Oh well I hear you…

If you’ve been frustrated with sub ids, exporting stats and manually creating profit loss reports at a keyword level …

… then this may be one of the most important blog posts you read

There’s a super cool tool called StatsJunky that
automatically tracks your affiliate and PPC profit and losses
all the way down to a keyword level and I
wrote about it some weeks ago on MarketingFan.com already,
just as I did last year about a bunch of other Conversion Tracking Tools I’ve worked with…
yah, those are the nights I spend in peace trialing all these cool tools to weed to good from the crap.

Just go through StatsJunky’s 5 minute wizard

and you’re done!

There’s never been anything like it before and it’s even endorsed by
Jeremy Schoemaker AKA ShoeMoney

But Don’t Rush Over to Buy it Just Yet!

Why?

Because this coming Tuesday StatsJunky is
celebrating their birthday and are having a 3 day special

- Where you can get StatJunky for a FRACTION of the normal price!

Normally, this software is a steal at $79/month

or $699.00/year.

But This Tuesday July 21st Starting At 8AM You Can

Get LIFE TIME ACCESS to StatJunky for only $297!

That’s an outrageous discount and it’s only

good for these 3 days – starting Saturday at midnight the price

goes back up to $699 PER YEAR! That price will NEVER be offered again!!

Here’s what ShoeMoney had to say about StatsJunky

“All serious affiliate marketers doing substantial

profit margins always have 1 major thing in common

and that is a central “Dashboard” of all of their

earnings among all the networks. Most marketers

have several accounts, some even with the same company.”

“So what makes StatsJunky different from all the open source/hosted tracking applications?

Less Points Of Failure:

With hosted/open source tracking apps,

you have to invest tons of time setting up your dashboard

and generating tons of links for every campaign.

Not only that, but running software like this can

be risky. If the hosted server is down or delayed,

this is going to drastically cut into your

revenue – which is a HUGE point of failure.

Security:

If you use StatsJunky, all of the data stays on your computer.

You don’t have to worry about a hosted application having all of your campaigns/keywords.

Plugins:

All major affiliate networks are compatible with StatsJunky and

if there’s something you want – they will write a plugin for you…

Education:

They conduct DAILY webinars for StatsJunky users.

But – Don’t buy StatsJunky yet. You’ll wind up paying a lot more for it.

Then get ready for my post on Tuesday at 8AM

giving you the special link to get a lifetime membership

into StatsJunky for only $297!

It’s a killer deal and

if you’re an affiliate marketer you’d be a fool to miss out on it.

Stay tuned, I’ll mail you again on Tuesday!

News:

• Matt Cutts says that nofollowing links “evaporates” that PageRank rather than sending it to the remaining followed (tweeted here and it has been discussed a million times on the web already – right on Google – make SEOs and webmaster waste more time discussed topics of low impact)
  
• BING is out – the new MSN live search engine UI – old backend with nice new frontend… well – lot’s of talk, cheap schwag and a nice party here on day one of the conference… let’s wait until there’s some serious traffic being sent by them

• Google released Squared – a new kind of advanced search result type that can be useful if used right … just need to figure out how to make money off it more about it e.g. here

• some nice advanced (blackhat) PPC tactics I won’t blog about

Pros:

• met a couple friends and clients (again)
• awesome weather here in Seattle
• live session with Matt Cutts about the NOFOLLOW change, so I don’t have to depend on lots of blogged summaries BS on the web about it

• Quote of the year: Matt Cutts “I’m not supposed to be honest here”

Cons:

• super overpriced hotel group rate of $249 that you could get for $95 at hotwire.com … the SMX team is either a really bad negotiator or are ripping off attendees in addition to really high charges for the conference

• Conference price of $1400 for 1.5 conference days… COME ON! compare that to an A4Uexpo with EUR 299 for 2 full days and evenings… seriously – way more value on EU conferences… AAC conference was even free! and we had real SEO gurus like Bob Rains, Jason Duke, Joost de Valk, Dave Naylor and many other there, too… the celebrity factor is almost equal with prices being a multitude here…

• no “give it up session” this year – what a rip-off – the real USP of the SMX Advanced was replaced by a “SEO vet Q&A session” that rehashed what was literally been talked about for 1.5 days already – poor value – sorry guys, that wasn’t made up by top panel with Greg Boser, Stephen Spencer, Danny Sullivan, etc…

• Link Building beyond the usual … hmmm … widgets something new? comeon! look at Google Cache-Dates instead of PR … COME ON! They’ve been crippled too – the cache date does NOT indicate the index date as I mentioned last month in Amsterdam… well – it might be just me being a full time link builder, but seriously I didn’t find any new approaches, not even new ideas to attain links – seems like all has been said (that is supposed to be said)

- full blog here

Summary:

I didn’t want to come initially, and I wouldn’t have taken 20 hours travel at $2k for 2 days … and I was right.
If I wouldn’t have a lot of off-air business talk (starting with the intercont flight here with Francois and Mathias) and continue to be on business for the next week in San Francisco, it wouldn’t have made any sense for me to come. So once again the conference here was just a “trigger” to meet up with people.

