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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.

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

It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs I found in the various Google services, free and paid ones as well. Some are fresh and triggered this post and some others are older where I already send a feedback to Google in the past. Google is obviously not used to deal with people and their best people for web...

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MS AdCenter Affiliate Program Launch and Some Historic Affiliate Marketing Insights

Despite the not so perfect reputation that affiliate marketing has are companies like Microsoft and even Google using this advertising and marketing channel with thousands of other retailers around the world to promote their products and services on the Internet. Linda at 5 Star Affiliate Programs just released the news about Microsoft's new adCenter Affiliate Program. See her blog post here and the official press release here.

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Paid Reviews Examples by Matt Cutts and Paid Links

Matt Cutts wrote two weeks ago at his blog a post about selling links that pass PageRank. I wanted to comment at his blog, but 500+ comments made me shy away from it and write a full post here at SearchEngineJournal.com instead. Matt presented a number of (allegedly) paid reviews/posts (there is no absolute proof that the author was paid) to demonstrate how badly paid reviews are and why nofollow should be used on any...

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Google Knol”edge”, Wikipedia and Trias Politica

Arnold Zafra posted about Google’s KNOL service (derived from the word "knowledge”) already on Friday here at SearchEngineJournal.com. Yesterday Brook Schaaf from Schaaf Consulting reported at ReveNews.com about an article about the subject at the Times Online that was published also yesterday.

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11 Steps to Successful SEO for Your Business

I wrote in November a long article for my website about the necessary steps for a business to successfully engage in organic search engine optimization. The article provides an overview with additional references to go into more detail for each of the steps. Here is a shorter and more compressed version of this article that is meant to be a high level guide for orientation. It is aimed to people who are not experienced and...

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About URL Tracking Parameters and Duplicate Content Issues

How do you deal with links that have tracking parameters in the URL for referrer measurement for analytical reasons or in case of a partner program where the referring site gets some form of compensation for referred traffic and/or customers? The webmasters fear was regarding the duplicate URLs that are generated for the same page and possible negative consequences in Google or other search engines as a result of it. This question was asked by an attendee...

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How to Add Content to Wikipedia the “White Hat” Way?

I gave tips to people about editing Wikipedia or getting missing content into Wikipedia over and over again, via email, blog comments etc. So I decided to put one up here, which makes it much better accessible for anybody who is interested in this subject. You might also want to see my previous article about Wikipedia article quality assessment. I consider this the "short version" and it focuses on the content itself and not on "Wikipolitics",...

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Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers

The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until something happens that will make most people happy. Here are two posts related to this subject from this month where I actually left long comments already, before I decided to make yet another post about it here at Search Engine Journal. The first one from beginning of this month is the post...

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The Oracle of Mountain View

The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more or less far-fetched speculations about what this could mean. There is in my opinion no need to panic just yet, but it also does not mean that you should do nothing. I tried to create a list of facts followed by a few assumptions that are tied directly to the...

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Fun Ways of Learning What Should Not Do

There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line. Most of that information tell or suggest to you what you should do. This is helpful information and very valuable, but sometimes is the information what you should not do and why you should not do it more helpful. Bringing across negative things to make people remember them is not very...

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