late last week Google announced it was graduating social search from beta and making it active for everyone. I got a heads up from Barry Wise of KnowEm a day later, and we spent some time talking about what this meant for marketers. I thought I’d share some of our conversation with you.

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