Its been a while since i opened the place up for questions so fire away. You can ask anything you want and if I can (without breaching any NDA’s or Non-competes) I will try to answer it.
Please only put questions in the comments. If you have a comment on others questions save it for when I answer it makes it much easier on me then having to delete them 
I will close the comments on this post by noon CST tomorrow or by the time it reaches 100 comments whatever comes first.
closed for comments pending answers
January 22, 2008 at 6:43 pm
how can you find out if an advertiser is ripping you off your commissions?
January 22, 2008 at 5:18 pm
What are you doing it all for? I mean, money is great, but what is the end game you envision for you and your family when you are 70 and contemplating how you spent your life? Going to go the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation route?
January 22, 2008 at 4:57 pm
What are your thoughts on PayPerPlay?
January 22, 2008 at 4:49 pm
How can you track keywords ROI when running an affiliate website that aggregates product feeds. The key words take you to the site but then people go and click on a product and the SID only tells you which are the converting products , but you have no indication which are the best key words to use and which ones to eliminate. How do you do this on your websites?
January 22, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Everyithing you have mentioned has been listed in his “2007 Blog Statistics” post, be sure to check it out.
January 22, 2008 at 3:41 pm
He actually does and he lists all of them in the “ShoeMoney Social” section which can be found by scrolling down a little.
January 22, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I’m curious on how you see search engine algorithms changing in the next 5-10 years?
January 22, 2008 at 3:36 pm
When will you be opening/launching fighters.com?
January 22, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Where and when is HDNet’s “Inside MMA” recorded? And when is the first M-1 Global show?
January 22, 2008 at 12:23 pm
What is a typical RPM / EPM for a site focused on mobile / ringtones e.g. what sort of cash is typical off 1000 page views for that kind of site?
January 22, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Can I have a cookie?
January 22, 2008 at 11:54 am
What do you do when a campaign simply dies on you when promoting it via PPC? I find that on a few campaigns I run, they will go great for like 4-5 weeks, and then one day conversions stop. I’ll go back and revise the campaign but still continues to convert poorly. How do you keep a campaign from not dieing out when you know it has plenty of potential?
January 22, 2008 at 11:38 am
I can write and I have computer skills. I like gadgets. I know a little about SEO. I want to get started making money on line, but the amount of information out there is overwhelming. I have a real job, and will only do this 2 hours per day to start. Since I have a real job, I can spend $1000 to get going.
What do you recommend?
Thanks,
Mark
MasonWorld.com
January 22, 2008 at 11:22 am
If you were building a tree fort; what would you use all wood or all metal & why?
January 22, 2008 at 10:24 am
Jeremy,
Since hindsight is 20/20… What is a mistake that you made in the beginning of affiliate marketing? How would you do it over again if you had the opportunity?
Thanks,
Debby
January 22, 2008 at 10:19 am
Hi Jeremy, If you had to take a guess as to where Affiliate marketing is going to be in 5 years what would your answer be? What about 10 years?
January 22, 2008 at 10:15 am
What was your trick to beating John Chow in the last hours of the RSS subscriber contest?
January 22, 2008 at 10:04 am
What three things have you learned and/or changed over the past couple years that have made the most significant impact on your earnings and your business growth?
January 22, 2008 at 9:08 am
Yoo Jeremy, can you report on how BlogRush is doing for you? Do you keep it up because Reese is a friend or is it bringing you some targeted traffic?
January 22, 2008 at 9:08 am
I remember reading a guest post by Paul (uberaffiliate) back in Sept. about making money off of Facebook but I was interested to see if you’re doing anything in that arena or if you have any plans to, whether through PPC or with an application.
January 22, 2008 at 8:54 am
My only question is, when are you planning to visit Montreal?
January 22, 2008 at 8:22 am
will you be attending affiliate summit west 2008?
January 22, 2008 at 8:09 am
do you think sphinn will take the bait every time you put it out there? seemed pretty successful. could you guess how many new readers you got last week from that alone?
January 22, 2008 at 7:59 am
Any more little Shoe’s in the near future??
January 22, 2008 at 7:46 am
With all the businesses and websites that you run and everything else that you do, I’d like to know what you view as your greatest accomplishment to date. Thanks…
January 22, 2008 at 7:42 am
What is your fav fast food?
January 22, 2008 at 7:07 am
I’ve got an idea for a new company that would likely give adsense a run for their money. It’s unique but I don’t have the time or resources to make it reality, you have the background and resources. Would you be interested in hearing this idea, and willing to pay me a nominal (aka very small) fee if you like the idea enough to give it a go?
