Issues With RM4
As part of the
Plug-In Profit Site I received a free copy of Reciprocal Manager. This is software for managing link exchanges with other web sites. It was relatively easy to learn and I currently have about
170 links. There were a few minor bugs but nothing I couldn't deal with.
Kevin Ocaiso, the creator of RM which is currently at version 3.3, was working on a major upgrade. He had several new features he wanted to add and felt that the best course of action was to hire programmers to build version 4. This was a complete rewrite.
Unfortunately, RM4 has turned out poorly. There have been some major issues which have resulted in Kevin giving up on this upgrade. I was trying to upgrade my own links into RM4 and, following their advice, tried out a test upgrade. I was never able to import the links from the prior version. I submitted a support ticket but it has been several days and no resolution. Kevin stated that he hired the same programmers to handle technical support also and that hasn't worked out very well either.
So today Kevin sent out a
message that he was scrapping RM4 and going back to RM3. He has fired the programmers and will attempt to fix the known issues with RM3 while still planning on a new upgrade.
Kevin has provided previous upgrades at no charge for current users and offered the same with RM4. He has taken full responsibility for the current dilema and I admire him for his openness and willingness to do the right thing. I sincerely wish him the best of luck and I will continue to use RM.
Free Viral Won't Make It To 1 Million
A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a new traffic service called
Free Viral. The theory behind it is that when someone signs up under me they have to view 6 web pages, the first being mine. For each subsequent referral my web page moves down the matrix. In order to get this going I set up an AdWords campaign. I now have 25 people signed up on my first level. So far so good.
Now comes the part I have no control over. Those 25 people need to get people signed up under them. If those each of those 25 people signed up 25 people that would get me 650 page views (25 X 25 = 625 plus the original 25). If that continued through 4 levels that would be over 400,000 page views. The problem here is that I do not have access to email addresses or web sites of the people that signed up under me. The owner of the Free Viral site does and he sends out emails periodically. But I cannot encourage them personally.
This lack of my ability to contact them bothers me somewhat. I am essentially helping Free Viral build their list but not helping mine. On the other hand, there is the potential for substantial traffic. So I guess I have to take the good with the bad. Traffic Swarm has the same issue. I can see the first names of the people in my downline but not their contact info.
All in all this is progressing. I don't think I will get 1M views this month but I will keep on promoting and see where it goes.
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Source For New HTML Code
I wanted to add a "Bookmark This Page" link on my site. One of the necessities is to have your visitors come back. Without a bookmark they will have to recreate the search they used to find my site in the first place. And the search engines are continuously revising result positions. So this has been a priority for me.
I tried adding code that I found on one of my favorite forums but I kept getting a runtime error. I am not a java programer and the help on Frontpage was not helping me.
So I did a search on Google specifically for "bookmark this site HTML code" and got over 10 million sites returned. I tried several I found on the first page of the results but they all gave me the same error message. I was wondering if there was some code I was missing in the head of the page to allow javascript.
Then I tried a site called HTML Basix. Among other things they have a
code generatorthat creates code for several different needs. I went to the bookmark generator and put in my details. I then copied the code that was generated into my page and...
It worked perfectly. I am going to compare it to the others I tried to see where the differences are but I am happy with the outcome.
So here is a free plug for
HTML Basix. I will certainly check there again if I have a code need.
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New AdWords Tactic
One of the things I enjoy about my online business is the continuous learning. I have had AdWords campaigns running for several months and recently started some new ones.
I was checking results for one of my keywords and saw a result from one of my mentors. It was a little different because it had my location, city, listed under the URL. I thought to myself that if I was searching for this keyword and saw a listing with my city I would be more likely to click on it.
This made me search for the way he set up the ad with the city listed. Many of you probably already knew this, but when seting up a new campaign there is the option to target specific regions or citys. By selecting these the resulting ad only displays in regions on your list, but the ad includes the region or city name. There is a limit on 100 citys for any campaign, but since there is no limit on the number of campaigns it is possible to set up multiple campaigns to reach all of the citys on the list.
So, always learn something new, apply it and test the results. I will provide info on my results in a future post.
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Another Source of Traffic
Obviously, the key to making money online is by getting a steady stream of traffic to your website. If you want your home business to survive this is critical. There are many ways to do this including using traffic generators where you get views of your site based on your viewing other sites. This includes sites like Traffic Swarm, TS25, Traffic G, etc. This is time consuming and not really productive.
