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OT: Followed the books link. The author seems like a pretty shady character. Got his wife to write a glowing Amazon review of his book, under a misleading name.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2PELDZ9QQX0C3/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt...

Makes me wonder how he came into that money he mentioned at the start of the Billion Dollars post...

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Haha. Maybe my wife just loves me. Notice she went through my last book and found out how each stock performed. I'm grateful she did that since I never asked her to do it. I was afraid to look at how the stocks had done.

Check out my blog: jamesaltucher.com. then you can see how shady I am

While not shady, the repeated links to follow you on twitter detracted from the article. It also made me trust your writing a little less. Just sayin.

Travis, thats a constructive criticism. Thanks.

Maybe it's just your wife who's shady: no matter how much she loves you, it was deceitful of her to review your book so positively without indicating the connection between the two of you, particularly since that connection probably means she also benefits financially from sales of your book. But I suppose that's a bit like insider trading, which I hear is actually ethical and should be legalized[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Altucher#Ideas_and_Theori...

If you want to argue about that we can. But why should we argue? its late at night. And ultimately we all die eventually. Maybe my wife is shady. Check out her blog: claudiayoga.com and you'll see how she helps people.

It seems you're finding out how CSS and top google results impact on one's image. A nice stylesheet can turn an affiliate marketing site white-hat (quantnet.com) and the wrong colours, font or too many twitter links will make your site look black-hat.

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