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A lot of interesting things happened this week, and I think each of them are worth reading about.  From blogging reviews creating potential issues with the FTC, to Amazon shutting down it’s affiliate program in North Carolina, changes at LinkedIn (and possibly the direction of the social media site for professionals), to Google as blood [...]

For serious affiliate marketers, the top priority is to understand how profitable your programs are.  This is very important for those leveraging pay-per-click as a traffic source.  In paying for traffic, you must know what the traffic is giving you back for your investment, and which keywords are converting, etc.  Otherwise you are, as they [...]

RSS Readers have grown in popularity in recent years, and rightfully so, there is so much content to digest, it is nearly impossible to visit all the sites and prioritize the best most reliable information.  Google Reader helps you do just that, with a twist, the power of Google search within Google Reader.  More than [...]

Getting started with an online business is exciting and exhilarating with each guru success story published, or each product launch sequence you find yourself in.  It also can be exasperating. Beginners make make a few dollars early on, but that can be difficult to sustain, and scale to warrant quitting their day job and pursue [...]

Everyone is talking about it, and in just a couple hours the doors will open and people will start snatching up their Name URL on Facebook.  I think it is a good idea to get yours if you can.  What if you don’t get it? I have some ideas on variations in this post, but [...]

Twitter has grown tremendously.  I have found it to be a great source of information, and continue to discover new ways to using Twitter for marketing purposes.  I decided to put a list together of suggested people to follow based on my experience, and broken out by category.  Let me tell you, this wasn’t easy.  [...]

If you are a blogger, you’ll want to take a look at this product by Jack Humphrey, releasing today, Utility Poster is designed to make it easy to “Post A-List Content To Your Blog And Get Highly Valuable Backlinks For More Traffic And Search Engine Rankings – FAST!” (as stated here).  In this review I’ll [...]

Creating content for your blog is important, those that do it consistently will survive.  But let’s face it, there is a lot of good content out there already.  I searched on blogging tips in Google and came up with a few good ones that I thought I would share with you here.

No doubt the economic climate has impacted virtually every business segment.  Large companies have been creative in their response (consider the Hyundai Assurance program), as have small business and online entrepreneurs.  However, there has been no lack of product launches (at least 6 this week alone) in the Internet marketing niche.  This post discusses three [...]

With business blogging, it is of no value if there is no traffic. Blogs are wonderful for search engine fodder, but how do you know the blog is configured optimally for the search engines. Do you know if your blog is mis-configured it can actually irritate the search engines and discourage them from visiting? Do [...]