25
Oct
2007
Posted by The Mad Ape as Experiments, Scams
I have the results in for day 1 of my 10-Day Experiment. If you are not familiar with this experiment, for $77.00, I purchased 100,000 unique site visitors from the USA from a company called ‘www.advertyz.com’ over a 10-day period. You can read more by clicking here.
I set up this experiment by limiting the traffic [...]
24
Oct
2007
Posted by The Mad Ape as Contests
JohnChow.com and Shoemoney.com are at war. They are out to see who can attract the greatest number of readers to their respective RSS feeds.
They are giving away thousands in prizes in an effort to gain readership. The only thing missing is Michael Buffer calling the fight…
“In one corner, hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, the [...]
23
Oct
2007
Posted by The Mad Ape as Experiments, Scams
We all want a traffic boost to our site. There are many ways to do this, but in this little experiment I randomly picked a pay-for-traffic site and placed an order with them.
I have just spent $77.00 with a company called www.advertyz.com. This money guarantees that I will receive 10,000 unique USA visitors per day [...]
21
Oct
2007
Posted by The Mad Ape as Finance, Traffic Building
Did GOOG beat estimates by shortchanging publishing partners? by ZDNet’s Tom Foremski — Last week Google beat financial analyst forecasts and its shares rose. I looked at the third quarter 2007 results, in particular, its traffic acquisition costs (TAC), and noticed something very interesting and something which no one else had written about.
TAC was [...]
21
Oct
2007
Posted by The Mad Ape as Blogging 101, Traffic Building
There is a trend out there for people to pay others to write a review of their site in order to get a quick traffic boost. The site owner requesting the review, hence called Reviewee, hopes to convert this traffic into sales or leads.
The key for the Reviewee is to find a popular blog, hence [...]