web marketing
StumbleUpon Paid Ads Feedback
I have been using StumbleUpon’s Paid Ads for a few weeks now, and have some feedback.
Biggest thing: Budgets
Right now you can set a daily budget for all your ads, which seems cool but is really ineffective. This is compounded by some of the problems below and I will get into those. Yes I know you [...]
What Happened to Jason Calacanis?
I used to read Jason’s blog all the time. Nowadays I can just get a pulse of what the hotbutton issues are for the day, and visualize what his blog looks like. Link to Mahalo SERP page for this, link to Mahalo SERP page for that.
Right now Jason has 15 articles on the front page [...]
Google Adsense Channels are not reporting
So for the last three days Google Adsense has not been reporting properly. I guess I am spoiled by the big G always being so on point, so I am a little confused by this one. The situation is when you login to your normal Adsense control panel you are presented with an overall view [...]
Need a Car? Got $1,000?
Just launched a new site that finds you cars for $1,000 or less, all makes and models. Good for collectors looking for restoration projects, or for someone who needs some inexpensive transportation.
CarsForAGrand.com
Check it out, comment here. Thanks!
Yes, I got the idea from Shoemoney and his Below a Buck site, but he lags. Took him 2 [...]
Digg’s Banning/Unbanning/Burying Policy Needs Help
A few weeks ago, I was shocked to find Zeropaid.com had been banned from Digg for “spam.” I don’t have the exact quote for reference here, but I recall it being something like “This domain has been widely reported for spamming the digg community.”
Let me explain a little bit about our news and how we [...]
Local rental ads via stumble! Awesome!
Wow. Someone write this down as a historical day for internet marketing. Oh wait, I am. Let me preface this by saying I use StumbleUpon a lot. I am an avid Stumbler and Stumble Marketer, and I participate in a lot of group Stumble marketing so when I find a new technique that seems intruiging, [...]
StumbleUpon posts get Stumbled a lot
So I was stumbling along when I was supposed to be working as usual when I stumbled on this article about getting stumbled. Whatever, I give a lot of seo/webmaster/affiliate stuff the thumbs up so that makes sense. But wait! I stumbled back into my memory (yeah I know, but its funny to me) and [...]
Digg and Slashdot in 3 Days
Our story on Pirate Bay’s new plans for a video streaming site made both Digg and Slashdot in 3 days… Go Jared!
Best SEO tracking tool
My partner Jorge has made an awesome tool for tracking whats going on with your websites. SEORat is a free SEO tracking tool you can use to track and graph your backlinks, alexa ranking, and more. Very cool and very free.
SEORat.com
ShoeMoney’s AuctionAds - my thoughts
The World Famous Shoemoney has released his new ebay referral program to the world called AuctionAds (click authenticate then login/pass is aa/bb). He had previously released a project called ShoeMoneyAds that was basically the same thing, an interface for the ebay affiliate api. In this previous incarnation, you input your PID that CJ gives you [...]
