Talk about fucked up. I’ve seen this pretty much all over the place – reputable news outlets carrying the shadiest of ads. Some of these advertisers clearly have the dough to grease the wheels — if you go try to advertise this crap with these same ad networks, you’ll get declined. I tried. Fuckers. Then…
Category Archives: Affiliate Marketing
Bad Traffic Sources for Bad Boys
Lets find listings of things “Forbidden” as sources of inspiration to continue on the journey to total jackassdom. When I saw the “Non-Approved Traffic Sources” file from Azoogle (renamed Epic) I almost creamed my pants. Not because they renamed their company to “Epic”… I have to wonder, why “Epic” and not “LULZ” … Or maybe…
Sample Failed Pop-Ups
Here’s a sampling of failed pop-ups. Notice the SIZE of the viewable area. I know about the little trick of adding scroll-bars to a pop-up to fool the user into clicking – Somehow I don’t think that’s the idea here, and these scroll bars are no fake.
The Spy Who Popped Me
Originally posted to the Internet University message board Captains log, Stardate -313708.32 I went back to the Zip submit campaign I was running and trimmed the URLs so at least I’m keeping 2-3 profitable URLs. Ultimately I don’t want to invest a ton of time on something I know won’t take me very far even…
Speed Up Landing Pages and Redirects by Loading a Preview from a Content Distribution Network like CloudFront
If the offer you are promoting loads too slowly for sending it PPV traffic directly, or your own redirection is slowing down your pop-ups, here’s an interesting solution I developed. The idea is simple: Show the user the landing page even before it is fully loaded – so you get them to see the offer…
Ultimate List of Traffic Sources
In the neverending quest for traffic, I bumped into a great list of traffic sources compiled by Edward from http://3things.be which I promptly proceeded to rip, massage, sort and post. Probably the best part of the list are Edward’s one-line comments on each source. Check out the ultimate list of traffic sources. Check out Edward’s…
Exploiting and Avoiding the Fear of Loss
This video from a TED Talk by Laurie Santos is genius – it talks about one of the linchpins of high-pressure sales: Loss Aversion. In a nutshell – “People’s intuitions about how much risk to take varies depending on where they started with.” I really found it interesting to learn that loss aversion is…
Retargeting PPV Pop-ups
Repeat PPV pop-ups from the same IP address seem to correlate (at least at a glance) with a drop in conversions and a dip in ROI. In other words: As days roll by I find myself spending on repeat pop-ups to people that didn’t bite the first time around, and they haven’t been chugging any…
StatsRemote
Found a nifty little app called StatsRemote that can keep track of dozens of advertising as well as affiliate network accounts. By what I read this tool is pretty popular in the Adult webmaster industry. The functionality is limited to overall stats, the price is around $30 a month. In a nutshell, it gives you…
LeadImpact Bid Increase of $0.0001 – Good or bad?
Call me dumb, but I just realized I can increase my bid by $0.0001 and outbid 30% of competitors on higher traffic URLs. Take a look at this screenshot… I was really trying to figure out a way to “mark” some URLs when I noticed I could do this… It does seem to push down…
Escalating the Value Chain
Disclaimer: Before anyone thinks I’m the King of CPA, don’t be mistaken – I’m nobody and still trying to walk. But I can smell short-sighted fools a mile away. Why are you promoting a Zip Submit? Why are you promoting that eBook? Why are you promoting X? The dumb answer: “To make money” The smart…
Learn Internet Marketing
Last week I joined the Super Affiliate Twins’ Internet University. I have to say I’m impressed. Very positively impressed. Ryan and crew are all over the forums giving good solid advice and literally shepherding folks along. When they say that they teach all this about internet marketing, they aren’t joking – All the modules are…
Thin-Slicing Your Customers
They say to hunt something you have to become it. I (you) need to understand your customer’s motivations, and particularly the stories they’ve been telling themselves. Here’s what I picked up at the store… Amazing read, both of them. I didn’t know poor ‘O’ had been a teenage prostitute that had a secret child with…
Pop Me Baby, Pop Me!
