Auction 2 Post – Implement an Auction Countdown

June 19, 2009

If you don’t own Auction2Post or haven’t read my review of the Auction2Post Wordpress plugin. Please do so!
After buying Auction2Post I was pretty darn satisfied with my purchase. The support is great and the plugin in the best on the market. However as I outlined in my review of the plugin I felt it could [...]

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Auction 2 Post Review

June 18, 2009

eBay Monetization
As many of you know I have been building niche sites for years with a lot of success, particularly in the automotive industry, but somehow I have always strayed from the eBay monetization plan. I think it was laziness, stubbornness, and other excuses because I definitely knew about it and how great ebay has [...]

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Local Search and Website Copyrights

April 21, 2009

Sleepless Again
The majority of this post was written while my insomniac mind continues to mull over the MerchantCircle case. After about 45 minutes of laying in bed, sleepless I decided I might as well get my thoughts out here.
Wrong URL?
To be honest I find it puzzling how the wrong URL to many of these listings. [...]

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Instant Websites and Merchant Circle Questionable Practices

April 20, 2009
Merchant Circle Shadiness

Over the weekend I wrote how Merchant Circle was up to something shady. After doing more research it seems the rabbit hole goes deeper than expected.
Merchant Circle Instant Website
After BTS commented that these sites may have been generated via MerchantCircle’s "Instant Website" service. I began to probe deeper into [...]

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Merchant Circle Hijacking Local Business Listings

April 18, 2009
Rutt of Los Altos

Updated:
I have followed up on this post with Instant Websites and Merchant Circle Questionable Practices. Check it out.
This post outlines the finer points of the MerchantCircle issue in much better detail.

Revision
When writing this post I made some assumptions that may not be 100% accurate in the example of Rutt of Los Altos. I do [...]

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The Home Stretch

April 11, 2009

We are finally upon it. The finish of college is in my sights. I’m excited, nervous, but mostly anxious. Now is the time of life where the big questions start flying your way. What do I want to do? Where do I want to do it? All of these decisions will dramatically shape my life.
To-Do
Throughout [...]

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Tampa Wedding Photography

February 11, 2009

This past weekend I helped a friend of the family build a site which would make her photography business stand out. Her key concern was showing up in the search engines, which had previously over looked her all flash site.
There was no doubt in my mind, that flash was the problem. Her site was indexed [...]

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