Hopefully I’ve done a good job and made a smooth transition and you’ve found your way to the new site safe and sound. As you can see a lot has changed from the old site so feel free to look around and make yourself at home.
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Thought I’d give you all an update on the domain move. I think I’ll have everything done by tomorrow, but I’ll likely hold off on moving till sometime late in the day or evening on Friday. Things should be a little slower over the weekend and moving will probably be a little less disruptive at that time. While I’m doing what I can to ensure a smooth move I assume I’ll break a few things along the way and hopefully the weekend will allow some time to sort out the most major of breaks.
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Some of you know I’ve been planning on moving this entire site to a new domain for a little while. Ok, longer than a little while. I’ve been working on a new site for a few months and I think this will be the week where the move finally happens. Let me emphasize the word think in the previous sentence. It’s possible something will come up (those pesky clients) to keep me from the last few details or I’ll discover something that needs to be done that I haven’t thought about. I’m pretty sure though, that sometime later this week everything you see here now will be sitting somewhere else.
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• Anything worth remarking upon.
• Remarkable is better, different, unique, opposed, original - to the nth degree.
• The further away you get from the standard, from the accepted, from the norm, from the status quo, from the ordinary, the more remarkable you are.
• You can be remarkably good and you can be remarkably bad.
• Remarkable doesn’t mean success. Success doesn’t require remarkable. But both often come hand in hand.
• Remarkable is not easy. Remarkable is not safe.
• Remarkable gathers attention to itself.
• Remarkable stands out, stands in front of, and stands apart from.
• If no one is talking about it, it isn’t remarkable.
• Remarkable is only remarkable in comparison to that which is not remarkable.
• A black and white cow is not remarkable. A purple cow is remarkable. A purple cow in a field of purple cows is not remarkable. A black and white cow in a field of purple cows is remarkable.

Are you remarkable? Is your blog remarkable? Can you become remarkable? What do you find remarkable? What does remarkable mean to you?

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Last October I signed up as one of the initial members or Teaching Sells. The course has been a valuable and eye opening experience for me and I’ve learned a lot during the past few months. For awhile now Teaching Sells has been offering a one week trial for $1, which is a great bargain given the usual $97 for three months of access. However, the trial offer is coming to an end tomorrow (April 17th, 2008 at noon eastern time) so if you’ve been wondering what’s inside and thinking about joining there’s no better time than now.
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As some of you know I’m an admin at the Webmaster-Talk forums and have been a member there for over two years. Last week Webmaster-Talk grew significantly as it merged with EarnersForum and to celebrate WT is running a contest with 5 winners each receiving a prize package worth $25,000.
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In order to maximize the success of a landing page you must have a clear methodology and process in place. Invesp’s conversion framework provides a blueprint to the construction of your landing page. The conversion framework has allowed us to see an average of 14.56% and 238% increases in conversion rates for our clients in 2007 alone.

I read a lot of ebooks. Most aren’t good, some are ok, and a small few are extremely useful. One book in the last category is Invesp’s new Landing Page Optimization guide. The book will help you improve conversions on your site, specifically on your landing pages and shows you that double digit conversions are not only possible, but how to achieve them.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of seo standards since my last post on the subject. Initially I was set completely against standards, thinking them both impossible to enact and basically unnecessary. I’m still not sure if a standards body is feasible, but I am beginning to rethink my stance somewhat or at least I’ve begun to see cases where standards could prove useful.
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Roderick Ioerger wrote an interesting post for Marketing Pilgrim a few days ago, where he asked is social media an impediment to problem solving? The basic argument is the idea that the convenience of having others readily available to answer your questions inhibits finding the solution yourself and thus leads to less critical thinking. It’s a valid argument, but I don’t agree with the conclusion.
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Spring is in the air. Can you feel it. The lion is gone and the lamb is arriving. And the best new of all for me is baseball is finally here. This month’s post is dedicated to the national past time. Back when This Month In SEO was a weekly the title of the series derived from the old Mel Allen show with the game’s highlights so how could this post be for anything other than the greatest game ever invented. I admit it. I’m a seamhead. I’ll live and die with the sport right up through the dog days of summer and to the end of the Fall Classic.

But we’re not all here for baseball are we? How about some links to a collection of the best posts from the month that was. As always more can be found via my profiles at del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. Now on with the show.
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