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Chris Clark recently sold pizza.com for $2.6 million. He originally paid $20 for the url.
It looks like Chris had been trying to monetize the site through Google ads and an Amazon store for pizza recipe books. Unfortunately the big pizza companies like Pizza Hut, Dominoes Pizza and Papa Johns Pizza don’t have affiliate programs. If […]
Continue Reading: Pizza.com sells for $2.6 million
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As I have mentioned before on this blog, I run a small interactive agency called Kinoli. We receive many resumes and portfolios from students graduating from new media schools looking for an internship or their first real job.
In my opinion most of these soon to be new media graduates are not prepared to succeed […]
Continue Reading: The Problem With New Media Education and My Solution For It
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It’s time for another shoutout for the Virtual Marketing Blog MyBlogLog group new members. The community is at 40 members, but I’d like to see that at 100+ by September. Anyways, here are the last 5 people to join the community:
CreativeAgentVA has a website on Real Estate Virtual Marketing.
TheEdgeVA authors a Virtual Assistant […]
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Only a few days after I talked about optimizing for mobile phone traffic, someone has released a theme and plugin for the iphone called the iWPhone. It’s still in beta, but the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone. It detects the iPhone’s User Agent […]
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Today, 1800flowers.comlaunched a mobile phone version of their website at 1800flowers.mobi.
1800flowers.mobi allows users to shop for flowers by a variety of occasion categories, including birthdays, anniversaries, get well and same-day delivery. If users have an existing account at 1800flowers.com, they can access it from the 1800flowers.mobi site; additionally, they can check an order’s status directly […]
Continue Reading: 1800Flowers Launches .mobi Website
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You can get some GoDaddy Coupons at Coupons For Everyone.
I’ve been contacted by CJ.com that my account will be suspended soon for inactivity. Ops. So, here are a few services (affiliate links) that you might be interested in. Give them a look.
Spy on the competition and download the keywords they use in […]
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I took off work on Friday at 2pm to go wait in line for the Apple iPhone. I was pretty excited - I watched all the videos, had been reading the top articles about the iPhone, plus my old phone is pretty much dead. I strolled into the store at around 6:15pm and […]
Continue Reading: My First Impressions of iPhone
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I’d like to announce that this internet marketing blog has entered into a partnership with TradePub / NetLine to bring free marketing materials and magazines.
Please be sure to read all necessary documents before signing up, but also please enjoy the materials. For a full disclosure, I DO get a small commission on each publication […]
Continue Reading: Free Marketing Magazines Through Virtual Marketing Blog
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Today Akismet blocked its 1,000th spam comment on this blog. I like to give credit when due, so I’d like to thank Akismet. You’re a total time saver.
Along those same lines, I wonder how effect “spam” blog commenting is. Would anyone like to comment if they know (non spam comment of course). […]
Continue Reading: Stop Spam on Your Blog with Akismet
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The Google Custom Search Engine blog announced the launch of the new APIs for Google Custom Search Engines.
The blog says:
With Linked CSEs, you designate a CSE specification URL with each search request (as a hidden form field in your search box HTML code). Google retrieves the CSE specification from the URL when your user searches […]
Continue Reading: Google Launches API for Custom Search Engine
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One thing that has really been holding back this blog is the number of RSS subscribers. I have been “stuck” at 70-90 for some time and have run several promotions to help get to over 100. I decided to set out and find a plugin that will help with increasing RSS subscribers and […]
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I’ve finally created my profile on LinkedIn. Feel free to add me as a contact. I’ll continue updating and adding more to my profile as time goes on. My permanent address in Cleveland, so that’s what it is now, though I do not currently live there. If anyone is in the […]
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Marketing Pilgrim is reporting rumors of a Yahoo and eBay Merger. While nothing is “even remotely concrete on this rumor yet”, it is interesting to see the benefits of the merger. Yahoo would get PayPal and eBay could get better Yahoo Shopping integration.
Technorati Tags: yahoo, ebay, merger, yahoo shopping, […]
Continue Reading: Rumor: Yahoo and eBay Merger
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Internet marketing news has been fairly slow for the past few days, so I wanted to thank the newest members of the Virtual Marketing Blog MyBlogLog group.
The newest members are:
thebaptist who authors an Agloco blog
Xigre who authors a gaming news site
biz2biz who authors a business blog
clickfire who authors the popular clickfire blog
thesilly1 who authors an […]
Continue Reading: Virtual Marketing Blog MyBlogLog Shoutout
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You may have noticed a slight change in the titles of my blog posts. For example, 6 Surefire Ways to Rank Well in Google, Writing Effective Adcopy for Discounted Google PPC Traffic, and Comparison of Apple’s Stock and Today’s Conference. It’s because I’ve been experimenting with using the titles as link bait. […]
Continue Reading: Tweaking Titles and Posts for Free Visitors - Link Bait 101
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A friend at work suggested I compare today’s announcements against Apple’s stock (AAPL). I did, and the findings are quite interesting.
Seems the stock rose in anticipation of a new release. It remained steady throughout the Leopard presentation, but as soon as Safari was announced for Windows, it began to take a turn for […]
Continue Reading: Comparison of Apple’s Stock and Today’s Conference
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Google Print Ads has a $1,000 coupon / promotion going on now until the end of July.
Sign up now and receive up to $1,000* after running your first campaign — that’s $500 to run your Print Ads campaign, and another possible $500 towards professional ad creation services.