The conference quality went down, the networking quality was “ok” … but if we wouldn’t spend more time in the states now, going to San Francisco to meet a lot more people, I would feel bad about it.

I agree with fellow SEOs – and will focus even more on European Online Marketing conferences – the markets there, the talent is there (and better) and in addition to the business aspects, it’s way more fun to hangout in London, Amsterdam or Munich compared to e.g. Seattle where EVERYTHING closed down at 2am in the morning. I mean EVERYTHING! We couldn’t even get burgers!

Watch this video to get an idea

The whole point is to AUTOMATE, AUTOMATE, AUTOMATE all those crappy stats-downloading, checking, excel-sheet-writing, tedious browsing thru different reporting interfaces from PPC engines and affiliate networks to finally answer that ONE SIMPLE QUESTION:

AM I MAKING ANY MONEY ??

Are my campaigns profitable?
Which keywords and offers perform best?
Which campaigns should be cloned to other PPC networks?
and: which campaigns should I stop ASAP?

It all boils down to a quick, painless calculation of your profits,
and unless you have a great Affiliate Marketing Dashboard built yourself,
you need a tool like StatsJunky
(or continue to fly blind)

StatsJunky is priced as low as $39 so with this closed-loop tool they are close to the pricing of a simple stats-checking tool like StatsRemote.

I would suggest to checkout StatsJunky TODAY – since they have a lower pricing til end of May.

It was great to meet a lot of friends, client and partners again and I especially valued meeting those clients I’ve been working with for years but never had the chance to meet.

As you can see below we had quite some drinks

Sad thing is that I had a super early flight back home as I wasn’t up to date with the next day event schedule and I even slept over it. Long story short, there were no flights back to Vienna and I had to take the traing for frickin 9 hour travel time… oh well – Hannover isn’t exactly the big international city.

Anyways, it was great!

Indexed and Ranking on Google in 2.5 hours

By Marketingfan.com Internet Markting Blog

Now don’t get me wrong – this query= is by no means competitive – but as you can see Google was quick to get that content indexed as it saw a spike in search signals …

Now learn and repeat

Here’s a rundown of the frickin coolest quotes, pics and videos from Amsterdam last week!

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10. Newspapers are the new Blackhats in 2009

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9. Can I get A Free Hug?

* WPG2 Plugin Not Validated * by Bob Rains who later “got thrown out” of the red light district later by some crusty old man with a torch who pretended to be the Amsterdam redlight authority LOL

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8. I was BOB’ed last night!

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7. Don’t bring a Sword to a Gunfight

quoting Tim Mayer of Yahoo, meaning that in some industries you HAVE to do paid links, spamming, etc. cause everyone does …

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6. REAL users don’t care about Anchortext, Nofollow or Page Rank at all

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5. You Can’t get Lunch here – that’s a Dinner table

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4. This will become the new summer style fashion …

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3. We could talk about SEO all day, but it comes down to one thing…

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2. Here’s your two chips…

Which company would you like to affiliate with?
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1. FUCK Inspiration GET LINKS!

See for yourself!

Any cool quotes I missed? Let me know!

Matthew Wood and his team did an awesome job putting together a conference with really inspiring talks, motivated and enthusiastic crowd and great sponsors for the party. Seriously, Matt’s conference really stands out of the mass of other conferences where they charge a multitude and are not even capable of bringing the conference folks together for serious networking all days and nights.

My presentation was great fun and I got awesome feedback and roughly 100 business cards from people to take advantage of the secret goodie (free early bird access to our link juice tool).

Other awesome sessions (as expected) where

Yoast’s Wordpress SEO - 40 tips in 40 minutes (get the slides! gold!)
Extreme SEO (checkout THIS quote )

We’re heading for Amsterdam’s queens day now and then the warmup event for the AAC - Amsterdam Affiliate Conference

TODO: still need to share my presentation with you – checking out Slideshare ASAP

And here’s the link building presentation slides

TODO2: there’s some media coverage of my presentation already – need to check them all

Nina Baumann & Christoph C. Cemper at a4uexpo 2009 in Amsterdam

Sascha Böge, Ralf Schwöbel, Christoph C. Cemper, Andreas @mediadonis, Saksia

a ton more photos can obviously be found on Facebook, so add me there

I’m looking forward to meeting all you guys, tons of friends and partners in the industry – and Mathew Wood and his team really put together an awesome schedule for both the conference and the parties… starting with the classic warmup Ignite Party on day 0 the other two days got parties and even a sponsored even during the Queens Day celebration. Queensday is  Hollands biggest bank holiday, and those celebrations alone will be fun and worth the travel.

I’m also speaking on advanced link building in 2009 at day 2 and look forward to that as well. Instead of packing my stuff I just went over the presentation again, tested and tuned our “giveaway”, etc… that’ll be fun

Some nuggets you’ll hear in my Advanced Link Building presentation on Wednesday 29th

• what DID work

• what DOES work

• the 7 golden rules of white hat link building

• how to search and aquire great links

• what actually makes up a “great” link

• ONLY delegates in my presentation will get free access to our internal JUICE tool

• a peek behind our curtains and more internal SEO and link building tools we built

Quality links have been important for years and will remain to do so, so with years in the industry I decided to talk live about what and how we work.
There’s actually a lot of other TOP NOTCH seo speakers at the conference, and I feel honored to be co-cited by Matthew Wood of a4u along such big guy names as Dave Naylor, Dixon Jones, Joost de Valk which I know very well from the past years of conferencing.

