white hat now in the cesspool
Yahoo hating the coop
*uh oh - competitor sabotage danger alert
‘Swipe file’ format?
Secret to Top10 Google Ranking
Reporting publisher click fraud to Google just got easier
GoogleBowling - An Experiment in Link Sabotage
Duplicate Content Penalty - How to Lose Google Ranking Fast
Spring out of Supplemental Index with Google Sitemaps?
Advertising Is Dying
Have a [...]

Here I am just another outraged blogger reaching out to all London and the U.K. My condolences to each one of you.
Please take care of yourselves today.
News Sources On London Bombings
*Danny Sullivan has posted numerous resources to follow the news
Flickr Photos
Wikipedia Coverage
London under Terrorist Attack
*Discussion at Threadwatch
Hang in there guys, we’re standing with [...]

Just a heads up to my fellow canucks:
Amazon.ca - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Select Express Shipping and order by July 8 for guaranteed delivery on the release date of Saturday, July 16, or we will refund the cost of your book.
Kinda neat to get the book in your hot little hands on the release [...]

Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth
(not an aff link)
If you can get a book published and listed on Amazon detailing each item of food you ate in a year, I’d say the skies the limit and anything goes.
Kudos to this fella and I hope he does well with it. Although [...]

Back in May I started a little experiment with a hobby site that was monetized, but not really doing anything. The traffic was still low, but at a point that it definitely could have been performing much better. I decided to spend some time on the site to see if I couldn’t get more out [...]

A few times a day I like to goof around and take a step back from working. I need laughter and mindless, goofy fun. I’m at my most creative then - I swear!
Here’s a blog that I enjoy taking 5 with:
Overheard In New York
Note: Some comments or conversations reported can be offensive. The [...]

I’m in the midst of a domain buying spree. The problem is - I have no idea what I want to use them for. Now isn’t that the craziest thing you ever heard?
But with domain age seeming to be a factor with Google (according to Google’s latest patent), I thought it would be [...]

You have NO IDEA the damage I’ve done over at namecheap.com tonight! Who knew someone could screw up a few domain registrations so badly!
That’s the last time I try registering some domains in the middle of the night.
A big shout of thanks to Michael from namecheap support - he had me cleaned up [...]

Americans are celebrating their Independence Day today … Lots of sun, family and FOOD! :lol:! Hope you guys have a good one and enjoy your day.
We all love our STATS don’t we (statutory holidays), but *dang* can they bite into our online income. This weekend I made a whopping $5 (thereabouts). Friday, Saturday and Sunday [...]

Oh this can be an ugly business.
All of my Co-op sites have fallen out of Yahoo
*Starting from this page - to the end of the thread - discussion re: links from co-ops possibly causing wipeouts in Yahoo. And … then … some … talk about the ability to use link co-ops to bounce competitors [...]

Just a few things I wanted to note from this past week. I haven’t spent much time at all keeping up with all the blogs or the news this week, so only a few links this time:
Major advertisers caught in spyware net
Are you a Customer Delighting SUPERstar?
Up to 38% of Google’s revenue may be fraudulent, [...]

I - Am - Canadian!

Today is Canada Day and I don’t plan on doing anything too productive online. I just want to hang out in the yard, sizzle up some bbq and enjoy a nice, lazy day.
Maybe I can do something about this casper ghost white skin tone I have. You know - get [...]

I have a website or two that has some low level traffic, but enough that they should be doing *something* for me. These two websites bring me a combined total of $0 in affiliate commissions per month.

Now I could say:
The sites are duds and don’t have much to offer.
But the reality is:
I [...]

Let’s see if I can get this posted.
Reason #99 to keep your websites hosted across several different webhosts:
When your hosting goes down (which most webhosts experience some sluggish times once in awhile), not all of your websites are affected or down at the same time.
Although I host through a few different webhosting services, I didn’t [...]

Anyone else feeling organic search engine traffic doom and gloom lately?
We discovered recently that Google hand plucks affiliate sites right out of its hair: Google’s Spam Recognition Guide and now there’s word you can blast a competitor right outta Yahoo’s SERPs by filing a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) complaint :Using DMCA to Nuke [...]

I have had some *great* articles sent in for my new blog, but I can’t post them. Why?
Because although the articles may be really good, the links within the author resource box or within the article itself point to:
Sites with gambling content
Sites with health/drug/pharm products
Illegal activity (ponzi/pyramid/hyip/etc.)
If you find your article submissions are not being [...]

I’ve just added an articles blog to the Fabaroo directory - Submit Your Articles. It still needs some cosmetic work, but I’m ready for any and all article submissions, so feel free to send some my way.
You’ll also notice that I’ve added the feed from the articles blog to the main directory: bottom part of [...]

I haven’t kept up with the blogs and forums too much this week, but a few things did catch my eye:
WebmasterWorld New Orleans 2005 Quick Recap
Jupiter: Wealthy, Web-Experienced Users Delete Cookies Mos
AdWare & Shopping Comparison: Advertisers Get Double-Teamed
Quick SEO tips and info from the conference
If you have affiliate links that allow you to append your [...]

I recently finished reading Net Words by Nick Usborne and among the many things I learned, one Ah-Ha was how important the written word is online.
The internet is text based (duh). We read web content, read emails, socialize on forums, instant message/chat. So what we write and how we communicate to our visitors is [...]

Well I haven’t done this for awhile now have I — here is quite a mix of freebie tools and resources that I’ve picked through in my bookmarks. Nice way to kick off a Tuesday wouldn’t ya say :lol::
Open and Free Project Management Tools
Track Google Contextual Advertising
keywords-for-you.com
Favicon Generator
Firefox Extension: refspoof
A simple toolbar that allows to [...]

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 [...]