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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st June 2009, 08:09 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 899
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: stop hiding contact info!

Mailtrust is awesome
Formerly known as Noteworthy, I have about 45 email accounts on there and a lot of them are listed publically. No spam at all. I'm just putting it out there for you people who...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st June 2009, 07:44 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 664
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: How do I get my site index?

It might take a bit longer than 3 days to get indexed. If your new site is wordpress and has some content on it, it shouldn't take more than a week. It will take quite a while to get good rankings,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st June 2009, 07:37 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 11,306
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Article Spinning - is it a killer tactic or a waste of time?

I think the best way to spin an article is have a good writer rewrite it for a few dollars, maybe have them write some spin syntax into it as well so you can then spin it even more.

I've had good...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st June 2009, 07:20 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 915
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Making a Living Online - Do You Find It Harder and Harder?

This is true in just about every single industry out there:

The basement is full, but there's plenty room up top.

The trick is to just get out of the basement:)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2009, 03:13 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 544
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: The Fear of Specialization

This is absolutely true, the only thing I would add is to DO YOUR HOMEWORK before you specialize. I'm sure Scandanavian Airlines researched their market a lot before they decided to do that. Don't...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2009, 03:04 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 852
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Anyone else absolutely HATE article writing?

That's exactly what I do, there's a lot of GREAT PLR in the WSO forums. I've been able to pay around $10 for a great article package(with 50 articles), and have 40 of them rewritten for around $110,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2009, 02:57 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,493
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Twitter: Auto Following Then Unfollwing = Suspension

Finally, no more twits on twitter:P

Seriously, come on, basic business principles. Provide great quality service that provides great value (that people want/need) at a great price, you cannot fail...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2009, 02:52 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 642
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: How long is a long tail keyword?

Let's simplify the definition:

A long tail keyword is short enough to have a decent amount of searches, yet long enough to not have much competition.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2009, 02:44 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 499
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: What software to use for recording ?

Audacity for just pure audio

Camtasia for video + audio, it has a crazy good video scaler in it (Really good at shrinking the resolution of your video)

For my videos I generally hire a voice...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2009, 02:41 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,460
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Purchasing a $1,997 Program , go for it

This is exactly what I would point out. If you're not making a lot of money online I wouldn't buy a $2000 product. If you're making 5 figures a month and a $2000 product would help you boost your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2009, 01:17 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 757
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: I found the best blog on outsourcing...

Could you make an outsourcer excuse swipe file? I'd pay 5 bucks for that, it'd actually be pretty good if they have popular excuses that mean certain things.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2009, 01:13 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 567
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Help ,low cost advertising

Yeah, if you have a quality product that services people's needs. Any way you can put that product or service infront of those people will usually be a low cost ad in terms of ROI:)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2009, 01:10 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 526
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Need some help in finding a web host

Reseller hosting is shared hosting that you can sell to other people for whatever price you like. You pay the host $5/month for hosting, then you resell it to your client for $15/month (or however...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2009, 12:46 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 786
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: I finally got below the dreaded 100,000 level on Alexa

I like compete.com rankings, from what I've seen across our sites they under estimate all of our traffic by around 30%. Of course it should always be taken for what it is, an arbitrary metric...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2009, 12:43 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 526
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Need some help in finding a web host

Dreamhost is usually unlimited, they limit your account by cpu usage on shared hosting. So if you're just serving big files (which doesnt take much cpu) they're pretty good for that.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2009, 12:28 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 526
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Need some help in finding a web host

Dreamhost had a special running for just $9.94/year last week or so. They do that special on holidays or whenever they feel like it apparently. You can get a hostgator account for like 4$/month if...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2009, 10:42 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,097
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Possible, NEW Wordpress Spam Method * Alert *

I've had quite a few of these across my blogs. Even on the big ones running akismet some things still get through. Luckily the people approving the comments have a good BS meter:-D
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2009, 06:31 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 4,767
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Is Amazon Dropping Affiliates From Your State?

I think the uptight bureaucrats are jealous of you city slicker liberals sitting around at home in your underwear making a full time living:p
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2009, 05:53 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,029
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: How can I offer 100% commission to my affiliates directly in their PayPal account?