Following Jonathan Volk’s lead I installed one of LeadImpact’s adware crapware toolbars into my machine. I tried Hotbar first but my antivirus kept deleting the executable in the middle of the installation… Fortunately they have several crapware offerings and I managed to get one going. Pop me, baby… I want to see what this looks…
5 Steps to Cover Your Legal Ass
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. Do not use any of the information on my site for anything other than wasting time. A note on playing nice The goal of this post is to protect you from the casual “oops” of business – NOT to arm yourself for battle. Oops happen. Keep an open line of…
ShoeMoney System Postmortem
The Shoemoney System should have been titled “The ShoeMoney Internet Marketing Hands-on Review”. It was clearly not geared towards me, or anyone that has half a clue – I thought Jeremy would go in-depth somewhere, but that was not the case. My bad, that sure was some money down the toilet… Jeremy’s toilet. So who…
List Control 2.0 from Frank Kern Capsule Review
Disclosure: I’m not an affiliate for this product, I don’t know Frank and I get no compensation of any sort here… Not even good Karma… I don’t even have to justify to myself I made a good decision spending 2K on a training course – ’cause I sure as hell didn’t. You can put down…
How I Made $77 From One Sponsored Tweet
This has to be either some epic mis-targeting or something so brilliant I’ve fallen for it and haven’t noticed yet… I got paid $77 dollars via Sponsored Tweets to tweet about a car they’re promoting along with the new vampire movie. I cannot fathom the math these people did – my account is short of…
Mailing Lists & Paying it Forward
I’m all giddy and excited – I’m sending out my first all-awesome-content e-mail to my awesome-o 4000 (I just had to) brand-spanking new mailing list of 16 subscribers! I’m not asking them to even click on anything… According to “The Gurus”, the ideal would be to have them click on a link to a video…
Social Media Marketing Map
A useful Social Media map, courtesy of of CMO.com (CMO = “Chief Marketing Officer”). If you’re interested in getting traffic to your site, you go down the “Traffic to your site” column, find the green boxes, read the text in the box and look at the row you’re on to see what site its referring…
How to Get Google to Index Your Site Once and for All
Here’s an idea I tried with Google that worked as far as I could tell… After two weeks of submitting my SEO site via their Webmaster Tools and sending them a good Sitemap.xml (plus the site had the sitemap where it belongs – its a WordPress site), the Google dorkheads were not indexing it –…
Tracking Revisited – Looking for Suggestions
I’m out looking for a good PPC and general tracking solution (general as in: I’d love to track mailing lists too!). I have Tracking202… I use 202 Pro, which I understand Wes plans to discontinue in favor of self-hosted. I gotta say I’m not thrilled at all about 202. Is this really the best out…
Jellyvision Turns Your Visitor’s Brain to Jelly
Don’t believe me… Take a look at Jellyvision’s un-believable samples. They make even the most boring stuff funny and entertaining. This is the complete opposite of the “no-control” video Mike mentioned last week. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing greater use of those very soon.
Time and Culture – Time and Marketing
This short animation with Phillip Zimbardo, professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University, is mind-blowing. Redefines how you view so many things, it can’t help deepen your perspective of how you put out messages in marketing. What are the time preferences of those who you target, and how do you communicate to them? Mind-bending. Watch.
Tax Problems for Affiliates or Idiocy?
What piece of this puzzle am I missing? There’s a whole bunch of US internet marketers up in arms about their states trying to tax corporations that do business with them in a dozen different ways – They’re trying to tax corporations like they are based where the affiliate marketer is located, or other crazy…
Creating a Killer Newsletter
Nice article on the ClickBank Blog on 7 Steps to a Killer Newsletter. Written by: Simon Slade, Guest Blogger If you read my earlier post on acquiring visitors’ email addresses, you understand how important it is to build an email list, and how a newsletter can be a great way to get value from those…
