Wingnut SEO

A while back I started my own Denver SEO company because I couldn’t put up with all the BS that goes along with working for an SEO company in Denver and I didn’t like driving to Boulder every day to do SEO for someone else.

Since I started my Denver SEO website I have had so much work I have not had any time to even design out my site. Great news on that front - I have had such great success that I have found a designer to get to work and bring my very bare bones site to life. I am announcing it here as the 10k Things site is under going some serious modifications and the Blog there hasn’t been moved yet.

Thanks to everyone who has supported me while I got my own Denver SEO business off the ground. It’s amazing how much local work has been coming to me to do SEO work for them - Both in Boulder and Denver.

Be sure to get over to my Denver/Boulder based SEO company and check it out when it’s finally up to snuff with a great design near the end of November.

I am pleased to announce the recently registered LLC 10k Things. After being canned from my last job (even after getting a great job 2 hours later) I started to really take things more seriously. The SEM world is always changing and clients come and go – how secure is my new job?

So I did what any Freelancer turned Agency Worker doing side freelance work would do – Took it up a notch with my freelance work. I have always worked with designers and PPC consultants to help with my freelance clients – but now it’s official a company. The launch of the new internet marketing company site, 10kThings.com, should happen later this evening.

It’s pretty cool. We have been working together for a while now and interestingly enough we can do the exact same things any large agency can but for a much lower cost – As we have ZERO overhead.

We will see how things go – we have a few proposals out and a couple clients already signed. Who knows this thing could get huge… here’s to hoping.

To those wondering I will be keeping my full time job - and they were cool that I was working side work when they hired me as they encourage the entrepreneurial spirit. I am really happy where I am with this company and 10k Things will not be a direct competitor with where I am now. The current company I am with is much more large scale than anything 10k Things will be for quite some time.

Right now it’s just a fun project to bring in a little extra money with taking on a few clients and try something new.

I have now had Rubicon Project Ads running on 4 sites for 7 days - And I have to tell you, so far, I’m impressed. The sites I have this on are as follows:

• http://PrettyMuchAwesome.org - terrible click through rate but where 95% of my impressions came from
  
• http://BuySomeHappiness.com - Good click through rate - 95% of clicks came from here
  
• http://OutThereAds.com - terrible click through rate
  
• And of course right here at WingnutSEO -Clickthroughs poor

Impressions - 62,673
Clicks - 169
Revenue - 54.72 - Really not bad for 7 days and only having it on 4 sites.  As the goal for any site should be to make more money than it costs to run.

So you may have noticed I now have ads on my site. I recently heard about this ad network Rubicon Project and so I signed up for the beta. What this network does is pull ads from a bunch of different networks and throws them on your site - apparently Google ads is one as they are showing up (I’m personally banned from using Google ads thanks to some shady things I used to be involved in.)

Anyway, I’ll let you all know how it goes/what kind of CPM I find with it. I hear it’s a fairly decent system but I suppose we’ll see.

If you haven’t seen it already check out my recent article over on Adotas.com - “The obsession all marketers should have” - I’m going to be a monthly contributer over there, third Wednesday of every month.

If you’re a regular reader here you may also notice I have removed the translate from the sidebar. I had originally put it up as a test to see if people liked it or not - the resounding answer was they didn’t. Turns out people who read my work would rather read it in english even when that was not their primary language - Thanks to everyone who sent me an email or posted a comment about that plug-in.

Finally I was able to get around to making my URL’s more user/search engine friendly… What it did was ruin all my sphinn numbers - but the redirects are in place so the links from sphinn still go to the right places.

So as my fame grows I get named more and this time with 74 other awesome SEO/SEM/Social Media/Blogging people - This time I was called an “Internet Marketing Guru (on Twitter)”

So check it out - I follow most of the people listed, but added a few thanks to the great list by Brian Chappell. Thanks for the mention and everyone should check it out.

And if you don’t already you should FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER!

Now with twice the annoyance of Google ads! Net Audio Ads - The Pay Per Play ones - are coming and you can sign up for them and start getting money in February.

So Pay-Per-Play ads are geared up to bombard the web and all the pages you visit with 5 second audio ads. Greeeeeat. The sad thing is, it’s probably going to catch on. They say they pay out (up-to) $28 CPM… meaning for 1000 page views you get 28 buck-o-roos for people listening to these clips (that they claim will be relevant to the content on the page). Thing about them, you don’t need clicks - just plays - so it’s intriguing.

