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Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski has years of experience in Affiliate Marketing and knows both sides of the business as the Affiliate and Affiliate Manager. Carsten has over 10 years experience in Web Development and 20 years in programming and computers in general. He has a personal Internet Marketing Resources site at Cumbrowski.com. To learn more about Carsten, check out the "About Page" at his web site. For additional contact options see this page.

AdWords Automatic Matching – Lamborghini-Ad for: “reelect obama 2012″ Query, Right!

Google launched without making much public fuzz about it, the beta tests of a new feature for Google AdWords called "Automatic Matching". Dan Thies over at SEO Fast Start broke this just over one week ago on February 22, 2008 and warned advertisers not to "fall for this" and disable this option (which gets obviously enabled automatically for the select "guinea pig" accounts from what I heard so far). "The broad match feature of AdWords is...

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Why Mahalo will Fail and the Problems with General Search

Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web every day and could be announced via an email newsletter and checked out by everybody every day. The sites were generally good and rich on content. Junk was the exception, so was email spam, comment spam and other worthless content. Yes, everything is nice and clean, if it is small, non-mainstream...

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50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your Website

I know, it has been a while since my last post, but I was crazy busy. I have something else that I plan to write about in my queue, but it is not finished yet. But I have something else ready that is also fairly useful in my humble opinion. Here is a long and pretty detailed list of questions that a website owner should asked himself about his own website. If the answer to every...

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SEO Industry Survey Conducted by SEOMoz.org

In case that you are not a frequent SEOMoz.org Blog reader (something I suggest to remedy :)); they are currently conducting a very detailed SEO industry survey.  See the SEO Industry Survey Homepage The survey asks a wide range of questions about yourself, your employments, type of business, use of tools and services as well as what your believes are regarding things that may will have impact on the search engine marketing industry in the coming 12...

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It is Time for Putting on Some Link-Condoms!

Warning! This post uses metaphors and some phrases that are not suitable for children’s eyes and ears. It is directed towards other bloggers and not the average public who does not know about the struggles and fights that occur invisible to them behind blog plug-ins and comment management and review tools and are part of every day’s life for the average blogger today. Back in the days blunt attempts to steal our link love did seem...

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Google Account Consolidation – Real World Security Concerns – An Involuntary Case Study

About Security There are rarely talks about security breaches and problems that did or could result from those breaches in the public. The reason for that are simple, it is often embarrassing for the owner of the compromised account to admit the breach and for the solution provider to get possible flaws exposed that could result into a loss in confidence by existing or future clients into the safety of the clients data that were entrusted...

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There is No G.com, Y.com, M.com, Why Not?

Google’s acquisition of the one character g.cn domain for China, reminded me of the old question about one and also two character domain names in the gTLD (generic top level domain) space like .com, .net and .org. Who has domains that are only one or two characters long and how did they get them and why are they rarely in use? All one and two character domain names considering only of English language letters and numbers...

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Spam for the Search Engines and a Smile for Matt Cutts

I wanted to call the post "Website Scraper, Trackback Spammer and Cloaking Bundle" at first, but then thought that the current one is a bit funnier, which is a bit more appropriate considering the irony, which will become apparent in a little bit. Back in March when I did some research for my post about some rogue affiliate examples at ReveNews.com I did stumble across a company who is selling a service that I would...

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Hardcore SEO Fundamentals: Markov Chaining Points and Term Vector Modeling

Heather Paulson from Paulson Management Group wrote a post for ReveNews.com titled "SEO Matrix's- Markov Chaining and Term Vector Models". It is basically a rundown of the fundamental SEO ranking factors, but from a very technical perspective, nothing for the SEO beginner and folks who were not A-Grade in math during High School and/or College.

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Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part II

This is the second part of my series about bugs and usability issues with various Google services. My previous post was about Google Picasa and Google Checkout and also included some general comments to Google Storage, which is a paid service provided by Google to increase the amount of data you can have in your account and use for files and other things. Part II talks about the general Google Account, Google Desktop Search...

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