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Paid Reviews by Vlad – Starting at $15,000 per Review!

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:22:06 +0000

Last night as I was reading through my Facebook news feed I came across a video from Shawn Collins, the founder of Affiliate Summit:

The above video got me thinking…. Is Shawn leaving a lot of money on the table? So I was thinking and then a moment of enlightenment came- if Shawn does not want to do paid reviews I will. Heck, I have done them in the past (more about that in the future)!

So I am extremely excited to announce

REVIEWS BY VLAD
Price: Starting at $15,000.00 per review
Value: Too Astronomical To Measure!!!
Secret Weapon: rel=”tripplefollow” attribute on all links to your website!!!!

Now I know some of you maybe thinking that I’ve lost my mind. But do not jump to conclusions yet! Did you notice my secret weapon??? Yep. The newest innovation in the SEO industry- once you get a link with that attribute (“tripplefollow”), your site will appear not in the first, second or third place in the search results of all major search engines but above their Logos!!! No one attempted this ever before, and while I am still in beta with this new attribute I can tell you prospects are incredible!

I am also thinking of implementing an affiliate program. I am still working out details, but I am pretty sure to have one of the highest commission in the industry starting at 99% (or $14,850.00) per review sold. How about that for an affiliate program?

In the upcoming days I will be revealing more details- so keep an eye on my blog! But if you have an idea of how I can make this even better, go ahead leave a comment.Similar Posts:

Back to Disqus and Why?

Vlad Zablotskyy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:35:35 +0000

Ever since discovering Disqus, I have been keeping an eye on their product. For some periods of time I have used their commenting system across my blogs – yet for some reason or another would revert to WordPress‘ default commenting system or try other services like Intense Debate. I have more than few complains about the speed of their plugin – one of the main reasons I would stop using it.

But things at Disqus have changed. Not only they gained a powerful ally in Andy Beard, whose opinion is respected and valued by the thousands in the blogging community, they have also dramatically improved their product from the time I last tested it.

If you are dissatisfied with the you current commenting system on your blog, here are my two cents on why you should seriously consider using Disqus on your blog.

Disqus allows your readers to comment using their Facebook & Twitter Credentials.
Disqus allows you to reply to comments via e-mail.
Disqus allows you to manage multiple blogs from one account.
Disqus integrates well into Blogger.com powered blogs. If you share my sentiment, you probably do not comment often on Blogger- their native comment system needs some major overhaul. Using the Disqus on blogger can probably increase users interaction via comments.
Finally Disqus folks at Diqus are really paying attention to what other people are saying about their services. They also seem to be implementing things gathered from the feedback from users.

In the past I often questioned using a third party commenting system. Now I am becoming more and more convinced that Disqus is actually one of the very few systems capable of providing real value to it’s users.Similar Posts:

Cuil, Who Is That Dude?

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:12:12 +0000

I gues it is my time to write about Cuil- the most recent talk of the internet. I am not sure I am ready to set Cuil as default search engine just yet. Some of my websites that are consistently show up on the first page of Yahoo, Google and MSN, are nowhere to be found on Cuil for the same keywords.

And of course there is the “vanity search“. But wait! Who is that dude whose picture is shown nex to one of the results for my vanity search? Strangely the picture appears right next to a search result for on of my websites. Oh, well I may just look like that dude in picture…. 30 years from now.

Jocking aside, it is good to see competition in among the search engines. They will need to constantly innovate in order to stay on top- hopefully providing the best possible experience to internet users. Similar Posts:

Your Comments Are Well and Fine… on Disqus.

Vlad Zablotskyy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:30:59 +0000

Yesterday’s episode with Disqus had raised some serious questions in my head regarding allowing a third party to manage comments of my visitors. I issued a private apology to Daniel Ha for “jumping the gun” over the Google Analytics. I was wrong implying that Disqus was doing something shady. Many of the similar services use Google Analytics. So whenever a widget from Disqus is served on your blog, you might see in your status bar the url from Google Analytics blinking, even though you might not have Google Analytics code installed on your website. So don’t get spooked as I did yesterday, Disqus is not spying on you.

Yesterday’s episode however showed me that my decision to let Disqus manage my comments had some serious shortcomings.

By letting a third party manage the unique content of your blog, one very important thing happens. You no longer have the absolute and exclusive control of that content. If you are fine with it, you should probably look into services like Disqus- they do have some killer features that I will definitely miss.

I also would like apologize to every person who commented on my blog during the time Disqus managed the comments. Since I have turned the Disqus plugin off, it may appear that your comments are gone. But they are not, they just not on this blog. You still can find them on Disqus: http://sageblogger.disqus.com/ . The export/import feature on Disqus desires much improvement to successfully transfer all the comments back to this blog. I do not intend to close my account with Disqus, so your comments should be save there. I will be trying to move them to my blog, even if it means I need to do it manually.Similar Posts:

Why Disqus Is No More On My Blogs

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:41:49 +0000

Update: After struggling with my decision over allowing Disqus to moderate the comments on this blog, I have decided to give the one more try. There have been significant improvements to their WordPress plugin that now enters the comments not only into Disqus database but in the WordPress database of each participating website.

I have to say that I would never imagined the day I would leave Disqus. I absolutely love every feature they provide. For me Disqus had taken much hassle out of moderating comments across multiple blogs.

