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geek/talk - Making Money On The Internet"
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This geekvillage.com forum contains more than 80,000 posts. The major categories are
— Making Money with CPC and/or CPM Programs
— Making Money with CPA Programs
— Making Money with Regional Affiliate Programs and Networks
— Making Money with Email
— Business Principles.
Then there’s more: another 18 forums.
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May 24, 2005
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May 23, 2005
Messageboard.com :: For Webmasters By Webmasters?
Here’s my recent reply to Messageboard.com (which alleges that it is “For Webmasters By Webmasters”):
What do you allow [in your forum]? You have to look a bit to find my name on the Web sites I listed. And those sites review/promote Web hosts and search engines and facilitate users.
Like a huge portion of the Internet, I have Google ads (I’ve had them on for a week, but I’ve only made $10, which doesn’t even get us out of the gas station here in Canada). Other than Google and what I still haven’t received for promoting a bank, I don’t get any money or special bargains from Internet businesses.
I’ve surfed quite a bit and find that different webmasters define self-promotion differently (and almost all webmasters are somehow promoting themselves or their affiliates, even when they pretend it isn’t so). It gets confusing and that creates apathy among users.
Anyway, thanks. See you around in cyperspace.
[Yeah, and the location of the rules varies among various Web sites. But I guess you are expected to spend 5 minutes just looking for the rules — 5 minutes on each and every Web site. Whew! Where’s the user friendliness on this Great Web?]
May 22, 2005
Fear of Submitting Brought on by Urban Myth?
Quite a few surfers say things like
I wouldn’t advise you to use autosubmitters, many Search Engines don’t allow auto-submissions,
or
I think autosubmitting is like a quick fix.
I’ve posted my response elsewhere. Here’s what I said:
You guys sometimes advise against automated submissions, but you never provide data/facts to back up what you say. Small European search engines are unlikely to randomly crawl your sites. You have to bring your site to their attention. If everyone relied exclusively on big search engines for traffic, this World Wide Web would not be a net–just a one-way toll road.
Even MSN offers automated multiple search-engine submissions (but please note that their service is not free). See for example microsoft items or http://submitit.bcentral.com/subcats2.htm
Microsoft says,
Maintaining top listings on a variety of search engines helps drive new visitors to bigfishtackle.com. . . . It’s very important to stay diligent with search engine submissions. . . . When he’s pressed for time, he knows that [automatic submissions are] still working for him, automatically checking his listings and resubmitting URLs on a regular basis.
Why would Microsoft automate submissions to various engines, directories, and services if those services picked up on everything the big search engines indexed? And why would German and Dutch engines pay much attention to English directories? Anyway, who says the whole world can’t submit to foreign-language search engines? And who says anyone is completely reliant on quick fixes? Most people utilize various services and techniques. For example, Google may index DMOZ but DMOZ does not index Google. DMOZ is run by human editors who manually choose sites. The BBC in England has a search engine/directory run by human editors, too. They found one of my sites through a press release — not from Google or Yahoo, etc.
And if being listed on FFA’s spells doom for a site, then we are all doomed: any stranger can submit any site to any FFA from anywhere in the world. Who’s to say the aliens aren’t busy submitting your site to 100s of thousands of FFAs right this second.
We can’t label the various sectors — the Internet is too complex for generalizations.