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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Constantly I am emailed by people flipping out about duplicate content. I am so tired of this topic. Really I am… I have written articles about it, made blog posts about it, had long conversations about it, forum debates, and more. So this post is my last stand on duplicate content. Unless something changes with duplicate content issues, I wont talk about it anymore.
See, I told you I’m sick of it. 
So here are my final thoughts and words on duplicate content…
In short I think that duplicate content was created to create a new market of buyers. The hissy fit got started with the first few “duplicate content products”. You know all those content spinners that came out of no where. The whole duplicate content deal is nothing more than a scare tactic to get people to buy products that they think will keep them out of trouble with Google…
BS…
First, Google makes there own rules whenever they feel like it. What is okay today is not okay tomorrow. And then for fun sometimes they’ll just change a rule here and there ever so slightly to see how many people they can send into a hissy fit. I’m not scared of Google. Take my PR, and whatever else you want to do. I’ll still make money… Relying on Google is what you should really fear…
Now on the flip side of all of that, there is a thing called duplicate content out there, but it doesn’t come from putting PLR articles on your site. It doesn’t come from using a template that you got from www.oswd.org Duplicate content is more like those cookie cutter sites. The ones that are exactly the same and can be found being sold around the net for pennies.
Adsense template sites, turnkey cookie cutter sites…. That’s duplicate content.
Building a content site with PLR articles and a template is NOT duplicate content. I rank in the top 5 of Google for hundreds upon hundreds of keywords for hundreds of different sites. ALL my sites use PLR articles that have NOT been re-written. I haven’t just tested this once, I have tested it over and over again.
Stay away from crap cookie cutter sites, build good looking sites with good content, and you’ll have nothing to worry about…
So before that next duplicate content freak out, take a deep breath, and realize that duplicate content isn’t all people make it out to be…
To get tips on staying away from duplicate content, you can check out an article I wrote called Duplicate Content Isn’t The End Of The World! at ezinearticles.com/?Duplicate-Content-Isnt-The-End-Of-The-World!&id=241133
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Puke Fest Time…
Thursday, June 21st, 2007After coming back from a wonderful weekend where I got to spend some time with my dad, I’m hit with tons and tons of different emails pushing some hype filled sales letter that really made me… well… sick…
Check this out… tomeymarketing.com/recommends/TotalBlackHat
Can you believe all the hype that’s packed into that sales letter?
First, they guru bash. You listen to me, and a guru is defined as someone who is an expert in their niche. I’d say that’s me, so why is it bad to be a guru? Then, they talk about a BILLION dollar well that you can suck dry. Then they go on with many other hype filled marketing tactics…
Reading that sales letter is like eating too much cotton candy and then hopping on the “Tilt-O-Whirl”. It just makes you want to puke. Blah…
Here’s the the thing though. If you can get past that hype filled monster of a sales letter, and have the guts to put what they are teaching to work for you, the product actually rocks. I got a review copy of it and read it over the weekend.
I read the sales letter and almost didn’t promote it, but after reading the actual product, I had to save some of you from clicking off the sales page and missing out on the only product online that actually reveals black hat Adsense techniques.
The one thing that hype filled sales letter is right about is that no one is teaching this stuff. A lot of this stuff is down right underhanded. Nothing that would hurt anyone or that is illegal, but stuff you really wouldn’t want your name attached to!
So, if you can get passed the hype, and want to either build Adsense sites for insane profits or really drive an insane amount of traffic to your site, just go to tomeymarketing.com/recommends/TotalBlackHat and get your copy of Project Black Mask. You don’t even have to read the sales letter. These are tactics that work, but that are very black hat.
You’ve been warned…
On another note… I have gotten a huge response for the bonus and blog post I made about Brian Edmundson’s 15K in 7 Days product ( tomeymarketing.com/recommends/15in7 ) If you missed the post where I told you how to make more m.oney from a tiny list, you can see it at tomeymarketing.com/im-truth-newsletter/making-big-cash-from-tiny-lists You’ll also see the bonus I offered too! Thank you all for the awesome feedback and glad you enjoyed that!
Guru Bashing Madness
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Last night I promoted a product that had some guru bashing in the sales letter. (You can see what I’m talking about at ) I had just gotten off the phone with my friend Keith Wellman and we were talking about all those sales letters out there that bash gurus and say how they are hiding this and that from you…
First off, there’s nothing to hide. The secret is, that there is NO big secret…
Second off, what makes a guru bad?
Someone who is an expert in their niche and teaches others about that niche. I do that… Does that make me a guru? Does that make me some kind of monster?
