Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
I recently registered 2 new domains. One of the domains is going to be used for a hosted link-cloaking and redirection-service, and the other is going to be used for a new product I’m working on. The product is – you guessed it – a link-cloaker/redirect script with a few new and neat features (not at all like the old give-away product myAffiliateLinks).
I need some help in deciding which domain will be used for what purpose.
The first one is: hereisthelink.com
The second one is: seethislink.com
I’ve already started using hereisthelink.com for my affiliate/promotion-links, but I still haven’t been able to decide whether I should use that domain for the hosted service, or for the script.
Please help me decide. I would really, really appreciate your input on this. Just leave a comment and tell me whether the hosted service should be run from 1 – hereisthelink.com or 2 – seethislink.com
Thanks!
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Shawn Casey is a marketer I have a tremendous amount of respect for. When I do purchase Shawns products, it’s almost like a sacred moment when I enter the download-area, or membership-area, depending on what the product is. It normally doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad. When it’s good – I tell people about it. If it’s bad – I keep my mouth shut. I don’t want to say nasty things about Shawn Casey. After all, Shawn Casey is Shawn Casey.
But this time around, I have a channel to actually tell people about it.
9 Easy Steps To Internet Cash is … A very basic affiliate-marketing guide. Every page has a couple of mp3’s or a video or two, and on each page Shawn has a shitload of affiliate-links. Nothing wrong with trying to make a few bucks extra, but you don’t have to overdo it. One of the chapters basically consists of affiliate-links.
If you’ve read one or two basic introductions to affiliate marketing, keep your money.
If you haven’t, find something else.
This just isn’t worth it.
There was a 7 day trial, which is why I went for it, but days 2,3 and 4 I couldn’t even log in. On day 5 I asked support to cancel my subscription. 5 days, and I had access to the product for 1. Great. Not.
I won’t go so far as to say it’s crap, but if you’ve heard of affiliate marketing, this course is too basic for you.
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
In the previous post about Dylan Lohs’ new product, i mentioned being part of the greatest resource on bum marketing.
It’s a membership site run by Noah Fleming (of rich-jerks.com fame) and Dane Morgan (all I really know about Dane is that he’s a great researcher on keywords), and you get all you need to know about bum marketing on this site. You also learn highly specialised and advanced techniques on the subject. The information you get from this site is not available anywhere else.
They keep updating with new projects and test out new methods to find out which methods are profitable and which are not.
It’s highly recommended.
I finally get to use my “hot product”-picture – which makes me feel really great 
Here is the link. Go check it out.
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
You are bound to receive atleast a few mails about this one.
Apparently, one of Edmund Lohs’ relatives have reached some success using Bum Marketing/Article Marketing techniques.
Out of curiosity I bought this one, although I’m already a member of the best resource for Bum Marketing.
Is it worth the money? Well… If you’re new to the topic, never heard of bum marketing, and don’t feel like signing up at bummarketingmethod.com (Travis was the one who invented the phrase) this could be your perfect introduction.
Most of the information can be found at bummarketingmethod.com, the only difference here is a couple of new resources to post your articles on. There’s a second download with the package that’s called “Articles That Write Themselves” – which basically boils down to this:
1 – Research your keyword
2 – Find other articles about the keyword/topic
3 – Do a rewrite of the phrases in some of the articles, and combine parts of the rewritten articles into new articles
That too, is a well-known trick you can pick up from any bum-marketing site or resource.
Another part is called “Article Marketing Roadmap”. It’s more or less a step-by-step guide that tells you what you need to do in order to maximize your success with article marketing. He basically tells you to offer a free report to get a targeted list, and then sell them your affiliate products. This, too, is a tip available at any bum marketing resource you find.
This product is a fluff-filled conclusion of bummarketingmethod.com
I expected to get a lot of good new information and new techniques on the topic. But I didn’t.
Which is why I think this product is crap. Unless you’re totally new to the subject and want to know what the fuzz is about.
Check it out for yourself, secretarticleprofits.com.
If you know the basics of bum/article marketing, this is not for you. Avoid it. Don’t fall for the sales-letters you are bound to receive sooner or later.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
You’re likely getting a bunch of mails about this new product.
