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How often are the Search Engines Crawling Your Blog?

Feb 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm in KARMA by ian · Comments Off

Very promising new Wordpress plugin for tracking search engine activity while crawling your internal pages, seems to have some fun bells and whistles you won’t get from analytics alone -

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Barak Obama Hit With Duplicate Content Penalty:

Feb 18, 2008 at 8:16 pm in KARMA by ian · Comments Off

Think you are the only one worrying about duplicate content in your marketing message?  Think again.  Barak Obama apparently was caught scraping Deval Patricks 2006 stump speech while running for Gov of Massachusetts in 2006.  Apparently the two are good buddies and share content…;-)  I still got your back, Barak….but Hillary might have lost a wrinkle ( or two) with this pretty big gaffe!  Read the story ( and watch the video) at the link below!

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The Death of Arbitrage is Upon Us…..Yahoo Closes the Door on Iffy Traffic

Feb 16, 2008 at 12:03 am in KARMA by ian · Comments Off

A final death knell to the once big buck game of “playing the spread” on ad buys across the PPC channels. Was a popular and very easy way to make money a few years ago, although for the past year or so felt like heavy lifting and no longer very worthwhile

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Who Else is Afraid of Pickles: A Prickly Piece of Link Bait Or….

Feb 15, 2008 at 8:31 pm in MUSINGS by ian · Comments Off

Just a really, really bizarre phobia. And why I should really spend my days watching more Reality TV, rather than working on proper feeder site SEO linking strategies. I’ve heard of people who were deathly afraid of Pumpkins…but not pickles.

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Who Else Wants to Get Flocked on Valentines Day?

Feb 14, 2008 at 6:51 pm in KARMA by ian · Comments Off

Ok, I can’t be the only guy who is spending Valentines Day with my favorite shaggy four legged friend and an anatomically correct

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Hemingway, Hyperbole and the Economy of Eloquence

Feb 12, 2008 at 6:24 pm in COPYWRITING, POPULAR by ian · 3 Comments »

In the past 5 days, I have spent no less than 20 hours answering emails, chatting on the phone with prospective clients and simply doing my best

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