Archive for AffPortal
New PPV Network Update 11/25/09
Posted by: | Comments<updated 11/26/09>
I talked to my friend Matt, owner of the up and coming PPV network, and he said that we would be good to go on Friday morning so keep an eye out for the email to the AffPortal users list.
Here’s some more information about the new PPV network and some very interesting details.
- AffPortal.com members now have an exclusive access package, unavailable to anyone else.
- This network is so new that the owner can name his advertisers off the top of his head which means there’s tons of traffic with very little competition.
- This network is partnering with traffic sources so quickly that they have gone from 30 dedicated servers to 60 dedicated servers to deliver popups in about 4 weeks.
- They currently handle over 4000 queries per second.
- When you register, use promo code “AffPortal” and your campaigns will automatically go to the PPV side of their ad inventory and you will get $50 in free pops.
- In mid December you will have access to TRUE fraction bidding. This means that you can buy ppv popups for as low as .005 cents per pop.
- They allow frame resizing, self starting video, embedded talking heads AND they approve exit pops… are you kidding me!
I’ll keep posting about details as I get them.
Corey
AffPortal Blog Moved
Posted by: | CommentsI 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 of my blog worked the way they should.
So here we are. I moved all posts, installed the Flexx theme and plugged in Jeff Johnson’s “Traffic Getting SEO Plugin” for wordpress. I’m pretty stoked on it as it automatically installed about 20 different plugins and optimized my site with like 70 something settings.
So now the blog is AffPortal.net and the tools are on AffPortal.com like always. One plugin I had to include is QUICK PAGE / POST REDIRECT so I could redirect the links in the header to go to the tools site and the login screen. I’m still tweaking the flow.
Recently, I have been reading quite a bit Jeff Johnson’s product. In the Underground Traffic blah blah blah there’s some info in there that is very basic but I didn’t have to go too deep to find some interesting tweaks and techniques for getting natural traffic.
Post more later… gotta go pick up my daughter from school and kick her butt in 4 square!!! Owned.
State of AffPortal.com
Posted by: | CommentsWow what an incredible two weeks in my life. In order to launch this website I have been REALLY putting in long hours getting the first release of the functionality finished, connecting to PayPal and successfully incorporating it into the asp.net membership API, importing HUGE databases full of keywords and working with IronTech to get my dedicated server running IIS and PHP. So a couple of thousand dollars and hours later here we are. I can post a blog article to introduce AffPortal.com.
I need to thank my wife for hanging in with me coming to bed at midnight and my iTouch alarm getting me back up at 4 am. Also for all the hours she was left to the mercy of our two daughters.
So as I sit here importing a database that is 1.5 gb, containing 77 million english keywords I learned some lessons along the way. I’m no DBA. Sql Server Express has a 4.?? gb limit on the amout of data you can import. The 64 bit version of MySql can handle an import of 77million + records in one shot from a tab delimited text file. Converting the original Affiliate Portal from ASP.Net 2.0 to 3.5 took way longer than I had hoped but it was worth it after I realized how much more functionality there is in 3.5. The membership api in ASP.Net is way easy to use once you get a grasp on the database aspect of it.
Learning how to connect to and manipulate the guts of SqlServer Express was challenging but sooooo worth it. I am finally able to utilize a database for my websites that is more powerful than Microsoft Access. I literally feel like i’m wearing my “big boy” pants and it’s about time.
So now we are rocking a pretty bad ass setup. Asp.net 3.5 on an Windows 2008 dedicated server with IIS 7 and MS Sql Server Express 2008. Add in the latest PHP, MySQL and Wordpress and I have a pretty sick setup that I can do just about anything with so watch out for some serious affiliate tools in the near future.
Dangle.