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How To Make $64,311.13 In Amazon Commissions – Webinar

A good friend of mine, Chris, recently told me about how he had sold over $938,913.43 worth of Amazon products to pocket over $64,311.13 in commissions. Naturally, I was quite interested in exactly HOW he was doing it. I’ve never really been able to make much with Amazon’s affiliate program so I really wanted to find out what his secrets were. That’s when it hit me....

Wetpaint Launches Content Network for TV Fans

Wetpaint is launching a new content network of 15 sites, dedicated to popular television shows. "Wetpaint has created a sophisticated prescriptive publishing system that taps into trending data, commentary, tweets, Facebook comments, forum topics to build a network of sites that focus on what we all love best – TV," a spokesperson for Wetpaint tells WebProNews.   "As you know,...

Twitter Sees Big Usage Increase Over Summer

For some people, summer’s a time to live at the pool.  For others, it’s a season better spent vacationing in another state or country.  But as it turns out, a lot of people used this summer to become better acquainted with Twitter, increasing the overall number of tweets by 33 percent. A post on the Royal Pingdom blog stated today, "Twitter processed 2.64 billion tweets this...

Is Google Really As Evil As This Video Suggests?

Consumer Watchdog has created a new anti-Google video portraying Google CEO Eric Schmidt has some kind of evil ice cream man. The video is a commentary on what the group perceives to be Google’s lack of regard for consumer privacy.  Google and Facebook are two of the biggest companies on the web, whatever you think about the privacy practices of either company, both have received a great...

Week In Review: Exploding PP(ouch)…V CTR

This week in review has some really great posts! My personal favorite goes to my good friend David from PPV Playbook Coaching Forums. 7 Effects To EXPLODE your PPV CTR – This is a really great post by none other than the king of pops, David Ford. 7 really great effects to get a much higher CTR on your PPV landing pages. ALSO… if you’re looking for PPV information,...

AP Updates Attribution Guidelines, Links Not Mentioned

The Associated Press has revealed some new guidelines for its reporters with regards to credit and attribution. The guidelines come in the form of a letter from AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes. Is the AP asking its reporters to do what it has frowned upon in the past? Share your thoughts. The guidelines apply to AP reports in print, broadcast, and online news, and stress the importance of giving...

LDA – Is On-Page Optimization the SEO Secret?

Posted by Dana Lookadoo This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. How do I recap the SEOmoz PRO Seminar session on Uncovering a Hidden Technique for SEO? The title is so attractive that it produces Pavlonian symptoms...

ABC Opens New Online Store With CafePress

ABC and CafePress have introduced a new ABC Online Store where of fans of the TV networks shows will be able to buy official merchandise along with merchandise designed by other fans. CafePress technology will allow visitors to the site to design their own t-shirts, posters, water bottles and other custom products. These fan-designed products will live alongside official merchandise in the ABC Online...

Prepare Your Fields, Then Build Your House

The last couple weeks I have been doing a “proverbs Saturday” and I am really enjoying it. This week the Proverb is: Now, before anything else, it’s important to look at the time period in which this was written to best understand the author. Mostly, the book of proverbs written in an agrarian society. After I realized that, I realized that preparing your fields...

Are You Thinking Like Google?

No, not like that, but in the good way! The following is a guest post by Jim Kukral highlighting one of the most fundamental tips to succeeding online. Have you ever really taken a step back from all the technical SEO stuff and thought about why Google wins? The real reasons why they have mass-market share and why they continue to dominate? It’s time you should, because once you understand...

Facebook Testing Feature That Would Make it More Valuable for Search

AllFacebook has discovered that Facebook is now testing showing all liked news articles in its search results. This would obviously be a significant move as the company competes with Google. Nick O’Neill writes: Additionally, the results for searches now shows the results from all around the web based on two things: the number of likes and the number of friends who liked that object, most likely...

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2010

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";

Apple’s Ping Draws a Great Deal of Criticism

Apple’s Ping social network, which the company launched as part of the new iTunes 10, has drawn a big mix of excitement and criticism. While most seem to agree that the concept beind Ping is a pretty good idea (social network-meets-music-buying) it’s not exactly the seamless experience one might hope for.   Let’s take a look at some points made around the Blogosphere.   Erick...

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: September 3, 2010

This week’s video is a bit longer than most, but that is okay, next week there won’t be a video recap. Bing seemed to update their search ranking algorithm this week. Google may have tweaked their MayDay algorithm? Google added better rich snippet error reporting and is now allowing markup for the breadcrumb URLs. Is MSNBot cloaking again? Google says using Google Translate to auto-translate...

How Will Bit.ly Work with Twitter’s Link Wrapping?

Besides hinting at new features and talking about user stats, Twitter also made a couple announcements this week. One is that all Twitter apps use OAuth. The other is that it will start tracking every t.co link users click. This is Twitter’s own default URL-shortener.  Twitter sent an email to users saying, "In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping...