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As content stealing becomes easier and easier with the help of technology, there are very few of us who produce original content for the web that haven’t fallen victim to content thieves and scrapers.

It’s annoying. It’s disheartening. It stinks.

For the most part, it’s a time-consuming process to try to prevent others from out and out stealing your content. Personally, I really don’t mind most of the time… as long as I’m credited as the author and there’s a link back to the article on my site.

Unfortunately, most of the people who steal content really do STEAL the content.

In other words, they take the content (your original article) and put it on their own website without any mention of who actually wrote the article or where it came from.

Fortunately, there are a few things that you can do to make it a little more difficult for people to steal from you. The folks over at ProBlogger put together a great article that outlines some of the things that you can do to Fight Scrapers.

In addition, Lynn Terry had a very different way to fight content thieves and scrapers in her article called, “I’m a scum-sucking content thief.”

A very entertaining way of handling the situation!

A few days ago I sent out a message to my subscribers about a family emergency that kept me away from virtually everything professionally for about a month.  Now that the emergency has passed, I’m working hard to catch up on all my email…

A ginormous task!

It struck me today just how many solicitations I get from other marketers and online business owners about the “latest super-secret weapon” that will send me tons of traffic, help me rake in the bucks, and propel my business to the next level (whatever that may be).

These email messages claim just about everything you can imagine… except maybe making me coffee in the morning and giving me a foot massage!

It’s totally, completely, and utterly ridiculous… and a little sad too. Read the rest of this entry

January AnswersWe’ve talked a lot recently about how to identify your target market, so I thought it was time to work on how to actually reach your target. So that’s the cover story in the latest edition of Answers eMagazine.

If you want to get the rest of the story, you’ll have to subscribe to Answers eMagazine and read the January 2009 Edition.

Link building is one of the most important aspects of search engine optimization that you can undertake for your website.  The number and quality of inbound links to your website (your link profile) accounts for 7 out of 10 of the most important factors in determining your search engine rankings according to a report published by SEOmoz.

Here are the top 10 factors with the ones related to links highlighted:

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If you’re already selling anything online, this article is going to show you how to add extra revenue you didn’t even know you had “hiding” in your site without getting any more visitors.

Overlooked Way #1 – An Upsell:

If you’ve been in marketing for any time, you’ve probably heard of “upsells” or “bumps.” Car dealers are excellent at using this technique. Once you have agreed to buy a car you then go into the finance office. This finance guy is really another place where they try to extract as much money as possible from you; dealer financing, extended warranties, rust coating, a low-jack security system, etc. These additions will normally add as much, or more, profit to the dealer as the original sale.

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