Twitter spammers arent the brightest bulbs on the tree

Twitter… what an incredible platform it’s turning out to be. There aren’t many ways you can get a message, thought, product or idea out to as many people as easily as you can on Twitter and Twitter is free. The same features that make Twitter such an amazing marketing tool are also what make it a popular hang out for spammers, and to top it off it’s breeding a whole new generation of spammers that don’t even know they are[…]

Stop Twitter Spam, the easy way

I’ve recenlty started using Twitter to promote my business, my sites as well as products and offerings but I also participate in the “community” aspect of it and really enjoy the dialog that comes from actually using the service as it was intended. I don’t use any automated tools to send messages, I do follow everyone that follows me on my @ad0 account but I do it the old fashioned way, I actually go through my list of followers[…]

Blind pimping, bubble headed arrogance and ego’s abound

I am generally very calm, collected and level headed, but when I see enough of the same ol same ol I eventually get to the WTF threshold as I have recently. Everyone knows, or if you are very new to affiliate marketing you will soon know, one of the best ways to make money with affiliate programs is to promote those products, write reviews and encourage your readership to order as many wuzzles and widgets as possible, netting you the fabulous commission for that sale.

Recently I have been scanning my usual run of sites that I choose to read regularly and I’ve about had enough. Seeing someone promote something with an almost unaltered copy of the promotional materials as supplied by the original author, seeing the same images, the same words and often times the same witty, semi-informative “review”[…]

Page Rank, Back links, Keywords and Trust Rank?

Every day I talk to someone that is either elated or completely bummed out when they find out what their page rank currently is. I of course will reply telling them that it’s great news when its high, and when its low I tell them not to worry about it quite so much, and then we talk about trust rank.

Everyone who is actively working towards a goal that involves making their living online should understand a few things[…]