But wait, there’s more! It’s also totally a Pyramid scheme you get people to sign up for these Net Audio PPP Ads and you make 5% of what the advertiser spends on ads on their site… and 5% of what advertisers spend on the people they refer sites. Or some nonsense like that. It is only a 3 tiered system, so not a perfect pyramid but still… it will make people refer their asses off.

If it works… could be some good money in it… especially if you live in the blog-o-sphere and know a lot of people with scraper and spam sites who get a lot of traffic and are able to get them to sign up… Wait a second, I live in the blog-o-sphere and know a lot of spammy-spammersons. Hey guys, help your old friend Wingnut out and sign up for these pay per play - net audio ads here.

Google the “Borg” like entity of the interwebs has long kept record of what you search for, where you live, what you do, where you like to shop, what you buy - it even spiders your email so it can hit you in the face with more directed advertising.

And we have been taking it. Taking it and liking it and asking - begging them not to stop. You wouldn’t give this kind of information to your best friend. Why give it to a faceless monster that grows each day - getting larger, swelling by the second with the information of millions of people. Confidential and personal used to mean something. The Google cares not.

Why - no - HOW do we let this stand? Big brother is no longer a dream written in a book somewhere, it is reality. We are being watched. Little by little our online anonymity - our privacy - is being sucked away and we let it happen. We let them take all that we have and we don’t say a word about it.

I will not let this continue. I will not let Google continue to take what belongs to me.

How will I do this? With a new promise to myself for the new year. 2008 will mark the time when I no longer feed the Google Monster with my data, my information, my email. No more will I search with their pages or use their email or other glittery free tools - designed solely to sucker me into compliance and acceptance of their awesome power, their ability to control the internet and to decide how I surf or sell advertising.

I am moving to Ask. What? Am I insane? Ask is the lamest of the lame and with 4% of the search market, what is the point?

The point, my friends, is AskEraser - The tool that could possibly save the internet from the evil that all of this personal information databasing will one spew onto the masses - destroying privacy and leaving nothing in its wake.

From their site: “At Ask.com, we believe that you as a user should have the power to control the usage of your search history. When enabled, AskEraser will completely delete your search queries and data from Ask.com servers, including: your IP address, User ID and Session ID cookies, as well as the complete text of your search query”

THE USER SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL THE USAGE OF SEARCH HISTORY! THE USER SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL THE USAGE OF SEARCH HISTORY!

The internet has come a long way and with its evolution we have just accepted what the search engines have told us. They need our information, to help us. They will never use our information against us - This IS BULLSHIT. We should not let them keep force feeding us this. We should not let this continue.

Now is the time to leave. Before it becomes too large to stop, before it takes so much from us we cannot fight. Do not let this information database continue indexing everything you do.

Free yourself before it is too late. Take back what is yours. Keep your privacy.

Here is an image from where some of my Organic traffic is coming from for this month thanks to Google Analytics. Obviously high traffic keywords

Hah. Haha… Who is searching for this?

The page they find is about how having boobs makes boys like you.

I was looking over my analytics today and noticed that a large portion of my traffic is coming from places that don’t use English as their primary language.

I don’t know how accurate this information is but it got me thinking… if they are finding me though stumble or digg or elsewhere what happens if they don’t speak English very well/at all?

So I did what anyone who values ALL of their traffic SHOULD do and went out and found an “auto-translation” plugin. If you don’t see it, scroll down a little it’s underneath MyBlogLog Reader list in the sidebar (while your there take a second and join my community.)

I speak a little Spanish so from what I can tell it looks like it works fairly well.

It’s pretty cool. I found it over at carlosquiles.com that was directly linked from the WordPress plugin page.

If anyone of you out there speak a different language - I’d love to have some feedback on how well it actually translates - thanks in advance for any input.

I really appreciate all of the support. Thanks for stopping by to everyone and a very special thank you to my international readers.

I recently found this nifty widget that you now see up in the right corner called “Wijit” or “Lijit Search.” So far, I’m impressed.

It syncs up with all of your social networking profiles and allows people to search for anything and get results from not only your site, but from all the sites in your network of friends.

How cool is that? It lets you search for whatever you want and it gives back results you can trust because you are searching from a blog you trust… it’s basically like asking your favorite blogger what they would recommend… about anything.

I’m letting you all know about it because I want more people to get it… Think how awesome it would be if every blog that you read had this? This is taking social media to the next level because it brings all of the social sites together and allows you to search your friends network for great posts on any topic you want.