Notorious SEO blogger and part-time Playboy Marcus Tandler did a positive write-up earlier today on my recently released book – “Search-Engine Optimization – Your Visual Blueprint to Effective Internet Marketing.”

The review is available on Marcus’ blog Mediadonis.net

BTW – the picture above is Marcus with a team of models. Note that he is wearing a Pepperjam T-Shirt!

Thanks Marcus!

I am proud to announce that Pepperjam Network (Pepperjam’s fast growing affiliate marketing network) launched today a weekly interview series called “Meet the Affiliates.” Each week a new affiliate will be interviewed, which will be posted to the Pepperjam Blog located at www.pepperjamnetwork.com/blog.

As mentioned in our official MTA logo, the purpose of the Pepperjam Network “Meet the Affiliates” Weekly Interview Series is to entertain our readers and followers, while also sharing real world stories that we believe will be a great source of education and inspiration to affiliates of all sizes and levels of success. Nothing of this scale has ever been done to celebrate the many success stories, as well as trials and tribulations of being an affiliate marketer.

The first interview, which was published today on the PJN Blog, features super affiliate, blogger, and podcaster Sam Harrelson. READ MORE HERE!

Wow! That’s all I can say.

Let me just say that I have a tremendous amount of respect for Shawn Collins because among other things I find him to be incredibly sincere and objective.

I have received various e-mails and phone calls from people who have read my recently published book “Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint for Effective Internet Marketing,” but Shawn is the first to actually do a video review of my book!

I knew Shawn was reading my book because he mentioned it a few weeks ago on his WebmasterRadio.FM radio show “Affiliate Thing” that he co-hosts with Lisa Picarille of Revenue Magazine.

However, I didn’t expect Shawn to read the entire book so quickly and I certainly didn’t expect that he would like the book so much that he would do a video review, as well as a [written] book review on his blog.

To check out the written review click here or simply watch the video review below:

Thanks Shawn!

I have always been a loyal reader of Revenue Magazine.

For those of you that have never heard of it, Revenue Magazine is the most comprehensive and relevant magazine to the affiliate marketing industry. The writers are experienced professionals that provide insight into everything from what’s hot right now in the affiliate marketing industry to affiliate marketing best practices.

I know I’m not the only one that has read literally every Revenue Magazine from cover to cover…usually without putting it down (it’s that good).

The point of this post is to thank Revenue Magazine for doing an extensive interview with me for the current issue that is on newstands right now.

The interview is titled “Small Town Big Man” and includes pictures of my dog Roxy, as well as footage of the Pepperplex and the Pepperjam Team.

I’d also like to thank Revenue for promoting and providing a brief review of my recently released book: Search-Engine Optimization – Your Visual Blueprint to Effective Internet Marketing!

I can’t find a link to pass on so that you can read the interview online; however, I’ve included a link below so that you can apply for a free subscription.

You can apply for a free subscription to Revenue HERE.

News broke late tonight (Saturday) that Steve Ballmer (CEO) from Microsoft sent a letter to Jerry Yang (CEO) of Yahoo saying the deal is off.

OMG – the deal is off. What about the hostile takeover Ballmer guaranteed if Yang would NOT agree to the proposed Microsoft Acquisition?

Let me remind Jerry – Yahoo (YHOO) was trading at about $19 when Steve came in and offered $31 per share.

I can’t tell you how upset I was that I didn’t buy a few thousand shares of YHOO before the very aggressive MSFT offer was made public. No worries Jerry and Steve – I got in on GOOG at the IPO price…sold it and then bought in again and again and sold all the way from $125 to $600 (BTW – sold what I had left around $600 and never looked back).

OK. YHOO at $19. Ballmer makes bid with a price tag of $31. YHOO trumpets to nearly $30.

Think about this for a second.

YHOO responded as if the rise in share price (NOTE: YHOO climbed over 50% in value the next trading day) had something to do with the actual quality of the YHOO business. Guess what – it didn’t!

Now what.

Ballmer has officially pulled the deal from the table.

Yahoooooooooooooooooooo – I’m glad I dind’t buy the stock because Monday morning is not going to be pretty.

My heart goes out to my friends at Yahoo, including employees and shareholders.

What’s next?

Will Yahoo as a company rebound?

Absolutely not. At least not alone.

Can Yahoo realistically compete with Google in the search space? No.

Can Microsoft realistically compete with Google in the search space? No.

Can the combined MSFT / YHOO compete with Google? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Not likely.

So what happens next?

My guess is that Google waits for Yahoo’s stock price to go into the teens and they make their own bid for YHOO….

Then, MSFT comes back in and makes another offer.

GOOG and MSFT battle it out and MSFT ends up the winner at $38 per share.

Note that if you are following the details of the story in the popular media YHOO would have done the deal already if MSFT would have ponied up $37.

If my theory is correct Yang will be celebrated as a hero to YHOO shareholders.

If my theory is incorrect Yang is absolutely screwed.

UPDATE: Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch is predicting a “Black Monday” for YHOO tomorrow referring to the likelihood (see above) that YHOO is going to tank when the markets open tomorrow. Another interesting part of his post was that he suggests YHOO may be moving as quickly as possible to make an announcement about a pay-per-click syndication deal (i.e. YHOO syndicate GOOG) with GOOG.