What's The Point Of WebmasterWorld Now? None!

My own post.
Brett, I find your post a little off base when talking about showing affiliate marketers how to sell stuff, creating spammers. So not the case. Because when you show someone to do something the "right" way, you eliminate their "desperation" of turning to the dark art of spamming. If they're making money the moral way, then there is no need to spam. If you allowed people to post specifics, chances are, you'll cut down on the "cheat the system" posts. And creating a paid forum for the so called "secrets" is a joke. It's almost like you're trying to hide the secrets for the benefit of lining your own pockets. I'm sorry if I'm a bit too blunt with my post, but that's how I see it in my eyes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.


>>>So what is the point of this forum now?
>>>Dynamite posts in the forum Library teaching people "how to fish" for themselves, rather than people promoting their own fishing holes to send newbie fishermen to.

That's because the one's showing "how to fish" are scared they will canibalize their biznesses. And personally, if the market they are in is "really good", then there is no need to hide it from others.


>>>Why? because the affiliates with wasted traffic weren't taught how to fish and never learned that you can't go out in a rowboat on a pond and expect to catch 20 pound yellowtails.

Show them "where" to fish, and they'll eat faster, and forever.


Bottom line is, I visit a forum that was started by Michael, and him and I built that forum up over the course of a few months, and everything snowballed. And you know what? I've been making on the higher side of 6 figures a year for a while now, and no matter how many people I give advice to, I still can acheive those numbers. That's what I think everyone is scared of, posting their secrets, losing their business, but guess what? Your competition will catch up with you eventually. So if everyone wants to keep those closely guarded secrets private, then guess what? There's no point to this forum. Everyone's interested in details, to hell with beating around the bush, which is what most people here do, and still get their posts deleted. Go figure. Reason I don't spend as much time here is because our forum gives me a HUGE useful amount of information for free, and I don't have to worry about my posts being deleted for releasing "specifics".


Catch all the details here. What's The Point Of WebmasterWorld Now?

Flaw In Google Adwords Algo

When it comes to making sense, Google is way off on this one. I ran a tiny test with a ringtone campaign using the term "eminem" broad matched.
So I was staring at a perfect Quality Score the moment my ad started running. Then I got a few thousand impressions and my CTR was extremely low. One, because my ad was down the right side of the page. And from the looks of it, there are ZERO Premium ads up top. This tells me one thing. This term has way too many searches with too little click volume overall. So right now I'm looking at 33,228 Impressions and 59 clicks. I'm 100% certain that Google must change their algo to include some weight system based on volume of impressions vs overall Adwords CTR on certain keywords. As it stand now, they have a bottom line of like 3% CTR in order to get a Premium listing above the organic results, this term, along with millions of other high traffic terms simply will NEVER receive this sort of CTR. Period.

Ringtones and Yahoo Search Marketing

For anyone working with Yahoo Search Marketings old platform, you'll feel my pain on this, and may not even know it.
Few weeks ago, I was checking out some stats on my ringtone sites. Looking at logs, and found some sickening info. 30% of my unique clicks are coming from outside of the USA. And to make matters worse, I'm using Azoogle, and in their geotargetting, they send non USA clicks to other places, some go to a UK ringtone program, some to an Australian program, and the rest go to a little program that produces about a $0.0000001 earnings per click. So what I did was start geotargetting myself. And what a change it made. So instead of making a very small fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a cent, I've turned that into $0.05 per click redirecting all my non-USA traffic to an Adsense page, and while it may not sound like alot, it sure is making a difference on the ROI. But here's my gripe about it. I'm still losting money on those clicks even with this geotracking. I'm still paying a max of $0.10 per click, and I'm earning $0.05 back on it. And this is about where it stays, they still send that junk traffic, and I have to put up with it. Good thing about it though is they have their new console they're coming out with, so I hope Yahoo's geotargetting really takes a turn for the better after ALL my accounts are upgraded to this new version. I only have one account upgraded, and I haven't checked it yet. So we'll see.

Christmas

So it's xmas time, and all went well. Wife got her $3,000 diamond earrings. Kids got everything they wanted. And on that note, so did Yahoo. Luckily for me I was able to get enough clicks for them to charge my card 1,000 British Pounds. Good thing? Dunno haven't seen too much revenue on that account to make it look like a great ROI.