Jake Rinard – Moremerchant.com – ShoeMoney h8r of the week!

by Jeremy Schoemaker on November 12, 2007 · 69 comments

(amazingly the post linked to has changed significantly since this was originally written)

Jake Rinard works hard. He has made money on the internet since 1997 and has been a financial adviser since 1996!. Jake ALSO maintains a day job as a corporate business manager for a engineering company. Jake also is a Marriage and family therapist.

So why bring Jake up? Well he took time out of his 5 day job life to post about how I make him SICK! This post brought shoemoney.com a total of 112 new visitors who have never EVER visited before and of those 112, 56 of them became RSS subscribers. That is like a 50% conversion! SCORE!

The post he wrote is about how I must have cheated the feedburner stats… or something (I did not get very far… its a bit to fluffy for me and I lost interest). I would just like to officially state the technique I used was ok’d by former Feedburner Vice President Google Employee (not sure his title with feedburner there), Rick Klau.

I would just like to thank Mr Rinard for the new subscribers. I only hope I can bring him some back.

About the author...

– who has written 2415 posts on ShoeMoney.com.

Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.

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{ 67 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Luke November 12, 2007 at 5:14 pm

All’s fair in love and war!

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2 sir jorge November 12, 2007 at 5:21 pm

That’s just too funny. That guy just doesn’t get it.

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3 roger November 12, 2007 at 5:22 pm

wow amazing some dumshit would give that much attention to something that makes him “sick”

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4 nickC November 12, 2007 at 5:25 pm

his site totally looks like some Made For AdSense piece of crap yet he is trying to act like he is taking a stand on something? wtf?

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5 Todd Mintz November 12, 2007 at 5:46 pm

Of course, you’re going to send him many more visitors than he sent you…but few will likely subscribe.

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6 Brent November 12, 2007 at 6:04 pm
7 Rock November 12, 2007 at 6:18 pm

Just shake them hatas off.

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8 John M Weaver November 12, 2007 at 6:28 pm

He’ll get over it…everyone has there opinion. His just isn’t the same as ALL of your readers.

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9 Roger November 12, 2007 at 6:43 pm

LINKBAIT!!! Sick I tell ya! Sick!

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10 SonicReducer November 12, 2007 at 7:04 pm

Hmmm. I see a new trend developing here. H8R Bait. What a great way to get a link back from Shoemoney.com :)

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11 Chris Jacobson November 12, 2007 at 7:05 pm

He doesn’t hate you… he just wants attention and he got it. Good job.

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12 Kiley November 12, 2007 at 7:20 pm

pOWNED,

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13 Jake November 12, 2007 at 7:21 pm

hey Thanks Shoe! Long time reader… in the words of Rush Limbaugh listeners. ;)

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14 Jake November 12, 2007 at 7:24 pm

I have read some of the comments and do want to say that I am not a h8r. In fact Shoemoney is one of the first sites I visit each day.

I was hoping to generate some great hits back and I appreciate everything that has come so far!

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15 Jake November 12, 2007 at 7:34 pm

You don’t think? hahaha.

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16 Jake November 12, 2007 at 7:35 pm

Thanks man! Looks like you get it.

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17 Jake November 12, 2007 at 7:35 pm

Actually my site has less ads than shoe, john, and my friend Darren. But as john says we are in it to make money.. right?

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18 Mike 11|15 Media November 12, 2007 at 7:48 pm

So what happened to the post? I read it as well before Shoe posted it here, but now it’s nowhere to be found.

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19 Jake November 12, 2007 at 7:50 pm

Its there. Not sure, maybe your connection is bad.

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20 Juan November 12, 2007 at 7:56 pm

pwned!

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21 Jake November 12, 2007 at 7:58 pm

Wow! With conversions like that you would think that I should be paid more from my advertisers!!
Anyone want an ad on moremerchant j/k

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22 OnlineCashFlow November 12, 2007 at 8:06 pm

So… what is that evil technique? ;)

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23 Dark Side Affiliate November 12, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Haha, this is hilarious…

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24 Jake November 12, 2007 at 8:38 pm

Never denied. I decided it was a bit more negative than I wanted. I like to remain as positive as possible. You will also take now… I changed it 24 hours before this post was posted.

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25 Hustle Strategy November 12, 2007 at 8:57 pm

“All warfare is based on deception. “

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26 Mike Huang November 12, 2007 at 9:54 pm

Wow. Congrats on having something bad turned good :) I sure wish these kind of things happen to all bloggers.

-Mike

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27 Link Snitch November 12, 2007 at 10:21 pm

and Internet Marketing.

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28 Ventrilo November 12, 2007 at 10:53 pm

you should take it outside and fight it out

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29 George Burke November 12, 2007 at 11:35 pm

Sometime you beat them and really get a luagh out of you enemies ignorance. Victory sweet vicotry,

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30 Ken Savage November 13, 2007 at 12:56 am

hahaha so now anyone who would have taken you somewhat serious now thinks you’re a joke and might go out of their way to sabotage you.

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31 bmunch November 13, 2007 at 2:25 am

Hey, that’s not fair. He slam you and got a linkback from you.

Now I got to write a post to slam you so that you can feature me in one of your post.

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32 lyricsreg November 13, 2007 at 2:35 am

Everyone’s entitled to an opinion.

