Author: Shock Marketer

  • What is a RON Campaign?

    RON campaign Run Of Network Campaign; typically used in media buys.  A campaign in which your ad(s) will be displayed on all of the advertising network’s sites. I recently ran a campaign through an advertising network’s whole network. That was a mistake.  Although I had very low-cost of impressions and a tremendous amount of clicks,…

  • GeoIP Country Location – PHP Script

    Basically, this PHP script utilizes MaxMind‘s free database for determining the country of an IP address. Download: Step 1) Get country-redirect.php Step 2) Get the most recent IP-country database. Step 3) Extract, then upload both files to the same directory. Demo: You may see where it thinks you are from. Once you download the script,…

  • Google & Yahoo: How to Stop Internal Duplicate Content

    I’m slightly surprised, but both Google and Yahoo decided to tell webmasters how they can prevent onsite duplicate content issues.  Both sites published the posts about 15 minutes apart; perhaps this was discussed at SMX. From Yahoo! search blog: To do this, specify a <link> tag in the <head> section of your page content: <link…

  • Affiliate Networks with Datafeeds

    I’ve been using a lot of datafeeds lately, and thought I’d quickly list a few.  Datafeeds are helpful in the automation of generating product links.  These feeds are also likely to have descriptions, images, and other product information in the form of XML or CSV. A few affiliate networks Buy.at (mostly UK-based) ClixGalore (fairly international)…

  • Most Effective Stupid Bowl Commercials 2009

    When talking to regular people (people that are not marketers or affiliates), the top mentioned commercials were Denny’s and Disney’s 3D commercials: Denny’s – Thugs Disney’s 3D Halftime Preview – Promo I didn’t watch all of the commercials but just a few of them. This is really what shock marketing is about – standing out…