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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 August 7, 2009 in 30Dayers, 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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Theft Of IP – That Rhymes With SoftSea – AKA Download Site Scum – Download Site Bastards

Theft Of IP – That Rhymes With SoftSea – AKA Download Site Scum – Download Site Bastards

by Scott Kane on July 11, 2009 in 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

But this doesn’t come close to SoftSea – apparently the crème of the crud.

SoftSea decided they’d be “original” and rather than copy the Download.com text for the listing, like the other unimaginative excuses for homo sapiens, SoftSea instead ripped the content off my home page. Proving to me that the site is run by human garbage of the worst kind – Intellectual Property thieves.

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Google, DNS Geo-Location, Delisting, Moving Servers, SERP, Blind Mice And I've Run Out Of Patience

Google, DNS Geo-Location, Delisting, Moving Servers, SERP, Blind Mice And I've Run Out Of Patience

by Scott Kane on July 4, 2009 in 30Dayers, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

I’ve been happy enough to talk on this blog, in a number of articles, about how writing content for my own websites propels them rather nicely into at least page one, if not in the first few results of page one, on Google painlessly and consistently. So it’s only fair that I also talk about the converse – the opposite – when it happens. I’m referring to the sickening lurch that’s began just over a few months ago on Google. Hard to spot because at first it’s not across the board. Nope, it’s been slow, gathering momentum since April, into May and then the BOOM! in June. What am I waffling on about?

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Guest Blogger – Terry Whalen On PPC Marketing For Micro ISV's

Guest Blogger – Terry Whalen On PPC Marketing For Micro ISV's

by Scott Kane on July 2, 2009 in 30Dayers, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

PPC marketing can be a powerful online marketing channel for software products. But there are several ways to help make your marketing dollars work harder for you. For those of you that already have active PPC campaigns, here are a few tips for better PPC campaign management.

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta – Monday May 18 – Fire Up The Virtual Machines!

Visual Studio 2010 Beta – Monday May 18 – Fire Up The Virtual Machines!

by Scott Kane on May 18, 2009 in Micro ISV

After signing with Microsoft’s BizSpark ISV program last November as switching across to VisualStudio .Net after 13 years with Delphi I’ve been delighted with the productivity VisualStudio has afforded me. VisualStudio 2010 has a bunch of new features…

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