Last week I stumbled across a marketing ‘push’ by an internet marketer that kinda/sorta disturbed me. Do we become so enslaved to the ‘Almighty Conversion Rate” that we find ourselves turning to deceptive marketing tactics?
Is Seth Godin right? Are all marketers really liars? (hey I still have to read that book yet!).
I tend to [...]
One of my directories is really starting to build up quite nicely and there are many websites submitted that I am impressed with. Design, quality of content, topics, really some amazing stuff. It’s been so refreshing to see that not everyone is madly developing Adsense Cheese sites :lol:.
Unfortunately I find myself rejecting several directory submissions [...]
I was picking through the link exchange page on one of my affiliate product websites. I don’t do a whole lot of trading links, so I tend to have less than 20 to a page on any given site of mine.
Being the ‘link exchange can’t-be-bothered-with-it’ person that I am, I haven’t checked the reciprocal links [...]
Linking Matters Newsletter: Hidden Links on The Financial Times Website (FT.com)
Using ‘hidden links’ is one of the oldest methods of search engine spam so you wouldn’t expect to see them on a respected news site like the Financial times online
FT.com Busted for Having Hidden links
*Good read
Why Reciprocal Linking Sucks - Part XVII
People would rather be [...]
I was messing around in my GoDaddy account and I never noticed this before - GoDaddy has a Domain Auctions service available.
You can buy or sell.
Ready to sell your domain name? Want to bid on a name that already exists? Looking for the Internet’s new auction house for the hottest domains, all backed by proven [...]
Well I think I am finally done tweaking the directory over at Fabaroo. Let me tell ya - I spent *hours* on this site - way way too many!
But I finally settled into an unbelievably great script:
PHP Link Directory
Let’s take a look at some of the features:
Clean, SEO friendly links (important)
Customizable template friendly [...]
Those little PayPal phishers are alive and well, and it appears they are prowling around the webmaster arena.
Yesterday I received an email from “PayPal” to an email address I use for one of my directories - the premium link option. Now the *funniest* thing is, it is a brand spanking new email address I just [...]
I can’t believe it.
I received two checks from Linkshare this past month or so, about $40 bucks worth. Some good Tim Horton’s mad money :lol:.
These commissions go back the past year and half or so and I wasn’t counting on receiving any of it. Not because I thought Linkshare was crooked and wouldn’t pay [...]
The MarketingSherpa’s 2005 Best Blog winners have been announced:
2005 Readers Choice Awards
I demand a recount!
Just kidding. I did not win, but the winner and honorable mention from the category I was in really did deserve the award. Hands down all around. If I remember correctly, I was torn between the two myself and [...]
If any of you have a newsletter and sell products to your lists (tongue in cheek :wink:), here is something I just came across you may be able to use.
I was shopping over at BookCloseOuts.com and this is what got me to opt in to their newsletter:
After completing my order, it was noted that I [...]
