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Posts in March 2008

Gaming Twitter for Thousands Of Backlinks

Nickycakes started using twitter like a week ago, and already, the potential for using it to automatically build links to a site has become pretty obvious. A few things to note when trying to game twitter: Twitter has millions of indexed user feeds.  A simple search for site:twitter.com on google shows over 3 million. Writing [...]

In Soviet Russia, Content Scrapes YOU

Nickycakes was doing some Technorati “promotion” the other day and had a glance at the blog reactions for nickycakes.com. For those who don’t know about blog reactions, it’s technorati’s way of displaying inbound links from other blogs to yours. Showing up in the reactions were some links from some Russian speaking blogs with the same [...]

AffSpy: Epic Failboat

  Affspy launched it’s private beta last month at Affiliate Summit. The service was hyped by uberaffiliate in january, back when people still thought he posted useful information, so it had a little buzz going. But in the end, just like most overhyped services like izea ranks, blogrush, ttz media, agloco, etc, it’s just that, [...]

Twitter: How to Steal an Idea and Make it Better

Ok, a couple weeks ago, Nickycakes signed up and started using Twitter.  He was hesitant at first due to a few factors. Turnoff #1: shoemoney posted about it, which generally means it’s a crap service he’s been paid to promote Turnoff #2: nobody can really explain what twitter does, they just say to try it…no [...]

So What’s This Guy Really Promoting?

It happens time and time again.  Joe D-Bag decides he’s going to make an Internet Marketing blog, pretend to be some sort of guru, write a bunch of nonsense linkbait, and watch the sheep roll in and unwittingly subscribe for more nonsense.  But are they really “gurus” of anything? Or let’s say you’re getting pissed [...]