Monthly Archives: November 2007

Internet

You Send It FREE trial

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The Internet’s leading business file upload website YouSendIt.com is offering a FREE trial of its service for 1 month. What they offer is a way to send those large files such as documents, files for print, photographs and applications without the need to use FTP or risk an email filter blocking them out.

Having worked in a design agency I know the annoyance of one of the designers emailing a 1.6GB attachment to a client and then wondering why it hasn’t gotten through (Clare) so a site like YouSendIt.com would be invaluable.

Best of all, with a 1 month FREE trial you’ve nothing to lose. If you need to send large files to clients regularly and don’t use YouSendIt.com, give it a try. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Send, Receive and Track files- branded for your company with YouSendIt. Start Your FREE Trial!

Their regular package starts from $9.99 per month, that’s less than £5 Sterling.

Affiliate Marketing, Google

Shoemoney’s $132,994.97 Adsense earnings in a single month

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I first saw this cheque from Internet money maker Shoemoney sometime last year and it’s always intrigued me that money like this can be made from Adsense. Well, now Google have granted Jeremy permission to put up his full stats for the month in question, the month where he made $132,994.97 from Adsense.

We can see from his screen grab that his CTR isn’t particularly high, meaning he could have optimised the ads on his page a little better. We can also see that his eCPM isn’t very high either. What he does have that’s incredibly high is traffic. Pure, raw traffic. Almost 500,000 page views per day. That’s impressive, but with that sort of traffic my sites would net considerably more that the $133K he made.

That’s decided then, I need some traffic. The mission begins.

Halloween, Michael Jackson

Halloween 2007

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This Halloween I went to Leeds for a right royal drinkathon, and this time I went as Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I think the costume worked great with my expensive Thriller jacket, and thanks to Marijan’s make-up expertise the haunted Zombie style face paint worked a treat.

Of course I was a little too scary to actually talk to anyone as most people ran a mile from me. At least that’s the excuse I’m giving.

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Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

Royal & SunAlliance tell lies

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This morning I telephoned Royal & SunAlliance once again about my car that was stolen 16 months ago now, in July 2006. You might remember that I sent them a final demand letter in September instructing them to fix my car and to pay me what they owe me. The letter was addressed to Zoe Banks, and naturally she hasn’t responded some 6 weeks later.

So this morning I phoned her up. Surprisingly she was on the other line and someone insisted I’d get a call back today about my car, as I explained that I’d been waiting 16 months for them to fix it and thought I’d waited long enough. Again the person apologised for my distress, as they always do.

Guess what? That’s right, I haven’t had a call back.

But then, why would I get a call back? Why would an insurance company actually fix a car they’re liable to fix? That would be crazy, like this whole situation. Suffice to say I will keep calling them and keep exposing their lies, broken promises and their utter failure to do their job right here on MrDaz.com – unless of course they actually fix my car…

What are the chance of that? 😉

Google, SEO

Regional targeting with Google Webmaster Tools

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This week Google added a new option to its Webmaster Tools allowing you to set regional targeting for your website. This is very useful because it answers the problem of having a non regional specific TLD hosted abroad still being able to rank for a regional search.

Google Webmaster ToolsFor example, the website featured in the screenshot is a .com hosted in Germany, but by allowing regional targeting as I’ve just done it will rank for a UK search.

Obviously you need to be very careful when making changes like this as you can affect your global rankings. For example the website WhatDVD.Net is also hosted in Germany but I won’t be regionally targeting that to the UK because I want it to rank for US based users as well.

Regional targeting is a great and welcome tool, but don’t shut out wider, potentially more profitable markets for it.

Halloween, Michael Jackson

Another student Halloween party

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It may be November 2nd, but as it’s Friday I’ll be off to a Halloween party in Leeds university tonight, just as I did last year. Thought I doubt tonight’s party will go the same way, last year’s was particularly good ;).

I’ll be taking my new Nokia N95 camera phone with me to give it a thorough field test so there should be some great photos on here some time over the weekend. I’ll also let you know how the N95 holds up as I saw a comparison with the iPhone on the Gadget Show this week that saw the N95 kick the iPhone’s ass.

As regular readers will know, this year I’m dressing as Michael Jackson from the Thriller video.