You can use autosurf traffic generators, where you turn it on, let it display a different site every 10-15 seconds and rack up the credits. But this is even less productive because everyone else is doing the same thing and no one is watching them. I think the only reason these exist is for the autosurf owner to try to get people to upgrade (pay) for the service. Since no one is watching I'm not sure what the benefit is.
Another tactic is to write and submit articles. This has a couple of benefits. First, your article may get published on several or even hundreds of sites. If you have included a signature or resource box with a link to your website, then anyone reading your article on any of those sites has easy access to your website. Second, the link from you resource box on all of those sites provides you with a large number of inbound links which improves your page ranking, which in turn improves your search engine positioning. This is a practice that I engage in.
Purchasing pay per click (PPC) advertising is another method. There are many places that this type of advertising can be placed, the most well know is Google AdWords. One drawback is that getting your ad placed high enough to be seen can be expensive for the more popular keywords. I have written previous posts about my experience with AdWords. I currently have a couple AdWords campaigns going.
An option that I have not tried before, but will start soon, is to purchase traffic. This can be done in various ways - guaranteed visitors, banner impressions & email clicks are all examples. Erich Winecke recently recommended
Visitor Finder to me. This appears to be quite cost effective ranging from 10,000 bulk untargeted visitors for $17.95 to 10,000 country, category and language targeted visitors for $79.95. If your site is optimized so that the visitor sees right off the theme of the site there is a better chance that they will look around for awhile and sign up for an opportunity.
I will report my experience with
Visitor Finder in a following post.
Jimbo Has Been Shut Down
I was curious as to the current state of affairs related to James "Jimbo" Patterson. If you read any of my earlier posts you remember that Jimbo is the owner of New Leaf Associates, LLC, a firm that claims it can erase your debt and improve your credit score. They offered to do this for a fee of $4,000 to $6,000.
As you might have guessed, this was a scam. I did a search on Google and found a couple of recent articles. In
one article Jimbo says that he has stopped taking new clients. He also stated the he will pay back the clients and eliminate their debt. It is estimated that he collected $8,000,000 dollars from people that were desperate to get out of debt. When asked if he still has the $8,000,000 he said:
"I don't have that all in my possession. We've got mechanisms in place to take care of it."
I don't know what mechanisms ol' Jimbo has in place now but one he used early in the year was offering "guaranteed" signups to PIPS. For $300 he would give you 10 signups for which you would receive the fast start bunuses, etc. It would have been a great deal since you immediately got your money back from those programs.
Unfortunately for the people that ordered these signups Jimbo never delivered. Seems one scam was not enough!
And now the Florida Attorney General has slapped Jimbo with an injunction to cease offering debt elimination services and to take down his web sites.
Here are some other sites with recent info:
St. Petersburg TimesTallahassee DemocratChirotalk ForumFlorida Attorney General
New Adwords Campaign
I have written quite a bit about the success I have had with my AdWords campaign to sign up
Traffic Swarm members. I have over 200 members on my Traffic Swarm team.
I was recently introduced to another program that has great promise. It guarantees to generate 1,000,000 visitors to my website in the next month. Based on how it is structure I can see how a large number of visitors can be generated. But like anything else there is a catch.
That catch is that I have to sign up some members of this downline for it to take off. The way it works is that in order for someone to sign up from my splash page they have to view my web page and five others. Mine is in the first position on the matrix. When the person on my first level signs up a new member, that person must view six pages, mine being in the second position. And so on. This is pure viral marketing.
So in order to kick start my
Free Viral downline I have started a new AdWords campaign aimed at the same audience that would be interested in Traffic Swarm.
Based on my prior experience I am hopefull that this new campaign will get me to that 1,000,000 visitors.
Update 30 Days To Success
Stone Evans has been updating his 30 Days To Success e-book to incorporate the latest in online marketing. He posted a note today that he is through with day 10. Boy, is this thing getting better all the time.
Day 10 includes detailed instructions on how to setup your own blog, how to publish it and even content to start you off with. The search engines love content, and even better, new content on a regular basis. In fact, with all of the latest training Stone even provides copy for the forum signature. Mine looks like this:
Check out my blog:Not long ago, I didn't know ANYTHING about making money online...Now I have my very own website and opt-in subscriber list, I'm running ezine solo ads, marketing with Google Adwords and I'm publishing my own BLOG! It all started with
3 easy steps...The 30 Days To Success takes even a complete novice through the step by step process to build a profitable home based business online. The opportunities are unlimited. If you want to make money online,you should check out the
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