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		<title>PepperJamNetwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The buzz is all about Pepperjam - and they&#8217;re very specific about what they are: 
&#8220;Next generation affiliate marketing&#8221;, &#8220;one of the true pioneers of affiliate marketing&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;the culmination of eight years of development and includes the input and consultation of hundreds of affiliates and merchants.&#8221;
Or the same old same old, repackaged slightly? Time, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2008/03/23/pepperjamnetwork/</link>
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		<title>Blogging and the Big Corporations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a really interesting post, rather angry - and I&#8217;d probably agree with about 50% of it, which is bang on correct.
I&#8217;d add to the list of grievances this one thing - Google&#8217;s creation of PageRank, the inevitable arrival of a market in this commodity, only for the originators to turn round and say this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2008/02/23/blogging-and-the-big-corporations/</link>
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		<title>How to Manipulate Alexa Rank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody in the know used to smile when someone bragged about their site&#8217;s Alexa rank - well of course that&#8217;s very good, it&#8217;s just that Alexa rank is fairly meaningless. 
But that all changed, when paid blogging brokers started using Alexa in their scoring algorithm - the better the rank, the higher the payment.
It&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/05/15/how-to-manipulate-alexa-rank/</link>
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		<title>Adsense positioning for Bloggers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s self-evident, isn&#8217;t it - slap an advert, or several, bang in the middle of the viewport and increase your ROI or CPM or any acronym you care to name&#8230; or is it?
Yes, if you have a well-established site, lots of backlinks, stable traffic, then the positioning will play a predictable part in the metrics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/05/15/adsense-positioning-for-bloggers/</link>
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		<title>MyBlogLog and Yahoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The announcement has filtered out of a semi relaunch of MyBlogLog courtesy of its Yahoo benefactors - to near universal Ennui 2.0, for example here. Indeed, it was news to many that the takeover had been done back in January.
MyBlogLog - little more than a gimmick? A piece of javascript just too far?
One day, much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/05/15/mybloglog-and-yahoo/</link>
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		<title>Sponsored Blogging - the state of play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This seems to be a rough concensus over the state of play in the sponsored/paid/whatever blogging sector.
Currently this market is embryonic - similar to that for search engines around 1998, when early leaders, eg Altavista, Northern Lights, were eclipsed by one operation with a clearly better technical/business model. However, as it stands, the major brokers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/05/14/sponsored-blogging-the-state-of-play/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft and Yahoo - merger, partnership, takeover?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you take the rarely said but significantly-held opinion that Yahoo have to make some changes soon or struggle, what could be  more likely&#8230;
&#8220;&#8230; the two companies - which first explored the idea a few years ago and then went their own ways - were looking at ways they could pair their strengths to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/05/08/microsoft-and-yahoo-merger-partnership-takeover/</link>
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		<title>Google and Traffic Exchange programmes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The usual vague imprecations here, this time about the use of Chinese teenagers to boost traffic just prior to trying to sell a site at Sitepoint.
Impressions are certainly spurious if generated by these means, but quite why, in the real world as opposed to the Googleverse, a click is more spurious than one generated by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/04/13/google-and-traffic-programmes-no-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Linkbaiting Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In self-fulfilling prophecy tropicalseo return to the vexed discussion of linkbaiting, with this wisdom, which applies to &#8220;blogpost&#8221; every bit as much as &#8220;linkbait piece&#8221;
 The single most important aspect of a link bait piece is its title. On social bookmarking sites such as Delicious and Digg, the title is pretty much all people see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/04/09/linkbaiting-redux/</link>
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		<title>SEO is dead (with caveats)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seorefugee provide a list in which search engines, ie Google, are justifiably berated for some of their excesses
 Search is fracturing: Google now offers web search, image search, video search, news search, local search, “more” search and “even more” search. Do you optimize for one, a few or all types of search? How can you optimize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sensiblewords.com/2007/04/04/seo-is-dead-with-caveats/</link>
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