February 17th, 2009 by Adam
Here is the status of my complaint with StomperNet for producing a product full of factual errors.
1: Stompernet has NOT responded to my email
2: I have since found additional factual errors
3: I have discovered that StomperNet is rated “F” with the Better Business Bureau.
4: I have filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, though I doubt it will do any good.
Posted in General Business, Internet Marketing, Legal Stuff | 2 Comments »
January 23rd, 2009 by Adam
I was just looking through my latest issue of TheNetEffect from Andy Jenkins and the guys at StomperNet, and was disgusted to find multiple errors in one of the articles. I fired off the below email to Andy…we’ll see what response I get:
Andy,
I’m reading the article Up For Grabs! in the latest edition of The Net
Effect. I am quite shocked by the low quality of the article. This
article is full of factual errors. Here are 3 I’ve found:
1: Article states that Squidoo pays publishers 10% of revenue from
their content. That is wrong! Squidoo.com says “Any time someone stops
by your lens and buys a product you recommended or clicks on a Google
ad, you get 50% of the royalties.”
2: Article states that EzineArticles.com only allows 4 resource boxes,
and does not allow custom resource boxes for each article. That is
just false. I have over 1,000 articles published on EzineArticles.com
and they all have a unique resource box.
3: Article states that Hubpages nofollows links if you have more than
two links to the same site in a hub, or if you have less than 3
published hubs. Again, this is simply false. Nofollows are added based
on the Hubscore of the author and the hub. I have hubs with 3-4 links
to the same site, and they are not nofollowed.
I must say that I find this completely unacceptable for a marketing
publication that claims to be written by experts that are actually
doing what they teach. Where did this article come from? The author is
apparently not even using these social sites much, let alone an expert
in using the social sites, or he would not have including such factual
errors in the article.
If an article in your magazine has such inexcusable errors, how can I
trust anything in the magazine? How do I know that the other articles
are not just as misleading? I have already canceled my subscription
to the Net Effect and the DVD of the Month.
I would appreciate hearing your feedback and thoughts on this issue.
~Adam
I’ll post the response here, if I get one…for now, though, my respect for StomperNet just went down.
~Adam
Posted in Internet Marketing | 8 Comments »
December 9th, 2008 by Adam
Last year, I was getting great conversions from my Ask Sponsored Listings campaign - 2.63% conversion on average. This year, though, my conversion rate fell from 0.72% in January to 0.13% conversion in May. Conversion rate is practically 0% now.
What happened? I don’t know. What I do know is that Ask no longer seems capable of providing quality search traffic.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Posted in PPC Marketing | 2 Comments »
December 9th, 2008 by Adam
I decided to make a quick list of my favorite search engine marketing tools (for SEO or PPC) that are free and I use regularly. This way I’ll have the list for my own reference, and you can also benefit from it, too.
Free Keyword Research Tools
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Keyword Discovery Keyword Tool
Wordtracker Keyword Tool
Free PPC Management Tools
Adwords Wrapper - creates exact, phrase, and broad match keywords from a keyword list.
Backlink Tools
Reciprocal Link Checker - check to see if your link is present on a list of urls.
Have a favorite free tool? Tell me in a comment! 
Posted in Google Adwords, PPC Marketing, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
February 12th, 2008 by Adam
If you haven’t already heard of Content Infinity, it’s the latest article generating software on the market. I decided to test it out and see if it could do what it claimed to do, namely:
“Powerful Article Writing Software Churns Out Thousands Of High Quality & Perfectly Unique Content”
OK so basically, I needed to find out if it 1) created high quality articles, and 2) created unique articles.
1) Does Content Infinity create high quality articles? Yes, pretty good. You’re going to have to do a little formatting and editing to make the articles usable, though.
2) Does it create unique articles? Absolutely not. Copyscape shows it to be pretty much entirely duplicate content, and DupeCop says it is only 12% unique.
3) Additionally, apparently you have to include an author resource box with the article, since they are using free reprint articles to create your article for you.
Conclusion: I would definitely NOT recommend Content Infinity to anyone.
Posted in Internet Marketing | 3 Comments »
