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honestly , this is no better result than any other automatic article spinner program or website , and several of those are free .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999602	phase1_no_advertising
i don ' t see how age has anything to do with quality . it ' s more than possible that ' aged ' links - as you put it , can be less relevant and less accurate than newer links and pages .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.99943	phase1_no_advertising
totally agree . there ' s also a significantly higher learning curve due to the lack of resourceful material about it : ( for anyone who wants to get into the nitty gritty of producing something tangible - find a good mentor first ! it will save you hundreds of hours . also lold at the 90s throwback	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999392	phase1_no_advertising
also mailchimp has some pretty awesome stuff for fine tuning campaigns , both stats and tools like a / b testing and the like . also mailchimp is free below a certain list size	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999317	phase1_no_advertising
100 % agree with you . it ' s funny that there ' s been this movement going on among marketers and essentially it comes down to doing things right instead of trying to lay a band - aid on a problem . although doing things correctly is age - old wisdom , i feel like the seo - era definitely turned things upside down for a few years . thanks for the link .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999278	phase1_no_advertising
really though ? i thought paying for links was really outdated . do you have any resources for high quality paid links you would recommend ?	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999217	phase1_no_advertising
yeah webmaster tools is powerful but i don ' t always have access to a webmaster setup , content is sometimes on a dev or i ' m just taking a look at competitive sites . such tools really allow me to visualize content generation by removing the " presentation layer "	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999165	phase1_no_advertising
this makes sense . it ' s a third party website , so we don ' t have a lot of control over some things . if it wasn ' t for a very expensive tool that they supply , we wouldn ' t use them .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999124	phase1_no_advertising
thanks for cheapshark ! i wish they had an rss feed , but being able to see the actual prices of everything is a time saver .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.999012	phase1_no_advertising
wordpress have a really easy to use platform with some very powerful shop - plugins that work very well . . .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998995	phase1_no_advertising
not a mobile app but an extraordinary website that solves a huge problem that women face everyday .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998977	phase1_no_advertising
which is exactly why the only service i use that is " cloud " based is my email . everything else i would rather store locally , it is just far more reliable and flexible in how you use what you have bought .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998964	phase1_no_advertising
that ' s probably true about no one visiting the article sites ! unfortunately , i don ' t think blogs are a good option , either , mainly due to the particular industry we ' re in . . .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998943	phase1_no_advertising
thanks , they absolutely do , this is part of the reason i started my website ; so many useless tutorials !	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998931	phase1_no_advertising
ever try google website optimizer ? it ' s not as clean and easy as unbounded but it ' s powerful and free .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998927	phase1_no_advertising
great article . you can really tell a big difference between a un - experienced small business website , and someone that knows what they are doing . i personally have made huge changes to my website over the last 2 years that have made it look 100 times better , and all those changes were just included in that article . awesome .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998918	phase1_no_advertising
this is not something that you can complain about though . if they filter out sites that offer poor user experience , then you can only say that it is a good thing .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998905	phase1_no_advertising
[ til opencourseware movement has been far busier than i expected . there ' s a huge range of free higher education online . ] ( http : / / reddit . com / r / evolutionreddit / comments / uv7d0 / til _ opencourseware _ movement _ has _ been _ far _ busier / )	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998889	phase1_no_advertising
i completely agree . try using a really simple website cms like joomla or wordpress , they are both free , both open source , and will handle your site a lot better than your current look . just google , joomla or wordpress and you ' ll be a lot better off .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998855	phase1_no_advertising
you ' re right , a big benefit is definitely our lower prices compared to competitors , but also because we feel as though younger people can deliver insightful solutions for newer methods like mobile applications , social media use or design . it is here that we differentiate from our corporate ( and older ) competitor . but you bring up a valid point and one i will definitely look into . thanks !	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998844	phase1_no_advertising
& gt ; in my opinion it ' s just really a way for your competitor to see the keywords you are going after . isn ' t that somewhat easy to figure out anyways ? i mean i would imagine the best seo ' ers have their methods , but for the smaller niche site guys , it ' s going to be somewhat obvious .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998809	phase1_no_advertising
okay , pick your favorite crowdsourced design website then . the point is that throwing it out a design to a lot of people is much cheaper than working with a qualified professional . of course , cheaper comes with a cost . . .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998808	phase1_no_advertising
awesome website , my favorite part are the filters . filtering " steamworks " + " at least 75 % off " are deals that i ' m personally interested in .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.99877	phase1_no_advertising
not to mention the huge selection they all have . this site only has 4 different designs . . .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998744	phase1_no_advertising
awesome job . do you do this for a living ? that is some pretty impressive usability knowledge . . .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998732	phase1_no_advertising
actually , it ' s called responsive design . i ' m sure had you known what responsive design was you wouldn ' t call it bullshit but ignorance does terrible things to our judgement .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998726	phase1_no_advertising
ok , this is incredibly helpful , thanks for the info . many of our local clients could definitely get value out of the mapping functionality , but i still can ' t really justify it when several of our tools provide decent enough maps ( minus the customizations and layers which are admittedly very nice ) .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998725	phase1_no_advertising
