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Yahoo Buzz: Officially Open & Crashing A Server Near You

Yahoo Buzz has officially opened its doors to all website publishers.  Up until today there was only a small list of publishers who could submit stories to Yahoo Buzz.  Now the floodgates are open and any website can submit stories.

For example, this story is the first that I’m submitting.  You can see my Buzz button in the upper left.  In fact, I think I hear it calling, “Click me…click me”.

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Is It Possible To Increase Website Traffic Instantly?

One of the questions I hear most often about Internet marketing is, “How do I increase website traffic?” There are hundreds of variations to that question.

Well, here is video I created to answer that question: Social Bookmarking + Social Networking = Instant Traffic.  You can also read this blog post about a really interesting social bookmarking & social networking traffic experiment.

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$3.5 Million From AdSense Response

I posted this YouTube video just before leaving town to go on a trip with my family.  The video is about how I earned $3.5 Million in revenue from Google AdSense which I intended to use for an upcoming blog post when I got home.

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Submitting To BlogCatalog: Is it worth it?

I’ve just submitted my blog to Blogcatalog.com. It’s a great site and submitting your blog there helps to get traffic and a little “link love” from the search engines. If you’ve got a blog I recommend you go there and submit it now. While you’re checking it out you should rate my blog:


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Google AdManager: The First Product From Buying DoubleClick

Today Google announced the introduction of their new AdManager service. It’s described as an ad serving tool for publishers of small and medium sized websites. With it you can serve ads from AdSense and other networks along with serving in house advertising as well.

Google describes Admanager this way:

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Google AdWords VS Webmasters: Google Slap Round 4

For those of you who don’t know: Google periodically cleans house in their AdWords program. They single out websites and assign them a poor “quality score”. These sites hit by this bad score have their minimum bid prices skyrocket to $5 or $10 per click. This effectively bans you from AdWords since most webmasters cannot afford to pay $10 for every click Google sends their way.

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Google Testing Ways to Kill Your AdWords Income

Today I was shocked to find Google testing YouTube listings and additional Google products to their regular AdWords area. This could signal big changes ahead for AdWords and possible losses of traffic for AdWords advertisers.

This one change could cost you your online business!

In my video below, I’ll show you what I found and explain what Google has been testing and what these new search results could mean for Google AdWords advertisers:

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Attending Online Marketing Seminar: “Two Sides Of Traffic Workshop: Adwords Meets Organic”

Just a quick note…

I’m off tonight for San Diego to Howie Schwartz’s online marketing seminar this weekend December 14th & 15th.

The event is titled: “Two Sides Of Traffic Workshop: Adwords Meets Organic”

There are two seminars:

Friday’s event is regarding two ways of driving online web traffic. The first is covering expert level use of AdWords to drive paid online visitors to your website. The second, about using search engine optimization and other traffic “tricks” to bring visitors to your site. So it’s a covering both the free and paid side of traffic generation.

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