I’m constantly amazed at the people on forums that are able to come out and state things as fact that they themselves have not tested.

I have no problem with someone saying In My Opinion but to come out and state something as 100% fact when they have not tested it is just beyond me.

Most of the time the person stating everything as 100% fact don’t have a clue what their talking.

I guess people that believe these people without doing their own home work get exactly what they deserve, Bad Information and Bad Results.

Playing around on the forum today I saw one of those post that you see every time some one brings up the letters PPC.It goes something like SEO is better.

I’ve seen these post over and over anytime the letters PPC come up but I have to wonder is it really better and has anyone tested it?

I believe that both SEO and PPC are important in building a marketing campaign.

But which is the most successful?

I’ve not done any testing myself but would like to take a look at some of the arguments put up by the SEO guys.

1. You don’t have to worry about click fraud with SEO.

This is only partly true. If you spend the time to find keywords no one else is bidding on then you don’t have to worry about click fraud.

Your also able to prevent your keywords from going across publishers sites, which a lot of the people that are bidding on higher keywords do and is the reason so many people that are building AdSesne sites targeting the higher paying keywords don’t see the higher paying clicks.

Done right click fraud should not even be a concern.

I’d recommend finding someone that deals with PPC campaigns and let them handle yours for you.

I wonder how many times people have spent months trying to rank for a certain keyword to find it was to difficult and go in a different direction?

Whats worst, a month worth of hard work lost or a 10 cent click that want convert?

2. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for FREE?

Not sure how many people have spent the time trying to rank a site on the search engines but SEO is not free.

If you hire someone it can be very expensive and if you do it yourself it can be very time consuming.

3. No bid wars.

If your not going after competitive keywords then you don’t really have to worry about this in PPC either.

4. You’re helping to improve search engine relevancy.

This one is true and I rather like it, so I left it in. Of course your job is about making money online so how relevant the search engines are should not be a concern of yours.
5. People trust organic results more and they look there first!

People do tend to look more at organic results and they tend to look there first but the serious people move on to the PPC ads.

Meaning you cut out a lot of the people that are just looking around with no intentions of making a purchase.

Saving on bandwidth and money.

6. Organic results won’t dim or disappear when a budget runs low.

True but then PPC want dim or disappear on the next update.

Also keep in mind that done right you should be making money with each campaign allowing you to continue month after month with an increase in budget and not a decrease, making this idea a little untrue.

I’m sure Ive missed a couple in there but those are the ones mostly used.

Now lets look at why I think PPC is better.

1. Your able to build your pages for your customers and not for the search engines.
2. Your able to use flash or anything else you want to use.
3. Your able to test different pages to see how they convert traffic into customers.
4. The next update is not going to hurt you.
5. Your able to change keywords any time you want.
6. You have total control over what page your visitor will enter your site.
7. You pay for the visitor and not the ranking

Now don’t get me wrong, I believe that organic ranking is a very important part of any marketing campaign, I just don’t believe that it’s better than PPC.

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, I’m not much of a blogger but I do enjoy making money online. We’ve done pretty well for the last 4 years but I’m always looking for new ways to make money.

The last week or so I’ve been looking into making money with blogs and I really like the idea.

I may even become a blogger. (:

I’ve found four companies that will pay you for post PayPerPostCreamAid,inBlogAds and ReviewMe, I’m sure others will be coming out soon enough.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on these and I will be posting mine once I dig into the concept a little more.

Myspace now has a section called Video Section; it’s above the Top Friends Section and below the Who I’d like to Meet Section.

It’s just popped up across the whole site.

It’s strange that Myspace did not do anything to promote it or to let anyone know it was coming.

Video has really started picking up across the Internet. We plan to start making videos on or site the first of next year in order to try and get into the new trend.

I was playing around online today and found another company that is about to do the same thing as PayPerPost but claim to have higher payouts.
It’s not payola: bloggers are required to disclose that reviews are paid, and they are not pressured to make the reviews positive. (Oh, and one other thing: the payouts will be fat.)

Three things;

1. Bloggers have to say that the reviews are being paid for.
2. You do not have to write anything positive
3. The payouts will be fat. I’m thinking he’s saying they will pay more then payperpost.

I like the way the new year is shaping up.

I’m not sure why anyone uses these stupid companies to block their spam mail.

A lot of times I’ll have a question about a product or service and will send an email to the website address only to get back a stupid email that says I have to prove I’m a real person before they will let my email go through.

Talk about making your customers jump through hoops.

While I’m on the subject I guess most of you know about the law suit between Spamhaus and e360.

Spamhaus was ordered to pay $11,715,000.00 plus remove e360 name from their list of spammers.

Spamhaus is a UK company and it appears they decided to go home and stop talking to the US and keep their money.

Now the courts have ordered ICANN to suspend the name but ICANN is saying they don’t have the authority to do that.

style=”font-family: Verdana; color: black”>If the courts figure out they should go to the registry for the .org name which is in the US there is a good chance that name will be suspended.

It’s a crazy ruling; kind of like saying that if you have a court order to pay someone and you don’t pay they will kick you out of your office until you do pay.

Guess it’s time to start using more then one domain name for your business.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. is set to introduce on Wednesday information-sharing software that combines the company’s Web-based Google Spreadsheets with Writely, the word processor it acquired in March.

The combination of Writely and Google Spreadsheets seeks to solve the problem of how people manage and collaborate information stuck in different word processors and spreadsheets by giving individuals or groups Web access to the same data.

Full Story

Not sure how many of you have herd about this story but take a look here.

A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.

She was 14 years old and was having to translate for one of the students who spoke a little English but could not understand everything the teacher was saying.

She felt she was getting behind and asked the teacher if she could move, the teacher got upset and had the little girl arrested.

Is this what our teachers are teaching our kids?

I’m glad mine go to private school.

I found out today that we have two more weeks and the power company will be through with this area.

Guess I will be back full time in about two weeks.

PayPerPost turned me down

I guess I should have counted all my post before submitting to them. I knew I had been a little slack with my blog but I never dreamed that I had not posted 20 post in the last 90 days.

I guess that’s a little worst than just being slack.