By Gmorkster
– February 8, 2010
I never thought the Haiti disaster would be exploited by marketers. Looks like these guys have found a way of spreading their FB spam tool. And capture leads at the same time. How do you spell unscrupulosity?
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with ethics, facebook, haiti, spam
By Gmorkster
– January 29, 2010
A while ago I ran across ptcnow.info and, must admit, the sales page lured me into buying the ebook. The $14.97 seemed reasonable, considering the advantages outlined there. The Seller advertises the ebook as being “For all audiences from beginners to PROs”. I have been in the PTC industry for several years already and, must say, this was one of the very few lines that made me buy the book. I hoped for some clueful, insightful information. All I got instead was some “you need to advertise to get referrals” mumbo-jumbo. Continued…
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with ptc, ptcnow.info, review
By Gmorkster
– January 28, 2010
We’ll post a review of the ebook some time this evening. A straightforward and no-BS/sales hype one. Stay tuned 
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with promo, ptc, review
By Gmorkster
– January 27, 2010
It’s been more than two months since we haven’t posted jack on this blog. Thank thee, friendly dudes and dudettes who mailed us and said the blog was down. Duh. As if we didn’t know.
Stay in touch, craploads of updates are to come.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with personal shit, pleech
By Gmorkster
– November 12, 2009
As long as you come up with something funky and out of the ordinary, people will link to you. Be wild. Be crazy. Be insane.
Linkbaiting is not limited to article writing. Back in the days when I was doing PTC (haven’t we all started with PTR and PTC?) my signature on some forum was a banner that said “Oprah Winfrey wants you to click here!”. You’d be amazed what kind of traffic I was getting for my LP’s.
These days I will hire a local company to do some crazy videos. Something in the line of “Popeye loves Resveratrol” and “Morticia eats Hoodia for breakfast”. Stay tuned.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with affiliate, linkbaiting
By Gmorkster
– November 3, 2009
Today I bumped into a huge list of .edu / .gov blogs with auto approval of comments. Quite an asset for anyone into link building. The guy who posted the list had them all checked mid of September and there were roughly 50 high PR and dofollow pages.
Less than two months after, only 2-3 are left dofollow. Most of the sites in that list had commenting turned off site-wide or moderation enabled. Why? I could only take a wild guess, judging by the amount of spammy Loved-your-blog-just-bookmarked-it comments left by users called Mesothelioma Asbestos Attorneys or Best Florida Flower Gift Shop.
How retarded can you be to comment like that? GOV / EDU blogs aren’t abandoned @wordpress.com pieces of crap where you can pull these stunts. A PR5 blog post with less than 10 OBL’s on a dot EDU is not something you run across every day, to say the least. Such people really don’t belong in the industry.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with gov/edu links, link building
By Gmorkster
– November 3, 2009
Later edit: After being contacted by nic.cz.cc, I re-did the experiment. It has to do with action referral occurrence of one: if the user clicks your affiliate link, picks ONE domain, hits the checkout button, signs up for a new account with nic.cz.cc, then registers ANOTHER FOUR, you only get paid for one sale. You are only paid for five sales if the user registered all domains in one go.
According to their site, affiliates get paid $0.14 for every free domain registered.
1. Earn $ 0.14 for every single Free Registered cz.cc Domain! (source)
What they forgot to mention was that you get paid for one domain per customer. If a user registers 5 free .cz.cc domains (the maximum allowed as per TOS), you only get $0.14.
However, it converts nicely, and the minimum thresold ($ 16.57 <— WTF?) is easy to reach.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with affiliate, free domain
By pigpromoter
– November 3, 2009
Triond has announced yesterday that they will integrate Adsense on their pages.
There will be most likely no major fuss for the great majority of Triond publishers. Average articles get less than 100 views per month and, with the 50/50 revenue sharing split, you’d be lucky to get one click per month. It could, however, scale if you have tons of content published.
It has been said that Adsense pays better than YPN lately. Let’s just wait and see how Google will evaluate Triond’s pages and how high the eCPM will get.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with adsense, triond, writing, ypn
By Gmorkster
– October 28, 2009
Lighthttpd can’t / won’t use Apache’s .htaccess (performance issues), so “pretty” permalinks require a bit of tweaking and manual configuration. I was going to write a longer tutorial on how to do it, but Guy Rutenberg said it all here. The comments are also worth reading.
Basically, here’s what I did on Pleech.
$HTTP["host"] =~ "(www.)?pleech\.com" {
url.rewrite-final = (
# Directories that won't be rewritten
"^/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|)/(.*)" => "$0",
# pleech.com/*.php isn't rewritten
"^/(.*.php)" => "$0",
# Pass pleech.com/foo/bar to pleech.com/index.php/foo/bar
"^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1"
)
}
If you use scripts that create more directories in the root folder, make sure you exclude them from being rewritten. Gallery2 is such an example.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with lighthttpd, WordPress
By pigpromoter
– October 25, 2009
Why do some people offer managed VPSes or dedicated servers without some basic things installed? There’s no mod_rewrite on the server we are moving. Booh!
Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged with hosting, vps
