Archive for August, 2007
lurksteraz on August 29th, 2007
Looks like Bodog has taken a hit from someone on the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name. Calvin Ayre has issued a statement. According to some people, 1st Technology LLC is the company behind taking the domain in a $49 million dollar lawsuit. I wonder what it’s going to take for Bodog to get the name back?
I still use Bodog for some affiliate stuff, so now I need to go through and change the links out to the new domain, newbodog.com.
What sucks for them is that fact that my affiliate site and their site were actually competing for some popular keywords. I guess I’ll have to step up some efforts to make some conversions.
lurksteraz on August 28th, 2007
Have you ever started a project, completed halfway only to never return to it and finish? That’s the story of my life. I have so many projects that are just sitting out there in cyber space collecting dust. Here is what happens to me:
1. Think of something that has the potential to make some cash.
2. Start researching the market and collecting keywords
3. Start working on a layout for the website
4. Think of a new domain or niche
5. Launch the new site
6. Searching for a new domain name from line 4
7. Find a few links to the newly launched website
8. Start another new layout for domain I just bought
9. and so on
You can kind of see a pattern in the way I’ve been doing it. Work on one thing and think of something else that could be better and start working on that, and the vicious cycle continues. I call this affiliate er-web-tile dysfunction. I just can’t get it going.
Solution:
I’ve started to focus on just a few niches. Starting with building a site and then further building it out. Obviously I’ll shoot for natural rankings as this is the easiest to start with, then when the time(and money) are available I can start to throw PPC advertising at some offers. I’m sure people reading this are saying, ‘go for the ppc advertising first, instant traffic’, well unless you want to deposit some cash into my paypal, I would do it. But when money is tight, I have to shoot for natural rankings.
To start, I have 3 websites I’m focusing my effort on and are ranking already for some keywords but the high traffic keywords haven;t surfaced yet. I’ll try to post some progress reports on these, so stay tuned.
lurksteraz on August 17th, 2007
That’s right, Pimpin aint easy. If you think about it, affiliate marketing is just like pimpin’.
Now bear with me, and take a look at this chart I created about the relationship between them.
| AffiliateMarketing |
Pimpin |
| Find a new niche |
Find a new corner to pimp your women |
| You build a website from scratch, |
You find a new bitch, doll her up with makeup and clothes |
| Make your site conversion friendly |
Teach her how to turn tricks |
| Testing keyword sets in PPC |
Send her to private events to see if it’s the right crowd for Ho’in |
| Narrow in on a niche and capitalize |
If she does well at a moose lodge party in a major hotel, send the bitch back for more |
| Build the site out if it works |
Give her some fake breasts and new finger nails |
| If it loses money over a long period of time, start on something else |
If she can’t turn tricks, kick the bitch to the curb |
| Your niche is now making massive amounts of money |
She’s a well known Ho on the block and every Tom wants a spin |
| Recieve monthly checks |
Snatch the bitches money and send her back out |
| Affiliate company doesn’t pay |
Ball up the fist and knock the bitch out! |
Ok, so the last one is for affiliate businesses that don’t pay, I had to throw that in there. I may be crazy, but if you look at them side by side it makes sense. Now I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll stick with affiliate marketing and leave the pimpin to the Don Juan’s and Sugar Daddys.
So anyways, I’ve decided to try the global approach. I’ve secured my euro-host and registered some co.uk domains. I think I’ll give this a shot as well. has anyone else had success with the European market?
lurksteraz on August 14th, 2007
I just wanted to give a quick update on what I’ve been doing. I have been building more and more websites. In the past week I’ve added an additional 5 complete websites all in different industries. That brings my count to, well, a lot of damn sites to maintain. I’ve also resorted back to my roots of implementing many black hat techniques for natural rankings. I tried to go legit and not do any shady stuff, but when it’s easy to do it, why not.
Anyways, I’ve decided to also set up a few sites specifically for drop shipping products. I was able to work out a few deals with some vendors for unique products to drop ship. I figure this would be good for wife to at least process orders as they come through.
Unfortunately, I have to wait for payday to relaunch more PPC ads. Went broke on the first run of campaigns that hadn’t produced any conversions. When payday rolls around again, I’ll relaunch the campaigns with some tweaks that include a tests I’d like to run and see what happens. If these tests don’t pan out, I need to wait again for another paycheck just to fund them. That sucks! Luckily Adsense will be depositing in a week or so.
In other news, I seemed to have built up about 6 weeks of vacation and decided to take off. I’ve been planning my attack for building out an additional 25 domains. Shouldn’t take too long if I plan accordingly.
Well, I’ll make another post in a day or so, I’m typing this from my cube and don’t want the boss to what I’m doing.
lurksteraz on August 2nd, 2007
I don’t like asking for advice but I had to ping someone and I wanted to thank Derek B for giving me some awesome tips in an email exchange that we had. I have so many questions, and nobody to turn to. Derek stepped up with great advice.
This leads to the frustration and giving up seems like the easy way out. A lot of questions and concerns go through my head such as, ‘why am I throwing this much needed money away?’, ’why won’t these damn products or offers convert?’ and ‘why can’t I find a starting point to marketing these products?’. A lot of these thoughts run through my head nonstop. The frustration is starting to get to me and quitting seems so easy.
Google has killed 2 campaigns, disapproved numerous ads which further diminish my will to keep doing this. I mean, why research products, do the keyword research, build the campaigns yet have all that hard work come to a screeching halt? This game sucks!
After reading Amits Blog post on Why 2% of affiliates rake in 95% of the profits, I’ve since re-sparked the burning desire to make it. But what am I making, what is ‘it’? Well, to me, it’s the freedom to be financially free, being able to spend every waking moment with my 8 month old baby boy, to not have to work in a cubicle(which, by the way is where I’m typing this from), not have to drive an hour and fifteen minutes to work. I think my turning point was when I was driving home from work on Monday this week, and ended up T-boning a lady that ran a red light. Luckily nobody was hurt! What this accident did do, was further embed my desire to not have to work for anyone else.
My fire is lit to a small spark right now. My goal now will be to get that small flame to a raging inferno! The kind of fire that burns everything in sight and doesn’t stop until there is nothing but a charred landscape. My charred landscape will be me and my family on a beach someplace in the world like a Corona commercial. Except my commercial includes me with a great big middle finger in the air to the rest of the 9 to 5 working class. Do I sound bitter?
Enough ranting, I need to get some work done before my boss see’s me.
