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Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th November 2012, 07:41 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 452
Posted By patey88
Re: Very strange problem - i need a picture of someone i can say is someone else (nothing shady)

Build a face using this tool?

Morphases - More Faces (http://www.morphases.com/editor/)
Forum: Programming 15th June 2012, 09:33 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 6,831
Posted By patey88
Re: Text Editor with Word Count Option

TextPad will do this. You can view properties for your current file and see a word count, or edit/insert a line of statistics that includes word count and more.

It doesn't keep a running total of...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd May 2012, 12:25 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 426
Posted By patey88
Re: Making my own Clickbank ad? Adsense on same site

If you're asking if you can make an image in a standard ad size (or use one provided by the clickbank product vendor) and put that somewhere on your page, with a hoplink so that clicking the image...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th March 2012, 10:21 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 4,000
Posted By patey88
Re: Does the Anxiety niche has any value?

I found this fascinating.

Have you tried aiming your pages at husbands/wives/parents/partners of the anxiety sufferer, instead of directly at the person with anxiety?

Just wondering, if you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th February 2012, 11:03 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 645
Posted By patey88
Re: Tracking Clickbank Sales

I'm getting this information using a combination of ClickBank Integrated Sales Reporting, Google Analytics, and I think maybe something the vendor enables on his site.

I've never talked to any of...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 14th February 2012, 10:25 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 583
Posted By patey88
Re: Clickbank tracking for anyone?

@Heuristic, I got a better response from the ClickBank rep on my second try. He acknowledged the problem and said the technical support department is currently addressing the issue, and he'll email...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th January 2012, 01:06 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 741
Posted By patey88
Re: How to get full Clickbank product list? Please help.

If you have Excel, you can open it in Excel. If you use different spreadsheet software, try that.

It might give you a message about needing to create a schema, and it might take a minute or two...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 12th January 2012, 10:50 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 417
Posted By patey88
Re: Anyone else experience a major downer after learning something new?

I'm so glad to hear this isn't just me. Every time I build something new, or start a new campaign, or "learn something major" like you said, it leads to me becoming down and discouraged.

For me...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th November 2011, 10:14 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 416
Posted By patey88
Re: I am making a bit of money from adsense

You get paid a rate that is related to the topic of the ad itself, not the topic of your page.

Really, it is much more complicated than what you ask in your question. For one thing, the CPC rates...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th November 2011, 10:41 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 476
Posted By patey88
Re: ClickBank Tracking - Is It Necessary To Create a New One Every Time?

I have not had problems just changing the tracking code at the end.

You can decode a hoplink here and see what it turns into:
https://www.clickbank.com/hoplink_decoding.htm
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th June 2011, 02:59 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 757
Posted By patey88
Re: HIGH bounce rate?!?!?

I think it's more important to keep people from bouncing than it is to make sure they can get to all your articles from your home page. Put some welcoming text on your home page instead of just a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th June 2011, 11:32 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,368
Posted By patey88
Re: Do you switch clickbank accounts when sales fall off? Question for you...

Yeah. Sigh. In my head, purely conjecturing, I think of Clickbank like an insurance company. A lot of money at stake, and risk of fraud, therefore tactics for managing it at a micro level.
...
Forum: Copywriting 4th June 2011, 07:43 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,385
Posted By patey88
Re: What is a drop cap?

Like this example here: Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | Drop capitals (http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/dropcap.html)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th May 2011, 12:46 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 604
Posted By patey88
Re: Sacrificing your affiliate commission

If you're promoting products sold through Clickbank, be aware this is against their rules.

From their Affiliate Dos and Don'ts page...

"Don’t offer bonuses of cash or cash equivalents (such...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th May 2011, 08:48 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,144
Posted By patey88
Re: ClickBank Switch

It sounds like yet another thing affiliates need to look out for when choosing a product to promote. When someone clicks my hoplink to go to a vendor's pitch page, they get a cookie set with my...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 5th May 2011, 12:09 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 379
Posted By patey88
Re: Windows XP Problem need a little help

It sounds like explorer.exe has crashed (Don't confuse this with Internet Explorer, which is iexplore.exe.)

Explorer.exe includes your My Computer, Windows Explorer, and taskbar.

