Internet Marketing with a Helmet.

Brandon Clark from CPV Lab hosted a pretty interesting webinar earlier this week on Dec 7th.  His guest was Grayson Gold from TrafficVance.   The webinar started off with some background questions and some general info about TrafficVance then got even more interesting.  Here are my notes... Regular Stuff TV has approximately 12 million active users, mostly in the USA.  Grayson described it as "a slice of middle America ... skews slightly ...

While no release date has yet been announced, Wes Mahler sent out a tweet today that a new version of Tracking202 will be out very soon. Tracking202 2.0 highlights: Unparalleled Flexibility - Track everything in ways not yet available on any of the tracking systems in the market. Lightning Fast Redirects - We all know slow redirects cost you money and conversions, so we've optimized the new Tracking202 to serve up redirects in the blink of ...

Not to be confused with referrer cloaking, cloaking affiliate links is typically done to present a nice looking URL to the user. The idea is, the savvier visitor might see a weird URL in the browser status bar and be less likely to click—so it’s best to cloak the link. If you’re using this technique for a landing page that you’re driving paid traffic to, then one of the usual link cloaking methods is fine. Cloaking affiliate ...

<<< Read Data Feed Sites – Part 3 The Complete Guide to Data Feed Sites marches on.  If you’ve followed me this far, thanks for reading!   You’re in for a nice treat in Part 4.   In this post I’m going to give you a custom script.  Great success! CTRtard’s ShareASale Site Builder Features Build a complete data feed site from any ShareAsale data feed in minutes. Posts remotely to your WordPress sites so you ...

You're Losing Money In case you didn't know, your landing pages are probably leaking like a sieve.  PPV networks like TrafficVance are siphoning visitors away from your landers using their text links ads.  If someone on their network buys traffic for a particular keyword that happens to be on your page, anyone with the Gamevance software installed will see that keyword hyperlinked to an ad.  But I'll bet you already knew that, right? Here's ...

<<< Read Data Feed Sites - Part 2 The Complete Guide to Data Feed Sites Continues (finally!).   It's October 13 and there is still time to cash in on the holiday season.  So with that, we continue with... Data Feed Site Wordpress Plugins The following plugins are what I specifically use when creating data feed sites.   Each one has a specific purpose and are totally worth adding to your sites. 1. Link Cloaking ...

I love Prosper 202, but the GUI needs help. I mean copying and pasting [[subid]]? Really?!? We may as well all just bust out Mosaic and get it over with. Embrace the 21st Century Mod Features Larger Campaign Name field. (More room to edit!) Larger Affiliate URL field. (The better to see those big-ass tracking links.) Some Sweet Subid Injection Buttons. No more copy/paste means less room for error and ...

The Issue: A new campaign I am about to run requires me to pass a zip code as a get variable in the url. For example: http://offerpage.com?id=666&zip=12345 This is also known as a pre-pop, as in "pre-populating" an offer. The Problem: So my landing page is all set up.  I have a form on there that let's the user enter his zip code and I have my Prosper202 javascript tracking code in place.   Everything's great until I have to ...

This is has been tweeted and retweeted about.  But if you're like me, and ignore/forget about Twitter for days at a time, you may have missed it.   I bookmarked it about a week and a half ago and didn't listen until today. This interview kicks some serious ass. So far I have listened to it twice and learned something each time. Check it out here: Ruck Interviewed By Scott Rewick ...

<<< Read Data Feed Sites - Part 1 Page Building Strategies Once you've selected your feed, you need to present it in a way that is going to help you convert.  Here are some tips for how you should lay out your data feed site: 1. Use Wordpress as the framework for your data feed site. Wordpress ranks quickly and there are quite a few tools available that will let you load up your Wordpress blog with products from data feeds. 2. ...