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Re: Voices Carry. Watch the F-bomb!

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:22:23 -0000

Scott,

I am not worried about that. You have been more than generous with links in the past. This is not the first time I come across this. Is it a new "spamming" technique?

If he can't leave his own url for example the next best thing to do is to point to a comment on another blog the allowed him to do so.

Yea, I know I sound paranoid a little. But if did not happen to me in the past I would have not bothered to raise the question.

Re: Voices Carry. Watch the F-bomb!

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:18:23 -0000

@Adam,

Mind me asking why are you using url to my website? You link to your comments on my website that are absolutely irrelevant to this post.

Re: Blog Commenters: White, Black, and Gray

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:17:09 -0000

This guy caught my attention when he commented on my web hosting review blog. The comment was exceptionally good so I wanted to feature it in one of the upcoming post, until of course I clicked through to the website and realized that the name was fake.

I've noticed him on several blogs and since they all where from no-nofollow community I've posted there. But I did what Andy did, I sent him an e-mail and after it bounced I marked the comment as spam.

Re: iPhone Haterz

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:58:28 -0000

Scott, You Suck!..... Let me see that thing! lol

Oh well in two years I will be lucky... unless AT&T goes out of business before.

Re: Safari, I’ve Missed You

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:47:32 -0000

Also on the PC it runs very slow. And it can't process certain files it seams.

Re: Safari, I’ve Missed You

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:36:32 -0000

Scott,

I have been tryng this new version of Safari last few days, but everything looks out of focus... Unless I am going blind. Is there any tricks to change the resolution or something?

Re: Changing Things Up Around Here

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:33:36 -0000

Just checking in to see what kind of changes ave taken place around here. How is this theme doing so far? I am thinking to revamp things around my blog as well, and can't decide on a theme :(

Re: Linkshare Rights a Wrong

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:17:24 -0000

Scott,

My "invalid legal message" is gone! I guess thanks to you ;)

Re: The Affiliate Blog List is Growing

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:41:23 -0000

Great Job Scott!

I also noticed that some of my post have been tagged without my iner

Re: Zillow Poll Results: Agent's Labor Still Needed

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:44:25 -0000

I think much fuss over Zillow may have been do to yet another threat/competition. I think the Zillow Realtor combination could be great. Just take a look at Yahoo Prudential... If you read Zillow's “about” page, you will find out that goal was to provide information “accessible to every one”. My point is this, that if one of major Real Estate agencies would consider working with Zillow they can provide visitors with accurate data taken directly from MLS across the country. I just can't understand what is wrong about having all parties well informed? It seams though that some Realtors out there would rather keep their clients not so well informed. Is it a “control” issue? I say way to go Zillow!

Re: Baby Harrelson

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:06:27 -0000

Congratulations Sam!
All the best to you and your wife.

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:41:33 -0000

Andy,

My wordpress was reporting among the incoming links from Technorati links to few comments you made on my blog and now are listed on comment.com. I initially could not figure it out, but after reading your article it all made sense. Great Post!

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:41:33 -0000

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:14:20 -0000

Yes Andy, I have noticed that also. Sometimes technorati would ping me back after leaving a comment, but those were far in between.

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:14:20 -0000

Yes Andy, I have noticed that also. Sometimes technorati would ping me back after leaving a comment, but those were far in between.

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:11:44 -0000

Andy,

I finally managed o synchronize with techorati. But coComments are not tracking my own comments on my own blog. I need to be logged out in order to us firefox extension. Is there anythin I can do to have myown comments tracked even if I am logged in to my own blog?

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:11:44 -0000

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:57:29 -0000

Thank Andy, it works great now! Also I appreciate your imput on my blog. Just downloaded Disclosure plugin as well. Great stuff!

Re: Cocomments.com Technorati Claim – New Feature – Full Exclusive Story

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:57:29 -0000

Thank Andy, it works great now! Also I appreciate your imput on my blog. Just downloaded Disclosure plugin as well. Great stuff!

Re: How Timing of Link Attribution Affects Syndication and Search Results

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:55:14 -0000

Andy thanks for mentioning and most important for contributing to the discussion on my blog. I actually planing to recommend you and things you do to my readers in more coherent fashion (this may take long time :) ). Thanks again!

Re: How Timing of Link Attribution Affects Syndication and Search Results

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:55:14 -0000

Re: MyBlogLog and Exploits – It Is Easy To Pick On Someone Who Doesn't Have Hold Of Your Testicles Financially

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:01:26 -0000

I am sure he would never do that with AdSense. Just take a look that the checks he is getting from them. ;)

Re: MyBlogLog and Exploits – It Is Easy To Pick On Someone Who Doesn't Have Hold Of Your Testicles Financially

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:01:26 -0000

I am sure he would never do that with AdSense. Just take a look that the checks he is getting from them. ;)

Re: MyBlogLog and Exploits – It Is Easy To Pick On Someone Who Doesn't Have Hold Of Your Testicles Financially

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:44:38 -0000

Actually, now that I have read more articles surrounding the issue. I believe Shoe did e-mail them first. I think they could have been doing better job by just simply fixing the holes. Thye should have hired Shoe to help them out. ;)

Re: MyBlogLog and Exploits – It Is Easy To Pick On Someone Who Doesn't Have Hold Of Your Testicles Financially

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:44:38 -0000

Re: MyBlogLog and Exploits – It Is Easy To Pick On Someone Who Doesn't Have Hold Of Your Testicles Financially

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:29:27 -0000

Thanks Andy. I don't think Shoe exploiting these flaws in a such a public manner should be rewarded. He could have done more good by working on it with MyBlogLog. Clearly it was done in a spirit of "vendetta".

Re: MyBlogLog and Exploits – It Is Easy To Pick On Someone Who Doesn't Have Hold Of Your Testicles Financially

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:29:27 -0000

Re: A Totally Legitimate Way To Pick and Choose Backlinks

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:19:07 -0000

Andy, I have read the article and then followed to PRWeb and back. What I did not notice was the link from the gentleman's post back to PRWeb. Is it possible he used just pinged the url when posting? If so, which url should be pinged the one that is generally provided at the bottom of a press release? Also as I was browsing some releases I have noticed that not every release has a trackback url. But I absolutely love the idea.

Re: A Totally Legitimate Way To Pick and Choose Backlinks

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:19:07 -0000

Re: A Totally Legitimate Way To Pick and Choose Backlinks

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:43:33 -0000

Andy, I absolutely agree with you about this working in many different niches. I have a real estate related blog and this post of yours just made my day! :)

Re: A Totally Legitimate Way To Pick and Choose Backlinks

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:43:33 -0000

Andy, I absolutely agree with you about this working in many different niches. I have a real estate related blog and this post of yours just made my day! :)

Re: A Totally Legitimate Way To Pick and Choose Backlinks

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:06:24 -0000

Just a quick udate. I have tried the tips described in this post and as of now it did not produce anything. There is either something drastically wrong with the blog involved, I did not do it correctly or maybe that trackbacks are held for moderation. So far no results with about 20 hours past.

Re: A Totally Legitimate Way To Pick and Choose Backlinks

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:06:24 -0000

Re: The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:16:34 -0000

So this plugin would be a win win situation for both feedburner and me. I still get my stattistics while using much less bandwith? Am I reading this corretly?

Re: The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:16:34 -0000

So this plugin would be a win win situation for both feedburner and me. I still get my stattistics while using much less bandwith? Am I reading this corretly?

Re: The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:01:44 -0000

Andy when I said about bandwidth, I thought it would be possible, after following Mark's steps. To direct the origianl feed to let say a xml file that contains only one post and does not change. I am not sure if that would actually save bandwidth, but for example in my blog I have output of 20 recent posts. Sorry if I created confusion with my comment.

Re: The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:01:44 -0000

Re: LinkedIn Invites – LinkedIn Fast Generator Improvements

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:47:18 -0000

Andy,
I always meant to ask you but now since you mentioned "Local Connections" seams like a good time. Are bloggin in Polish? The reason I am asking is that you may have already guessed from "my" English that it is not my native language. I speak a few Slavic languages. What is your take on the possibilities? Feel free to e-mail me with your answer.

Re: LinkedIn Invites – LinkedIn Fast Generator Improvements

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:47:18 -0000

Re: LinkedIn Invites – LinkedIn Fast Generator Improvements

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:48:26 -0000

Should have been "are you blogging in Polish" sorry

Re: LinkedIn Invites – LinkedIn Fast Generator Improvements

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:48:26 -0000

Should have been "are you blogging in Polish" sorry

Re: spicypage Widget

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:57:17 -0000

There you go Andy, you've got my vote. 17 so far :)

Re: spicypage Widget

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:57:17 -0000

There you go Andy, you've got my vote. 17 so far :)

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:43:52 -0000

Great post Andy as usual. I actually joined the pay per post after reading this article, with the hope to let a "student" to make ann extra $5. I also wanted to give it atry myself by reviewing this post of your. But the code provided is not that attractive I was wondering if you new how free the reviewers are to modify the link code. In particular to what appears inthe text of the link.

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:43:52 -0000

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:44:13 -0000

Ok I am going to do it. Just need to know for myself how this works. I agree the sign up button is very cleaver. Also since I signed up through your link, your posts is the only one available to me for review. I think this is in place so can't come back to your blog an keep reviewing other articles. I think once you reviewed the one through which you signed up. Clicking signup button on other posts does nto mean you will be allowed to review that post.

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:44:13 -0000

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:06:49 -0000

@VC Dan
I hope what you are saying is true. It is indeed veryclever sign up process. But I am wondering how many new sign ups may think "oh well, even if I don't get to review the big $ deals I can always come back and review posts like this one fro $5 per post"?

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:06:49 -0000

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:16:55 -0000

@kukumon- what are you talking about? I am not getting it.

Re: Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:16:55 -0000

@kukumon- what are you talking about? I am not getting it.

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:54:30 -0000

lol Andy by any chance you did not have my blog in mind writing this did you?

I did install the plugin, porbably not putting much thought into it. My origianal intention was to say thank you to my my commentors by putting their links up on the hope page wich has the highiest rank. But reading your article makes me rethink if they will trully beefit from it. Some how I thought that "dofollow" in comments was not enough, since most of those posts have no rank at all. Great article!

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:54:30 -0000

Re: NoFollow and Pink Boxes

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:27:00 -0000

Andy, I just recently came across this post. Great tip on sociable. I was able to hack it and now have nofollow on those links. Would you recommend the same for the digg plugin? With this plugin your link points to a form before your posts is submitted but later it points to the entry at Digg. What do you think about it?

Re: NoFollow and Pink Boxes

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:27:00 -0000

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:34:53 -0000

Andy, one question. What is the reason behind "nofollowing" the header of your blog?

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:34:53 -0000

Andy, one question. What is the reason behind "nofollowing" the header of your blog?

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:49:23 -0000

@Scott
Thanks! That makes sence.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:49:23 -0000

@Scott
Thanks! That makes sence.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:58:29 -0000

@Andy, I have posted this question commenting on one of your older posts. I see that you do not "nofollow" the Digg plugin. Until your story is actually submited it does poits to a form, right?

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:58:29 -0000

@Andy, I have posted this question commenting on one of your older posts. I see that you do not "nofollow" the Digg plugin. Until your story is actually submited it does poits to a form, right?

Re: PayPerPost | Ted Murphy vs Jason Calacanis The Ultimate Showdown?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:11:42 -0000

While I am all for the disclosure policies (which I betterput together), I do not believe that saying "situation in affiliate marketing is worse" is quiet correct. I personally have don much work with datafeed driven websites and if you look at these websites the dscription and info do not differ from the one found on the merchant's website. While in pay per post you get pay ahead of time to place a review on the blog in affiliat markting I get paid only if visitors buy something. I do not think these two should be put on the same level. Imho.

Re: PayPerPost | Ted Murphy vs Jason Calacanis The Ultimate Showdown?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:11:42 -0000

Re: PayPerPost | Ted Murphy vs Jason Calacanis The Ultimate Showdown?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:06:15 -0000

Many times affiliates would spend their own resources to drive traffic to their websites and not every visitor buys - another reason why these two should not fall into same category.

PS
Andy you have to forgive me my spelling and grammar.... sorry.

Re: PayPerPost | Ted Murphy vs Jason Calacanis The Ultimate Showdown?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:06:15 -0000

Re: Warning: Amazon Contextual Links – Do Not Use

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:16:10 -0000

This linke also beahves unexpectedly, generally a visitor does not expect for a link to do anything by just hovering over it. I think they should do some thing I proposed here:
http://www.volodymyrzablotskyy.com/new-amazon-c...

Re: Warning: Amazon Contextual Links – Do Not Use

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:16:10 -0000

Re: Are Press Releases More Cost Effective Than PPC Advertising?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:33:11 -0000

Thanks for mentioning Andy.
The trackbacks are great. But as I mentioned in my post, it's greately overlooked by the aouthors of press releases.

My next press release will be accompanied with a e-mail to about 20 bloggers to let them know that I enabled automatic trackbacks with press relsease. ;)

Re: Are Press Releases More Cost Effective Than PPC Advertising?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:33:11 -0000

Re: How to Show Top Commenters Only On Your Index Page

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:45:11 -0000

Great post Andy,

While I have taken down the top commentators plugin, I do have blogroll, but now only on home page of my blog.

Re: How to Show Top Commenters Only On Your Index Page

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:45:11 -0000

Great post Andy,

While I have taken down the top commentators plugin, I do have blogroll, but now only on home page of my blog.

Re: Best Wordpress Plugins (March 2007) | Poll

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:18:13 -0000

UTW came close with DoFollow. If I had an option I would probably woted for both. But to me DoFollow comes first for many reasons, one connected to me commenting here. Also I am a beginner when it comes to UTW and do not experience much benefit from using it, comparing to DoFollow I should add.

Re: Best Wordpress Plugins (March 2007) | Poll

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:18:13 -0000

Re: Interviewed By Martin | Blogger Trackbacks | Technorati Junk

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:49:44 -0000

Great interview. Can I book an interview with you?

Re: Interviewed By Martin | Blogger Trackbacks | Technorati Junk

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:49:44 -0000

Great interview. Can I book an interview with you?

Re: Interviewed By Martin | Blogger Trackbacks | Technorati Junk

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:49:19 -0000

"I am still pondering how I want to integrate that other email you sent me"

Great I am looking forward to that as well. Meanwhile I will try to compile few questions.

Re: Interviewed By Martin | Blogger Trackbacks | Technorati Junk

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:49:19 -0000

"I am still pondering how I want to integrate that other email you sent me"

Great I am looking forward to that as well. Meanwhile I will try to compile few questions.

Re: Exclusive: No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Bumpzee Community

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:46:55 -0000

Andy, what happened to Digg plugin this is worthy to be dugged, imho.

Re: Exclusive: No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Bumpzee Community

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:46:55 -0000

Andy, what happened to Digg plugin this is worthy to be dugged, imho.

Re: Exclusive: No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Bumpzee Community

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:00:43 -0000

Fair enough lol, I heading over to my blog to help spreading the word.

Re: Exclusive: No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Bumpzee Community

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:00:43 -0000

Fair enough lol, I heading over to my blog to help spreading the word.

Re: Are Press Releases More Cost Effective Than PPC Advertising?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:35:44 -0000

@Andy (not Andy Beard, sorry master)

I have a list of people who may be interested in this method. I am not ready yet with the press release. I have not tried it yet. I am not sure random would be the best way to go about it. Not many bloggers are aware of it yet.

Re: Are Press Releases More Cost Effective Than PPC Advertising?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:35:44 -0000

Re: Google Paid Links – Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:09:12 -0000

I agree with Ali, they will probably send you a link to FAQ page.

I wonder if their CPA is being served in javascripts. If not Google CPA text link certainly carries a monetary benefit with it.

Re: Google Paid Links – Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:09:12 -0000

I agree with Ali, they will probably send you a link to FAQ page.

I wonder if their CPA is being served in javascripts. If not Google CPA text link certainly carries a monetary benefit with it.

Re: One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:23:09 -0000

Maki, I am with you on this one. I will most likely blog against violence on that day. But either way I will digg this post.

Re: One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:23:09 -0000

Maki, I am with you on this one. I will most likely blog against violence on that day. But either way I will digg this post.

Re: Vlad Ripped Me Apart

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:22:12 -0000

I was wondering if you enjoyed answering those questions. I am presuming you did. :)

Re: Vlad Ripped Me Apart

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:22:12 -0000

I was wondering if you enjoyed answering those questions. I am presuming you did. :)

Re: One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:16:22 -0000

@ Daniel,

"What is the point of attacking people who do?"

Daniel, I was attacing no one. Please read my comment again, I was just expressing my opinion and either way (blogging or being silence) I will remeber Virginia TECH.

Re: One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:16:22 -0000

Re: One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:10:37 -0000

Daniel, I guess it was me who misundertood. Goig back to the topic I think a combination of bloggin against violence and the keep silence on the 30th is a great idea. I will probably do that.

Re: One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:10:37 -0000

Daniel, I guess it was me who misundertood. Goig back to the topic I think a combination of bloggin against violence and the keep silence on the 30th is a great idea. I will probably do that.

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:53:03 -0000

My blog no where to be found in Google Blog Searh results. I just tried to search for "What To Do With Unwanted Traffic"- as you can see Plugim shows for my post but my own post not even there on the last page. Any suggestions?

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:53:03 -0000

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:07:28 -0000

Few weeks ago I cleaned up the list for pinging in my WordPress, not even FeedBurner. But I do have an option that FeedBurner pings other services when it finds new content on my blog. I do use SiteMap plugin, but that should not affect the Google Blog searh, at least I do not think so.

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:07:28 -0000

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:10:36 -0000

Just wanted to add that I may just delete my feed from PlugIm, I have noticed that on several occasions it outranked me. Right know it picks up my feed through FeedBurner... Do you think I should just give them the feed straight from my website?

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:10:36 -0000

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:52:32 -0000

I did not realize PRWeb has an affiliate program. Good incentive, no good for me ;) I already have an account with PRWeb.

On the Google Blog Search subject. It lookes like my blog is indexed there. If I look it up by the domain all my posts (including "What To Do With Unwanted Traffic") are there.

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:52:32 -0000

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:45:14 -0000

You right Andy,

I did overlooked the "rules" part. Thanks for pointing out!

Re: Google Blog Search | How Google Blogsearch ranks your Postsâ€¦ In their own words! (or not)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:45:14 -0000

You right Andy,

I did overlooked the "rules" part. Thanks for pointing out!

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:23:46 -0000

Hi Andy,

I just imported your OPML file to my technorati. 526 new favortites, 39- non blogs, 46- were already in my favorites. I thought you may be interested. Fun stuff. Nice trick.

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:23:46 -0000

Hi Andy,

I just imported your OPML file to my technorati. 526 new favortites, 39- non blogs, 46- were already in my favorites. I thought you may be interested. Fun stuff. Nice trick.

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:31:16 -0000

Andy, just thought you would like to know. 68 people added my blog to their favorites, that is 38 since I read this post and employed the method described. Also I gain about 6 incoming links along the way.

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:31:16 -0000

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:15:51 -0000

@Maki,

Not only do I visit them, I also am doing from time to time the same trick with their OPML file as well ;) . Works like a charm.

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:15:51 -0000

@Maki,

Not only do I visit them, I also am doing from time to time the same trick with their OPML file as well ;) . Works like a charm.

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:21:29 -0000

I was just wondering if there is a way to get the OPML file of those who have favorited my blog. Andy, Maki? Any ideas?

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:21:29 -0000

I was just wondering if there is a way to get the OPML file of those who have favorited my blog. Andy, Maki? Any ideas?

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:46:13 -0000

Andy,

Thanks for pointing out the Aaron Wall's tool. I looking at your website in the tool as I write this and shows:
Cached: 2
Supplemental: 6

Is there some tick to use it properly?

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:46:13 -0000

Andy,

Thanks for pointing out the Aaron Wall's tool. I looking at your website in the tool as I write this and shows:
Cached: 2
Supplemental: 6

Is there some tick to use it properly?

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:05:39 -0000

I thought that may have been the case. Also when I look up my own site. It tells me that the site is listed in domoz, which not correct I checked manually ad my site is not in domoz yet (if it ever gets there). Nice little tool though. I off to sleep, I going to write an update about "technorati race" tomorrow.....lol boy you can do all sorts of tricks with OPML files. Thanks for that tip as well.

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:05:39 -0000

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:43:12 -0000

Maki,

Thanks. I think I may have not expressed my self clearly. The example you just gave me is the same what Andy posted here in this post and I have been using this OPML (which by the way had swollen my favorites to 1500 lol).

What I am trying to find out if I can import a file that has every you added my blog to their favorites. For example, as of now 95 members had added my blog to their favorites. I am interested in these 95. Does it make sense?

Re: Technorati Favorites – Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:43:12 -0000

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:08:48 -0000

Hi Andy,

I am just curious if you seen more traffic since getting out the supplemental results?

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:08:48 -0000

Hi Andy,

I am just curious if you seen more traffic since getting out the supplemental results?

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:08:27 -0000

I think Aaron's widget may be due to an update. As with many other widgets I do not see it reporting incoming links from MSN. MSN itself does not show any results for link:domain.com

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:08:27 -0000

I think Aaron's widget may be due to an update. As with many other widgets I do not see it reporting incoming links from MSN. MSN itself does not show any results for link:domain.com

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:18:01 -0000

Yes I have tried that feature. For the most part I do have it off though.

Any idea why MSN is not reporting incoming links?

Re: The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:18:01 -0000

Yes I have tried that feature. For the most part I do have it off though.

Any idea why MSN is not reporting incoming links?

Re: Ultimate Tag Warrior SEO Tricks (pt 1)

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:24:14 -0000

Hi Andy,

Just installed the code on my own blog. I will probably move ti down for the tags to appear below the comments box. Don't you think it would be good a idea to hack "Related articles" plugin for the same purpose?

Re: Ultimate Tag Warrior SEO Tricks (pt 1)

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:24:14 -0000

Re: Blogging Productivity & Criticizing Goals

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:11:52 -0000

Nice one! I really can't believe they criticize something that was there and they have never put it to good use. And now that the list of 100 favorite is changing they are up in arms.

Re: Blogging Productivity & Criticizing Goals

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:11:52 -0000

Nice one! I really can't believe they criticize something that was there and they have never put it to good use. And now that the list of 100 favorite is changing they are up in arms.

Re: Get The Most From DoFollow | No Nofollow

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:58:36 -0000

@Mark

I believe you need three blogs in order for a community to be active.

@Andy
It is WELL WORTHED to get a link or two from you...lol

Re: Get The Most From DoFollow | No Nofollow

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:58:36 -0000

@Mark

I believe you need three blogs in order for a community to be active.

@Andy
It is WELL WORTHED to get a link or two from you...lol

Re: Bidvertiser Review

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:33:34 -0000

Andy if you would like to improve your earnings on PPC arbitrage you should should become yahoo publisher. As some one who uses Panama to some extent I have noticed much clicks coming from "arbitrage" sites lately:
http://www.volodymyrzablotskyy.com/your-commiss...

Re: Bidvertiser Review

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:33:34 -0000

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:13:45 -0000

Andy,
would you say that submitting your own posts to digg is not such a good idea?

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:13:45 -0000

Andy,
would you say that submitting your own posts to digg is not such a good idea?

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:37:59 -0000

I did notice about the traffic you can send from Stumbleupon. The only other user that send my way more than 100 visitors in one day was Mike Levin from Hittail.

I guess I was asking because I am guilty of it. I do submit my own articles quiet frequently, not because they are news worthy but because I would like them to be indexed quicker. I probably should stop doing it, since it aggravates the so called top "diggers".

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:37:59 -0000

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:09:39 -0000

Did not you say it was buried at 36 diggs? How come it has 37 diggs?

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:09:39 -0000

Did not you say it was buried at 36 diggs? How come it has 37 diggs?

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:26:59 -0000

Deborah,

I actually have read an opposite that it is enough 2-5 diggs in order to have your link found by Google. Google is crawling a lot of pages from Digg. Sure it would take much quicker if you hit the home page, but I have noticed a few times Google would pick up my posts within 24 hours from submitting them to Digg.

