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WGHubris on February 19th, 2010

Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and [...]

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AT&T and Verizon have been going back and forth in their advertising lately regarding AT&T cell phone coverage and Verizon’s claims about it. If you missed it, the whole thing started with some television commercials in which Verizon showed AT&T’s coverage map compared to Verizon’s coverage map. The commercials were apparently effective, because not only [...]

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Update: It seems that Amazon is going out of its way to make me look foolish   Just kidding. Actually, just got an email update, partially excerpted below, from the Amazon Associates folks about a new way that the affiliate program will integrate directly with Twitter. Basically, it makes the rest of this post moot, [...]

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WGHubris on October 8th, 2009

Most companies not founded in the last five years, and those with a long-term eye on the future focus their branding efforts on differentiating themselves from the key words that describe their business, not the other way around like SEO demands. But, these companies managed to create search optimized brands without any SEO at all.

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Amazon announced a shift in the way it pays its affilitates, known as Amazon Associates, who send paid search results ad based traffice to its homepages.

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WGHubris on March 11th, 2009

How much SEO experience can someone legitimately claim? What about experience as an “industry leader” in SEO? Does anyone wonder about numbers that strain the possiblities of reality?

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How to raise your credit score, er…I mean, how can I raise my credit score.

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