I don't know much about the prepackaged stuff since I'm a custom kind of guy. But make sure you're not giving the full 100%, cause you're paying $0.30 + 2.9% on the fee, unless you want the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2009, 05:28 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 630
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Can you get by without knowing much about html and SEO?

Crubalo,

My recommendation is to know as much about how HTML works as possible. It's a very set language, you just send in tags with attributes, and you get full displays back. Pretty simple, so...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2009, 05:20 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 32,975
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: How can I increase space between bullets in HTML?

The way I would do it so I didn't have to put the code in every single <li> tag is this:

<ul class="paddedList">
<!-- list elements here -->
</ul>

Then the css:

.paddedList ul li {...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th June 2009, 07:41 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,624
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Google Adwords... How Many Keywords Per Ad-Group?

Prosper202 is a very good free open source tracker, I'd look into that.

And yes, the fewer the better. Sometimes if they're almost the exact same keyword they should be in the same group.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 06:49 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 765
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: US State Department Uses Twitter For Intelligence Gathering

You beat me to it, but on the same token, couldn't we send mel gibson in anyways since he was in The Patriot (Braveheart 2) after Braveheart? Either way, mel gibson should be the whole first wave by...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 06:36 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 967
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Really Really Anxious Please Help Guys!!!

Wordpress all the way. The full weight of the open source community is behind wordpress. I would take the time to learn a little php as it will go a long ways with wordpress.

It's really not that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 06:19 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,313
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Best Exit Pop-Up?

I think the ultimate exit ad would be the kind that has the picture of the pretty woman with a headset, but instead she continues the sales pitch while slowly undressing.

Then you have to click a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 06:13 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 3,584
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: New Email Phishing Scam...Be Very Careful

That's kind of a dead giveaway. Thanks for the warning, although I'm usually lucky and don't get fishing emails, one can never be too careful:cool:

Oh ya, my thunderbird does think all aweber...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 06:10 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 967
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Really Really Anxious Please Help Guys!!!

Anxiety and Business are not usually good bed fellows.

Starting a blog is a pretty low cost way to get into the game. I'd center it around any hobby you have that a decent amount of other people...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 16th June 2009, 05:22 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,779
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: What Has Search Overload Done TO Us? Find the cure At....

Although I despise the mac vs pc commercials. I think the one where they were allocating out the advertising budget versus the fixing vista budget comes to mind.

Where PC says "Ah who are we...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 05:13 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 685
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Continuity and Disclaimers - [ Run a Continuity? - Read This ]

What I find even worse is web based companies with short office hours and not enough people to answer the phone that demand you call them to cancel your subscription. I like paypal subscriptions...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 04:57 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 765
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: US State Department Uses Twitter For Intelligence Gathering

Does that mean the US State Department is full of twits??

What's the official name for people who use twitter again?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 03:52 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 793
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: For you, which of these stands out the most?

I definitely agree that system is a bit overplayed, specially by TV Infomercial guys trying to sell bizops. I would avoid using that.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 03:33 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 883
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Is blogging the MOST difficult method of online income?

Just get yourself an API key from wordpress and use akismet, it works about 99.9% of the time:)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 03:13 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 883
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Is blogging the MOST difficult method of online income?

Blogging is definitely one of the lowest cost things to start, but it does take a lot of time. I've got a few running right now, and in niches where links are easy to get and people will love you if...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 03:04 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 639
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Are spammers and scammers having a negative effect on Twitter?

I wonder how long until a spammy tweeter gets their stuff on CNN cause they sure do like to twitter on air a lot.

"Our next question comes from acaiberries4lyfe, 'Your coanchor is fat, did she...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 01:59 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,558
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Rare As Rocking Horse Manure!

I've heard about such things before:) But since I normally only work with people I know I don't have extensive corporate experience, and what I've had has been unpleasant.

I would also recommend...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 01:18 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 3,218
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Children never cease to amaze me! This Gives New Meaning to Going Green!

You should write a "Joint Ventures With My Granddaughter" book! I think you have a lot more possibilities to make money out there:)

Also that slide is awesome and I want it.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 12:44 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,558
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Rare As Rocking Horse Manure!

