My journey through the world of search engine optimization
May 29 2009 Categorized Under: Industry News No Commented
By now you’ve probably heard about Microsoft’s attempt to reinvent search with it’s new search service Microsoft Bing. The new search attempts to integrate various searching tools such as maps, poduct reviews, price comparisons, and authority medical sites to produce relevant answers to what people are looking for.
May 8 2009 Categorized Under: Selling Ads No Commented
Does the Text-Link-Ads Wordpress Plugin reduce your PR or does Google penalize you in some way for installing this plugin on your blog? I’m wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. They do pay pretty well and I can see why Google would try to kill them off since they eat into their adsense profits.
I don’t know when I started hating Google, but I do ….so much!
May 7 2009 Categorized Under: Social Media No Commented
Holy crap, this has nothing to do with SEO per say, but I think this blog may eventually expand to include various methods of promotion. Way to choose a domain name!
Anyway, I think I just stumbled upon something really exciting. I love Facebook. I didn’t get it at first, but once I did I was hooked. I’m on there every day. I’m an addict.
May 7 2009 Categorized Under: Backlinks No Commented
Speaking of Affiliate Summit conferences, there was this one dude I heard at the 2007 Vegas event that made an impression. I wasn’t really all that interested in SEO at the time because it takes time and work and I am lazy.
Let me rephrase that. It’s not really that I’m lazy. I don’t mind working my ass off, I just like to see an immediate reward for all my hard work. ‘Pay Per Click’ let me do that easily. I could create a new campaign, have it running in an hour, then test it the next day. It’s easy to keep track of your efforts of ver the span of a few days or a couple of weeks. The idea of having to wait months for the search engines to index your site and update didn’t appeal to me at all.
May 7 2009 Categorized Under: Paid Search No Commented
Hello.
Let me introduce myself.
I’m 34 years old. I’ve been doing Internet marketing for the last 5 years. Specifically, I’ve been an affiliate marketer. For the last 4 years I’ve made enough money to quit my well paying job (with benefits) and work from home in my pajamas. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Last year the shit really hit the fan. The economy started to deteriorate badly, and the beautiful six figure salary that I had achieved started to dwindle fast. I started to panic and remained in a panicked state for the next 8 months. Not to mention, I had some personal things going on at the time, the least of which was a messy and very costly divorce.
So here I am. I survived the downturn, but things are far from back to normal. At the height of my glory I made about $20k in one month with arbitrage affiliate marketing. I never created a single landing page. I simply bought traffic from Google in the form of adwords ads and sent the traffic directly to the merchant’s landing page through the affiliate link. Basically the “Google Cash” method. When I handed over my $67, I was certain that I’d be fighting them to get a refund because there was no way this was going to work. But there was something so simple and beautiful about this idea. It made so much sense to me. I gave it a shot. My life changed.