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I was just reading some news before crashing, when I made the mistake of clicking a Forbes.com link. The next thing that happened in my mind was the antagonizing feeling of annoyance that I had forgotten that Forbes.com has those stupid god damn pre-site interstitial-type splash-screen ads. After clicking “Skip this ad” I settled in [...]

Didn’t this cold-calling crap die in 2001? This is no better than viagra spam as far as I’m concerned. The link-exchange wall-of-shame: Hello, I came across your website today while looking for sites related to my website’s general theme, namely internet marketing and search engine optimization. I must say I really like your site and [...]

Arbitrage this. Arbitrage that. If you’re really cool, you call it “arb”. I’m sick and tired of seeing the word arbitrage every time someone makes a profit. It is especially prevalent and poorly used in the online marketing world. Arbitrage is the practice of buying and selling something when there is a price discrepancy between [...]

Over six months ago, everyone’s favorite online marketing “radio” station switched their content delivery to Akamai. They gave various public reasons for the switch, but the reality was that Limelight was sucking at it. I’m not sure how it can be that hard to stream out the 3-4 listeners that WMR has, but apparently Limelight [...]

The first time I used Google Checkout I was astonished at how useless it was. In my opinion, they had taken something so simple, and made it more complicated, adding one more place I had to fill out all my billing/shipping information. I also was getting duplicate correspondence (one from Google, one from Buy.com) on [...]

Well, I guess placing images next to ads is no more. I’m not surprised by this, but it will be interesting to see where to go next.  If the argument is that “your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in [...]

I was going to do this, and I stumbled on someone else having already done it. So, heres a cool tree of participants from the recent blog tag game. Props for putting in the work. If I have some time, I’ll scrape it and do some other cool stuff.

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wonder what server has exploded. Sometimes you wake up to discover the blog-o-sphere in a fury. This time it was the latter, and I guess we’re playing an e-mail chain style game. Kris Jones tagged me, and I gotta play. Fair enough. Here’s 5 things you probably [...]

Shoemoney’s posted in his blog that he’s going to be launching a new and different SEO/SEM contest.  I think if anyone can pull this off, its Shoe.  Looking forward to seeing how this pans out…