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The Top Affiliate Challenge will feature 12 marketers in 3 teams of 4, lead by Ken McAurthur, John Chow, and ShoeMoney.  It should be an interesting show, and I’m looking foward to it.  I’m sure there will be a lot to learn from watching it. Personally, I’m a big ShoeMoney fan, and my money is [...]

This is something I’ve thought about doing for a while, and Ive decided to go ahead and start this. In an effort to spread good will and karma throughout the web, I want to start looking for interesting, educational articles I think my readers would enjoy. So, here you go, my links o’ the week:

Twitter and Squidoo have had a lot of buzz around them lately, and I’ve been playing around with both, so I thought I would offer my two cents on these new social platforms.

I found out an interesting little nugget of information about Adwords the other day. Your placement ranking is based on a quality scoring algorithm, instead of just your bids. Here is the super complex Google algorithim, which has recently been leaked:

When I mention to people that I work in web development/design, A common conversation comes up. People tell me they have a cool idea for a website, and it becomes apparent that they really have no idea what it takes to start a website. This is the way people think websites work:

I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time. An easy way to download youtube videos. quick how-to:

Google took one more step towards owning a monopoly on the internet advertising industry by announcing  a ten year deal with Yahoo the other day (news report here) Yahoo will now be using the Google adsense network, and it is expected to raise $250 million for Yahoo in the first year.

The world of Search Engine Optimization is about to change, hopefully for the better. Google is working on making a lot of changes to how it ranks web sites, and will be making more open annoucements in the coming months. So, here is what you need to be focusing on, and you need to [...]

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. It’s a language with no predefined words, that isn’t capable of doing anything, and has had a huge impact on how various applications work, and I predict will have a huge impact on how programs and web applications are developed in the coming years? “If it doesn’t do anything, [...]

A.K.A. 5 things I wish I knew when I started AthensBarHopper.com