except every site is very different ? ( which is one of the main reasons i love this field . )	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998677	phase1_no_advertising
i ' d also like to mention that links like this add diversity and a more natural element to your link profile . google still crawls the link and understands what is happening here .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998677	phase1_no_advertising
this is actually really cool ! i do the same thing this site is doing currently manually so this is really handy .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.9986	phase1_no_advertising
there is also this : http : / / pcgamingwiki . com / for all your gaming needs .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998566	phase1_no_advertising
raven tools has this form of automation , can be tricky to set up but is very handy indeed : ) also as mentioned advanced web ranking is freaking awesome . if you want more info pm me	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998545	phase1_no_advertising
agree 100 % . if you could knock sites down with crappy backlinks nobody would do seo they would just build shit links to all of their competition .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998498	phase1_no_advertising
here ' s another great post about [ competitor visualization ] ( http : / / searchnewscentral . com / 20120926353 / analytics / seo - competitive - analysis - to - go . html )	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998439	phase1_no_advertising
yeah a few other people have mentioned this as well . i didn ' t know they had this until you guys mentioned it . i downloaded the free version and i must say they give a ton of useful information . they seem to have done an excellent job .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998437	phase1_no_advertising
i wonder why an index like mozscape doesn ' t have some link building features like this . they brag about their giant index , but only offer metrics . i don ' t want metrics , i want to search your index .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998429	phase1_no_advertising
it ' s more than just that . steam also gives you automatic updates , and allows you to verify files ( i found this very helpful many times , for various reasons ) .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998426	phase1_no_advertising
are there any good free resources to learn these little tricks and how to actually use the tools available ? i feel like there is a lot i ' m not using and have no idea how i ' d use it or why .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998423	phase1_no_advertising
that ' s incredible , thanks for sharing it . i didn ' t know about this service .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998411	phase1_no_advertising
have you compared this to other online vendors ? what aspects do you prefer in outright ? thanks !	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998404	phase1_no_advertising
the problem i find with coupons . com is organiztion . they are getting better but for the longest time it was hard to find the coupons you wanted . there is no search function so you would have to sort through a lot of pages to find the good ones .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998395	phase1_no_advertising
totally agreed , it ' s about marketing effectively online ( mobile included ) and having a presence when someone looks for your business . but " local seo " is still quite a niche , however , especially when understanding the nuances of google and bing places , listings on local apps , iyps , that sort of thing . the concept of " fixing seo " drives my batty - unless it means clean up after someone who was looking for fast ranking was up to some no good .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.99837	phase1_no_advertising
yeah , i used torchleech , i knew it wasnt maintained well anymore , didnt know name of new one . and yes , they both make installing mods as painless as it can possibly be . makes most mod managers feel clunky .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998358	phase1_no_advertising
this is much more comprehensive than the [ steam faq ] ( https : / / support . steampowered . com / kb _ article . php ? ref = 7480 - wusf - 3601 ) . it ' s a shame ( and rather silly ) that steam seems to be unable to put together something like this that ' s sortable and searchable .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998344	phase1_no_advertising
very helpful knowledge you have shared here thanks for being there . http : / / searchenginerulesviolation . wordpress . com /	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998325	phase1_no_advertising
i fully agree . in my experience the designers on these crowd sourcing sites either deliver clipart level garbage , or simple plagiarism of other logos . if you ' re really intent on cheap , hire a student ( after seeing their portfolio of course ) . ( side note : don ' t make logos in photoshop . logos should always be vector , not raster . )	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998309	phase1_no_advertising
i totally agree . also that website appears to also complain without offering good counterarguments . i mean , when there is a budget , i go local . when the budget is a few hundred or nothing , 99designs is better than nothing .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998302	phase1_no_advertising
thanks for the resource . any ebooks you liked in particular ? i know it ' s all personal preference , just wandering if there were any super high quality courses you ' d recommend .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998299	phase1_no_advertising
can you please explain the part about makes it easy to scrape the site . my assumption would be that it is easier with the compete url .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998238	phase1_no_advertising
raven seo tools are pretty fraking rad . platform is awesome , and they blog frequently with good information . here ' s a post i did about them this morning . http : / / footinmouthdisease . net / 2012 / 02 / 09 / quoth - the - raven - seo - tools - nevermore /	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998219	phase1_no_advertising
agreed . i have customers asking o pick up product to make things easier but it is actually a whole new game when you have to set up a brick and mortar store , hire cashiers , pay utilities , etc . online is the way to go . and in the end , the customer saves money through online sales compared to brick and mortar .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998212	phase1_no_advertising
but i ' m subscribed to many newsletters which don ' t have that . a good portion of them are actually marketing / web design professional bloggers , so do you have any idea how they manage to do it ?	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998206	phase1_no_advertising
pretty awesome site ! unfortunately the coupon code expired . i ' m going to be trying these out though .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998198	phase1_no_advertising
