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    What was the last movie you watched? How was it?

    I watched a new one last night called The Ritual that you'd like. Has the same feel as A Quiet Place in terms of location and aesthetic. If you like that, you'll definitely like one of my favorites along this same line called The Shrine. They both deal with stuff like being in the...
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    Feedback needed: Building Online Assets vs. Digital Agency

    Honestly it doesn't sound like you're ready for starting an agency. The extent of your SEO experience is micro-niche sites and an e-commerce site that broke even. The extent of your frontend design experience is you know how to install a CMS and install a theme and plugins. I think you're...
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    Would anyone be interested in a tool that automates content creation and publishing on social media?

    I'd say there's more than enough tools out there already to help people spam their social media profiles into being worthless. The problem with these is that now that everyone is doing it, you're better off not doing it, especially if you want to be a signal in the noise of mass spam. The...
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    Has advertorials gotten out of control?

    Yeah, people are calling them "editorials." Trying to buy one is the fastest way to get scammed, although there was one guy in the Marketplace here who was legit. I bought a few from him last year but it looks like he's gone. Google recently called out these practices publicly which led to a...
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    Newbie Question(s) so dumb, you're afraid to even ask!

    If it's going to mostly be organic search traffic then I'd build out one site and co-mingle. The reason is that search traffic is generally going to view one page and bounce. So it won't matter about the audience or dancing around that so much. Just change voices depending on the article...
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    buysellads.com success?

    It depends. Most people set up BuySellAds so they don't have to deal with people directly. They also do it to get in front of eyeballs they otherwise wouldn't, through the marketplace. Some of them might be excited to not have to give a cut to another company. You may not get any discount...
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    Does Anchor Text Count From No-Follow Links in Google's Algorithm?

    I disagree with the statement that Google doesn't take into account nofollow anchor text. When it comes to a link, there are a ton of factors that affect ranking. To name only a few, we could list page rank flow, anchor text, and relevancy. The only thing that nofollow does is restrict the...
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    Tracking URLs with hashes as pageviews

    I wouldn't compromise on what you want as far as user experience goes. It doesn't sound like it'd be too difficult for you to hit 100k a month. I'd bet you could use the old plugin, get into the ad networks, and then revert back to the new plugin since at that point all they'll bother caring...
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    Cryptocurrency

    I think it's funny that the entire point of crypto coins where that they were supposed to be decentralized. And then everyone started using these fly-by-night exchanges, which re-centralized them. And everyone keeps getting ripped off. And everyone keeps acting surprised. That's pretty...
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    Indexing multiple sites at once

    There are a lot of indexing softwares out there that will send your list of URLs to a million ping services that Google supposedly crawls. Another method would be to shoot social shares out at all of them and then spam the social profiles. The method back in the day, when you didn't want to do...
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    When to use NoFollow

    Since the title of this thread is broad and the actual question is specific, and nobody has answered the broad question, I'll answer it so people needing that information aren't left out. You only nofollow a link when: It is in user-generated content, like a forum, comment, or article that...
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    How do maintain your site(s)?

    @CCarter nailed why PBNs and Spam are crap. They don't last, they don't work, and everyone who claims it does is lying to sell you something. It might have worked in 2010. Not 2018. PBNs might work for a little while until you get busted, and you will get busted. It's not a question of...
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    Do You Count Time Spent as an Expense BEFORE You Sell a Website?

    I'm not the guy but I'm pretty sure he's saying that you're adding extra expenses that aren't a must. And then you end up reporting less profit. And since the price of a sale is usually based on a multiple of the average rolling profit of the last 3 or 6 months, you're reducing the amount of...
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    How Do I Identify the CSS or JS Conflicts on a Webpage? Developer Tools?

    I wouldn't recommend this unless you've designed your own theme or plugin, or have set up a child theme. If you edit the templates directly and then upgrade your theme or plugin, your changes will be overwritten each time. And you definitely want to keep your plugins up to date. To get...
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    How Many Earning Sites Do You Operate?

    Sounds like you should outsource most of the work for this 3rd site or bring in a partner to put in the rest of the work.
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    Do you have a job or went full time on your dream?

    If you have the cajones and talent, you just go for it. If you work best with your back against the wall, you just go for it. Both of these scenarios requires you actually knowing what you're doing, where the only obstacle is having enough time to execute. At the same time, someone smarter...
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    Piwik is now Matomo - Complete Rebrand after 10 Years... Why? What's at play here?

    I just got an email which led me to this blog post by Piwik... er... I mean Matomo: https://matomo.org/blog/2018/01/piwik-is-now-matomo/ This is what they have to say about why they decided to rebrand after 10 years in business: “After an epic 10 year journey creating and perfecting the best...
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    Hiring a Launch/Phone sales team - recommendations?

    This is way beyond my expertise. But I wanted to bump and ask if you had found one, if it's working out for you, and if you would recommend them to us. If so, what company is it?
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    Forcing People To Disable Adblock?

    Who do you think YOU are, trying to eat someone's content without even having the decency of loading an ad block for them? I can't tell you the number of hopeful IM's I know who rely entirely on display ads to make money on their crappy sites who actively use ad block while browsing the web...
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    Social share stats for pages on sites

    I was about to complain that the reason I quit using any of these was that they were all broken. But this one you linked seems to be working accurately. The only thing I still hate about these, and the social platform's API's is that they STILL don't report HTTPS and HTTP together. Here is...
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