Re: How To Find The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:26:59 -0000

Re: 7+7 Reasons Why Google Buying FeedBurner is a Match Made in Heaven & Hell

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:53:39 -0000

Well, it looks like heaven and hell have joined together lol. Just read that Google indeed bought FeedBurner.

Re: 7+7 Reasons Why Google Buying FeedBurner is a Match Made in Heaven & Hell

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:53:39 -0000

Well, it looks like heaven and hell have joined together lol. Just read that Google indeed bought FeedBurner.

Re: Exclusive – Pay Per Post Direct Changes The Paid Review Landscape

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:24:27 -0000

What a killer review! I do think that many of the advertisers still look for links rather than feedback.

Re: Exclusive – Pay Per Post Direct Changes The Paid Review Landscape

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:24:27 -0000

What a killer review! I do think that many of the advertisers still look for links rather than feedback.

Re: Exclusive – Pay Per Post Direct Changes The Paid Review Landscape

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:58:21 -0000

I see 46 diggs so far. Did it make the front page yet?
As I was looking through Technorati today, it is so clear how unreliable their statistics are. I thought in the past that Alexa had a problem, but now I would take Alexa's statistics over Technorati's in a blink of an eye.

I just don't understand what ReviewMe and others even factor in Technorati statistics to help you calculate the prices for you reviews?

Re: Exclusive – Pay Per Post Direct Changes The Paid Review Landscape

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:58:21 -0000

Re: PayPerPost – Review My Post Landing Pages

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:49:19 -0000

It would be interesting to see if the improvement is there after you are done being impressed by the landing page, which by the way improved greatly a you point out in this article. Come on posties, we need some one to give it a try! :)

Re: PayPerPost – Review My Post Landing Pages

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:49:19 -0000

Re: Trackback Spider Review

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:31:41 -0000

It may not be a correct place to mention, but the most benefit I have ever experienced was from the trackbacks from PRWeb but I think even PRWeb may have some problems with spam trackbacks.

Andy, do you ever plan to post a detailed tutorial about Spam Karama? I never used it on my blog but today after installing it it ate up some legit trackbacks with good number of comments just on the "default" settings. I am moving trying to move my blog to K2 and math plugin will not work, so I am on the hunt for Spam Karma tutorial. Have you come across one? If not maybe in one of your future posts you can write a little about it. So far all the Spam Karma settings and configuration like a rocket science to me.

Re: Trackback Spider Review

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:31:41 -0000

Re: Trackback Spider Review

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:58:23 -0000

Yes I am aware about page views. I do not have that many comments on my blog so I do not expect the difference to that significant- unless it is going to affect Alexa ratings? Oh well I am going to give it a try anyway.

Re: Trackback Spider Review

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:58:23 -0000

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:07:50 -0000

Thanks Andy, this is just what I was looking for.

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:07:50 -0000

Thanks Andy, this is just what I was looking for.

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:10:30 -0000

Andy i have just configured the SK and was not able to recover the trackback from http://andybeard.eu/2007/03/ugly-in-pink.html

You can ping my blog again. I have configured the plugin exactly as it shown in the screen shot, I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Re: Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:10:30 -0000

Re: Video Roundup | SMX Seattle | Duplicate Content | Jason Calacanis

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:27:18 -0000

I guess Mahalo is getting millions of visitors already, I just noticed few AdSense ads.... I don't think I would disagree with the concept. I never knew who Jason was until literally few weeks ago and he comes across as a "know it all" kind of guy. Of well I wish him luck, let see what it will look like 5 years from now.

Paid links. Would the link from a PRWeb press release be qualified as a paid link? I am just not getting where does the Google draw the line on paid links.

Re: Video Roundup | SMX Seattle | Duplicate Content | Jason Calacanis

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:27:18 -0000

Re: PayPerPost Receives $7M Additional Funding & Launches Direct Marketplace

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:03:36 -0000

Any word on how they are planing to improve the followup/reminder system (much needed in my opinion)for the new sign usp from RMP pages? I have referred few bloggers but none of them took on the "opportunity" that referred them there. The strange thing is that when I first signed up for Pay Per Post I was not qualified for any other opportunity before I reviewed the post that sent me there. Good post. They are definitely moving in the right direction, in my opinion.

Re: PayPerPost Receives $7M Additional Funding & Launches Direct Marketplace

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:03:36 -0000

Re: Jason Calacanis & The 4 Little SEOs Podcast

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:44:28 -0000

Andy, nice to see your blog back and running.

I do not consider myself a SEO but I think every affiliate marketer needs/uses seo to some extent. I do however think Jason is very ignorant and angry towards affiliate marketers as well. In this interview he continually says that we are after people to trick them somehow.

I wish him a lot of luck..... But can you imagine some one saying "Do you Mahalo?" or "Let me Mahalo something up on the internet"? lol

He is up against companies whose names are equivalent to "search". And from what I understand he claims that search results are way too polluted. What are the Google results are doing on Mahalo? What a bunch of crap!
I do give him credit for inviting you guys on his show.

I could have made a post out of it... oh well.

Re: Jason Calacanis & The 4 Little SEOs Podcast

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:44:28 -0000

Re: Jason Calacanis & The 4 Little SEOs Podcast

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:49:59 -0000

Just one more thing. I live in US but I never have associate AlJazeera with AlQuaida. In fact for his information AlJazeera has offices across USA including Washington DC.

Re: Jason Calacanis & The 4 Little SEOs Podcast

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:49:59 -0000

Just one more thing. I live in US but I never have associate AlJazeera with AlQuaida. In fact for his information AlJazeera has offices across USA including Washington DC.

Re: Blogcatalog
Blogger Social Networking Hub

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:08:40 -0000

It is interesting that TechCrunch has not covered them yet. But I guess good things are here to stay no matter what.

Re: Blogcatalog
Blogger Social Networking Hub

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:08:40 -0000

It is interesting that TechCrunch has not covered them yet. But I guess good things are here to stay no matter what.

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:54:36 -0000

Blog Strokes wrote: "But Scott is real to me. He messages me. He emails me. He "flips switches""

Thats is exactly the reason I will be going exclusively with bumpzee myself. Thanks Dan! You just helped me to make the decision. :)

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:54:36 -0000

Re: Paid Comments – They Can Be 100% Ethical

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:24:44 -0000

I did have few negative things to say about this new business. I still believe that their business model is unsustainable.... However if I were behind the website, I would be happy with such great feedback. If they read all the feedback and adjust accordingly, they may actually do real well. But as Darren said with 19 cents per comment it does not look so good.

Re: Paid Comments – They Can Be 100% Ethical

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:24:44 -0000

Re: Lunar Pages – The Worst Mistake A Webhost Can Make…

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:00:52 -0000

I actually have experience CPU issues with BlueHost which is my favorite host. I think that may be due to the "multiple" domains in one account.

Thanks for the link. I will quote this post in other place on the web hosting review blog.

Re: Lunar Pages – The Worst Mistake A Webhost Can Make…

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:00:52 -0000

Re: Lunar Pages – The Worst Mistake A Webhost Can Make…

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:07:32 -0000

I just remembered that about one month ago my wife got a hosting plan with Lunarpages, the website went live and everything was working ok, by the third day it was down for a week. The explanation they gave was that the server had some problems. Fortunately now it is working well.

Andy have you considered Jumpline? They do use Sphera for their control panel, but I "hear" that their new Dell PowerEdge servers are smoking hot... I am considering them for a dedicated solution, but I have not used them yet. Unfortunately no user reviews on my blog for them yet.

Re: Lunar Pages – The Worst Mistake A Webhost Can Make…

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:07:32 -0000

Re: Lunar Pages – The Worst Mistake A Webhost Can Make…

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:31:11 -0000

These events really got me worried. One can use Blogger as their publishing platform which in essence can eliminate CPU issue since Blogger publishes your blog as html files.... I hate this even crossed my mind. I stopped using Blogger long time ago and really have fallen in love with WordPress. Ironically this morning my blog gave me a CPU overload message, so I finally decided to turn on so called CGI acceleration. We'll see if that helps.

I spent some time looking at Blogger again and looks that there are some big changes since the last time I've used it.

Re: Lunar Pages – The Worst Mistake A Webhost Can Make…

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:31:11 -0000

Re: Outsourcing & Plagiarism Checkers

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:05:14 -0000

Great stuff Andy. I came across the site few days ago, but really was wondering if there would be a use for some one other than a student...

If I was the only reader of your blog you would have to keep the promise and eat the keyboard.. lol you have to love it.

The benefit of not having a good command of English is that no one cares to steal my stuff. :)

Re: Outsourcing & Plagiarism Checkers

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:05:14 -0000

Re: Wordpress Plugin: Nofollow Those Dupes (Wordpress SEO Masterclass Continued)

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:35:16 -0000

Andy,

Would you say that plugin would work the best with Sandcastles Theme? Or could you experiment on basically any theme?

Re: Wordpress Plugin: Nofollow Those Dupes (Wordpress SEO Masterclass Continued)

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:35:16 -0000

Andy,

Would you say that plugin would work the best with Sandcastles Theme? Or could you experiment on basically any theme?

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:05:00 -0000

I almost wrote a comment but I realize you are referring to the 100 most linked to blogs. However I was just wondering how does being on the front page of Digg relate to getting on 100 list at Technorati?

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:05:00 -0000

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:41:11 -0000

I generally try to avoid remarks on some one's grammar. What a moron?!!!

Andy is probably fluent in few other languages besides English. Send him to my blog, maybe that will give him a heart attack? :)

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:41:11 -0000

Re: Google Didn't Listen To Seth 18 Months Ago

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:10:09 -0000

"Keep out SEOs" "Making sure SEOs do not get in"....

Why they are they so affraid of SEO?

Re: Google Didn't Listen To Seth 18 Months Ago

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:10:09 -0000

"Keep out SEOs" "Making sure SEOs do not get in"....

Why they are they so affraid of SEO?

Re: Are You A Fake Dofollow Blogger?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:22:13 -0000

Andy,
Forgive my ignorance, but what does "NSFW content" stands for?

Re: Are You A Fake Dofollow Blogger?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:22:13 -0000

Andy,
Forgive my ignorance, but what does "NSFW content" stands for?

Re: Technorati Favorites – Interesting New Message

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:34:15 -0000

Technorati did not show my favorites for much longer period of time than on month. I say it close to three months now. After the favorite exchange "rush" created by Maki's experiment and using the OPML trick for a shortcut I planned to clean up the favorites, but never was able to. It is nice to know that they are working on fixing the bug.

Re: Technorati Favorites – Interesting New Message

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:34:15 -0000

Re: RSSBrief – PayPerPost To Directly Compete With Feedburner and Google Reader?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:51:26 -0000

I just tried to submit my blog to RSSBrief but it returns a 404 page saying there is no feed. I have tried to submit FeedBurner url- same result. Do you think Smith Redirect plugin is at fault?

It is nice to know that there are alternatives to what Google has to offer or tries to monopolize.

Re: RSSBrief – PayPerPost To Directly Compete With Feedburner and Google Reader?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:51:26 -0000

Re: Blogrush – 7 Critical Mistakes

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:09:16 -0000

Andy, you should have had at least one referral- me. I have installed it on two blogs so I guess you can ad another 1,000 pageviews.

Re: Blogrush – 7 Critical Mistakes

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:09:16 -0000

Andy, you should have had at least one referral- me. I have installed it on two blogs so I guess you can ad another 1,000 pageviews.

Re: Traffic Or Topical Community – What Comes First?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:44:16 -0000

I wished there was some sort of filtering system on BumpZee that would allow the users to prevent post from being included in certain communities.

I have recently removed my blog from a few communities at BumpZee simply because I seldom write on the subject. I have also suggested in the past that it would be nice to have control on what community posts would appear on your widget. I guess for the bloggers that joined multiple communities there should be a choice of what is their "primary" community and thus only top posts from that community would appear on your widget.

Just throwing some ideas, not even sure such things are possible to accomplish.

Re: Traffic Or Topical Community – What Comes First?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:44:16 -0000

Re: Traffic Or Topical Community – What Comes First?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:17:17 -0000

That is good to know. Reading this article made me realize that BumpZee is the best community on many levels and of course the traffic being one of them. BumpZee sent me over 5600 visitors (two blogs) since January.

Re: Traffic Or Topical Community – What Comes First?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:17:17 -0000

Re: Dancing With The Gevil – Defamed By Google?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:37:34 -0000

I will not be surprised to get my PR lowered. I think we are just putting too much spin on the entire PR issue. What I really notice lately that Google is very quick to index pages. Also the traffic from the organic search is on the rise for me. I do not mind if the lower my PR as long as they continue send my way visitors.

Re: Dancing With The Gevil – Defamed By Google?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:37:34 -0000

Re: Penalty Confirmed – But I Don't Sell PageRank

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:51:11 -0000

It would be interesting to see if there is any correlation (or at least a sign of it) between those blogs that were penalized those that were not and whether or not these blogs were displaying AdSense ads.

I know in the past Google insisted it has nothing to do with your ranking, but I just cannot get out of my mind the saying "follow the money".......

Re: Penalty Confirmed – But I Don't Sell PageRank

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:51:11 -0000

Re: The Secret Statistics In Split RSS Feeds – Google Reader

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:51:38 -0000

Also when doing so I found I needed to disable Feedburner Smith plugin otherwise the Bloglines get cofused/redirected to the same feed.

Re: The Secret Statistics In Split RSS Feeds – Google Reader

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:51:38 -0000

Also when doing so I found I needed to disable Feedburner Smith plugin otherwise the Bloglines get cofused/redirected to the same feed.

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:09:32 -0000

lol I was writing a post at the same time as you were writing yours

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:09:32 -0000

lol I was writing a post at the same time as you were writing yours

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:19:04 -0000

Andy, do you think the evil G sees no-nofollow blogs as one huge "link farm"???

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:19:04 -0000

Andy, do you think the evil G sees no-nofollow blogs as one huge "link farm"???

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:25:58 -0000

www.business-opportunities.biz from PR6 to PR4

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:25:58 -0000

www.business-opportunities.biz from PR6 to PR4

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:35:55 -0000

Yahoo, Adobe, ERCIM, NASA, NSF just few that came to my mind.

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:35:55 -0000

Yahoo, Adobe, ERCIM, NASA, NSF just few that came to my mind.

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:49:55 -0000

http://www.statcounter.com/ have taken the biggest hit it appears from 10 to 6

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:49:55 -0000

http://www.statcounter.com/ have taken the biggest hit it appears from 10 to 6

Re: Exclusive: WidgetBucks Now Safe To Use

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:16:05 -0000

Well at least they have listened in part! :)

Yes the #5 is another one. I have not problem with no disclosing earnings, I never disclose (except IRS) my earnings anyway.

Thanks for banana (link)! lol

Re: Exclusive: WidgetBucks Now Safe To Use

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:16:05 -0000

Re: Exclusive: WidgetBucks Now Safe To Use

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:27:10 -0000

lol Yes I got plenty, still behind the other Vlad though. Thanks.

Re: Exclusive: WidgetBucks Now Safe To Use

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:27:10 -0000

lol Yes I got plenty, still behind the other Vlad though. Thanks.

Re: Exclusive: WidgetBucks Now Safe To Use

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:42:18 -0000

I will not be surprised that yesterdays round "cements" me in the top 10 in the SERPS, of course we do not know what is going to happen with the G..... Hmmm I have and idea they should replace Matt Cutts with you.

Re: Exclusive: WidgetBucks Now Safe To Use

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:42:18 -0000

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:56:44 -0000

So the same can be said about Google..... In fact it fits them perfectly now. There is so much more in the world outside Google.

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:56:44 -0000

So the same can be said about Google..... In fact it fits them perfectly now. There is so much more in the world outside Google.

Re: Real or Fake PageRank Update In Progress (round 3)

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:02:01 -0000

Congratulation Andy,

Looks like your PR may recover after all. My case is beyond hope lol. Maybe it is Googles way to let us know that the toolbar PR will be updated dynamically and will change from day to day? :)

Re: Real or Fake PageRank Update In Progress (round 3)

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:02:01 -0000

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:04:45 -0000

Andy,

Even if you are earning only 3% of your income from blogging, the comments are important. I have visitors finding my blog every day thanks to keywords in comments.

I don't think Pam knows much about the subject. I thought that she was working for Feldman though. Hmmm interesting.

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:04:45 -0000

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:26:35 -0000

But than again blond and hot- who needs brains.

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:26:35 -0000

But than again blond and hot- who needs brains.

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:32:14 -0000

Wooops, I got caught.... that was definitely a reaction to being called a jerk.

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:32:14 -0000

Wooops, I got caught.... that was definitely a reaction to being called a jerk.

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:46:34 -0000

Lucia,

I agree that it would be much better to engage people into a constructive discussions on our blogs. However I am not sure bloggers like Pam will be willing to participate....

It is interesting though that finally Shoemoney (with Pam's help) is taking a pop at do follow bloggers. I think maybe he (along with other A listers) are just plain jealous about the quality of comments on dofollow blogs. Just take for example this blog and compare to any posts on Shoemoney. As Andy said, if you encourage spam comments that is what you get.

Re: BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:46:34 -0000

Re: Real or Fake PageRank Update In Progress (round 3)

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:10:41 -0000

Andy,

It looks like your PR is back to 5.... I have been traveling most of the day- I guess I missed a few things.

Re: Real or Fake PageRank Update In Progress (round 3)

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:10:41 -0000

Andy,

It looks like your PR is back to 5.... I have been traveling most of the day- I guess I missed a few things.

Re: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:12:08 -0000

"The Chrunchies"- you just have to love this one. I wonder if Pornotube will be awarded? It has been covered quiet well on TechCrunch.

I may have missed a lot during my vocation but whoever called you "Pied Piper" needs some serious help.

Re: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:12:08 -0000

Re: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:38:55 -0000

I do not see how penalizing advertiser can help. If anything Google should be working on a way to rank relevantly websites without consideration if the link was paid for or not.

I personally think this article raises some serious questions Google needs to address, hopefully sooner than later.

The penalties were carried out in uneven and unjust manner. The entire fiasco will probably cost me $500 in November, and I am not talking about selling links or writing paid reviews, in fact I have terminated my accounts with PPP, ReviewMe, TLA and Sponsored Reviews.

In fact I am planing to ban Googlebot from some of my websites as I write this.

It is great to see PPP/Izea is to disregard PageRank altogether.

Re: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:38:55 -0000

Re: SocialSpark.com Preview – PayPerPost Goes Googley?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:13:11 -0000

I am beginning to regret to have terminated my account with PayPerPost. Great review Andy. Thanks.

Re: SocialSpark.com Preview – PayPerPost Goes Googley?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:13:11 -0000

I am beginning to regret to have terminated my account with PayPerPost. Great review Andy. Thanks.

Re: Plausible Deniability Just Doesn't Cut It Mr Arrington

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:27:32 -0000

You naughty bloggers lol. Mike Arrington is a good guy. Leave him alone!

He did not forget. He was to busy interviewing senator McCain. Of course I am disappointed in the interview, I would love to hear what senator thinks of Pornotube. I hope Mike gets a chance to interview all of them. So one more time, please leave Mike alone.

;)

Re: Plausible Deniability Just Doesn't Cut It Mr Arrington

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:27:32 -0000

Re: ZeroRank – More PageRank Carnage (Round 5)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:04:26 -0000

I am not surprised at all.... At least in my case I clearly know why my PR is zero. And I do not anticipate letting Google crawl my site soon. My experiment is producing some very interesting results- not something Google would like to hear. But I guess they would not pay attention to me anyway.

My word to Malaysian webmasters is that they can very easily survive without Google. Just do what you do best. Google is dead as far as I am concerned.

Hmmm Matt spends $200? Buys a computer with an OS configured to pimp G? Hmm that must be very honest, upfront and without any other intention than to enlighten his readers about the new PC. I think I may just report him for paid links.

Re: ZeroRank – More PageRank Carnage (Round 5)

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:04:26 -0000

Re: ZeroRank – More PageRank Carnage (Round 5)

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:53:12 -0000

Clement,

Those are kind words. But I think people like Andy can revolutionize things, not some one like me!

I doubt my results will be remarkable. However I am taking a closer look on my "long tail" these days and to my surprise Yahoo and MSN are handling things (duplicate content) much better than I would have ever expected.

As to the strategy how to maximize Yahoo and MSN traffic there is none. In fact I am doing all those things I have learned to do to optimize my site for G. The difference is that I am focusing on "long tail" as Yahoo and MSN see it.

Thanks for your interest.

Re: ZeroRank – More PageRank Carnage (Round 5)

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:53:12 -0000

Re: Important – Take Specific Actions Today

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:23:20 -0000

Congrats on new startup! Subscribed!

Re: Important – Take Specific Actions Today

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:23:20 -0000

Congrats on new startup! Subscribed!

Re: EPerks, offering discounted offers from local servic providers

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:28:33 -0000

ePerks is making some real estate agents unhappy. I wonder why would you create a Reply.com clone and give it a different name? It does not make sense to me.

Re: Feedvertise with Text Link Ads

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:43:09 -0000

Thanks Adam. Would you say then that ads delivered by Pheedo can be considered as static html code?

Re: How to Get Your Website Listed Quickly on Major Search Engines

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:04:43 -0000

Thanks Lorelle,

I am trully honored, I have been reading your blog for some time now and never thought I would get your attention. I did learn a lot from you.

I agree about pinging. I do think though that an article helped as well, as did Bluedot and Digg. In fact I was following the way search engines indexed that site. The first pages with my url on them were from Digg and Bluedot.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Re: Spam Protection Plugin for Your Site

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:54:49 -0000

Thanks Lorelle,

I will give those plugins try. I never thought adding two one digit numbers would cause a problem to any one.

Re: Now this is interesting….. and funny!

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:23:43 -0000

I do not think I am going to \"kill\" my RSS feeds. I guess the person is not experience in the world of RSS and blogging. If the site had good traffic I will just benefit from those two affiliate links in the article.

Re: Now this is interesting….. and funny!

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:22:58 -0000

Wlecome J.R.,

There is not connection to that blog, he or she may get some traffic from my site for time being. I will remove the link eventually.

The ads that you are talking about are affiliate ads, I will get paid only if some one signs up for the services.

Re: How to Get Your Website Listed Quickly on Major Search Engines

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:46:02 -0000

Jorge,

I I don't think there is a definite answer to your question.
Any answer your get to this questio is more or less and educated guess. Are you using Google Sitemaps? Did you promote your site via articles or PR? Thry any of these.

Re: Making My Readers Famous

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:23:45 -0000

Welcome Zaheer,
And thanks for stopping by!

Re: Alex Tew’s Pixelotto

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:12:53 -0000

Guys, I am tollerant to selfpromotion, but I am not so tollerant when some one is abusing my blog. Be good!

Re: Google, Link Popularity and The Future of Text-Link-Ads

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:55:22 -0000

Hi Arnie,
Thanks for comment. I think no one will ever be able to figure out Google and their algorythms. After I have written this post, I noticed that Bogger is now compatible with Text Link Ads. Now this is interesting since Blogger is owned by Goole.

Re: Making My Readers Famous: Sam Harrelson

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:32:43 -0000

Thank you Sam,

I liked your post about spambot today. Great job!

Re: Jangro’s List Was Responsible for 25% of visitors!

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:09:34 -0000

Scott, I did not anticipate much of a traffic from the "list", it's just a surprising "side-effect". I have bookmarked the least simply because it had most of the blogs I currently read. Great idea! I am looking forward to see the improvemets. In my opinion it is becoming a popular social affiliate site already!

Re: Making My Visitors Famous: Patrick Gavin

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:17:37 -0000

Hi AdsBay,

You are very welcome. Please let me know if you have any questions about it.

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:23:24 -0000

Thank you for comment Adrew,

I am not putting much hope in Alexa. I realiaze that achieving high will not increase thu actual traffic to my sites, unless of course you can get on "movers adn shakers" list, but then how qualified my visitors would be?

I am guessing when you talk about "list" you mean the "e-mail list"?

Just saw your blog as well, great job!