January 22, 2008 at 5:47 am
What do you think of higher end coaching programs like stompernet for advancing your skills quickly? Do you think as long as you get a positive ROI then it’s all good or do you think there is a limit that you should be willing to pay for any knowledge. I believe stompernet is 797/month.
January 22, 2008 at 5:11 am
Hey Shoe,
Do you have any advice on how I can best monetize a news site, such as:
http://www.bad-news-day.com
Cheers!
January 22, 2008 at 4:36 am
Could you give us some of top ten marketing tips, some for example that work and some that fail.
thanks.
January 22, 2008 at 4:22 am
Ok mate how do you stop website hijacking/url/scrapers/stealers/bots. etc etc.
What is your defence and ways so to speak.
Would not mind you write up a “topic starter” on the subject with all your knowledge.
regards.
January 22, 2008 at 3:36 am
similar to a question asked above, I would like to ask if you started to see serious success online before or after you started to lose weight.
January 22, 2008 at 3:20 am
How much time do you get for work seeing as you have a young kid about the same age as mine? I know I should cut back more on work sometimes, but it’s darn tough at the same time…
January 22, 2008 at 3:18 am
What blogs do your read when you’re educating yourself?
Do you like your Google Base ?
Can I get a free Shoemoney Shirt ?
January 22, 2008 at 3:01 am
What websites do you look at for fun? Do you waste any time on webcomics? bash.org? digg? storg.net?
January 22, 2008 at 2:57 am
do ” A ” lister blogger like you still blog hop..or you get most of your news to heads up. if you are blog hoping any tips for your reader
January 22, 2008 at 2:54 am
What is your favorite submission hold? Not to see on tv, but to actually catch someone with in practice. Which Sub is your Bread and Butter?
January 22, 2008 at 2:48 am
How would you monetize a 3,000 uniques a day, 25,000 pageviews/day flash site that for obvious reasons doesn’t do well with Google adsense?
January 22, 2008 at 2:40 am
What can we expect from the new showmoney book being released in Spring…. tease us with some details shoe…
January 22, 2008 at 2:37 am
If I could snap my fingers, and you could have anything you wanted, anything at all, what would it be?
January 22, 2008 at 2:01 am
Hi Ladies & Gents,
What are the latest opinions on sponsored themes i bought a custom theme with resale rights but have decided not to use it! Would you offer it as a prize and add your link to the footer or should i add a link in my footer and just offer it for free download to get link’s?
I’m in the business of Scuba Diving so do you have different opinions if I use this way for promotion than say if it was a make money online blog?
It will be two weeks before the company is finished at which point I will email my 3000 email subscribers (subscribed to me directly in person) part of this email will ask any diving bloggers’ to link to me to win a diving prize so already I will create a small marketing buzz for the company in the area any other ideas?
January 22, 2008 at 1:52 am
What is on your dream landing page and what does its layout look like?
January 22, 2008 at 1:39 am
I won a prize here a couple of months ago – in the contest you ran as a part of your RSS war with John Chow. The prize was a copy of PPCRiches, worth $297.
I had a bad experience with this contest – in the sense that, despite repeated requests directly to you, the prize never actually turned up.
So, the two questions I have are:
1) Can I have my prize please; and
2) Given the difficulties, would you recommend to other bloggers considering running contests that they make sure they have all the prizes physically in their possession before they offer them in an actual contest.
January 22, 2008 at 1:30 am
I’m launching a site soon and want to make some big waves. How do you get online and offline media to give your new sites coverage?
January 22, 2008 at 1:23 am
If I remember correctly you live in Omaha or near it which is KC Royals territory, are you a fan of the boys in blue?
Also, since that is off-topic I’ll shoot off another:
What is the biggest tip you can give someone who is just starting out in the web business with little to no money?
January 22, 2008 at 1:17 am
Please share your traffic stats?
As a top technorati 100 blogger –
it would really be great if you could make your blog traffic stats public
– like so many ohthers have done.
seoptimization.blog.com/1221628/
Also give a detailed year end overview for 2007 – including:
Social site referrers
Search Engine referrers
Search terms
Geographic Demographics of Visitors
Uniques per day
January 22, 2008 at 1:15 am
I’m not going to bore you with money/success questions. I’m going to ask about your computer. Why do you use Apple and what are some of your favorite Apple features and programs (do you use OSX leopard?). Also, how do you like those 30″ Cinema Displays. Do you dual boot any other OS’s (Debian, Ubuntu, etc..)?
