| thoughts on affiliate programs |
[May. 15th, 2007|12:13 pm] |
1. Largely, affiliate managers are meaningless to me as an affiliate. Their purpose is recruiting and maintaining affiliates for the merhcant. However, nothing they say or do matters if the conversions suck. Support is nice, though rarely needed.
2. If you can rank for competetive terms, you dont need to know anything. Just get a nice "click here" link and you will get rich.
3. The "secret" or 1% niches, in my experience, are ones where there is no affiliate programs. Private deals are struck.
4. For beginners, even the most competitive areas may have "fringe" traffic where you can pick around the edges. Before selling shower curtain rings, think about whether you can bulld enough traffic in the niches or whether you could get the 2 leads a day in say, finance which pay $130 total.... |
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| Top Ten things said about Iraq that you will never hear said about Ghettoes in the US. |
[Jan. 18th, 2007|08:39 am] |
10. “Isn’t it great that Iraqi’s are free to flood their streets with tens of thousands of protestors in open demonstrations.”
As the celebration of the ability of Iraqi’s to protest after being under the rule of Saddam for so long goes on, the right to demonstrate here in America is being thwarted by chain linked fences, zoning that stipulates that demonstrations and protest are limited to a particular area as seen at the recent political Conventions and any time the current President visits a city. Protestors are also being questioned by government agencies as to what are their plans when they are planning a demonstration.
9. “There is no physical security without economic security”
This was said by the Great Don of the Pentagon Rumsfield. Quoting sista Constance; “doesn’t this sound like no jobs, no peace”? This administration and white folk in general seem to understand that without economic security it is almost impossible to maintain physical security in Iraq but dismiss this idea here in America. How can there be a reasonable expectation of security when the majority of the people living in any one area are unemployed and need to feed themselves and their families. People in need will do whatever it takes to get by, i.e. rob, steal, sell drugs, steal cars etc. In America you will find that most of those in prison came from economic disadvantaged conditions that lead them to a life of crime and subsequently prison. The idea there is no physical security without economic security is rejected in America but embraced as a reality in Iraq.
8.”Iraqi’s can not recover from forty years of Hussein savage brutality overnight, it will take decades.”
This is one that always gets my attention. Here is yet another instance of white folk accepting a universal truth about Iraqi’s but dismiss this same truth as it relate to black men and women in America that survived four hundred years of white American savage brutality, only to be rewarded with Black codes, Jim crows, mis-education, lynching, rape, castration, being made to love other than ourselves, the list goes on but we are expected to recover overnight. If Iraqi’s will need decades to recover from forty years of savage brutality by Saddam how long would it take a people to recover from four hundred plus years of savage brutality unequaled to anything witnessed or experienced in all of Iraq?
7. “Political quotas will facilitate fairness and the political viability of the Future Iraq”
This aught to make everyone’s mouth drop! This administration not only admits but they articulate and help past legislation for there to be quotas as to facilitate fairness in Iraq. How is it that this administration is as understanding of the real world as it relates to Iraq but not here in America as it relates to Black men and women. The very mention of quotas here in America especially in politics gets white folks blood boiling but yet in Iraq they have created a quota system that guarantee the Kurds, Sunni, Shiite and women spots in politics and decision making positions. This again is indicative of the belief in white supremacy and the inferiority of everyone else. The only people capable of being fair are white folk thus quotas in a majority white system is not necessary.
6. “We are confiscating thousand of guns to reduce violence and killings.”
I thought guns didn’t kill people, people kill people? This is of course another example of this administration hypocrisy. Here we have this administration removing guns from the hands of Iraqi’s saying it will reduce violence but yet this same administration just allowed the ban on assault weapons to expire. If we follow the same logic that is accepted in Iraq the assault weapon ban should have not been allowed to expire. The late eighties and early nineties seems to be in the distant past but the truth is with the expiration of the assault weapons ban we will see the return of the UZI and AK47 to the hands of killers and criminals and you can guess who will be affected most by this ban not being renewed.
5. “We probably alienated thousands of Iraqi’s whom support we need by doing hundreds of midnight home invasion looking for a few insurgents.”
