Category Archives: Internet

Direct Line Insurance, Google, Internet, Stolen Car

Insurance company keeps tabs on MrDaz.com

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While checking my website stats this morning I noticed a very interesting referral from an unknown source. It seems that 7 times between September 8th and September 22nd I have received visitors from a desktop application that checks claims history…

Interesting. This means that my website has a link pasted into it in someone’s application at an Insurance company, and they’ve been regularly clicking on the link to view my site. Obviously unknowing that I can track them. Now the question is, is this Royal & Sun Alliance or is it Direct Line?

Whoever it is, their reference in the database for my site is: 67752 – as you can see from this screen shot of my stats from Google Analytics.

Insurance statistics

Hello people from the Insurance company! Nice to see you frequent my website. If it’s Direct Line looking at my site, don’t worry, the financial ombudsman will be in touch shortly, but if it’s Royal & Sun Alliance as I suspect, deal with my last letter as instructed. Fix my damn car as you should have done over a year ago and send me the money you owe me.

If you spent more time dealing with your claims and doing your job instead of browsing my (admittedly very amusing) website you wouldn’t have any of the trouble you have now.

Direct Line Insurance, Humour, Internet, Stolen Car

Direct Line reject MrDaz as an affiliate

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As an affiliate marketer I’m always on the lookout for new opportunities to make money from different merchants. While browsing through Tradedoubler last week I noticed some adverts for Direct Line Insurance… you may remember that Direct Line are the scam merchants who tried to reposess my car after paying out the wrong person.

Well, as a website for this merchant I added none other that MrDaz.com. Guess what? I received this reply from the theiving bastards.

From: TradeDoubler [mailto:no_reply@ext.tradedoubler.com]
Sent: 23 September 2007 22:01
To: ***@*******.***
Subject: TradeDoubler application declined / denied

Unfortunately your application for http://www.mrdaz.com to Direct Line have been denied.

The most likely reason is that the merchant did not think that the content of your site was suitable for them. To see if the merchant has a specific criteria when evaluatating affiliate sites, please see the merchant program page.

Best regards,

TradeDoubler

The funny thing us of course, whenever I mention Direct Line on this blog I get Direct Line adverts pop up from Google Adsense, so their ads are on here anyway. Doubt my site is much of an advert though. If you want to be ripped off and lose the whole value of your car, go with Direct Line. I did, and my car is still sat dormant 14 months on!

Internet

Just Search offers Affiliate Marketing

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Just Search now has an Affiliate Marketing department, the details of which can be seen on their websie. I’m quite pleased about this because I’m involved with it, and will be using my many long years (am I that old?) of experience to help Just Search build this department and their client base.

If you need to know more about it, have a look at the affiliate page on Just Search, or pop along to ad:tech next week where Just Search will be there on the 26th and 27th September.

Internet

Mr Daz goes to WordPress

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It had to happen. I’ve been running my own ASP developed Blog now for nearly a year and I’ve finally given in to the WordPress junkies who’ve hounded me every single day while at work, banging on about how simple it is, how it has so many pluggins and how it even has a poo pluggin?

Never mind.

Well, I’ve taken the bait and gone all Wordy on my Blog’s ass. All of my old blogs will be migrated across this weekend – including the podcasts, so don’t worry you chaps from Direct Line, RSA and BT… I’ve not forgotten you x.

Internet, SEO

Getting a generic term to #1 in Google

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Now I’m not usually one to toot my own horn… yeah right. I’m more the sort to plug my horn into an amplifier, crank it up to full power and conduct a live webcast while I blast the crap out of it. So with that in mind, I just wanted to show some SEO muscle flexing. If you’ve got ’em, flex ’em; and why the hell not.

How hard is it to get a website to #1 in Google for a generic term? Well, try the term ‘Lingerie‘. You’ll see, or should do at the time of writing, that the website Lingerie Confidential is #1.

Here’s a screenshot of the SERPs

I’m not about to reveal how this was done obviously. What am I, a charity?

Internet, SEO, Transformers

Dmoz take action against Transformers

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It seems my ongoing dispute with the guys at Dmoz has taken a nasty turn for the worst. My calling them corrupt and insisting they abuse their power and take bribes for inclusions has caused them to lash out at me. How? The corrupt bastards have removed one of my sites from the directory. www.thetransformers.net has been in Dmoz for years, and is a 7 year old domain crammed with content, yet they, in their infinite corruption have decided to remove it.

I don’t mind really, it just shows how childish and corrupt they are. It won’t effect the site’s rankings one iota, so good luck Dmoz, we won’t miss you when you crumble.