in fairness though , the only index that ever really matters is google ' s , and you ' ll never get that and soooo most backlink checkers are only going to be with a certain degree of accuracy , but this appears free . so that ' s pretty baller .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998193	phase1_no_advertising
i believe that they should improve that though , since their competitors do it now and it is a really nice feature .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998186	phase1_no_advertising
i personally find rss to be a dying technology . for me , facebook has replaced rss in that i just like whatever i want to follow . most blogs i follow don ' t have unique content on facebook vs . rss so it ' s easy to replace . plus , i get to see friends updates in the same feed .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998181	phase1_no_advertising
i ' ve found that heading to blogs . com and searching for marketing blogs is much better than books . yes , i have ready many books but there are a million bloggers who summarise the good points and save me the time .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998174	phase1_no_advertising
this is indeed useful as long as it isn ' t just a plug for a blog website .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998165	phase1_no_advertising
yeah man , i ' ve dealt with this gentleman and his website before , he ' s a really helpful guy with excellent customer service skills !	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998144	phase1_no_advertising
this guy has a point . i know that web = / = computer service , but to many customers ( the kind who refer to the internet as the google ) a computer service company with a broken / bad website is a bad choice . websites are like quality previews ( in my opinion )	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998137	phase1_no_advertising
yup , it ' s entirely homemade . i know that using wordpress would be easier , but i don ' t really like building the core product on top of a third party system . i know you can customize wordpress however you want , but i prefer starting from scratch so that i ' m not influenced by someone else ' s decisions .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998128	phase1_no_advertising
it ' s also supports gigabit lan , which is very useful for stuff like lan parties .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998117	phase1_no_advertising
interesting insight . though haven ' t business already shown they would be interested in systems like this ? for example barnes and noble has computer kiosks which shows you a map of the store and book location . granted their system is pretty bad , but i think there are parties who would be interested . as far as consumers go , they get the benefit of fast search and navigation time as well as less frustration . at least that ' s the way i ' ve been thinking about it . cheers .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998097	phase1_no_advertising
thanks for this . i use ifbyphone . com , they do pretty much the same thing but i ' ll have to check pricing and see which one works out better for me . thanks for sharing this .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998085	phase1_no_advertising
here ' s my question beer goggles , and i don ' t mean this in a negative way at all . . . but how do you know that that the 360 has more people ? i understand that there are more 360 gamers out there , but is there any kind of site out there that shows who is playing what on 360 ala steam ' s online user breakdown ?	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998081	phase1_no_advertising
wow , this was great . thanks for this . i ' m going to try his exact methods on a few new sites i ' m going to make and see how it works .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998074	phase1_no_advertising
i think the research tools are useful when you ' re doing building a new site and starting from scratch . once i got everything going & amp ; functioning correctly , i cancelled the subscription . the best value imho is the quesiton & amp ; answer forum but that alone is not worth 99 / month	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998055	phase1_no_advertising
there are also really simple ways to do ads , look at pigeonsandplanes . com & amp ; goodmusicallday . com . i frequent those " indie " blogs , and it seems like they have the best mix of ads and material . mostly because they know their demographic as well .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998037	phase1_no_advertising
so glad to see it ' s still being used . that site got me through my design classes in college .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998033	phase1_no_advertising
i ' ve been thinking a lot about these type of sites lately . would you be willing to share more about the type of site and your methods ? i understand if you are not able or willing , of course .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998019	phase1_no_advertising
that ' s good to know . i suppose i haven ' t used their service for about 2 years , and i probably didn ' t use it " properly " in the first place . i never really made the effort to link any blog posts or anything like that back to it , and i was never very aggressive about keeping it up - to - date . maybe i should give it another shot . thanks for the info !	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998014	phase1_no_advertising
it is amazing ! even back when i was doing this method many suppliers sent me their " brochures " and information on physical cds and papers . i am sure they are all over to the digital option by now : ) it is incredibly easy to get started , the trick is getting started and not just thinking about what it would be like to get started . at least that ' s my problem nowadays . . . thanks for reading !	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.998005	phase1_no_advertising
the small city i ' m in does this through their business improvement district , highlighting bid businesses ( for a fee ) with a really easy to read map of the district . works really well and yes , it ' s better than google maps in this use case . lots of older tourists who don ' t use their smart phones without cursing at them and a city population that ' s much lower than average on tech adoption .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997981	phase1_no_advertising
they are one of my go to places when i am searching up a place to help me with my house repairs . i paid to get in and search their site , but the cost was well worth the info the users post . . . they even post how much they paid and for what it was .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997969	phase1_no_advertising
why not build this into the site ? many open source ecommerce packages have this functionality out of the box .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.99796	phase1_no_advertising
of course , it ' s called [ steam depressurizer ] ( http : / / code . google . com / p / depressurizer / ) and it ' s open source and pretty handy . can ' t overcome some of the more built - in problems with steam sorting , but it sure as hell makes sorting a lot easier . i used it after steam inexplicably lost my sort settings a few months back and it worked well . i ' ll probably give it another shot soon .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997957	phase1_no_advertising
does this tool actually work ? their website seems to be some kind of cracked apps link ?	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997955	phase1_no_advertising
