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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Here’s a little tip for you, for when you’re doing market research of if someone is trying to tell you how fantastic they or their product is for search engine rankings.
Haven’t we all heard people say, my ABC SEO killer […]

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Are you an SEO Expert?
I came across this cool SEO Expert quiz at SEOmoz and decided to give it a spin. Just a warning this isn’t a lightweight fluff quiz to boost your ego, it’s pretty hard core. 75 questions that will take you about half an hour to complete.
It is a […]

I received an email from Text Link Ads a couple days ago telling me that I had to update my affiliate links to their new ones. Fair enough, but then I noticed that the new ones were being run through the “tinyurl.com” service.
Here’s my new beautiful affiliate link: http://tinyurl.com/2twhrb
Very weird, I thought….why would they completely […]

I happened to visit Ask.com the other day while doing a bit of research and notice something very interesting there. I can’t even remember the previous time I actually used that search engine, if ever, but here I was so I thought I’d throw my test phrase “make money online” in and see what […]

Today’s tip is a nifty one that I learned by watching some clever people employ it around my sites.
We all know about the 2-fold power of an incoming link to your site as:

A direct source of traffic
A “vote” in the search engines for your site

Let’s imagine that you’re just like most stats addicted webmasters and […]

Free SEO News has the results of a very interesting reverse engineering study by German website Sistrix (in German).
The German company Sistrix analyzed the web page elements of top ranked pages in Google to find out which elements lead to high Google rankings. They analyzed 10,000 random keywords, and for every keyword, they analyzed […]

When I was scouring the Google results measuring the lay of the land for my topic, I made notes about linking possibilities.
Here are my observations, they should give you some good ideas about how to gain some high quality incoming links, that you may never have discovered if you didn’t do your market research […]

After 3 years of trying to earn money online, I can tell you I wished many times for someone that would teach me what was really going on, the fundamentals of online business, without a pile of hype, without a slick sales pitch and no $67 e-books please.
Have you even wished there was something […]

When I first started thinking about a city-based blog network I realized that one of my primary revenue sources would likely be link sales, since it would roughly mimic the Yellow Pages ads which were becoming gradually extinct.
What I really wanted was a way to efficiently offer text link ads on specific pages, since […]

My name is Tyler and I am an avid Art of Money reader and fan of Jon’s work.  I am honored that he allowed me to write this guest post for him while he is away soaking up some rays in Arizona!
For those of you who don’t know me, I am a banker and […]