Is this not the story of Black life in America? The police have harassed so many of us while trying to get those who represent the criminal element from amongst us that they have alienated most of us. Black men and women are not born distrusting the police this is a learned behavior via our interactions with the police in our communities. We have seen the police absent when things are going bad and on the scene in force when all we were doing is having some fun or possibly gathering in numbers that put fear in their hearts. Police Brutality has been a reality in the Black community for as long as we can remember and if those who are in charge in Iraq understand that over policing alienates the populace, why is such understanding absent from the over policing in our communities.
4. “Condition in Abu Gharib under Saddam Hussein were unimaginable to most American: desperate pleas scrawled in excrement on the walls, crammed cells, torture, humiliations and unjust executions.”
Apparently the Military lawyer who made this statement as noted by sista Constance is either ignorant or unfamiliar with prison conditions here in the U.S. The only people who think such conditions are unimaginable are those who have not known anyone that has spent some time behind the wall.
3.”We have to put ourselves in Iraqi Shoes, and become culturally sophisticated enough to win the only battle that counts, the one for Iraqi hearts and mind.”
This is Laugh out Loud funny here. When was the last time there has been talk about winning the hearts and mind of Black folk in America. When was the last time someone said this is the only battle that counts. The American approach to Iraq and the problems facing Iraq is not practiced here in America.
2. “You have to expect a people that is suppressed and denied opportunity to erupt on occasion”
This again is the Don of the Pentagon speaking. If it is reasonable to expect a people suppressed and denied opportunity to erupt on occasion; why is there shock and surprise when cities and towns erupt here in the U.S.? When ever Black folk erupt we are made to appear irrational and our eruption to be without merit. Strange enough the next time there is an eruption in America we should all make sure we repeat what Donald Rumsfield said.
1.”Men without jobs feel emasculated and desperate and that is why our number one mission is to get Iraqi’s into jobs.”
In saving the best for last this statement says a mouthful. There is no doubting that a man does not feel like a man if he can not provide for his family, and because of that he becomes desperate in his attempt to provide for his family. A Recent study stated N.Y unemployment for Black men was at fifty percent. I did not hear one politician, come out and say their number one mission was to get those Black men into jobs as to escape the feeling of desperation and emasculation.
This list says so much about America and how it view Black men and women that have suffered here and have yet to have redress for our unwarranted and ungodly suffering here in America at the hands of white folk. So while white folk are up in arms about Africa Town in Detroit,; to establish Africa Town would only take ten percent of the monies spent in Iraq. Why are white folk not as disturbed by the spending in Iraq as they are in the plan for spending on Black folk in America, it is because they are in direct competition with us and do not believe we deserve what they received and that is structural empowerment in order to attain wealth. |
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| digital rights management, COPA, and more. |
[Oct. 24th, 2006|04:50 pm] |
IF the court decides something is unconstitutional, it was ALWAYS unconstitutional. It "didn't exist". You get out of jail free, etc.
This doesn't matters much. There are four problems:
1) Until the court strikes down a law out, you have no idea if it will. This includes the rest of the legal system.
2) The government still comes for you. "Get out of jail free." It doesn't refund your lawyer's fee, your bondsman's fee, get your job back - with back pay, reassemble the broken family, restore your credit rating, replace your lost piece of lifetime, replace your repossessed car and house, replace the expensive collectible guns you had to forfeit, fill the hole in your resume, etc.
It does erase the criminal record. Of course, this doesn't help if the info is already in hundreds of non-court databases. This is after they knew damned well it would get thrown out. There is no way to sue them. "I vas Chust Dooink my Chob!"
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3) Normally, the courts normally don't consider the issue until someone is convicted of violating the law in question. Plus, there needs to be NO other way to dispose of the case without addressing the issue. With that, it still takes the Supreme Court to definitively strike down a new law. Plus, they can arbitrarily refuse to hear the case. This they usually do unless two appellate courts disagree, and sometimes not even then.
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4) It takes LOTS of time and work to strike down a law. It takes legislators and the president very little time and work to pass another law like it, with slight tweaks.
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And another. And another. And many more. And another dozen. And they put riders on every "must-pass" bill, use-of-force authorization, or like the budget... |
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| Chavez and his "devil" remark about Bush |
[Sep. 21st, 2006|04:20 am] |
Constantly, Chavez is saying the U.S. is planning to invade. Some believe he has good reason for this belief.
