Dating Advice for Men
I found this very informative site that gives dating advice for men.
They have a great tutorial done with an animated video, which is easy to watch and follow.
There are a lot of guys out there who could use this great source of information.
If you are in need of…
Dating Advice
….click the link above and prepare to be amazed!
Magic Submitter
The Magic Submitter.
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Asian Flush
One thing I love about Clickbank. There is an endless supply of products! Take for example a treatment for Asian Flush!
I didn’t know that such a thing even existed.
So for anyone suffering from Asian Flush follow the link for a cure.
Asian Flush Cure
Asian Women
Asian Women drive many men insane!
I haven’t been paying attention for a while. Apologies. I thought I’d a a little something tongue in cheek.
On second thoughts, not really, as my best Clickbank seller so far, is about Thai Bar Girls. (See my previous Thai Bar Girl post.)
Who would of thought that that would be a big seller? It just goes to show you how diverse the market is out there.
So anyway, to illustrate the variety of Clickbank products out there (actually borders on the ludicrous), I thought I would throw in this Asian inspired one.
Who knows? For those of you who can’t get the Asian Women off their minds, and are dying to date them (as well as other unmentionable things), you are more than welcome to give this one a go.
Maybe you know someone who needs these “pearls of wisdom”?
How to date Asian Women.
Clickbank Guide
Been a while. Had some good sales in the meantime.
Here is a good product to either market yourself; or it is a great information resource for anyone wanting to start their own Clickbank Journey!
Clickbank Guide – Information Marketing 101
Clickbank Products
A little bit of Clickbank humour….
There are a lot of products that you can promote on Clickbank, however, as you can imagine, not all of them are not of the greatest quality.
Now, I have nothing against this product, nor have I read it. However, as a “hard sell” it sticks out for obvious reasons.
So, if not for anything else, I will put it out here, just as an example of the wide variety of products there are for sale on Clickbank.
Without any further ado, get your own copy of
The Spear of Seth here!
Work from Home – Writing Jobs Online
If you like writing and want to explore “work from home” possibilities then this is a great little resource. It is a good little way to make money online, from home, by writing.
With the explosion of the internet, many companies and individuals are desperately looking for content for their websites and blogs.
So, if you are into writing have a look at this offer.
I have made a little money writing, with this “work from home” resource.
Pinterest Traffic
Pinterest is another social sharing website.
I wrote a post a little while ago about Stumbleupon and how it is essential to set up an account there if you are a blogger.
Pinterest, has lately become another source of great traffic. For one post alone, shared on Pinterest, I got 166 visitors within a few hours!
Pinterest essentially revolves around sharing images. I wrote a post a little while ago about the importance of using images in your posts.
Advice: Sign up with Pinterest, use images in your posts and share these images every time you post.
dotcomsecrets – Internet Marketing
This product from dotcomsecrets is doing very well. Well enough to get this guy his own jet!
In terms of Clickbank “gravity” it is one of the best I have ever seen! If you are into Internet Marketing then have a look for yourself.
Images for SEO in your Blog Posts
Veering away from Clickbank to give a quick tip on Images, and more importantly using Images in your blog posts.
As you know I have started arbitrarytweets.com and am getting good organic search traffic. Funnily enough, to mostly only one page. Hilariously that page is about Rick Astley. (I have taken a risk here and cross linked from one of my web sites to another – Google will sometimes frown upon this. They know what sites I own).
Anyway, what I am saying, is that in my post about Rick Astley, I used an image of him, naming it Rick Asltey (important to name or rename the images you use, using your keywords for that post and to give them an alternative “alt” descritption).
So, to cut a long story short, the image I used, as well as the concurrent link to arbitrarytweets.com shows up on the first page of Google when anyone searches for “Rick Astley”. It’s enough to get lot’s of traffic. Go to Google and search for Rick and see what I mean. Here is a screen shot (note another image).
I am learning lots and have other stories about Pinterest, a backlink from The Huffington Post (PR8) and a few more.
