Placing Ads On Your Website 2 of 11

There are 4 basic types of ads you can put on your website.

1. Pay Per Click
   You get paid when someone clicks on the ad on your page, I'll focus on these right now.
   
2. Pay Per Impressions
   You get paid when someone goes to your web page. These are usually sold in lots of 1000 impressions. So for every 1000 hits you get paid
   
3. Pop Ups
   These are annoying and stupid so I won't tell you much about them other then they do work and are successful; I don't like them though.
   
4. Pop Unders
   See #3

These are places where you can sign up and (after you are approved) they will give you a small snippet of code to place on your website. Their code will then read your webpage and come up with ads that are relevant to the content about your website. For example if your web page is about razors, then you can expect to see ads about razors.

1. AdSense
2. YPN
3. 7Search
4. AdBrite
5. and many, many more
   

Do not click on your own ads or encourage anyone to click on your ads. This is called click fraud and can easily be discovered and you will lose any money you may have earned.

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How To Make Money Online 1 of 11

To make money online (or anywhere) you need to do one thing. Just one thing.

1. Acquire something and sell it for more then it cost you.

That is really it. The trick is finding something you can profit on. Now I'll break it down.

1. Find something to sell
1. You can sell ads on a website (such as AdSense, YPN, and tons of others)
2. You can promote affiliate offers (such as Amazon's products or one of many, many programs out there)
3. You can combine these together
2. Find people to buy
1. You can use SEO traffic
2. PPC traffic
3. Viral Traffic, Email, etc.
3. Get Them to Buy
1. Make the web pages good, give them a reason.
2. Let them compare products
3. Give them information that is actually useful enough for them to make a decision
4. Dont just give them crappy spam, you need to add to the value of the internet.
   

Tomorrow I'll go over 1.1 in detail.

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How To Get Over Yourself

You're at a social event. You say/do something really stupid. You catch yourself and think boy, that was dumb; but it is too late. You are still thinking about it the next day and how you could have done better/differently. Right here is where you need to stop.

1. You can't change it
2. 99% of the people that heard/saw it have forgotten about it because they are fretting over the stupid thing they did.

This is not a license to be a tool. It is a thought process to help you stop worrying so much about the past and dwelling on mistakes. Everyone screws up. The trick is to not spend a bunch of wasted energy worrying about it. If it was wrong, remember not to do it again and move on with your life. Don't worry so much about what everyone else might be thinking. In short get over yourself :)

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Important College Tip

I'm coding up an app right now and realized I was hungry. Not wanting to waste a bunch of time I went for a pair of hot pockets. We have a full size refrigerator/microwave upstairs, but all the dishes are downstairs. No way I'm going all the way downstairs for plate to microwave a pair of hot pockets. Here is where the important college tip comes in:

I grab my oldest daughter (she is currently 7) and explain this important tip as I flatten the box and put the pizza pockets in their crispers and on the box (now a plate). She thought I was joking. Even when I put the finished plate in the microwave she asked me if I was serious. As you can see from the picture I've already eaten them. Remember. Do anything to avoid dirty dishes. Cardboard plates are reusable, recyclable and easy to clean.

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Encrypted Messenger is now free.

I wrote this thing over 7 years ago. Here are a few vids explainaing.

Short Version: It still works but is free and you can get the source code too if you want to play around with it. Download it here http://johnyTech.com




AND... here is the source code

Code Review (sort of) video

Part 1/2



Part 2/2


You can download the main program here
Source Code is here

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Best Wife....Ever

I've been married for just over 9 years now. I've got a friend who likes to joke about how I am stuck with my wife for eternity since I'm Mormon; and he found out that we are married forever and not just "till death do we part." He is sooo looking forward to the parting at death (he jokes). But it got me to thinking about my wife.

I've only had to go into Surgery a twice since we have been married. One was for Laser Eye Surgery and the other was for a completely destroyed (ripped out of socket--very painful) shoulder accident. Both times she was right there taking care of me. I don't mean throwing a box of cereal at me once a day... I mean she was "waiting on me, anticipating my needs" taking care of me. Even though I was grouchy throughout the ordeals she just shrugged it off.

When I have the opportunity to work from my home office she will bring me up one or two home made meals a day. She doesn't ask if I'm hungry, she just does it. I usually am out of town traveling, but when I am home for more then a week she will go out of her way to prepare my favorite meals (and make extra).

