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This is going to be a short review because quite frankly Market Samurai is now an industry standard tool that is a must have for anybody either learning their online marketing trade or is a full time Internet marketer. From the time it came out a couple of years ago, heavily promoted by Ed Dale and the 30 Day Challenge team, it easily surpassed SEO Elite and Keyword Elite both in terms of ‘uncluttered’ functionality and eventually in terms of great support.

In fairness it took a while for the guys at Market Samurai to get their act together for product support and it was often a cause of great frustration

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So what makes the SEnuke Detonator service different from all the other guys promising you great result and a wad of cash?

There is more to writing a review than just listing the good points of a product to get an affiliate commission and that includes SEnuke Detonator. I am sure you will agree that online review sites are pretty worthless nowadays and it’s a bit sickening to see the review has been knocked up by the actual product owner and then sent out to affiliates to promote the product.

So let’s keep this real and I’ll tell you why SEnuke Detonator was a real choice for me to consider.

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Jonathan Leger’s “The Best Spinner”. Along with many others, I have been a beta tester for Jonathan Leger’s Best Spinner software for the past few weeks.

I doubt there is a paid or free content spinner I haven’t tried over the past few years and they are ALWAYS either embarrassingly simple, which makes them ineffective, or incredibly complicated which makes them really hard to use… and so we don’t! Another big issue with content spinners has always been the thesaurus which is the heart of any spinner.

The problem with a standard thesaurus is that combined with even the smallest amount of automation it will always churn out junk articles.

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Terry Dean is one of the very few real Gurus I listen to and have any respect for. In case you don’t know, Terry is one of THE founding entrepreneurs of the Internet marketing model for people who wanted to quit their day job and I believe he was the first to come up with the, now much copied, idea of giving great content away for free. Very innovative in it’s day.

I thought this insightful article was worth a mention and the original can be found at http://www.terrydean.org/5-predictions-for-2010/

Enjoy the post.

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I have never been a big fan of the guru induced hype surrounding social media and especially Twitter.

As usual it’s nothing but a money making scam. I’m not saying you can’t make the odd few bucks from Twitter by fooling other people into buying a “get rich with Twitter” product and take advantage of the hype, but as a sustainable online business with reliable recurring income the whole Twitter business model is a sham. And here’s the proof…

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I use CCleaner all the time. Windows, IE and Firefox are hungry disk space critters and take up a heap of hard drive space if not kept in check.

Being a power user I rack up a lot of junk very quickly in the form of cookies, temporary files and other obscure stuff that Windows thins we have to keep.

It is not uncommon for CCleaner to find 1000Mb+ of junk on my system and can delete it within seconds giving me back a more responsive machine. The registry cleaner is great, and makes backups in case something goes wrong, and I used to use it all the time until I purchased a Pro registry cleaner.

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The reason for this series of posts is the absurd number of Twitter eBooks, scripts and even monthly continuity memberships being sold, sometimes at an extortionate price. These either regurgitate information that is freely available and contains nothing new to justify the cost of the product, or some paid “system” which automatically creates hundreds of Twitter accounts. I’ll tell you exactly why having hundreds of these accounts can never work. On top of this, mass produced Private Label Rights Twitter products are being sold for literally a few bucks resulting in hundreds of products all with virtually the same scraped content.

If you have fallen for buying some $197 product which thinks getting 200 new followers a day is “mind-blowing-list-building-tactics” then it’s time for you to read Ade’s version of Life On The Twitternet which happens to be free.

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Whilst “gurus” are growing by their thousands every day on the Internet, True experts that really understand their craft are becoming becoming harder to find because of the guru smokescreen hiding them. If you haven’t heard of Dr. Glenn Livingston before then it’s worth signing up for his newsletter because this guy is as sharp as razor. See what he has to say on the latest Google Slap.

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Just about every PC user has personal files that they want to keep, well, personal. This is not just related to Grand Pa’s 1937 collection of “glamor” shots but more and more work is being brought back from the office and we don’t want the kids hitting the delete button or making changes to important documents when we are not looking because it’s their idea of a joke.

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Down And Dirty Internet Marketing Basics In 2009 Part 2

Continued from Down And Dirty Internet Marketing Basics In 2009 Part 1 so please read that first.

The ONLY Sure Fire Way To CRUSH Google, Twitter And Any Other Site

Well, not so much crush and dominate but rather respect and play by their rules. From a practical point of view it is more simple to learn what these powerful sites want and then work within their guidelines than it is to continually do battle with them and have your sites and articles deleted. It’s not difficult to write short, informative, non spammy articles for Wordpress, Weebly et al, which means your anchor text links stay intact and you can build some meaningful long lasting authority for your website.

Real blackhat stuff, (not the junk that people class as blackhat to perk your interest), is incredibly technical and takes a lot of testing and a mammoth effort to keep on top of ever changing search engine algorithms and policy. Having thousands of websites for testing is all in a days work for the blackhatters so, as mentioned in Part 1, you sure won’t buy the results of these strategies for a few bucks.

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It’s painful to see the state of Internet marketing today. Never before has the phrase “the blind leading the blind” been more appropriate than trying to build a business online right now. The present trend of frenzied product launches and scraped content spun hundreds of times, do nothing to give real value to consumers. The clever psychological spin leaves people dizzy with confusion and makes them question their own judgement. This post will show people once and for all how to stop being a foolish follower and turn themselves into thinking and profitable individuals.

