LinkSpam Bombed… But How and Why?

According to Google Webmaster tools, an affiliate site of mine has over 26,000 links from several hundred different domains. That sounds great, doesn't it? One problem though - the majority of the links don't seem to actually exist, and I have no idea where they came from! I swear, I've been up to nothing fishy with this domain, (really!) but the vast majority of these links are coming from spammy sounding subdomains, and I can't figure out what's going on. Is someone trying to "linkspambomb" Read more [...]

Getting Personal Online: My Interview With Susan Bratton

Join thousands of fellow marketers (including Susan) for five days of marketing education and conversation! ClickZ Connected Marketing Week, August 16-20, in San Francisco! 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living. As the CEO of Personal Life Media, Inc., I am a publisher of eBooks focused on your personal and professional growth. We call them "eBooks with Benefits" because our downloadable books and membership sites typically consist of pdf's in the form Read more [...]