Guaranteed Hits vs Targeted Traffic

November 2, 2007

100,000 Guaranteed Hits, Only $69.99!

I know you’ve seen this type of advertisement or website slogan, especially if you’re new to internet or affiliate marketing. Your mouth starts to water and your mind starts spinning at the possibilites! Then, the calculator comes out…
“Let’s see, if I purchase 100,000 hits for $69.99, and my new affiliate program pays me $20.00… that means if ONLY .1% purchse the product, I’ll make $2000, which is $1930.01 in PROFIT! Woo Hoo! I’m gonna be R-I-C-H!”

Wrong. If you’re new to internet or affiliate marketing, don’t fall for the hype. You’re not going to find any successful marketers using these types of services. Oh, we’ve all been there and done that, so we don’t blame you. But if you can learn from other’s failures and wasted time, money, and shattered hopes, do it NOW.
See, affiliate or internet marketing is all about TARGETED traffic (don’t fall for the ‘targeted’ guaranteed programs either - they too don’t work). The formula is simple, send targeted traffic to a relevant, well written website with a quality product or service, and you’ll make sales. ]

See, with ‘guaranteed hits’ programs the traffic just isn’t targeted enough, or at all. I don’t care how many times you show me a website selling pink mini-skirts, as a 6 foot 7 inch guy weighing in at 260lbs… I’m just NEVER going to buy! You MUST give your website visitor what they want, and what they expect to see when they get to your site. Simple.
I’ll go ahead and speak for all of the internet and affiliate marketers out there and help you refrain from wasting your time and money. These ‘guaranteed hits’ programs just don’t produce targeted traffic. I know of one internet marketer who personally made this mistake and purchased over 1,000,000 (yes, One Million) ‘guaranteed hits’ from various vendors. He spent hundreds of dollars - with not ONE sale. Nope, not even one dollar earned.

He even paid good money to become a reseller for these programs so he could purchase the hits at wholesale! Not ONE sale, ever. Making this mistake and wasting that money almost made him quit affiliate and internet marketing outright. But he didn’t, and he is steadily increasing his results, and income, with the proper techniques.

Once again, don’t waste your time or money on any kind of ‘guaranteed hits’ program or service. Instead, take your time and money and point them towards the resources that will actually work. Work on getting targeted traffic by Lead capturing, autoresponders, viral eBooks (with quality content), and joint ventures, all examples of excellent methods and tools to use.

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LinkTiger

October 30, 2007

LinkTiger is a great new tool for checking out your site or blog for broken links.

LinkTiger provides you a quick overview of the status of all links on your websites with a intuitive dashboard.

For each website the dashboard shows three pie-charts with the pages status, the link status and the error types of the broken link.

To get detailed reports, just click on one of the pie-charts.

View for each webpage the amount of broken links, the number of parent pages (webpages that link to this page), the link status and document type. Here is a screenshot from my blog (click on the image to view full screen).
LinkTiger found 10 broken links, but heres the cool part. After clicking on a page with a broken link, LinkTiger loads the webpage and highlights all broken links, so you can spot & fix them!

You can:
1. See the amount of broken links in this webpage.
2. Use the navigation buttons to jump from broken link to broken link and see the exact webpage address that is selected.
3. All broken links in this webpage are highlighted in orange, so you can have this link fixed as soon as possible!

You can also print, export or e-mail your reports.
LinkTiger.com also checks all links within any PDF, flash-animation (SWF-file), CSS or MS Office document on your website.
As soon as broken links are found, you will receive an e-mail alert.
So you can act before your customers could notice any problem.

I am impressed with LinkTiger, the dashboard is very user friendly and the best part is you can check up to 1000 links FREE!
Check it out.

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Get money for your articles.

October 25, 2007

Make money by submitting your own original content.

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The most important thing since the internet itself.

October 24, 2007

At least thats what Intel says about it. The it is Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMAX (IEEE 802.16).
If claims are true WiMAX is the Hulk Hogan of WiFi with transmission range purported to be 30 miles from a single transmission tower (although some real world tests realistically have it at 4-8 miles).
In the painted picture WiMAX towers would pop up everywhere just like cell towers and voila! instant internet access from anywhere in the country (world?). A true Global Area Network. With bandwidth comparable to cable, you could surf the net from the backseat or read your emails and download music files on vacation. True, wireless broadband access is available now, but nowhere near these speeds and you are limited by your cell phone service providers coverage area. A possible scenerio is a city that is trying to lure companies to move would implement a WiMAX network and offer free internet access as a selling point.
So OK, I’m in. What’s the hold up.
Thats the million dollar question. A good theory is that the TELCO and cable companies are doing their best to keep their cash cows DSL and cable internet from falling of the land line cliff. If WiMAX were to take off like cellular phone service did in the 90’s the big boys had better have jumped on the bandwagon. More likely that they are trying to squash this as much as possible so they don’t end up with a 41 cent postage stamp and nobody to lick it.
A good sign that we may see some light at the end of the WiMAX tunnel is the acquisition today (10/24/07) of WiMAX specialist Navini by Cisco systems for 330 million dollars, although Cisco has been slow in developing acquisitions in the past.
I guess time will tell whether WiMAX will whither and die or maybe, just maybe, someday I can throw away my CAT5 cable forever.

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Could Acebucks be the the new face of money?

October 17, 2007

Read an article of interest today on TechCrunch.
The folks at Buddy Media have have developed a virtual currency for Facebook called Acebucks.

You earn AceBucks by playing games, inviting other friends to join AceBucks, or filling out surveys. You can then spend them on virtual stuff - pictures for your profile - or real stuff — like ipods.
As of today you cannot actually buy Acebucks with real cash and the signup process is a little overdone, but they do give you $125 in Acebucks just for signing up. Also you earn $5 in acebucks by refferring someone and $25 if they signup.
You can check it out or sign up here.(You have to login with your facebook account)