I noticed something with the Adwords Content Network the other day, it’s primarily served up through GMail, and only about 10% of the clicks come through the different content sites. Now this is pretty nifty, as you have the ability to get a lot more clicks to an offer, but whatever clicks you do get won’t be targeted at all. After spending a couple hundred dollars with a test offer and getting a few hundred clicks, I only made 1 sale at $20.

The lesson learned is that the content network  (gmail) can give you a lot of traffic, but if you’re not targeting the general audience then you’re going to lose money it seems. I’m still trying different offers, so I’ll have more to report later.

Jake and Amir: Sneaky

Probably the funnest Jake and Amir skit there is. Enjoy!

10. Public Enemies (Release Date: July 2009)

Because Johnny Depp is a freak with every movie he makes and I just want to see what he does as a 1930’s gangster!

9. Inglourious Basterds (Release Date: August 2009)

Quentin Tarantino + Nazi Germany = Movie I want to see!

8. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Release Date: July 2009)

Man, it’s Ice Age. Even though the last one sort of sucked. I have high hopes for Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Release Date: July 2009)

Dumbledore dies! Noooooooo

6. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Release Date: January 2009)

The first two were badass, Rise of the Lycans looks even better. Can’t wait.

5. Watchmen (Release Date: March 2009)

I haven’t read the comics or even heard of Watchmen before. But the trailer looks pretty good and that’s all I need. 🙂

4. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Release Date: June 2009)

More robots, and larger scale. Go Autobots!

3. Star Trek (Release Date: May 2009)

To me the action looks like the movie Serenity, but a little faster.

2. Terminator Salvation (Release Date: May 2009)

I’ve been waiting for this movie most of my life. I really really hope it doesn’t suck!

1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Release Date: May 2009)

Epic! I’m usually a good judge of a movie based on it’s trailer. And from what I’ve seen we’re looking at the best yet to come. Wolverine and Gambit, two of my favorite X-Men heroes! Yes!

I’m really starting to dig Google products. And I usually don’t give into new things so easily. I don’t even have a MySpace or Facebook because.. well.. a couple reason, I just don’t like to try new things at times because I have so much other stuff to work on.

Anyways, if you have a Google account already. From Google’s home page, after you sign in, select My Account from the top of the page and you’ll see all the products you currently have with Google. Scroll to the bottom of your account, and click more to see more products.

Right now I’m using Adsense, Adwords, Analytics, Checkout, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Groups, iGoogle, Knol, Reader, Talk and Webmaster Tools. Sorry for the long list.

I’m really coming to love Webmaster Tools, as it’s helping alot with aspkin.com indexing and ranking.

Adsense and Adwords are a must for any webmaster.

Gmail is a joy compared to old lagging Yahoo! mail.

I haven’t used Google Talk yet, I already have MSN, and Aim.

Docs has come in handy a couple times when Word was acting up.

I’m still trying to get into Reader and Knol. Reader could come in handy if I’m too lazy to read my favorite blogs, and Knol seems like it would have been a good marketing tool, but I just never put the time into it.

All in all Google products continue to amaze me. If you haven’t yet, I recommend you sign-up for a Google account and start exploring.

Aside from the few Google products I mentioned there are dozens more worth your time.

Have fun!

It’s 12:38 AM 11/22/2006, and for the past 10 days DMOZ has been offline? You mean I can’t submit my sites to wait months to get my high PR links from them? Hopefully they’ll be live again soon. 🙁

Some News from Shoemoney, “Ok on to the last big thing I saw. The DMOZ has been down evidently for over 10 days. Down meaning no editors or anyone can log in and do anything. Some of the editors I met at pubcon say its totally F�ed up.. like AOL is telling them its a bad hardware failure. Now I do not know anything first hand but I gotta think that if AOL really cared about it they would not let it be down to its editors for 10 days. I mean how are they going to approve their friends� MFA sites? Anyway as usual when anything happens to dmoz people always wonder if this is the thing that will push Google over the edge to start their own directory or more likely buy an existing well established directory.”

ARG!!!!!

If you are ever expected to handle a huge task of creating, marketing and monetizing 40+ websites, you’re in a world of hurt if you aren’t organized!

First off using a solid FTP and website editing software is key! I personally use GlobalSCAPE – CuteFTP and Macromedia Dreamweavier to handle all my websites, which now total around 50 including this one. This website is built using WordPress, which I’ve come to love! WordPress is simply the most powerful free CMS out there with an endless supply of useful plugins!

The good thing about WordPress websites are if you have the right tools, you’ll be able to set it and forget it. You can schedule new articles to post days, weeks, months or even years ahead of time. Using the right software can fully automate your CMS needs. That’s why most of my websites are WordPress blogs, if I had the choice all of my sites would be.

Well that’s it, just thought I would post something while waiting for a CuteFTP to finish uploading some files.

Cheers!