Archive for December, 2006

Thanks to Ryan McCoy over at Blog Ryan for the Blog Tag. Blog tag is a game going around where you post 5 things about yourself that most people don’t know. So without further adieu here is my list.

1. I am a huge Jimmy Buffett fan and have a tattoo on my left ankle of the chameleon logo from his Caribbean Soul t-shirts.
2. I love horror movies. Especially the ones from the 70′s. I have a Michael Myers McFarland figure on my desk and have seen Halloween hundreds of times. I will even pop it in the computer and play it in the background just to listen to it.
3. I have been in the tech field for 8 years and using computers for 20+ years. I still don’t own an MP3 player. ( I cheat and use my old Pocket PC phone to listen to Audio books from audible.com
4. I have a 2001 Black Mustang Bullitt, number 4301 out of 5500ish made. Thanks to Atlanta traffic, I hate driving it.
5. I spent a month ranked number 1 in the world playing thesportingnews.com paid fantasy hockey.

Now let me see. Who can I tag. I think I will get: Chris Hooley, Steve Pavlina ,Greg Gaylord, and Cristian Mezei

I have this one affiliate marketing ad that is doing pretty well for me.  I had run it up the flag pole with a few other offers and this one stuck.  It is averaging almost $60.00 EPC and is pretty close to 90% profit each month.  That may not be the baddest boy on the block, but I will sure take it.  All of it’s traffic comes from Microsoft Adcenter.

The problem I realized tonight while going over some of my sites was I have not  stayed on top of my keyword list for this search arbitrage website.  I put one of my main words in the keyword suggestion tool at digitalpoint and found several keywords with decent traffic I wasn’t bidding on.  I had let this bad boy get behind.  A lot of us run many websites and the point of this post is to remind you to take a look back at some of your  good ideas because they could be great ideas.

Randfish over at seomoz.org had a blog up yesterday talking about early gossip at SES Chicago. One of the rumors making the rounds is Google’s  search quality team has undercover people buying links.  Now my question is this.

If you ask a person buying a link from you if they work for Google, are they required by law to tell you and show you their badge?

Bad boys bad boys.  Whatcha gonna do.  Whatcha gonna do when they come for you.  LOL