Did you know that people made millions arbitraging traffic online?

Before getting into online marketing, I would have never imagined that in the period between 2003-2007 people got rich by buying online traffic and by sending it to affiliate programs to earn commissions. Did you know that some of them faced the problem that they would not have enough cash to buy more traffic since they could buy almost unlimited amounts of it.
Basically they would buy so many millions page views, send them to an affiliate program that would pay them a commission for each sale. They would know, out of experience, that a certain percentage of traffic would always convert into buyers. So if the put in a 100 bucks they would generate 200 bucks of commissions. Would they put in 100000 they would get 200000 out of it. What a nice business problem to have…

The same thing was done with Facebook ads… cheap targeted traffic. Well some people still do it today with highly sophisticated systems where they generate thousands of ads and buy thousands of computer generated Google keywords and sort them out by performance. Manually this probably cannot be done anymore. If you happen to know otherwise please get in touch with me and share.

Another nice post for my PR generation project.

Really random thoughts. Read only if you have nothing else to do.

As I continue to generate content for this blog in order to get a good PR ranking for it, I realize how addictive blogging could be.. if you had an actual audience. Now since no one actually visits this blog for now I am projecting random thoughts without hard fact into the universe. However, I hope that someone will actually find some of this stuff useful although I would not know what for.

What is the worst case scenario for me writing about thoughts? In the worst case I will be really happy at some point in the future that I wrote all of this as I will be nostalgic about the current present at some point in the future. If you are reading this, and I am addressing myself in the future, no matter what year it is now, I would appreciate a comment. By the way, who knows, may be 500 years from now, there will be historians trying to dig up historical blog post to understand how our society was led to destruction or something like that…

Nice, this is another blog post, however, I am not including any interesting keywords here. Nor do I cross link to other post. In terms of search engine optimization, this is bad practice. What is my keyword density on… anyways that is enough…

Poor social animal

Having lived in the most expansive place in the world and finding myself now in a very primitive place, I can quickly spot differences in the way that the internet is changing the society.
(Hold on I just noticed that this WordPress installation is generation incorrect permalinks which is not search engine friendly. I know its freaky, but I will be back)
Ok, the permalinks were setup correctly I just did not have title of the post set up yet. Sorry.

So were did I leave you. Ah yes. Where as the wealthier people have a full Wifi setup connected to all kinds of Apple equipment, Apple TV, Wireless harddisks, iPhones, iPods, iPads,… yeah I think you got it, the primitive way to connect is to have a simple mobile phone with ICQ installation. Of course you wont have any serious functionality with it, but this is when it stroke me: It is not about how many GBs you download per second it is about what are you using it for in the real world. If you actually meet people and ditch your girlfriend on ICQ with the simplest device, it has a much larger impact in the real world than you uploading your HD holiday video on your Apple iBook Pro to Facebook or Youtube where no one gives a care…

One would think that societies with a low average income would not be interested in social networking as they would have other things to worry about? Wrong. They spend half of their free time connecting with friends and watch each others lives on those social networks. Yes, I may be generalizing a bit, but I must admit that I was surprised to hear how much time Russians spend on networks such as vKontakte.ru. I don’t remember the exact figure but it is something like 12h on average… a day. I know this sounds ridiculous and I do not have a source to back it up as I heard it on the local radio, but it could be actually true… When you see how many people are online after midnight, you will be shocked. (You can see that via the functionality how many friends of someone are online)

The human being is definitely a social animal no matter what your status is.

A thought on unique content generation

Unique content generation by generating random thoughts

Since I first registered this domain name back in 1999 I have never come around creating anything meaningful here. I think this is primarily related to the fact that I am using my real name in the domain itself, so no matter what I put up here it will be directly appreciated with my name.

How am I going to deal with this? This is a nicely aged domain that unfortunately I dropped sometime in the past and had re register it. From the SEO point of view this was naturally a mistake as it is now not as powerful as it could be in terms of Google PR with a new registration date.

Believe it or not, no matter what type of content you produce today, if accumulated and organized, can be useful, even to earn money. Interestingly enough, we do generate a lot of content but we happen to spread it all over the web. Would you accumulate all of this unique content in a single blog, then you could have powerful website in Google’s eyes and links from your page would actually become very valuable.

So here we go, I begin to accumulate thoughts an various subjects in this blog. While typing this I imagine how great it would be to generate original content with an automatic voice recognition software. This would make it so much easier to generate unique content. Hmmm.. could this be actually done today with reasonable effort? Let me check that.

E-business in Switzerland – Is the pond deep enough?

Freelancing at bitzli.com, I came across thousands of Swiss websites and naturally quite a few businesses online. Now, there is no doubt that e-business in Switzerland has tremendous potential, considering the perfect postal system, trust into financial transactions online, the high level of internet penetration as well as high standard of living. However, I wonder if at a cultural level the Swiss will be capable of connecting online and develop sharing communities besides Facebook, where one had “no choice” but to join at some point? Is the pond of participating Swiss citizens deep enough? Will the Swiss internet finally pick up steam? Never wondered why Blogging is a profession in the US while in Switzerland blogging has almost 0 commercial value? Would it not be ironic for the social internet to fail in this wonderful direct democracy?