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:13:53 -0000

Thanks Andrew,

I have been using EzineArticles. I am not so sure how to employ e-mail marketing, especially for affiliate sites that sometimes have nothing else but products displayed via datafeeds.

Thanks again. I will definetely subsribe to your e-mail list for more tips and advise. ;)

Re: Alexa Experiment Update.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:31:54 -0000

Hi Mark,

I love your alexa button!:) I do not think it helps either.

Re: Comprehensive Affiliate Report

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:39:56 -0000

I am looking forward to the update!

Re: Sam’s Blog is worth…..

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:17:40 -0000

Sam, I you use the gadget try your domain with and without "www". I am not sure why, but some sites work with one and do not work with another. Also this tool will produce results for both- domains with "www" and without with two different amounts. There was also a more detailed explanation of Dane's site as to the factors of this tool, I believe they credit one incoming(according to technorati) as worth $530 or something like that. I am sure if you e-mail Dane he can expalain it. It's a nice little reminder is it not?

Re: My Famous Readers: Linda Buquet

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:59:09 -0000

Linda,

Its my pleasure. Thank you for advertising with me via AdBrite. I will definetely be at your forums.

Re: Akismet Is Catching Wrong People

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:11:51 -0000

Thanks 45n5,

Do you think there is a better solution?

Re: My Famous Readers: Linda Buquet

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:34:53 -0000

Thank you Andrew!

I really have become great fan of AdBrite. It opened to me possibilities of developing business relationships.

Re: Affiliate Marketing Carnival

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:14:57 -0000

Thanks Sam!

I am really new to this carnival thing. It seams that there is a way for anyone to host a carnival. I am still learning datails. Unfortunately since I have published this post I have already recieved submission from spammers. But the idea is good. As new submissions to carnival come in I will post them in my blog.

Re: Affiliate Marketing Blog Carnival: Affiliate Summit- Las Vegas 2007

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:37:47 -0000

Thanks Andrew.

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend this time around. Just will be tracking the news here at home. I hope you continue to blog while at the Summit. I am looking forward to your posts!

Re: My Famous Readers: Gene Kavner

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:16:12 -0000

You are welcome Gene. I think you have a great blog and many pople can benefit reading it as I did.

Re: Growing the Tail

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:24:46 -0000

Thannks Sam,

I have registered for this site a while ago but only recently have started to use it.

Sam, I hate to miss your comments, but unfortunately Akismet is still marking your comments on my site as spam. I will continue to despam them, but I am getting fed up with Akismet for this reason. Make sure you check your comments on other sites to see if they get caught by Akismet.

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:24:52 -0000

Mike, thanks again for stopping by. I really enjoy the Hittail. Great product and I whish to have found it much sooner. I own several blogs and some times I felt I was spreading myself to thin. But Hittail and it's "suggestion" keep me going. What a great tool! And thanks again for StumbleUpon thing!

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:03:27 -0000

http://www.hittail.com/blog/2007/01/hittail-vs-...

Mike, I just read the article. I actually took another look at Hittail after reading Darren's article. While it is good to get traffic from Digg, I believe that Hittail's suggestions offer long term benefit in SEO. I market some of my website's on EzineArticles.com and recently I began to use keywords suggested by Hittail in links poiting to my sites.

Re: Making My Readers Famous: Ryan Knowles

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:24:06 -0000

Thanks Allen,

I should say that this idea is not mine. I have learned it from Darren's blog at www.problogger.net

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Wikipedia’s Nofollow and SEO

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:55:54 -0000

I was trying to look it up myslef few minutes ago, but their page strength tool is down. Maybe they are already working to adjust this recent change. If I remeber correctly the value of Wikipedia at SEOmoz was quiet big. I believe my blog had about 1000 incoming links according to Yahoo! and SEOmoz attributed only about 20% on their scale. While only one link from Wikipedia would give you a whooping 40% or so.

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:04:08 -0000

Thank you Scott,

For some one as handicapped in programing as I am, it was quite a challenge. This current theme actually works well. There are a lot of little things inside of the theme that allow to add/change features in a blink of an eye, like the position of the sidebar.... I do hope to get the BumpZee widget working soon.

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:24:02 -0000

Scott,
I am getting the same error, I am not sure what is wrong. I am wondering if it has to do with "permissions" for a particular directory or maybe there is a conflict with a certain plugin.

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:26:31 -0000

I have deactivated a plugin called "Subscribe to Comments" let see if this changes anything.

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:41 -0000

It was the "Subscribe to Comments" plugin that gave me the error. Fixed! Thanks Scott!

Re: Making My Readers Famous: Jimmy Reimer

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:49:09 -0000

Jimmy,

Thank you to visit from time to time. You know with the MyBlogLog widget you can do nothing else bu writing about your readers!

No need to reciprocate, it was my pleasure!

Re: Can A Link Redirect Acquire PR?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:39:47 -0000

That is a good point. I need to revisit and see if it happened by accident. The site I am talking aout is another WordPress site so when I have created the redirects I may have duplicated an already existing permalink.... hmmm, thanks for stopping buy, I appreciate your advise.

Re: Welcome to Black Hat (SEO)

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:35:10 -0000

You are right Lee, traffic is what makes you money. To be honest, I really do not understand this white/black hat stuff. I do hear though that black hat techniques do not last and when se catch up they will penalize you.... So you've told me it's black hat, it was good enough for me. I am getting good traffic to that site, and to be penalized for something that niether way makes much difference is not worthed to me.

Re: Welcome to Black Hat (SEO)

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:19:58 -0000

>> SEO is an art with little bit of science to it.

Agree. As with each science there is a learning curve. I am just at the very beginnig for that learning process. :)

Re: Skype Has Scored A Touchdown In My End Zone.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:44:30 -0000

Hello ZOverLord and weclome to my blog!

I do speak half of languages offered ;)... Maybe they can hire me as one of their translator?.. Jocking side Skype is one of the best services I have ever used.

Re: ReviewMe Is Behind On Blog Statistics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:50:39 -0000

Thanks Andy,

I am not that worried about the price. Currently I am at the lowest end, I believe at $60 per review.

I think they could have done a better job keeping up with the statistics. Besides I do not understand how do they figure out the average number of "subscribers"?

I am glad it is working for you. I will definetely hang in there. $60 is better than nothing right?

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: ReviewMe Is Behind On Blog Statistics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:18:09 -0000

Andy,
That was exactly my point when I wrote:
>>What about bloggers who through hard work were able to to achieve wonderful rankings?<<

I think it is unfair that your blog is getting priced at $60 with so many more feed subsribers and that much better technorati rank.

Re: I Am An Affiliate….

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:09:22 -0000

Good point Mark,

I would caution people about the privacy when visitng the site.

Re: ReviewMe Is Behind On Blog Statistics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:39:07 -0000

Ken Welcome!

Believe it or not I just got the first review request today afer I posted this article.

Re: ReviewMe And Things

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:22:28 -0000

I understand that perfectly Mark. I subsribed to many feeds that contain paid reviews. Do I like it? Sometimes I do, other times I do not. If a person were to have paid review in every single post, I would probably began to pay less attention to that feed, and eventually I woudl even unsubsribe, unless the reviews (althoug beign paid for) were extremely well done. But that is me. And I understand every one who feels that one paid review is one too many. The good thing about ReviewMe is that a paid for post has to be clearly marked as such, so your readers can chose to either read it, ignore it or unsubscribe comletely from your feed.

Re: Team Link Network

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:23:45 -0000

Welcome Link Diva,

I have to tell you that in my review I was restrained from over criticising your website. But since you have paid me a visit, shows me that you are paying attention and my consider my observations.

"Automated Money Making Machine"? Come on! Do you really think anyone will buy into it? When I first saw your website and read it, I struggled over accpting your review, because I would never use your services unless some major changes are made, including eliminatig "automated money making machine".

Why would an affiliate want to give you $200 in order to join? I can join Commission Junction and
other affiliate networks for free and make better money that your program is offering.

Also if you are collecting personal information which includes social security numbers, I would highly reccomend to impliment security features on your website, and maybe even spend few hundreed dollars on aquiring a tird party endorsement, such as E-Trust for example.

It seams that you are getting into "link marketing". Here again why would I need your license at $200 when I can join Tex-Lin-Ads for free?

I do hope you consider my suggestions and implement the changes. Look at my comments as constructive criticism.

Re: Cost Per News is Having an Impact- As Leaders Tend to Have

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:46:38 -0000

Sam it is my pleasure. I follow your blog with with great interest. Do not stop! You have inspired many people.

A month ago or so I tried to "measure" your site with the same gadget and your numbers were below 3. Accoring to this gadget to grow 1.5 points in one month is huge, at least to me.

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:45:27 -0000

Andy thanks for the insight, if I understand you correctly you are talking about long term benefits? Short term bigger sites will be always ahead of the game?

-------

Mark, you welcome.

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:01:41 -0000

Thank you Andy. It's a pleasure to have you commenting on my site!

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:07:15 -0000

Wow! I did not realize there is a discussion on here.

Carsten, thanks for stopping by. Just clarify, I am happy and thankful that Bumpzee is sending my way some visitors.

Mark, thanks for keeping up this dicussion!

Andy, as always, great to hear your insights!

Serolloah, thanks for stopping by.

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:37:41 -0000

Andy,

I am glad you have brought up the long tail. I don't believe that every one realizes that long tail is resposabile for 90%(this site) of all search traffic. I have just started to pay closer attention to long tail and can tell you that some of my articles come up on the first pages of the search engines for keywords that are not in the title. It is rare and they do not keep the position for long but provide some good insights.

For the bigger sites I imagine long tail is resposible for 99.9% for natural search traffic.

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:56:27 -0000

Mark, you nailed it. That was exactly my point. Also that is why I believe that BumpZee is turning into a great community.

I think "nofollow" topic surfaced again and became hot after Wikipedia's change. While intially did not welcome Wikipedia's move, I think I am changing my mind now.

When it comes to sites like Digg, Plugim and other similar ones, move to "nofollow" my prove to be devastating, imho. While these sites have alot of fresh content, much of that content is submited with hope to be dugged, plugged, bumped to the front page but also with hope to get a link to your site. At least it is my intention.
Unfortunately there are many articles on these social sites that were dugged and plugged and even commented on by users who did not even bother to read the source, and alot of that is happening there. But who cares I got link from them right? The moment Digg or others introduces "nofollow" I am dropping their plugin buttons and anything other link poiting to their site because in my eyes they would loose any credibility.

BUT! If they followed Scott's example and implemented option for users to chose whethere or not to use "nofollow" maybe it will calm some diggers down over "blog submitions".

Re: Alexa Says My Website Still Has A Heartbeat

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:13:41 -0000

I had problems using Alexa toolbar, will never use it again in my life. I have not tried the firfox search yet. Where do I get it?

Re: Alexa Says My Website Still Has A Heartbeat

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:41:30 -0000

Thanks Mark!

Re: Team Link Network

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:42:43 -0000

I will close the comments after this post. But I believe it was unethical to submit this page to Digg (I am not sure whether or not you did it personally) and comment that I praised TLN in my review.

TLN is not thing else than a PIRAMID scam and shoudl be closed.

Re: Is Video Blindness Around The Corner?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:37:21 -0000

Good point Mark. I think that as video ads become aboundant and cheap and easy to produce, their quality may not continue to endure. The cost of infomercials is a bit different so of course is the quality. But even there you have some not so good ones. It will be interesting to see if this video wave last.

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:54:36 -0000

Was the error in connection with co.coment? I have a pluging that may be causing it.

By the way I can wait to see other communities on BumpZee!

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:02:12 -0000

Just turned the plugin off. Will see what happens.

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:36:23 -0000

Agree Leonard,

Much better than MyBlogLog. I am actually thinkig of taking down thr MyBlogLog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:00:42 -0000

Sam, I am with you. The MyBlogLog is gone. BumpZee is much better community. Buh-bye MyBlogLog!!!! lol

Re: When I am not doing Affiliate Marketing…

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:41:06 -0000

Thanks Fraser,

Your church website looks great! I have not gone that far as podcasting. But you gave me a new idea.

The only reason I would ever consider Joomla is that Russian translation of it seams to be better. Witouth "langauge localization files" I manually translate the parts of the theme in Russian. Unfortunately as we go I discover more and more that needs translation, like 404 pages....

Thanks for stoppin qand thanks for podcasting idea.

Re: Video Advise To New Affiliates Pending

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:07:19 -0000

Thanks Mark. I do the same very often as well. I guess it's just our nature to "follow" big buck! :)

I think when it come to EPC you have also need to factor how old is the program. I will be keeping an eye on "Loan.co.uk" (image above) to see if they have the same EPC three months from now.

Re: Video Advise To New Affiliates Pending

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:56:56 -0000

Stephanie,

Can not agree more with you. Thank you for stopping by!

Re: BumpZee! Welcomes 300th Memmber!

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:51:12 -0000

My pleasure. I was too late with "200" milestone ;).

Any idea when will we see onther communities?

Re: DoFollow Love Knows No Limits!

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:20:39 -0000

Tat, thanks for stopping by. Sure why not, as long as link love is happening right? ;)

Re: Do Kontera Ads Bother You?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:47:21 -0000

You welcome Mark. Thanks for the feedback. I probably would not have asked if they were more profitable. I guess to make any god money on these or AdSense like ads your site need 1000 visitors per day. Oh well, maybe I shoudl save them for the future.

Re: Do Kontera Ads Bother You?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:45:27 -0000

Thank you both Bobo and Scott. I agree with you bobo about the sidebar as well. There goes revamting!

Re: Do Kontera Ads Bother You?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:56:18 -0000

Leonard,

Thank you. I do have the lowest convetsion on any advertisin on this blog. Agee with you 100%.

Re: Can You Afford Pay Per Click?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:28:13 -0000

Mark,
Thanks for stopping by! Just a quick answer to your quetion about my URL. It's a combination of my first and last name. Your question is acctually gave me an idea for my next post. But in short, you can have this kind of domain ranked well as long as you have good quality links pointing your way. So yes no one would remeber my URL but as long as I have links (just like the one you gave me... thanks) poiting to my site you can get good rankings. As of today my domain ranks at 3 in Google. I see it getting to 5 in the next update. Anyway if you keep an eye on my blog I will write more about what I think aboout "keyword" containing URLs. Great question!

Re: What’s Up With Your URL?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:31:43 -0000

Mark,

I did not feel like you gave me hard time. In fact I believe your question was very legitimate. Other people have asked me about it in the past, but you were the first to ask me on my blog. I actually appreciate it, since it's gave me an idea about this post.

By the way I was at your blog today but I will give you hard time here on my own blog if you don't mind :).... I am way to lazy to register at your blog and then login in order to comment. I would recommend you to open up the comments to people who did not register with your blog. How about this as hard time? ;)

Re: What’s Up With Your URL?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:05:35 -0000

Andy,
I am not worried about the URL of this blog. I actually happened to believe that if youare operating a blog, as you said "you cn rank for all types of things".

I am actualy trying to see if I can get to rank this site for "Vlad" but there are way to many "Vlad The Impaler" pages comming up as of now lol... Hence VladTheAffiliate.

Re: Wordtracker: Measuring The Buzz Around Oscar Nominations

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:22:15 -0000

Arnaud,
Welcome! I am not sure I am getting what you are trying to say. My article while references Oscars is more about WordTracker.

Re: Making money from your web site.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:33:50 -0000

Welcome Chris! Thanks for stopping by. ;)

Re: Yugster Uses YouTube To Showcase Their Products

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:15:29 -0000

Piper, thanks for the link! Sure people at Vat19 know what they are doing. Yuster shoudl take a note.

Mark thanks for stoping by. I agree with you about the quality. Am just amazed that people coming up with such a cretive ways to use videos both in blogs as well as on e-commerce sites.

Re: Wordtracker: Measuring The Buzz Around Oscar Nominations

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:25:02 -0000

lol Mark they probably did! Good one!

Re: Rediscovering PRWeb

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:13:03 -0000

Yes Andy I got two, both form my two previous posts. This was just a test drive but for sure it opned up a new horizon, so thanks to both of you.

Re: Rediscovering PRWeb

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:59:13 -0000

>>In some competitive niches it is hard to get relevant links because they are all competitiors

This explains why my first attempt on a web hosting related blog did not get a trackback.

Re: Rediscovering PRWeb

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:22:41 -0000

Funny you mentioned Darren's blog. I have several artcles linking to his post that did not gave me a trackback. I e-mailed Darren and got a reply from his about it. Turns out it was filtered by "colletive intelligence" filtering software.

Re: Technorati Is Reporting Link From BumpZee!

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:38:01 -0000

Hi Jimmy,

The ReviewMe deal is ok, I do not get aked that often. But I like it becaus you are not required to write a "postitive review"....

Thanks for the compliment. Yes shoe money is there.

Jimmy of you come back there is a problem with your "contact" page on your blog when viewed in Firefox. I am going to drop you an e-mail about it.
Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Rediscovering PRWeb

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:29:24 -0000

Jatin,

Some article directories are quiet good. I have use EzineArticles with some success. Unfortunately you need abou 100 articles in order to see a noticable boost in traffic.

I have been usin PRWeb for sometime now. Few months back they still had an option to sumbmit press releases for free, but I did mostly $40 submitions, this optio is still there. If budget permits and you have a hot product/website to promote I would definetely go with $200 submitions. Well worthed in my opinion.

Re: Technorati Is Reporting Link From BumpZee!

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:21:09 -0000

Hi Andy,
Are you sayin Technorati can be gamed that easy? :)

Actually this reminds me of something. A while back I have joined the co.comments after reading your post. Actually I did not join them until I saw a ping back (Technorati) from your co.commnts after you commented on my blog. So I have been using "co.comments" since, I am guessing you are using them as well. Technorati does not report those links anymore, any idea why is that?

Re: Technorati Is Reporting Link From BumpZee!

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:59:27 -0000

"I will just create another blog and feed my cocomments to the blog"

I was thinking of that to or to make a daily post with the summary of all the comments I made on that day. With the FeedBurner you can easily automate the process. Great idea!

Re: Rediscovering PRWeb

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:19:05 -0000

Welcome Rudman,

There is no more free press releases on PRWeb the minimum is $40.

It also should be noted that not every press release will give you a trackback. I found that the more competetive industry is the hurder is to get a trackback. It looks like some trackbacks are held for moderation while others give you a link right away.

Re: What’s Up With Your URL?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:46:03 -0000

As promised I kept track of this post here is an update:
http://sageblogger.com/whats-up-with-your-url-u...

Re: What’s Up With Your URL?- Update

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:58:36 -0000

Mark, I do not discount the keywords in the url. The beuaty of WordPress is that you can configure to custom permalinks to include the keywords in url.

I think some confusion may have come from the fact that in PPC campaigns if you have keyword in title, descrition, and display urls your CTR will be much better.

When it comes to SEO, incoming links from an authority sites can boost your ranking quite alot. But it takes time and patience, which I tend to luck.

Re: New WP Plugin: FeedBurner Feed Stats.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:20:28 -0000

Mark, my pleasure.

The idea behind it was brilliant.

Re: Do Kontera Ads Bother You?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:59:52 -0000

Maki,

When I started serving them some time they would serve one ad but other times more than 10. I was not impressed earnings either.

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Wild Hogs

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:04:13 -0000

I wish all my posts would have this effect lol...
I had to posted, my wife was very insisting to get me "off this computer.." at the end I like the movie.

Re: Wild Hogs

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:02:36 -0000

No more standing in line on the release day!

Re: Are You Branding Your FeedBurner Feed?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:39:07 -0000

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for stopping by. I am sucribed to some blogs using AWeber. One thing that I like about FeedBurners e-mail subscription is that it sends an e-mail once a day with all the posts you made. I am not sure if you can do the same with the AWeber. So far from what I have seen AWeber sends out e-mails as soon as there is new post on your blog. AWeber is probably great for e-mail marketing via newsletters. I am avioding to subscribe to blogs that offer e-mail subscription via AWeber due to the amount of e-mails.

Aslo FeedBurner is free.

Re: Are You Branding Your FeedBurner Feed?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:00:27 -0000

Thanks fo the points Shawn. I did not know many of these things, I will probably give AWever a shot.

How would you benefit from double opt-in? I am not sure I understand what double opt-in is. Is it thatou offer two different sing up methods?

Re: Are You Branding Your FeedBurner Feed?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:15:51 -0000

OK I get it. That feature was availabel from FeedBurner as long as I can remember.... FeedBurner sends a confirmation e-mail to subscriber with a unique url to confirm the subscription. Also there is an option to back up all the e-mails, should something go wrong with FeedBurner.

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:16:54 -0000

Yes I love that video too! lol

I also noticed that Squidoo ranks quiet well for some keywords. I am jsut experimenting with it for now let see how it goes.

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:22:56 -0000

Thanks Carsten,

As mark mentioned above and from what you are saying Squidoo lanses rank well.

Since I am new to it all I did was to add the feed from this site. So I do not need to spend much time there editing and such.

Thanks for your comments.

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:49:48 -0000

Carsten Thanks for the heads up.

Yes the feed has complete posts. But from what I have seen Squidoo grabs only a snippet of each posts. The reason my feed has complete posts is that I often wonder if partial posts will not disouradge subscribers to "unsubscribe".

"Google might filter you out for good"
Can you explain this. I am not sure I understand it. I noticed that many so called "A List" bloggers also offer complete feeds.

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:09:08 -0000

Carsten,
If you are following this. I just added feed from your blog to Google Reader. Personally I wish that the reader would show the etire post.

I think in FeedBurner you can add "noindex" attributes to your feed. Woudl that help?

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:23:46 -0000

Thanks Carsten,
I will have to reconsider adding my feed to the lense then. lol Actually I should probably delete this one and start all over. Thanks for the tips!

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:30:44 -0000

You mean the disclamer in regards to BumpZee right?

I am not keeping this lens anyway.

Re: Your Comments Are Appreciated

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:41:16 -0000

My pleasure Mark. Sometimes I wonder who contributes to this blog more me or those who comment lol.

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:19:57 -0000

Good one Mark from Bloglyne ;). As for me I don't think video is that bad. I actually like it!

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:11:01 -0000

I say good to both of them lol

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:37:28 -0000

That's alright Mark, even if comments are off topic they provide me with a lot of things I can write about in the future.

I am not sure I will be spending much time on my won lenses, but I will definetely like the idea of dontating to charities. I am actually thinking of my own church. I think if I can engage few people it can really work. Unless money making side of Squidoo is not that great.

Re: Your Comments Are Appreciated

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:44:21 -0000

Scott I see your point. My site is not among the "big players" so I don't think anyone is going to see this as an opportunity for gaming. Besides I liked what Shoe said about something similar: "I write my blog for people, not for the search engines"

As for me, I am glad people come and comment. I am not earning much from this blog anyway, but boy do I learn. BumpZee is a big part of my learning process.

Re: Do You Squidoo?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:34:59 -0000

Thanks Carsten,

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it very much. It definetely gives me a better prospective on it.

Re: Your Comments Are Appreciated

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:52:18 -0000

Really, my widget shows 10 at the time of the posting of this article you had 8.... There may be even more comments that you made using www.bumpzee.com for your url. This widget takes into account the name of the poster, e-mail and url. So if people use different e-mail or url I guess this plugin sees them as different users. Sorry about that. If it is of any consolation your are not splitting the 3rd place with any one. ;)

Re: Your Comments Are Appreciated

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:32:40 -0000

I know. I was trying to be funny as well. :)

I think the fact that there is one Scott Jangro with www.jangro.com and the other with www.bumpzee.com can be seen as gaming opportunity.

I wonder when (or if) Shoe releases his plugin, how will he address this.

Re: Your Comments Are Appreciated

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:57:48 -0000

Scott,
If any one's, your opinion is greatly appreciated and I don't mind being convinced. I personally admire you and appreciate your opinion.

I see your point very CLEARLY. This plugin allows you to set the setting to count comments over much shorter period of time. Mine is set to count them over last year. If you reduce it to let say last 3 days it cuts down on the possibility of gaming. Not on my blog, but on the blogs that recieve 100 of comments a day. Sure there still be those who "don't behave", but you can restrict them from showing up bu filtering their url or e-mail address.