I certainly hope not because I work VERY hard to educate people in my niche and teach them how to make money in my niche. I give away a load more information than I charge for, and give out way more content to my list compared to promotional content, so just why are gurus bad?
I’ll tell you why…
Because it makes good promotional copy, and that’s it.
Yes, there are bad people out there, and there are people who are going to rip you off, but most well known gurus aren’t going to do that. They couldn’t even if they wanted to because they are too well known. It would ruin their business. If they were bad people to start off with, they would have never become gurus.
Do you think Mike Filsaime, Michael Campbell, Jo Han Mok, Jimmy D Brown, and the likes would have all made it had they been cons. Well, they are all gurus. Probably at least one of them that you follow and listen to. These are 4 of my all time favorite marketers and I’m sure you have your favorites.
List them and tell me how many are cons and are trying to keep secrets from you…
Now think of people who have really ripped you off. Probably those people who bash the gurus!
So before you start guru bashing the next time, think of what you’re really saying and maybe express yourself a little better next time!
Butt Kissing Contest Rankings
Sunday, June 10th, 2007While looking through my stats today, I found something that made me just fall out of my chair laughing.
One of the pages in the LizTomey.com blog ranks #2 on Google for butt kissing contest. That’s out of 1.2 million results.
Talk about natural search results…
However, the term butt kissing contest only brought a few visitors so I’m not real excited about it, but I just had to show you guys the great thing about ranking naturally…
Liz
My Top 3 Rants For The Day…
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Maybe I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but I not only have 1 rant today, but I have 3, and I’m sure many of you are going to agree with me here…
1. Windows Vista Sucks And Microsoft IS The Devil
I absolutely and totally hate Windows Vista. It’s has turned my network here in my office into absolute and total chaos. They tell me I need to put Vista on ALL of my computers for it to work properly. Well if you can’t get it to work on ONE why would I do that? Hell hasn’t froze over yet, so I don’t think I’ll be doing that anytime soon.
The first computer I ever worked on was a Mac. I was 5 maybe 6 years old. It was the first year we had computers in our school. Looks like I should have stuck with them…
So now as I look for a new laptop, I am seeing that ALL of them have Vista on them, so I’m going to have to go spend at least $1000 for a new laptop, pay for a copy of XP, and then pay someone to wipe my brand new laptop clear of that nasty little Vista episode, and have them put XP on it.
This is absolutely insane. Xp works fine… Why fix it if it aint broke, right?
It’s Microsoft… That’s why….
2. Number Your Freakin’ Ebook Pages
I love that so many people have found they can create ebooks. That’s wonderful. More power to ya! However, if you plan for people to actually read these ebooks, most will print them out to read them. I’ve done a survey and most people who read ebooks actually print them out.
So with that said, PLEASE number the pages of your ebook. It’s super easy to do. With Word just click on Insert >> Page Numbers.
That way when I or others print them and the printer decides to throw the pages around the room, or the entire ebook gets dropped, or any one of a million things that happens each and every time I print out an ebook that doesn’t have the pages numbered the ebook can easily be put back together in order.
It’s an absolute pain in the arse to try and put an ebook back together that has no page numbers. As a matter of fact I just had someone send me their ebook to review and ask if I would promote it to my list. I printed it out and the moment I walked out of the room my printer started shooting the pages of the ebook across the room like it was doing an aerial attack on the wall.
I come back into my office to find the ebook across the floor, and low and behold when I looked to start putting it back together there were no page numbers. I scooped all the pages up and tossed them into the trash can. That person’s ebook never got reviewed because I wasn’t spending my time trying to put the ebook puzzle back together.
Moral of story… Number your ebook page….
3. The Adsense Is Dead Nonsense Is TOTALLY Overrated..
Apparently there are a few marketers out there that have really taken this whole Adsense is dead BS and found a way to make money off of it. I’ve seen a few who used to sell Adsense products now running around as the town crier stating that Adsense is dead.
You wanna know why?
Because now that they can create more products for you about why Adsense is dead and sell them to you. They can sell you their new BS strategies and take even more money from you.
I don’t know where the hell this Adsense is dead nonsense came from, but whoever started it didn’t tell me, because I just cashed a $9,091.43 check from Google, and last month I cashed one for over $11,000. So if Adsense is dead I must be doing something right because it’s alive and doing well here.
So the next time you hear someone screaming Adsense is dead look closely because they’re just trying to sell your more BS nonsense…
Whew… I feel better now.
I hope you’re learning from these sudden rant-bursts here…
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