i was about to come post the same thing . it ' s useful , but there are also plenty of online tools ( seomoz , majestic , etc . ) that have the same or similar functionality .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.99795	phase1_no_advertising
aha , that makes sense ! and how big is the trade - off do you think ? it seems you could save a lot of time and nerves building links just to the homepage rather than homepage , blog , etc , etc . . .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997944	phase1_no_advertising
thanks for the response . that begs the question though , how do you determine " better " and " smarter " when so many vendors do similar things ?	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997912	phase1_no_advertising
great find ! www . skilldup . com has a ton of free and paid biz and entrepreneur courses as well . . http : / / courses . skilledup . com / entrepreneurship ? per _ page = 5 http : / / courses . skilledup . com / business ? per _ page = 5 skilledup basically pulls in all the existing courses out there on the internet and puts them in one convenient place	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997876	phase1_no_advertising
no kidding , that ' s a really good point - - you don ' t have control over the search terms and they will be suggested for you based on your item description and tags . i ' ve been pretty happy with the search terms i got , but i ' ve got a whole shop of one type of item , so it was really easy to get a good selection . i did notice that keywords were added to my options as i tweaked my tags over the last couple weeks .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997868	phase1_no_advertising
in a way , these are quite brilliant . these " companies " are battling banner blindness - at this point , our eyes and brain are incredibly adept at ignoring banner ads , and these designs are a reaction to that reality . they are chasing click - rates and are probably pretty good at it ; their conversion rates are probably another story .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.99785	phase1_no_advertising
what tools are you talking about ? i ' m currently using dreamweaver to help design the site but it is very confusing	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997844	phase1_no_advertising
sounds cool man . and i appreciate your background info . i ' m a pretty technical person also but to some degree it ' s just necessary these days to differentiate on a lot of different levels other than the product features or benefits . if you ' re interested , check out this article i wrote and had published on under30ceo . it ' s about branding and how " price , quality , and service " just don ' t ' cut it ' anymore for modern - day consumers . goodl uck !	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997842	phase1_no_advertising
great post . seo isnt an exact science . nothing frustrates me more then people who preach white hat marketing when there is no such thing as white hat marketing . i ' ve spent tens of thousands doing seo and i ' ve ranked sites off fiverr gigs .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997839	phase1_no_advertising
this right here is why i use paypal . i have very little trust on how smaller websites use / store my credit card information so paypal is perfect .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997833	phase1_no_advertising
webfaction can ' t be beat for the price . their support is top notch .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997828	phase1_no_advertising
i ' ve seen some wix websites and they ' re awful . although i haven ' t used their services myself so it might just be people not using wix to its full potential .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997816	phase1_no_advertising
hey that is a great perspective . thank you for taking the time to post that . when you say a referral system , have you seen any businesses use them effectively ?	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997766	phase1_no_advertising
i totally agree . however the " this is awesome " comments are more likely to be upvoted than the " this is crap " ones . not that this is important , but it always disturbs me when someone is downvoted while nobody is proving him wrong . ( this one is not important , anyway , but when you take time to give an informative answer , and one or two assholes are downvoting , you ' d like to know why )	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997752	phase1_no_advertising
except most of the time they don ' t even point to the right page for greenmangaming deals ( missing - na ) at the end for north americans and the prices are off . other then that it ' s a good site .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997743	phase1_no_advertising
not to mention yelp is free . it ' s also free to google any business .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997696	phase1_no_advertising
& gt ; " well , shit , maybe you should have paid attention to this super simple thing called dropbox , which did what you do but way better " . nah , if you ' re getting your big ideas from your competitors , you might as well fold up shop . to the extent that box failed \ * , they failed by not figuring out the usability problem on their own . \ * they seem to be doing alright	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997694	phase1_no_advertising
i find the layout / design of this site ridiculously overwhelming . . . but thanks for the info .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.99769	phase1_no_advertising
quality is not really that important , as you ' ve observed . you should start doing more reverse engineering on websites to see what actually works and not listen to the false seo prophets posting around the internet . also advertisers primarily use adsense which pays based on clicks , not pay individual websites for their ads , no matter how much traffic they get from it . it ' s a bad model .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997677	phase1_no_advertising
this was delightfully helpful . thanks for that . i always look for the quick positives and negatives when looking at steam games but can never seem to find them .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997662	phase1_no_advertising
thank you ! ! we haven ' t really thought much about the tagging system , which i ' m starting to understand is pretty vital . as for the blogs , do you have any diy blog recommendations ? * edit : your work is gorgeous .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997657	phase1_no_advertising
thank ! i totally agree , and i have found success with the same strategy . at my current job , i ' m given a lot clients that have low quality sites and small budgets . paid links are the most effective in the short run for these websites , but i prefer to take my time and give them quality natural links and a nice website .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997656	phase1_no_advertising
well i am glad that your site has improved . but honestly this is not the norm . most searches produce straight garbage mixed with national brands . that is the norm right now , not quality . this may be what google is going after . but it definitely is not a better user experience .	No Advertising: Spam, referral links, unsolicited advertising, and promotional content are not allowed.	0.997622	phase1_no_advertising

