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I’ve got to say, my brief foray into Google Adwords has been a complete failure.  I don’t have the bankroll to compete with the big boys and I just don’t have the time to try and figure out the proper long tails I’m supposed to hit.  Maybe later when I don’t need the money??  WAH.  I think my new “guru” would list me under the “DUMBEff” catagory.  Blogger Unleashed has some serious tips that I’m just beginning to try.  The one thing I wasn’t doing was getting enough anchored links to whatever it was I was trying to schlep to the masses.

His Number One Tool for this purpose is BOOKMARKING DEMON. I highly suggest rubbing a few pennies and getting this thing.  It’s an eventuality that you will start to rank in the search engines.  The catch is, you don’t know when.  As Victor sometimes SCREAMS at us in his videos, “There is NO magic bullet.”  So, you’ll have to dedicate a Windows box to getting links day and night.  If you do this right, you will get a ton of links, PR0, PR4, do-follow, no-follow… whatever.

You just have to be careful and not overdo it, otherwise Google may get smart with you.  Then again, you never know and you can just chance it like you do on the freeway!  The site has more details.

So, buy BMD, and TAG TAG TAG the EFF out of your sites and posts.  Maybe we’ll see some sweet Google juice come our way!

I’m delving into a scary scary thing: Adwords. So far, after about a week or so, I’ve made zilch. I *have* seen traffic driven to a couple of my sites from the ads though. So that worked. That was my first step: Generating traffic to my own sites through Adwords. This will hopefully get me the Web 2.0 goodness I’ve been looking for. The next logical step was to promote other sites/products through Adwords. I half thought about promoting actual products until I remembered just how bad my experiences have been with banners and such. So I did a little reading and found a better solution: Leads. Like our friend, The Count, companies just want to be invited inside of your personal space. They want your name, your address, your phone number, your email, your soul! They will pay dearly for this information. Commission Junctions leads pay anywhere from a buck to about $25 per lead. That’s a lot of coin for a click that costs your customer nothing. Of course, the customer will have to complete the action you want them to complete e.g. filling out a form, downloading software. Then it’s mo’ money mo’ money mo’ money for you! I’m still feeling my way about here. I think I’m making a lot of useless and costly mistakes as well. The worst mistake was driving traffic to a link that wasn’t my affilate link! I even read about that dumb mistake in an ebook somewhere. Very dumb. Well, if you’re brave, give it a go and lead your customers into the light. ARRRGH!!! No not the light!!!

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been following the advice of every crackpot “Hey-I’m-Not-A-Guru” Guru in the Make Money Online Blogosphere for a while now. Most of them espouse the keeping track of your blog traffic through analyzing clicks and visits and what not. I have statistics from a FireStats plugin on most of my blogs. I also have built-in stats from my web host, LUNARPAGES.

The thing is: I can’t believe a single number from any of them because they are all telling me different things! MyBlogLog tells me I get 2 MyBlogLog users per day. FireStats says 20 per day. BlogRush says I have upwards of 3000 impressions. Ebay Partner Network says the same thing for the last 3 weeks 13 clicks for one of my campaigns, no sales while Google Adwords says I’m getting 2-5 clicks every day for that site. Adsense is telling me I’m getting 78 impressions today for all my “channels.”

It’s a damn shell game people! It all ads up to me not getting any cash in my pockets. I’m dipping my feet into the AdWords PPC game now and I just don’t understand how they can blatantly disregard my daily budget day after day! They have some kind of thing called “over-delivery” where they will exceed my budget by 20% as a favor to me to drive more traffic. Yeah right. Their 20% turned out to be about 2000% a few days ago.

I guess, like everything else on the Web, a basic truth still exists. It held true in 1994 when I started building websites with html and FrontPage and it holds true today: Don’t believe everything you read! Keep an eye on your stats but don’t be a slave to them like me. The only true stat that you can probably bet on is your bank account balance. Mine’s a bit sad now. Maybe it’ll make me happy in a few days when Pay day and Mista BOOSH’s rebates start flowing in.

So watch out, the numbers lie. This blog won’t. I wouldn’t steer you wrong. Now, your driveway looks a little worn out. You need me to resurface it? I can give you a fair price. How ’bout you just GIMMIEAQUARTAH!!!

It’s time to get off our aiishes and get to work on our BANS stores if you haven’t already. The EBAY Partner Network is up and ready to go. That means that if you haven’t done your updating on your BANS now, you’ll be screwed once the switchover takes place in two weeks. If you were using the Ebay Flexible Destination Tool, then it’s high time you redid all your links with the new EBay Partner Network stuff. Like any new doodad, it will pay to RTFM when you start out. Making the campaigns is the key step that you must master if you are going to plug Ebay crap in all over the web.
I had quite a few BANS sites sitting around doing nothing and also misconfigured for the new version of BANS. Version 3.0 is a pretty hefty upgrade. From all appearances, it looks like the bugs and misfires that accompanied this thing in its first outing are gone. There’s some meta-tagging and better looking templates in the update. If you search around, you can find some pretty cool looking free templates for the new version as well. So get ready for war. Let this be the hour that we draw our BANS together. Fell deeds awake. Now for Wrath, now for Ruin, and a Bunch Of Money in Our Pockets!

This is going to kick AIIISH!