We have 3 children--all girls and all pretty (IMHO). She will spend hours going through their clothes every season change (3-5 times a year) and organize all their outfits to make sure they have matching outfits and clothes.

She does all the grocery shopping, all the laundry, all the trash duty...she even feeds MY cat.

She does the dishes, cleans the kitchen, sweeps and vacuums the floors. Makes Dinner for the whole family every night.

She decorates the house for each holiday.. not just Christmas and Halloween... every holiday.

AND... she is hot. I am sure there is a lot of other things she does too... The point is: This is a woman I can spend eternity with.

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Bottom Feeder PPC Engines to Avoid

Here I am minding my own business an my firewall/network watcher goes off like crazy. Apparently one of the many computers on my network has some spyware on it. And it thinks that 8:44am MST is the time to go off. There is something very interesting (to me) about what it was trying to do.

It was calling a bunch of PPC feeds from various partners. Why would they do this? Simple: $Money$ They can produce real looking traffic and real clicks. Ever wonder why some of the really cheap guys give you tons of trashy traffic? Now you know one of the many methods used for fake ppc traffic. I looked through the sites and put together a list of places to avoid for you:

These are all bottomfeeder PPC sites.

Here is the list of places to NOT BUY PPC ADS FROM.

Official Looking Sites:
http://www.xmlrevenue.com
http://www.adonnetwork.com
http://www.bid4keywords.com
http://www.vortalinteractive.com
http://www.vortal.com

Sites that are obviously a scam:
http://www.trinity-searchz.com
http://www.paid-to-promote.net
http://www.mygole.com/
http://www.findwhat.com/ (These guys are part of Miva, I know some people at Miva I'm gonna contact them and see what they know about this)

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I <3 InsureMe -- in a mostly platonic way :)

I've worked with several companies in my Affiliate Marketing... .blah.. you know.. let me just tell you my InsureMe story.

Long ago I was building informational websites about a TON of different topics. At one point reviewing my PPC bids, I noticed I was outbid on a keyword for insurance. I though, "How dare someone outbid me!" (I was new at this :)) They were sending traffic directly to InsureMe. I checked in my list of thousands of CJ affiliates... sure enough they were in there. But they also had a direct affiliate program. So away I went.

I figured if this poor sap can bid this (I think it was something like 30 cents) and make money, how hard can it be? So I start bidding on PPC and sending direct traffic to them. No landing page, nothing. But I am making a *small* profit. Along comes one of the many Google slaps. Landing pages?! Content?!?! The Google lords will be the end of me!

*Fine*, I'll make a killer landing page (or two or 3...). However with a cool landing page you don't want to lose people in the crossover to the merchant... InsureMe had (still does have) this really cool thing called cobranding. You make your own site and when you send people to InsureMe it matches your site's layout and design. Awesome!!!! (I think :) ) Now people are more likely to complete the quote. You know.. cuz they won't be thinking.. wait, I was on site A, now I'm on Site B?!!?!
This was pretty slick and things are going along fine. I happened to be in Colorado and I even got to have lunch with April (my *awesome* affiliate manager) and their CIO. It was a great experience, we traded ideas and war stories; I even was able to meet some of their IT folk. (When I asked April if I could meet them she seemed a little surprised--but I've spent my entire career in IT and you can tell alot about a place by the *feel* of the IT folk--the feel seemed fine.) After my meeting and InsureMe tour, I put even more effort into it and got in their top 25 or so affiliates for about a month. Good times...

I started focusing on other things (all sorts of RL things kept popping up [RL = Real Life for you non-mmo-gamers]) My traffic was dropping (you know if you don't keep on top of your PPC/SEO game, the results drop) A few months passed and I went from one of their top 25 affiliates down to 60 or 70. A pretty significant drop. But did they give up on me?! No.

Out of the blue I get an email from April to try out one of their pilot programs. It was perfect for me. I ended up working for a handful of people over at InsureMe and a lot of back and forth phone calls and emails to get it working. Even though I was not one of their "top" (or even close to middle at the time) affiliates, everyone I worked with was professional and really top notch. I'm not sure how much I can say about the pilot program other then I am in it. If they say I can say more, I will :)

So... long story short: They rock because even though I had some crappy months they still treated me awesome.


PS: InsureMe Affiliate link. (What kind of person would I be if I didn't include an affiliate sign up link!)

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