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The key to making money on the internet comes down to one word: TRAFFIC.  Same goes for all campaigns on Plenty of Fish (ads.pof.com).  Get a lot of traffic that converts and you will make $. I personally know people who've made 4 figures a day profit running on POF, so it's nothing to laugh about. I'm not sure if any of these tips have already been discussed on other internet marketing blogs, but I thought I'd share them anyways. Tip ...

In a word: definitely. I had a great time out in NYC last week.  Although the after hours party scene isn't as intense as ASW or AdTech SF, it was still a lot of fun.  Saw a lot of familiar faces and met a ton of new people as well.  It's also pretty cool to put faces to names - there are so many people I only know via AIM/phone and I have no idea what they look like until I see them at conferences. Aside from the swag you pickup at thes...

On Saturday I'll be headed to New York City to attend ASE2010.  I'm excited because this will be the first time I'll be going to New York and going into the city.  I've been to the airport a few times for layovers to/from Europe, but never had a chance to head into the city.  If you're gonna be around, hit me up.  I'll be at the meet market on Sunday, the expo Monday and Tuesday, and probably many of the socials/parties in the evenings. He...

A friend of mine showed me this new tool called the Google Font Previewer.   Basically with this tool you can edit text and change fonts then just copy the code onto your website/landing page.  Here's a getting started guide for more information.  There are more Google tools here if you want to browse. Another pretty neat tool I found is the Bing photo search tool.  Basically you can pick colors and it will search for photos that match th...

Publishers should always be on the lookout for new traffic sources.  I recently read a few articles that listed some top ad networks and I spent some time going through them and hand picked out the following.  Soon, I will be updating my traffic sources page in the Affiliate Marketing 101 section with a spreadsheet so you can sort by different variables.  Many times, traffic is cheaper at less-known traffic sources (with less people bidding an...

(Below: Meeting the Legend himself at a UCLA game) The passing of coach John Wooden came to me with great sorrow last week.  The world has lost a great inspiration and American cultural icon.   With his legendary success on the court and the way he lived his edifying life, this holy &  humble man was a true example to all.  As a former UCLA student who was huge into the college basketball scene, I had a deep respect for this man. ...

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Let's say a certain site, blah.xyz.com, gets a ton of traffic (yes it's a subdomain).  How many people forget to put that period in and type in blahxyz.com in their browser?  A lot.  Why let those people go to a blank page?  Spend $10, buy that entire subdomain string without the "."  (blahxyz.com if available) and send those visitors to a landing page of your choice (perhaps related to the target site) or just park a page there at the least...

I've been super busy since Ad:Tech and although I've been meaning to write about it, I just haven't gotten around to it until now.  All in all this was probably my best conference in terms of networking and meeting a lot of important industry people, outside of affiliates and affiliate networks.  The parties were pretty good too.  Monday afternoon I met up with RicDes, Mattern, Heavy T and a few other guys for lunch.  Took em to a place calle...

Step 1: Find a weakness in an advertising platform Step 2: Keep this information to yourself Step 3:  Take advantage of the weakness Step 4: Go deposit profits at bank Last year, there was a trick people were using on a popular social network advertising platform that involved manipulation of bid prices, and affiliates were able to pull in traffic for 1-2 cents a click where clicks were normally 30-60 cents.  I won't mention the net...