Archive for November, 2008

Happy turkey day!

Friday, November 28, 2008 2:51 No Comments

I should have posted this earlier but didn’t, but now that I’m drunk here we go.
The FaceBook ad manager didn’t make it out on time.  No not because I’m lazy but with Thanksgiving and relatives I just didn’t have nearly  enough time this week to finish it up.  Also some rookie on WF totally stole [...]

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Keeping urls clean with Prosper202 & PHP Sessions

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 17:21 1 Comment

I constantly try to envision through the eyes of the person whom  comes to one of my pages.  What could scare them off?
A pet peeve of mine personally is seeing some tracking variables up in the url.  Granted most people are retarded and don’t really know what all that gobbily gook really means.  That’s the [...]

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Wooo! Affiliate Summit Press Pass!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 15:47 No Comments

Pretty fucking stoked to stumble in drunk, in the wee hours of this morning, to see that I have been approved for a Full Pass + Press Credentials for Affiliate Summit West in VEGAS!! I am so stoked!
This has completely changed my schedule, this year for Affiliate Summit East (ASE) in Boston I flew in [...]

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An Open Letter To Yahoo! Search Marketing: A Generic Response

Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:03 2 Comments

Can’t say I’m overly surprised that they would generically respond to the questions asked:

Hello Brad,
Thank you for contacting us regarding our quality-based pricing system. We attempted to reach you at but were only able to leave a message.
Currently, the best way for our advertisers to monitor traffic from our various partner sites is through [...]

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An Open Letter To Yahoo! Search Marketing

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:39 2 Comments

As my quest of figuring out why Yahoo! sucks so badly, I take all the major issues to them trying to get some answers.  This is the letter:

Hello,
A while back I had talked to support and they mentioned something interesting to me.  They mentioned something called Quality-Based Pricing and that :
“This feature helps mitigate the [...]

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PPC Tips: When is there enough data?

Monday, November 3, 2008 19:36 1 Comment

If there is one major PPC question I see the most it’s:  When is there enough data [or clicks] to tell whether this ad or campaign are tanking?  Or, when is there enough data [clicks] to start chopping keywords?
These are very important questions, that I feel should should be learned the hard way, but hell [...]

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