Excerpt from Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO:

I really want to run Ubuntu, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Plugging in an SD card reader that I picked up from Best Buy shouldn’t cause a hard freeze of my system (on both Gutsy Gibbon and Intrepid Ibex):

The card reader works fine in Windows. At this [...]

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Excerpt from Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO:

I hadn’t looked at my browser marketshare in a while, so I fired up Google Analytics:

Rough browser numbers are

Firefox
57.58%

IE
26.07%

Safari
6.48%

Chrome
5.11%

Opera
2.35%

Mozilla
1.44%

SeaMonkey
0.48%

Mozilla Compatible
0.18%

Konqueror
0.13%

Camino
0.04%

OneStat says that they see 0.54% share for Google Chrome. Net Applications provides an hour-by-hour graph, which is nice, but they hardwired it to look for the string “Chrome [...]

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Excerpt from SEO Fast Start:

Podiatrist Todd Schafer reached out to me for help with a vexing problem today… although he has gone through all the steps, and jumped through all the hoops, to correct the physical address Google displays for his business, Google just can't seem to get it together.
As you can see in his [...]

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Excerpt from SEO Fast Start:

Stompernet member Jim MacKay has come up with a neat little plug-in to allow nofollow on individual links in Wordpress posts. In the WYSIWYG editor for posts, it adds a checkbox to the dialog box on the "insert link" button. There are other ways to do this, but Jim's plug-in looks [...]

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Excerpt from SEO Fast Start:

With all the pundits talking about how much money Barack Obama has raised and spent during the general election campaign, all the hubbub about his decision to opt out of public financing, etc. - I have wondered why so little talk about the right-wing money machine. You know, the organizations (including [...]

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Excerpt from StomperBlog:

Today, I want to talk to you a little bit about copywriting - an often
overlooked and undervalued part of your internet marketing arsenal.
Primarily, I want to give you a quick and easy set of guidelines that
should help you construct your messages so they CONNECT with
the reader on a deeper level, and MOTIVATE [...]

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Excerpt from StomperBlog:

So last week, I wrote an article about persuasion and copywriting
that was very well received, judging from the comments left where
it’s posted here on the StomperBlog.
In that article, I talked about the *devastating* One-Two Combo
of using EMOTION to sell your prospect on your offer, and using
LOGIC to provide justification for their emotional decision [...]

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Excerpt from StomperBlog:

Hello again!
If you did your homework, you’ve opted in at Mark Joyner’s site
to watch the 2 Joe Sugarman videos I told you about yesterday.
As promised, here’s my little “cheat sheet” of notes that will
help you break down and study Joe’s masterful presentation, and
hopefully use a couple of his tactics in your OWN marketing.
And [...]

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Excerpt from StomperBlog:

I hope that headline didn’t scare you too much.  I was mostly just
trying to arrest your attention, but you DO actually stand to lose
out if you don’t read this newsletter.
You will miss out on all the extra money your offers could be
bringing in if you learn to MASTER a little-understood
psychological phenomenon known as [...]

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Excerpt from StomperBlog:

Earlier this week, we ran a piece about how to use the human
tendency for “loss avoidance” to create compelling offers and
messages to your prospects.
We didn’t post it to the blog at that time, but it’s here now
if you missed it or want to make a comment.
Today’s newsletter is kind of a continuation on [...]

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