BTW, your thinking out loud is welcomed. I can't repeat this enough times.

Re: How To Write A Paid Review.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:30:38 -0000

Hi Leonard,
Sorry I did not notice your post. Was bussy checking out all the cool BumpZee updates lol.

Andy for sure sets a bar when it comes to paid reviews. I honestly can' believe anyone can write 200 words review and say something informative and constructive, besides saying "hey! check out this great site!!!"

Re: How To Write A Paid Review.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:01:27 -0000

Mark,
Thanks for stopping by. Last time I was at your blog there was still the Math plugin glitch so I could not comment I will be heading your way after posting this.

I do not have that many requests but if I ever do I will for sure look for ideas at Andy's blog. Good luck with your reviews.

Re: Arbitrage Absue and Content Advertisig

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:06:13 -0000

You welcome Mark. I really suspected the site either was using click-bot, but I had absolutely no prove since the mentioned 600 clicks came from 50 us states or something like that.

Re: Arbitrage Absue and Content Advertisig

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:42:16 -0000

I suppose it's an evil we have to learn live with. But again, it would be much different if some big time AdWords advertiser woudl raise an issue. Not us little guys.

Re: There it is! 11th position on Google for my first name!

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:24:31 -0000

Thanks Mark. Only according to Google though!

Re: There it is! 11th position on Google for my first name!

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:26:58 -0000

Thanks Chris,
I think this just proved to me that with a little planning and effort it is not that difficult to rank in Google after all. I am not sure though about the first 10 positions. We'll see.

Re: There it is! 11th position on Google for my first name!

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:04:56 -0000

lol Thanks Andy!

I guess its much harder to compete with those Poles ;)

Re: There it is! 11th position on Google for my first name!

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:16:46 -0000

Thanks Mark (from Bloglyne),
I amm not sure if I will benefit from it though. Trffic geerated by this keyword will be accidental to say the least. But it showed me that you can inporove rankings a bit for other keywors as well.

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:35:12 -0000

I will Mark. Btw, your review helped me to join them. And I am gald I did. Probably the best money I spent in 2007.

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:43:08 -0000

Yes I did. That was another question I meant to e-mail you about it. Did you get paid?

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:56:08 -0000

Great. I am looking forward to find out. Also signed up for the Affiliate program as well. I wonder if I will appear as your "sub-affiliate".

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:02:53 -0000

"to see how large of list I can build starting from scratch"

They have very nice totorials which helped me yesterday. I think you should be able to compile a 500 list in a short time.

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:36:00 -0000

Just did. Snet you a copy as well.

Re: There it is! 11th position on Google for my first name!

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:06:23 -0000

Thanks Fraser,
If it is of any help I use "dofollow" plugin in my comment area ;)

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:47:32 -0000

Thanks Mark, I looking forward to your video. I am still just trying to find my way over at AWeber, and am havin problem with "blog boradcast". Can't figure out how to send the "full post" to subscribers. It only sends out "description" with the link to my site. Any idea?

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:23:11 -0000

@Mark

here is my feed:
http://sageblogger.com/wp-rss2.php

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:31:11 -0000

Mark I see it is partial in description

but content :encoded has the intire enry. That was the reason I asked if:
{!rss_item_content:encoded}

in the AWeber template would do the trick.

Re: Is BumpZee! Really Stealing the Google Juice From Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:24:51 -0000

Sam I made an update. The widget uses "javascript". I had not intention to misslead anyone with this post.

Re: AWeber- The Best Decision

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:47:14 -0000

Thanks Mark,

I think it may also have to do with a plugin called "Meta Tags". It's useless for Google anyway, I will try to disable it.

Re: There it is! 11th position on Google for my first name!

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:03:04 -0000

well it will depend if I put out anything worthy of dicussion :)

Thanks for your support!

Re: New Creatives Available for 4InkJets Affiliates

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:09:47 -0000

That is very nice. Where have you bookmark my blog? I have bookmakred your forum as well. ;)

Re: DataFeedFile- programing solutions for Affiliates.

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:58:22 -0000

Hi John,

Thanks for stopping buy. I really like the way you have implemeted the DataFeedFile feeds. Do you mind if I use your site as an example in one of my future articles?

Great Job!

Re: The Secret Of Getting “Ripped Off” on Oprah Show?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:52:48 -0000

@Panter. I wonder if there is any real "flock" these preachers have.

@Maki. Yes the request came from an advertiser at Sponsored Reviews. I hope this is not the only type of advertisers they will have.

Re: DataFeedFile- programing solutions for Affiliates.

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:30:42 -0000

John,
I was going to ask you whether or not you used XML feed.

I myself have limited programing ability, so I was happy with php code, but from what I see on your site you can actually be more cretive with XML.

I agree with you on the fact that not many merhcnats are looking into sites like DataFeedFile, but then there is ShareASale, many merchants there provide feeds.

I whish though that more CJ merchants would join DataFeedFile.

John, would you like to wrtie an article as a guest author on my blog? I think some of my readers can benefit from your advise. Do you have a blog by any chance?

Re: The Secret Of Getting “Ripped Off” on Oprah Show?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:56:43 -0000

@lyndonmaxwell

I found that there are some real companies and services worthy to review, but I am sure there will be ones like this one. So I guess we just need to consider many factors before accepting a riview. Good thing is that you can research the website or product even prior of accepting a review.

Re: The Secret Of Getting “Ripped Off” on Oprah Show?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:48:38 -0000

@Rbobert (? i think you misspelled your name)

Do you really think any one can make a penny with th is scam? Come on!

Re: DataFeedFile Integration Example

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:12:44 -0000

Mark,

From my experience PPC is very hard to utilize with 4th click merchants so I guess the natural traffic woudl be the best. I think John (the owner of this site) had did some work gaining links. The sites PR 4. I am going to alert him maybe he will give a better answer.

Re: DataFeedFile Integration Example

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:20:54 -0000

I really do not know what kind of traffic the site has. I just e-mailed John let see what he says. I think that may be true about just any creative that was not created by an affiliate hiimself. I personally was not as successful with either DataFeedFile or GoldenCan.

Re: DataFeedFile- programing solutions for Affiliates.

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:26:04 -0000

John if you still following this thread check out this post:
http://sageblogger.com/datafeedfile-integration...

your attention is needed there

Re: DataFeedFile Integration Example

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:35:19 -0000

1700 really???
I was looking yesterday and it was more like 150,000
hmmm. I am intersted to see what John-the owner of the website has to say.

Re: DataFeedFile Integration Example

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:41:33 -0000

Hey Mark,

If you still follow this check out the site's page strength:
http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength/masternerd.com

If he gets good MSN traffic he may be getting better results even if Google has them in suplemental results. I am very surprised though, I can bet my life it was more like 150,000 yesterday.

Re: DataFeedFile Integration Example

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:49:08 -0000

Sorry I did not notice it was in moderation. anyway, you got my curiousity going. some stats speak well for this site. I am wodering if he gets natural traffic how is it split between the big 3. I think that MSN traffic either paid or natural converts the most.

Re: The Secret Of Getting “Ripped Off” on Oprah Show?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:46:34 -0000

Good luck Leonard. Hope you feel better.

"Now i've got to go see what it's all about."

Look forward to hear your opinion or a maybe a review ;)

Re: DataFeedFile Integration Example

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:39:19 -0000

John I will keep your dff forum in mind. I tried to e-mail you but my e-mail came back could you send me a quick note at "vjsolutions at optonline dot net"? Thanks.

Re: DataFeedFile Integration Example

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:05:24 -0000

Sorry Mark,

I don't know what happend I tried e-mailing myself from a different account, seams to be working ok. I will probably start using POP with this domain. Maybe I will have more controll.

Re: The Secret Of Getting “Ripped Off” on Oprah Show?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:06:23 -0000

@BEWARE
Pros and Cons seam like another ladng page of your campaing therefore I took liberty to delete the urls. There is always pay per click, but that will not increase the link popularity for you guys will it?

Re: Do You Blog in English?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:56:08 -0000

Thanks Parnav,

While the primary target area for me is North America as well. When it comes to BumpZee! the fact is that BumpZee is not aligned (at least not yet) to have blogs that are not in English. I am not sure if Scott would even consider expanding into other laguages. It would carry with it some major work of translating the modules and monitoring the communities. But since introduction of SEO on BumpZee and maybe other communities in the near future, having multiligual community may not be such a bad idea.

Re: Do You Blog in English?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:48:55 -0000

@Scott
Well, I guess there are thre languages US, UK and Vlad's English.... lol

"allow users to add their own communities"

This sounds very cool!

If you ever need my help I speak following: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Italian

I doubt there is a need but just in case.

Re: Do You Blog in English?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:21:11 -0000

That's alright, you can say it ;)

Re: Google CPA hmm… What about “nofollow”?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:02:38 -0000

"You might be able to profit if a merchant uses both LinkShare & Google. Someone who visits your affiliate website several times may click on both brands of affiliate links and you could be paid twice for the single transaction."

That is an interesting observation I am not sure it will go with merchants though.

Re: Do You Blog in English?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:15:22 -0000

"When it comes time to allow users to add their own communities (which we're working on), they can theoretically be in any language they wish. We'll see"

Scott, I am not sure if you are still following this but I have a question. Let presume I start writing in Italian. In order to do so I will probably install another wordpress in "it" directory. Technically this will be a different blog, with it's own RSS. We need to go trhouhg an approval as usual right?

Re: Email Marketers Forum Launched

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:19:15 -0000

Mark I think you may have hit a niche. I see many people have written about email marketing but your are the first to actually dedicate the forum just for that purpose.

I think your forum can become very good if you can attract some pros in the field. I am looking forward to be very active on the forum but as it is now all I have questions questions questions.

But hey I believe there is a saying that every wise man started from asking many questions right?

Re: Email Marketers Forum Launched

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:56:58 -0000

"I think we'll become the pros by our own trial an error"

You right about that but it would not hurt us with attracting the pros. Any feedback from Shawn or other BumpZees yet?

Re: Email Marketers Forum Launched

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:21:25 -0000

Teli,
Thanks for stopping by. I am honored. I am still trying to decide about wordpresdatafeedimport. I've heard so much good stuff about the software. Unfortunately I can't afford it at this time. Any discounts for some one like me? ;)

Re: Email Marketers Forum Launched

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:15:40 -0000

@Teli
"Hey Vlad,
You're honoured? Wow, that put a huge smile on my face. You have a great blog, I'm honoured to read it."

check this out:
http://sageblogger.com/do-you-blog-in-english/#...

I do have an Englihs of my own lol.

Re: Email Marketers Forum Launched

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:43:59 -0000

@Teli

Sorry about the math plugin. I hate to go back to Akismet. Good thing you can copy the massage, otherwise that could have been the last time you ever commented on my blog.

I knew you were reffering to a british spelling that was the reason I send you to a comment about laguages in BumpZee community. I thought it was funny.

Also I sent you an e-mail via the link you left above. I hope I gave the correct e-mail "vjsolutions at optonline dot net"

Re: Email Marketers Forum Launched

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:26:49 -0000

Teli,

That's great you made my day second time. :)

Re: Email Marketers Forum Launched

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:03:46 -0000

@Mark from Bloglyne

I am with you. I think the forum is a great idea where we can share our ideas. Have you checked it out?

Re: Inside Look at WordPress Data Feed Import Script

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:38:26 -0000

Thanks Mark,

I had my eye on this software since it was released but could not afford it at the time. I am planing to do some screencasts about it in the future.

Re: Feedback: Advertising on CostPerNews

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:25:56 -0000

My pleasure Sam,

I actually wanted to write this post in relation of having links/blogroll in your sidebar, since thre seems to be a dispute over how useful these links are. I am no SEO guru, but the results in my case proved some value of these links. You are welcome to use this post as you wish.

Re: Feedback: Advertising on CostPerNews

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:17:20 -0000

Shawn,

I absolutely agree with you about palcing at least one month ad on Sam's blog. I am planing to do so in the future, while keeping my fingers crossed that he is not going to raise the prices lol.

The reason I did it only for one week was to spare Sam's reputation :) . My blog is nothing comparing to all you guys! But I am thinking of placing ads to some of my other websites.

Re: Feedback: Advertising on CostPerNews

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:39:13 -0000

@Sam
Thank you! I am still discovering the beauty of blogging and how you can influence the industry, no matter how samll you are. But once again, I have been in affiliate marketing only one year, and actually did not start blogging until few months ago. Thanks again Sam.

Re: Feedback: Advertising on CostPerNews

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:01:05 -0000

Thank you Fraser,

I appreciate it. To be honest if it was not because of BumpZee, which help me to discover so many great affiliate marketing blogs out there, I would probably never come to appreciate blogging.

Re: Can “Pagination” Plugin Improve The “Juice Flow” On Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:34:41 -0000

lol
Mark that was probably the fastest comment I have ever recieved on my blog. I am gald you understood my ramblings. I am looking at this post and thinking what the hell I just wrote?

Anyway, I am not sure how this will affect my blog, I guess I need to wait a few days or maybe untill the next update.

I just founded interesting that even blogs like Shoemoney have PR 0 after page/5 or so, while Dane over at Business-Opportunities has so many archived pages with PR 4 and PR 5.

Oh well. We all make mistakes here and there.

Re: Can “Pagination” Plugin Improve The “Juice Flow” On Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:45:25 -0000

@Victor.

It did not show any error. As a matter of fact it shwoed nothing. I think it may be due to the fact that you are using a Spanish Version of core files on your wordpress. I noticed that plugin had "pagina" instead of "page". I liked the look of it but after installing it it did not do anything.

Re: Can “Pagination” Plugin Improve The “Juice Flow” On Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:36:29 -0000

@Mark

I think if I continue doing things I have done in the past it should not hurt me that badl, and may even prove to be benefitial. Look those links are not outgoing. The pages already exist and are indexed.

I notice that the terms this blog ranks for has more to do with incoming links. I would probably put 95% ratio on incoming links rather than onsite optimization.

On the other hand I am seeing some significant improvements in Yahoo and MSN. So doing this I also keep in mind these two as well.

Re: Can “Pagination” Plugin Improve The “Juice Flow” On Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:47:56 -0000

It looks like creator of Digg Like pagination plugin has translated the page to English:
http://www.mis-algoritmos.com/2007/03/12/wp-dig...

let me know if it worked for you.

Re: Wordtracker: Measuring The Buzz Around Oscar Nominations

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:24:20 -0000

Thanks for dropping your link Rob ;) . Come more often, I do not use "nofollow" in my comments. ;)

Jocking aside, I looked quickly at your website. I will be back for more reading.

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:28:02 -0000

@David Airey
I have been using MyBlogLog for a very short time so I don't think I can make comaprison in that respect. I joined BumpZee because it started out as an affiliate arketing comunity. It was and still is a greatt palce to connect with like minded people. The communities are very focused around the topics. And I get abou 80% of traffic to this Blog from BumpZee Now it has grown into four other communities, one of which (SEO/SEM) might interest you. I would recommend you to go in an check things out. Scott, the developer of BumpZee will answer your questions.

@Dave Davis
Yes, I was thinkig to change the color to red and create a category on my blog called "red light disctrict" where I would blog about all the blogs out there flashing the colors :) I also think that many people do not realize that WordPress and onther blogging platforms have "nofollow" by default in the comments and trackbacks. I didn't, until I came across Adny Beard's blog

@both. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

Re: Feedback: Advertising on CostPerNews

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:24:24 -0000

Well my site is down to 37th postition on Google for term "Vlad".... It would probably be on the first page by now had my link still been present on Sam's blog. oh well...

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:38:17 -0000

@Lord Matt

That's alright, it took me 2 months to get that reference also. How about that for being slow? :)

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:55:48 -0000

@Amy

I do not know, but I will alert Andy Beard about your question maye he knows the answer.

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:27:33 -0000

Amy,

I am not sure that disabeling spam blocking will disable "nofollow"...

at $150 a year you probably can get your own hosting plan and use WordPress. Just a suggestion.

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:42:55 -0000

Teli,

Thanks for stopping by. It was Andy Beard who opened my eyes to the whole "nofollow" thing in the comments of your blog. If anything it is a way to thank your commentors for taking time and contributing to your blog.

Re: Inside Look at WordPress Data Feed Import Script

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:15:11 -0000

Tanks for stopping by ClarkeW,

One think you should consider is to slightly modify the datafeed. You can do wonders with excel or other spreadsheet... A sentence or two can make a huge difference.

Re: No Need for Plugin to Embed YouTube Videos in Wordpress

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:56:56 -0000

lol sure I just need a camera

Re: No Need for Plugin to Embed YouTube Videos in Wordpress

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:06:32 -0000

Maybe I just sould add it to my wish list and see how much my readers really want me to do videos here ;)

Re: PRWeb vs PPC

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:48:26 -0000

Thanks Pranav,
Just click "submit press release" in your account and will bring up the window with all possible leveles. I never tried the $200, but from info it is probably the best option available.

Re: PRWeb vs PPC

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:13:28 -0000

Cvos,
Thanks for stopping by. I actually never published the press releases usesd on PRWeb on my own websites. I do that with articles on EzineArticles, but not with PRWeb.

Re: PRWeb vs PPC

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:02:49 -0000

Franck,
I have often contemplated to use a writer for my press releases. I think it is a good idea. Good luck!

Re: Five Reasons Why I Blog

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:55:14 -0000

Great response! I guess I was suppose to tagg some one who has not been tagged yet.

Re: PRWeb vs PPC

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:05:37 -0000

Thanks Jamie,

Thanks for mentioning the offline list. I have been big fan of offline promotion in affiliate marketing. I have a business card for every single website I own :) you can do wonders with offline promotions. Thanks for stopping by! I am following closely your site. I whis more merchants could see the benefits of datafeeds.

Re: PRWeb vs PPC

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:36:12 -0000

Jamie,
I am glad you are following this. I jsut sent you an e-mail.

I wish more merchants would join your site, maybe I can do something about it ;) even on a small scale.

Re: Five Reasons Why I Blog

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:48:18 -0000

Sam also left the link to his response. I initially meant to tagg Scott, but I know he may be way to busy with BumpZee so I forgot you tagged Sam frist. Oh well. I may tagg some one else.

Re: Five Reasons Why I Blog

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:24:09 -0000

Mark, I am not sure if that works I have just updated this post. Since you have tagged Sam before I am tagging Matt Coddington instead. Will that work?

Re: Five Reasons Why I Blog

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:31:45 -0000

I love this artist. What a ceaver way to promote Go Daddy??? But I trully love his cartoons, if you click over the cartoon it will take you to his site: www.blaugh.com

Re: Five Reasons Why I Blog

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:31:11 -0000

@Andy,

Sorry, I did not know. You welcome to place the link to the post you did as Sam did.

Re: Technorati Quest

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:28:03 -0000

Mark, I have one claimed as well there was an option to claim my feed from co.comments but technorati seems to completely ignore co.comments as a real blog.

Re: Technorati Quest

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:09:41 -0000

@Andy
The google search did not bring your article so here is the link for thos interested:
In Depth: Google BlogSearch | Ranking Blog Documents Patent

I am also giving a try to commentful, as we speak actually.

Re: Technorati Quest

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:33:10 -0000

@Andy,
I was just thinking that. For me it does not show. I was all the way down to page 10. It showed however in the first place when I added andybeard.eu to the search query.

Re: Technorati Quest

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:13:10 -0000

@Mark,
I have just started using commentful. Here is my initial impression. I don't see it has an option of automatically adding the URL to be tracked. Also the tracking consist only from tracking the number of comments, where at co.comments the actuall comment content is being recorded. I am not sure, I probably shoudl give it a few days try to see wich one I prefer. Maybe comdination of both can be usefull?

Re: Technorati Quest

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:21:27 -0000

Mark,
"no, you need to right click the page"

Thanks for the tip. It makes things a bit easier. I actually think it can be real good if they would track the content of comments as well.

I think the co.mment people have itended to be looked at as a real blog. Which I actually thing it is. I have been trying to avoid commenting on other blogs unless I have something of value to add and therefore I value my own conversations in the blogosphere. I do hope co.mments can figure out how to convinced about the same "Technorati".

Re: Technorati Quest

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:58:49 -0000

"You guys are becoming confused" lol

Not a big news for me just take a closer look at most of my writing ;)

Jocking aside, thanks for clarification. In the comments above I always thought of coComment.com, the one where you can install WordPress plugin along with FF extention, right?

Re: PRWeb Trackbacks: Loophole or Great Strategy?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:39:46 -0000

Joe,

Thanks for stopping by and clearing up things. I have been big fan of PRWeb in the past as the one who published releases. Now I am discovering it yet again as a blogger who can benefit from those track backs. I personally believe PRWeb has technology in place to be much better than any other advertising avenue or media. Thanks again for stopping by!

Re: Hittail Results

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:38:41 -0000

Hey Marios,
I do not mind sharing at all. This post is a perfect example. "Hittail Results" was among the suggestions, so as you can see I used it for the title of thi page. I have not done anything special with this suggestion besides this article. Fortunately I have been seeing good Google juice flow on thi blog. I would also try to use this term in anchor text from other websites (GoArticles or EzineArticles are good place to start). I hope this helps.

I see you are also using WordPress and if you blog freequently optimize your articles aroun Hittail suggestions. Depending on ho long you have been using Hittail you may have goog amount of terms by now. If not you will. I have been using Hittial for about three months now and my tail has bout 700 terms.

If you have just started to use Hittail, let it go its job for next few weeks to collect more terms. So you will have a wider range of terms to choose from.

Hope this helps.

Re: Hittail Results

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:30:34 -0000

I think there is plenty of confusion out there what "long tail" really stands for....lol. I think the Hittail is going to redefine the term all together.

With the time you will see that Hittail will show you top 10 keywords (that were used more than the rest to find your site). Even in my case with 700 I have only top ten in "pinkish" :). The rest belong to long tail. In my case these top 10 are responsible only for 8% of all search traffic. I think Hittail is a brilliant analytical tool, and is fitted perfectly for bloggers.

Re: Hittail Results

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:10:55 -0000

Mike,

Thanks for stopping by. Great info and suggestions.

Re: Hittail Results

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:10:14 -0000

@sky.bobi

If you have problem with me deleting your links please contact me.

Re: Google’s Directions From New York to London

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:14:10 -0000

Well, we know now how to get to Affiliate Summit in London. :)

Re: Google’s Directions From New York to London

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:26:15 -0000

You never know. Swimming Atlantic Ocean maybe easier than going through Siberia. :)

Re: Google’s Directions From New York to London

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:38:52 -0000

@Sam

I wonder if it was possible to get dirrections to South Pole if they would tell you to birng ski along the way.

Re: What Text Link Ads Publisher May Not Know.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:16:31 -0000

Thanks Tony,

Good advise, I might just do that.

Re: Time Off

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:20:22 -0000

Thank you both Sam and Scott.

The kidney stones seem to be moving out. Got the taste of Percoset... lol and good advise from my doctor (to have a bottle of bear!)
Thanks for your support and prayers, I appreciated it.

Re: Google’s Directions From New York to London

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:43:00 -0000

@Runa

I would not qualify this as "Artificial Inteligence". It's a humor nothing else. I was initially wondering if it was Google's April's fool joke?

Re: “Followers” We Have “No-nofollow” Community at BumpZee!

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:15:10 -0000

@Andy again,

Hey how quickly 4 blogs became 10? not bad huh?

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:26:29 -0000

@Andy

Yes I hope she does. I saw it on your blog and immediately thought of her. Good stuff.

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:37:25 -0000

Good idea. Will do that.

Re: Ping My Blog Please- Trackbacks Are Followed

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:49:03 -0000

@Andy

Bring it on! I like your tricks... lol

I agree about the trackbacks and their potential. Hey that's why I am crazy about getting them from PRWeb ;) .

Re: I Am Adopting the Code of Conduct

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:35:55 -0000

Had my first opportunty to e-mail the link to "Don't be an idiot" to one person today. lol

Jus wondering if a plugin can be written to send a link every time you delete a comment? Or mark it as spam?

Re: Virginia Tech Tragedy

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:58:17 -0000

Hi Deb,

English can be real tricky especially for me lol. My intention was to compliment you about not using "nofollow". I intalled DoFollow plugin a while back here on my blog.

http://sageblogger.com/pink-pink-pink-pink-pink...