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Is Peter Drew’s Bruteforce SEO a scam?

• Does Bruteforce SEO deliver the killer knockout punch as claimed?
• Is Brute Force really crawling with experts as claimed ready to boost your business to the next level?
• How does it compare to SENuke?

First off I have to say that what works for one is a nightmare for someone else and software of this complexity is always going to have issues because it’s battling the elements all the day – operating systems, servers, program changes and so on. So these are facts and are based on how things went for me personally.

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It’s always good to read solid information and opinions from people who walk the walk. Enjoy this post from Jerry West. Full link to website below.

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In November 2008, down in Las Vegas, there was a private session hosted by Brad Fallon, my boss at StomperNet, to showcase a system where you can make $100k a day in CPA Marketing.

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I have recently been looking into automated systems like Wordpress Direct and BruteForce SEO and I can’t shift my thinking from the fact that all these auto systems are really just Google Bait waiting to be devoured, passed through the system and excreted like junk food. OK, a bit extreme but you get my drift

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The recent publication of Sylvie Fortin’s Internet Marketing Sins 2 has led to a lot of people taking stock of how they do business online. To be honest I have been waiting for a response and the recent Pansy Report by Matt Bacak is as close as I have seen so far.

I received an email this morning from Frank Kern with the subject line “an open letter to the idiots”. The content was, as is usual from Frank, very concise and read:

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Way to go Sylvie.

You are one ballsy lady and you have my highest respect.

If Internet Marketing Sins Part 1 didn’t make people sit up and take notice they must be brain dead. Internet Marketing Sins Part 2 has changed up a gear. It is so powerfully down to Earth and honest it has to be the book of the year for 2008.

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A guest post from Terry Gibbs. I am on Terry’s mailing list and he always talks a lot of sense about eBay, marketing and life in general. This recent information on eBay and Terry’s thoughts is worthy reading.

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The Death of eBay Is Coming . . . And, I can’t wait.

I was originally going to call this article eBay 2010 and show you what eBay will look like in two years. But for two simple reasons I decided to use the death of eBay instead.

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Easy Google Ranking! Top Google Ranking For Dummies! The Google Ranking “Secret” is here!

I think most of us are immune to these hyped up headlines nowadays but for newbies who may stumble across this post and think “Wow”, here’s what it’s really all about.

It is no big deal getting ranked on the first page of Google anymore whether it takes you 5 minutes or 24 hours.

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Overview – John Reese emailed his list asking them to follow him on Twitter. Their personal choice is obviously yes or no. Nothing more complicated than that. Duncan Riley, who received the email blogged a “Pending Sign of the Twitter Apocalypse“ and Mark Hopkins responded with an attack on John on the Mashable blog Is Twitter Vulnerable to Marketer Attack?

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I just wanted to write this short post about an experience with my Maxtor OneTouch 500GB external hard drive which I use for backup purposes. It may help others doing a search for the same problem.

My PC is a Compaq running Vista Home Basic.

I installed the Maxtor drive with no problems and it was working just fine until Vista upgraded to Service Pack 1 automatically online.

I can’t remember the exact errors but when trying to save a text document the error message said the drive was corrupted and the file could not be saved. I also noticed that the file had deleted itself but luckily a backup had been made. (Thank you NoteTab Pro!)

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This has absolutely nothing to do with Internet marketing at all but I recently found myself explaining what a “butty” is, and of course the most famous Butty of all is the heart stopping Chip Butty.

Almost Extinct Like The Dodo and, as the art of making a great Chip Butty is, sadly, rapidly becoming a part of history due to our much more healthy lifestyles, I thought a post for posterity is in order so here it is.

What The… Firstly a thought just crossed my mind. What’s the point of the next few generations being a super healthy race of fitness freaks when the Earth is going to self destruct due to Global Warming by 2050?

To Look Forward To… Raising sea levels, glacier retreat, Arctic shrinkage,

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I have started receiving spam on a daily basis from a couple of Wowzza members and like most people I really detest spam.

It is difficult to find any excuse nowadays for sending out junk email because even the newest newbie is aware of spam and they know it is wrong and is a big No No on the Internet.

So, enter those pathetic individuals who think they’re “Oh so smart!”, and want to bypass all the rules to make money from their offensive spam emails. These people do not want to build a business that involves responsibility and customer support they just want the money from you now.

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It’s human nature to like free things. I love them – the more the better and let’s be honest, getting free stuff is a bit of fun.

I used to work in an industry that hands out freebies to it’s customers like cardboard hats, promo pens that didn’t work and other bits of nonsense. Most of this stuff I just used to throw straight in the bin to my staff’s horror. “Why don’t you give it away to the customers?”.

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I don’t often do reviews or even mention the product launches from the “big boys” mainly because I don’t believe that someone just starting out needs to spend $1,000 +++ per month to get to grips with Internet marketing. They can learn enough for next to nothing to make an informed decision about whether or not they want to start to build an online business.

The sales psychology from these guys is so intense and so powerful that many people ending up spending money they don’t have and I don’t want to be a part of that.

Anyhow, onto Shawn and Tellman…

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Yet again eBay makes another controversial decision when it decides to kick out all it’s sellers dealing in downloadable digital products.

This isn’t just about eBay getting rid of the crap eBooks, and we know there is a ton of those, but this actually hurts many hundreds of good honest people and businesses who have spent time and money building up a good service to repeat customers.

Lets take an overall look at what is happening and how we can fix it.

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