Here is the fine print (in larger font):
* Terms: […]
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The link building ebook I’m writing, which will be called Link Building Techniques, is at over 7,500 words. It’s progressing VERY well, and I expect the rough draft to be finished mid-June. After editing and graphics is completed, the ebook will launch, which I expect to be mid-July.
I won’t be selling “resale rights†[…]
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I’ve noticed quite a few frequent readers, thanks to my MyBlogLog community, so I wanted to link to some of their sites to return the favor (and many of them happen to be internet marketing or business related as well).
Business Cards
Entrepreneurial Blog of Matt Huggins
SEO Ladder
Andy Coates Dot Com
Grand Start
Make Money Online
If I missed you […]
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I received an email today stating that Google is giving away $400 to try out the new ad creation marketplace. I went to the ad creation marketplace and it appears that the promotion is for BOTH audio and video (either / or).
I also found this page that goes over the promotion in a little […]
Continue Reading: Save $400 at Google Ad Creation Marketplace (video and audio)
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eBay will be expanding their ad auction system to radio with Bid4Spot, as reported by TechCrunch. The announcement puts eBay in direct competition with Google, which acquired dMarc Broadcasting, a Bid4Spot competitor, for over $1 billion. Google recently launched it’s audio ad auction system has also recently struck a deal with Clear Channel radio […]
Continue Reading: eBay Partners with Bid4Spot to Provide Radio Advertising
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There was a great Digg today dealing with pagerank. Specifically, Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?. It’s very informative and very well worth the read and I suggest everyone takes a look.
Technorati Tags: google pagerank, pagerank
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I like to give back, so I’m going to offer 1 hour free internet marketing consulting and 1 hour of research to non-profit organizations for free. Just send me an email with your name, organization, and contact email and phone. You’ll have to supply the necessary documentation and this is for US non-profits […]
Continue Reading: Free Internet Marketing Consulting for Non-Profit Organizations
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There’s an amazing article in today’s NYTimes about Google and the search engine. It’s an amazing piece and Rand Fishkin of seomoz.org says that the article:
is quite possibly the best mainstream media article about Google, or modern search technology, in the last 5 years
Below are some of the highlights of the article.
That’s why Amit […]
Continue Reading: NYTimes - Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine
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Article writing and distribution has gained popularity over the past few years, however it’s effectiveness if often questioned. It can take an hour or more to write a quality article and then another few hours distributing it through the top article distribution sites. If the article is well written, it will natural be […]
Continue Reading: An Introduction to Internet Marketing and Techniques 2 of 4
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In order to help promote this blog, and run a small test, I’m going to start another linkbait.
Link to the internet marketing ebooks on this blog using the anchor text “internet marketing ebook”. Then, respond to this post with a link to your placed link and at the end of the linkbait (and possibly […]
Continue Reading: Link to eBooks and Get a Free PageRank 3 / Technorati Top 18,000 Backlink
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eBay announced today, it’s acquisition of StumbleUpon in a $75million all cash deal. There have been lots of rumors and reports over the past month or so, and I had posted back in April that eBay was going to acquire StumbleUpon, though the speculated price was just shy of $50 million.
TechCrunch writes:
Although you can […]
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As internet marketers we have to do a lot of surfing and it takes up a big portion of our time. Even before my internet marketing days I surfed a lot and wanted to minimize the time spent for navigating between websites.
This is one reason why I used a browser called Opera. It saved much […]
Continue Reading: Maximize Your Browsing Productivity
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Internet marketing, which is currently defined by wikipedia as “the use of the Internet to advertise and sell goods and services,†has become almost a necessity for businesses in the twenty-first century – online or offline. Unfortunately for some, this industry moves very quickly and it can be quite difficult to penetrate the market […]
Continue Reading: An Introduction to Internet Marketing and Techniques 1 of 4
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It seems RSS feeds and blogs are starting to catch on in the marketing and corporate world. For example, the marketing team over at Quicken Loans has a Quicken Loans Blog, called What’s The Diff. While traffic seems to be low (see Alexa graph comparison to this site below), the design is professional, […]
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It seems as though PayPerPost is going to take ReviewMe head on with PayPerPost Direct.
Bloggers can place “badges” on their blog listing the price for a review on that blog. The blog post from PayPerPost contains an information video - which seems like a kiddy cartoon. Aside from that, there is a cool […]
Continue Reading: PayPerPost Launches PayPerPost Direct - a “Direct” ReviewMe Competitor
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Acquisitions of internet marketing companies have been going crazy (as in number of acquisitions) lately. Time for an acquisition category? Via a TechCrunch post, it seems Google is set you buy Feedburner. TechCrunch is reporting the deal to be around the $100 million mark. Awesome. What can we expect to […]
Continue Reading: Google Buys Feedburner
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To fill up free time (which is now short since I’ll be starting my new search engine optimization job tomorrow), I’ve started writing an ebook called Link Building Techniques. It will be a high-quality ebook focusing on link building.
While it is only about 10% done, I expect it to be finished in July or […]
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I consider this blog to be a “professional” blog and part of being a professional is acknowledging and correcting your mistakes. I had recently posted about using Amazons Mechanical Turk for paid blog posting. Unfortunately this is against Amazon’s terms of service. I would just like to apologize for suggesting users create […]
Continue Reading: Correction - Amazon Will Not Allow Paid Blog Posting
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