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Archive for May, 2007

Pagerank, It’s like butter.

“Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.”
-Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring

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Couple of interesting acquistions

First off it’s Ebay has acquired StumbleUpon. This is a somewhat surprising but I imagine that it’s the case that the first major media buyer who made an offer in StumbleUpon’s price range.

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Spam and Globalisation

One of the more interesting about the globalisation of the workforce is the globalisation of spam. I am not talking about just email spam or trackback spam. I am talking about all forms of spam.

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PPP – the long tail of blogging

It’s clear that my last post on ReviewMe vs PPP didn’t cover all of my thinking. So I decided to do this follow-up post.

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Review Me Vs. PPP Direct

First off this is NOT a paid post. Just thought I would clear the air there. It’s apparent a number of bloggers are underwhelmed by the recent foray of PPP into ReviewMe’s space. Kumiko ssays you will make less money and John Chow says that PPP Direct “fails”. Both are flat assed wrong here. It’s curtains for ReviewMe.

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Debthelp.com quickly readjusts site design.

After my initial review of Debthelp.com it looks like they have made a number of the changes that I recommended. This is the sign of a quickly responding debt consolidation company that moves quickly in the marketplace, adjusting quickly to feedback.

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Tips for Faster Google Indexing!

One quick tip for faster google indexing – use Google Webmaster tools. Why? Read on Macduff!

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Lulu.com Offers Authors the Ability Control Every Part of the Publishing Process

In my previous post I covered where to buy wholesale merchandise below cost and how this can give a entrepreneur and advantage. This post is how Lulu.com can give another advantage – and that’s in custom published products.

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Where To Buy Name Brand Merchandise Below Wholesale Cost?

Looking online, especially on eBay, we can find businesses selling merchandise for prices which would make any physical store lose it’s shirt (so to speak). The question that’s being asked is where merchants get their goods so cheap. Are those original goods? Are they knockoffs? Or maybe those are wholesale companies retailing their merchandise online? If you search online for terms like Wholesale Clothing liquidation you will find the new trend of wholesale clothing which are called closeouts.

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Bestbuyszone.co.uk Relaunches as a mini-mashup!

I had two projects this weekend. The first was a big outdoor planter/xeriscape project. The other was a complete re-mashing of Best Buys Zone UK. Somehow I managed to nearly complete both of them. Our house here in New Mexico is on a hill and when people put this house up, they couldn’t be bothered to build terraces to minimize erosion. So I have been building rock xeriscape terraces around the house.

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