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Beating Google Panda in 2012 – Rankings Bouncing Back

Saturday, January 14th, 2012 at 1:40 am

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Since having this blog, I’ve reported several times how Google Panda took a couple of swipes at my websites in 2011. Every time I was in a tailspin of worry and doubt – being somewhat new to the game, despite what my friend Michelle counsels in her emails and comments: It’ll bounce back…give it time… And let’s face it – it makes for a fun read. My most popular blog posts tend to be my…

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2011 Lessons and 2012 Goals MMO Yr 2

Sunday, January 1st, 2012 at 2:49 pm

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Three…two…one…Happy New Year! Well if we had cable TV we’d likely have watched Times Square and the revelry with Ryan Seacrest (personally, I preferred Dick Clark), watching the ball drop… This year we rented Super 8 to watch with the older 3 kids and my mother-in-law, after a time of praying and Bible reading. In case you didn’t know this about me: at my core, I’m a Christian and family man, with 8 kids. Seven…

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Merry Christmas – An Affiliate Marketers Perspective

Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at 1:02 am

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Recently I had the privilege, and a great privilege it is, to watch It’s a Wonderful Life with my family again. My wife was next to me, and our three oldest children: 17, 14 and 12, with our wee little ones tucked away in bed. As we watched the angels discussing what to do about George Bailey, played by the memorable and matchless Jimmy Stewart, it struck me what they discussed. If you’re not familiar…

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What to Get an Internet Marketer for Christmas

Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 2:41 am

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I was going to write this post before my friends Brankica Underwood and Steve Scott beat me to the punch (read her Christmas gift ideas post, or Steve’s Internet Marketer’s Christmas gift ideas post), but being ‘in the season’ of giving it struck me that nobody seems to know what to get me for Christmas. No, I don’t think Christmas is “all about me,” I have some deeper spiritual roots than that. BUT I also…

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A Backlink Checker Besides Yahoo Site Explorer

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 at 9:35 pm

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Recently there was an article from PotPieGirl about Yahoo! Site Explorer being retired officially (the most popular backlink checker there was), and that presents a conundrum for a lot of SEOs and affiliate marketers. The API for YSE powered the Rank Tracker in Market Samurai in terms of checking backlinks, as well as SEOQuake and SEO for Firefox (to name a few favorites). So what now? The Benefits of Yahoo! Site Explorer Why did everyone…

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Report and My Mistakes in Marketing

Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 9:48 pm

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Here I want to report on how Black Friday and Cyber Monday did for my own internet marketing business (those of you who don’t know me, I’m an affiliate marketer and web publisher who eats well on a passive income, thank God). For someone who looks forward to this day every year (one day I’d like to be a consumer again versus madly pursuing opportunities, but I digress), At least I thought it was a…

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HostGator Cyber Monday Deal 2011 and Customer Review

Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at 2:18 pm

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I’ve been with HostGator for the better part of this year, after my last webhost went batty and had constant server crashes (on a shared hosting account that’s not good: all my sites went down at once). Since joining HostGator, though, I’ve had no trouble. Since it is going to be “Cyber Monday” tomorrow, I wanted to invite you to join with HostGator and get a whopping 50% off their hosting packages (yeah I said…

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Backup Creator Review for WordPress Backups and Cloning

Friday, November 25th, 2011 at 9:07 pm

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This past week has seen so many technical challenges for me that I forgot what my name was, but one thing I remember in the haze: my need for a simple WordPress backup system and the rise of Backup Creator, a WordPress backup creator (and cloning) plugin that goes beyond just a database backup. 12/14/2011 Update: I no longer support or recommend this plugin. When WordPress 3.3 came out of beta (after MONTHS of being…

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BuildMyRank Results With 10 Free Links

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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Though I’ve only been a customer a short while with BuildMyRank, I’ve had some testing going on I wanted to report on since it’s pretty jaw-dropping for me. I was pretty skeptical, especially since it’s “just another” blog network, right? So I decided to test the 10 free links they give you to try it out. I mean, how big a deal could those 10 links be? Note: I can’t guarantee your results will approximate…

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BuildMyRank Review Part 1 First Impressions

Saturday, November 19th, 2011 at 7:37 pm

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Until recently, I have been working on content for my websites. But now I am in backlinking mode, and I am using the BuildMyRank service, which I had been avoiding like the plague. It’s not as if I didn’t want to use BuildMyRank, Lemme ‘splain what I mean, and why I thought BMR was stupid to begin with. Why I Thought BMR Was Stupid on Steroids [M]y first impression when this whole service first became…

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