honestly , this is no better result than any other automatic article spinner program or website , and several of those are free .

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i don ' t see how age has anything to do with quality . it ' s more than possible that ' aged ' links - as you put it , can be less relevant and less accurate than newer links and pages .

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totally agree . there ' s also a significantly higher learning curve due to the lack of resourceful material about it : ( for anyone who wants to get into the nitty gritty of producing something tangible - find a good mentor first ! it will save you hundreds of hours . also lold at the 90s throwback

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also mailchimp has some pretty awesome stuff for fine tuning campaigns , both stats and tools like a / b testing and the like . also mailchimp is free below a certain list size

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100 % agree with you . it ' s funny that there ' s been this movement going on among marketers and essentially it comes down to doing things right instead of trying to lay a band - aid on a problem . although doing things correctly is age - old wisdom , i feel like the seo - era definitely turned things upside down for a few years . thanks for the link .

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really though ? i thought paying for links was really outdated . do you have any resources for high quality paid links you would recommend ?

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yeah webmaster tools is powerful but i don ' t always have access to a webmaster setup , content is sometimes on a dev or i ' m just taking a look at competitive sites . such tools really allow me to visualize content generation by removing the " presentation layer "

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this makes sense . it ' s a third party website , so we don ' t have a lot of control over some things . if it wasn ' t for a very expensive tool that they supply , we wouldn ' t use them .

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thanks for cheapshark ! i wish they had an rss feed , but being able to see the actual prices of everything is a time saver .

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wordpress have a really easy to use platform with some very powerful shop - plugins that work very well . . .

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not a mobile app but an extraordinary website that solves a huge problem that women face everyday .

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which is exactly why the only service i use that is " cloud " based is my email . everything else i would rather store locally , it is just far more reliable and flexible in how you use what you have bought .

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that ' s probably true about no one visiting the article sites ! unfortunately , i don ' t think blogs are a good option , either , mainly due to the particular industry we ' re in . . .

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thanks , they absolutely do , this is part of the reason i started my website ; so many useless tutorials !

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ever try google website optimizer ? it ' s not as clean and easy as unbounded but it ' s powerful and free .

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great article . you can really tell a big difference between a un - experienced small business website , and someone that knows what they are doing . i personally have made huge changes to my website over the last 2 years that have made it look 100 times better , and all those changes were just included in that article . awesome .

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this is not something that you can complain about though . if they filter out sites that offer poor user experience , then you can only say that it is a good thing .

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[ til opencourseware movement has been far busier than i expected . there ' s a huge range of free higher education online . ] ( http : / / reddit . com / r / evolutionreddit / comments / uv7d0 / til _ opencourseware _ movement _ has _ been _ far _ busier / )

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i completely agree . try using a really simple website cms like joomla or wordpress , they are both free , both open source , and will handle your site a lot better than your current look . just google , joomla or wordpress and you ' ll be a lot better off .

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you ' re right , a big benefit is definitely our lower prices compared to competitors , but also because we feel as though younger people can deliver insightful solutions for newer methods like mobile applications , social media use or design . it is here that we differentiate from our corporate ( and older ) competitor . but you bring up a valid point and one i will definitely look into . thanks !