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There are on-going operations which are never publicized at the time. The allegations which follow may be well-founded and released through supposed leaks, ficticious claims, and misinformation later on.
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Don't presume U.S. special forces haven't already developed plans to "invade" covertly. This is if the situation arises. There is and has continued for some time, a U.S. ship near the coast.
Maybe the U.S. has no plans to invade Venezuela, simply because, there are bigger fish to fry. With that being said, U.S. Intelligence services are all over this clown... |
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| I'm almost afraid to get back in shape because of how differently I'm treated. |
[Aug. 30th, 2006|09:04 pm] |
That's just it. Women seek external validation for what motivates/drives them. This is to increase self-esteem. But, some do it to the point they are willing to trade on this for attention. How does a man discern between the lady and the jump-off, visually.
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Some women run the risk of being seen in the same category based on appearance. More importantly, their self-esteem is indirectly controlled by external forces. These set the stage for problems later in relationships, in my experienced opinion.
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When life imitates art (e.g. music videos, fashion models, etc.), that's a problem. That's why some describe those girls as video hoes. In the meantime, plenty of non-industry chicks dress the same way. They run around talking about, "I don't look like that. I am no ho. You don't know me. I'm just sexy. etc., etc., on and on. Finally, they wonder why they get jumpoff treatment.
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It's confusing, but I happen to be very discriminating. This is not because chicks don't look good. Rather, it's because of the thinking going into all that. Besides, usually, it ends bad for the female. I have seen it over and over ... kind of like the movie "Groundhog Day."
Would you talk to a half-naked guy while with your mother or father? I think not. |
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| current restrictions due to threats |
[Aug. 20th, 2006|07:04 am] |
It will be interesting to see how successful the supposed liquid explosive investigation proves to be. It's much easier for the government to use the media megaphone to trumpet a success in foiling a terrorist ring than to actually prove there was one, or for it to be as real a threat as claimed.
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The feasibility of damaging an airliner with small quantities of liquids mixed on-board is unproven. You can cause an explosion. Al-Qaeda did in their previous attempt, called "Bojinka." However, it's not clear it would be enough to cripple an airliner.
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In their dry-run a decade ago, they killed a passenger but didn't damage the airplane to any serious degree. In this case, like many before it, the overreaction does more damage than the plot. The Brits are making airline travel so painful, many are having second thoughts about it. This translates into real and lasting economic damage. |
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| the addiction of Myspace |
[Aug. 12th, 2006|12:20 am] |
MySpace is like a heroin addiction, without the upside. If you visit the meaning for each type of MySpace photo, you see the first part of the problem. No one knows how to take a good picture anymore. Essentially, there are four types of pictures on My Space. The trendy "I take pictures of myself in the mirror" photo, the "I'm too ugly or trying to be too hip to use my real photo" image, the "I'm hideously deformed and want a picture of me from far away" photo, and the "look at my booze / dog / make up / left over crack" shot.
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Simply take a picture of yourself and use it. You shouldn't care what others think of your appearance. If you have enough self-confidence to post your profile on a website used by over five million people, you have the self-confidence to post a photo of yourself. However, don't use one of those four kinds of pictures. They're unoriginal, dumb, and many would rather look at topographical maps than look at your uninspiring photo contribution to the world.
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| buying stock |
[Jul. 4th, 2006|02:33 pm] |
There are several methods for buying and financing stocks. Commonly, it is through a stock broker. Whether they full-service or discount, they all do one thing. They arrange the transfer of stock from a seller to a buyer. Actually, most trades are done through brokers. They are listed with a stock exchange, including the New York Stock Exchange.
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There are other ways of buying stock without broker. One way is directly from the company. If at least one share is owned, most companies allow the purchase of shares directly from the company. This is through their investor's relations departments. However, the initial share of stock in the company has to be obtained through a regular stock broker.
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Another way to buy stock in companies is in a Direct Public Offering. Usually, these are sold by the company itself. A direct public offering is an IPO (initial public offering) where the stock is purchased directly from the company. Usually, this is without the aid of brokers.
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| HTTP explained |
[May. 26th, 2006|11:44 am] |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is used to transfer information on the World Wide Web. It is patented and is an open internet protocol. Its original purpose was providing a way to publish and retrieve HTML pages.
