Websites

11/2/2009

• How my business and websites work

  I recently had a great comment/question on my blog:
  http://www.jonasblog.com/2008/07/how-and-why-you-should-replace-yourself-with-someone-overseas.html/comment-page-2#comment-62563
  In a nutshell, David asks “how many sites do your GUYS maintain, and how much are the sties making in order for them to pay for themselves?”
  I thought the question and answer were informative enough to make a post out of it.
  Here’s my response:

  @David – this is [...]

2/2/2009

• My Swipe File

  Do you keep a swipe file of sales copy and squeeze pages and interesting marketing tactics?
  If not, why not?
  Here’s why you do it.
  When you want to create a sales/squeeze page for yourself, you can go back through all the pages you’ve bookmarked and just pull the pieces out of them that you like.
  When [...]

1/10/2008

• Free Keyword Research Tools

  Over the last couple years keyword research has become difficult as the quality of tools have degraded. Overture’s keyword research tool became totally unreliable about 18 months ago. Wordtracker just doesn’t have the data to provide accurate results. Sometimes in fact, wordtracker’s data comes from such a small data set that it [...]

3/23/2007

• UnderCoverProfits: Affiliate Marketing Will Never Be The Same

  Next Tuesday I’ll be releasing UnderCoverProfits, which is going to change the way a whole bunch of people do affiliate marketing.
  See…in the past, when promoting other people’s products, what most people have done is pick a program to promote, and then go test it on Adwords to see if they can make it profitable. [...]

10/6/2006

• Unbelievable Web Hosting

  This is ridiculous.
  Hostmonster has lowered their hosting price from $9.95/month to $3.95/month and increased their limits on the product.
  You can’t increase the ability to host unlimited domains, but they increased the bandwidth you get (who cares), and also the storage space (WooHoo!).
  This hosting is soooooo much better than anything else I’ve seen its ridiculous.
  And, [...]

7/26/2006

• Stock photos super cheap

  I’m posting this mostly so I can remember it:
  http://www.istockphotos.com
  Stock photos between $1-$5 depending on size.
  That’s a great way to make a website look better.

5/4/2006

• WritingUp.com Growth

  This is interesting. It tells 2 stories:
  1. The power of user generated content
  2. Search engines certainly aren’t telling the whole story.
  1. Users are blogging on WritingUp.com. They write hundreds of blog entries each day. They also write thousands of comments each day.
  Two weeks ago a site:writingup.com search revealed that google had 510,000 [...]

1/11/2006

• Wordpress 2.0

  After having been with wordpress through 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, wordpress 2.0 is finally out.
  Not that I’ve been anxiously awaiting it or anything, because when something works for me, I’m usually happy to leave it alone. But, I really hate when I write a post and realize I want to upload a file [...]

1/10/2006

• Growing Pains

  I guess growing pains are good, if you’re growing like this:

  You can see the dip in traffic on Christmas, and the little dip right before the skyrocketing from 20-25,000 hits/day to 40,000 hits/day was when we were having server problems.

  The problem is that www.writingup.com grew so fast that we had major server problems. The [...]

11/8/2005

• WritingUp.com Growing

  We hit 300 bloggers sometime last week. We have 335 right now, and our alexa rank is climbing pretty quickly.
  Not bad for having only launched it less than 2 months ago. Especially considering that the site looks terrible, isn’t very clear for how to refer someone, and I haven’t really started [...]

3/15/2005

• Overture Gods have mercy

  A few months ago I got banned from using the Overture keyword suggester tool because I had written a script that would query it automatically for me.
  Being banned from the tool was somewhat of a pain in the butt…because I couldn’t just pull it up any time I wanted to check search amounts. It [...]

3/14/2005

• Adsense from Yahoo

  I believe Yahoo is finally going to come up with their own version of Google’s Adsense.
  http://publisher.yahoo.com/
  It’s about time!!!
  I think this will be sooo good for publishers like me. It will force Google and other companies who serve ads to pay their publishers more to compete for ad space on publishers pages. [...]

3/1/2005

• Translation Please!

  Actually…not translation please. How about “here’s your translation”.
  For DSG we have tried to do all kinds of things that will differentiate our pages from other pages that are generated by a computer. One of the things we’ve been working on (well…Dan has been working on), is doing translation of our pages. [...]

2/16/2005

• Affiliate Success

  Over the past year I’ve tried different ways of having success doing affiliate programs. My ebay site did alright. I don’t make that much money off it but it does make some money from ebay each money.
  My attempts to do affiliate marketing with TE were absolutely horrible. I have probably gotten over [...]

2/14/2005

• Writing Articles for Pagerank

  I know a lot of people figured this out a long time ago and I’m just slow but writing an article and submitting it to article sites is great. I’ve been writing articles and submitting them to http://www.ezinearticles.com. I get to put it into a specific category and get to put 2 links [...]

2/11/2005

• Logging into Yahoo/MSN Automatically

  Having worked on DSG so much over the past 2 months and having talked with some really experienced internet marketers has really opened my eyes to a lot of stuff about internet marketing. One specific thing is the up and coming influence of RSS.
  We’ve done some really cool things with RSS that are causing [...]

2/9/2005

• Changing SEO

  I don’t know if you see it when you browse the internet, but because of the industry I’m in, I visit sites all the time that have links on them that say something to the effect of “Top 10 placement in Google…Guaranteed”.
  I’m sure these companies that are guaranteeing a top 10 placement in google are [...]

2/8/2005

• Content Creation

  It’s been interesting to see peoples reactions to my DSG software. It’s almost like I’ve suddenly become an expert in content creation. And all I did was apply some of my programming knowledge and experience to a personal project to generate content from all over the place. Sort of interesting.
  What’s more surprising [...]

2/6/2005

• Linking Strategies.

  This week I did some research on the digital point ad network. It’s pretty interesting. You put a place on your site for the system to put ads and the system will put your links on other peoples sites. It’s really ingenious as an automated solution to linking. You get a [...]

1/30/2005

• Sales of DSG

  This week we made our first sales of DSG. DSG (dynamic site generator) is
  what I’m calling the software I wrote that will create an entire site full
  of keyword rich content for you. I got the idea from Traffic equalizer,
  which also generates a site of content, but it doesn’t do nearly [...]