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  1. lschmidt

    Where can I get a list of credit repair companies?

    I'd like to obtain a list of credit repair companies (with name, phone number, and website) in the USA. Does anyone know how I might go about doing this? There is no central listing as far as I'm aware, some might operate as sole propietors, LLCs, be 1-2 person operations or all the way up to...
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    Content outsourcing platform (or wordpress plugin)?

    Does anyone know of a service or software that manages content outsourcing? Ideally it'd be a really simple workflow: 1. Anyone can sign up as a writer, and I approve them 2. They can choose any topic they want (as long as its niche related), write an article, and submit it 3. I approve it...
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    Website disappears suddently from google for main keyword only?

    The homepage of my site has been sitting around spot ~20 in google, for my main keyword, for a couple months. All of the sudden today, I noticed that it doesn't rank ANYWHERE in google for my main keyword. It only made up ~10-15% of my overall traffic, and inner pages are still ranking fine...
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    How to determine whether you have a google penalty?

    I've got pretty much 100% of my site's pages indexed. It's a completely legitimate ecommerce site, ~100 product pages and then a small but growing collection of legitimate unique articles written by a real human. I have ~15 unique articles ranging in length from 1,000 words to 2,500 word apiece...
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    What's a fair rate to pay writers?

    For native, english speaking, college educated, regular ass people who don't say "hello sir" and can write well, meet deadlines, etc. What's a fair rate per 100 words? And since that's pretty subjective, let me put it this way: What's the least and most (dollars per word) you've ever paid a...
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    Ethics of article re-writing?

    I am in the process of interviewing a couple article/content/blog writers that I found via craigslist. I will be explicitly instructing these writers to take existing articles, and re-write them to the point they are unique. Changing sentence order and structure, using synonyms, sometimes...
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    If you write it, will they come?

    I've been out of the game a long time, but spent the last month or so setting up an ecommerce site selling private-labeled products in a certain niche. Tried all kinds of stuff to try and drive traffic profitably and all has failed so far (based on ROI is not profitable): adwords/bing ->...
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    Anyone need a javascript developer? I'm a pro at AngularJS and/or hybrid apps

    edit: removed this myself because I was selling my programming services
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    Any investors out there? (Or people with money)

    Gonna be real brief here. Looking for a $30k loan in exchange for equity in a business I'm starting. Yes, a *loan*. All I can say publicly is that it's software in the healthcare industry. I've spent the last several months programming, the product is nearly finished, but I'm nearly out of...
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    Atom.io invite?

    Just thought I'd see if anyone has an invite Atom.io, github's new editor. Thanks
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    POF ads page not working?

    I visit ads.pof.com and get this: http://i61.tinypic.com/fp2kgi.jpg and the registration link doesn't work. Anyone else seeing this?
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    Anybody located in Milwaukee?

    Figured I'd see if there is anyone local out there. Me and a couple others have been doing local app development, and I'm just curious to hear about what everyone else is working on.
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    Forming an LLC w/ 3 people. Do we need to write up an agreement for profit splits?

    I'm working on a web app with 2 other guys, it will be generating monthly recurring revenue. We are friends, so we haven't formally started an LLC or any written agreement. I think it would be in all of our best interest to hammer out details on what happens when we start getting paid. So we're...
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    Who else only reads STS these days?

    I've been completely out of the SEO / IM game for months. Not sure about you guys, but when I originally got into "internet marketing" (YEARS ago) it was just a way to (1) turn cool ideas of mine into reality, like website ideas and (2) make money. Recently I've moved on from that and now I work...
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    Petty vindictive revenge

    I was dating this girl for a few months, before I found out I was being strung along while she fvcked another guy. On the same nights, in some cases. Classy broad. Anyways, she is a nanny and also in the middle of applying for a clinical program. Both of which require extensive background checks...
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    Anyone out there have a juicer?

    After getting a ninja blender near the beginning of 2012, I have used it almost daily for blending fruits and/or vegetables into tasty smoothies. So now I bought a juicer which I will use in *addition* to blending. Mainly I'll be using it to increase my intake of nutrients from green leafy...
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    What songs do you listen to on repeat?

    Whenever I get into a coding binge, I need a single song to play on repeat. Doesn't really matter what genre, anything with a catchy beat. I know other people do this...what are some good songs for looping?
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    Anyone use ec2 hosting?

    I had no idea how incredibly simple it is to sign up on AWS, launch an instance, install apache and whatever else you want, get an elastic ip, setup route 53, and bam you're off to the races. Plus it's free for your first year. What's the catch here? Why use standard hosting anymore?
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    I got a notice from Time Warner for downloading copyrighted movies

    I've heard wack stories about this happening, but I finally got a notice. I normally only download from IPT, but occasionally I'll get something from TPB. And occasionally I forget to set my TPB torrents not to seed. Anyways, a few mornings ago I was forced to click a link that said "I am aware...
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    Back to the working world...

    Shit happens, and like 97% of wickedfire my online revenue is no longer cutting it as my sole source of income. Luckily I have a marketable skill (programming), and just accepted a full time web developer position. On the positive side of things, getting paid to become an expert in python/django...