Jun 8 2008
Ask Questions Round 9
By Jeremy Schoemaker
78 comments 
I will leave the questions open all day. Try to search before asking to see if your question has been asked before.
closed pending answers.
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What do you think about people copying things you do. Like Rand now doing open q&a and tons of people doing the free shirt friday?
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What’s the weirdest, scariest question or request you’ve ever had? Any crazies out there?
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Have you ever thought to make SEO seminars around the world?
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How many servers are you running? What do they do? Specs? How much bandwidth do you use overall?
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What do you think of Gina Carano?
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What do you think of my blog http://www.rajaietalks.com which I fully designed and coded?
Given the fact that I’m 14 years old.
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I’ve been trying to get ahold of you for weeks regarding past unfinished business and all my emails have gone unanswered. Should I take the hint or they getting filtered?
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Do you know if Federated Media is available worldwide or is it available for US bloggers only ? I cannot find it in Google, maybe you can help ?
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elgg or drupal or any suggestions?
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I’ve been toying with the idea of organising a Wordcamp here in Bangkok. What would it take for you to come over and do a session on a subject I know you are passionate about?
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Wazaaaap! First, what is your favorite Major League Baseball Team? Second, referring to the ppc to affiliate marketing strategy (arbitrage) I just found over the years that the best plan is to exploit and take the most money as soon as possible because I just found that when something is working then the advertiser just kick me out. What do you think?
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What ad network would you choose for PurposeGames.com?
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hey jeremy, thanks for keeping the q&a opportunity alive.
were you disappointed to see faber pullver go all five rounds? i was.
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How much would you pay me if I offered to wear a fighters.com t-shirt at UFC88 and had floor seats?
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which server language or programming do you build your bots or spiders, or automation tools?
in affliate marketing is ppc a must if not any helpful tips for non ppc affliated marketers?
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Hey Big Shoe, I’m looking at starting an incentives site but as so many of them are scams, I’m trying to figure out a unique way to make sure people (most people) know it’s NOT a scam, and that it actually is legit. Any ideas?
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Landing pages: Which factors do you find to have more relevance?
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How would you try to convert traffic your site sees from Google Images search. I have an image that is number one for decent keyword, but I am not sure how to profit. My site is getting hits, but no converts.
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I am sure you get a lot of requests about how to be successful or make money online. What is the biggest reason that people are not successful in making money online?
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is your reviewme price negotiable?
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What are your top 3 online networking strategies for meeting influencer’s?
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Are there any fighters.com banners? I can’t find any to put on my site.
Thanks
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why did you take down the number of feed subcribers to this blog from the sidebar?
Did you ever get the shoemoney finance thing off the ground?
Could you setup below a buck for the UK? or release the script for it? not just for monetization but you know us UK peeps like deals as well…srsly
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What channels do you suggest for buying and selling websites with an evaluation of six to seven figures? Any marketplaces, brokers or any other ways to find prospective buyers/sellers?
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What is the biggest reason that people are not successful in making money online?
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Shoe, do you need a good DBA who knows how to solve problems?
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Do you think there is a market for memberships sites with content aimed at traditional businesses, not IM’s? How would you go about targeting the traditional businesses.
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If I’m doing arbitrage. What precautions should I take to be sure Google Adsense does not ban me? (Besides of course doing Adwords -> Adsense).
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Do you think watermarking videos with your URL really helps? or just helps people from not stealing your video?
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If you could only attend one conference for the year, which one would you attend and why?
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I am still waiting to get into google admanager and I know you said you use it. Do you have a review of the service?
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Jeremy,
Would you ever consider teaching (beyond what’s in your incredibly useful blog) a 15yo more about affiliate marketing for free? As in like 20mins a week giving tips and seeing how well that 15yo has got on based on your tips so far?
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Also, what do you think of Kimbo Slice?
In my opinion, he’s damn tough but not a real MMA fighter yet - needs more training!
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Since my question has already been asked I’ll second james in comment #2 - “What do you think about people copying things you do”.
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I’ve managed to earn $1000/month with Adsense with a second hand car classifieds web site, but I run out of ideas.
Any suggestions on how to boost traffic/income?
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Do you not like Boxing ? do you think MMA or UFC will be around for many years like Boxing ?
MyBoxingFans.com
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Did you get our L2 T Shirt? I sent it weeks and weeks ago….
Lumpy
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Jeremy,
Do You Think Plurk Will Replace Twitter?
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Hi Jeremy,
Would you advise a fresh engineering grad who is very passionate about e-commerce to get a professional job first, earn decent money, and later invest into businesses he wanted to create? Or just find a mean to somehow sustain himself and jump in right now?
Thanks!
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Do you agree with the idea that, If you are a Web publisher and doing the work solo, you will never make any real money?
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recently (last night) one of the affiliate networks that you are a member of, provided links/web banners for (lets say –Toilet Paper ) with a conversion of ~ $7.50 … now if a one page site is created, with a fancy Toilet Paper logo and in the middle - Click here to Get Your Free Roll .. where users are directed to advertiser and also this one page site is advertised through adwords … in your perspective is this a common a way to make money off affiliate networks? And based on your experience, would it actually make money? [Also, would google adwords ban such pages/sites from their adwords program? specially now that they are getting sued]
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For a web site or a blog what it the most important thing. Usability, Design, Content, SEO or all of them or there is another thing or things. Can you tell me?
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Do you ever get bored making money and just think you have enough to relax? Besides your family and liking what you do, what keeps you motivated to work hard every day? I know I got a bit more lazy as soon as I was making enough to cover my bills…can’t imagine having TONS of money in the bank…I’d probably have to hire someone to MAKE me work lol
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Hi!
