Internet & Affiliate Marketing Blog - Market Yourself off the Streets » Weekly Web Rants https://www.bumblogs.com Sat, 26 May 2012 04:39:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Weekly Web Rant #2 https://www.bumblogs.com/weekly-web-rants/03/weekly-web-rant-2/ https://www.bumblogs.com/weekly-web-rants/03/weekly-web-rant-2/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:20:14 +0000 The Bum http://bumblogs.com/?p=201      This weeks rant is less random and more geared to affiliate marketing than what i think I’ll be writing about most weeks. AdWords really annoyed me beyond belief. Everyone knows Google has refined their search, AdSense, and AdWord platforms to ensure quality. This is nice for the general public, but for us advertisers it has just made it that much harder to take advantage of the system. AdWords frustrates me the most because I have found it almost impossible to get nice cheap hits and also run the majority of leads that networks provide. Strict guidelines and quality scores make running ads effectively very hard and time consuming. I am no expert when it comes to this type of advertising and won’t claim to know every in and out of Adwords CPC network, but I can say that I have never ran a campaign without some type of issue with what I was advertising. Most of the type it was an issue with quality score. Quality score is an annoying scale that gives you an idea of how your key terms relate to the content on your site. Sounds nice, but sucks when you are trying to direct link your leads. I guess all this stuff just annoys me because I always get free AdWords vouchers and never make any money with them. It sucks, but it’s free and can’t complain about free stuff right?
     Now I know that you read through that last paragraph thinking that I am stuck here and don’t know what to do to fix these problems. Well no I know what to do, it is just that I would rather do it the easy way than the difficult way. Its annoying to me to have to make a landing page for everything. Landing pages are nice if you know what your are doing with them and you can greatly increase your quality score with them If you can create them the right way. Just, who wants to sit there and great all these landing pages all the time in hopes that your campaign will work? Then there is the issue of the rules versus offered ads. Many of the leads that networks offered are not allowed to be advertised on AdWords. An example of this would be those Smoke-51 ads. It is hard to even use the word smoke in your text ads let alone get the website approved. You really have to be super creative and know what you are doing in order to get an ad like this to pass and be showed throughout Google. In this case you would need to step away from the bigger networks like AdWords and even AdCenter. Truthfully most advertisers stay away from them anyways and go for the smaller networks because they are less strict on their campaigns. Of course you run the risk of being limited on the size of your campaigns because you are running them on a smaller network. However, it is another way to get around the annoyance of AdWords rules.

     Let me know if any of you have some useful books or web pages on the subject and i’ll be sure to update everyone with a post.

]]> https://www.bumblogs.com/weekly-web-rants/03/weekly-web-rant-2/feed/ 0 Weekly Web Rant #1 https://www.bumblogs.com/weekly-web-rants/03/weekly-web-rant-1/ https://www.bumblogs.com/weekly-web-rants/03/weekly-web-rant-1/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:53:11 +0000 The Bum http://bumblogs.com/?p=165      Well first off I want to explain this concept. It is pretty simple to get, but why not make it even easier. I am going to write a a post every week about things that bother me about the web.  Hopefully it will lead to ideas on how to improve your own web creations .  Simple enough, right?  Okay, here we go.

     I guess the best way to start this up is with the BIGGEST thing that bothers me.  Like most of you, I have aspirations of making it big on the net so that I can have a great income while doing the least amount of work possible to have that money.  I am an idea type of person and I constantly stay up at night thinking of different website concepts or ways to improve what I already have.  All this work and all these failed ideas has frustrated me to no end.  I accept the fact that it’s tough to make it big with an idea, BUT when I see the likes of FormSpring.Me and Twitter.com I just wanna quit.  I mean how did I not think of FormSpring?  Possibly because its a website based on the most simple idea done in the most inappropriate way imaginable.   Nevermind the fact that all you do is ask questions and thats the whole concept, but the fact that you can be anonymous is totally crazy. You get these teen girls hammered by teen/perverted boys with inappropriate and rude questions.  As if their self confidence isn’t low enough, why would u need to make a site where a person can ask why they are so ugly and never be able to know who sent it.  Either way you slice it.  Its a dumb idea that made someone rich and I am sitting here thinking of complex ideas that will never bee seen by anymore than a few thousand people.

Lesson Learned: Dumb Down! People are simple and sometimes the most simple ideas are the most successful. You are smart and sometimes you are just a little smarter than people visiting your site. Make it easy and get your point across simply. Also don’t think something is a dumb idea before you research it. I wouldn’t have thought in a million years that a site like FormSpring wasn’t already a popular idea. So, get an idea and go through with it. If it exists then improve on it and give it your own twist. Create your own stupid idea and make yourself a bunch of money.

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