Just a note to address the video issues going on with this site right now.

Up until today I was paying for a premium video account over at Blip.tv. They have informed me that they have elected to cancel my membership because ”selling through videos is against their policy”.

Strangely enough, as my readers know all too well, I, too am against any selling in my videos, and none of them contain any kind of sales whatsoever.

Further investigation reveals that they have recently cancelled a number of authority sites from the use of their system.

My guess is we were using too much bandwidth, or perhaps Bliv.tv marketing gurus decided that all the exposure we were providing them at no cost was just a bad thing. Maybe they need to get out of the city and get some fresh air, who knows :>)

Needless to say, I strongly advise against the use of Bliv.tv, or any of their services. My staff and I invested about 300 hours in converting and uploading videos to their system, not to mention endorsing them on a massive scale, as well as paying the monthly fees.

So, at this time, as I prepare for the conference next week in Orlando, we are also trying to locate a respectable and professional video service provider to restore the videos on this site and a few others.

As Blip.tv has evidenced that our loyalties to them were ill-placed, I am open to suggestions from eaders on other video service providers capable of multiple format conversions and RSS feeds of video data to iTunes for syndication.

From everything there is something to learn, and in this case I would have to say that we will run a longer trial before committing time and money to future third party service providers.

In the mean time, if you don’t mind putting a note on all of your blogs and sites telling users to avoid using Blip.tv services, I think you will be doing your readers a real service, and they will respect your attempt to protect them

Thank you for your patience as we get this sorted out.

from such unscrupulous service providers.

Cheers!

Ron Davies

Google Adsense Bounce Rate & Pagerank

So many web marketers use web page traffic exchange system and start page exchanges as part of their website promotion strategy.

In many cases this is a very bad idea, particularly when it comes to Google Adsense sites and Pagerank.

Need proof? Have a look at how favorably Google views the traffic sent to one of my sites by Trafficswarm.com.

I think you will be surprised – I was!

I highly recommend for best viewing that you click the “Full Screen” button in the player below.

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Don’t let the title scare you!

Google Analytics are a breeze to learn and the information you get back is nothing short of amazing, and it is info that there is NO WAY you could get it anywhere else.

This little gem in the Google Analytics Arsenal is called “Site Overlay”, and whether your site has 1 link on it, or 10,000 links, it will show you where your visitors mouse is moving, and where it is clicking.

Imagine the possibilities as you watch Ron’s video… Read the rest of this entry