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HTTP development was coordinated by the World Wide Web Consortium. In addition, there were working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force. It culminatined in a series of publications of RFCs. The most notable was RFC 2616. It defined HTTP/1.1. This version of HTTP is in common use today.
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HTTP is a protocol of request/response. It is between clients and servers. The source client (e.g. spider, web browser, other end-user tool, etc.) is called the user agent.
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The destination server stores or creates resources. These include HTML files and images. It is called the origin server. Between the origin server and user agent are several intermediaries. These include gateways, proxies, and tunnels.
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| history of MS |
[May. 21st, 2006|12:44 am] |
The January 1, 1975, issue of Popular Electronics proved to be meaningful. It demonstrated the Altair 8800. Within days of reading about it, Bill Gates called the creators of the new microcomputer, MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems). He offered to demonstrate his use of the BASIC programming language for the system.
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Gates lacked an interpreter and the Altair system. They had eight weeks before the demonstration. So, he and Allen developed an interpreter. Fortunately, at the demo, the interpreter worked. MITS decided to distribute Altair BASIC.
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Gates dropped out of Harvard University. He moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This was the location of MITS. While there, Microsoft was founded.
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Initially, Microsoft, without the hyphen, was used in a letter from Gates to Allen. This was November 29, 1975. On November 26, 1976, it became a registered trademark.
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The first international office of Microsoft was founded on November 1, 1978. It was located in Japan and named "ASCII Microsoft" (it is now "Microsoft Japan").
On January 1, 1979, the company moved. It changed locations from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington. On June 11, 1980, Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft. He would eventually succeed Bill Gates as CEO. |
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| phishing and pharming |
[May. 2nd, 2006|12:32 am] |
Ahhh, I remember the first Phishing emails, from long ago. You followed a link from an email and saw the discrepancies immediately. Initially, it was a nightmare for many financial institutions. Add anyone doing e-commerce. Millions of passwords and usernames were phished from the unsuspecting.
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Spear Phishing. This is a rather new term. It is a new twist on the same technique. Target one specific group like a teacher's credit union or college where users are more likely to fall prey to the con's technical foul play.
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Now add Pharming. This technique has the user end up at a website which is an exact replica of the target destination. It is a copy, pixel for pixel. The Pharming attacks happen at many levels, not just email.
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The inexperienced Internet user is at grave risk these days. They need to be aware of the potential problems. I think many have learned of Phishing emails, but they still occur. It's Pharming which people need to worry about now.
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| Google's infrastructure |
[Apr. 29th, 2006|03:14 pm] |
Its alway been my opinion infrastructure is a platform. It is either hardware or software, which applications use.
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This is pure Speculation. This most recent change at Google is possibly an upgrade of the web servers, or the OS, or the server OS, or a combination. Possibly, Google upgraded their boxes. The OS is now able to take advantage of the processing capabilities of the fastest processors.
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Personally, there does not seem to be much difference between then and after BD for my niche. There has been a noticeable slowdown of G-bot visits & indexing on my websites. Maybe this is a function of the g-bot, and not the result of an infrastructure change (unless they classify Google-bot as part of the infrastructure feeding the web servers running the algorithms).
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I see MANY complaints of web pages being dropped from the index. However, people have complained of this issue for a long time. This time, it seems a bit more.
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It seems the BD update was implemented to create a different platform. The hope is it would allow for changes to applications for addressing some of the problems listed. |
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| Orkut and penalty for success |
[Apr. 26th, 2006|05:08 am] |
August, 2005, a freeware program was developed in Delphi. It was called Floodtudo. "tudo" in portuguese means "everything". The developer was Brazilian.
The purpose of the software was specifically to flood orkut. It quickly spread among the users and was easy to download. The most used Floodtudo versions were 1.2, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.2. Since it was used by thousands of spammers, a spam wave struck orkut in September and October of 2005.
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The flooding of orkut was getting out of hand. So, the developers added new features to stop this. For instance, users were not allowed two or more verbatim topics or scrapbook entries to be submitted. Or, users were forced to wait before posting another topic. Or, features were added such as scrapbook entry, and the use of captchas.
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Community moderators were given more rights. This allowed them to ban users, rather than relying on the developers to remove them. Also, community moderators get to mass delete posts too.
