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I read today at LifeHacker about “Find free stuff on social bookmarking sites” found that very interesting. I am big time search query guru , and most of the time Design gives me headaches because it returns bunch of spam sites, that are really worthless, I think we should have option for stumble those sites before we enter them !

Anways here are couple of tricks you can use to search Design spam free.

Examples:

site:bontb.com “make money online”
site:digg.com free “desktop wallpaper”
site:reddit.com free “wordpress templates”
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Design or PPC: Can Your Business Survive Only On Pay-Per-Click Advertising?Writing by Nick on Thursday, 26 of July , 2007 at 1:26 pm

Funny story. Design banned this guy for buying links so instead of owning up and asking for absolution he decides he doesn’t need Design. So he starts buying sponsored ads - paying for links! I’m anxious to see how he does.

But it does bring up an interesting question that the pilgrims have offered an answer for:

Most of the comments on Naylor???s blog and people I have discussed this post with seem to be of the opinion that the client should bow down and ask for forgiveness. Organic Design traffic is needed too much to survive without it. I completely disagree.

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How To Encourage Blog Comments On Your Business BlogWriting by Nick on Thursday, 26 of July , 2007 at 9:44 am

There is a great discussion going on about yesterday’s post on blog comment spam. I’m very appreciative of those who have left their comments and continue to monitor the discussion. I hope others will join in. I believe this is a worthy topic of discussion no matter which side of the fence you fall on.

That said, I’d like to discuss how you can encourage blog comments on your blog. Some people can write for months, or even years, and never receive a comment. How do you do it? Believe me, it isn’t easy. However, there are some things you can do to encourage comments on your blog. Here are a few ideas:

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I feel like the guy who wants to talk about a movie he just saw, but came out over a year ago. Sometimes Design research can put blinders on you and you miss the little or not so little things. I have just used a search engine created by Design called SearchMash. It launched October 2006 and I’m just finding out about it. But, better late than never as it has some nice features and looks to show the same results as Design, but with some nice tricks. It???s AJAX-based and has web page, image, blog and wikipedia search results as options.

They show images, videos, blog and wikipedia results to the right of web page results and they are in expandable menus. When you click on ???more web pages??? or or more of any search results it will expand the list on the same page, giving you a longer scrollable page instead of a new page. Videos will also play in the same page so you don’t need to leave your results to view it.

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Design Adsense Tax - Internet Taxes

So you made money and now you are wondering will you get W-9 (extra income tax form - what I call internet taxes form).

Design Adsense will send you W-9 tax form because you work for them as contractor and yes there is certain amount of money that you have to get in order to get taxed.

Some say $600 which is normal rate for internet but yet this site www.adsensetaxes.com states $400

There is also some bad news. You may be subject to self-employment tax, if you made more than $400 your 1099-MISC. The current focus is on individuals, and not corporations or LLCs. Information for other business types and countries may be added later.

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Blog Comments Make For Some Good DesignWriting by Nick on Wednesday, 25 of July , 2007 at 4:25 pm

On July 10, Rose DesRochers wrote on her personal blog “World Outside my Window” about a new service that offers blog comments for sale. She evidently doesn’t like the idea.

She quotes a piece from the website’s copy and comments:

The new service ???Buy Blog Comments??? offers to leave spam comments at a rate of 100 comments for $19.99, 500 comments for $99.99 and 1000 comments for $199.99.

Aside from getting the price wrong - it’s $24.99 (although, in fairness to Rose, it is possible that Buyblogcomments has changed its price since Rose’s post) - Rose makes an interesting observation. She calls the comment ghostwriting service a peddler of spam, following the footsteps of Darren Rowse at ProBlogger. Darren goes so far as to challenge bloggers to take a hard stand against the practice and asks those of the legal community to offer opinions on the practice.

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Mapping Out Your WebsiteWriting by Nick on Wednesday, 25 of July , 2007 at 7:39 am

If you starting a new website there is one thing you need to think about that a lot of new webmasters don’t consider until they’ve built a few pages. You need to think about it before you build your first page. Next to the content on the pages and the design look and feel of the site itself, this is the most important thing. It’s site organization.

Some of the things you need to consider regarding site organization are:

How many columns you’ll have on the pageWhich column will the main page content be displayed onWhere will your navigation bar be locatedHow will site visitors contact youHow easy is it for site visitors to navigate your site (go from page to page)Will you include interactive features What can you do to ensure visitors stay on your site longer

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Social Media: Will It Ever Take Off?Writing by Nick on Tuesday, 24 of July , 2007 at 8:33 pm

(Andy Beal) This social media stuff will never catch-on, but just in case it does, here are the different flavors of Marketing Pilgrim.

Wait a minute. Did I read that right? Andy Beal doesn’t believe in social media? He has so many profiles for someone who doesn’t believe it will ever take off.

But the question isn’t so much will it ever take off, but when. Some people say it already has and others say never. I say the best is still yet to come. Social media isn’t dead. We’re just getting started. And just for the record, it does include blogging, which I think is just going to get better.

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Alan Rimm-Kaufmanhttp://www.rimmkaufman.com/ recently wrote an article about allowing your most profitable keywords to subsidize your less profitable ones. This strategy is obviously needed if you want to grow your business via search because you first have to create awareness before you create sales.

Paid search can also be used effectively as a branding and link building mechanism, and help reinforce your organic search rankings.

As the web gets more efficient, companies doing well in organic search will plow more of their organic search profits into paid search even if it loses money, so that they may lock out competition, maintain momentum and exposure, build a strong relationship with Design, minimize business risks, and support the ecosystem which provides their profit.

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All you have to do is look at all the spammy .edu pages that rank for stuff like ringtones and prescription drugs to know that if you have an authoritative site it does not take much to rank for competitive terms. It only took Matt Cutts one external citation with the associated anchor text to rank for buy cheap Viagra.

If you have a number of low quality sites on broad array of topics, or many online friends who are willing to help you with a link here or there, it is easy to make an authoritative site rank well enough to make deep into 5 or 6 figures a month from it.

This is why many of the best Designs forgo early profits to build domain authority, and create high value editorial channels with few ads on the same sites as commercial offers to subsidize the rankings of the lower value offer pages.

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