July 7th, 2010
I still own a couple of domains that rank very well for SEO related search phrases even though I don’t actually sell any SEO services or even do anything with those websites anymore. It never ceases to amaze me though how many e-mails I get sent from Indian SEO firms who want to sub contract work (at least a dozen a week). I never reply to them, if they were that good they should be easily capable of shifting a dormant website from the top of the rankings, after all that’s how they’ve found me? What has started to annoy me now though is that lots of those same firms are now bombarding my sites and the websites of people I know with un-asked for SEO reports, want to know why this annoys me?
March 30th, 2010
Let me put my psychic hat on for a minute….I’m predicting right about now, perhaps maybe yesterday, perhaps tomorrow..there are a lot of people who have just discovered something about The Shoemoney System. What they have just discovered is that when you try to get your Shoemoney System refund you only actually get the second month refunded? Don’t ask me why cos I don’t know. All I know is that I discovered it a few (3 I think) weeks back, it seems that once you have made that second payment then that’s all you get back.
If you go into ClickBank post refund request you’ll see your subscription status as cancelled but no way of requesting a refund on that first payment. I hope you have more joy asking ClickBank than what I had. I’ve given up and will put it down to experience. As this is being handled by ClickBank I can’t say that it is Shoemoney at fault but even so it’s not quite a 60 day no questions asked 100% refund is it? Unless the course got better than setting up a Facebook Fan page after I left I’m guessing there could be some angry punters out there.
As an aside how is everybody finding the system, the whole blogosphere has gone very quite about it, I was expecting to see several reviews from people who were well on their way to 4 figures (if not a lot more by now)?
March 11th, 2010
Who am I to argue with the VERY CLEVER people that wrote Thunderbird?
August 13th, 2009
Some companies are just sooo touchy about people using their name in domain names. According to the man himself the latest to fall victim to this is John Chow’s reciprocal Twitter following service hosted at www.twitterfollower.com
Twitter have issued a Cease & Desist to John, it’ll be really interesting to see how this one pans out (there are certainly plenty of cases in John’s favour for this one)?
Oh and by the way there is also a very real chance that this could be just link bait by Mr Chow himself. If it is it’ll be a shame, I’d really like to see how the courts would see something like this.
July 20th, 2009
The technique I mentioned about using RevTwt to make money from Social Spark was a dud. I just got fired this e-mail:-
“Thank you for your interest in our CPC program. We truly appreciate your enthusiasm! However, we have noted that you obtained many clicks for your CPC Opportunities from an outside marketing platform, http://revtwt.com which is in violation of our Terms Of Service sect. 3.8.
June 13th, 2009
£0.30 per minute! For internet access that is (over a 56k modem) – normal posting will resume shortly!
May 4th, 2009
I’m going to be very careful here not to slag of Text-Link-Ads, I’ve done some things wrong, and they’ve done some things wrong. This isn’t so much a warning as just me documenting my experiences so that other people can learn from them. If you currently sell links from your websites you may want to read this.
April 20th, 2009
Talk about ups and downs, I just about think I’ve got something new making money when yet another income source comes under threat. This time it’s the small amount I make with TLA.
I have a domain that’s been a home page PR4 since the very first days of Page Rank. It slipped to a 3 at the last update, which I could understand (some links have got very old) but I’ve just checked now and it’s a big fat ZERO! There are 3 or 4 pages on that domain (out of hundreds) that contain links sold through Text-Link-Ads. Other than that it’s full of top quality original content and is an authority website on a few subjects, holding great rankings. The whole domain has seen it’s page rank slashed. So the questions is this, for the sake of a few hundred dollars a month is it really worth selling links with Text-Link-Ads and having the Google PR penalty? Whilst a PR penalty isn’t affecting my rankings at the moment is there a chance it will in the future?
