Jan 31 2008

RSS Subscribers – Opps

I always go through back links to this blog and read the posts that are linking to this site. If I can, I try to comment on every page that comments about me in a post to show I’m thankful. (If I have not commented on a post you wrote about me, let me know [...]

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Jan 31 2008

The “tweener” turns 21.

Well today is my 21st birthday. I’m no longer a “tweener.” (In between teenager and 21)
I received a very nice bottle of wine from my affiliate manager at Azoogleads, Ryan Sessler so tonight I plan on having a nice family dinner and drinking a bit of nice wine.
Although I dont really drink or plan [...]

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Jan 30 2008

Find New Affiliate Offers

A great way to find great new affiliate offers is to ask your Affiliate Manager what is performing really well.
Most of the time, your affiliate manager can give you a list of the top X performing offers for the past X days. This can really be useful in essentially finding campaigns to reverse engineer. [...]

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Jan 29 2008

Calling All Guest Bloggers

Hey,
This is a short notice letting you guys know I am looking for guest bloggers!
If you have some good information I would love to see you be a guest blogger! Simply send your title and post to: jon {AT} thanvolk.com. I will let you know if I am going to use [...]

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Jan 29 2008

Adwords DeSlappage

Recently I had a campaign doing really well. There was one main keyword bringing in a huge amount of traffic.
Things were great but then BOOM, Google Slap. POOR Quality score from a GREAT quality score (with a $0.02 min bid) literally over night.
So what did I do? Nothing. I left it there. It was [...]


Jan 28 2008

A Normal Week In The Life Of A Super Affiliate

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  • Published January 28th, 2008 in Life by Jonathan Volk

I always loved reading these posts and so I decided to post my own version.
My week generally consists of about 3 really large time groups that take up most of my time: Work, Church, Maria (Girlfriend) / Family.
Saturdays, Mondays, and Tuesdays are the only full days of work that I do. All the [...]

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Jan 27 2008

Dont JUST use Affiliate Networks

Affiliate networks are amazing. I cannot tell you how much the people over at Azoogleads, HydraMedia, Neverblueads, and Incentaclick have helped me. There are so many upsides to affiliate networks like this that I’m not even going to attempt to list them here.
But think about this for a moment.
Where do all the other affiliates [...]

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Jan 25 2008

Its All in the Details

Today I talked about Honda with a friend. He was telling me that originally every person applying for a position in the factory was trained on every step of the product line.
So now Mr. Tire installer is not only installing new tires but is also there to spot any thing that might not look [...]

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Jan 24 2008

Ask Me A Question – Part II

Ok guys, round two. For those who missed round 1, you can read the questions and answer here.
Feel free to ask me any question. I’ll answer the best questions as best as I can.
I am going to be going to India for 10 days on February 14th and coming back on the 24th. (Yea, I’m [...]

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Jan 23 2008

Evading the Google Adwords Slap – Guide to a Great Quality Score

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  • Published January 23rd, 2008 in Pay Per Click by Jonathan Volk

I got to be featured as a guest poster on the popular site, www.JohnChow.com! John Chow from what I understand get’s around 45,000 unique visitors a day (He says that the number of visitors is about 3x the amount of subscribers – 15,000).
My post on John Chow was in response to my earlier post [...]

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