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Entries for March, 2010

Another day, another dollar? And oh yes, PPC sucks!

Well so much for blogging every 2 days or so. Participating in a game that you’ve never played before can seem deceptively easy at the onset. And this one certainly caught us.
So I got my site up and posted about it on a few forums, submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools, did some basic [...]

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Nice traffic but no sales

Doug’s First Week Summary
The first week of the contest could have gone better. Unfortunately the affiliate game has not provided the opportunity to untether me from the corporate world yet so I had a lot to juggle. I was working on a large infrastructure project that I played a key role and helped [...]

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Contest Day 4: A Bit Behind

Khalid’s Day 4 Summary
Wow, time does fly by when you’re <insert verb here>. Yup, so you really need to be on a plan/schedule. Boy am I glad I did. So am I on schedule? More or less. Ok, honestly, less. The big honking lesson is that I definitely underestimated how long tasks would/will take.
Anyone [...]

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Day 1: Plan, plan, plan

Khalid’s Day 1 Summary
As promised, here is a post describing my efforts so far. Doug’s summaries will appear in separate posts.
As I was thinking how to sum up my day 1 of our contest, I initially thought it was mostly a failure, but then I had a second opinion and that was that it *is* [...]

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Book Review: Attract Visitors to your Site: the Mini Missing Manual

The sys admin geek in me has always loved O’Reilly books and they’ve continued producing quality computer books as well as branching out into other areas, one of which is the Missing Manuals series. O’Reilly was good enough to send me a sample copy of one of their latest on attracting visitors to your website [...]

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A Little Friendly Intramural Affiliate Marketing Competition for Knowledge and Profit

Have you been in the affiliate marketing game for a while now and are just flailing around without any real success to speak of? Perhaps some traffic to your site or a sale here and there, but not the kind of envious profits that the gurus advertise on their products? Well, here’s an admission you [...]

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My New Clipboard Management Tool (Souped-Up Cut, Copy, Paste) for Windows: Ditto

If you’re a blogger, then you probably do a lot of copying and pasting and sometimes it’s the same stuff over and over. I had been using ClipX pretty successfully for a long time, but recently had major issues with it, probably due to some recent Windows XP update. That meant I had to go [...]

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