The whole A4U conference brochure is 127 pages thick to describe 2 days with 4 awesome parallel tracks (just take a look!! SMX and SES should take a look def. – Matt’s Team doing a better job since 2007!)

Also I found this 2 page-overview PDF from SEOxplorer which should come in handy too…

Well, and right after the A4U I’m staying four more days for the AAC conference, so that travel combines pretty well!

Looking forward to meeting all you guys tomorrow!

Update – the slides of my A4U presentation can be found in the A4Uexpo recap post

The FOUND conference by O’reilly has been cancelled – erhm – postponed

Due to the challenging economic environment, we’re sorry to announce that we’ve made the difficult business decision to postpone the O’Reilly Found Conference

However some cool old-school SEOs that were supposed to speak there are organizing an alternative conference in a barcamp style for 2 days,

on Jun 10, which might be pretty cool – small group, high top-expert to expert ratio, etc.etc. I’m in and just extended the plans for our SEO roadtrip begin of June

Speaking of SEO roadtrip, we’re a bunch of cool online marketeers heading to SMX advanced begin of June, then an affiliate barcamp in Vancouver to end with this Found Alternative. Now with that kind of agenda it’s bearable for me to spend 20hours trip time to Seattle

Here’s am updated schedule of where I’ll hang out and/or speak in the next months

Now that the really awesome Seo De Janeiro in Rio, Seo Campixx in Berlin and SES in NYC are over,

I thought it’s time to update my event schedule for the next weeks… Looking forward to you meet you

on any of these conferences!

The two top things I’m looking forward to most at the moment is my speaking engangement in Amsterdam

and our SEO Roadtrip which will be a trip with some top notch SEOs to combine the SMX advanced in Seattle, an affiliate bar camp in Vancouver/.ca A TON OF FUN on a luxury RV, some sailing, a beach house on the west coast, and of course the FOUND Alternative conference in San Francisco.

Rio / Brazil	SEO de Janeiro	Feb 18-27	The frickin best event the whole industry talks about read more and only 16 days left
Berlin	SEO Campixx	Mar 6-7	more a BarCamp - looking forward to meeting a lot of german friends and clients – not been to Berlin for 5 years or so!
New York City	SES NYC	Mar 21-27	after two years I decided I have to add New York to my schedule again – after all I met so many great guys in 2007 there that I just can’t miss out again this year again! Looking forward to see you all there, especially at the great IM Charity Party of Todd Malicoat & co
Munich	SMX Munich	April 22-23	a must do event – might even speak there – Rand Fishkin is going to do the keynote …
Amsterdam	A4U EXPO Europe	April 27-28	The best european conference for sure, since the start in 2007 Matt did an awesome job putting this show together! I’m going to speak on advanced linkbuilding and how to find and get those real juicy links in 2009, reveal some of our internal tools and methods… This will be the first time ever I speak on a conference in the online marketing world and SEO scene, altough I did already speak in my last career in IT …
Amsterdam	Amsterdam Affiliate Conference	April 30-May3	The iGaming conference is something relatively new to me but there are a lot of clients, partners, fellow SEOs there, also speaking, so I HAVE to see it (and it’s a perfect match with the A4U and QueensDay in Holland!
Hannover	SEOSEO	May 15	but only for Networking
Seattle	SMX Advanced	Jun 2-3	The classic SMX Advanced and I’m getting there, since we combine this with the SEO Road Trip with a bunch of other cool guys anyway. SMX did drop the “give it up panel” this year, which was THE main selling point for many – so this might really be the last time for a lot people visiting rainy ugly Seattle there (does anyone really like that place?)
Toronto	SES Toronto	Jun 8-10	The SES Torontoe would be a favorite show to visit, especially since I’ve never been to Toronto before to meetup with local marketers. Unfortunately I can’t go there, despite an invite I got in favor of the O’Reilly Found, now Found Alternative Conference
San Francisco	Found Alternative	Jun 10-11	After O’reilly cancelled the original FOUND confernece, some cool old-school SEOs that were supposed to speak there are doing an alternative conference in a barcamp style for Jun 10. It’s a must-be-there because of the small group IMHO
London	Pubcon	Jul 4	Classic PubCon in London
Budapest	Budapest Affiliate Conference	Sep 10-13	I will be speaking at the Budapest Affiliate Conference on Friday, September 11, on 13:30. Have a look at the other SEO and affiliate experts that will speak during the event and the Q&A site about me.
Munich	SEOktoberfest	Sep 21-25
London	a4uexpo London	Oct 12-14
London	SEOMoz Pro Training	Oct 19-20	At the moment it is not sure if I will be speaking at the event.
Berlin	SES Berlin	Nov 23-25	I will be speaking at the event in Berlin and there will also be a link building training day.