Yea…. I just ordered a Mac Pro, Single Quad 2.8GHZ, 4gb Ram, 30″ ACD, Nvidia 8800GT – all those goodies.
January 22, 2008 at 1:12 am
how many keywords do you consider enough for a long tail strategy on PPC targeting landing pages?
January 22, 2008 at 1:11 am
Shoe,
I always found your webmaster radio shows very informative and well produced. I have two questions with regard to the show:
1) What kind of technical setup did you use to record those shows (Skype, mixer, etc)?
2) How long was it before you started selling ads for the show, and how lucrative was the ad revenue?
Thanks,
Paul
January 22, 2008 at 1:04 am
When was the first time you actually made a nice profit Online. Like not the first time you made a dollar, the first time you made your real sum?
January 22, 2008 at 12:55 am
When you have a limited or not particulary big amount of money. It can seem daunting putting almost everything you have into start-up for a new idea.
What are your views on small start-ups would you recommend a person put small amounts into something and slowly release something or just shove everything they have into something and push it as hard as they can. If they truly believe in it?
January 22, 2008 at 12:51 am
How do you take your blog to the ‘next level’? i.e. I’m around 600 RSS subscribers. How do I top 1,000 in a short period of time?
January 22, 2008 at 12:10 am
How do you decide what attack posts to respond to in the form of a post on your blog?
January 22, 2008 at 12:00 am
what happened to clickshield.com ?
is it still available and if not, how do you fight PPC click fraud ?
January 21, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I have been doing affiliate marketing for several years as a sole proprietorship. Do you recommend forming an LLC or S-Corp in order to protect my assets? Which form do you find most advantageous to you and why?
January 21, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Do you really think you’re going hit it big with the MMA sites or is it a case of working on what you want to work on and not what will make the most money? For example, what’s the revenue model of these sites? Just ads?
January 21, 2008 at 11:40 pm
How do you make market your affiliate program, I know a lot of people are afraid of not being paid by a company, but how do you get your name out there w/o having to join an affiliate network?
January 21, 2008 at 11:14 pm
If you were starting out as affiliate newbie ( with limited money in hand…ok say $50) how will you go about making your mark?
January 21, 2008 at 11:14 pm
If this were reversed, what questions would you ask us?
With your business successes, have you ever considered moving out of Nebraska?
Does your wife ever get jealous of you taking pictures with all those other women? (zivity model, for example)
Aside from writing articles, how would you market/advertise or in general attract traffic to your sites without spending money?
January 21, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Why do you still wear your glasses even though you had eye surgery?
January 21, 2008 at 11:08 pm
New blog or site $1000, best way to invest it
January 21, 2008 at 10:43 pm
How is your server setup done and do you use a failover system?
January 21, 2008 at 10:38 pm
i have noticed that you have no social profiles, or at least no active ones on sites such as stumbleupon, mybloglog, and sphinn. Does this mean that you do not think social media marketing is necessary to grow a blog? If so what other means of creating buzz about your blog would you advise. And you cant say search engine keyword optimization, because you made it clear a few posts ago that you are not SEO.
January 21, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Whats the best way to get low inital min cpc costs on adwords?
January 21, 2008 at 10:34 pm
What methods do you use for tracking your conversions on PPC, such as sub-id, conversion codes with the internal engine or your own web beacon pixels, and what systems do you use to measure the progress, such as manually downloading the sub id reports, using a soap systems, or a custom system?
January 21, 2008 at 10:26 pm
What do you think of Mahalo and Wiki Search relative to Google?
January 21, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I’m sure you get this all the time but – what’s the best way for a (relatively) new blog to make money? I’ve had $5 days on AdSense but, naturally, I want to up that amount routinely. Any suggestions?
January 21, 2008 at 10:20 pm
If you were just starting out in the affiliate game and could only use one book, one website and one application to get started…What would you use?
January 21, 2008 at 10:19 pm
just curious your thoughts on incredibill? He seems to like to take shots at you.
January 21, 2008 at 10:17 pm
SM how do you say you are not a SEO? You won several SEO contests and by looking at the structures on your other sites you obviously understand the ins and outs of SEO and you rank tops for some of the most competitive keywords. WTF is the deal?
January 21, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Where is your favorite place to blog? And do you find it easier to blog around people (like at a coffee shop) or in the privacy of your own place?
Personally, I am getting into the habit of blogging at coffee shops on the weekends to get out.
January 21, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Shoe did you get anyone to debate you on your show for SEO? Why do you think Oilman took shots at you but would not come on?