2005

It all comes back to the domain name

December 11, 2005

Everyone wants to know how to get traffic to their websites. Including me. Sure SERPS are great in the short term for spamword-spamword-spamword-spamword.com but its not going to last. When you do fall off the search engines is anyone going to remember your long ass name? If someone did remember your long domain name are… read more

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Richard Pryor Dead At 65

December 11, 2005

I normally dont write about this too off topic but I wanted to acknowledge the passing of Richard Pryor: From the AP: (AP) LOS ANGELES Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, died of a heart attack at age 65.… read more

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A great way to get word of mouth traffic

December 10, 2005

One of my best secrets to get word of mouth traffic is to post a ad in the classifieds for hiring. Yes HIRING. You see if you place a advertisement it costs you TONS (usually 10x or more) yet if you make a post about a job position that you have open you will see… read more

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Seo is dead

December 10, 2005

When I was in San Jose last summer at the SES convention, I attended a session which dealt with contextual advertising. In the panel was Jason Calcanis and when asked about SEO he said to the audience that he thought “seo was dead”. I was pretty shocked to hear this self made millionaire announce such… read more

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Chitika -Impulse clicks ok but not curiousity

December 9, 2005

I noticed to day on Chitikas website that there company slogin is “Chitika, Inc. – The Leader in Impulse Merchandising”. Geez I dont mean to constantly be raging on Chtika but with there recent issues with there removal of “curiousity clicks” and now auditing of accounts getting rid of “bad clicks” I mean what they… read more

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Alexia dislexia

December 9, 2005

My alexa information for shoemoney.com has always been wrong. Its always showed information for a site that I dont even own. This has recently buged me a lot. I wrote them a few days ago: —-Original Message—– From: jeremy@shoemoney.com [mailto:jeremy@shoemoney.com] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:30 PM To: alexa1 Subject: shoemoney.com showing info for other… read more

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3 months of blogging under my belt

December 7, 2005

So today marks the 2nd month of my blog being alive. I started it shortly after I returned from the SES in San Jose. I originally just wanted a place to store all my photos from the SES dealio but then I found WPG2 and thought why not try this blog thing out. I mean… read more

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The Coke theory – small degrees of seperation

December 4, 2005

Here is something I came up with a few months back when talking to a friend I later posted about it at digitalpoint and recieved a lot of feedback. I like to call it the coke theory…. that is how I explain it to people anyway. Basically coke can make cherry coke, new coke, diet… read more

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Your Chitika Referral ID here

December 4, 2005

So for whatever reason Google and Yahoo have decided my original Chitika post should rank high. I guess perhaps I could be thought of in bed with Chitika…. After all I called out the person at problogger.net yet I am doing the same thing. (earning referrals from my post about success). So I figure I… read more

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Digitalpoint continues to pioneer; Takes over Webmasterworld in traffic ranks

December 2, 2005

My Intarwebnet friend Shawn Hogan from digitalpoint.com has released his Geo Visitors tool a while back and I just got around to implementing it here on shoemoney.com. Notice the little up in the right hand corner? If you click on it you can see all the visitors and there locations in the world that have… read more

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All your Google Base are belong to porn

December 1, 2005

So since the pubcon conference where Google debut there new Google Base I was pretty excited to check it out and play with it a bit. I wanted to see just how effective it was so I submitted some word articles, some press releases, and then made my own personal profile. After I made my… read more

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Problogger in bed with Chitika early maybe not so smart

December 1, 2005

At first I thought it was weird how much problogger.net promoted Chitika. Then I found it even more weird when I got a email from Chitika telling me to visit problogger for tips on better conversions… Maybe its just ironic but perhaps maybe this “expert” had “incentives” to promote Chitika. I am just wondering to… read more

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Why Adsense Firefox Ads Pay Garbage

November 30, 2005

When Google introduced the $1 per download of Firefox campaign I never bought into it. I even own a firefox forum and still didnt think it was worth it. Dont get me wrong I really really like Firefox. THE THING IS THIS IS CALLED CPA AND 1$ IS CRAP FOR A CPA AD Let me… read more

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New seo tool – bushing up my h4×0r

November 29, 2005

I am trying to learn php for a new up coming project I have called directoryofdirectorys. Anyway for now I wrote this really light weight domain information too. To access it click here This is a brand new script not to be confused with my serps script which is located here

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Yahoo Search Marketing Changes

November 29, 2005

Yahoo Search Marketing just updated there affiliate news/changes. Here is the basic rundown Earn Cash with New Incentive Program – Affiliates that exceed their Sponsored Search sign-up goal during November are eligible to earn incentives of up to $500! Keyword Suggestions for the Holiday Season – In your account you now see they have suggested… read more

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