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Does Google Love WordPress?

by Mark Mason on August 25, 2010

google loves wordpress
I hear this all the time when people are talking about old-school static HTML sites versus newer WordPress sites.  They say it loud and proud as if it were a law of nature like gravity or something.

Google Loves WordPress!

The truth is (as far as I know) that there is no real data that says Google prefers static WordPress versus HTML (or vice-versa). There is no reason that they should care -- and I don't think that they do.

People say "Google loves WordPress" because they see WordPress because they see WordPress sites doing well in Google. The question is this: is this correlation, or causation? In other words, are these sites doing well because of WordPress, or for some other reason.

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MW004 – Internet Marketing Podcast Transcript

by Mark E. Mason on September 18, 2009

This is the Mason World Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, Episode 4.

You want to build a business that you can call your own, but you can’t imagine abandoning the security of your day job. You are confident that you can find a few hours a week to pursue your dreams of creating a business on the internet, but you don’t know where to start. You’re looking for a plan.

Congratulations! You just found one. You are listening to the Mason World Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, with your host Mark Mason, building internet businesses one night at a time.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 4 of the Mason World Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast. Of course, I’m your host Mark Mason. It’s really great to be back on the mic. I’ve had a couple weeks of vacation with some light duty internet marketing activity, as well as some frenzied activity getting kids ready to go back to school.

It’s that time again in Texas, where we’re getting everybody ready to go back to school. That can be very exciting, because that generates a long list of things to go do. Everything from school clothes shopping to school supplies, physicals, band gear, and all of that. We’ve been pretty busy around the Mason World household the last couple of weeks.

I’ve also been busy, because I’ve been spending some time hanging out with guru affiliate marketer Lynn Terry in her private forum, she calls it the Elite forum. That’s really a fantastic investment that I’ve made. A small investment of money, and an investment of time over the last several weeks getting to know Lynn. I tell you, she is really fantastic. I had always heard great things about Lynn, and what level of integrity and customer focus she brings to her business.

Let me tell you, my time with her has exceeded all my expectations. She’s really fantastic. I encourage you to check her out over at MasonWorld.com/lynn, where I’ve a got a link over to her new Elite Membership forum over there. You can also find her on her blog at Clicknewz.com. I’ll provide both of those links in the show notes, you can check her out. She is really fantastic, and I really enjoyed spending time with her.

One of the best ways to learn about internet marketing is pick people and business models that you really believe in, follow them and watch what they do, ask them questions about what makes them successful and try to duplicate those results.

There’s absolutely no reason for you to reinvent anything in internet marketing. The best way to get started is to find somebody who you like what they’re doing, you believe in what they’re doing, and who will be honest with you and help you succeed.

Having said that, it’s time for the feature segment, where we’ll talk about our next internet monetization model. That’s making money on eBay. Read the Full Article →

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Automatic ClickBank and AdSense Notifications

by Mark E. Mason January 15, 2009

One of the time wasting traps that Internet Marketers can fall into is constant checking of stats throughout the day.  After all, it is human nature to want to know what is going on in your business, especially when you are just starting out. When I first started out, I was always popping over to [...]

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Best Web Host Customer Service

by Mark E. Mason January 4, 2009

Web hosting is to an Internet Marketing business what water and electricity are to a restaurant business. You cannot make money when your site is down.   Yesterday, I mentioned that MasonWorld.com was going down for a few minutes, but I did not say why.  It turns out that my blog was going down because [...]

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Adding Google Custom Search To Your WordPress Blog

by Mark E. Mason December 29, 2008

Let’s face it. When it comes to search, there is only one game in town — Google. Another fact that you should face is that the built-in search in WordPress is not that great. Put those two ideas together and it’s clear that what you need to do is integrate Google’s Custom Search (GCS) into [...]

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Internet Business Fortune Cookie #8 — Translate Your Blog

by Mark E. Mason December 5, 2008

It’s Wednesday (well, actually it is Friday, but who is counting?), and you know what that means. It’s time for another weekly Internet Business Fortune Cookie. Since I am running behind (evidenced by the tardiness of this post), I’ll keep it short. I was at a Chinese fast food chain this week. I know — [...]

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Clever Marketing — Shoot The Marketing Guru

by Mark E. Mason October 22, 2008

OK — here is the coolest marketing creative material I have seen in a while.  The below flash game allows you to “shoot the guru” in an arcade-style game format.  Sorry about the violence. At the end of the game, you get a link to a sales page.  I don’t know anything about the product [...]


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What is Firepow?

by Mark E. Mason October 21, 2008

I am a little behind on my commitment to blog all week about Firepow, but don’t worry.  I will get all of the information out there and answer all of your questions — even if it stretches into the weekend. To be completely honest with you, the first time that I saw Firepow, I wondered [...]

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