Azoogle Refers, Adblockers, eBay Devcon, and Url Structure

Its been a bit since i did a Monday questions post. Sorry I got caught up. Keep them coming ;) James Writes:

Would be interesting to know how much you personally make from az referrals, since I read that you have more referrals under you than anyone else. Blog about it, fill us in!

First you have to keep in mind that I do not think I have ever used my affiliate ID when linking out to Azoogle and most of the time in the past I have posted there direct phone number (even my reps number) so I probably do not get near the people I have actually referred. Reason mainly being is that AzoogleAds has always been a sponsor of the shoemoney blog since we started doing advertising and I kind of feel like that would be double dipping and dirty... However to answer your question I have about 45 refers and consistently make between 400-500$ per month from them alone. Pat Writes:

I have a topic for your Mondays question that I have been thinking about.... What is the effect of AdBlocks on the Net Advertising Market? Here is a blog post I did on it from my view (on my new blog):

Good question Pat- Here is my thoughts on adblocking software and plugins... people savy enough to install them are not clicking on ads. I mean thats as easy as I can put it. When you have to worry is when browsers come default blocking ads. THEN THE WORLD COMES TO A END!. I really do not think that would happen though.... Microsoft is just getting into the online advertising world and Firefox's biggest contributors are advertising companies. Not smart to bite the hand that feeds you! Tye Writes:

Hi Jeremy How's things? What would you do with a 2003 ringtone domain name? Content Site, Aff marketing, PPC marketing, white label site?

hmmm I am guessing your using 2003 as the year the domain was registered and if that assumption is correct I am guessing your asking what do you do with a domain that does well in serps for ringtone phrases? If that is the case then I would try to build a content site. You will burn a site out pretty bad in serps if it has only affilaite links on it (in my experience). Tanya writes:

Shoe I saw that you are giving a presentation on SEO at eBay devcon in boston next month? What made you choose SEO?

I was asked by eBay to give a presentation on SEO and I said that if I did it would not be a classic by the book presentation but rather one based purely on my experiences. Basically not a "webmaster guidelines for seo" but more here is what I did that worked and here is what I did that did not work. They were cool with that and so its on ;) I can promise for those in attendence it will be kind of the alternative view to SEO (much like my contextual presentations). Darcy Writes:

Hi Jeremy, I have a sports card trading/community site that ranks well in google and I don't want to screw that up. For programming purposes, and the site's current crappy navigation structure, I'm looking at possibly having to change from a .asp to a .aspx on the home page of my site. Will this hurt my google page ranking?

My first question would be why do you need to change from asp to aspx. I am not a asp wizard but I am guessing you can tell the server to process asp pages like aspx ? If you must switch over the url structure you need to be very delicate. Again I am not a asp ninja but in the unix world we use mod_rewrite to redirect old urls to point to the new ones. Maybe someone can point out a guide to the Microsoft IIS equiv to mod_rewrite. Hope everyone is having a good memorial day!