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Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

by Scott Kane on 07. Aug, 2009 in 30Dayers, 30days, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

magine my delight today when I see the search term from Yahoo for “free live sound mixing software” and got the following result, page after page, for the download sites:

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Doing Things Differently – Online As A Micro ISV With Integrated Marketing

Doing Things Differently – Online As A Micro ISV With Integrated Marketing

by Scott Kane on 28. Jun, 2009 in 30Dayers, 30days, Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Being a “micro” anything tends to be a tough road to hoe. Software, where micro is actually pretty common, is no different. On this blog I frequently toss established wisdom out the window, throw the baby out with the grey and sullied bathwater of software history and in general take careful aim at the standard Micro ISV marketing techniques – and fire…

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Zero To Page One On Google In A Week – I Can Live With That – Content Still King On The Web Micro ISV Or Not

Zero To Page One On Google In A Week – I Can Live With That – Content Still King On The Web Micro ISV Or Not

by Scott Kane on 16. Jun, 2009 in 30Dayers, 30days, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Pleased to say my statements in respect of content really paid dividends with CDROO. The site went live on Sunday 7th of June 2009, previously it was offline, pointing to a “Currently Offline” page with no content, all database driven so therefore invisible to the search engines and no sitemap.xml file to cheat with. As of yesterday (just on a week later) CDROO has made it to page one in Google for what are, for that site, important keywords. Money where my mouth is time, so:

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Writing Content For Multiple Sites – Hard Work But Essential And Fun!

Writing Content For Multiple Sites – Hard Work But Essential And Fun!

by Scott Kane on 11. Jun, 2009 in 30Dayers, 30days, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

I have to admit I love doing the marketing part of running a business. While it’s true I adore writing code and couldn’t live very long not being able to do it, at least happily, marketing is a special little activity that for me is kind of like the salt and sauce on a good meal…

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Micro ISV's SO Much Semantics, So Much Blind Faith, So Much Adherence To AssUMe And Yesterday's Truisms

Micro ISV's SO Much Semantics, So Much Blind Faith, So Much Adherence To AssUMe And Yesterday's Truisms

by Scott Kane on 15. May, 2009 in 30Dayers, 30days, Download Sites Are Spam, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

Dunno about you, but sometimes, for me at least, reading comments on forums from Micro ISV’s, though to be fair it’s not just Micro ISV types, is like listening to the lyrics of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds…

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