Internet Marketer, Graduate Student, Radical Dude.
Archive for January, 2009
Craigslist, Review Page, Extra Cash
Jan 24th
I want to share a little success I had this week. Remember, I’m no big shot guru. I’m just a grad student, small time Internet marketing fiend, and all around awesome dude (right?).
So if you read back to my post from earlier in the week, I was pissing and moaning about an affiliate site not converting to any sales. Well, it turned around and made a sale right after I posted that bitch-fest! But I never revealed what made the difference. Here’s how it breaks down: More >
Foot In My Mouth – Screw Affiliate Marketing Take 2
Jan 22nd
I’m a pretty open guy, so when it comes to making mistakes – I don’t mind admitting my failure. Today’s big failure? The failure to keep my mouth shut long enough!
Read my last post, and you’ll see that I was a bit frustrated with affiliate marketing this morning. A recent review site I built was not converting the large CTR into sales, and I was tired of promoting “crappy” products. Thankfully, I didn’t name any names. Because as irony would have it – I made the 1st sale today. More >
One of Those Days – Screw Affiliate Marketing
Jan 21st
Do you ever have those days when you ask yourself, “why the hell am I promoting some idiot’s products?” I’m having one right now.
After 509 views to my latest review site, no affiliate sales. Before you jump on me to keep trying, here’s what’s up: More >
HP Lab’s Twitter Research – The Highlights
Jan 20th
If you’re looking for an interesting read, check out what the HP Lab has been doing with Twitter research. Credit goes to Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero and Fang Wu for this work. Here’s the link. You can download the PDF if you want the full, academic piece. Or the keys points are bulleted on that page for your convenience.
The researchers sampled around 6% of the Twitter community (about 310,000 users), and provided some interesting stats on the group. Users had an average of 85 followers, and they followed back an average of 80 people. Average # of tweets per day was just over 1. One quarter of these tweets were directed at another Twitter user. More >
Same Day Google Page Ranking From WordPress Site
Jan 16th
Check out this picture – these are search terms that drove a little traffic to one of my sites. The amazing thing is that these posts were published and received 1st/2nd page rankings on Google the same day. Yeah, that rules. How did I do it? Hell, I wish I knew. All I can say is that using WordPress, and SEO plugin, and good tags on my posts have made all the difference. More >