However, for tonight, it is about the importance of using images in your blog posts, and naming them correctly.
Paid Facebook and Twitter Jobs
You get paid to be on Facebook & Twitter
I was going through the Clickbank products looking for something to promote and came across this one.
They should do well. For some this would be the ideal Job!
Paid Social Media Jobs - Facebook & Twitter. – click here
Stumbleupon and Social Sharing
Just a quick piece of advice.
If you are a blogger, you absolutely have to create a Stumbleupon account.
I am seeing a lot of traffic from them.
Next, make sure you have some form of social sharing buttons on your blog (like the ones below this post).
Every time you publish a new post, share it on Stubleupon. Of course you should share your post on other platforms (ie. Facebook, Twitter, Digg etc etc). The import thing is that you share each and every new blog post every time and without fail.
I have to say that for me, at least, Stumbleupon, it by far the biggest source of traffic at the moment.
Google Penalty and other Updates.
It’s been a while since my last post on Google Penalties.
I have fixed as much as I could around my site. Going as far as deleting my entire secondary blog, that I talked about in a past post – How to Make Money Online Blogging.
Just a note on that post: ignore it! Having a secondary blog and using “free articles” to populate it, with other people’s content, will cause problems in terms of not having original content and increase the possibility of linking to bad neighbourhoods. Google does not like this and it will hurt your rankings.
On the lighter side, I managed to sell another copy of The Secrets of Thai Bar Girls! So, not all doom and gloom.
I have noticed that I have received a few hits to the site from Google searches in the last day or so. I read an article somewhere, that says the Google Penalty lasts for +/-90 days. That is, if you fix whatever problems you “think” may have caused the penalty in the first place!
I think this may be happening. We live in hope!
Funnily enough, My S*x Toy site seems to be suffering the same fate. Organic search traffic has all but dried up and my rankings have dropped dramatically! I have decided to be patient and wait it out.
I am detecting a pattern? Arbitrarytweets.com (new site) is going great guns and ranking very highly with Google and getting traffic. It does seem that Google will help new websites to start with, and then put them through the wringer to, I guess, weed out the shit!
Anyhow, that is my theory for the moment.
That’s it for the moment. Go well.
Google Reconsideration Request – Panda Penalty
I resubmitted my site for reconsideration by Google. Same response: “no manual spam actions found”. Grrrrrr………
This Google Penalty is driving me insane.
Traffic has stopped. Nobody will ever get to read this……………..
I have tweaked a few more things and gotten rid of a few more links that may have been pointing at things Google doesn’t like.
The only real thing to do now is sit and wait and see if it improves. Things are drastic!
So, in the meantime, I have started a new site, based on the concept of trying to leverage the massive “power” of Twitter.
It is an open blog concept, so anyone can submit content. The idea being to randomly pick a “Twitterer” and invite them to post anything they want onto the blog.
They then inform their followers about the post and we see what this does for traffic.
So go and have a look at Tweets, Twitter and the Twitterverse. If anyone wants to post there is a contact page on the site.
Google reconsideration request my ass!
Duplicate Content and Google Panda
My previous post was on
Duplicate Content.
I mentioned that there were a couple of ways that, specifically WordPress, opens you up to the risk of duplicate content. Google, and the new Panda update, penalise websites and blogs for this. Google does not like duplicate content.
In my last post, we addressed the whole “Canonical” risks of duplicate content. For this post we will look at how posting your entire blog to your “home/blog” page puts you at risk, from a duplicate content point of view.
So, you write a post and publish… With WordPress, your new post “lives” on it’s own page, however, it also lives a “parallel life “on your “home/blog” page.
It actually also lives on a “tag” and “catergory” page (but this is for another post). So one post is essentially living on, up to four separate pages! Duplicate Content!… Read Google penalty!
One way to get around this, is to only post an excerpt of your posts to the “home/blog” page. This is not ideal, because you still have some duplication, however, it is minimized to a certain extent.
