Money-Code

Coding For Online Success

Month: October 2007

October 30, 2007
by admin
0 comments

BlogRush – Finally updated!!!

Well, well, well. I was starting to really wonder about BlogRush, and when they were (or if they were) going to roll out their updated Dashboard. Well, while I was getting ready for bed, I received the email letting me know it’s up and live! I do have to say their Dashboard is pretty dang sweet. I particularily liked seeing their graphs, and especially their Syndication report.. very cool. Well done, and I think it was worth the wait.

I know I’ve been neglecting my blogging duties, but I do have a lot of topics to write about in the next few days… stay tuned! Continue reading →

October 25, 2007
by admin
0 comments

WidgetBucks and Google

Okay.. unless you live in a hole in the blogosphere, you’ve probably read a few hot topics related with the two. First off, looks like WidgetBucks got Google slapped, and are currently blacklisted from the index. There are various theories from their Flash banner to their non-Flash content to their TOC. Either way, it’s sent up some red flags that are rippling around the internet.

Does this mean that our publishing web sites are potentially exposed to issues? Should I continue to use WidgetBucks, etc? I just received an email about new code for WidgetBucks that were used to help page load of the ‘ad’, but I wasn’t really able to see an improvement, but makes me wonder if it’s because of the bad press, that they’re trying to get pro-active.

Personally, I want to ride this out for a bit, and give this experiment a fair shake. The bottom line is that they seem to be performing better on my poor-Adsense sites. For sites where AdSense peforms well… I will NOT put WidgetBucks up.
Continue reading →

October 23, 2007
by admin
1 Comment

CJ Quick Stat Email Script

At the digital point forums today, someone asked if it there was a email report that could be sent from CJ. I’ve looked for this in the past, but have not had any luck finding this feature, and thought it might be cool to throw something together that sort of does this.

My idea was simple, to create a PHP application that would use cURL to login and return me the quick stats results. After retrieving the stats, it would email me the results. I used one library called LIB_parse.php which makes it extremely handy to parse through HTML code to drill down to the specific section you’re looking for. To get this to email, you’ll need to run this is crontab. Possible as a PHP-CLI (command line script) or use lynx/wget to hit a web page to execute the code.
Continue reading →

October 18, 2007
by admin
4 Comments

WidgetBucks (my thoughts)

Interesting that today I was going to say I’m very pleased with my WidgetBuck tests, but over at Shoemoney, Jeremy gives it a thumbs down. There seems to be some bias to his report (possibly related to his past dealings with AuctionAds and WidgetBucks). You can read about it here.

Here is what I know. I’m a blogger and I use WidgetBucks. I added it to two sites that were poor performers with AdSense. Over the years, I’ve worked with blending, not-blending, white backgrounds, color backgrounds and various ad format, but my CTR was extremely poor with AdSense. I thought this would be a good test for WidgetBucks. Immediately, I was receving some good clicks that showed promise. I’m still not making a ton off of these sites, but already, I’ve exceeded my poor AdSense numbers.
Continue reading →

October 18, 2007
by admin
0 comments

AuctionAds.. now ShoppingAds

So not sure if any of you tried AuctionAds. This was a very interesting product developed by Shoemoney Media Group (go Shoemoney!) and was later sold to MediaWhiz. I gave it a try, but was extremely disappointed with the performance and ad presentation. I was making much money with my standard eBay affiliate campaigns and custom auction widgets. I was even getting better performance with eBay’s EditorKit. The breaking point for me was when their server would go down. Since it was a javascript widget, it would stall the entire page load until the request timed out. This provided my visitors with a horrible user experience during these outages. Eventually, I removed all AuctionAd code. Just recently I logged in to see what I had in my balance and it was a $1.11!!!! Unbelievable.

Continue reading →