Blog Comment Spammers Exploit Google’s Blogspot
September 16th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
Spammers are always looking for new ways to to manipulate the system to deliver their useless messages. Recently it appears that spammers have beem manipulating Google’s Blogspot which offers free blog hosting combined with an free MSN/Hotmail email account to blast bloggers with comment spam. I opened my Wordpress Dashboard and saw my comments had [...]
Choosing a Press Release Service
September 6th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
After reading this article on NakedPR blog about Free Press Release services, I decided to check some of these sites out a little more in depth. I spent quite a bit of time preparing my release and I knew that I would be submitting it to the paid service available at PR.com but I [...]
Writing an Effective Press Release
August 27th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
When launching a new website or when promoting an exisiting site, press releases are an absolute must. Many webmasters overlook this aspect of promotion thinking it’s too costly or that there’s little or no value in it. The truth is both of those assumptions are incorrect and a well written and distributed press release can [...]
Internet Meme - LooterGuy, Brian Peppers
August 21st, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
The internet can be a very strange place sometimes. Internet Meme’s are definitely a conjuration of the internt age combined with traditional urban legend and folklore. While people once told stories around the campfire, now people spread these hoaxes and rumours through the internet via email, websites and message forums. Many times these pranks or [...]
Where is John Chow ?
August 8th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
Many bloggers are aware of the self-proclaimed online marketing guru John Chow and his "stop at nothing" blogging tactics. The tagline on his blog : Dot Com Mogul John Chow teaches blogger how to make money online by turning their blog into a money making machine. Although John Chow’s blog rates amongst the highest [...]
Have DMOZ Backlinks Become Devalued by Google?
July 15th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
I was checking Google backlinks for some of my sites the other day and noticed the highest PR passing directories that my sites are in are no longer showing up as backlinks. Particularly my DMOZ and Clush backlinks were no longer showing. Has Google devalued these high PR directories or is there something going on [...]
SubmitExpress Review - Free is Never Free
July 11th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
SubmitExpress.com offers “Free Submission to 40+ Search Engines” at the click of a mouse. While it seems to be a free service with the primary intention to help out new webmasters in hopes they will opt to purchase Submit Express more advanced service at a charge. The truth is these people are nothing but the [...]
Clickbank Marketplace and Unreasonable Policies
June 27th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
I started with Clickbank over one year ago and made a few sales withing the first few months of my promoting the products in their marketplace and earned around $60 in affiliate commissions. After noticing their policy regarding requirements on receiving a first paycheck, I started having second thoughts about placing their hoplinks on my [...]
Agloco Toolbar Gets a Big Thumbs Down - Spyware, Virus, Malware
June 14th, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
If you’re not familiar with the program know as Agloco (http://www.agolco.com) and their history, Agloco is a spinoff of a failed “Paid to Surf” program called AllAdvantage. The premise of the company’s business is that they pay members to surf webpages for a few hours a day using their “toolbar” software. If you have [...]
The Rise of “Advertising Engines” Part I - Yahoo/Overture Keyword Selector Tool is Gone
May 3rd, 2007 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
Many webmasters have been familiar with using the [tag]Yahoo[/tag]/[tag]Overture[/tag] [tag]Keyword Selector Tool[/tag] to see what keywords search engine users are using in their web searches. Obviously, having access to such data allowed legit small-time and niche market webmasters to target their audience without having to used “paid inclusion” services such as Yahoo Search Marketing and [...]