I have $20.000 and 2 months to create an income stream of at lest $1000/month.
I am a professional PHP developer and newbie in SEO/Marketing.
What is my best shot?
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Do you feel at all responsible for the clusterf@#k that is EPN? After all, you did put the bug in their (eBay) ear to start doing everything in-house.
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If you were going to put together an affiliate starter kit, what would you put in it?
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If I send you a T Shirt that says “Save on Gas, Date Online” - CaribSingles.com. Would you feature on “Free T-Shirt Fridays”?
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Having your server go down due to a DDOSer can be very costly. (Especially if it is for a few days to a few weeks!) What do you use to combat a DDOS attack if one begins?
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What do you think of this site, http://www.instadigi.com? It is currently supporting more then 180 forums with its script that is generating content for forums so its much easier to kickstart a fresh new forum.
Your opinion would be appreciated!
Thanks
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Is it better to get a loan from a bank if you are starting a small online company or try to get an investor? Say for the amount of 10k?
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Hello Shoe. I’m writing from Portugal to ask you if you like soccer and what’s your favorite soccer team.
Keep up the good work!
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What would you do to make money if everyone stopped using the internet?
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How many things do you own with the shoemoney logo on it? eg. drinking glasses, shirts?
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You’ve said in the past that you’d love to own a baseball team - Seeing as how you grew up in the Quad Cities area, does that make you a Cubs or Cardinals fan?
Also, would you consider the purchase of a minor league team?
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A lot of people are talking about article marketing, and submitting to sites like ezinearticles.com . Do you think this is an effective method for SEO and building traffic? or has it become to bloated and spammy to be of any use anymore.
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Been out of town, did your wife have a baby?
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jeremy, looking at your itrader in dp forum I have seen a negative feedback from someone regarding selling websites… can you tell us more about that?
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Best way to increase RSS subscribers?
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another question if you don’t mind… is your blogroll section a set of paid links?
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Hey Jeremy, before everyone knew who (or what ) a shoemoney was, what did you do to be taken seriously by movers and shakers in the industry you were targeting?
Second question, will you buy a poor auction guy a beer at pubcon this year?
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How has your weight loss affected your business goals?
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Do you have a pet?
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Hello Jeremy
How we should show our affiliate links on our blogs?
And what should be the percentage of Affiliate related posts to General posts?
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Hello,
When you first test an offer. What do you ask the Affiliate Manager to provide you? In terms of stats?
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Do you think Google has too much control over commerce on the net and are they inviting government intervention with their monopolistic practices?
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Hi shoe..
I’m a budding blogger and i’m searching for some good webspace provides to host for me. If You had to suggest me a webspace provider, who would it be and why….???
Also who hosts all your websites
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do you think within the next 3 years there will be a rival to adwords/adsense programs? and would you ever consider playing in the WSOP or the World Poker Tour?
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Have you every tried your hand and e-commerce? I know that the ringtone vert is kinda sorta e-commerce, where you pay for a service and so on, but have you ever tried selling something via traditional e-commerce site? If you haven’t, would you be interested in it, and what market would you be interested in?
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Sorry Shoe, you can delete this one if you like, but just thought of a different one altogether. I’m buying an IPodTouch. Hate the IPhone, but kinda like the idea of the touch. What do you think about them?
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How much do you benchpress?
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Say for instance the mighty Google has example.com/page/users/ and example.com/page/users/index.php both indexed. Will this penalize the site and if so, what would you suggest to fix this if I would prefer to have the version without index.php in the address as the one listed in Google? A 301 redirect possibly?
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If you were making decent money but could use some more, would you work on a proj that would make real good money when finished but take 5 months to complete, and during that 5 months its not making any money, or would you go after something that would make less money but would only take 2 months to complete and would start earning money in the first 3 weeks (and you would have to postpone the big project)?
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If someone needed to hire a coder for a site idea…do you have someone you would recommend?
Also…
Celtics or Lakers?
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Hey Shoe,
What is your opinion on Net Neutrality and how it might effect basically all of our ways of doing business in the next 5 to 10 years? Already companies like Comcast and others admit to shaping packets and artificially slowing selective traffic in what they say is to provide better service on their network but it more just to exert some control over their infrastructure. Already documents have leaked about potentially multi-tiered internet services where only select sites might be accessible for a certain price, similar to cable TV services right now. Do you think Net Neutrality should be implemented by law and do you think that it should be a priority of the next President?
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Hello Jeremy,
1. Why NextPimp using PostNuke Open CMS as the engine…?
2. How long NextPimp get 10.000 uv/ day since it launched… ?
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Who do you think is going to win Quinton Jackson or Forest Griffin?
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Heya,
what gives you inspiration in achieving your goals, (apart from $$ ofcourse) and how do you stay focused? I am a perfect case of being able program anything, however when I start my dollar making idea i lose focus and start on some other project that seems more interesting at the time.. I have over 30 unfinished projects all which I’ve spent over 100 hours on each, every time i try to revisit them I quickly lose interest and start a new idea.. It seems to happen every time I hit a constraint.
It also effects me when i look into things too much, such as looking into SEO, I’ve read about it for the last 2-3 years but never put it into place, only recently have I setup a few sites and done a bit of promotion, but once again none of which are complete.
I guess my question would be how do you manage your projects and your time.
Thanks
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Shoe, do you go tailgating? In that I do not mean following another driver too closely. I mean do you like to go to ball games early, set up the grill, have a few beverages and party in the parking lot? Me? I love it.
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