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When it comes to publicity, ShoeMoney knows best! He just started a contest to find someone who can outrank his own sites on the search keyword ’shoemoney’. This SEO contest has very simple rules. Anybody up for a challenge?

P.S. Just followed a commenter on that particular post and found Thor Schrock who gave away that ShoeMoney has 1200 domains. How many domains does ShoeMoney really have?

Just discovered a series by Dave Davies at BeanStalk about how to game the big 3 search engines and produce SEO results! The posts are basic but well written and discusses many activities that new webmasters can begin to implement. It’s well worth a (more…)

Webmasters fret about being in the search engine sandboxes. But after reading Bryan Veloso’s article about the importance of a development sandbox, it is relatable to view search engine sandboxes in the same vein. If you were running a niche blog, you needed that sandbox time to churn out a good amount of original content. If you were doing niche web, that sandbox period would allow set up of your site’s look and feel. Many people use templates, but better results can be obtained if you customize your content and layout to the click audience of your niche.

While Getting Out Of The Sandbox …
Don’t just worry about the product, this is also a marketing game! While you are in the sandbox, don’t forget to start working on getting ranked on search engines. You want your pages to rank high on (more…)