Not the most brilliant of discoveries, but a connection certain people like to deny exists.  Traffic exchanges destroy your Alexa rank.  There is no point in arguing the value of an Alexa rank, much like Google’s page rank, it has no value in its own.  However, certain advertising companies use it to rank sites. If you do [...]

My last article on Bounce Rates explained why it was important for bloggers to keep rates as low as possible to avoid being penalized in the search engine rankings.  All things being equal, lower bounce rates equals higher ranking.  To refresh your memory, the following is the Bounce Rate definition given by Google : Bounce Rate: Bounce [...]

Being one to ignore bounce rates, I didn’t really care how long people stayed on my page.  As long as I had any visitors I was happy.  Last April I even wrote a particularly vehement article against bloggers whining about bounce rates.  Since then new evidence has come out and I’m ready to change that opinion.  If you care [...]

CMF ADS is running a great little Holiday Special.  Get a featured review, backlinks and 8,000 ad impressions.  Combined with geotargetting, you can’t beat this offer.  The review alone is worth the $20.  Details below: For Advertisers who spend $20 or more in advertising between November 12 until January 1st, 2009, the following special offer will [...]

A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing.  As bloggers learn their trade they sometimes make mistakes.  Something that I consider a mistake recently caught my eye related to Netiquette.  Netiquette refers to that unwritten social code of online conduct.    Everyone has their own ideas on netiquette, like posting affiliate links in a forum is one [...]

Since the start of October I’ve been busy with a new project called CMF ADS.  After 3 weeks of beta testing, today I’m announcing the site publicly.  Created as a partnership between myself and Stan from Fantasy Baseball, we use the tagline “Changing Marketing Forever” because CMF ADS is an advertising agency unlike any other.  Our goal is to [...]

October 18th marks the one year Anniversary of Turnipofpower.com.  Since then I’ve expanded my stable of blogs to 4 domains.   All my other blogs are still young and contribute little income other than the occasional AdSense click,  It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted any kind of affiliate earnings on the site.  So [...]

Stretching across Internet time and space, the far reaching Performancing Ads Saga finally comes back home to Turnipfofpower.com. For those looking to update themselves, here are some dates and posts in the timeline: 07/29/2008 – I first promoted Performancing Ads on The Social Networking Side Dish.  09/07/2008 – Ben Barden publishes Four week review of PerformancingAds 09/08/2008- [...]

Performancing ads sure has a communication problem.  Take a great idea, blast it across the Internet, then screw things up and make changes while keeping silent about the whole thing.  I love the concept.  People selling ad space while getting exchange credits for running ads when their ad space isn’t sold directly.  Set your own price [...]

Ever wonder why you never seem to sell anything through your affiliate links?  Even when someone clicks on your ad or link, you still don’t get the sale.  I bet you’d like to know why?  The answer is usually cookie stuffing. Cookie Stuffing is when a malicious website overwrites your affiliate cookie with their cookie, [...]