Originally from Australia, Gary-Adam Shannon started his web career at the age of sixteen by figuring out ways to monetize chat-room traffic with programmatically dark arts, today known as "blackhat". Gary has worked for large domain portfolio monetization companies, lead generation businesses and has a broad range of skills ranging from system administration, to programming and all facets of internet marketing. After spending a couple of years in the UK honing his blackhat methods, learning whitehat and everything in between, Gary now lives in Las Vegas, NV where he heads up a small team of professionals that specialize in SEM for high end domain portfolio owners that cover an assortment of verticals. Gary maintains a blog and has been known to unleash secret source from time to time.
Why spend money on monitoring and defending a brand when you can spend money promoting a brand? Let me introduce you to some of my favorite online reputation management tools that are of an immeasurable value for combating negative brand mentions.
Pick one thing and stick to it. You can never successfully create a sustainable business by slamming out hundreds of mini-sites and doing a shotgun approach. Find what you love and start working on ways to make it generate money for you.
There are numerous ways to fix your WordPress site so it doesn’t appear to be WordPress. These basic tips will let you hide your WordPress version number, and not allow Google to fingerprint your site. Also, how to help secure your installation.
WordPress is vulnerable, hackable, expoitable, and the spammers choice for mass site deployment. Here’s a short list of “CMS” or “blog” like systems that will get your website up and running almost as quickly as WordPress, without being WordPres
Fire the white hat agency and "get real." Today, successful search marketing strategies absolutely must incorporate elements of black hat (or gray hat -- call it whatever you want) methodology.