Re: Three Questions Interview with Andy Beard

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:23 -0000

@James

I e-mailed Andy but I am sure he is going to monitor this. Great questions James, I am looking froward myself to Andy's answers. Thanks.

Re: Three Questions Interview with Andy Beard

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:52:18 -0000

"Each blog post that gets splogged often gives me 20 links, from each site."

Andy, forgive my ignorance. Are you saying that you do not mind if your blog posts get "splogged"?

The reason I am asking is that one time a post of mine was splogged along with an affiliate link in it.

Re: Never Tried PRWeb? What if you get $200 toward your first Press Release?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:18:58 -0000

So we men are good for something after all :)

My pleasure. If it was not for Andy Beard I woudl miss it!!!

I think having Digg plugin on the site helps. I look forward to your new start up as well.

Thanks for stopping by! I am happy to have fund your blog as well.

Re: Technorati Favorites Race. I Am Not That Far Behind.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:51:00 -0000

"If only I could write as concise as you!"

That was a joke right?

Re: Technorati Favorites Race. I Am Not That Far Behind.

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:22:19 -0000

Maki,

Thanks so much. Now 30 people had added my blog to their favorite and the bottom number to enter the top 100 is only 132 now. My blog is have a chance to get in after all. lol

But I guess after you get into the top 100, you may have a better chance to stay there. I am just curious to see that list one month from now. There are already some new blogs popping up.

Re: Technorati Favorites Race. I Am Not That Far Behind.

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:30:02 -0000

Dawud,

I saw that. But for some reason your blog was already in my favorites. ;)

I think add you aster reading your post but forgot to let you know about it. Thanks!

Re: The Secret Is A Scam

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:04:33 -0000

John you are cutting close to wear out my patience.

Re: Google Directory Lists BupmZee! For My URL

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:11:56 -0000

Darn it, I thought I was was onto something lol

Re: Google Directory Lists BupmZee! For My URL

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:23:38 -0000

On the other hand it is quiet interesting. I wonder if anyone ever gets much traffic from Google Directory?

Re: Google Directory Lists BupmZee! For My URL

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:42:15 -0000

@Pranav
"I don't remember the last time they update to fresher content from the dmoz database."

Evidently they do refresh it often. The "zee" Scott is referring to was written by me just a few days ago.

"it's best just to search dmoz for your domain to see where you are listed."

I did that and there is not a sign that my site is anywhere at dmoz (huge wink to a dmoz editor)

Re: Technorati Favorites Race. I Am Not That Far Behind.

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:30:01 -0000

Thanks Alan,

I did the same!

Re: Technorati Favorite Exchange: Day 4

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:37:47 -0000

Hi Jan Pieter,

You were already in my favorites. Thanks for stopping by.

Re: Technorati Favorite Exchange: Day 4

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:17:40 -0000

Hi Maria,
Evidently you were already in my favorites. I guess the OPML trick ;) did that.

Re: Technorati Favorites Race. I Am Not That Far Behind.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:08:39 -0000

Gary,
Thanks for your advise. I am writing the blog not for Google but for the people ;)

Re: Technorati Favorites Race. I Am Not That Far Behind.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:11:16 -0000

@Gary,

Besides every single link in this post is to relevant post about "Technorati Favorite Exchange".

Re: Anticipating My First $200 Level PRWeb Press Release

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:32:12 -0000

Thanks Ponn,

No, I did not have a chance to speak with Mario yet, maybe tomorrow. I think it may be a little difficult to track ROI. I am going to use it for an affiliate website.... There might be a way to provide an custom URLs... But I actually not that worry about it. I really look forward to the "visibility" the release will provide me with.

@mo
Thanks for stopping by. I will take a look at your website.

Re: Are you PR Obsessed?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:06:43 -0000

Hi Keiron,

Thanks for stopping by. This is the first time I ever read about PigeonRank. I guess this is something relatively new. I will definitely keep an eye on it. Thanks.

Re: Technorati Favorite Exchange Day X: Appearing and Disappearing

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:35:17 -0000

Maki,

I really did not think I would like this experiment that much due to all "nofollows" all over Technorati. But it does feel good, I agree. Now it is a question of keeping my blog there.... :) .

It will probably disappear tomorrow. :)

Re: Technorati Favorite Exchange Day X: Appearing and Disappearing

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:39:29 -0000

@Maki,

And congratulations on moving up on the list. You were 14th just few days ago, right?

Re: Technorati Favorite Exchange Day X: Appearing and Disappearing

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:44:42 -0000

Thanks Deborah,

I noticed your blog moved up a little as well. Congrats! And thanks for stopping by!

Re: Podacsting With PRWeb Press Releases

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:06:42 -0000

Ponn,

Thanks so much. Your podcast is great!

Re: Technorati Favorite Exchange Day X: Appearing and Disappearing

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:22:00 -0000

Hi Chino,

Thanks for stopping by. To me that list does matter more now than it did before. What really puzzled me is that people holding the top position had no blogs in their own favorite, hypocritical don't you think?

If nothing else I did come across many wonderful blogs to which I have subscribed.

I ironically it seams that your blog is among my favorites. I have to admit that I have not subscribed to your feed otherwise. If you would like to "un-exchange" let me know.

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Podacsting With PRWeb Press Releases

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:26:30 -0000

@Deborah,

Thanks. I will do a post on Tuesday. Thanks for tagging me.

@Church of Integrity

This post is more concerned with PRWeb rather than podcasting on your own blog.

Re: My Ultimate Guide To Productivity

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:47:53 -0000

Thanks Deborah.

I think with that comes along the fact that we might over criticize our own and other peoples failure, and some time grossly overlook their/our achievements.

Re: Bad Combination: High EPC With A Ghost Affiliate Manager

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:25:39 -0000

I think what CJ affiliates should do is to check daily their mailbox. I was fortunate enough not run any PPC campaigns for this merchant. Unfortunately even if your affiliation is terminated, the affiliate links are still lead to the merchant's website but no commission is credited to you. I wish there was a kind of 404 from CJ page for that purpose.

Thanks for stopping by Brian.

Re: Technorati Favorite Exchange: Day 4

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:20:45 -0000

@Matt,

I just checked my OPML file. Your blog is among my favorites.

Re: Bad Combination: High EPC With A Ghost Affiliate Manager

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:36:09 -0000

@Kristy
I hope the merchant in question isn't "closing the doors"... I was wondering about it as well. I have been following closely the industry involved and have not noticed anything indicating such a move. Unless I missed something.

@Salvo
Thanks for stopping by. I will definitely let you and other readers know who the merchant is.

Re: I Have Been Interviewed

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:38:47 -0000

lol Shut up!!!!!!

Don't do it man!

Re: I Have Been Interviewed

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:02:18 -0000

Good catch. I wish I had the skills like some of you guys. If you remember I asked you where does 19pages stores the data.... So here is an idea, can you do something for 19pages and CJ api?

Re: I Have Been Interviewed

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:15:06 -0000

I can't tell you how many times I have contemplated another url for this site...lol

It's kind of bittersweet relationship that I am in with this url. I also have no idea (here go my seo skills and knowledge out the window) how would I go about new URL while preserving some juice flow.

There is also another benefit. Even if I will be ever tempted to sell it I will have real hard time to find a buyer. So I guess it's safe to say I am a little protected from impulsively sell it.

Re: Bad Combination: High EPC With A Ghost Affiliate Manager

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:42:16 -0000

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for stopping by. Do you think this is something that can be addressed over at Revenews? I know you guys do not write about such petty things... I just think CJ follows you over at Revenews more than some "Vlad" ;)

Re: Bad Combination: High EPC With A Ghost Affiliate Manager

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:05:12 -0000

Jamie,

Well, according to Feedburner Revenews has almost 2,000 subscribers vs 50 subscribers here. I am sure (or at least hope) that number of them are affiliate managers like yourself.

I do not mind at all if you reference my post. In fact I would appreciate it.

Re: My Ego Is Satisfied

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:59:21 -0000

Thanks Everett,

I will return the favor by the end of the day. Thanks for subscribing!

Re: Thanking Your Contributors By FOLLOW

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:44:04 -0000

Rafaela,

It does not take much effort to moderate. For example I have deleted your link. It literally took me less than 5 seconds.

Thanks for stopping by.

Re: My Ego Is Satisfied

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:57:34 -0000

@Sarakastic

Don't I wish lol.

Re: Women Entrepreneurs Who’s Blogs I Read

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:06:01 -0000

It's my pleasure Ponn.

PRWeb is a great toll for anyone and if this post can help a few women, it's the only sufficient way of thanking you for the wonderful offer.

Re: Matt Cutts Last Day On Technorati Most Favorited Blogs?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:53:33 -0000

If he does it will definitely not be because of "dofollows", Technorati is as pink as it can get. :)

Re: Women Entrepreneurs Who’s Blogs I Read

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:11:03 -0000

Linda, thanks for stopping by. It is my absolute pleasure. I have learn a lot from your blog and your websites. Keep up the good work!

Re: Tomorrow Is My Birthday. Do You Think Bill Gates Will Buy Me A Mac?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:52:00 -0000

Thanks Pranav,

I am not sure I am capable of such an advance procedure :)

Re: Tomorrow Is My Birthday. Do You Think Bill Gates Will Buy Me A Mac?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:01:35 -0000

Thanks Soctt! Getting old what can I say. I was only 2 when the first Apple computer was invented, before it was stolen....hmhm... by some one. :)

Re: Tomorrow Is My Birthday. Do You Think Bill Gates Will Buy Me A Mac?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:37:48 -0000

Thanks Mark.

Re: Tomorrow Is My Birthday. Do You Think Bill Gates Will Buy Me A Mac?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:07:47 -0000

Thanks Mark,

I did have a good day, which was spent with my wife fishing. We did not catch anything but it nevertheless was the greatest days I've had in a long time.

Re: PRWeb Easy Submit- They Do It For You

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:12:57 -0000

@Mark from Bloglyne.

Mark, it is worth to take advantage from this offer. Make sure to follow up with Mario from PRWeb (either by calling him or e-mailing him). Also during the webinar you will be able to ask him questions- I highly recommend to take advantage of that as well.

With $200 level press release you will benefit from variety of great features. One of those are trackbacks. Make sure to use that feature and let me know about your press release, I will be glad to feature it on my blog.

Re: Gone Fishin- It’s My Birthday After All

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:17:05 -0000

@Scott, not much of fishing stories. But I will write something up!

@Everett. Thanks and we tried our best but no bigun was caught :(

Re: My Fishing Story

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:15:49 -0000

Orderer,
Thanks for stopping by. Yes a day off is always good and always needed.

Re: Launch of SharedReviews.com

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:46:30 -0000

Well, above trackback is very promising. That post was written within minutes to respond to my problem. Keep up the good work SharedReviews.com, you definitely have my attention ;)

Re: Affiliate Fortune Cookies- Are You Subscribed Yet?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:13:26 -0000

Sam,
What a great idea to focus on one particular network. I just downloaded Fraser's CJ widget, which I found via Affiliate Fortune Cookies.

Re: Allowing Others To Link To You With Anchor Text Of Your Choice

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:06:02 -0000

I did use it on a few occasions. I think most bloggers are using WYSIWYG editor as a default. Since I stopped using WYSIWYG, I am using more links from "Link To Me Plugin".

I guess it will not always provide you the results you want, but at least its here, and can be used if one desires.

Re: Allowing Others To Link To You With Anchor Text Of Your Choice

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:37:16 -0000

Everett,

I am not that sure if it is going to work. But it does not bother me to have it here. So will see. I used on some occasions when when referencing other blogs. I am sure that some times it does not fit what you write but hopefully it will some how help to provide more links with the anchor text containing some keywords.

Re: Digg Just Banned Me

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:45:56 -0000

I am not quite sure if I want to, unless of course my diggs will help others. As I said in the past, the only reason I joined digg was that it helped search engines to discover (new) content on my websites. BumpZee helps me in that respect. Actually I think I am getting more juice from BumpZee than I was from Digg.

About being naughty. On the average, day having 25 friends, I use to digg about 100 stories. Is that naughty enough to get banned?

Re: My New Little Friend

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:33 -0000

@Zorn.

Sorry, you right I should have been more descriptive what CJ is. I just simply presumed that majority of my regular readers would understand what CJ is. The extension shows you the current earnings without need to be logged into your Commission Junction account. By the way the comment prior to yours seem to indicate that Mark is aware what CJ is.

Re: Digg Just Banned Me

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:58:19 -0000

@Mark from Bloglyne
Thanks for making me laugh!

@Chee
I am not familiar with Netscape, but I think from know one I will stick to my favorite- BumpZee.

Re: My New Little Friend

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:01:47 -0000

Thanks Zorn,

I actually agree with you. I am way to neglectful when it comes to majority of posts here. You right, if a person unfamiliar with affiliate marketing would read this post, they would never know what I was talking about. Thanks for stopping by.

Re: My New Little Friend

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:10:24 -0000

Fraser, this extension is great... especially when you one sees the numbers change at least few times a day lol.... I really would love to have something similar at least for LinkShare.

Re: Who Hoo! My First $0.24 With AuctionAds!

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:23:51 -0000

Good for you Chee,

I think AcutionAds may have better potential, I am not sure how long have you been using it, but I found that you have more control what would appear on your website with AuctionAds vs Adsense

Re: Ongoing: PRWeb Trackbacks

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:40:46 -0000

Erica,
I appreciate it. This post was not really meant to get any trackbacks. I just wanted to share with other bloggers, who are interested about getting trackbacks from PRWeb, the list of authors who give the trackbacks.

Re: Out Of Supplemental Results In Google

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:26:19 -0000

Thanks Andy,

I actually thought if it has something to do blogs. I am going to tray and pay attention to to my other websites and see if there is any difference between blogs and websites.

Re: My Ultimate Guide To Productivity

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:19:59 -0000

Thanks Steven. Thanks for the link as well.

Re: Google Adsense Arbitrage- Finally The Step In the Right Direction

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:01:18 -0000

Frank this part of UTW plugin after you install it go to Andy Beard's blog to get the code:
http://andybeard.eu/2007/01/related-posts-with-...

With Andy's code you can configure the number of posts to be displayed.

Re: My Ultimate Guide To Productivity

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:47:07 -0000

My pleasure Meg. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

Re: Women Entrepreneurs Who’s Blogs I Read

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:06:49 -0000

Janet,
Thanks for stopping by. I have learned about your blog at Jeremy Palmer's forum I have been reading it ever since.

Thanks for the invitation. I never been to Utah. In fact never been past Ohio (I live in NJ).

I think PRWeb is really great when it comes to jump start your website. I wish I could turn the time back, and spend all the money I lost in PPC advertising on press releases. I probably would benefit more. Again, thanks for stopping by.

Re: Can “Pagination” Plugin Improve The “Juice Flow” On Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 26 May 2007 11:48:01 -0000

It does look, it offers extra internal linking, but I would rather have my internal linking done by UTW.
Pagination plugin did not accomplished what I hoped for.

Re: A Warm Welcome By Linkconnector.com

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:09:44 -0000

Chee it is not hard to findout, just join in. ;)

Re: Can “Pagination” Plugin Improve The “Juice Flow” On Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:23:35 -0000

@Kral
Ultimate Tag Warrior- a one of the greatest plugins out there.

Re: Hittail Results

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:15:23 -0000

@Kral

I think that Hittail is perfect for bloggers, who can take a Hittail suggestion and create an article around the term. This article is a perfect example. If you search Google for "Hittail Results" you will see that my site is on the first page, if not in the first position for the term.

Re: Hittail Results

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:29:50 -0000

Kral,

I agree that you should consider carefully Hittail suggestions. While the long tail keywords do have fewer visitors, in case of this website longtail is responsible for 87% of all traffic, while "top ten" bring only 13% of the traffic.

Re: Discover Readers You Never Knew You Had with FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 27 May 2007 14:18:39 -0000

@Andy,

I just claimed them both, but have no idea how to merge them?

Re: My Two Cents About Pay Per Post Direct

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 28 May 2007 09:19:20 -0000

@Andy.

In my opinion the problem was after you went through the landing page. I remember signing up and they saying to myself "And now what do I do?". Lets hope the entire process had improved.

@ Chee
I agree, the 10% markup puts PPP ahead of the competition.

Re: A Warm Welcome By Linkconnector.com

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:01:01 -0000

Congratulations Chee,

I hope you do well with Linkconnector.

Re: A Warm Welcome By Linkconnector.com

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:06:03 -0000

Chee,

I just was reading your post about Link Connector and have to agree that there are many attractive merchants. I a little concerned with the tracking issues, but I will give them a call today to see if they can help me out...

Re: Hittail Results

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:17:22 -0000

Thanks Mike for stopping again. I think that in order to use the Hittail successfully, it's suggestions should be also used "outside" o one's blog/website. I use the suggestions in anchor text for the links in articles and press releases. Also targeting the entire long tale would require great amount of time. in my case the Hittail has collected about 2000 keywords.

Re: My Two Cents About Pay Per Post Direct

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:27:31 -0000

@Matt

Well done. If I were to make $1300 a month I would have to write 24/7... With kinds of offers available to me at this time...

Re: A Warm Welcome By Linkconnector.com

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:31:41 -0000

@Matt,

Link Connector although new on the seen (I believe the company started only 3 years ago) they are indeed very promising. I am having an issue with few links and the left me and e-mail and a phone message trying to resolve the issue... Whenever I had any issues with eithe LinkShare or CJ, if I did not call them and followed up on the issue, things would never have been solved to my benefit.

Re: Exclusive: Three Question Interview With Janet Meiners

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:46:49 -0000

Yes, Janet answers are indeed very generous. We now have to convince her to submit her blog to BumpZee ;).

Re: Incoming Links and Yahoo! Badge

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:47:10 -0000

I actually have taken down the badge. I think my initial impression was not correct after all.

Re: African Violets and Affiliate Marketing

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:20:41 -0000

Hi Deborah,

I know, I had over-watered them at first, but since I have discovered "double" pots.

Personally I think my blogging stinks, but I am making some money with my other websites.

Re: Exclusive: Three Question Interview With Janet Meiners

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:58:40 -0000

Tawnie,
I did link to Janet's Affiliate Flash in the first paragraph.

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:32:09 -0000

Cin97,

Thanks for stopping by. I think one of the things that turned me off from Digg, besides being banned, was the ignorance of some of the members. At BumpZee if no one likes your posts you simply do no receive "bumps".

Re: Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink Pink

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:29:29 -0000

@Chee,

What about DoFollow one?

Re: Exclusive: Are You Ready To Quit Your Day Job?- An Interview With Mark

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:32:26 -0000

Just to answer Mark's question. Unfortunately no vBlogging will take place here any soon.

Re: Exclusive: Are You Ready To Quit Your Day Job?- An Interview With Mark

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:41:30 -0000

lol not via video I hope lol

Re: Ping My Blog Please- Trackbacks Are Followed

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:00:38 -0000

Ok, I was just wondering. You have linked to my posts so many time but I never saw any trackbacks here on my blog.

Re: Exclusive: Are You Ready To Quit Your Day Job?- An Interview With Mark

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:43:10 -0000

@Electro,
I do as well, but not all of the video's in the blogosphere are produced with the quality in mind. I think Mark is doing great with his videos.

@Chee
Thanks. Are you up for one? I have been reading your blog fro quiet some time. I have a question or three for your as well. ;)

Re: Make Money By Showing News Videos On Your Blog.

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:50:44 -0000

Yes you can customize the feed. Also that the post itself probably is not the best place to have the feed featured. Sidebar would be probably the best place.

Re: Make Money By Showing News Videos On Your Blog.

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:54:17 -0000

Thanks Tinu,

I think the tip about feed is a good idea. My feed does not support it.

Re: AuctionAds 17,000 Publishers And Growing

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:27:03 -0000

@Chee
I have have made with AuctionAds $0.24 so far myself but I think there is potential.

Re: Welcome to Black Hat (SEO)

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:49:55 -0000

@W3 Edge,

Thanks for heads up on Search Gator. I am using Spam Karma plugin on this blog and sometimes spam slips through.

Thanks for stopping by. SEO for me is neither an art nor a science, it just what it is SEO.

Re: AuctionAds 17,000 Publishers And Growing

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:55:35 -0000

JD,

I think you are most likely to get better conversions with AuctionAds on a website covering e-Bay products. I guess it can be used as a compliment tool to e-Bay affiliates.

Re: Are You Wasting Your E-mails? Increase Your Blog’s Exposure With FeedBurner Headline Animator

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:37:22 -0000

I sure will, I am not quiet sure if I had configured it well. The click from the animator leads to Feedburner feed of your blog rather than to the blog itself, so I am not sure how this will turn out and how many subscribers one can actually get. But once you have set it up, your every e-mail includes this animator with no extra work.

Re: Squidoo and Affiliate Marketing

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:42:24 -0000

I am not aware of any specific tutorials beyond FAQ on Squidoo, but I found this profit lens, it has some YouTube videos. Hope this will help.

Re: Squidoo and Affiliate Marketing

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:39:09 -0000

Jamie,

I never had any plans to earn money from Squidoo, but I ma sure there are people doing well with Squidoo.

Thanks for the link.

Re: The News Room- One More Look

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:07:34 -0000

I have just received an e-mail from them. They are about to introduce statistics. I think it is a little backward, they have decided generate a buzz first without being able to provide participants with statistics right away? Oh well, I still think they have some real great videos there.

Re: Fighting My Worst Addiction: Smoking

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:21:21 -0000

Thanks for stopping by lakedaemon! I hope to be where you are a year from now. It is by far the hardest thing I have done.

Re: Fighting My Worst Addiction: Smoking

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:37:13 -0000

Thanks Mark,

For now my cravings are tamed by Commit. But I am very determined this time around...

Computer+Cigarettes is the worst combination out there.

Re: Fighting My Worst Addiction: Smoking

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:35:47 -0000

Tanks every one,

I really appreciate the support! I know that this time around it will be different. Even though it has been two day my lungs are clearing up so are the taste buds.... Smoked for 20 years and do not really remember food to taste so good in the past!!!

Re: SEOMOZ is still factoring in Wikipedia links.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:58:26 -0000

Hobo Seo, thanks for stopping by. I actually think that for non premium members the tool is available only with limited functionality. Also in the past they had more data to report. They seem not to report any data from Technorati and sometimes according to their tool my website has no Page Rank.

Re: Fighting My Worst Addiction: Smoking

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:30:19 -0000

eCigarette just triggered a craving lol... no thanks I will stick to Commit.

Re: “Ubuntu Is Really Not Just an OS, It’s a Lifestyle”

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:00:25 -0000

Thanks Pranav!

I am still so overwhelmed. As I have written I should have gone with Ubuntu long time ago.

Re: “Ubuntu Is Really Not Just an OS, It’s a Lifestyle”

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:54:43 -0000

Sam that link is landing me on an error page. Can you check it and e-mail it, it may got broken here on my blog.

Re: “Ubuntu Is Really Not Just an OS, It’s a Lifestyle”

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:19:56 -0000

Yes I saw it was funny and maybe a gesture f a good will on Microsoft's part.... Riiiiiight. lol

Re: “Ubuntu Is Really Not Just an OS, It’s a Lifestyle”

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:38:56 -0000

@Sam

Great! I have already joined, I will also try to ad my blog but I have to figure out how to use the filtering feature on BumpZee, I would not want every single post be "polluting" the cummunity.

Re: Do you Mahalo?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:18:42 -0000

I am not sure about him having a chance. But as of now, he does not have my interest.

Re: “Ubuntu Is Really Not Just an OS, It’s a Lifestyle”

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:06:06 -0000

Jason,
Thanks for stopping by. I wish I had stayed with apple. Unfortunately I have felt behind with the 9.x OS and really would need some catching up to do. Ubuntu came as a great solution for me without a need to buy a new computer. There were few applications that I not ready to give up. So far I found a replacement for every single one with Ubuntu.

Re: TheNewsRoom Introduces myRevenue

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:14:18 -0000

Chris,
Thanks for stopping by. I think this program is ok. I saw worse.

