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Buying a blog is different than buying a website

Earlier this year, I did a post on Flipping Website Real Estate for Profit. The market for buying and selling websites is even hotter today. The Sitepoint marketplace and Digital Point marketplace are flowing with buyers and sellers. Buying a website, building it up, and selling it for more is a business model that works. [...]

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Yet Another Social Media Profile… But It’s Google

Yesterday I created a new profile that may eventually help to plug me in to the social network of the future. I created Bob’s Google Profile – not to be confused with my Orkut profile. Google has recently deployed and stealthily launched several new features that hint at their long-term social network strategy and that [...]

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Community love with MyBlogLog and BUMPzee

I have been incredibly slow to build out my community connections and social bookmarking here on my blog. If you are going to have a successful blog, you must actively participate in a relevant, engaged community. So I’ve been joining everyone of the many social networking sites and social bookmarking services. Soon I will be [...]

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Great content sources to boost your viral traffic

Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz posted an article that is a great reminder for anyone who has gotten into a rut with content. When data Repositories Open Up, So Do Possibilities for Viral Content provides information on finding great content and how to effectively use that content in the viral marketing world of Digg, Reddit, and [...]

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Updating bobangus.com

Welcome to the new bobangus.com! It’s time to step up with my blog, much like my new personal fitness challenge. I am going to be doing some major updates to this site over the next few weeks. That does not mean I am doing a total redesign or changing the fundamental objective of bobangus.com. I [...]

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Linkbaiting and Freebaiting

Viral marketing is now a cornerstone of most brand campaigns and is a line item in every marketing budget. In the blogsphere, viral marketing in the form of linkbaiting is often sighted as the primary method to driving traffic to a blog. If done well, linkbaiting is second only to great content in growing readers. [...]

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