Town Hall Chat With Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO
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Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO, held a town hall chat with bloggers this evening. I clipped a few key points that were of interest to me (I think you can tell from the chat where I am focused), along with some Q&A from a few other […]
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Pulling together the Google penalty threads
Let’s tie the various posts I’ve written over the past few months together into some coherent form, shall we?
In October, I pointed out that using human reviewers to penalize websites for selling links was unfair, given that this is a highly subjective process that can’t possibly address all, or even a majority of link-sellers. One […]
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Should PayPerPost file an antitrust claim against Google?
Came across this article thanks to Digg: Could PayPerPost Have an Antitrust Case Against Google?
To think that an antitrust case isn’t part of the exit strategy at IZEA is probably naive. If Socialspark catches fire, there would probably not be any action. But, if theyre just treading water and burning cash, a lawsuit does two […]
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Are buyers of sponsored links set up for deals of the century?
Search Engine Roundtable continues to report that sites hit with Google’s PR penalty for sponsored links continue to pass link juice. While it is impossible to measure the value of the link juice being passed, buyers of sponsored links are supposedly not seeing corresponding drops in their PR.
Toolbar PR and internal-to-Google PR have always been […]
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Google’s Hypocrisy: The villagers are sharpening the knives
This was a good week for exposing the hypocrisy of Google and A-list bloggers!
You have Ron over at Linkworth doing some serious competitive research on how Google sells pagerank AND site reviews. I’m not going to steal his thunder, but the post is a follow up to his original post about Google selling pagerank. […]
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My Problem With RealRank
Disclosure: As of this writing, I have blogs ranked 736, 2648, 3283 in RealRank.
By now, anyone reading this post is interested enough in such matters that they already know what RealRank is, and why Izea/PPP has developed it. So, I won’t regurgitate too much.
The formula for RealRank is 70% traffic, 20% incoming links, and 10% […]
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PageRank vs. RealRank vs. Something Else?
So, I’ve been mute the past few days with regard to the latest monopolistic business practice by Google. To be honest, I was stunned that Google moved so dramatically against such a narrow segment of the blogosphere, ignoring the A-listers and their bogus “thanks to our sponsors” posts that provides SEO benefits to paying advertisers. […]
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Secret spy photo of Ted Murphy in Las Vegas
I hired paparazzi to stalk Ted Murphy in Las Vegas last week. I was ticked that I couldn’t afford to go, and really ticked that no one has processed my 3 outstanding customer service tickets nor answered a direct email to an unnamed PPP director while Ted was gone.
I guess the makeup folks at Rockstartup […]
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