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GM routinely scours twitter and facebook looking for UNHAPPY customers. Good to see huge Old School corporations using Social Networking to get a realtime pulse of customer reactions to their products. Kinda makes you think of ROI though. There probably has to be some sort of profiling and urgency ranking involved for it to work for GM. Source: LA Times GM has ... Read More

Here's a detailed step by step buyer's CASE STUDY of what to look for when buying mainstream sites.  Regardless of your site's exact business model, these tips apply. The article was prepared by person behind Flippa a website sales exchange Resource: Site Point The key focus of this buyer's guide is how to accurately gauge the potential of a young website that makes ... Read More

Besides guzzling down a gallon of Red Bull (caffeine is addictive and bad for you for the long haul mmmkay?), I found these anti-procrastination tips very helpful. In particular, Analysis paralysis is a big problem among webmasters. Many of us confuse thinking/researching a problem as DOING something about it. Doing means action. Of course, it must well thought action. However, putting ... Read More

We've been running all sorts of tests and experiments with our partner network's blogs.  It's only been one week into the current round of tweaking and testing and its already yielding some interesting nuggets of information.  Some findings: 1) Google adsense seems to go on a "freeze" mode if you update any element of the blog that impacts adsense code--themes, sidebars, ... Read More

If you write content for a living beware of an old scam that has recently hit a new and pathetic low--content fishing scams.  The scam involves getting writers and content producers to produce content for free under the guise of a "sample" or a "demo".  The scammers then either publish your work on their site networks or submit your work ... Read More

Shimmy Cash, the man behind NDNGirls has been actively involved in the adult web since 1997. After webmastering for over a decade he began to film his own original unique content for web and DVD, and travels all over the US and Canada in search of models for his unique ethnic niche of native american indian girls. How did you get ... Read More

How often do you hear that spamtastic come on?  Guaranteed top SERP?!   Sadly, people fall for this over and over again.  No one can guarantee top results.  No one legit at least.  There's a lot of misleading ads for SEO services nowadays.  Sure, they can get you to the top rank for your term--provided it's a term no one searches ... Read More

We've reported before on the confusing mixed messages Google is sending out regarding paid links.  Their Webspam department headed by their own representative to the SEO/SEM/blogging community,  Matt Cutts has repeatedly issued pronouncements against the evil (there's that word again) practice of link selling.  He even has a post about how to report paid links. However, any cursory look at any ... Read More

It appears Google's Friend Connect/Blog follower feature allows users to fly topless pictures.  Add this to a mix of high volume "social"-enabled blogs and hilarity (and traffic) ensues. Here's an example from a fairly popular blog: The racy profile pic will appear first under the Google Friend Connect/Follower area.  Click Here. When you click the profile, you get link outs outside of the ... Read More

We've been noticing that many heavy traffic news and other mass media sites have been posting tweets to them via @.  I guess the rationale for this is to get a "pulse" of what readers feel about late breaking news, current trends, and genuine feedback.  Interestingly, more and more of these types of setup are being hit hard by irrelevant, ... Read More