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Has Google Penalized Your Site?

YoungEntrepreneur.com has posted a quick piece about Google penalizing your site. In it, they mention that Google has, last week, reinstituted the practice of emailing webmasters in the event that they are blacklisted. They were doing that originally, but they had stopped in favor of simply posting notices into Webmaster Tools. The problem is that [...]

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Anatomy of an Internet Bubble, and How I Almost Fell For It

Those of us who have been online awhile remember the so-called “bubble burst”. We hear about bubbles all the time in this business. People LOVE to speculate about the next bubble burst. In fact, a lot of people are looking at this whole “Web 2.0″ thing as another bubble about to burst. But, what the [...]

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Lazy Linkage: Sep 6, 2007

If you are a user of Google Reader, we welcome a couple new enhancements to the mix. First, you can now SEARCH your feeds. Awesome. Secondly, you can now give your tag folders real English names without Reader dumbing it down to URL-safe strings. Nice. I posted a Google Wish List over on PCMech which [...]

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Google Analytics AIR Beta Signup

Most of us know about Google Analytics, the web statistical package from Google. Well, it has an API, and one programmer named Nicolas Lierman has developed a desktop application using Adobe AIR to bring your Analytics reports to your desktop. Very cool, I say! He is getting ready to release as a public beta, but [...]

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Virtual Tradeshow for eCommerce Marketers

I just recently came across this virtual tradeshow called eComXpo. I have talked before about how it is important to get out there and network. It is usually with the help and knowledge of others that you can put yourself over the top. This is a really hard business in which to be a lone [...]

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Paypal Subscriptions are Currently Inoperable

Ouch! There are already those who are a little skeptical of using Paypal for business transactions. Now we have a little more fuel to the fire. Paypal is currently having problems with their subscription service and is not processing any transactions for subscriptions. A lot of users are reporting big time problems with it right [...]

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Using Facebook to Improve Your Business

It has now been established that Facebook is new, different and all around cool. But, what is it’s impact in the world of internet business. Can it help you make any money? Internet Marketers Should Take Notice Internet marketers are all about people. Social networks, especially popular ones, have lots of people. So, yes, Facebook [...]

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Understanding Facebook Basics

OK, after a couple of posts which discuss the impact of Facebook on the web, let’s get down to “brass tacks” here and see what Facebook is all about at the ground level. After all, like about 150,000 people do every day, I recently created a Facebook profile. On the surface, it appears like most [...]

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Does Facebook Represent a Google Killer?

I saw a really interesting (and controversial) viewpoint by Robert Scoble that I thought was very fitting into my look at Facebook this week. He contends that Facebook, along with Mahalo and Techmeme, represent a force that will spell trouble for Google within the next four years. Here, check out these videos by Scoble: Part [...]

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Why Facebook Matters

It is really easy to dismiss Facebook as just another social network, likely to go the way of Myspace. Myspace is still very popular, of course, but it’s reputation is tarnished among professionals because of all the really CRAPPY content on there. And, it is true, Myspace has really degenerated a lot, in my opinion. [...]

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