Improved URL Scraper Results
Tonight I was building a PPV campaign for an email submit and suddenly got a bunch of doubles and bad urls in my batch URL scraper so I broke out Visual Studio and got to work on an upgrade.…
Category Archives: Development
Micro Review popups for PPV
After my PPV webinar last night at PPC Classroom I had an idea that I'm going to be testing out for my next PPV campaign. It started when I was going through some of my old template folders and came across a few interesting review site templates that might just work for Pay Per View popups.…
AffPortal Blog Moved
I decided to move the blog to a shared linux server. The original blog was sitting on my dedicated IIS server running Windows 2008 Server with PHP enabled. YUK! What a pain in the ass it was to get working correctly and since it doesn’t have all the features that linux has, not all features ...…
Adwords Sniper is in a Public Alpha version
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Aside from building my own campaign portfolio, I have been busy building a new theme for AffPortal, and my super artistic assistant Christina is building a wordpress theme to go along with it. This is thanks to the helpful advice politely dropped by my buddy Mike (Sal…) and ...…
So what's next?
So I was trying to install an old version of Adsense Analyzer lastnight and could not get it to install because of licensing issues with my new computer. I didn’t want to pay for another license so I started searching and found Adwords Site Sniper but again, with the amount of money I have been ...…
Testing PingOmatic
I’m not convinced that my pingomatic install is working on this IIS server. To test it I am doing the following: 1. Create a link to http://redalt.com/ping 2. Create a trackback to http://redalt.com/ping 3. Publish the article how I normall would 4. Go to http://redalt.com/Tools/Pingomation 5. Enter the root domain (“http://www.affportal.com/”) in the text box ...…
AOL Bootleg Database is live
When you login to AffPortal.com you will see a new feature in the portal navigation. The AOL Bootleg database has been added and it’s a super source of information on how the less savvy internet users navigate the web. A simple query will return proof positive the benefits of bidding on URLs in BOTH ppv ...…
AOL Search Data in AffPortal.com
“On August 4, 2006, AOL Research, headed by Dr. Abdur Chowdhury, released a compressed text file on one of its websites containing twenty million search keywords for over 650,000 users over a 3-month period, intended for research purposes. AOL pulled the file from public access by the 7th, but not before it had been mirrored ...…
Big Databases pt 2
So I’m trying to ask this huge database questions with really simple queries and after like 8 minutes of it spinning, frozen, I didn’t know what to do. There was no way that would work. So I talked with my friend at work and he said “index it”. A dropped column or three, one new ...…
Working with VLDB (very large databases) – Part 1
I had never heard of the acronym VLDB until I tried to import a 77+ million record tab delimited file into Sql Server Express. I didn’t realize what a headache I was in for. For AffPortal.com I have purchased about 15 – 20 different databases to power the keyword research functionality and to build initial ...…