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Comment on A First-Hand Expatriation Guide for Americans (IV) – How-to by Living On Dividends

Living On Dividends — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:06:27 +0000

Thank you. Not sure how that happened. But I went through and fixed them all. Thanks for letting me know.

Comment on A First-Hand Expatriation Guide for Americans (IV) – How-to by sapience

sapience — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:54:27 +0000

I enjoyed browsing your site, but I am not sure that u are aware that ALL OF YOUR LINKS ARE BROKEN for this page.

Comment on SEO Guerilla Marketing by Living On Dividends

Living On Dividends — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:01:16 +0000

He does seem to be doing great for himself these days with theoatmeal.com. It’s funny when family passes links to his content to me and they don’t even know this backstory. It’s just that viral.

RE how he launched the quizzes initially before they went viral, I know he posted the quizzes on the homepage of his first dating site, which was already receiving some traffic so people found them there initially before they spread like wildfire. I’m sure he did other promotions too, email, Twitter, etc, but I don’t know those specifics. That said, if you were to do this nowadays, it’d be even easier to get it going virally b/c you can leverage Facebook likes to spread it widely, some of these people will be bloggers, and then it’ll enter the blogosphere, which is where you want it.

Google slap is always a risk. But you don’t have to always include the link with the embed code you offer to visitors. If you want to start slowly, you could set up a PHP random function to only display the link in the embed code to X% of visitors, let the links build slowly, and gradually increase the % of times that you include the link with the embed code given to visitors. Building slowly is key. I go one step further and use a PHP random function to vary the anchor text too. The embedded content definitely needs to be related to your site one way or another. That’s the biggest mistake IMO.

It’s def a risk, but sometimes is worth taking. When Google dropped John Chow from the index for selling links, he just kept promoting and marketing his site. After a while, he and his brand became so well known that Google looked stupid for not show him in search results. And THAT is really what Google doesn’t want. They don’t want to look stupid. So they eventually made amends and re-included his site. So it’s always a risk. But if John hadn’t done it, would he be just another unknown IM wannabe? Probably.

Comment on SEO Guerilla Marketing by Andrew @ Cyber Sequencer

Andrew @ Cyber Sequencer — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:38:57 +0000

How was Matt able to get those quizzes initially in front of so many eyeballs if he didn’t spend any money? Did he post them on forums, send them to friends? That is the key piece of information missing from this awesome SEO tale.

I would think that even if someone could use this same strategy today with a brand new website, they would be punished by Google because of so many links in such a short period of time to a new website.

Interesting to see that Matt is now doing theoatmeal.com considering all of his funny quizzes.

Comment on Make Your Own Barcodes – The Lazy Man’s Guide by Living On Dividends

Living On Dividends — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:42:14 +0000

If you are selling your product in the states, a UPC (or ISBN if a book.). If you want to sell it at WalMart, then you have to get your own GS1 company prefix and a lot of barcode numbers–currently $760 for the initial membership fee + an annual renewal fee. (Frankly, this requirement of WalMart is entirely anti-competitive as it serves only to raise costs significantly for entrepreneurs and benefit established competitors. In my opinion, a wise attorney general would bring suit against WMT and Kroger to discontinue this anticompetitive requirement. It’s worth a call to WMT to make sure they haven’t changed this requirement. It’d be great if that were the case. But to my knowledge, the requirement to have your own company lot to sell your products at WalMart is still in place.)

Anyhow, you can start the process to get your UPC barcode here: http://www.gs1us.org/barcodes_and_ecom/i_need_a_u.p.c._barcode

Please, check back. And let me know how it goes!

Comment on Make Your Own Barcodes – The Lazy Man’s Guide by Bob Andolsek

Bob Andolsek — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:37:08 +0000

What type of barcode is required to sell a retail product to walmart that is imported from a manufacture and packaged in China? And what info is required, Ex. Company name, product description?

Comment on How to Install Magento Sample Data by Bugfree

Bugfree — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:53:31 +0000

Thanks alot,
it works, while every try to set up the database with the install tool failed!

Comment on SEO Guerilla Marketing by Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:44:31 +0000

Now THAT is creativity. You have to think ahead of the curve like that to win! Great article!

Comment on How to Install Magento Sample Data by Homem Robô

Homem Robô — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:56:58 +0000

I mean: admin AND home

Comment on How to Install Magento Sample Data by Homem Robô

Homem Robô — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:55:25 +0000

If you got 404 and can see the data on admin AND panel, then you must have to reindex your data. Go to Index Management and let magento rebuild your data for you.