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& gt ; in my opinion it ' s just really a way for your competitor to see the keywords you are going after . isn ' t that somewhat easy to figure out anyways ? i mean i would imagine the best seo ' ers have their methods , but for the smaller niche site guys , it ' s going to be somewhat obvious .

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okay , pick your favorite crowdsourced design website then . the point is that throwing it out a design to a lot of people is much cheaper than working with a qualified professional . of course , cheaper comes with a cost . . .

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awesome website , my favorite part are the filters . filtering " steamworks " + " at least 75 % off " are deals that i ' m personally interested in .

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not to mention the huge selection they all have . this site only has 4 different designs . . .

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awesome job . do you do this for a living ? that is some pretty impressive usability knowledge . . .

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actually , it ' s called responsive design . i ' m sure had you known what responsive design was you wouldn ' t call it bullshit but ignorance does terrible things to our judgement .

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ok , this is incredibly helpful , thanks for the info . many of our local clients could definitely get value out of the mapping functionality , but i still can ' t really justify it when several of our tools provide decent enough maps ( minus the customizations and layers which are admittedly very nice ) .

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except every site is very different ? ( which is one of the main reasons i love this field . )

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i ' d also like to mention that links like this add diversity and a more natural element to your link profile . google still crawls the link and understands what is happening here .

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this is actually really cool ! i do the same thing this site is doing currently manually so this is really handy .

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there is also this : http : / / pcgamingwiki . com / for all your gaming needs .

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raven tools has this form of automation , can be tricky to set up but is very handy indeed : ) also as mentioned advanced web ranking is freaking awesome . if you want more info pm me

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agree 100 % . if you could knock sites down with crappy backlinks nobody would do seo they would just build shit links to all of their competition .

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here ' s another great post about [ competitor visualization ] ( http : / / searchnewscentral . com / 20120926353 / analytics / seo - competitive - analysis - to - go . html )

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yeah a few other people have mentioned this as well . i didn ' t know they had this until you guys mentioned it . i downloaded the free version and i must say they give a ton of useful information . they seem to have done an excellent job .

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i wonder why an index like mozscape doesn ' t have some link building features like this . they brag about their giant index , but only offer metrics . i don ' t want metrics , i want to search your index .

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it ' s more than just that . steam also gives you automatic updates , and allows you to verify files ( i found this very helpful many times , for various reasons ) .

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are there any good free resources to learn these little tricks and how to actually use the tools available ? i feel like there is a lot i ' m not using and have no idea how i ' d use it or why .

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that ' s incredible , thanks for sharing it . i didn ' t know about this service .

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have you compared this to other online vendors ? what aspects do you prefer in outright ? thanks !

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the problem i find with coupons . com is organiztion . they are getting better but for the longest time it was hard to find the coupons you wanted . there is no search function so you would have to sort through a lot of pages to find the good ones .

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totally agreed , it ' s about marketing effectively online ( mobile included ) and having a presence when someone looks for your business . but " local seo " is still quite a niche , however , especially when understanding the nuances of google and bing places , listings on local apps , iyps , that sort of thing . the concept of " fixing seo " drives my batty - unless it means clean up after someone who was looking for fast ranking was up to some no good .

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yeah , i used torchleech , i knew it wasnt maintained well anymore , didnt know name of new one . and yes , they both make installing mods as painless as it can possibly be . makes most mod managers feel clunky .

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this is much more comprehensive than the [ steam faq ] ( https : / / support . steampowered . com / kb _ article . php ? ref = 7480 - wusf - 3601 ) . it ' s a shame ( and rather silly ) that steam seems to be unable to put together something like this that ' s sortable and searchable .

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very helpful knowledge you have shared here thanks for being there . http : / / searchenginerulesviolation . wordpress . com /

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i fully agree . in my experience the designers on these crowd sourcing sites either deliver clipart level garbage , or simple plagiarism of other logos . if you ' re really intent on cheap , hire a student ( after seeing their portfolio of course ) . ( side note : don ' t make logos in photoshop . logos should always be vector , not raster . )

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i totally agree . also that website appears to also complain without offering good counterarguments . i mean , when there is a budget , i go local . when the budget is a few hundred or nothing , 99designs is better than nothing .

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thanks for the resource . any ebooks you liked in particular ? i know it ' s all personal preference , just wandering if there were any super high quality courses you ' d recommend .

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can you please explain the part about makes it easy to scrape the site . my assumption would be that it is easier with the compete url .

