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The near-midnight question… Do I stay …
The near-midnight question… Do I stay up catching up to the other Rats in the Rat Race, in fear that I might get smacked for falling behind? Or do I keep trying to get out of the maze?
Bleeding green. I’m subscribed to so mu…
Bleeding green. I’m subscribed to so much shit and so many services I’m bleeding over $500 a month. Whopdee-do… I’ve got PPC Bully and the Shoemoney System, hosting. Now I’m thinking of bleeding a bit faster by signing up to PPC-Coach. Do I do it?
I’m seeing an interesting opportunity o…
I’m seeing an interesting opportunity out there… But Damn.. I need to stay focused on the particular niche I’m in right now or I’m never getting anywhere.
This brings me to a little unproven theo…
This brings me to a little unproven theory I have. I started thinking a while back: How can Google or other search engines tell apart a real Blog from a Flog (Fake blog)? … The answer was staring right at me: Social media. Folks that have a blog have a ton of stuff on it…
I love TinyEye to find connections among…
I love TinyEye to find connections among sites – or when a site is a ripoff. However, I found something pretty tasteless – A Flog from Clickbank user “hawran” that is using the image of a guy that died a pretty nasty death late last year: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view.bg?articleid=1215065 Ideally, the dead should stay dead.
Landing page CTR: 11%. Is that good? Bad…
Landing page CTR: 11%. Is that good? Bad? Not enough, for sure. My keywords on Google all have 7+ quality scores, which I take to mean pretty good. Finally found the landing page CTR statistic! Confusing is an understatement.
iTunes is the vortex of evil in my compu…
iTunes is the vortex of evil in my computer. Its taking up a huge amount of resources. It has a massive thumbnail cache (we’re several gigs), uses an incredible amount of memory when running – (again, over a gig) and hammers the system object stacks along with the CPU. The only piece of software that…
I’m an Audiobook nut… I’m about to b…
I’m an Audiobook nut… I’m about to buy all nine Seth Godin’s audiobooks.
If work sucked just a little more it wou…
If work sucked just a little more it would create a wormhole into another dimension.
Filling out a census form… So tempted …
Filling out a census form… So tempted to put Twilee’k as my race.
Just had a chat with a rep from Tracking 202 Pro…
Just had a chat with a rep from Tracking 202 Pro on an issue I’m having… Really nice folks. A little creepy that they can see everything I do. At this point, they can only help since everything I do is sucking big time.
Spoke too soon about John Chow’s very i…
Spoke too soon about John Chow’s very informative post… He followed-up the post with an e-mail upselling “Clickbank Cash Supreme”. Never fails. I’m taking note of this technique… Post soft-sell, then drive-to and upsell of related offer.
Commission-based marketing is addictive,…
Commission-based marketing is addictive, scientifically for sure – I can easily see people developing an addiction. It isn’t that surprising, it uses what is called a Variable-Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement. Dictionary definition: “In Operant Conditioning, a variable-ration schedule is a schedule of reinforcement where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses. This…
My box of Cheerios says “Enjoy the Non-C…
My box of Cheerios says “Enjoy the Non-Challenging way to help lower cholesterol”. Is Non-challenging retard-speak for “simple” or “easy”. I don’t care what their marketing research might say, I think it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen on the face of a cereal box, right after the Trix bunny.
Google charging “API Fees” to access A…
Google charging “API Fees” to access AdWords is the bullshit near-monopolies can pull off. I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft to charge API fees if their search bazaar ever gets a little bigger than Tinkerbell. It may not sound like much – $0.25 per 1,000 calls or so, but a call is so insignificant my…
Negative keywords are clearly one of the…
Negative keywords are clearly one of the most valuable lists to have. The crazy stuff people search for – and then click on your ad for the heck of it. I mean, if you’re looking for crocodile zoofilia and by a random chance croc matches my ad for croc shoes, what do you think you’re…
Before I keep going… What I love the m…
Before I keep going… What I love the most about this way of blogging – is that i isn’t blogging! I do have a full-blown blog, but this is like Twitter without the Twit-retards or the stupid limits, and its blogging without having to worry about SEO, all the bells and whistles of the platform,…
I’m probably promoting a failure. There …
I’m probably promoting a failure. There is something wrong in all these stats and numbers. Let’s take a look. YouTube reports some 3k views of the video that is in the thank you page in the past 19 months. Mind you I have no way of knowing when the video was actually added to the…
Google is taking my conversions as $1, w…
Google is taking my conversions as $1, which is throwing everything off. Agh! I don’t quite understand their conversion setup – I’ll have to fiddle.
Another sale yesterday!!! That makes thr…
Another sale yesterday!!! That makes three sales in two days! Wanted to update last night but of course the black hole in the routing is there again. Never mind that, I’m changing hosts for this. Free ride over. Though I have to say I like the free hosting to try things out.
Mental note: If you have one or more lay…
Mental note: If you have one or more layers of e-mail forwarding, and something isn’t coming through, you have to check the spam folder / rules of all the accounts in the forwarding chain.
Profit Analysis… Nice!.. This is Track…
Profit Analysis… Nice!.. This is Tracking202. Now if I could just convince a couple thousand more..
Google going bananas? Yahoo recorded the…
Google going bananas? Yahoo recorded the conversion a few hours later, thanks to Clickbank allowing this conversion tracking. Now I go into Google and its showing there was a conversion – which I would think is ANOTHER conversion. I log into Clickbank and my tracking and see no such thing. Is Google telling me about…
First affiliate Sale! Score! This came i…
First affiliate Sale! Score! This came in yesterday, but of course this little thing was down… I was slowly losing hope.. Now its back. I can work on and improve on *something* – But if I don’t have anything to improve on, it becomes very difficult. Anyway, take a look at this collage snapshot of…
My stats for Yahoo, Google, Bing and Cli…
My stats for Yahoo, Google, Bing and Clickbank suck. I was looking at them this AM and this was my snapshot- The quartet of doom:
Clickbank doesnt have epc stats – I wond…
Clickbank doesnt have epc stats – I wonder wonder why. They have “Gravity” which is about as descriptive as “Snorkflats”.. Last I checked Gravity at sea level was 9.6 m/s^2.