Re: Thanking Your Contributors By FOLLOW

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:11:54 -0000

Shaun,

Spam Karma does the most of the moderation for me. ;)

Re: Review My Posts Landing Page- Things Need Further Improvement

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:18:06 -0000

Hi Derek,

Thanks for stopping by. Yes :) I am sure. I am a "notification" addict.

Re: Review My Posts Landing Page- Things Need Further Improvement

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:37:16 -0000

Andy,
I thought you would have many more. Is it just me or neither you get no notifications? This should not be so difficult to implement.

Re: Review: Jamdo- Marketing Blog.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:55:51 -0000

My pleasure. I am not sure which plugin would work better with your "product posts" I am afraid though that these products posts may not get all the google juice they can from the rest of your website.

Re: Nvu For Ubuntu

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:10:58 -0000

Hi Jimmy,

I really do not think making money online should be limited to only one method. AdSnese and others should compliment other monetizing methods. Affiliate marketing pays the best in my experience.

Googd luck and thanks for the complement. I really do not try to impress anyone with my posts. My blog is a collection of random thoughts.... lol

Thanks for stopping by.

Re: iPhone and AT&T - A Bad Combination?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:18:45 -0000

Yes I've heard that also.... I can't figure out what was Apple thinking, but AT&T is not the best choice.

Re: Changing Things Around- Going Green

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:02:36 -0000

Lets hope I will not disappoint you.... I did like the theme when I first saw it on your blog. It is much faster from my previous one, and again I feel confident enough to play around with it. So let see what the result will be like.

Re: The Best Ever Landing Page?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:46:09 -0000

Hi Zac,

Thanks for stopping by. I think if they would just listened to their affiliates once in a while. This most recent incident came without any kind of warning. I can bet there were some affiliates who lost money in PPC.

Re: Changing Things Around- Going Green

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:15:44 -0000

Andy, this is the first time ever that I felt comfortable with css. I thin one thing that this theme has is that the developer has clearly marked portion of the theme. Once you take a look at it, you immediately understand it's purpose.

Re: The Best Ever Landing Page?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:45:42 -0000

@Chee,

No I am not to big into ClickBank. There is only one e-book I would ever recommend. I like to work with merchants and promote "real products"- http://www.topbestseller.com - this will give you a better idea of the kind of merchants I like to work with.

Commission Junction is one of those "love and hate" affairs. I have some of the best performing campaigns with them, but I also had some biggest screw ups with them as well.

Re: The Best Ever Landing Page?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:05:40 -0000

@Chee,
"I asked because I have an experience where there’s merchant who is trying to fight for traffic and customers from me"

Could you clarify? Do you mean the merchant is competing in Search Engines or is questioning the traffic you send them? These are two different things.

Every merchant should strive for better positions on search engines- smart merchants will employ their affiliates to help them out.

I personally try my best to comply with terms and conditions with every affiliate program. And when I am being asked about the traffic quality it is also has to do with my integrity as an affiliate marketer. Sure there are times when misunderstanding can occur..... But in general if I am asked more than twice about my traffic source, I walk. I have no time to argue. ;)

Re: The Best Ever Landing Page?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:45:53 -0000

I would also advise you to check out Yahoo! Search Marketing and MSN AdCenter, if they are available where you live.

Re: Changing Things Around- Going Green

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:07:06 -0000

Mario,
Thanks for the tip. I really did not have time to change the widgets colors yet. I will do it now.

Re: What Would You Do With $200?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:01:44 -0000

Chris just referenced this post but his trackback do not work, so I am adding it manually. Vlad.

Re: StumbleUpon Traffic

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:06:18 -0000

Meg,

I agree it is hard to figure out why these waves happen. We know that when you hit front page on Digg you get "hit". Some times I think we may not be prepared to the kind of traffic StumbleUpon can bring.

Re: StumbleUpon Traffic

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:31:40 -0000

Great observation Jon! Thanks! I hope my recent stumble did not cause any problems, but I don't recall any AdSense on your blog.

Re: StumbleUpon Traffic

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:14:31 -0000

lol only 135 mil huh? that's all?

I belogn to bunch of different groups there, but to be honest my activity there does not go beyond a "stumble" here and there. I will give a stumble to your site now.

Re: Buying Blog Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:17:58 -0000

I think and hope that serious bloggers and marketers will never use this service. Funny things is that I have began to second-guess every one who comments here...

Re: Buying Blog Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:35:22 -0000

Good points Rob. The sad thing about this is that guy is specifically targeting "dofollow" blogs, while he himself gives a finger (via "nofollow") to all who comments on his blog.

Re: Trying Out Affilistore: Affiliate Website In 3 Easy Steps

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:55:28 -0000

Jon,
Thanks for heads up! I have not been there in a long time.

Re: Technorati Punishes Me For Too Many Favorites

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:52:41 -0000

Tinu,

I think you like me- we go in circles. I find myself checking out number of blogs for sometimes then move on to the next group just to come back later on.....

Thanks for stopping by! I agree that the favorite feature is really messed up. But it was on my mind so I decided to write about it.

Re: Technorati Punishes Me For Too Many Favorites

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:03:40 -0000

From what you are saying it is most likely to be a bug, I am no where near 2000 faorites

Re: iPhone Battery and Hacks

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:53:59 -0000

Kali,

I agree on ATT issue. If some one has given me iPhone for free I would not have accepted it because of ATT. The battery part may not be as big of an issue.

Re: Going PlugIM

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:02:56 -0000

@Tinu

"ultimately all roads lead back to you"

Can't be put any better. I think that eventually when SE recognize that your blog is the original source it gives you credit for that. at least Google does. I have noticed this with BumpZee- because it gets visited by Google so often my posts there get indexed before they do on my blog. But when the Google indexes them, the ranking shifts and my blog moves up for my articles.

Re: Going PlugIM

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:44:21 -0000

@CFERNANDES

Well I really did not think PlugIM can deliver much when it come to traffic. I also noticed there is really a lot of moderation that takes place there..... I hope Ryan finds time for sleep...lol Every single entry is queued for moderation. I think they may have better success if they let just "plugs" to be real moderation system. But then there is no mechanism to voice your opinion if you dislike a particular entry. Why copy "Digg" and leave out "burry" option?

Anyway, I will give it another few days. But I am not as impressed as I am (was) and will be with BumpZee

Re: Buying Blog Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:20:03 -0000

Michael,

I personally am not against selling or buying links. I am against promoting spam, and this operation does look like a spam to me.

Re: Going PlugIM

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:12:56 -0000

Ryan,
Thanks for straighten me out on "bury" option. I guess I need to spend more time around PlugIM. Just the fact that you do not use "nofollow" on the links get my support!

Morgan,
Thanks for stopping by. I am sure after I ind my way around, I will like PlugIM more.ukraine

Re: Title Optimization: Should You Use Title To Brand Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:35:41 -0000

I am not so sure anymore what is better. I think I begin to believe using titles of single posts to brand my blog(s) my not be such a good idea and may dilute attempt to rank for a specific term. But then..... what do I know? Thank for stopping by!

Re: Title Optimization: Should You Use Title To Brand Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:43:26 -0000

Dane thanks for stopping by. I noticed that theres is code to use UTW in your code but did not see actually "action"- I did not notice any tags in your title.

Re: Blog Contests: Make Them Worthwhile To Participate In

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:49:54 -0000

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for stopping by I appreciate your advise. Unlike you, I think green is great color anywhere website or not....

I care less whether or not you are a designer. You can stick your designer opinion you know where.

Not a good first comment man. I don't mind to be criticized, but first comment? Come on, you can do much better that that!

Re: Title Optimization: Should You Use Title To Brand Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:59:24 -0000

@Dane,

Yes I did. Are you getting any hits?

Re: Blog Contests: Make Them Worthwhile To Participate In

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:55:49 -0000

Bryan,

Wlecome! And you probably have more than just 3 readers. You might be surprised with the results.

Re: Blog Contests: Make Them Worthwhile To Participate In

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:38:20 -0000

Hi India Public relations

I hope you are still following the comments. I am so happy you have mentioned web 2.0! Every one is talking about it but I can't eve find the download so I can install it on my computer. Do you you know where I can get web 2.0?

Social Media,,

Thanks for stopping by. I do not think though that links generated via these contest carry much authority with them.

Re: Blog Contests: Make Them Worthwhile To Participate In

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:44:47 -0000

Welcome Neo Meme,

I was just reading your blog believe it or not. I think if people continue to to complain about green color I will just have to hire the "supperkickass" web 2.0 designers to redesign my blog:
http://www.geocities.com/superkickassdesign/ (best viewed in IE)

I completely agree with you about the rest of the people participating in the contest. I think I will give it a few days and will change the rules a little. most of those comments came within first two days so we are moving too slow.

Re: Google Adsense Arbitrage- Finally The Step In the Right Direction

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:50:45 -0000

I really am not sure how much clean up actually took place, I have not been advertising on "content" network for a long long time.

Re: Technorati Punishes Me For Too Many Favorites

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:07:07 -0000

Matt,

I completely agree, technorati is very easy to game. The reporting is so inaccurate, it puzzles me to know that Sponsored Reviews, ReviewMe and others still factor in data from technorati to suggest the prices.

Re: Too much green for you?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:03:50 -0000

Jeff, I appreciate your comments and I will take some of them into consideration. I do however have one question for you. How is it that good designer like yourself having a blog out there since at least 2005 only has less than 10 subscribers?:

I am not trying to be a smart ass. While it is true that design should be pleasing there are more elements to a blog than just looks.

I do like your "mock up" redesign of my blog. However, the theme functionality is more important to me than looks. Judging by the theme of your own blog, I would say "thanks but no" to your designer suggestions. There are many things you can improve on your blog which will also benefit your SEO/SEM efforts. But again I am not a "guru" and it applies to SEO/SEM as well.

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Re: Too much green for you?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:34:45 -0000

Jeff, I do hope my response was not too hard to handle. Again, had you been around longer you may have seen me differently. I think you have a wonderful talent as a designer. I hope you doing well with it.

Just suggestion for you, If you do not have enough balls to handle criticism do not criticize others. Yes, your first comment looked like a drive by criticism. Your comments show me that I do not want you to subscribe to my blog. Most of my readers know me: my likes- they do not care about green that much, my language- they are very forgiving aout my mistakes and grammar.

Re: Too much green for you?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:15:19 -0000

lol so now you are calling me an idiot? lol

Come on Jeff, I know you can be kind.

The only person that is benefiting from this "war" (as you call it) is you. At

least you have some "juice" flowing your way from my blog: from these comments as well as from the link in the post. I do hope you are appreciative of this discussion.

Re: Tagging Games Are Back: 8 Things About Me

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:02:07 -0000

Renata,
Not a problem. I do not mind to participate in a meme once in a while. Thanks for tagging me.

Re: Tagging Games Are Back: 8 Things About Me

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:39:35 -0000

Zac an Aldian,

That's ok, I expected that some of you either had been tagged for this meme already.

Re: Do You Have Time For Paid Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:43:01 -0000

Andy,

I really felt bad because I do have a few web hosting affiliate websites, and I know how difficult to get lings in that niche....

Re: Buying Blog Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:34:47 -0000

Emory,

Thanks for stopping by. I think that in some cases paid comments can be 100% legit. However if the authors name reads "Best Cell Phone Deals" the comments better be darn good for me not to delete them.

Re: What Would You Do With $200?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:44:17 -0000

Vijay,

Thanks. I do think this is going really slow. I will most certainly consider your suggestion. Now that I know that there is at least one person interested in this contest. ;)

I also was thinking to set and end date and then decide the winner(s) by drawing, this would give every one who participated so far an equal chance to win. Thanks for stopping by!

Re: So Who Is Evil? Ted Murphy or Mike Arrington?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:05:39 -0000

Erica,
Thanks for stopping by! Long time since you visited here. :)

I completely agree with you on Pay Per Post. There was one huge argument over the disclosure which is not longer valid. But even if an advertiser requires a positive review, so what? It's done every day on TV and other media.

Re: Do You Have Time For Paid Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:18:14 -0000

Holly,

I personally will never consider going back to "nofollow", even though it looks like my blog is acting more and more spammers.

Re: Do You Have Time For Paid Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:31:09 -0000

Holly,

I just visited your blog. The links in comments are still "nofollowed". I hope you are still following this post, so you can explain your above comments.

Re: So Who Is Evil? Ted Murphy or Mike Arrington?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:02:01 -0000

Tom,

Thanks for stopping by. I did not realize there are "real" and "not real" bloggers. I thought there is those who belong to A-List and those who don't. :)

On a serious note, I would really like to hear your definition of a "real blogger". Could you do me a favor?

Re: Who Visits My Blog Series: Matt Coddington

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:42:03 -0000

Funny alright!

I thought you would notice it when you were still running that blog. I am not sure the new owner even considers "Matt Coddignton" as a good anchor text in the link here in this post.

Re: Do You Have Time For Paid Comments?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:42:46 -0000

Joice,

There are plugins that can help you to moderate the spam. Here and there a spammy message slips through. For me if I feel that I would rather have a "nofollow" link for a particular comment- the comment does not belong on my blog.

Re: Getting Back On Track With Hittail

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:50:54 -0000

Hi Universos Virtuals,

Hittails does some anylizing for you as well (adwords does not do that). You can try Hittail for free.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:55:40 -0000

Morgan,

I just can not see some one going "Dofollow" and then going back. There is plenty of plugins that can help bloggers to fight spam. To me if "nofollow" is implemented to prevent spam, the blogger automatically presumes all his visitors and comentators to be spammers.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:49:54 -0000

@First Page Fitness

Everett,

Silly is to leave comments with authors name "First Page Fitness". I would not mind if you left "Everett from First Fitness Page".

>>
"This hasn’t happened, of course, and I doubt that it will. But to call people shallow for considering that as an option is shallow itself. Stop being an elitist. We get enough of that attitude from Digg."

Everett, if you do not like my blog why are you commenting? Even worse, why are you reading it? It is my blog and I write what I think I should write, if you do not like it do not read it- but please do not tell me what to write and what not to write.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:02:15 -0000

@Everett

You are developing Borderline Spammy Habits I do hope that you are following comments here on this post. If you are not, I will most likely replace "First Page Fitness" with Everett.... Or maybe I just should mark you as spammer????

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:48:40 -0000

@Everett,
If you think that disagreeing with your comments constitutes a "comment" war, it's you right to do so.

Look I knew writing this post that is going to "rub the feathers the wrong way" of many bloggers. And I welcome their opinion here. I do however like to decide what to write and what not to write on my blog, this is why I took offense to this part of your comment:

"Stop being an elitist. We get enough of that attitude from Digg."

I am not about to get into a blog war either so I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.

I hope following will help to clarify a little:

I am not against blogs with "nofollow", I am against using DoFollow for the wrong reasons.

@Dave (Hawaii Seo)
I am familiar with your brand. In fact I have written here and there about SEO myself. So I would not be surprised to see another SEO blogger stopping by. Actually I would expect SEO blogger making comments on my blog over some one who writes about fitness.

@J.D. Thanks for stopping by. I think that Top Commentator plugin rewards your commentators in a different way that DoFollow does. I just think that "noffolow" is not appropriate way to fight spam.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:11:39 -0000

Everett,

I am sorry you have to go (unsubscribe), but you have to do what you have to do. The beauty of blogging is such that it allows us to express who we are.

I stand buy my conviction that fighting spam on the blog that you moderate daily with "nofollow" is wrong. Especially with the array of so many spam filtering plugins out there. Sure spam will slip here and there, but if you moderate your blog I found that is fairly easy to detect spam.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:17:07 -0000

@Everett

I just replaced link to google with url to your blog. I would rather share the little juice that my blog gets with your site rather than Google. They got plenty of it. ;)

Re: KeyTrail Can Make Life Of Every PPC Affiliate Easier

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:57:59 -0000

I was wondering if this product can help tracking keywords even if you have implemented redirects for your affiliate links?

Re: KeyTrail Can Make Life Of Every PPC Affiliate Easier

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:04:20 -0000

Hi Dave,

Thanks for stopping by. I honestly do not know answer to your question but if I were to take a guess I would say no. I think the tracking is done via javascript + trackind id in affiliate link. If you have redirects, the javascript may not be able to grab your link.

Again it's only my guess. Let's hope some one from KeyTrail swings by to enlighten us.

Re: KeyTrail Can Make Life Of Every PPC Affiliate Easier

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:17:21 -0000

Nadav,

Thanks for stopping by and clarifying! I am looking forward to give your product a test drive.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:46:44 -0000

@Joyce,

Actually it was another commentor that raised the issue and you simply agreed. I understand your fears as well as the fears of any one else contemplating to go "Dofollow".

I think the question that I would have for any blogger. Would you let your comments be filled with spam just because you use "nofolow"? Probably not, and as soon as the spam that slips through the filtering is detected is also dealt with.... If so "nofollow" is of no use after all imho.

Re: Build YouTube Ebay Amazon Affiliate Website In 10 Minutes Or Less

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:26:31 -0000

@Morgan. I think the idea behind the script is great. Script like that in my opinion would be great for other affiliate programs as well

@Jason To be honest I ma not fun of either program. Amazon at least has better reputation.

Re: KeyTrail Can Make Life Of Every PPC Affiliate Easier

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:18:52 -0000

Thanks Xavier,

What do you think about KeyTrail?

Re: Banned By AdSnese: Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:03:06 -0000

@Peter
"I love commission-based structures because one sale instantly generates a lot of money. The problem is that you will have to deal with an income that fluctuates a lot because you need to attract new readers that have not yet bought the product or service you are marketing for once your current readers have already bought it."

I am not sure I would agree with you on this one. There is a limit on what certain affiliate program can do. But I have programs that I been working with over a year now and they still are doing quiet well. In fact they are doing better today that they did one year ago.

Re: Banned By AdSnese: Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:47:16 -0000

Tinu,

Thanks for stopping by. I guess I just seen way to many "blog" start ups that intended to make it big with AdSense and got discouraged. If you do not diversify in this business you will not survive.

Re: What Would You Do With $200?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:25:25 -0000

Hi Vlentin.

????? ??????????

- ok it is not working. but it was "dobro pozhalovat'" in russian.
Did I guess it right? No, unfortunately you will not be able to frame. Should you win it will be deposited into your PayPal account, so unless you use your debit card most likely you will not see or touch them

Re: What Would You Do With $200?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:07:13 -0000

Karen,

You comments were caught by Spam Karma plugin.

Yes all you have to do is to comment. I do however prefer that at least one comment would answer this question:

What would (or can) you do with $200?

That is part of the rules. I wanted to restrain from commenting about it, but know those who follow will have a chance to correct it. ;)

Re: Video Blogging Coming Your Way: Choosing A Camcorder Was Not Easy

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:26:49 -0000

Mark I knew this will get your attention. :)

I think I first will give it a try on web hosting review blog though.

Re: Video Blogging Coming Your Way: Choosing A Camcorder Was Not Easy

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:58:20 -0000

Chris,

Thanks for stopping by! Yes I know I could have used a $100- camcorder. I do however plan to use it for some other staff.

Re: Changes at ReveNews, My First Check From LinkConnector

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:38:52 -0000

Raymond,
I am using the MS Movie Maker to edit the footage, as it is saving a movie for the web affects the quality. After YouTube process it, the quality decreases even further.

Andy,
Thanks I think information there is good no matter where you choose to host your video.

If you noticed gentlemen, I went with blip.tv instead of blip. I really like what they hae to offer.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:04:28 -0000

Raymond,
Thanks for stopping by. Well at least there is no temptation to sell this domain. Who would buy it after all? ;)

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:37:49 -0000

Ray,

Do you mean whether removing "nofollow" will bring more traffic?

In my humble opinion this a pluging that reflects the "giving" side of the blogger implementing it. The main benefactors of this plugin are the people who live the comments. I personally can not tell if DoFollow plugin brought me any traffic. I know that I have benefited greatly from commenting on other peoples blogs that removed nofollow..... Again this is a sort of "giving" on my part, as thank you to those who take time commenting on my blog.

As for my URL it is a very long story. However I have learned a thing or two along the way. Here are few posts you may be interested in:
http://sageblogger.com/whats-up-with-your-url/
http://sageblogger.com/good-domain-to-make-mone...

Re: Host Your Videos with Blip.Tv

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:02:34 -0000

Hey Mark,

Aren't you suppose to be an honey moon????? What the hell are you doing back? Unless of course you are commenting from your honey moon vacation.

I will certainly use YouTube, the more eyeballs the better. However I will use Blip's product for my site.

Re: Trying Out Affilistore: Affiliate Website In 3 Easy Steps

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:44:10 -0000

Hi Ethan,

Sorry for the delay. Unfortunately Commission Junction is not offering data feeds to all affiliates. If you make $10,000+ a month it is free. Otherwise they charge an additional $290 (or something in that range).

ShareASale and LinkConnector offer data feeds fro free, you should check these networks out.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:30:30 -0000

Egon,
No offense but you don't even use "nofollow" on your blog.

Re: Host Your Videos with Blip.Tv

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:58:27 -0000

Thanks Dave,

I think that Bilp.Tv is very flexible to how they allow you to embed your videos. Somehow YouTube "stretches" the video. I also like Blip.Tv because it allows you to upload multiple videos via FTP.

Re: Dot TV- More Keywords Rich Domanains?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:09:39 -0000

Josh,

From what I understand any provider, or just about any provider will host a .tv domain, however only few web hosting providers are offering these domains. I am not sure if these domains will retain the value (i bought mine at $39 a piece). Again as the extension suggests this domain should be used for video blogging, and if people go on abusing the extension purely as an opportunity to grab some catchy and keywords rich domains it may turn out to be another .info.

Re: The Prize Goes To Karen From PediaCast

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:37:51 -0000

Josh,

I do not think that contest helped me to get 30 readers. I would say I gained about 10 readers via the contest. After creating the contest I was not sure if a $200 was to much to give away. But considering all the factors, $200 was well worthed.

Re: Thoughts About 3rd Episode of The Next Internet Millionaire

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:44:32 -0000

I think I would watch the show if it was not 49 minutes a pop... But then again, if it was produced for the TV station, this 49 minutes could have been 2 hours.

Re: Top Make Money Blogs

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:12:19 -0000

Thanks Mark,

I am just looking at reality, after more blogs submitted I think I will be lucky to hold on to top 100. But I think the idea is great. Are you planing to use other metrics besides PR, Alexa and Technorati?

Re: Thoughts About 3rd Episode of The Next Internet Millionaire

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:14:56 -0000

Carla,

Thanks for stopping by! I agree 100% with you. So far I have learned very little from The Next Internet Millionaire. They really need to step up in order to grab my attention.

Re: ReveNews- Why Not WordPress?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:20:20 -0000

Thanks Jim and Sam,

Great damage control! :)

I have read many good things on MT. It's just that Jim's post very timely to me personally and I was a little disappointed that I could not write about it on ReveNews. But maybe it will turn out to be better thing after all.

Look forward to the fixes.

Re: Thoughts About 3rd Episode of The Next Internet Millionaire

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:59:00 -0000

@Andy,

Yes I have noticed (via BumpZee widget) that Mr. Henderson stopping by my blog. But I was not sure, thanks for confirming.

Interesting thing is that all throughout the third episode I had a feeling that they were not "giving" out all the "juicy" staff.

I guess now I will be watching it, even though it is almost 50 minutes long.

Re: ReveNews- Why Not WordPress?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:59:05 -0000

@Sam,

I am not sure if it is exclusive agreement with Fliqz- but there is nothing wrong to let people grab the code for the video. Why not to use YouTube or Blip or any other media that will allow for sharing videos on other websites?

Re: Going PlugIM

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:05:24 -0000

Stephen,
I do not see how the "nonofollow" will affect your website. The PlugIM points no-nofollow links to your website too.

I have to be honest that neither Sphinn not PlugIM never grew on me. I am contemplating going only with BumpZee. I have also noticed few issues with PlugIM plugin affecting my server's resources. I think I will try to go with least possible plugins in the future.

Re: ReveNews- Why Not WordPress?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:13:29 -0000

@Jim,

Thanks! Just wrote a post about your video+my own frustration. I have a merchant that did not act on my application in 2 months.