It’s Keith Wellmans’ father, who’s selling his first own product after being taught the affiliate marketing ins and outs by Keith after some personal financial problems. Now I don’t know whether or not the story is true, and it’s not something I’m going to investigate. It’s just not interesting enough. What is interesting is the “big” names promoting it. I haven’t seen a lot of those names promoting anything cheaper than $97 for a while now, so I’m guessing Keith is pulling in some favors to get this sold.
One marketer I really like, have a kind of personal relation to, and value the advise of, recommends it whole-heartedly, although I know said marketer has absolutely no use what-so-ever of the product in question, and would consider most of it as old news and a whole lot of it as uninteresting, which is why I believe most of the promotions at the moment are favors to Keith.
I don’t want to gun it down totally, because it is a good product for someone who’s just turned on their computer and heard of “this affiliate-thingy-ma-jig”.
The person who will have use of this is:
1 – not sure what Cost Per Click advertising is
2 – not exactly sure what OTO means
3 – wondering what a mailing-list is
If that’s you, then Congratulations. You’ve found your introduction to the business. If it isn’t, you don’t need it.
If you want to check it out yourself, here is the link.
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
I wasn’t planning on writing three posts today. I really wasn’t. But sometimes …. Argh!
Brad Smith sells Adsense portals. You all know what Adsense-portals look like, don’t you? A basic template with some space saved for Adsense-ads, articles, all articles linked etc. etc.
Brad added the opportunity for visitors to add comments.
In Brads’ eyes, that makes them “web 2.0“.
A web 2.0 site would have a lot more interaction than just a “comment this article”-field.
His portals doesn’t even validate correctly through W3C-s validation tool. They are not correct HTML. Do you think a page that is not properly coded will receive great ranking with Search Engines, even with “Comment this article” on it? Doesn’t matter if it gets updated and changed every other second. If it doesn’t validate, there’s even a chance the content will be interpreted wrong.
We’re not talking a couple of tags that are wrong here either. His portals (actually I only tried one, but they’re all based on the same template) has 86 errors. 86 errors.
If your morning paper had 86 errors on every page, would you accept that?
Stay clear of Brad Smiths’ “Web 2.0″-portals. They’re just the same old same old.
Crap is crap, even if you add a comment-field and call it “Web 2.0″.
Sorry Brad, not impressed. Not at all.
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Just as I finished off the last post, I got a promo from Dirk Wagner. This time he’s selling an ebook called “Ultimate Guide to Free Web Traffic”.
I already have that book. If I’m not mistaken, i have PLR for it. Not sure.
However. The ebook is actually quite ok. It’s a good read as long as the price stays under $10.
http://www.dirkscrazyweek.com/cgi-bin/dcw357/homepage.cgi
That’s not an affiliate-link. I didn’t purchase since I already own it.
The price goes up by $0.05 every 20 minutes, and last I checked it was at $5.05, which is a good price for the information in this ebook. If you pick it up while it’s still less than $10, you’re getting a good deal.
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
The script being promoted by Steve Johns has been around for quite some time now. Steve offers it for $7, and I can say with certainty that it’s not worth it’s price. First of all, the script itself is a poorly written sad excuse of a resource-hogger. If you want to base a site around it, you’d have to get dedicated hosting. If you expect more than 5 visitors that is. The cost of getting it customised to actually work as intended and not just being a resource-thief would accumulate to a lot more than $7… A LOT more.
Second – it’s available for free at giveaways and on a lot of membership-sites.
Third – it’s being marketed as a “YouTube clone”. That is just false advertising. It’s not a clone of YouTube. It’s not a clone of anything, luckily. If any serious service around would be based on this script, the owners would be losing a lot of money.
Fourth – every sales page I’ve seen on this script, both the ones offering it for free and the ones trying to get you to shell out money for it, keeps pointing out that YouTube was sold to Google for a ridiculous amount of money. So what? Sites based on this script is not likely to be sold for billions of dollars. Not even millions. What you could do is get a cheap hosting account, set up the script, get some custom graphics made, and then turn around and sell it on ebay or some other auction site. You won’t be getting a ton of money for it, but the turnaround time on this would be fairly quick, and if you get a really good domain-name for it, you could flip it for cash.
I’d most definitely advice you to stay away from that script, unless you’re into site-flipping.
It’s crap. That’s basically it.
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