While I’m not in the habit of blogging about my aff sites, This is somthing that’s a little disturbing to me.

I have a Coupon Codes site, and have a special section set up for Mother’s Day. Problem I see is that the top Keyword searches that are bring people in include… “affordable”, “Discount, “Cheap” etc…

While thats my business, I find it a little disturbing that people are looking to cheap-out on Mom. I mean c’mon! How much money has she blown on your worthless ass over the last 20, 30 or 40 years? And by the way… If you’re 40 and still living with Mom, You need to first pay off her house then promptly remove yourself from the gene pool.

Spend a few bucks on mom this Mother’s day. What the hell is wrong with you people?

While I’m not exactly new to Affiliate marketing, I do often create new sites. Sometimes it may be for a niche that I just discovered and want to jump into to test the waters. Well… Along with this you need to sign up for those programs. Problem is, your new site has zero traffic and your application is declined. It’s happened to me a million times.

I know the site I have are relevant to the product, I have no offensive material on them so the last reason (which they usually lest out the possibilities in their denial email) is lack of visitors. My site is 48 hours old!

Today I got an email from a company for whom I am an affiliate but got jabbed again!

“Many of you operate coupon or discount code oriented sites. If you have a strong visitor audience, we are happy to create a special discount code for you, along with creative targeted for your site. You have only to request it.”

For the site in question I do get visitors. Not a lot but I’m working on it. It’s only 3 weeks old! And don’t you think that having an exclusive deal that isn’t on 4 million other sites would help get more visitors? I do.

Oh well, I’ll keep plugging along I guess. My plan is that one day, These guys will be coming to me asking me to join their program. I’ll save a copy of the generic rejection letter so I have something to send them in reply when they do.

Well I haven’t been updating this blog as often as I had planned. I’ve been very busy working on my affiliate sites lately.

Get Clicky may be old news to some but I just discovered it and I gotta say, it’s pretty cool. I’ve complained in the past about how Google Analytics reporting is off. And I’ve been searching for a new analytics solution for a while.

I just installed this on a few sites today so I’m gonna give it a week or so and then I’ll post a more thorough review. If you’re looking for an alternative to google though it’s worth checking out.

So check out Get Clicky or check back here in a week or two and I’ll put up a full review.
Maybe it’ll end up sucking. I just don’t have enough information to really talk about it at the moment though.

Well I thought it would be cool. It’s not!
I watched the video and it looks sweet. Some of the added stuff like the gallery is very nice, Although I have to figure out how to get the thumbs  adjusted so portrait pictures don’t get chopped off at the top and bottom. Other than that it’s pretty cool. My one question is… What the hell did they do to the admin pages?

It’s nice but completely different.  Everything is moved around, renamed and just weird. They removed all of the page, post and category ID’s? All I can say is…WTF?
Someone has already written a plugin to help but category ID’s aren’t shown yet. But knowing how many plugins are out there that require a specific ID in order to function, I can’t imagine what made them think it would be a good idea to leave them out.

I’m sure I’ll grow to love it eventually but I personally this change was too drastic. Fortunately all of my plugins still seem to be functional, but  I’ll be waiting  to upgrade any of my other sites until I get used to it.

Is April 1st over yet? I’ve had enough of the stupid jokes. They aren’t funny. I have yet to see one, of the bazillion I’ve seen today, that even made me chuckle.

From Gmails stupid “Custom Time” page to infoworlds attempt at humor with their “Google to acquire U.S. government” story to ThinkGeeks “Betamax to HD-DVD Converter“. I mean c’mon! This isn’t about ripping off The The Onion. It’s about putting believable stuff out there. Not just writing crappy satirical articles about non existing product. You used to do a good job of this, Google. What happened ?

Regardless, enough is enough. It’s not funny, It is if it’s done well but you all suck at it, it’s just annoying. Get rid of this crap and put something useful up again.