A BIG Hat tip to a great blog for this one, John Andrews @ johnon.com
points to this as a night when Matt Cutts had to work really hard defending banning paid links and Graywolf says

One thing you happened to omit is the paid listing for Radiosurgery the first listing is a premium PPC slot. Why […]

Pubcon had their In-House SEO session today. I’ll tell you a little secret, I was one of the first in-house SEO’s over at Wholesale Central
Like many SEO’s I didn’t really even know the what the term meant when I started, I was a new IT person, and I was trying to figure out ways to […]

Think about how often some idiot is testing some cockamamie SEO theory on the “structure” of your links. Just on a Quarterly Basis (Monthly if it is your job to actually check!) Will this affect the elements of the current direct links in your ad? A PPC buyer that sits in on an SEO meeting […]

UPDATE: The method below uses the default Wordpress RSS widget - I’ve found a new way to add an RSS feed to the Wordpress sidebar that works a lot better than the default widget. 
If you want to get an RSS Feed into your sidebar, it is darn easy! Use a widget-enabled theme, enable widgets, and […]

Big news from the Official Google Blog
Google Gadgets is expanding to the Mac Dashboard. Google Gadgets for the Mac
It requires you to install Google Desktop but will allow you to install Google Gadgets right to the desktop. I have thought previously that Google Gadgets really didn’t have the reach that it should, and I figure […]

Any business facing declining sales has a problem. When your internet marketing business is your sole source of livelihood, it can be a big problem. I had a niche that I was working for around 20K a month this summer. For personal reasons, I had to stop developing it for a couple of months, and […]

I am starting to use Blogger these days for a couple of projects and I was about to write technical support, because I couldn’t get the YouTube embed codes to work reliably, and Googling for info about this was no help (somebody really ought to show me to a web-based definitive guide to blogger, because […]

A PPC management firm asserts that Google tracks 7 variables to determine what  the writer calls it a ‘Google Credit Rating’.
Google Credit Rating - Explained:
Similar to how every business keeps track of its customers to evaluate how “trust-worthy” each customer is, Google appears to be monitoring 7 variables about every single Google AdWords advertiser:
1. Account […]

or was it a mangy bear?
Hello young lovers! I have been gone for 75 days. It took me like 10 minutes to come up with that, mainly because my Google fu for “how many days between two dates” was poor but I eventually found a nifty date duration calculator and yes, thats exactly the […]

Paid links obey the general priniciple of all links in this case.
Preston’s Law of Link Merit

Good links convert.
Its really that simple.
Good links get followed. Good links act as exit pages from the site. Good links should have a healthy percentage of traffic that ends up back at the linking site. It really shouldn’t be about […]