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raven seo tools are pretty fraking rad . platform is awesome , and they blog frequently with good information . here ' s a post i did about them this morning . http : / / footinmouthdisease . net / 2012 / 02 / 09 / quoth - the - raven - seo - tools - nevermore /

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agreed . i have customers asking o pick up product to make things easier but it is actually a whole new game when you have to set up a brick and mortar store , hire cashiers , pay utilities , etc . online is the way to go . and in the end , the customer saves money through online sales compared to brick and mortar .

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but i ' m subscribed to many newsletters which don ' t have that . a good portion of them are actually marketing / web design professional bloggers , so do you have any idea how they manage to do it ?

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pretty awesome site ! unfortunately the coupon code expired . i ' m going to be trying these out though .

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in fairness though , the only index that ever really matters is google ' s , and you ' ll never get that and soooo most backlink checkers are only going to be with a certain degree of accuracy , but this appears free . so that ' s pretty baller .

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i believe that they should improve that though , since their competitors do it now and it is a really nice feature .

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i personally find rss to be a dying technology . for me , facebook has replaced rss in that i just like whatever i want to follow . most blogs i follow don ' t have unique content on facebook vs . rss so it ' s easy to replace . plus , i get to see friends updates in the same feed .

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i ' ve found that heading to blogs . com and searching for marketing blogs is much better than books . yes , i have ready many books but there are a million bloggers who summarise the good points and save me the time .

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this is indeed useful as long as it isn ' t just a plug for a blog website .

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yeah man , i ' ve dealt with this gentleman and his website before , he ' s a really helpful guy with excellent customer service skills !

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this guy has a point . i know that web = / = computer service , but to many customers ( the kind who refer to the internet as the google ) a computer service company with a broken / bad website is a bad choice . websites are like quality previews ( in my opinion )

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yup , it ' s entirely homemade . i know that using wordpress would be easier , but i don ' t really like building the core product on top of a third party system . i know you can customize wordpress however you want , but i prefer starting from scratch so that i ' m not influenced by someone else ' s decisions .

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it ' s also supports gigabit lan , which is very useful for stuff like lan parties .

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interesting insight . though haven ' t business already shown they would be interested in systems like this ? for example barnes and noble has computer kiosks which shows you a map of the store and book location . granted their system is pretty bad , but i think there are parties who would be interested . as far as consumers go , they get the benefit of fast search and navigation time as well as less frustration . at least that ' s the way i ' ve been thinking about it . cheers .

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thanks for this . i use ifbyphone . com , they do pretty much the same thing but i ' ll have to check pricing and see which one works out better for me . thanks for sharing this .

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here ' s my question beer goggles , and i don ' t mean this in a negative way at all . . . but how do you know that that the 360 has more people ? i understand that there are more 360 gamers out there , but is there any kind of site out there that shows who is playing what on 360 ala steam ' s online user breakdown ?

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wow , this was great . thanks for this . i ' m going to try his exact methods on a few new sites i ' m going to make and see how it works .

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i think the research tools are useful when you ' re doing building a new site and starting from scratch . once i got everything going & amp ; functioning correctly , i cancelled the subscription . the best value imho is the quesiton & amp ; answer forum but that alone is not worth 99 / month

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there are also really simple ways to do ads , look at pigeonsandplanes . com & amp ; goodmusicallday . com . i frequent those " indie " blogs , and it seems like they have the best mix of ads and material . mostly because they know their demographic as well .

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so glad to see it ' s still being used . that site got me through my design classes in college .

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i ' ve been thinking a lot about these type of sites lately . would you be willing to share more about the type of site and your methods ? i understand if you are not able or willing , of course .

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that ' s good to know . i suppose i haven ' t used their service for about 2 years , and i probably didn ' t use it " properly " in the first place . i never really made the effort to link any blog posts or anything like that back to it , and i was never very aggressive about keeping it up - to - date . maybe i should give it another shot . thanks for the info !

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it is amazing ! even back when i was doing this method many suppliers sent me their " brochures " and information on physical cds and papers . i am sure they are all over to the digital option by now : ) it is incredibly easy to get started , the trick is getting started and not just thinking about what it would be like to get started . at least that ' s my problem nowadays . . . thanks for reading !

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the small city i ' m in does this through their business improvement district , highlighting bid businesses ( for a fee ) with a really easy to read map of the district . works really well and yes , it ' s better than google maps in this use case . lots of older tourists who don ' t use their smart phones without cursing at them and a city population that ' s much lower than average on tech adoption .

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they are one of my go to places when i am searching up a place to help me with my house repairs . i paid to get in and search their site , but the cost was well worth the info the users post . . . they even post how much they paid and for what it was .

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why not build this into the site ? many open source ecommerce packages have this functionality out of the box .

