Sunday morning I was watching TV prior to the F1 GP at Valencia and “playing around” with my iPod (if it were an iPad Ed Dale would have wet himself with joy). For some reason I started to look at a particular keyword related to a market I’m already in and it hadn’t shown up [...]

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Dan Thies has just released week 5 of Plan B, his free internet marketing course. In it he takes you from the basics of creating a website with “Magnet Content” that establishes yourself as an authority on your theme. In the latest lesson, which is available as a video or a downloadable PDF, he discusses [...]

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Market Samurai is a tool designed for internet marketers, which helps cut down the time spent on keyword research through automation, as well as automate tasks such as compare SEO factors for competing websites.
It was written by a team of programmers in Melbourne, Australia and since its release in July 2008 has taken the internet [...]

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Back in the good old days of internet marketing, keyword research was much more involved than it is these days.
The concept was well understood, the problem was getting reliable data with which to work. One of the main sources of search data was the Overture search tool, which provided results from what later became the [...]

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Ed Dale tweeted a link to a blog post about the 5 CFT Challenge a few days ago, so I thought I’d add my own experience.
At the tail end of last year, before setting of the Ed’s Manchester conference I went through the 30DC process and got it down to six hours spread over a [...]

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You may have noticed that I’ve added a Facebook “like” button to this blog to allow visitors to share posts with their friends. While you can get code from Facebook, it doesn’t update the URL dynamically, so I decided to dip into Javascript and write some code to do it instead.
Being a generous kind of [...]

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Just to show that maybe Dan Raine does know what he’s talking about and techniques from Immediate Edge might work take a look at the screen shot above for the search term “edge blueprint”.
Somehow I don’t think Dan will let that result stand for long though.
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In my previous post on Link Wheels I gave an overview of how to set up a link wheel, but without providing a list of Web 2.0 properties you can use or how I go about it.
So here is a list of Web 2.0 properties to get you started, but you can also use anything [...]

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