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

(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.



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  1. Jake

    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.

  2. James B.

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

  3. Jake

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

  4. varun

    looks like paid per post to me. :)

  5. Joeychgo

    Yeah it is! LOL

  6. Jake

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

  7. Jake

    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.

  8. serge

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

  9. Neon

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

  10. Jake

    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.

  11. Jake

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

  12. Jake

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

  13. John M Weaver

    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!

  14. John M Weaver

    Quoting Limbaugh…I love it…HA!

  15. Jon - Art of Money

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

  16. motorsportBABESau

    no such thing as bad press

    especially on the internets!

  17. King Jacob

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

  18. King Jacob

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

  19. ismar

    Yea… someone should email that question to him…

  20. BloggerDollar

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

  21. jim

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

  22. Affiliate Unleashed

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

  23. Hustle Strategy

    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.

  24. Money from Surveys

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

  25. Ed

    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.

  26. 賃貸 大阪

    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?

  27. ***V***

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

  28. Jake

    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.

  29. JoeTech.com

    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.

  30. Deborah Dera

    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

  31. Gecko Tales

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

  32. Mubin

    Where is the advertise page?

    Conversion seems to be good enough.

  33. ismar

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

  34. John Motson

    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 :)

  35. Blog Contests

    Someone is a bit too serious

  36. lyricsreg

    Everyone’s entitled to an opinion.

  37. bmunch

    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.

  38. Ken Savage

    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.

  39. George Burke

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

  40. Ventrilo

    you should take it outside and fight it out

  41. Link Snitch

    and Internet Marketing.

  42. Mike Huang

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

    -Mike

  43. Hustle Strategy

    “All warfare is based on deception. “

  44. Jake

    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.

  45. Dark Side Affiliate

    Haha, this is hilarious…

  46. OnlineCashFlow

    So… what is that evil technique? ;)

  47. Jake

    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

  48. Juan

    pwned!

  49. Jake

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

  50. Mike 11|15 Media

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

  51. Jake

    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?

  52. Jake

    Thanks man! Looks like you get it.

  53. Jake

    You don’t think? hahaha.

  54. Jake

    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!

  55. Jake

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

  56. Kiley

    pOWNED,

  57. Chris Jacobson

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

  58. SonicReducer

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

  59. Roger

    LINKBAIT!!! Sick I tell ya! Sick!

  60. John M Weaver

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

  61. Rock

    Just shake them hatas off.

  62. Brent

    Excellent! It has changed too – here is the Google Cache from yesterday:

    http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:yP4qxuB8Ny8J:moremerchant.com/shoemoneycom-makes-me-sick+shoemoney+site:moremerchant.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

  63. Todd Mintz

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

  64. nickC

    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?

  65. roger

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

  66. sir jorge

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

  67. Luke

    All’s fair in love and war!

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