Calculate Per Word Cost: Free Tool For Copywriters

NOTE LOST ALL BACKUPS, THIS POST IS BUNK NOW :( For the past day or two we’ve been talking to a few internet copywriter friends about their business. It became apparent to us that they could use a little calculator to aide them in quoting clients and prospects. Of course, anyone can use the regular calculator in every OS to create these types of quotes but sometimes it’s nicer to have something generate one specific to the industry....

January 30, 2009 · 3 min · 471 words · Matt G

YieldBuild Comparison Results for 30 Day Test

While we love the guys over at Yieldbuild, and we love the idea behind their software we’re just not sure all the bugs or worked out, or it’s completely possible that the site we’re trying it has far too low traffic to make a difference. We had decided to run a test with YieldBuild for 30 days vs regular adsense. Here’s what we came out with: Nov 15 – Dec 15 Adsense Only...

January 18, 2009 · 1 min · 176 words · Matt G

Canadian Government Web Site Infiltrated with Adult Lingerie Affiliate Advertising.

This is rather interesting, it looks like one of the Canadian Governments web site, a place called “The Red Planet” has left blog posting open, and got pwned. According to the Ottawa Citizen article that we were sent, someone logged into the Red Planet web site, which is usually geared towards getting children interested in colonizing mars, and started posting affiliate ads to the site for sexy adult lingerie and sex toys....

November 21, 2008 · 2 min · 279 words · Matt G

A Simple way to Increase CTR with Google Adsense

Many sites Adsense monitization sites will try to sell you this information in their Ebook’s or through mailing lists or other such tactics. Instead, Optimized Advertising has decided to give it to you for free. One way that you can dramatically increase (or decrease if you’re not careful!) your CTR ratio using Google’s Adsense program is to simply enable the multiple color palettes option for your Ad Units. When you are logged into your Adsense control panel, click the Adsense Setup button located on the top Toolbar....

June 27, 2008 · 2 min · 260 words · Matt G

New Service Lets Canucks Opt Out of Telemarketing. Yay!

Even though I have asterisk blocking telemarketers to voicemail hell, I figure this is still of significance for our readers. This new service launched by Micheal Geist.. Here’s a description he wrote about his new creation.. Regular readers of my work will know that I have been frustrated by Canada’s do-not-call list, which contains far too many exceptions and has taken an embarrassingly long time to become operational. In response, today I am launching iOptOut, a website that will allow Canadians to opt-out of further phone calls (and emails) from dozens of organizations with a single click....

April 2, 2008 · 1 min · 173 words · Matt G