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33 Blog Contests November 13, 2007 at 3:36 am

Someone is a bit too serious

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34 John Motson November 13, 2007 at 6:29 am

LOL, yea what a crappy precedent to set…. he badmouths you link.

Or is that part of a big plan Shoe… you are hoping to get all these people bad mouthing you and linking to your site… on account of this one guy.

Damn man, you think ahead :)

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35 ismar November 13, 2007 at 6:47 am

what doesn’t impress me is hate, but how does shoe track all these things?

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36 Mubin November 13, 2007 at 7:08 am

Where is the advertise page?

Conversion seems to be good enough.

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37 Gecko Tales November 13, 2007 at 7:34 am

There’s no such thing as bad press
Shoe just proved that phrase true

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38 Deborah Dera November 13, 2007 at 8:29 am

Interesting. If you really told John what you did, and neither of you is going to say a word, I sincerely doubt cheating was involved. A legitimate technique does not have to have a long lasting impact as long as it does what you need it to do for a time and a place. Obviously, that’s what you were after. No harm. No foul.

Deborah
http://www.therhythmofwrite.com

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39 JoeTech.com November 13, 2007 at 8:39 am

You just posted a big fat invitation for hate mail from people just wanting a link. Great conversion rate, too. This guy may get some return temporary traffic, but you win in the end with the subscribers.

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40 Jake November 13, 2007 at 8:40 am

Thanks everyone for the commenting. Yes I wrote the post hoping to benefit… Isn’t that what a site like mine does?

I asked myself how I could benefit from this RSS contest. I got thousands of free advertising so far. Pretty sweet.

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41 ***V*** November 13, 2007 at 8:48 am

How did Shoe track the RSS subscription conversion from the new visitors?

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42 賃貸 大阪 November 13, 2007 at 9:49 am

So the widget wasn’t a widget but static images to throw John Chow off. Then the real number was much higher, but now it is much lower….

So who really won?

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43 Ed November 13, 2007 at 9:51 am

More crap like this, and soon you won’t be able to make any blog posts without a whole crew of people running around saying its linkbait.

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44 Money from Surveys November 13, 2007 at 10:41 am

I was going to ask the same thing. What tools does Shoe use to allow him to know what visitors did what?

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45 Hustle Strategy November 13, 2007 at 11:06 am

and what did they win, i am still not seeing the the banner. i guess that means chow is more evil, not posting the banner? we know who the winners are and who the losers are.

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46 Affiliate Unleashed November 13, 2007 at 11:54 am

Hahaha 50% conversion is amazing. I’m curious as to how you got so many subscribers too. :D

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47 jim November 13, 2007 at 2:49 pm

50% conversion rate is awesome, you should buy an ad :)

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48 BloggerDollar November 13, 2007 at 3:06 pm

Haha that’s great I guess it will bring a new wave of hate posts. I hate you shoemoney :)

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49 ismar November 13, 2007 at 3:36 pm

Yea… someone should email that question to him…

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50 King Jacob November 13, 2007 at 4:20 pm

It definently proves that bad press is good for you if you have a good product.

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51 King Jacob November 13, 2007 at 4:23 pm

He didnt really slam anyone, he just said he was disappointed.

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52 motorsportBABESau November 13, 2007 at 5:19 pm

no such thing as bad press

especially on the internets!

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53 Jon - Art of Money November 13, 2007 at 7:16 pm

Google analytics. Shoe has written about it before, you set a “conversion goal” tied to RSS subscription signups.

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54 John M Weaver November 13, 2007 at 7:40 pm

Quoting Limbaugh…I love it…HA!

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55 John M Weaver November 13, 2007 at 7:46 pm

Bottom line you have to watch what you say…One bad comment spreads way faster than one good one. Even though I understand the mistake…you still will forever be on the ShoeMoney h8r list…booo!

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56 Jake November 13, 2007 at 9:57 pm

Well.. marketing works! Negative or positive it worked out for Shoe and Me.

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57 Jake November 13, 2007 at 9:58 pm

You can contact me for advertisements through the contact me page.

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58 Jake November 13, 2007 at 9:59 pm

Shoe got great puc.. and I have seen a small increase in subscribers as well. Based on the amount of email traffic and advertisement requests it seems I have won as well.

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59 Neon November 14, 2007 at 2:49 pm

you did bring some visitors to him. at least i went over to check out the post.

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60 serge November 14, 2007 at 2:56 pm

well, I think its time I started hate bashing on my blog, after all its in my url…lol.

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61 Jake November 15, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Yeah, no slam, no hate just disappointed but who cares.. I am nobody to Shoe except a longtime reader who has made him a few bucks here and there.

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62 Jake November 15, 2007 at 5:29 pm

My readers are some of the best. I don’t have 14000 readers but my readers are some of the best converting readers around.

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63 Joeychgo November 16, 2007 at 10:40 pm

Yeah it is! LOL

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64 varun November 19, 2007 at 12:07 pm

looks like paid per post to me. :)

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65 Jake November 20, 2007 at 9:23 am

Shoe: Your top commentators seems to not be working correctly anymore. Possibly some changes :) ?

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66 James B. December 3, 2007 at 3:05 pm

LOL thats funny. You really got a good conversion on that one. I bet this post infuriates him.

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67 Jake December 20, 2007 at 11:11 pm

I am shocked at how lame Shoe was on this article. He removed the nofollow links after the fact. Even though I had him linked!

Seems little to me.

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