These days I’m running numerous websites and don’t have time to write for them all. I still need content though, and so have been outsourcing some writing for the last couple of years or so.
While I did find some good writers through Elance, and also got some real garbage too and so earlier in the [...]

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It’s funny, but I’ve come across several affiliate programs recently that don’t allow deep linking unless it’s using the links provided by a merchant. In fact, I remember a case at least 10 years ago of EasyJet (I think) insisting that anyone linking to their website should only link to the homepage(!) – nothing to [...]

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I was browsing the other day and visited the website of Goldsmiths, the UK jeweller, only to be presented with the following:
Application Firewall Alert
Your request triggered an alert! If you feel that you have received this page in error, please contact the administrator of this web site.
I laughed, thinking that their website had gone done [...]

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All you hear from the internet marketing gurus these days is video, video, video.
While video when done right can be highly effective and something I don’t use enough, there is also the danger of overuse. And that is certainly seen in the internet marketing space.
These days hardly a day goes by without receiving an email [...]

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The results speak for themselves, but check out the organic traffic from Google on this site. I’m not going to tell you what it is, but it is a personal hobby niche and I’ve gone in pretty deep since April/May 2004. One of the keys to its success is the number of natural backlinks it [...]

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