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Art of Money | My New Home

February 25, 2006 by SMD · 2 Comments 

Hi Everyone,
I’ve begun to write stories on my brand new Wordpress driven site. It’s called Art of Money and I have to say I’ve very please to have made the move. Thinks are still a little bit rough as I’m a complete newb when it comes to Wordpress, but I have to say it is [...]

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Promotional Pens Outperform Internet Ads

February 21, 2006 by SMD · Leave a Comment 

There’s a very interesting study over at Maketing Serpa [which will only be available online for free until Feb. 24...sign up for their newsletter to get these articles delivered every week], which suggests that giving out tacky promotional pens may benefit the bottom line for your business more than buying ads on the web or [...]

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Fear of Girls & Wordpress Here I Come

February 20, 2006 by SMD · Leave a Comment 

I’ve finally made my decision to let go of this site, essentially to cut my losses [the most valuable investor's skill by the way] and to get a new domain and set up a shiny new wordpress blog.
The primary reason is the growing sense of limitation with my home made concoction of code. As any [...]

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Title Tag or Headline – SEO for Humans?

February 13, 2006 by SMD · Leave a Comment 

If you head over to SEOMoz.org you can check out their article on Search Engine Ranking factors. You’ll notice that the title tag is the highest rated factor [by an impressive panel of SEO gurus]. Based on my own experience this is probably a fact, although # of backlinks is certainly a biggie too.
But what [...]

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Why Google SEO is Hard

February 12, 2006 by SMD · 1 Comment 

This post is mostly about me just storing some SEO and keyword links so I can find them and refer back, but I’ll add some comments too.
Here’s a useful mash up that allows you to see the overture bid prices and the overture [over-inflated] search counts side by side for a given search. I’d prefer [...]

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I’m Fine With Being Rich and Clueless

February 9, 2006 by SMD · 3 Comments 

It’s been a tough day to be a Rich Dad loving geek!
First, I got this email [see below] then, while checking my logs I found this comment on a story which says some guy removed me from his blogroll because I called myself a “Rich Dad loving geek”…uh, why did he add my site in [...]

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I Wish Banks Were Budget Friendly

February 4, 2006 by SMD · 7 Comments 

I Wish Banks Were Budget Friendly
No, I’m not talking about lowering service charges and fees, although that would be nice too.
I’ve been working on a personal budget the last couple weeks and I’ve got all the accounts all set up. Of course I have the usual savings categories: “emergency fund”, “savings” and “retirement fund”. Then [...]

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