Hey Zinc
Just got up to go to work and noticed this...
...Dya know something mate, I've been around this forum for quite a while now and I often chip in if I think I can help (okay I come up with a lot of sh@t most of the time but I always mean well) and you are the only one who has chipped in with some well meant advice, even though my page warranted some serious and obvious criticism.
Thanks very much Zinc, the advice is appreciated. Just to let you know though mate, I wrote to google and MSN prior to putting the page up and laid out my ideas (they being that, although I realised I wasn’t giving much quality to the user in terms of what I was shouting about they did have the choice (by way of all the 120x60 links on the page) to go and shop at any of the retailers featured there. I explained that I wasn't bothered about the crap click through rate I was surely going to receive, I just wanted traffic to start flowing through the officejockey domain ahead of my launch in July.
They responded (both) to say they were completely happy with my intentions and off I went.
I didn't even have to tell them that every penny I earn from 12th May till I launch in July is going to charity - that would have been my follow up mail were it needed.
Actually, the real reason I wanted the page up early was to highlight the fact that I
am willing to pay for the office party of small to medium businesses with a certain level of yearly budget to spend as long as they spend it through my links - and in that respect it has been an astounding success in the contacts I have made - the cheque I received for 626 quid off affiliate window yesterday morning is now winging its way to the qe cancer ward and to me (until I launch of course) is a complete irrelevance, and will remain so.
It was so good to get out of bed this morning and find someone is still out there willing to point a total stranger in the right direction – THANK YOU ZINC. I WILL KEEP MY EYE OUT FOR YOU AND IF I CAN OFFER YOU ANY WORTHWHILE ADVICE, PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT I WILL.
Have a great day mate!!
On an aside, out of 5,300 keywords/phrases the majority of my clicks (65ish%) has come from one term “quality office supplies”, google are being reasonable with me on every single other term but I wonder if it is coincidence that they have upped my bid price for this NINE times in three weeks – ha ha, perhaps they are not the nice crowd I have (almost) portrayed them as above – I’ve ditched the term (at least until they get back to me) and
am thinking of ditching them, have you got a view on that mate?
Mark
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