If this is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th April 2011, 12:23 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 7,244
Posted By patey88
Re: ClickBank - What is a Good Ratio of Order Form Impressions Per HOP?

I have also recently had many submissions that resulted in no sale. If you show hops by customer country, are a lot of yours United Kingdom?

Mine are all from the United Kingdom, and when I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th March 2011, 12:05 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 637
Posted By patey88
Trouble in IE with clickbank hoplinks & order pages

I changed a hoplink tonight and was testing it, and it crashed my browser in IE although it worked in Firefox.

I tried on some other computers (IE6 and IE8) and in all of them, I either had...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th February 2011, 06:16 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,156
Posted By patey88
Re: Google Analytics for Multiple Sites, "Per Page" stats?

Yep, that's exactly right. The code, when it runs, knows which page it is on and records that information as part of the data stored in the analytics database.

The script actually runs in the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th February 2011, 11:49 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,156
Posted By patey88
Re: Google Analytics for Multiple Sites, "Per Page" stats?

Something else that's important to know if you are new at google analytics...

When you select the site profile you want to look at, by default it shows statistics for the one-month period ending...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th February 2011, 11:43 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,156
Posted By patey88
Re: Google Analytics for Multiple Sites, "Per Page" stats?

Not sure what page you're starting from, but let's say you have already selected your site's "profile" from the View Reports dropdown at the top of the screen.

In the navigation area on the left...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th January 2011, 07:31 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 878
Posted By patey88
Re: How Come I am Saving an HTML File in Windows 7 But it Won't Show UP?

It could be that the file is being written to your virtual store instead of to the real location you specify. This mostly happens when you run an editor or configuration app that tries to write out...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th January 2011, 07:03 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,183
Posted By patey88
Re: Anyone useing WP Unique for their web sites?

Tim, I did a sort-of-related test that might be of interest. My main site isn't wordpress, but when I saw that WSO I started googling around to see how it worked, and finally found someone's...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd January 2011, 02:41 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,049
Posted By patey88
Re: Statistics - how many people go beyond P1 of SERPs?

Sure! It's a combination of google analytics and brute force.

You can make google analytics collect full referral paths, by following the instructions I wrote a while back in this post:...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd January 2011, 11:48 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,049
Posted By patey88
Re: Statistics - how many people go beyond P1 of SERPs?

In December 2010, one of my sites had 2611 google organic visits where I could see enough information to know what SERP position the visitor clicked on.

Positions 1 through 10: 1983 visits...
Forum: Copywriting 19th December 2010, 12:45 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 594
Posted By patey88
Re: Technicality of Ezinearticles - quick question

The answer is yes, it has to go through the approval process again.

Also, be aware this question does not belong in the copywriting forum.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th November 2010, 07:30 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,188
Posted By patey88
Re: SEOQuake not working on google search results

I had the same problem. I finally worked around it by clicking Settings in the upper right, then Search Settings, then selecting the option Do not use Google Instant, and clicking Save at the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th November 2010, 04:09 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 812
Posted By patey88
Re: What if your website is not on the first page in google?

According to the benchmarking feature in google analytics, the average medium-traffic site got 125 visits a day in October. The average small-traffic site gets less than 1 visit a day, so it's hard...
Forum: Website Design 5th November 2010, 11:12 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 703
Posted By patey88
Re: Old newbie needs help please

You'll have plenty of visitors who are still using 1024x768 screen resolution, and for them you want content to only be about 960 wide, to allow for the vertical scrollbar on the right side of the...
Forum: Programming 30th October 2010, 07:27 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 3,397
Posted By patey88
Re: Specific TLD google search?

If I understand you right, you want to use site:TLD.

For example:

dog training site:ca

...would get you Canadian dog training sites.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th October 2010, 05:31 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 510
Posted By patey88
Re: Converting to .txt files?

I'm surprised that copying to notepad didn't work, if you selected the displayed text and then copied and pasted to notepad. I do that a lot.

There is a Firefox add-on called STF that lets you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th October 2010, 03:12 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 450
Posted By patey88
Re: Buying through Amazon

I've had a personal account for years, but I set up a different account for IM a couple of years ago. One time I made a purchase using my personal account by clicking through my affiliate link. I...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th October 2010, 02:17 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,507
Posted By patey88
Re: Has ArticlesBase.com been hacked?