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of course , it ' s called [ steam depressurizer ] ( http : / / code . google . com / p / depressurizer / ) and it ' s open source and pretty handy . can ' t overcome some of the more built - in problems with steam sorting , but it sure as hell makes sorting a lot easier . i used it after steam inexplicably lost my sort settings a few months back and it worked well . i ' ll probably give it another shot soon .

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does this tool actually work ? their website seems to be some kind of cracked apps link ?

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i was about to come post the same thing . it ' s useful , but there are also plenty of online tools ( seomoz , majestic , etc . ) that have the same or similar functionality .

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aha , that makes sense ! and how big is the trade - off do you think ? it seems you could save a lot of time and nerves building links just to the homepage rather than homepage , blog , etc , etc . . .

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thanks for the response . that begs the question though , how do you determine " better " and " smarter " when so many vendors do similar things ?

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great find ! www . skilldup . com has a ton of free and paid biz and entrepreneur courses as well . . http : / / courses . skilledup . com / entrepreneurship ? per _ page = 5 http : / / courses . skilledup . com / business ? per _ page = 5 skilledup basically pulls in all the existing courses out there on the internet and puts them in one convenient place

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no kidding , that ' s a really good point - - you don ' t have control over the search terms and they will be suggested for you based on your item description and tags . i ' ve been pretty happy with the search terms i got , but i ' ve got a whole shop of one type of item , so it was really easy to get a good selection . i did notice that keywords were added to my options as i tweaked my tags over the last couple weeks .

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in a way , these are quite brilliant . these " companies " are battling banner blindness - at this point , our eyes and brain are incredibly adept at ignoring banner ads , and these designs are a reaction to that reality . they are chasing click - rates and are probably pretty good at it ; their conversion rates are probably another story .

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what tools are you talking about ? i ' m currently using dreamweaver to help design the site but it is very confusing

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sounds cool man . and i appreciate your background info . i ' m a pretty technical person also but to some degree it ' s just necessary these days to differentiate on a lot of different levels other than the product features or benefits . if you ' re interested , check out this article i wrote and had published on under30ceo . it ' s about branding and how " price , quality , and service " just don ' t ' cut it ' anymore for modern - day consumers . goodl uck !

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great post . seo isnt an exact science . nothing frustrates me more then people who preach white hat marketing when there is no such thing as white hat marketing . i ' ve spent tens of thousands doing seo and i ' ve ranked sites off fiverr gigs .

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this right here is why i use paypal . i have very little trust on how smaller websites use / store my credit card information so paypal is perfect .

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webfaction can ' t be beat for the price . their support is top notch .

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i ' ve seen some wix websites and they ' re awful . although i haven ' t used their services myself so it might just be people not using wix to its full potential .

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hey that is a great perspective . thank you for taking the time to post that . when you say a referral system , have you seen any businesses use them effectively ?

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i totally agree . however the " this is awesome " comments are more likely to be upvoted than the " this is crap " ones . not that this is important , but it always disturbs me when someone is downvoted while nobody is proving him wrong . ( this one is not important , anyway , but when you take time to give an informative answer , and one or two assholes are downvoting , you ' d like to know why )

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except most of the time they don ' t even point to the right page for greenmangaming deals ( missing - na ) at the end for north americans and the prices are off . other then that it ' s a good site .

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not to mention yelp is free . it ' s also free to google any business .

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& gt ; " well , shit , maybe you should have paid attention to this super simple thing called dropbox , which did what you do but way better " . nah , if you ' re getting your big ideas from your competitors , you might as well fold up shop . to the extent that box failed \ * , they failed by not figuring out the usability problem on their own . \ * they seem to be doing alright

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i find the layout / design of this site ridiculously overwhelming . . . but thanks for the info .

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quality is not really that important , as you ' ve observed . you should start doing more reverse engineering on websites to see what actually works and not listen to the false seo prophets posting around the internet . also advertisers primarily use adsense which pays based on clicks , not pay individual websites for their ads , no matter how much traffic they get from it . it ' s a bad model .

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this was delightfully helpful . thanks for that . i always look for the quick positives and negatives when looking at steam games but can never seem to find them .

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thank you ! ! we haven ' t really thought much about the tagging system , which i ' m starting to understand is pretty vital . as for the blogs , do you have any diy blog recommendations ? * edit : your work is gorgeous .

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thank ! i totally agree , and i have found success with the same strategy . at my current job , i ' m given a lot clients that have low quality sites and small budgets . paid links are the most effective in the short run for these websites , but i prefer to take my time and give them quality natural links and a nice website .

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well i am glad that your site has improved . but honestly this is not the norm . most searches produce straight garbage mixed with national brands . that is the norm right now , not quality . this may be what google is going after . but it definitely is not a better user experience .

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