Re: Merchant, Would You Please Fire Your Affiliate Manager?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:37:31 -0000

@Josh

I think many of these affiliate managers have their heads stuck up into one of their body's cavity that they are not able to see the reality.

I have one merchant that I bring him $25,000-$35,000 in sales a quarter. I still consider myself newbie to affiliate marketing.

Now I am sure Jim has been in AM probably more than 10 years. If I can come up with these numbers, I am sure Jim can triple the figures. Then my question is how big or rather how stupid you have to be to pass by an opportunity of at least $100,000 a year in sales (triple this figure in Jim's case)?

Re: Beware of Andy Beard’s Stumbles!

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:57:06 -0000

@Andy (another one),

I look forward to see your statistics. I used to have a Digg widget here on this blog as well, but I was banned from Digg and will never support them again. I find that SumbleUpon users to be far more intelligent, all you need to do is to read the comments from Sumblers.

I really had bad experience with Digg- once even called them bunch of angry and arrogant teenagers.

I have also noticed that "Stumblers" are more likely to subscribe to your feed if they find your articles interesting. I can't prove it but I notice a slight increase of readership on my blog every time my posts get "stumbled".

Re: Blog Contest- Is It Worth Running One On Your Blog?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:17:55 -0000

@Crystal,

Thanks fro stopping by! I just seen your profile on Blogger, me and my wife are from NJ as well! Welcome to my blog.

I also think that $200 was well worthed to give away. But you really do not need that much to run a contest.

Have one teeshirt with a logo of your website printed and give it away as a prize. It will not cost you more that $20.

@Simonne,

I think you have to clearly define your goals when running a contest. One thing that I do regret about my contest is that I did not limit it to "links" only entries. I would say do it again and make sure to let me know so I can participate! ;)

Re: Merchant, Would You Please Fire Your Affiliate Manager?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:25:57 -0000

Shawn,

Getting back within 24-48 hours is the key word. If merchant can act on applications that quickly it does not need auto approval. BestBuy and other evidently can not handle the volume of applications quickly.

Not only is there the issue of brand liability, where rogue affiliates could bring harm to a company by their association, but auto-approval enables affiliates to re-apply who were previously booted for violating the affiliate agreement in some form (fraud, spam, spyware, etc)

I will remember this advise every time I my application is not accepted- probably because I am a spammer and all the other things. ;)

Re: Merchant, Would You Please Fire Your Affiliate Manager?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:47:43 -0000

Shawn,

what about being approved after two months of waiting just to receive and e-mail two days later questioning my "under performance"?

I think we can list thousands of examples. I think the key element here is communication. I presume every affiliate manger has access to my contact info over CJ. What's wrong with calling me in person eve if they have to deny my application?

I wish every manager had you knowledge and experience- but we both know it is not the reality.

Jim's video had an impact on me because some one other than newbie like myself voiced concern that is important to me and many other new affiliates.

Re: Going PlugIM

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:52:47 -0000

Stephen,

I am not that familiar with PlugIM and how do they work around the spam.

I know that majority of Bloggers at BumpZee are marketing oriented and hate spam with passion- maybe that where the main difference is.

Once your blog is approved on BumpZee, your feed is grabbed automatically. But I think the spammy websites have low chances of being approved by BumpZee.

From time to time you will get a spam message on BumpZee via private/public messages, but Scott Jangro is on top of things there. Often by the time you check the spam message, it has bee la ready detected as such and deleted.

I guess every community/website that has that is "no-nofollow" needs to put more effort in fighting spam.

Re: Merchant, Would You Please Fire Your Affiliate Manager?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:33:29 -0000

Thanks Shawn,

I did not know that affiliate managers do not have access to my phone number- which actually I do not mind if they did.

I think another very frustrating thing is that not every affiliate manager provides contact information as well.

I had a case that in order to find the contact info of one merchant I went as far as contacting the hosting provider of that merchant begging them to pass on my contact info to the merchant. Still did not hear from them.

Re: Comments in Reverse Order: Why Would You Want To Do It?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:32:11 -0000

Valentin,

I would not advise you to implement this on every website. But on the websites that you do not really want a "conversation" to take place.

Re: Beware of Andy Beard’s Stumbles!

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:39:03 -0000

Lord Matt,

I thought this was going to last because Andy Stumbled this post was well. However I also know the power of "thumb down" on Stumble ;). Just got one.

Re: Use Google Analytics To Measure The Value Of RSS Subscriptions

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:23:39 -0000

Josh,
I do not spend much on promoting this blog in particular either. But I think the stats proposed by Jeremy can be very useful if I decide to spend some money on advertising let say two or tree months from now.

Re: Comments in Reverse Order: Why Would You Want To Do It?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:25:53 -0000

Valentin,

You have nailed it. The "reverse" comments can look like feedback/reviews. Again I would never do so on this blog or on any other blog that I respond to comments.

Re: No More Video Blogging?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:14:05 -0000

Thanks Mark,

On one hand I really do not need that much- after all there is limit with what we can do with web videos.

But I believe we will see great improvement over the period of next few months and if you look at most of the higher end camcorders they all are MiniDV type.

The down side with MiniDV is the capture process, but I think I can deal with it.

Re: Wikipedia and Battle of The Ages: Vlad The Affiliate vs Vlad The Impaler

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:17:35 -0000

@mudflation

Did you get screwed by Wikipedia when they introduced the "nofollow" crap? I just wondering if you have contributed to the Wikipedia on that article?? ;)

Re: No More Video Blogging?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:58:51 -0000

Chris,

I think I will be getting two cameras at this point one might just be Flip for quick vlogging, I am however in the middle of a project that would rather have some what better quality of the footage.

Hard disk camcorders come short of what I need. I am sure that the future of the digital video is not MiniDV but so far these camcorders are capable to produce the best quality.

Re: Wikipedia and Battle of The Ages: Vlad The Affiliate vs Vlad The Impaler

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:11:06 -0000

Thanks Maurice,

I just saw your post. Let me check if your track back was not caught by Spam Karma by mistake. Thanks for giving me a hand against Wikipedia :) .

Update: Nope, no trace of your trackback. I will reciprocate with some juicy links with all those who liked this joke and are helping me in my "battle" :)

Re: Wikipedia and Battle of The Ages: Vlad The Affiliate vs Vlad The Impaler

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:51:51 -0000

Nope not much progress yet. Still #14 :)

I did show up in top 10 few times in the past. But every time I changed the theme on this blog I end up forgetting to update some internal linking.

I thin I should see effect of your links combined with my on site changes in 4-5 days. I will keep you posted.

Re: 100 Top Blogs Script

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:12:40 -0000

@Mark, I need not convincing. I am following your blog. ;) Look forward to see the new metrics.

@Gary,
I think Alexa ranking will be a great addition to your script. I requested the name because I don even remember the URL of my website most of the time. :) If you know what I mean.

Re: BlogRush? Why not BlogExplosion?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:55:07 -0000

Valentin,

Although I was skeptical about joining but I am getting some traffic already. I am no Shoemoney or Andy Beard but I think an average blogger can have some share in traffic.

Re: NIM Episode #5

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:28:45 -0000

Agree Mark,

Maybe they will be coming with a "behind the seen" episodes- but but not the ones where they smoke cigars and drink martinis.... I need all the "juicy" staff we missed.

Re: BlogRush? Why not BlogExplosion?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:26:06 -0000

@Josh

I BlogRush has good potential. I think BumpZee could have gone that direction if it was possible to show entries only for your own communities. But BumpZee is a different type of community.

What goo thing about BlogRush is that headlines from our blog have a chance to appear on let say Andy's blog or Shomoney- these blogs have much higher clickthrgouh.

I think I ma just gong give it a tray for a month or two and then decide if I want to keep it on my blog.

Re: WordPress: Removing Nofollow Without A Plugin

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:34:54 -0000

@John

With so many plugins out there your argument is not longer valid. Sure some crap will sneak in- no reason to treat your regular readers like crap.

That's right if you "nofollow" your comments you say you do not trust those leaving comments on your site nor do you trust their websites.

Re: WordPress: Removing Nofollow Without A Plugin

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:47:00 -0000

@Josh,

You know what really pisses me off? The "spam" worried bloggers get less than 100 visitors a day maybe a spam comment a week. My blog gets about 10-20 spams a day still something that can be managed without a plugin. Plugins just simply make this argument old and no longer valid.

Now I am not in favor of two sentence comments, but if they are made by some one that has no intention to spam your blog they should stay.

Comments short or long are still content. I stopped counted the times my posts would come up in in google for keyword found in the comments.

I am getting tired about the nofollow BS as a way to fight spam.

Re: WordPress: Removing Nofollow Without A Plugin

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:33:34 -0000

John,
Just a suggestion for you. Pay attention how you input the url of your blog when commenting. Try to click on your name and see where that link will take you. You did that with your first comment as well- but I have corrected it. ;)

Re: My New Camcorder And Why Should You Host Videos with Blip.TV

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:08:49 -0000

All I know that BlipTv offers iTuners to subscribe to your videos, but to be honest I have not looked more into that.

I think the "nofollow" part kicks ass big time. I have on website got indexed in less than 24 hours.

Re: My New Camcorder And Why Should You Host Videos with Blip.TV

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:13:04 -0000

@Rob

I send the Sony camcorder back because:

1. Poor quality of the video. I think even with $600-$700 we are still getting entry level hard drive camcorder.
2. Hard to edit. Hard disc camcorders compress the video to MPEG (either mpeg2 or mpg4). This makes them very hard to edit, especially if you need to split them on a specific timeline.

If you have gotten a more expensive Sony camcorder you may be ok, but the one I used really did not produce a decent quality video.

The bottom line was that I wanted better quality video but did not want to spend more than I paid for Sony.

Re: My New Camcorder And Why Should You Host Videos with Blip.TV

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:27:58 -0000

Rob,

On the other hand people are raving about Flip Camcorder. I think as long as you do not need to be heavy on the editing you still can use flash/hard drive camcorders.

Re: My New Camcorder And Why Should You Host Videos with Blip.TV

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:50:14 -0000

Hi Rob,

I personally wish I could have tried a few camcorders before purchasing. I was lucky enough to change my mind before Amazon return policy expired.

The other reason I went with MiniDV camera was that all the higher end camcorders they all use MiniDV.

There is of course downside with miniDV when it comes to transferring your videos to your computer. It takes as much time to transfer to you computer as it takes you to record the video. Also DV format takes a lot of space. A 5 minutes video can take about 1 GB of space in DV format.

Honestly I thing buying a car was much easier than buying a camcorder.

Re: My New Camcorder And Why Should You Host Videos with Blip.TV

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:45:28 -0000

Thanks Aaron,

I am not sure whether it is such a great video, however I do appreciate the link love. Thanks!

Re: Improving My Blog and Blogging In General.

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:50:36 -0000

Dane,

I think this kind of meme has a potential of a mini e-book or some sort of guidelines you can offer on your blog.

Neither do i think that "5 things about me" type of meme is bad, after all it keeps the link juice flowing. But those get old.

Again thanks for tagging me.

Re: Jump Page To Track “RSS Subscription Goal” Via Google Analytics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:16:30 -0000

Mark,

I think it will take about a month to collect some reasonable data. As of this week I can spend .05 on 45n5 top 100 list and still make money ;)

However the goal $2 (same as Shomoney) wen above what this blog is earning, way above. So may numbers are very deceiving at the moment. I will however adjust them accordingly.

Re: Jump Page To Track “RSS Subscription Goal” Via Google Analytics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:18:27 -0000

5 cents per click that is

Re: Jump Page To Track “RSS Subscription Goal” Via Google Analytics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:14:23 -0000

I thought about doing that as well but the only code I found was a javascript, while it may not be as it use to but there are still enough of visitors that are not allowing javascripts to be served in their browser.

To be honest I was always suspicious of Google Analytics, good enough that they know what I am spending. I am not sure if I am completely ok with letting them nkow what I am making, but their statistics do kick some behind big time.

Good luck man.

Re: Jump Page To Track “RSS Subscription Goal” Via Google Analytics

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:54:32 -0000

It's not Analitycs alone that i ma concerned with. AdWords+Analytics if you have a "goal" set up and the page that you maybe pushing with PPC falls into the "funnel" it clearly gives them a hint of my profits- that is my concern. Fortunately I have no PPC for this blog on my other websites I do not have analytics....

As to the email subscriptions I am not tracking them yet. Jeremy, answering my comment, said he would be writing about it soon. So I am waiting..........

Re: Jump Page To Track “RSS Subscription Goal” Via Google Analytics

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:05:26 -0000

I think what I am doing now, as well as Shoemoney himself, is still sort of guessing game. As you just said just because they came through and click the button does not mean they definitely subscribed .

Re: Improving My Blog and Blogging In General.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:23:40 -0000

Take you time Maurice,

I should have e-mailed you but I got distracted by a few things.

Re: Tomorrow Is My Birthday. Do You Think Bill Gates Will Buy Me A Mac?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:26:12 -0000

Nope he did not :(

Re: Is BlogRush A Waste Of Your Time?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:33:05 -0000

As I see it the bottom line is that people are more likely to visit a website than to click a link on a widget. I think by now BlogRush has collected enough data to do something with it.

I just was looking at my logs and Marks 100 list sent me over 200 visitors- mind you my blog appears "below the fold" on many screens of those who visit Mark's list.

BlogRuhs on the other hand sent me only 6 visitors- the last time I was able to check those figures.

Re: Improving My Blog and Blogging In General.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:48:26 -0000

No problem Dave. I know that sometimes memes can get boring so I did not e-mail you, just thought you will eventually notice this post. Thanks for participating!

Re: New Plugin Addition: Threaded Comments

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:26:28 -0000

Just trying this new plugin out

Re: New Plugin Addition: Threaded Comments

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:26:49 -0000

one more time

Re: New Plugin Addition: Threaded Comments

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:27:14 -0000

and again

Re: New Plugin Addition: Threaded Comments

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:28:11 -0000

I guess that is all

Re: PRWeb In Plain English

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:25:24 -0000

PRWeb serves international clients as well. I have friends from UK that use it extensively.

Re: New Plugin Addition: Threaded Comments

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:04:35 -0000

Josh, There are few things you may want to change in the comments.php because it was originally written to accommodate the default Kubrik theme. Nothing big though. I really like this plugin so far.

Re: Down For 24-48 Hours

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:08:54 -0000

I am not exactly sure about the details of PHP5 advantages but there are few scripts already (not related to WordPress) that will not function in PHP4. I am not that technical either. Just enough to get by.

Re: No I Did Not Link To You Again. Technorati Is Just Screwing With Your Mind.

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:03:15 -0000

Andy do you think that is the theme that is at fault? I have noticed this phenomena started to increase as I changed to this theme. I did not really pay any attention to it until Technorati stopped update and indexing my blog.

Re: No I Did Not Link To You Again. Technorati Is Just Screwing With Your Mind.

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:28:57 -0000

Ian,

Thanks for stopping by. I completely forgot that I have removed that code from the header. It's back now. When pinging Technorati I just simply used the home page of this blog.

Re: Jason Calacanis- A Keynote Speaker At Affiliate Summint West?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:52:00 -0000

The link in the first paragraph is to the website where I found the news. But here is the official Affiliate Summit website:

http://affiliatesummit.com/

It appears to be true.

Re: Jason Calacanis- A Keynote Speaker At Affiliate Summint West?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:37:49 -0000

Shawn,

I am sure he has great deal of experience. Besides his name may actually draw more attention to Affiliate Marketing industry, thus educating people about our business.

I guess I was ranting more than anything. I just gave a link to Jason's page on Affiliate Summit website.

Re: No I Did Not Link To You Again. Technorati Is Just Screwing With Your Mind.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:37:39 -0000

I just removed your link. Sorry, I would like to learn your name first unless of course you would like me to call you "Make Money Online". The website I landed did not help me to learn anything about you. ;)

As to Technorati reporting I see the "blog" reactions are down to about 600 today. I understand that the latest version of WordPress uses Google Blog Search to report the incoming links. Is it the sign of Technorati's end?

Re: Google’s Hypocrisy On Paid Links

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:19:23 -0000

Thanks for the heads up about the scraper. He gave me a link but with a very strange anchor text.

What about those who slipped under the radar and those that Google does is not going to touch because it would made them look stupid?

Now in affiliate marketing most of the "e-books" I've read, advise "buying links" as link building strategy. They better be revising that part of their books quickly.

I was disappointed in ReveNews article on the subject.

Re: Google’s Hypocrisy On Paid Links

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:14:56 -0000

In the past I hoped that both Yahoo and MSN could if no knock the big G out of the throne at least they would put a good fight.

The problem is that Google has no real threat in terms of competition and as long as this continues no matter what decision they make as long as investors are happy and are making money Google will never listen to a small guy....

Call me a pessimist but unless a company comes up that can put out some real competition, no boycott will make a dent.

Re: Google’s Hypocrisy On Paid Links

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:21:44 -0000

Josh,
As I wrote above, if no other search engine is going to put out some real completion or Google finally makes some crazy mistakes that would affect their investors, they will continue to do as they wish.

I agree if they wanted to send a message, they could have do it across the board. But I guess then the message would not have been "felt", so make a few suffer to send your message. Sort of a public execution, some places around the world still have those ;)

Re: One Of My WordPress Sites Was Hacked- And I Thought It Would Never Happen To Me

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:32:25 -0000

Mark,

Believe it or not it happen the same day I asked you about Group Platform. How ironic!

It really sucks though. I understand why you are programing your own blogs.

Re: One Of My WordPress Sites Was Hacked- And I Thought It Would Never Happen To Me

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:56:04 -0000

Dane,

To be honest I just way too lazy, I generally wait until the upgrade is available via Fantastico- yeah I know.

The other part is that I ran into problems a few times that themes were not compatible with the latest updates, and the theme authors did not care either. Are you releasing any of your themes soon?

Re: One Of My WordPress Sites Was Hacked- And I Thought It Would Never Happen To Me

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:37:50 -0000

Mark,

That may be true, however I think WordPress outperforms most of the other platforms, yes you need an arsenal of plugins to get things the way you want them to be but at the end of the day there is a reason why WordPress is so popular.

I don't know I am not convinced either way. At least I know WordPress better by now, I hate to spend any more time on all sorts of learning curves, especially one's that can be avoided. I am getting old. lol

Re: One Of My WordPress Sites Was Hacked- And I Thought It Would Never Happen To Me

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:54:14 -0000

I hear you Mark,

But I also have to agree with "Maestro" on WordPress being the most popular one:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/01/18/b...

If I were a hacker I would probably be more tempted by "bigger fish"- which doe not explain why my site was hacked.

Oh well I am going to sleep on it.

Re: PRWeb In Plain English

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:50:05 -0000

Glenn.

I think there is nothing wrong to have press releases written about you. In real estate you need to brand your name. However when writing a press release for PRWeb, do not think of it as an article. Press releases are meant to announce something "news worthy"- a new agent in your company, your anniversary as a Realtor and even new listing can bee see as a "news worthy" subject.

Also you can look what how other real estate professionals write their press releases:

http://www.prweb.com/newsbycategory/37/2007-10-...

Press release also allows you to target your local main-stream media outlets.

I found press release via PRWeb to be the most successful out of any other similar service out there.

Re: One Of My WordPress Sites Was Hacked- And I Thought It Would Never Happen To Me

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:20:03 -0000

Ryan,

Thanks for stopping by. I envy you guys, or anyone who can write a piece of software. Fro rest of us we have to use what is available for free. But I agree with Dane that WordPress is the best you bang for the buck.

I think my problem for not updating regularly is due to the fact that I have modified this theme quiet a bit and am using number of plugins. So every time there is an update I wonder if things will be compatible. So I taking Dane route- and will try to become minimalist- less plugins.

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:56:09 -0000

well maybe I am the only one who thinks that all the fun is here ;)

I am glad you liked it. However I think .htaccess solution is way much better. Believe it or not I do have several web-hosting providers that wan't let you touch .htaccess . Thanks for pointing me to your post!

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:15:35 -0000

Lucia,

I think I have sent you the url for my home page to stumble instead of this post. :(

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:42:12 -0000

James,

You really made me laugh. You do not mind if I moderate a little your comment. :)

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:05:50 -0000

Barry,

There are many things that can make hacking much harder but there always be a jerk without something better to do out there.

Welcome to his blog as well! :)

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:21:11 -0000

Ian,

I think Lucia's solution with .htaccess file does the same what you can do with Index Manager.

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:22:03 -0000

Sorry Ian,

My math plugin does some strange things, I will look into it.

I think it is good to have all options opened. I have some web hosting plans that neither offer cPanel nor do they let you touch .htaccess file- thus placing index files is the only thing that is left.

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:26:27 -0000

It may be Spam Karma, but I am surprised it does it. I will just probably get rid of math plugin- this one time too many that it has caused problems.

Re: Do Yourself A Favor-Stop Advertising Your Plugins To The Whole World

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:17:16 -0000

Lea,

lol no that was not done on purpose, just one of those dyslexic moments :)

Re: WidgetBucks- Don’t Waste Your Time

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:50:31 -0000

Mom :)

I am very suspicious about WidgetBucks outperforming AdSense. The initial reviews were hyped up by many who got in early on- they were pushing it to get referrals.

I think you will be much better off using Amazon affiliate program for your website.

Re: WidgetBucks- Don’t Waste Your Time

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:32:10 -0000

My biggest money maker is certainly not based on pay per click.

Also it would be unfair to point out a single merchant so as networks go Commission Junction (50+ merchants) brings me the most income.

Re: WordPress v2.3

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:02:57 -0000

Not a problem Valentine,

Fixed!

Re: WidgetBucks- Don’t Waste Your Time

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:32:59 -0000

Seth,

I am glad it is working for you. I am just approaching things from the angle of a an affiliate marketer- you can sign up directly with many of the merchants featured via WidgetBucks and make more money.

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Is Digg Spamming You?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:13:53 -0000

Hmm, I don't even know what they have banned me, I don't believe they have ever answered my e-mail in which i questioned the fact that they have banned me.

I think I will just report their future e-mails as spam.

Re: Did WidgetBucks Just Got Yanked From The SERPS?

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:35:40 -0000

Brian, all those results appear to be in "flash"- very strange.

Re: 800 Number On Merchant Site: Help or Deterrence?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:39:48 -0000

Bill,

Thanks for commenting. You have my attention. ;) Look for an e-mail from me.

Re: Did WidgetBucks Just Got Yanked From The SERPS?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:45:56 -0000

Thanks for stopping by to clarify. Hmmm, Why am I not surprised that Google has no problem with the hidden html link in the widget. One blogger out there has raised the question if we can add "nofollow" tag to that link?

Re: Disappointing Third Time: WidgetSucks

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:15:57 -0000

Jim,

Each widget has this code link in the code
WidgetBucks - Trend Watch - WidgetBucks.com

But nowhere does it appear in the widget

Re: Disappointing Third Time: WidgetSucks

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:28:49 -0000

It's not a nofollow in the widget, I placed nofollow here but I completely have forgotten that dofollow plugin is affecting everything in the comments.

If you go to your account or on your blog, you will see that link has no no follow, however there is no clear sign of that link in the widget, very much like those 1pxl links that Matt Cutts is talking about:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links/

Sure they do not link to a porn website but it gives WidgetBucks an unfair advantage against the little guy ;)

Re: Disappointing Third Time: WidgetSucks

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:12:34 -0000

They are getting alot of links quickly at $25 a pop, that should upset big G since it is going round penalizing sites for the very same thing.

No matter what extent of G's penalty would be thousands of bloggers will still be linking back to them. What if they are considered a "bad neighborhood"?

I am sure that will not be the case. I understand people working on it are smart and will take into consideration criticism even fro some one like me.

Also, as an affiliate marketer I work with most of the merchants and their commissions vary fro 3% to 20%. How much WidgetBucks is paying you? .22 cents a click?

AuctionAds actually was a solution for many affiliates that could not participate in the program before.

WidgetBucks is a way to call me stupid. Sure it for a blogger who has no idea what affiliate marketing is it looks good. I see it as an insult to affiliates.

I do hope they can stand on their own merit.