Not happening for me. Whether I type it in, or use my old login page bookmark, I get taken to what appears to be the real articlesbase. -- Patey
Forum: Website Design 8th October 2010, 06:11 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,123
Posted By patey88
Re: Learning HTML and CSS

I spent a lot of time reading and referencing the above-mentioned w3schools.com website, but I didn't finally understand the positioning of divs until I read this page:
CSS from the Ground Up | Web...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th September 2010, 10:34 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 418
Posted By patey88
Re: Google Analytics question?

I think the best solution is to make a custom report. Even if you haven't done it before, it's easy once you get the hang of it.

1. In the menu on the left side, click Custom Reporting. After...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 12th September 2010, 09:33 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,125
Posted By patey88
Re: Silly Question for the "Google Instant is Killing SEO" Crowd

In analytics. Here's a link to another post where I once explained how you set up GA to see full referral paths.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 12th September 2010, 09:00 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,125
Posted By patey88
Re: Silly Question for the "Google Instant is Killing SEO" Crowd

Month to date for September, 40% of my organic search visitors from google entered their search on the google home page, as opposed to in the browser search field or somewhere else.

I've always...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th September 2010, 09:19 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 719
Posted By patey88
Re: Am I getting paid by ClickBank This Friday?

Sales through Tuesday 8/31 were included in the Wednesday 9/1 cutoff. On Wednesday 9/8, you get to see what you'll get paid. On Wednesday 9/15, you will actually receive that payment.

So no,...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 20th August 2010, 11:33 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,000
Posted By patey88
Re: Finally it's converting

I send article traffic to my site, where I am using Google Analytics. I set up analytics so I can see which article sent each visitor from EZA and most other article sites. You could do the same...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th August 2010, 08:36 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 519
Posted By patey88
Re: Help (If you got Internet Explorer on your computer)

Mukul, if you are going to be doing lots of testing, you might find Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots (http://browsershots.org/) useful.

The tool on that site...
Forum: Website Design 12th August 2010, 06:27 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 822
Posted By patey88
Re: Basic question about background color around web page

In your css, for your body, put something like

body {background: blue; margin: 0px auto 0px;}

...and then for your "page", put it within a container div like

container {background: white;...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd August 2010, 10:30 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,256
Posted By patey88
Re: Was just Google Slapped :/

I recently got a first-and-final warning from Adwords for my affiliate site ads. The email referred me to some Adwords help pages meant to explain what was wrong, but I found them too vague to be...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th July 2010, 11:39 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 476
Posted By patey88
Re: Re-write articles to post on site or post already published articles?

I would go the easy route first, and build your own site(s) with your articles first. (Make sure to put an author name in each article on your site, and be aware it will need to match the author...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th April 2010, 04:04 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 471
Posted By patey88
Re: youtube?

The owner gets to decide whether responses are allowed, and whether they have to be approved. It is a setting for each video.

The options are:
-- Yes, allow video responses to be added...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd April 2010, 12:00 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,067
Posted By patey88
Re: Web based application - Feeling a bit overwhelmed - how to handle version control

Per-customer customizations will become impossible to manage pretty fast. You have to balance being responsive with staying afloat.

Start thinking about what kinds of features you're willing to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd April 2010, 10:30 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,602
Posted By patey88
Re: Ezine Articles Rules Driving Me Crazy

An active link is clickable. An inactive link is where the URL is typed out so readers can see it, but it is not clickable. Think of it as a text reference to a website.

You cannot put an...
Forum: Programming 30th March 2010, 11:01 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,021
Posted By patey88
Re: How do you stop this .htaccess entry slowing your entire site down?

Hey, I was researching this yesterday. I still have a browser tab open to this page, which explains how you can make it apply only to certain files...

Run PHP from HTML - .html as .php - Execute...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th March 2010, 10:56 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,030
Posted By patey88
Re: Help me to make best author bio / resource box pls

Even though you have decided you need a generic resource box, I think you still need to involve the reader in some way. You need to say more than, "I have a site. Come to it."

Maybe a first...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th March 2010, 09:49 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,035
Posted By patey88
Re: HELP WANTED: How can I create a list of every url on my site?

The tool here produces a urllist.txt file. If all your pages can be reached by following links from the main page, and if your site doesn't exceed the tool's max of 500 pages, then this should do...
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