Dec 19 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

Quick Connect of Lincoln NE to redo SMG INC company website

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I have been meaning to redo my parent corporation Shoemoney Media Group INC website for a LONG time. It looks like total crap currently. I want something kind of flashy yet easy to navigate. I think this is a good test for a local company called Quick Connect.
They bid the job out at $3,000.00 [...]

Dec 15 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

$10,000 a day from Google Base

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DIGG IT
One week ago a friend hit me up on instant messanger. I have known this guy for a long long time. We used to make a lot of money together from porn affiliates while in college. We were doing about 2000$ a month and thought we were rich… well we were compared to [...]

Dec 14 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

Google is on the offensive with paid links

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Looks like the days of buying text links for pr and keyword value are over. Matt Cutts has made several public announcements about it in a few different blog posts and also some speaking events.
At pubcon I attended a session where experts talked about monitizing your blog. One the the premier people to speak [...]

Dec 14 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

Adsense search takes a leap forward

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As first reported this morning on JenSense - Google is now offering a branding free search option. This is a great step forward for Google search imo. Here is what the new search looks like-

Dec 12 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

The Office on NBC

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If you havent been watching The Office on NBC then you are really missing out on something. Thats really all I have to say about that.
Season 1 just came out also if you need a idea for last minute stocking stuffer

Dec 11 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

It all comes back to the domain name

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Everyone wants to know how to get traffic to their websites. Including me. Sure SERPS are great in the short term for spamword-spamword-spamword-spamword.com but its not going to last. When you do fall off the search engines is anyone going to remember your long ass name? If someone did remember your long domain name are [...]

Dec 11 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

Richard Pryor Dead At 65

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I normally dont write about this too off topic but I wanted to acknowledge the passing of Richard Pryor:
From the AP:
(AP) LOS ANGELES Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, died of a heart attack at age 65.
Pryor died shortly [...]

Dec 10 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

A great way to get word of mouth traffic

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One of my best secrets to get word of mouth traffic is to post a ad in the classifieds for hiring. Yes HIRING. You see if you place a advertisement it costs you TONS (usually 10x or more) yet if you make a post about a job position that you have open you [...]

Dec 10 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

Seo is dead

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When I was in San Jose last summer at the SES convention, I attended a session which dealt with contextual advertising. In the panel was Jason Calcanis and when asked about SEO he said to the audience that he thought “seo was dead”. I was pretty shocked to hear this self made [...]

Dec 9 2005
Jeremy Schoemaker

Chitika -Impulse clicks ok but not curiousity

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I noticed to day on Chitikas website that there company slogin is “Chitika, Inc. - The Leader in Impulse Merchandising”.
Geez I dont mean to constantly be raging on Chtika but with there recent issues with there removal of “curiousity clicks” and now auditing of accounts getting rid of “bad clicks”
I mean what they hell…..
so I [...]