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Other ways to attack using profiles and the community still exist. For instance, there is testimonial flooding on scrapbook and member counters, multi-profile floods, and social engineering.
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Many reasons exist to flood. Since it is a social network, some people have or develop enemies. However, some of them attack simply to trolling. Flooding is one reason for orkut's poor website performance. This causes a heavy load on orkut servers, thereby decreasing reliability even more. |
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| An explanation of DNS |
[Apr. 11th, 2006|03:20 am] |
Most non-administrators have no direct interaction with DNS servers. So, it's not difficult to lose sight of the two distinct functions of a DNS server.
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A DNS server advertises to the world the various resource records associated with a domain. This is known as an "authoritative name service". Probably, it is only a familiar function to webmasters.
To find a website (not using an IP address), you need for some name servers to be authoritative for it. Generally, the hosting provider operates these nameservers. Webmasters associate domains with these name servers at the time of domain registration (or, at least with the registrar at some point soon after).
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Another function of DNS is as a "caching" or "recursive" DNS server. It tells clients the answers to queries for various resource records. This includes records it can't resolve directly. Non-local record queries are forwarded, or recursed, to servers to answer them. Users are generally not aware of the handoff.
All users of the internet (not using IP addresses), use recursive (caching) DNS to resolve names to IP addresses.
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Generally, the two services do not need to be done by the same box. It's good design to keep them separate. The BIND4 operations guide hints to separate these for performance reasons. There is no discussion of the security benefits of separating them. The BIND8 documentation doesn't talk about it much, beyond showing you how to disable recursion. |
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| how did he make $3million/yr |
[Mar. 22nd, 2006|05:36 pm] |
His money was made after doing the fancy server stuff.
Anyone trying the same thing would hit a road block. Why? It is due to the huge expense of getting past the spike in traffic.
Most people do not know what they need. So, they have to hire somebody, to tell them what to do. Most of the time, that person makes more money creating a complex system.
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In my experience, consultants do not help you with this as efficiently and cheaply as possible. The misleading part is anybody can do this. It is not true you can only do this with access to money or code skills like him.
Suppose I get a huge spike and make a lot of money with adsense. You do not see that adsense money for over a month (almost two months if it starts at the begining of the month). If you do not have the money when the traffic spikes, you are dead. You lose that momentum.
Most sites have a hard time with traffic spikes. It is worse with a sustained high level of traffic. If the traffic is coming at a slow steady pace, nobody invests in a big infrastructure until it is too late.
If you were real frugal, and saved your money while growing, you might catch it in time. However, you would be lucky to get half of he did. It is hard justifiying the effort for that kind of traffic, based on your current growth. This is especially true when very few people get to that level.
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It is what the 90's was about. Most of websites/companies went out of business when the traffic never came. |
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| adsense and affiliates |
[Feb. 27th, 2006|12:13 am] |
Depends on the site. On an editorial site with diverse content (like mine), not all topics or pages are a good fit for affiliate programs. AdSense does a great job of monetizing pages that otherwise wouldn't earn revenue.
Example: I might have an information site about luxury travel that earns a ton of money from hotel affiliate links on its Springfield and Shelbyville tourist-information pages, but if I write a review of an Elbonian rowboat cruise, that review isn't likely to earn money. That's where AdSense comes to the rescue: It displays ads for Elbonian rowboat cruise lines and travel agencies, and I earn money with every click.
Finally, people need to stop thinking of affiliate programs and AdSense as an either-or proposition. The two can coexist peacefully and profitably. I use both on my site, and both pay extremely well. |
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| Blogs or Forums |
[Dec. 21st, 2005|10:43 pm] |
I tend to lean more towards Blogs for a number of
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The online world has marketed Blogging as the best new thing for surfing more than forums which have brought traffic from millions of reader’s everyday. Don’t get me wrong, I still believe that Forums are the best information tool available for free online and they too attract lots of traffic but only if you do things right.
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A forum can be a total failure when you simply can’t get people to post – ok you can go out and pay someone to create posts.
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With Blogs you put exactly the information and links you want on your pages but with a Forum you need to rely on the users which gives opportunity for your competition to add their links in their posts which can be sometimes a nightmare to track – you can turn off URL’s but for me I hate these type of Forums.
