Rockyfied becomes an SEO Guide on WickedFire webmaster forum

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I have graciously been invited to be an official SEO guide on Wickedfire.com. Wickedfire.com is a webmaster forum that is in my opinion one of the coolest forums online. It has an edge, you can curse and although there are moderators it is a much more relaxed atmosphere then other webmaster forums.

I meet jon over at ASW accidently as our paths crossed when he asked me for a light for his smoke. After our brief meeting I had to ask him the hard questions at the power affiliate Q & A. Jon is one of the most ballsy guys I know.

I encourage my readers to check out wickedfire.com not just because of me but because you can learn a lot from this forum and meet some real quality contacts. This forum is also one of the leading forums on PPC arbitrage.

Also the wicked fire T-shirts are pretty ballsy.

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Mybloglog Boycott? Are you serious?

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I cannot believe that all of this is even possible in this day and age. Shoemoney posts mybloglog hacks and exploits. Eric gets pissed and bans Shoe and then major players in search boycott Mybloglog in hopes to get Shoe back into mybloglog. Eric apologizes and admits he is wrong.

WTF!!!!

Is the only reason Eric is apologizing because major players in search are NOT placing the mbl widget on their site? I mean perhaps he made a judgement call that was less then ideal but if eric made the decision to ban another blogger for the same reason instead of banning shoe would the blog community REALLY stand behind that blogger like they did Shoe? Probably NOT!

If this happend to an average blogger would industry professionals even care enough to post a “boycott”? I seriously doubt it! The fact that shoe has friends in high places makes his scope of influence much greater then any small time blogger. It makes me feel good inside to think that power players would make such an ordeal for the average joe but that is just not real life.

The only thing that the mybloglog boycott will accomplish is making eric unban shoe but at the very LEAST this whole ordeal has increased the popularity of mybloglog and in a month no one will remember this situation.

In my opinion both Shoe and Eric are in the wrong.

Shoe posted and promoted the use of hacks and exploits on mybloglog. After his posts hundreds of people would have manipulated mybloglog which is definitely a banable offense (if an average blogger did this and caused many people to hack mybloglog there would be NO question of a ban). It would have been good for him to email eric first and then make the post OR make his post but leave out the DETAILS on how to do it.

Eric, you should have never banned him unless you where going to stick to your guns. Now it looks like you can be pushed around.

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60 reasons why web host’s SUCK!!

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Have you had a bad experience with a web host? Most likely your reason is listed below. Web host can really screw you pretty hard and web hosting support can sometimes be worse then open heart surgery while you are still awake. I hate customer support teams.
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31 reasons why SEOs suck - 53 reasons why We Rock!

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Reasons Why SEOs SUCK

1.Some SEOs unnaturally alter digg rankings which cause you to get banned

2.Some SEOs use keyword stuffing to make you rank better but get you banned

3.Some SEOs use cloaking

4.Some SEOs take prepayment and give you no results

5.Some SEOs do spam email marketing

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Deep linking, when to do it and is it illegal?

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Deep linking has been a topic of interest for the longest time. There have been many litigations and court cases challenging free speach and copyright infringment associated with linking to internal pages. Read my article about Deep Linking at search marketing standard.

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Elite Retreat Interview with Aaron Wall

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My last installment of the Elite Retreat Interviews was with Aaron Wall of SEOBOOK.com. Aaron walls has officially been considered for the first ever  Rockyfied Award and speaking of rockyfied someone should add that to wikipedia and credit me for creating that word and the meaning behind it!

Thanks Aaron and good luck at Elite Retreat!

See interview here

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How to get banned from MyBlogLog

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I have been doing a lot of reading over at shoemoney.com about mybloglog hacks. Jeremy has been, in my opinion, helping mybloglog fix possible exploits but with all of the noise he has been causing I think they got a little upset and banned him from mybloglog.

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Elite Retreat interview with Kris Jones and Lee Dodd

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I am doing a series of post’s over at Blog.lunarpages.com about elite retreat speakers and how attendee’s will be able to take real world applications to problems they encounter while doing business online and apply them in today’s market place. The price tag for elite retreat definitely gives meaning to it being elite but my goal is to show people the worth behind a convention like this. Yes it cost’s around 5 grand to go to this convention but you have to look at what you are getting for this price. You are literally getting one on one consulting with industry leaders. Lets break it down like this.

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What the search industry leaders are doing for Valentines Day

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I created a special post today about SEO’s and valentines day with the help of many of the search engine optimization leaders today. These leaders where kind enough to let me and my viewers into their private life just a little bit and I really appreciate them being so candid. I posted this over at the worlds best hosting companies blog called blog.lunarpages.com. Some of the people giving there valentine’s day stories are as follows:

Danny Sullivan
Darren Rowse
Aaron Walls
Andrew Gerhart and more.

Thanks again everyone!!!

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Affiliate Marketing - Part 1-3 - Start making money with me this year

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I have been doing a series of blog post’s on affiliate marketing over at lunarpages. I got the itch to do them right before affiliate summit west and I have been continuing to do them to help not only the lunarpages affiliates but any reader of our blog to really get a grasp on how to be succesful with affiliate marketing. I have seen way to many people just sign up via CJ and put up a link and get nothing from it. It takes some skill, determination and some effort and I have been giving some advice on how to be succesful in affiliate marketing.

I wanted this blog series to go from inception to fully operating mega massive affiliate monster beast. The topics for each post have been as follows:

My first post was Affiliate Marketing - Part 1 - Why the heck are you not doing this.
I talk about what affiliate marketing is, how lucrative the business can be, I created a simple and essential Affilate Startup Kit and gave an outline for future posts.

My Second post was a bit more in depth and was titled Affiliate Marketing - Part 2 - Your path to becoming a super affiliate.
I spoke one on one with Jeremy Schoemaker and balanced his comments with how to pick the right affiliate, How to setup the right affiliate marketing strategy, How to start generating some sales and monetizing your site even more.

My third post was a very detailed post titled Affiliate Marketing - Part 3 - Driving Traffic and Testing your PPC campaign.
In this blog post I spoke candidly about what avenue’s to venture on besides SEO to gain traffic, Link Baiting, Optimizing landing pages and picking keywords for PPC campaigns and how to test them to make your campaign a success.

Granted these have not been a step by step guide (although that is in the works) but rather a series of instructions pointing my viewers, readers and clients in the right direction from my own experience and that of leading experts in the field.

I will be starting a research test within the next couple months lining out a specific guide and visible test for all my viewers so they can see a site from birth to super gigantic affiliate monster beast.

Stay tuned!

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