Dirty way to get Zip Code from a visitors IP, City and State using MaxMind GeoIP

As we mentioned in our previous post, the MaxMind geoip database doesn’t do too well with getting the zip code of users that visit your sites. We had a use today to grab the zipcode and popular an area of our site with it, and we’re going to show you how to do it as well. This assumes you already have GEOIP working, and are using the standard free database, and our zipcode database tutorial....

August 27, 2009 · 3 min · 464 words · Matt G

WFReview 2.0.3 released – bug fixes, 2.8 support and more!

If you’re a long time follower, you probably remember my review of WFReview on my old site, Optimizing Advertising. I’ve since got rid of that god awful domain and have moved on to this wicked cool one. I’ve been using WFReview since pretty much the minute it came out. I’m running a bunch of local directory sites using it, and while I haven’t seen a million dollars in profit yet, I’ve been steadily ranking higher and higher for my niches and getting lots of legit comments to the sites and traffic is steadily increasing....

August 20, 2009 · 3 min · 452 words · Matt G

ASE 2009 NYC – Summary as seen through a newbie Canadian affiliate marketers eyes.

So, as you can see from my diary entry, a lot was accomplished at Affiliate Summit 2009 in New York City. While it may look like all we did was drink, which is probably pretty true, there was a lot of business conducted at the same time. And not to mention a helluva lot of networking opportunities. I met with a number of people from Wicked Fire, and a bunch of other network owners, affiliates, other people in related industries and a whole tonne of affiliate managers....

August 19, 2009 · 3 min · 495 words · Matt G

Wicked Times at Affiliate Summit East 2009 in New York City

Instead of writing some long and complicated post about what my experience at ASE 2009 was like, I thought I would present it in a simple diary format to make reading easier. I’ll be following this post up with an overall summary of my experiences, this is meant more as a timeline of what my time was like and also as a travelogue for myself; Saturday August 08 – 2009 Woke up and left for the Airport to catch my flight to Toronto....

August 19, 2009 · 10 min · 2105 words · Matt G

Guide Site Builder Makes Lead Generation Easy

NOTE THIS SOFTWARE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE In the race to victory in the online and offline marketing worlds, the winners are typically those that can gather the most prospects and leads, and successfully market to them. With the challenge being reaching prospective customers – how do you leverage the Internet to help do the work for you? Enter Guide Site Builder – the new software package designed to quickly and easily generate an unlimited amount of “guide” websites – websites that host some sort of data like an e-book, recipe list, or other marketing collateral, that the user must input their contact information to receive....

July 29, 2009 · 3 min · 580 words · Matt G