Re: Stock Watch: Google

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:19:54 -0000

I am sure there are few companies like eBay that can pull out their PPC campaigns which makes Google dance.... I theory if there it can be done by a no-Adwords day by small time advertisers to see if message could be sent.

Re: Are You Linking To Me?- Better Take Those Links Down!!!

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:06:27 -0000

Besides John Chow case it looks like only toolbar PR- at least for me. I still rank for the terms I was ranking few days ago. So maybe entire thing is nothing. I do think it will have some financial implications and I just hope it will involve a giant like eBay to pull the plug on PPC and make Google dance one more time.

Re: Are Your Ready For No-AdSense No-Adwords Day?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:06:33 -0000

I know. I still think this will have impact along with combination of other factors. May be it is a good time to sell our Google investments??? ;)

Re: Are You Linking To Me?- Better Take Those Links Down!!!

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:08:44 -0000

Yes Teli,

I forgot to say they should stop linking if they depend on Google- I stand corrected ;) . Nice to see you here.

Re: Are Your Ready For No-AdSense No-Adwords Day?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:11:29 -0000

Yes if you it is only you. Just think if every one on your list 100 did it. Just one day?

Re: Are Your Ready For No-AdSense No-Adwords Day?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:46:57 -0000

I am not sure the update is over. However, I think it is a news worthy event.

They can change their score as much as they like. Being a publicly traded company transparency can help them a little.

Look I am the last one to worry. While I made some money in the past with TLA and reviews I did not make a killing so I am loosing nothing.

We all speculate that paid links may be the major cause. However punishment is not extended equally. Just be straight forward say "look guys you have heard we the big G do not like paid links and this is what we are going to do and this is how we are going to punish you".

99% of bloggers were not affected, you right. They are only after the to 1% to send a message ;) While that to 1% may earn the most, they probably spend the most as well.

Re: Are Your Ready For No-AdSense No-Adwords Day?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:49:16 -0000

Just one more thing. I am as much of the internet user and they are loosing my trust. ;)

They will not be a number one SE if people begin to loose trust in them.

Re: OpenAds Testing: Help Me Out And Click That Banner

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:59:44 -0000

Thanks Mark,

I have never thought of bots. Do you think networks like CJ and others filer them out?

I really like what OpenAds can do in terms of geo-targeting or as they call it probability. But this gap between clicks on my end those reported by networks made me a little worried.

Re: OpenAds Testing: Help Me Out And Click That Banner

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:08:21 -0000

would you be surprised by the difference that I have seen? I mean it was only one day (or less) worth of clicks.

Re: Tips To Keep Your PR Unblemished

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:30:14 -0000

How is it now? :)

Re: Tips To Keep Your PR Unblemished

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:31:45 -0000

"Did I make it past" now? ;)

Re: Tips To Keep Your PR Unblemished

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:01:23 -0000

Thanks Lars,

English is not my first language either.

Re: Are You Linking To Me?- Better Take Those Links Down!!!

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:52:54 -0000

Jeff,

Thanks for stopping by. Strangely enough it looks like my site is back to PR 4- I guess now I do look like a fool...

But what about this coincident? My site is green and the bar is green! ;)

Re: PRWeb In Plain English

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:29:35 -0000

Dominic,

Yes, I have made sales that I can attribute to PRWeb press releases. In fact my ROI was well over 200%- I think it is exceptional considering the fact that I was promoting my affiliate websites.

However, for me the real benefit from press releases is that I gained multiple high quality links to few of my websites. Also your press release remains archived on PRWeb so you can benefit from incoming traffic an links long after initial "wave" of traffic that comes first few days after the release goes life.

Re: Meeting Google Halfway

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:27:37 -0000

@Andy,

It is drastic, I agree. All of sudden "dofollow" movement will not matter. But it is amazing in how many areas we rely on G. I probably will not do this with my other websites, but here with this blog I will have chance to test "no relying on Google" type of model for a website.

@Lucia

I was considering that as well but now I guess it will not matter that much. Google can't claim that I am "selling Page Rank"

Re: Meeting Google Halfway

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:28:46 -0000

My only concern would be not to block other bots, but neither Yahoo nor MSN send me any traffic so I really don't care that much.

Re: Meeting Google Halfway

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:40:07 -0000

lol.... Mark I get only 25% of traffic from the search engines to this blog, it will probably constitute 0.00001% of traffic your blog gets...

I actually agree with Andy, this would be a very drastic approach. But I have been experimenting with this blog on so many levels that getting my site de-indexed in Google will not be such a terrible loss. At least no one ca substantiate a claim that I am selling Page Rank.

Re: OpenAds Testing: Help Me Out And Click That Banner

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:45:58 -0000

Lord Matt,

Thanks for stopping by. Do you run your OpenAds on a dedicated server?

I am not sure if OpenAds worth the effort if you run just a few banners on a website. I have also noticed that MySQL tends to "swell" quiet quickly.

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:12:10 -0000

I am actually looking forward to some new challenges. Unfortunately when it comes to SEO most of us concentrate on Google rather than Yahoo and MSN. Both Yahoo and MSN are still in business and have a considerable share of the search market.

It will be interesting experience.

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:59:31 -0000

Joyce,

Out of the 30% of the search engine traffic this blog was getting about 90% was from Google. But I still think that Yahoo and MSN have good potential.

When it came to PPC, Panama and MSN Adcenter was bringing me better conversions.

In either case it will be an interesting experiment to watch. Once again thanks for the links!

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:33:02 -0000

I was unsure whether or not go with a meta tag, I do want to keep Yahoo and MSN spiders coming lets hope the robots.txt will keep away only Googlebot.

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:56:32 -0000

Lucia,

To be honest I do not expect much. Ironically, some bloggers think this will become a good link-bait. :)

I am presuming that many bloggers will continue to link to me, while it may be a little harder to earn incoming links when there will be no sign of my blog in the Google's index.

I also do not want this to be taken as some sort of heroic act. Let see what tomorrow brings. :)

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:07:46 -0000

Jonathan,

You right the majority of search traffic came from Google, but this blog was receiving only about 30% of traffic from search engines and I am guessing this figure is close for majority of blogs out there.

I would not do that to any of my affiliate websites. That would be foolish. Just experimenting- that's all.

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:52:07 -0000

Jonathan,

The traffic to this blog remained the same after the update. However I made mistake to link to my some of my other websites (where I don not necessarily sell the links). The traffic on those websites went down substantially. Again it is hard to say if it was related to update or that other website simply began to rank better.

Again, I would not advise any one to do the same. Especially with the websites that are earning you any sort of income.

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:10:57 -0000

MacBros,

Thanks for stopping by. I think that blog survival depends more on subscribers than on the traffic from search engines. Every one says that anyway. I am the first one to test it "hard way" if you wish. In some ways RSS and the social media websites are the biggest threat to Google.

Re: Surviving Google: A New Milestoe- PR0

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:49:15 -0000

Mark everything in due time. I need to let the steam out first. I think these things are quiet relevant because I don't think there was anyone in the past who have done something like this. It's all part of the process. ;)

I think it's wise to document the process as it happens.

Re: Surviving Google: A New Milestoe- PR0

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:57:51 -0000

Josh,

I really do not expect dramatic changes in Alexa. In the short term(last two days) will probably bump my Alexa rank a little. But I do not see my blog reaching top 50,000.

Again this entire thing can prove to be a disaster for me. I made an unwise decision to have many of my top money making websites listed in Google Sitemaps via the same account. I am sure they have their ways to find out who owns websites, but I guess I did them a favor by giving my websites on the plate.

Some social networks send really well qualified traffic- StumbleUpon being the top referrer.

Re: Surviving Google: A New Milestoe- PR0

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:02:13 -0000

Thanks Brian.

One thing is certain, I do not regret it. I did have choice to surrender, noffolow links to my advertisers and beg Google for forgiveness. I decided to explore this route instead, I may pay for it or I may benefit from it. Such is the fate of experiments.

Re: Surviving Google: A New Milestoe- PR0

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:06:11 -0000

"P.S. I guess that puts your efforts to rank #1 for “Vlad” out of the picture?"

I guess so..... but then there are still Yahoo and MSN ;)

Re: Surviving Google: A New Milestoe- PR0

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:49:50 -0000

sorry I did not realize that was happening

Re: Googlebot Just Got The Boot.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:55:40 -0000

@Jason

Yep, you can look at things this way ;)

@all
Thanks for commenting and linking to this post. I will be posting an update tomorrow.

Re: Cake Anyone? What About A Hat?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:01:09 -0000

Lucia, Its just like knitting- except you get less benefits from it. :)

Re: Google Bot Is Confused-So Are The Google Employees

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:01 -0000

Lord Matt,

I would be happy to give your engine a shout out. The problem with the big guys is that there is really no competition out there.

Re: Article Marketing: Content Spooling Network Integrates Your Hittail Data

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:11:07 -0000

Jim,

I have just outsourced my first article. I will let you know how it goes. From what I understand it take anywhere from 24-48 hours for the article to be complete.

I think I will be using them extensively. Their service is not cheap, but they are offering a 21 day trail for their service. Every article will cost you $5.20. I am giving them a try. I think though that 21 days may not be sufficient enough to see whether or not it is working.

Re: Article Marketing: Content Spooling Network Integrates Your Hittail Data

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:48:44 -0000

I am sure Andy can do a good job. However I do not know how whether or not Andy is in favor of article marketing. It creates good number of duplicate content.

The Content Spooling network looks a bit expensive, but hopefully I can squeeze in a few articles before the 21 day trial is up.

Hittail is still offering the free version.

Re: My Advise: Don’t Do It

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:12:59 -0000

Well it did become a good link bait. But I think I lost my focus:

http://collective-thoughts.com/2007/11/20/socia...

There are more important things in life to worry about.

Re: Google Bot Is Confused-So Are The Google Employees

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:07:43 -0000

Joyce,

Experiment is over. It is not worthed, unless a group of promiment bloggers would do it collectively. And by groups I mean if there were about 10 bloggers attempting to do this it has potential to snowball in to something that Google would have to take note off.

Re: Content Spooling Network Review: The 21 Day Trial

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:43:22 -0000

Matt,

I am actually impressed with the end results. I am just waiting to see how the publishing to all the networks will work.

I will post here a link as soon as article goes live. Thanks for the stumble.

Re: Content Spooling Network Review: The 21 Day Trial

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:16:05 -0000

I am not in favor of rewriting articles either. It is offered there in order to use their automated submission function so that exact copy of an article goes all the directories.

I really think that $5.20 for a good article is a steal. I personally only had experience with EzineArticles in the past. The problem that I had with article directories was that I could have been spending that time on either improving my existing websites or simply write articles for this blog.

I think in combination with Hittail it can actually produce some remarkable results.... Now that I am back in Google ;)

Re: Content Spooling Network Review: The 21 Day Trial

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:33:34 -0000

"that exact copy of an article goes all the directories"

What I wanted to say is:

that exact copy of an article does not go all the directories

Re: Vanity, vanity , vanity…..

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:25:58 -0000

Interesting, still 5th here.....

Re: Vanity, vanity , vanity…..

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:34:03 -0000

Is ti possible that Google is serving different SERPS in different countries?

Re: A Thanksgiving Gift To New Bloggers

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:22:14 -0000

Thanks every one of submissions. I am extending this offer until Sunday 9PM eastern time (USA).

Re: A Thanksgiving Gift To New Bloggers

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:14:38 -0000

Hi Nazar,

Welcome! Yes another ukie here.

I just need to delete that page- a leftover from UTW- which used to be my favorite plugin. Thanks for the reminder!

Re: Vanity, vanity , vanity…..

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:40:31 -0000

I use to have #1 for "vlad the affiliate" for quiet some time even before the experiment.

So when I let the googlebot back I am not that surprised to regain that place.

I am am surprised that I rank for some other more competitive results better.

Re: A Thanksgiving Gift To New Bloggers

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:29:09 -0000

Nope Chris,

You are not to late. 5 more hours before I close the comments.

Re: A Thanksgiving Gift: Part 2

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:44:37 -0000

My pleasure. Are working on that downloader?

Re: A Thanksgiving Gift: Part 2

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:45:45 -0000

You welcome Alex. I hope it helps, although I am not sure what kind of "juice" I can pass on these days since Google reduced my PR to 0

Re: Yahoo!ï¿½ Sponsored Search - features and benefits

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:28:35 -0000

test

Re: Yahoo!ï¿½ Sponsored Search - features and benefits

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:28:55 -0000

I like to see that

Re: Yahoo!ï¿½ Sponsored Search - features and benefits

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:29:36 -0000

me too, I never thought about it this way

Re: Yahoo!ï¿½ Sponsored Search - features and benefits

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:30:29 -0000

this is the final testing comment

Re: Yahoo!ï¿½ Sponsored Search - features and benefits

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:03:14 -0000

very interseting

Re: Content Spooling Network Review: The 21 Day Trial

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:25:01 -0000

If there is any one subscribed to the comments on this post, could you please e-mail and let me know if you received notification about this comment? I have updated this blog to 2.3.1 version and of course as always most of my plugins are screwed up.

Re: Nvu - WYSIWYG editor

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:25:19 -0000

Why isn't this working

Re: I Am About To Ditch Windows Completely

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:17:02 -0000

Brainiac,

I think it is too late now.... I have dumped the Windows.

Re: I Am About To Ditch Windows Completely

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:31:26 -0000

Thanks Ghosty!

I hesitated to answer it. But you nailed it!

Re: I Am About To Ditch Windows Completely

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:05:17 -0000

I did not really like the movie maker, but I was holding to it because I could not find better counterpart in Linux. KinoDV is a great piece of software but it can take time before you can figure out how to do certain things with it.

Re: Content Spooling Network Review: The 21 Day Trial

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:46:23 -0000

Gary,

I really think you offer a great service. I was able to use Content Spooling Network for only few articles.

For me the price was the issue. I think if you offer some incentives to customers who would sign up for a yearly plan. I think $29 a month is quiet steep especially if you are charged additionally for each articles. To me $5 per article was not a problem but let say you would like to use Content Spooling Network for 4 unique articles a month that will amount to about $50 each month. Just a suggestion. It takes long time for article marketing to begin to snowball and some may wonder if the money were well spent.

Overall I am very impressed with what you have to offer. I may actually use it again in the future. For now, after changing some what the direction of this blog, I am unable to stay with Content Spooling Network.

Re: Tips on Showing Your FSBO Property

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:27:18 -0000

Diane,
Unfotunately we can't give you a constructive advise. Real Estate transaction is quite complex these day. We would definetely advise to contact your attorney, who knows the best your state's law. While our website publishes variety of articles. We restrain from giving advise in regards to real estate transaction. Maybe you have a friend who is a real estate agent and can help you without charge?

Re: Serpil Ozelmas

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:27:28 -0000

Serpil is one of the most competent real estate agents I have ever met. Not only does she know real estate in Jackson inside out, she can probably find you property anywhere in NJ.

Re: Seller’s Agent, Buyer’s Agent, Dual Agent - What you Need to Know about Them?

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:46:30 -0000

David And Brenda thank you both for stopping by and commenting!

Re: PropertyMaps- Cutting Edge Real Estate Website

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:34:11 -0000

I say kudos to all of these guys! Way to go! Specially these maps guys. Did you see that the average property on their website is $8,000,000.00 ??? They will get their money back, believe me.

Lets face it, these day a web site is a must. Most of the angry comments on ePerks came from realtors who have no website and care less about Internet marketing.

Good job guys! Nice blog.

Re: Buyer Agency Agreements - An Overview

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:42:39 -0000

test

Re: Do you accept cash on your online store?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:16:52 -0000

I think it may work if the right people take charge. I remember times when people hesitated to use PayPal... If this system is unified and you can use these prepaid cards for different merchants it can actually work, imo.

Re: New Amazon Context Links

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:47:33 -0000

Paranav,
Thanks for the great tip, it has been a while since I've been to my Amazon affiliate accout, now is a good time. Thanks again!

Re: New Amazon Context Links

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:32:31 -0000

I agree. I have not been sucessful with Amazon. These new links can actually rekindle my interest. I am not usre if you read my most about the links, I whish though that they would implement some a choice for "either/or". I like that popup but I would not necesserily want it to pop every time I over over the link.

Re: New Amazon Context Links

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:57:04 -0000

Pranav,
Yes I notcied those option... I guess I am just picky that way. I just wanted all. :)

Re: Five Reasons why I blog

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:28:39 -0000

Hi Parnav,
Great post! I noticed you have not tagged anyone. No big deal. Just thought you have forgotten.

Re: The technorati favorites exchange meme

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:57:53 -0000

Thanks Pranav,

I can't believe you did..lol I really intended to clean up the file a bit. Oh well....

I think it would be good to pint your readers to original post on Andy Beards' blog where he explains how to use OPML file

Re: PRWeb Announces “Blog This”

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:49:51 -0000

Pranav,

I just wrote about this new feature as well. What a great feature. I often write about press releases, now it is really a breeze.

Re: Feedvertise with Text Link Ads

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:43:09 -0000

Thanks Adam. Would you say then that ads delivered by Pheedo can be considered as static html code?

Re: How to Get Your Website Listed Quickly on Major Search Engines

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:04:43 -0000

Re: Spam Protection Plugin for Your Site

My Affiliate Journey — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:54:49 -0000

Thanks Lorelle,

I will give those plugins try. I never thought adding two one digit numbers would cause a problem to any one.

Re: Now this is interesting….. and funny!

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:23:43 -0000

Re: Now this is interesting….. and funny!

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:22:58 -0000

Re: How to Get Your Website Listed Quickly on Major Search Engines

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:46:02 -0000

Re: Making My Readers Famous

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:23:45 -0000

Welcome Zaheer,
And thanks for stopping by!

Re: Alex Tew’s Pixelotto

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:12:53 -0000

Guys, I am tollerant to selfpromotion, but I am not so tollerant when some one is abusing my blog. Be good!

Re: Google, Link Popularity and The Future of Text-Link-Ads

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:55:22 -0000

Re: Making My Readers Famous: Sam Harrelson

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:32:43 -0000

Thank you Sam,

I liked your post about spambot today. Great job!

Re: Jangro’s List Was Responsible for 25% of visitors!

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:09:34 -0000

Re: Making My Visitors Famous: Patrick Gavin

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:17:37 -0000

Hi AdsBay,

You are very welcome. Please let me know if you have any questions about it.

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:23:24 -0000

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:13:53 -0000

Re: Alexa Experiment Update.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:31:54 -0000

Hi Mark,

I love your alexa button!:) I do not think it helps either.

Re: Comprehensive Affiliate Report

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:39:56 -0000

I am looking forward to the update!

Re: Sam’s Blog is worth…..

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:17:40 -0000

Re: My Famous Readers: Linda Buquet

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:59:09 -0000

Linda,

Its my pleasure. Thank you for advertising with me via AdBrite. I will definetely be at your forums.

Re: Akismet Is Catching Wrong People

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:11:51 -0000

Thanks 45n5,

Do you think there is a better solution?

Re: My Famous Readers: Linda Buquet

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:34:53 -0000

Thank you Andrew!

I really have become great fan of AdBrite. It opened to me possibilities of developing business relationships.

Re: Affiliate Marketing Carnival

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:14:57 -0000

Re: Affiliate Marketing Blog Carnival: Affiliate Summit- Las Vegas 2007

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:37:47 -0000

Re: My Famous Readers: Gene Kavner

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:16:12 -0000

You are welcome Gene. I think you have a great blog and many pople can benefit reading it as I did.

Re: Growing the Tail

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:24:46 -0000

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:24:52 -0000

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:03:27 -0000

Re: Making My Readers Famous: Ryan Knowles

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:24:06 -0000

Thanks Allen,

I should say that this idea is not mine. I have learned it from Darren's blog at www.problogger.net

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Wikipedia’s Nofollow and SEO

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:55:54 -0000

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:04:08 -0000

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:24:02 -0000

Scott,
I am getting the same error, I am not sure what is wrong. I am wondering if it has to do with "permissions" for a particular directory or maybe there is a conflict with a certain plugin.

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:26:31 -0000

I have deactivated a plugin called "Subscribe to Comments" let see if this changes anything.

Re: Updating to WordPress 2.1

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:41 -0000

It was the "Subscribe to Comments" plugin that gave me the error. Fixed! Thanks Scott!

Re: Making My Readers Famous: Jimmy Reimer

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:49:09 -0000

Jimmy,

Thank you to visit from time to time. You know with the MyBlogLog widget you can do nothing else bu writing about your readers!

No need to reciprocate, it was my pleasure!

Re: Can A Link Redirect Acquire PR?

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:39:47 -0000

Re: Welcome to Black Hat (SEO)

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:35:10 -0000

Re: Welcome to Black Hat (SEO)

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:19:58 -0000

>> SEO is an art with little bit of science to it.

Agree. As with each science there is a learning curve. I am just at the very beginnig for that learning process. :)

Re: Skype Has Scored A Touchdown In My End Zone.

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:44:30 -0000

Re: ReviewMe Is Behind On Blog Statistics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:50:39 -0000

Re: ReviewMe Is Behind On Blog Statistics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:18:09 -0000

Re: I Am An Affiliate….

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:09:22 -0000

Good point Mark,

I would caution people about the privacy when visitng the site.

Re: ReviewMe Is Behind On Blog Statistics

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:39:07 -0000

Ken Welcome!

Believe it or not I just got the first review request today afer I posted this article.

Re: ReviewMe And Things

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:22:28 -0000

Re: Team Link Network

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:23:45 -0000

Re: Cost Per News is Having an Impact- As Leaders Tend to Have

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:46:38 -0000

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:45:27 -0000

Andy thanks for the insight, if I understand you correctly you are talking about long term benefits? Short term bigger sites will be always ahead of the game?

-------

Mark, you welcome.

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:01:41 -0000

Thank you Andy. It's a pleasure to have you commenting on my site!

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:07:15 -0000

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:37:41 -0000

Re: BumpZee, Follow, Nofollow And What You Can Do About It.

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:56:27 -0000

Re: Alexa Says My Website Still Has A Heartbeat

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:13:41 -0000

I had problems using Alexa toolbar, will never use it again in my life. I have not tried the firfox search yet. Where do I get it?

Re: Alexa Says My Website Still Has A Heartbeat

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:41:30 -0000

Thanks Mark!

Re: Team Link Network

My Affiliate Journey — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:42:43 -0000

Re: Is Video Blindness Around The Corner?

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:37:21 -0000

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:54:36 -0000

Was the error in connection with co.coment? I have a pluging that may be causing it.

By the way I can wait to see other communities on BumpZee!

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:02:12 -0000

Just turned the plugin off. Will see what happens.

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:36:23 -0000

Agree Leonard,

Much better than MyBlogLog. I am actually thinkig of taking down thr MyBlogLog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: New BumpZee Widget.

My Affiliate Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:00:42 -0000

Sam, I am with you. The MyBlogLog is gone. BumpZee is much better community. Buh-bye MyBlogLog!!!! lol

Re: When I am not doing Affiliate Marketing…

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:41:06 -0000

Re: Video Advise To New Affiliates Pending

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:07:19 -0000

Re: Video Advise To New Affiliates Pending

My Affiliate Journey — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:56:56 -0000

Stephanie,

Can not agree more with you. Thank you for stopping by!

Re: BumpZee! Welcomes 300th Memmber!

My Affiliate Journey — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:51:12 -0000

My pleasure. I was too late with "200" milestone ;).

Any idea when will we see onther communities?

Re: DoFollow Love Knows No Limits!

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:20:39 -0000

Tat, thanks for stopping by. Sure why not, as long as link love is happening right? ;)

Re: Do Kontera Ads Bother You?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:47:21 -0000

Re: Do Kontera Ads Bother You?

My Affiliate Journey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:45:27 -0000

Thank you both Bobo and Scott. I agree with you bobo about the sidebar as well. There goes revamting!

Re: Do Kontera Ads Bother You?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:56:18 -0000

Leonard,

Thank you. I do have the lowest convetsion on any advertisin on this blog. Agee with you 100%.

Re: Can You Afford Pay Per Click?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:28:13 -0000

Re: What’s Up With Your URL?

My Affiliate Journey — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:31:43 -0000