Ideally you want to be posting a unique excerpt, that you create seperateley, that links to your posts (in this way avoiding duplicate content altogether). However, most WordPress themes do not have this functionality.
So, the way to minimise this is to post just an excerpt onto your “home/blog” page.
This is how you do it:
After a few sentences or the first/second paragraph in your post, click the “more” button (as in the graphic). This will automatically create a “break” in your post when it is published to your “home/blog” page.
A link, normally, entitled “more” or “continue reading” will appear on this exceprt of the post that, when clicked will take you to the full post. This’ll minimise the Duplicate Content.
There are other ways to post only excerpts, but this is the simplest, in my opinion.
More on Duplicate Content to follow.
Duplicate Content
Just sharing something I have learnt lateley about Canonical Issues and Duplicate Content.
As mentioned in my two previous posts: Google Penalty and Google Penalty Update my site has been penalized by Google.
So I have been doing research on why this has happened. One of the possible reasons is what Google calls Duplicate Content.
Duplicate Content takes many forms, I will discuss one of them here for the moment. Have you ever come across the term “Canonical Issue”?
Basically what this means is that it is sometimes possible to reach a website with the address www.example.com (note the “www” at the beggining) and to reach the same address without the “www” at the beginning (ie. example.com).
We may see this as the same web page with the same content, however, Google sees it a two separate web pages with the same content. That is, Google will see this as “duplicate content”.
Now one of the big issues that Google Panda (the latest search algorithm update) has, or will penalize you for is “duplicate content”.
I never knew this before, but it is apparently critical and should be one of the first things every Worpress Blog Owner, should fix immediately!
Here is one of the ways to fix it:
1. You need to get into the “file directory” of your website, through for example Cpanel.
2. Make sure your Cpanel allows you to see hidden files.
3. Find your .htaccess file. You will now need to edit this. Cpanel has an edit funtion.
4. Insert this code into your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
5. Replace the address above “example” with the name of your site.
6. Save the .htaccess file
Done!
What this piece of code does, is tell the “search engine robot”, that all versions of you “non-www” website have now been permanently redirected to you “www” version of the website. Basically that the “non-www” version does not exist anymore. So, Google will not index the “non-www” version anymore. Duplicate Content, or this version of Duplicate Content gone.
There are other Duplicate Content issues apart from this, but these will be dealt with in another post.
Google Penalty Update
As you can see from the graphic above, things have gone from bad to worse. Since my last post, my blog has suffered more penalization from Google. The big G!
I tried to tidy some things up that were suggested to me. Resubmitted my blog for reconsideration. Google replied that they found “no manual spam actions” and suggested that there were a whole host of other possible reasons that may be responsible for the dip in my rankings.
By the way my PR ranking has dropped from PR4 to 3 too. Aaaaaaarrrggghhh!
I asked a friend of mine, Internet Guru, Luke the “Puke” Hardiman, to have a look and give me some advice. You can check Luke out at New Release. He said the obvious, and something that I should of picked up on; that I was linking out to my affiliate “s*x toy shop”. I had done this unwittingly and out of excitement.
Anyhow, stupid mistake. Or, at least I think that this was the mistake. Went through old posts and tried to clean up as much as possible. Nothing to do now but wait and see.
Very frustrating, because Google won’t actually tell you what they don’t like about your site.
This is dire, dire, dire.
Learning, learning.
:-)
My Site has been heavily penalized by Google
google filter
Another update….
It seems that my blog has been penalized by Google. As you can see from the graphic above, my search queries and “clicks” have dropped dramatically.
There are a number of reasons that this may have occurred.
1. Linking to bad sites (ie. my sex toy site),
2. Linking to a lot of affiliate sites.
3. Cross linking between sites.
4. The list is endless….
Go and have a look at:
Google Webmaster Guidelines for a list of possible, or impossible infringements.
I read through the list and have tried to fix things I thought might be penalizing my site.