Corporate clients are also some of the biggest ass pains you can ever have. I have some proposals and paperwork out to a certain large cable company with its headquarter in Philly, and it's been 5...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 12:21 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,558
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Rare As Rocking Horse Manure!

I've had quite a lot of success programming in the high end market. Of course the market is often chock full of ideas, but not so much money. So before you do anything high end for anybody you need...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 11:48 AM
Replies: 48
Views: 1,765
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: How I Made $10,735.22 In 3 Days!

How I Made $3.00 In 10,735.22 Days!

My course didn't sell, I think I did it wrong :(
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 11:06 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,454
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Listbuilding Tip for “lost” Newbies: DON’T!!

On one of my hobby sites I've used my list to just publish my rss feed as a newsletter through aweber. And since the blog is full of content that the audience loves, this has been a successful way to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 10:36 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 1,380
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Just when you've thought you've seen it all..

If I didn't live in downtown philly I'd be raising my own eggs as well. Plus I'd love a full rotisserie chicken every now and then:)

Wonder if I can train my hamsters to lay eggs! Write me an...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2009, 10:22 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 666
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Internet Marketing Seminars - How Useful Are They?

Yes, the main point is to make contacts at any kind of affiliate meetup. If you go to just listen to the lectures you'll miss out.

So brush up on the people skills, have fun partying with some...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th January 2009, 03:46 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 507
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: CB Products with 2 Prices

Bryan, just create a second product in clickbank that is exactly the same with a lower price. I did it with my budgeting software for the WSO
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th January 2009, 03:45 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 677
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: This 'Free' Website Pulls in $10 Million a Year

He's doing just fine, he banks almost all the money he makes. Only him and his girlfriend run the site and he only has a handful of servers. The application is very lightweight, so he's operating on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st January 2009, 03:48 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 489
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: A 'noob' Affiliate Link question/scenario Please advise ; - )

USMC,

You're talking about doing direct business with another company. Most affiliate links are provided through affiliate networks like commissionjunction.com, azoogle.com or clickbank.com....
Forum: Programming 28th December 2008, 02:32 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 591
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: How can I import Info from opt in to sales page?

Christian,

Do they go directly from the opt in to the thank you? or is there a page in between?

If it's straight from one page to the other, make sure its a php file and just type this in:
...
Forum: Programming 28th December 2008, 02:24 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 691
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Help With htaccess redirect?

I take a much different approach but it's also a lot more technically advanced (Although still very simple)

You can use the htaccess to push through a simple php redirect so that you can log your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th December 2008, 01:59 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 748
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Outsourcing blog & forum posting

I get top quality writers for decent rates from the problogger job board.
These are real people who take the time to understand your site and provide quality service, so you generally don't get many...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th December 2008, 12:33 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,257
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: You Think English Is Easy?? Proof It's Not!

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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th December 2008, 12:06 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 1,228
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Do you have anything POSITIVE to report?

After putting a lot of money into development on my new software company, maintaining my current operations, and paying my ridiculous bills (I found out a shiny new car isn't good for you the hard...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 23rd December 2008, 01:06 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 1,376
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Is The Current Financial Crisis WORSE Than The Great Depression?

The figure I really want to see is how much more debt exists than money to repay it. That's a real big problem:mad:
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd December 2008, 08:38 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 2,544
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: When Does All The Spending Stop?

No I included most on purpose, I realize there are valid things in a lot of ebooks, but I came into internet marketing with an already strong business background. I thought: I'll check one of these...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd December 2008, 08:23 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 2,544
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: When Does All The Spending Stop?

Steve's got it right about the amusement park. Except all the rides are the same, but painted slightly different colors, and they have a credit card swipe next to your seat so you can buy upsells...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th December 2008, 12:40 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 739
Posted By YellowDot Software
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2008, 09:55 AM
Replies: 117
Views: 8,018
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Frank Kern's Infomillionaire Video - Did You See It?

J-mo and Frank are great, can I join the sandy blonde long hair (My natural color), beardy internet marketer club?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2008, 09:47 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 646
Posted By YellowDot Software
Re: Traffic from Google Images - would this be crossing the line?

Personally, if I click through on google images and don't get the image I wanted to see I immediately click out. It would depend on what you're looking for though, since a person looking for a graph...
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