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Re: Affiliate Networks Doing Their Part

Brian — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:14:57 -0000

Kudos to Mark and LinkShare for a great idea on the mashup maps - it is a very powerful visual that gets the point across and I know has had an impact on legislators who have seen it.

Anybody out there reading who doesn't think this affects them should take another look. If you are in online advertising in any way this type of legislation will have an affect on your business, it is time to call up your local state representatives no matter which State you live in (affected or not).

Re: The RSS Workout, Burning Feeds and Fat

Brian — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:24:32 -0000

you havec only two problems? srsly, great solution!

Re: Won Best Blogger Award, Now I Guess I Have to Keep Blogging

Brian — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:31:08 -0000

Scott,

I'll echo everyone's congratulations and as usual it was great to see you again and I'm glad I got to congratulate you in person. I think the most important reason why your blog (and anyone else who runs a great blog) is great is because you care about it - and you care about what you write.

So - that means that my advice to increasing readership/reach would simply be to just include more stuff that you care about - hopefully it will be that simple.

;) See ya in NYC.

Re: Help Me Name My Blog

Brian — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:56:46 -0000

jangrofett.com

Re: The Ice Storm Cometh

Brian — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:42:29 -0000

Scott - sorry about your fence and yard, but glad that all the Jangros are safe and sound.

Now - i'm off to buy a generator.

Re: Talk about Misleading Users

Brian — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:48:44 -0000

Good find Scott - and the comparison is very good. Over the years we have seen some pretty deceptive practices being called "creative marketing" at times. In a world where conversion doesn't matter...all the ads have to do is makes someone click.

I tried to dig up an old speech I gave a few years ago, cause I had pictures of some good examples similar to what you have... but couldn't find it... the premise though was about deceptive ads and some examples... off the top of my head I remember:

"Click here you are a winner"

"Your computer may be infected with a virus, click here"

Ads that are designed to look exactly like a Windows System popup, where the "X" in the top right corner doesn't close the ad, but instead clicks through to an ad.

These ads tend to find their way onto popuplar sites like "Lyrics", "music downloads".... things where the amount of traffic is very high - but where better marketing methods such as Affiliate Marketing do not work very well due to the intention of the user (come to site, get lyric, leave)... So these sites often use Ad Networks to monetize - leaving the Advertiser to try to come up with ways to increase click thru count.

I found a few examples just by browsing around - but didn't want to post them here didn't know if you wanted them - so posted on my blog you can take a look if you want. If you browse around on sites like the ones that I mentioned above though, you'll see plenty of your own examples.... and not suprisingly they are served very often by the same 2 Ad networks...

Anyhow - I agree with you - both Google and Reunion.com should be way above this... considering Google already has a "deceptive ad" policy for PPC ads.

Re: Why I Hate Twitter

Brian — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:38:01 -0000

Yes - very important to learn the commands. :)

I learned the "leave" and "off" quickly as often times conversations go on between two or three people, etc... It is fun to watch, but my phone battery can't hold up!

Just as important, is for the Twitterererers to make sure to direct one way communications via the Direct Message where possible. Twitter only has this from the web interface right now but surely there is a command coming soon?!

Other things I would like to see....

1. Groups
2. (I second the choice for...) Zap :)

The experiment continues!

Re: The Best of 2008 Awards

Brian — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:11:18 -0000

Thanks for the congratulations! There were some great nominations this year and I especially liked the group win for the "Albany Group" as well who really stood up for affiliates in their State and beyond...

I have heard no response from @jangro to the proposed tweet-off.