Fast, Easy And Free Keyword Research Using Mind Maps

July 20, 2010

Look behind the curtains and see how I do my keyword research. If I were going to start a website about “lawn mowers”, the very first thing I would do is to take a look at what kind of lawn-mower-related keywords people are searching for using the Google Adwords External Keyword Tool. I usually start [...]

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Character Encoding and Insanity

July 7, 2010
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The graph below depicts the approximated correlation between the time I spend thinking about character encoding and my sanity. The correlation between my sanity and the amount of time I spend working on projects where “character encoding” plays a central role.

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Holdem Manager Affiliate Program

June 25, 2010
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After long, long time of waiting, Holdem Manger has started an affiliate program. Wuhu!! I haven’t been approved yet, so I don’t know what rates they offer, but since Holdem Manager is (arguably) the standard for pokertracking software, I figured that this would be relevant to your interests. Check out the Holdem Manager affiliate program.

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This Will Freak You Out: WhatTheInternetKnowsAboutYou.com

June 3, 2010
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There is no moral to this post – I just want to share some cool links and whitepapers. A little while ago “some people” got slightly annoyed that Google has started offering encrypted search. What this means to you is that your analytics software have no way of seeing where the visitors are coming from, [...]

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Maybe You Should Hire This Guy

May 29, 2010

Today I got a message on one of my YouTube accounts… I expected it to be more silly spam telling me how to make a gazillion dollars while simultaneously making my better endowed and invisible, but the title didn’t really fit: Confessions of a Not So Professional Poker Player. To my astonishment it turned out [...]

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Before Online Porn and Acaii Berries…

April 23, 2010

Apparently this is what the internet looked like before they figured out how to put porn and acaii berry ads on it.

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Shepherding for Fun and Profit

April 21, 2010
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Here is a nifty little trick for you all that I don’t remember seeing used on a poker affiliate site. You have probably noticed that a lot of TV series are using canned laughter, in an attempt to make people “think” that the series is more entertaining – I don’t like laugh tracks, but there [...]

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Interesting Fact about Google Checkout

April 4, 2010

I’v just learned something very fascination about Google Checkout… If your credit card has been used as a payment method on an Adwords account that gets suspended, you will not be able to use that card to purchase anything through Google Checkout. In addition the automated message you get from Google Checkout tell you that [...]

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Are You Young and Inexperienced?

March 16, 2010
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At a couple of occasions I have been talking with fairly young entrepreneurs, and one of the things that struck me as really odd were that one of the first things they told me were their age. If you are 17-19 years old and run a business, don’t tell people your age before you have [...]

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Get Niche Ideas with Flippa.com (Website Marketplace)

March 12, 2010
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Since the newly added Non Gaming Forum on PAL has been getting a bit of attention from people looking to diversify, I thought I would share a little trick for finding new niches. Flippa.com is a pretty big website marketplace – It is pretty much the equivalent of Ebay for websites. If you go to [...]

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