I have to say it is a very frustrating situation to be in. Honestly, even though I do not get a lot of traffic full stop; I stopped getting organic Google traffic completely and felt it almost from day one. Frustrating because you have no power over any of it. At all.
You suddenly come face to face with how influential Google actually is!
Anyhow, after reading the guidelines and making the changes I though would help; I have resubmitted my site for reconsideration. Google allows you to do this through it’s Web Master Tools. Here is the link for Google Site Reconsideration.
So, I am writing this with the knowledge that almost certainly nobody will ever get to read it! Frustrating!
Clickbank Cheque Received!
I started this online money making experiment 222 days ago from scratch. I had never built a website, didn’t know anything about clickbank, internet marketing, wordpress etc etc. I had no knowledge whatsoever. I am proud to announce that I have received my first clickbank cheque in the mail for $58.89!
It has been a long and frustrating road, but at the same time a lot of fun and I have learnt a massive amount!
This just goes to show that it is possible to make money online. A hell of a long road to travel yet to reach the $100,000 mark though.
First Clickbank Cheque
I wrote a post a while ago, summing up my ClickBank Experiment Progress.
In it, I went over the initial requirements that needed to be met before you get your first ClickBank cheque and officially get “into” the system.
Here they are briefly:
“Now, before Clickbank actually sends you your first cheque, you need to meet the following criteria:
“* Sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers and
* Sales made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal).
Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.”
I am happy to report that I have now met the requirement of the 5th sale with the 5th different credit card number and my first ever ClickBank cheque is on the way!
This was my fifth sale: Real Writing Jobs Online. Check it out. A very good source if you are trying to Make Money Online.
I have to admit that it has been a frustrating journey. When I started this blog, I had no experience in blogging, internet marketing, setting up a website etc etc. I basically started from scratch with no idea about what I was getting into. I was essentially “blind”.
I have to say that I am actually quite proud of myself. Above all else, this does prove that it is possible to
make money online!
Will definitely take a picture of the cheque once it has arrived and post it here.
S*x Toy Affiliate Shop
Hi All
Just a quick update. I wrote a post a little while ago about setting up my own online S*x Toy Affiliate Shop.
Basically, my site has affiliate / referral links to Vibrators.com & Wicked Temptations.
This was my way of taking the whole “online money making experiment” a level deeper.
I am pleased to announce that I have sold my very first Vibrator and collected the commission that goes with it! Not a lot of money, I’ll grant you that. However, it does show you that this type of thing is possible.
So, anyone out there looking for a S*x Toy check out sextoysforher.co.za
Go well.
Reliable and Suitable Web Hosting
It is very important when choosing a web hosting company that you choose a reliable one and that you choose a hosting package that suits your particular needs.
There are lots of hosting companies out there (one source puts it at 25,000!). I have found a great site (webhostingrating.com) that compares, rates and ranks hosting packages and guides you through the process of choosing a hosting service that suits your needs.
There are lots of independent reviews and there is even advice on choosing a green hosting provider, for those of us that are environmentally conscious. That is something I haven’t come across!
Make Money Advertising on your Blog
Just a quick update…
I have found another service where blog owners can make money online by advertising on their blogs. In my previous post you will see an entry that I was paid $7 to write. That was through blogsvertise.com.
I have found a new service where you get paid for blog advertising, by blogging about various products. This post is an “activation post” so that they can set up your account. They are linkfromblog.com. I am going to give them a go and will get back to you about their service.
Go well…
Trade Show Pop Up Displays
My wife does a lot of trade shows. She is constantly complaining about the quality and flexibility of the stands and displays they are given to work with.
I decided to do a little research on came across these guys who supply pop up displays.
It is such a brilliant concept. They are light-weight, easy to travel with, easy to set up, take down, move around. In short these pop up trade show displays are a pleasure.
It is not only the ease and versatility of use; they look damn good too. You can print your own graphics onto them, you can have them backlit, you can get them custom built.
They also give great warranties. So if you are “into” trade shows and are looking for an easy to use and good looking display system have a look at these pop up booths
