great post about Online Business Model Options
Model
Variation
Notes
Immediate Revenue
Models for generating regular income, cash-flow (‘Self-Sufficient’ models)
Subscription
Charge the end-user a regular, recurring fee. Consider:
Minimum contract lengths
Buy X (days/months/weeks) get Y (d/m/w) free
First X (d/m/w) free (‘Trial period’)
Discount periods
Pay to remove adverts
Pay for additional (‘premium’) content
Pay for API/advanced features
Pay for support subscription
Fixed
A [...]
good post from seomoz
some highlights:
stumble upon
Formula:
(Initial stumbler audience / # domain) + ((% stumbler audience / # domain) + organic bonus – nonfriend) – (% stumbler audience + organic bonus) + N
Description:
The initial stumbler “power” (Audience of the initial stumbler divided by the amount of times that stumbler has stumbled the given domain) is added [...]
I was ripped off by industrybrains some time ago. My budget was used up with click fraud and industrybrains denied and refused to refund me although it was clear that some Chinese guy got a bot to click on our ads. the experience using industrybrains was so annoying that I use [...]
I tried searching to find if msn is referral spamming others too with this new “form=QBHP” log hits. I didn’t find anyone writing about it so I guess I’ll be the first and copy what i wrote about msn/live referral spamming before:
MSN search team are Idiots and Clueless.
you got to read it all
some highlights:
if ads appear above the organic search results and are exceptionally relevant they can get a 10% to 30% clickthrough rate. Ads that appear on the side of the search results are typically much more likely to be clicked on ~ 1% of the time.
the relative click volume of [...]
January 9, 2008 – 8:43 pm
source.
I am confirming that Network Solutions steals domain ideas when people check domain availability on the Network Solutions website. They seem to have started the practice of stealing domain ideas on December 16th 2007 according to our Domain History database but I was just made aware of this practice today. I am appalled at the [...]
January 9, 2008 – 8:38 pm
Upholstered furniture, coffee tables, rattan furniture, bookshelves, media storage, doorknobs: Swedish placenames
Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: Norwegian place names
Dining tables and chairs: Finnish place names
Bookcase ranges: Occupations
Bathroom articles: Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays
Kitchens: grammatical terms, sometimes also other names
Chairs, desks: men’s names
Materials, curtains: women’s names
Garden furniture: Swedish islands
Carpets: Danish place names
Lighting: terms from music, chemistry, meteorology, [...]
December 14, 2007 – 12:39 pm
Every geek knows that google search tracks user behavior. When you use google search engine your queries, queries time and clicked results are recorded by google in order to improve their service and if you are into conspiracy theories, to profile people. Since 70% of the people use google it’s not a small matter – [...]
December 3, 2007 – 10:40 am
An interesting post about ad clicking on the internet
Ninety-nine percent of Web users do not click on ads on a monthly basis. Of the 1% that do, most only click once a month. Less than two tenths of one percent click more often. That tiny percentage makes up the vast majority of banner ad clicks.
Who [...]
November 13, 2007 – 7:36 pm
A VERY good post about label placement in forms.
Highlights:
Label position—Placing a label above an input field works better in most cases, because users aren’t forced to look separately at the label and the input field. Be careful to visually separate the label for the next input field from the previous input field.
Alignment of labels—In most [...]
