2006

I Hate Gambling Money In The Stock Market

December 31, 2006

*sorry I am going to get off on a rant here* My wife has it setup that every month a huge chunk is taken out of our bank accounts and automatically goes into this brokerage account where our “wealth manager” then decides what we should invest in. I dont frickin get it. I think its [...]

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SEOBlackHat QuadZilla on Jan 2 Episode Of Net Income

December 29, 2006

That is right boys and girls QuadZilla will be my guest on this weeks epiosode of Net Income and he is going to be interviewed by none other then Time Magazine’s Person of the year…. YOU! So post your questions you want to ask seoblackhat then listen live on Tuesday Jan 2nd at 5pm. You [...]

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I Know I Have All Supplemental Results

December 28, 2006

For the last 6 months or so almost all pages on www.shoemoney.com have gone supplemental. I swear I think I get 1 email every other day at least letting me know that… So what does that mean? Well evidently Google thinks my pages have little value or something like that. Its ok… I rank #1 [...]

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WordPress Black Tshirt!

December 27, 2006

Today I got this package… Nice brown package and I opened it to reveal a WordPress T shirt!! Now I dont know who to thank? There was nothing in the package to indicate who it was from just a card saying “Merry Christmas!”. Who ever you are thanks!

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How Hackers Are Using Google To Pwn Your Site

December 26, 2006

As most of you know a few months back my site was hacked. What many people dont know is that was actually the first of 2 times the box was hacked. The first time the box was hacked I had made the mistake of making the web files on the server writeable by the web [...]

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Webguerrilla Bitch Slaps SEMPO and DidIT

December 25, 2006

When I speak in public or talk about SEM I always stress the 2 sides…. SEO and PPC. My company’s story is pretty easy. We found success with SEO, made some decent checks with contextual advertising, then negotiated direct deals with affiliate programs that allowed us to leverage a higher payout for playing with PPC. [...]

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Google Quality Score Beta

December 25, 2006

I really like the new quality score display on Google Adwords. Now you can see instantly what your quality score is. No more guessing if your price is due to a crappy landing page or if the market just commands those prices. I will write on this more as I get more experience with it. [...]

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Happy Hollidays From My Family To Yours

December 23, 2006

Wherever in the world you are I wish you a happy, safe, holiday from my family to yours

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Pubcon Video Fom Mediadonis Marcus Tandler

December 20, 2006

My Good Friend Marcus Tandler came all the way from Germany to goto the 2006 Las Vegas Pubcon last month. Here is his video from the event. It is a MUST SEE. Featured people on the video – Me, Jenn Slegg, Shawn Hogan, BOTW, Matt Cutts, Todd Malicoat, Adam – ShandyKing, Chris Boggs and many [...]

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10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Aquire Yahoo In 2007

December 16, 2006

Microsoft sat back while Google showed everyone how to take a search engine from 2 kinds having fun to a top 20 American company. How did they do it? Well just look at their revenue numbers and you will see a massive percentage comes from the Adwords & Adsense products. Now Microsoft is trying to [...]

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Yahoo Search Marketing Credit Of $10,000.00 – Still Dont Think You Should Do PPC Analytics?

December 15, 2006

The worlds largest full service SEM agency, Pepperjam Search, was recently credited 10,000 for click fraud giving a “courtesy credit” from Yahoo Search Marketing for $10,000.00. So how did they get the credit? Well you can read about the full story here. I HIGHLY recommend you read the full post. On my radio show and [...]

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I Been Blog Tagged – 5 Things You Never Knew About Me

December 14, 2006

Wow I just got blog tagged by Andy Beal. Seems like a pretty cool topic… 5 things you might not have known about me.. hrmm ok here goes! I have never read a book in my life from cover to cover…. seriously…. I lost 240 lbs in 15 months thanks to weight loss surgery I [...]

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Hot Chicks At Search Engine Conferences

December 14, 2006

the LORD of MARKETING has posted the Ladies of Pubcon on his blogspot. Interesting post but whats this ? OHH 2 of them have on ShoeMoney shirts WAZZZZZZZZZZZZUPPPPPPP!

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Net Income 11/12 Affiliate Issues

December 13, 2006

Yesterdays show was pretty interesting. My good friend Todd Mallicoat and Shawn Turner came on to talk with me about affiliate issues. Todd had solicited questions on his blog that people wanted us to cover (basically he did all the work =P). So I was put on the spot to answer some tough affiliate questions. [...]

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Update To The Flycell Commission Junction Stuff

December 13, 2006

Ok so last when we left our friends Flycell (the ringtone company) were telling everyone in this thread that they had paid all debts to Comission Junction (the affiliate partner company) and CJ was the problem Now users are posting responses from Commission Junction saying that Flycell has been suspended: Good Afternoon Alexander, Thank you [...]

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