Carsten Cumbrowski

About

About

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.

Tools

Ready to Kombat? – New Competitive Intelligence Tool for Domains

I just received notification that SpyFu Kombat was launched today. SpyFu Kombat is an add-on to the classic SpyFu online service by VelocityScape. For those...

Carsten Cumbrowski
10/29/2008
854 Reads
4 min read

Careers & Education

ANTI versus PRO – Two very different Approaches to Solve a Conflict or Issue

If you do not like something, then you have two options to do something about it. Either you decide to do something AGAINST it or you decide to...

Carsten Cumbrowski
10/14/2008
11K Reads
6 min read

SEO

Google and the SEO Benefits of Affiliate Tracking Links

Brian Klais wrote in June, 2008 in his post “Amazon’s Secret to Dominating SERP Results” at the Natural Search Blog about how Amazon.com leverages the inbound...

Carsten Cumbrowski
9/10/2008
8.1K Reads
9 min read

Social Media

YouTube Support – Not Existent… Again

You think that somebody learns from past mistakes and does not repeat the same mistake over and over again. That does not seem to be...

Carsten Cumbrowski
6/22/2008
5 min read

SEO

Book Review: ProBlogger

My post with my book reviews in April this year was so well received that I decided to continue with this and write another review....

Carsten Cumbrowski
6/8/2008
415 Reads
5 min read

Social Media

Social Media Marketing Law #1 – Give Away your Best Stuff

Complicated things are often explained the best by making an analogy and using a simple real life example where people can relate to. Practical business...

Carsten Cumbrowski
6/4/2008
1.0K Reads
20 min read

Social Media

Digitizing Books with the Help of Millions of People around the World

I came across this video podcast episode of PBS’s Wired Science with Luis von Ahn, the guy who came up with “Captcha“, those fuzzy looking...

Carsten Cumbrowski
5/8/2008
1.4K Reads
6 min read

SEO

A Search Engine Fairy Tale

I revisited today an older post of mine that talks about paid links and the problems that I have with the way how Google is...

Carsten Cumbrowski
5/4/2008
673 Reads
10 min read

SEO·Social Media

Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)

In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...

Carsten Cumbrowski
4/9/2008
1.1K Reads
9 min read

Social Media

Social Media Guide for Big Brand Corporate Businesses

The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites...

Carsten Cumbrowski
3/27/2008
2.0K Reads
13 min read

SEO

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
3/4/2008
704 Reads
4 min read

Local Search·Social Media

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
2/28/2008
1.9K Reads
9 min read

SEO

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
1/31/2008
330 Reads
2 min read

Social Media

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
1/21/2008
713 Reads
7 min read

SEO

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
1/15/2008
9 min read

Web Development

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
1/7/2008
7.9K Reads
4 min read

SEO·Tools

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
1/6/2008
1.1K Reads
4 min read

SEO

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
1/5/2008
1.8K Reads
2 min read

Web Development

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/30/2007
7 min read

Tools·Web Development

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/30/2007
8 min read

Paid Search·SEO

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/18/2007
801 Reads
4 min read

SEO

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/16/2007
1.8K Reads
7 min read

SEO·Social Media

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/16/2007
705 Reads
3 min read

SEO

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....

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/16/2007
37K Reads
9 min read

SEO·Web Development

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/7/2007
9.3K Reads
8 min read

SEO·Social Media

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
12/6/2007
19K Reads
6 min read

SEO·Social Media

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...

Carsten Cumbrowski
11/22/2007
5.5K Reads
9 min read

SEO

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...