Since I have an actual goal for November, along with the long term projects I’m working on, I figured I should try to concurrently work on things that will possibly help me reach my goal in the short term as well. I got a WSO on Facebook Flyers last week and I thought I’d try my hands on it this past weekend.
I guess I got on this bandwagon kind of late and Facebook had already put fairly strict measures on affiliate links (etc) and squeeze pages. That was basically what I would have been trying to do for the short term. I put out about 3 ads and all of them got disabled pretty quickly.
Most of what I’ve read from the other forums and feedback from other blogs seems to indicate the same thing. The ads that are showing have really bad CTRs. I think it might be that the Facebook crowd is not there to respond to ads. I mean, I joined Facebook because all my friends were on there - to connect with them, write on walls, etc. I feel the majority of the Facebook crowd is such.
Anyway, it cost me Friday night, but at least I tried it. So I don’t feel too bad. But yeah, the WSO was pretty bad considering that this guy charged $57 for it (yeah I know I’m a total sucker). However, he did make me aware of the opportunity, and I’m horrible with refunds, so live and learn.
Anyway, off to continue on to longer term opportunities and use what I know to reach my short term goal as well.
Tags: affiliate marketing, facebook, internet marketing, wsoWhen blogging, you need to notify the search engines that you’ve updated your blog, and here comes the value of the ping list. This list allows you to notify the engines themselves rather than wait for them to come along to your site. Since most of my websites are now wordpress based, pinging comes extremely handy.
I originally got my ping list from Brandon’s SEO blog at SEOFeed.com, but since then have looked at additional resources, and added some of my own to the mix. Here is my current ping list:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogroots.com/tbpopuli.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
I joined the Firefox boat kind of late - I really resisted joining. I was very happy with Internet Explorer until the new version started crashing on me all the time in the middle of my work. I finally decided to try Firefox and I am truly amazed at the capability of this browser.
First of all, I think it is a must have if you have kids. Countless times I have stepped away and my 1 yr old has come and shut down my computer. Thankfully, if a firefox browser is not closed properly, it asks you to restore the session. It remembers all the browser windows that were open which is such a total lifesaver!
Plus the totally amazing plugins. With the 30 Day Challenge, we were asked to install some handy plugins and here they are:
Firebug - useful to debug web page errors
I’ll write more about each as I start to use it extensively.
No TagsSquidoo is a subject which people have published complete eBooks on - it was an Internet Marketer’s dream. Webpages on Squidoo (which Squidoo calls lenses) were showing up on the first page of Google and getting quickly indexed as well. I was a bit lazy in creating my lenses full force and was just about to get around to doing that when this past week along comes the Squidoo Slap. Google, it appears, has generally disfavored Squidoo lenses and either delisted them or they have been de-ranked from the 1st page to the 20th page! This is obviously because of the spammers who exploited the system and this was Google’s slap on the wrist to Squidoo creator and owner Seth Godin to clean up house. Initially I thought that this would be it for Squidoo, but after following some veteran internet marketers and seeing what they have to say, it seems that if Squidoo cleans up a bit, which they have already started doing, it shouldn’t be long before they climb up the ranks again - apparently a similar thing happened to Ezinearticles a while back. Originally, apparently anyone could put anything and anything in their article, and it would get published. However, after the slap, ezinearticles started the editorial review process and came back to where they are today - an article published in ezinearticles shows up very highly in the search engine rankings. Now, Squidoo will also be adding an editorial review step for new lenses.
All in all, it might not be such a bad thing. This will force people to create more quality lenses and will eliminate a lot of the useless competition from people looking for shortcuts. In the mean time, spread your time investment into more baskets - hubpages.com appears to be favored by Google and I will be giving that a shot as well.
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