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What Your Website Says About You

I stumbled into a website at Wordle.net that creates word clouds based on a block of text or all blocks of text on your website.  Just for fun, I tried out this blog and found that it was pretty accurate as I tend to talk alot about SEO, Google and the Black Hat vs White [...]

2009 Must Have Applications For Our Business

I often get asked “What are the internet tools that you couldn’t live without for your business?”.  As an enterprenuer, I feel one of my strengths is to leverage avaiable technology into solutions for both my company and its’ clients. Here are a few examples: Dual Monitors – Running two monitors is no longer a [...]

Florida Gators Favored To Win BCS Championship

The Florida Gators are back in the National Championship game for the 2nd time in 3 years after beating the Alabama Crimson Tide and are rumored to be a 3 point ATS (Against The Spread) favorite against the Oklahoma Sooners. A quick look at the BCS standings shows that the human voters put Oklahoma and [...]

Internet Stock Watch

GOOG – Short interest high after job cuts on Nov 26th. http://seekingalpha.com/article/108133-google-short-interest-increases-on-job-cuts-news YHOO – Icahn increases Yahoo holdings. Stock up 8% today. http://seekingalpha.com/article/108350-icahn-swims-against-the-tide-increases-yahoo-holdings EBAY – http://seekingalpha.com/article/108333-opportunity-to-make-a-profit-on-ebay AKAM – Featured as a strong Under $10 Speculative Play OMTR – Up 25% in 5 days, but so is the whole market. http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:OMTR MSFT – Losing Ground to [...]

Fake Insurance Leads Cost $4,800,000

Here is a story to consider if you are thinking about buying leads from another website. MostChoice hired a contractor, Brandon Byrd, to submit falls leads to its site. Byrd purportedly worked up to 30 hours a week for over nine months, and then turned around and knowingly sold these leads to Netquote.com. While this [...]

Forbes Lookback – 8 Ways To Make Money Online

One year ago, Forbes published an article called “Eight Ways to Make Money Online”, here is a quick recap of their list: 1. Virtual Story (Ebay) 2. Matchmaking (Buyer & sellers) 3. Virtual Warehouse (Dropshipping) 4. Content Provider (Subscribers) 5. Content Provider (Advertising) 6. Domain Directory 7. Domain Flipping 8. Virtual Futures Market Full story [...]

Is FriendFeed A Twitter Competitor?

FriendFeed is a program that allows one to keep current with your friends’ or family’s shared files such as photos, videos, websites or music selections.  I decided to check it out this morning and was able to quickly setup an account at http://friendfeed.com/chuckaikens Once you using up for FriendFeed you can customize your feed with [...]

Are Google Results Affected By IP Address or Web History?

I have heard many times that Google delivers personalized results based on both your IP address and your web history.  While this may be true, it may not be statistically significant for a clients’ highest volume organic keywords. Let me share my findings from an hour or two of research today.  My process was to [...]