Monthly Archives: January 2008

Dr Andy Williams Tells You The Truth!

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

Hats off to Dr Andy… it’s not sexy but it’s true… straight from Dr Andy Williams’ latest newsletter… “I was talking with a friend this week who works long hours, and wants to change his job. He was asking me … Continue reading →

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Whoops! Google Reinclusion Requests Are A Serious Business.

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

I was just reading this blog post… “Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished?” where Donna asks why her blog, which I presume had its PageRank decreased because it ran ads or paid blog posts without using nofollow, is … Continue reading →

Posted in Current posts, blog marketing | 1 Comment

Kontera Ads Test Results

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

OK, so my test of Kontera Ads showed rather quickly that their earnings were poor in comparison to Google Adsense but I stuck with it because I wanted to run a long test to be statistically sure that my results … Continue reading →

Posted in Adsense tips, Current posts, Kontera, advertising | 2 Comments

Hundreds of Megs of Spam

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

If you register domains and slap up websites with a quick sales letter, freebie giveaway or a bunch of articles for adsense… you’ll want to keep reading… Go to your server admin area (usually Cpanel) and click on “List Accounts“, … Continue reading →

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Worthwhile Firesale Cause For Jan Tallent…

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

According to this page, a storm hit Mid-Missouri a few week ago. Sadly that storm damaged the property of Jan Tallent, a fellow Internet marketer and someone who has been a valued affiliate of mine for many, many years. To … Continue reading →

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Confused By The Stompernet SMARTS Launch?

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

Join the club. It’s for sale? The price is going up? It’s not for sale? Scribd stopped allowing outbound links because of the volume of Internet marketers flooding their system? SMARTS was to blame for that flood? Now SMARTS is … Continue reading →

Posted in Current posts, social marketing | 8 Comments

Is Google Throwing Out Billions Of Pages?

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

I always liked that little “number of pages indexed” at the bottom of the Google homepage… back in the days when they were competing with Inktomi (now Yahoo) and Altavista (now, err, part of Overture, which is part of Yahoo) … Continue reading →

Posted in Current posts, PageRank, seo | 4 Comments

PRCashRank: A Free Website Valuation Tool.

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

I’ve just finished polishing my new site… PRCashRank. Check it out. If you’ve ever wanted to know how much your website was worth, but knew that a domain name valuation was pretty much pointless, you should enjoy the free website … Continue reading →

Posted in Current posts, PageRank | 28 Comments

ASCII Art in Google Adwords

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

Why didn’t I think of this… using little ASCII-pictures in Google Adwords… A German car rental company used little ASCII-art pictures of cars as their Adword Ads. Apparently it got a 47% more clickthroughs. LOL. Genius. (how it got past … Continue reading →

Posted in Adwords, Current posts, pay per click | 3 Comments

Google Removes Supplemental Index Notice

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

Ok, this is slightly old news, but I just found out about it. If your pages in the Google index didn’t have much PageRank juice, they were shunted to the Supplemental Results Index. Being in the supplemental index wasn’t a … Continue reading →

Posted in Current posts, PageRank, search engine tips | 3 Comments