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Although you can edit posts and links created by others you need to be extremely careful not to piss off the users or you may see a drop in posts and traffic. I know of one Forum that lost over 90% of its users because the owner gave Moderation duties to a number of teenage friends and didn’t have the time to keep an eye on things. Over a 3 month period things got really ugly with insults being passed from the Mods who then proceeded to edit random posts for no apparent reason. It ended up that one of the long time users of this forum started his own which won all the original users and 2 years later are still going strong.
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Another important factor is users of forums will not click out of the Forum as much as someone who is reading a Blog because they are in the Forum to gather help or to have conversation with other users.
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I know when I am browsing forums like DP I stay there until I have read as much as I can, which takes more than 2 hours. The only time I really use a link is when someone posts it and if I do visit the posted url I open it in another browser window. For example, the majority of people reading this post are probably going to click elsewhere within DP to read more rather than click out of the site altogether, unless they are totally pissed off with this information and close their browser in disgust.
For Blogs, if I haven’t seen the Blog before I’ll read some of the posts and if I like it I’ll pop it into my favorites and navigate out. If I visit a Blog in a daily basis such as the Google Adsense Blog I’ll only read the current post and then leave the site, either by using a link on a post or using an advert. My approximate time for reading one Blog is 5 minutes before I move on.
I am glad I have caught your post as I am too trying to decide if I should build a forum, I already did but decided to remove it after a week – I’m thinking its going take up lots of my valuable time to setup and maintain. Hopefully someone can prove my information to be wrong and possible persuade me to build one. |
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| finding the right work balance |
[Oct. 26th, 2005|01:56 am] |
Five men work at identical jobs on a shop floor. Four of the men attest to the work's absolute drudgery. They have trouble getting to work on time in the morning, find every excuse to take a break or leave early, and dream of the weekend.
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The fifth man is absorbed by the work, is constantly getting better at it, and leaves at the end of the day happy, with a feeling of accomplishment. This scene is repeated in many different fields of work, all across the world.
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When the work to be done is the same, how can some people find it drudgery and others find it fulfilling? Obviously, the difference is not in the work, but in the head of the person doing the work. Which leads to the conclusion that, if you can change your mind, you may be able to make the uninteresting topic as fun and fulfilling as the one you currently enjoy.
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This change is not a matter of willpower, but a matter of how you view the work, how you structure the work, and how you direct your attention. If you reflect in detail on how it is that writing about the "fun" topic is enjoyable, you may see opportunities to make the topic of your choice enjoyable.
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There are three principle obstacles to making a task an enjoyable one: too little challenge, too much challenge, and poor feedback. |
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[Sep. 27th, 2005|08:33 pm] |
I'd like to add a clarification here if I may, as I think comments on "Gaming the system" are innapropriate to the reality of what webmasters who employ blocking are actually doing.
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Nobody is suggesting that people can, or should try and second guess what advertisers pay most. For example, trying to guess if Steve's car repairs or John's car repairs is the poorer payer is impossible so shouldn't be attempted. Likewise, deciding if London hotel bookings or book a hotel in London is the best option is equally impossible and stupid. If people try this then the penalty is that they are going to lose money. This is what I believe Google is advising, and rightly so.
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However, we are NOT talking about trying to cherry pick between genuine advertisers - everybody put that thought out of your minds right now. What we ARE talking about blocking are sites that DO NOT CONFORM TO GOOGLE'S PUBLISHED TOS. Google doesn't seem able or willing to enforce the TOS on publishers, so the only option is for webmasters to block them as we see them.
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The problem is that Google's algorythm routinely removes ads it KNOWS historically are good performers on your site, and replaces them with sites it *thinks* will work better, based purely on data from elsewhere. In most cases these ads are from scrapers / MFA sites. Quite frankly that's an insane thing to do, but they do it all the time. I've blocked about 3 more this week.
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Blocking these sites isn't "Vanity" but sound financial sense for Google, publishers and other (genuine) advertisers. The effect of having them there for a while is that smartpricing downgrades your site as a whole, and clicks from genuine advertisers will only get you minimum amounts. By improving the quality of advertisers by rooting out the TOS violators, smartpricing will re-value your site upwards, and genuine advertisers will pay you more.
There should not be a penalty imposed for enforcing the TOS where Google won't, but there is a reward - higher earnings in the long term. |
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