Internet Marketing Strategies and Marketing Tips by Neil Shearing

Keith Baxter, who owns the CPA network ModernClick, is offering to coach people on how to make money with CPA offers for an upfront payment of $297 which Keith will refund when he makes $297 in commissions based on YOUR income from the CPA offer. (Keith makes 20% of what you make because he referred you)

So, if you make $2,000 from an “auto insurance CPA offer”, Keith gets paid $400 directly from the network, and refunds you the $297 upfront payment you paid for your training.

I like that. It’s smart marketing. The network wins because they get quality affiliates who have been trained by Keith, you win because you get training which is refunded if you take action, and Keith wins because he makes money, long term, from productive affiliates he referred to the network.

But, Keith, what the heck does “soup to nuts” mean? Is that a Texan phrase?

I just found this nifty code for disabling all pingbacks and trackbacks for old posts. You run this command as a MySQL query through phpMyAdmin…

UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=”closed”;

Note, if you uncheck the boxes for “Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)” in the blog admin area, it only prevents pingbacks and trackbacks for future posts, not old ones.

Running the command, above, will stop pingbacks and trackbacks for old posts.

Detailed “How To”:

Access Cpanel for your webhosting account. Click phpMyAdmin. Select your blog’s database. Click the “SQL” tab at the top of the page. Enter the command and click “Go”.

Job done in 5 seconds.

Just to let people know… we upgraded PHP from 4 to 5 to launch a new Support Site and broke a lot of other scripts on the server, including the “updates” for the Spider software. We are working to fix the broken scripts, but some won’t be finished until next week. If you find a broken script, please let us know via the new support system, which is working.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Wow, this takes me back to when I launched Internet Success Diamonds back in 2001… that was the “top three secrets of ten top Internet marketers”.

I’ve just read “The Secret Lives Of Internet Marketers“, compiled by Jason Tarasi. It was a short ebook looking at how multiple online marketers run their business, what their best successes were, and what their biggest failures were.

As Jason says, “”The Secret Lives Of Internet Marketers” takes you inside the minds of some of the Net’s most successful marketers, as they tell you in their own words how they achieved their dreams – and how you can to!”

The ebook requires an opt-in, but apart from that, it’s free.

update: New coupon code posted here… Discount coupon code for “Best of the Web” for May 2010

I’ve previously listed some Discount Coupon Codes for the Best Of The Web Directory, which people seemed to like, so here’s the May 2009 coupon code worth 15% on all BOTW services and products. Enjoy!

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To Our Valued Clients,

Spring has sprung and we hope by this time of the year, you are well on your way to a prosperous 2009. We remain focused on increasing the results of all BOTW users. So to help make your journey to success a little easier, we have a special offer that will allow all BOTW members to save. Through the entire month of May, you can SAVE 15% across all BOTW products and services!

When prompted, enter the following Promo Code: MAYDAY

Some potential savings include…

• Save $15 on Annual Listings or Save $37 on Lifetime Listings.
• Save $8 on Lifetime Blog Listings.
• Save £12 on Annual Listings or £30 on Lifetime UK Listings.
• Get a full business profile for less than $17 per month.
• Get a Sponsorship Ad for less than $34 per month.
• Blog Sponsorship Advertising for only $25 per month.
• Save up to £8 each Month on Sponsorship Advertising.
• Save $33 on the yearly fee for Premium Listings.

The promo code may be used multiple times for multiple products and services during the month of May. Remember – the code will expire on May 31, 2009 so be sure to take advantage of the 15% discount before it’s too late!
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BOTW is one of the oldest directories online, and seems to be “trusted” by Google. Also, whether or not a site has a BOTW listing is reported by the “SEO for Firefox” plugin, along with DMOZ and Yahoo.

Enjoy the new coupon!

I’ve turned the comments off, permanently.

As much as I enjoyed letting people gain a “dofollow” link from this blog, and strongly advocate the use of “dofollow”, I personally don’t have the time to moderate posts like, “Thanks for such a nice information.I like it.” by someone just looking for a link and using daft “Name” text like, “Metal Buildings” just for the link benefit. Sadly, most comments are like that.

I know this blog is on lists of “dofollow” blogs, and I also know that people are outsourcing the task of posting on blogs such as these to India, Thailand and other exotic locations for probably two bucks per hour or a nickel per comment. I wouldn’t mind that if people read the posts and wrote thoughtful comments with their true Name and a keyword or two in the name section. What I object to is having to spend my time, which I value at $1,000 per hour, moderating rubbish comments. I’m not going to pay an outsourcer to moderate the rubbish comments either, that just seems like it would extend the problem.

So, comments are turned off. I will still post, and I hope you enjoy the content.

My friend and mentor, Michael Campbell, just announced that his Vault Members will have access to a weekly “question and answer” teleseminar as a free bonus.

As Michael says,

“Every Wednesday starting May 06 2009 we’ll be having a weekly teleseminar for all Vault members. The price? There’s no additional cost. It’s included as part of your Vault membership.

So come join me and the rest of the Dynamic Media community crew. This is your chance to participate in hype-free, open and honest environment with your peers.

Each week will feature a fresh topic like; SEO, social media, advertising, conversion, product creation, market research, autoresponders, or some other internet marketing essential.

Then after the featured topic we “open the phone lines” on any topic for your participation. So come join us. Ask whatever you like. And get your questions answered.”

Check out Michael’s Dynamic Media Vault here.

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