However two things took place today which of course ended up my love affair with Disqus. These things may not be significant and have nothing to do with quality of the service Disqus provides. I only remember once Disqus being down- much desired for my own websites. So here is what disappointed me about Disqus:

As I was working on one of my new websites I noticed that my Fire Fox status bar was showing “www.google-analytics.com”. If it was on any other website I would let it fly by and would never made a big deal out of it. But I noticed that my Fire Fox status bar was showing “www.google-analytics.com”. If it was on any other website I would let it fly by and would never made a big deal out of it. I use Google Analytics on practically every website of mine. But I found it strange to “blip” in my status bar on a blog that I have not installed the code yet. It also turns out Disqus was and still is the only plugin on that blog.I have to pint out that in spite of my attempts to get some clarification, Disqus had not commented on the issue.
After above described events took place, I decided to export all the comments from my Disqus account and import them back to my blog. I expected that in the process comments will be associated with appropriate blog posts. Instead I ended up with 100+ “new posts”.

Alright, I may not be the geekiest guy out there but I am no fool either. So I say buh-bye Disqus!Similar Posts:

One Month of Silence. Four Months of Pure Hell.

Vlad Zablotskyy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:34:46 +0000

The above title sums it up for me. I have not written a single post since the beginning of May here on Sage Blogger. I have fallen behind on many other projects I was passionate about.

While I can write long post describing my agony, you will probably get way much better gist of things from other bloggers who wrote about my situation in the recent weeks and months: Trace Richardson, Andy Beard and Greg Swann just to name a few.

Internet and the blogosphere in particular had brought me new friendships and opened new opportunities. Some of my new friends I look forward to meet for the first time in Boston at the Affiliate Summit. While others I may never meet in person. My life has been truly enriched by these friends.

I have also learned that the Internet and the blogosphere can be easily used to damage the reputation of others. No I am not trying to compare myself to Sam, Scott, Gary, Shawn or Jim and to say that my situation is far worse.

The remarkable part of their situation and mine is that perpetrators thought they can fool everyone. The truth is once you begin to engage in stupid activity, you tend to make stupid mistakes.

I think every one who plans to ever succeed on the Internet should take Gary’s advise to heart. Be real, interact with people and most of all do not lie to yourself. But you better hear it from Gary himself:

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WordPress.com Is A Heaven For Faceless Cowards

Vlad Zablotskyy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:39:37 +0000

Before I get to the subject of this post, I have to tell you what is my impression of Matthew Mullenweg, aka the #1 Matt on the internet. Matt is either extremely busy or extremely arrogant man. How can I say this without meeting him in person? Well… I have been trying to get in touch with Matt in regard of an urgent matter without success since Monday. I used the contact form, e-mail, commented on his post in hope of getting his attention and finally called his number (877.273.8550). I was not able to reach him, and I am starting to suspect his ignoring my attempts to communicate. Hopefully Matt will prove me wrong. I understand a man can be very busy to run Automatic the company behind WordPress. For goodness sake, get yourself a secretary if you can’t take care of “communication department” on your own.

No I am not trying to stalk Matt. All I want is for him to take a look at http://vladzablotskyy.wordpress.com – which by the way does not belong to me. Then I want him to take a look what sort of Yahoo! Answers the above blog refers to. Yahoo! removed the offensive material and it is obvious that the creep found a new heaven at WordPress.com.

Matt, I hope you will make the right decision. And for goodness sake, hire a secretary! I don not believe you are an arrogant man, but if you do not answer valid e-mails and do not return calls, it’s an impression some of us can get. Oh and pleeeaaassseee do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Similar Posts:

StumbleUpon Spring Cleaning: Accounts Banned

Vlad Zablotskyy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:43:57 +0000

Evidently StumbleUpon has been doing some heavy duty spring cleaning, banning some users from the system. I would generally pass this kind of news without paying too much attention to it. However, there is one thing puzzled me a bit. Namely their PPC advertising. I advertised using this option a little. I don’t remember spending more that $200 on their ads due to the low conversion rates.

So StumbleUpon wants their users to submit pages about dogs and cats and and then they offer you to create a PPC campaign to drive traffic to those pages. But if you submit a page that actually is made to make you money, you are braking their TOS? Are you kidding me? I don’t understand the logic. If you do please enlighten me.

Here is one more account for you to ban http://vladtheaffiliate.stumbleupon.com – I probably have broken your TOS, besides I don’t need your traffic. You can have it all.

I lately have come to realize that all the posts about StumbleUpons quality of traffic are bunch of BS. If their traffic was so good people would exit AdWords in thousands. The truth is StumbleUpon’s traffic does not convert and can actually hurt your AdSense earnings. I also have not seen a single conversion from their PPC. I don’t even know why do people even bother using their PPC. Spend that money in AdWords at least the traffic from Google converts better.

I guess you can call it a rant day???Similar Posts:

WordPress 2.5. Goodbye Fantastico! Hello Simple Scripts!

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:17:22 +0000

The snapshot to the right should speak for it self. That’s right I have updated my WordPress installation to the latest version. While several plugins are not compatible yet with the latest version of WordPress, Semiologic Extract Terms Plugin being one of them, I am still glad I went ahead through this upgrade.

This is the first time ever that I have upgraded the WordPress to the latest version long before it became available via Fantastico. In fact I said goodbye to Fnatastico for good. Unless you are hosting your blog with Bluehost, Hostmonster or FastDomain, you probably have not heard about Simple Scripts. You can on my other blog about initial impression Simple Script made on me.

I have to say that ability to upgrade your scripts within hours of them being available on the Internet sounds like a sweet idea.

Just a quick tip. If you decide to test the Simple Script, before doing anything else back up your databases as well as your current installations. If upgrading a installation made by Fantastico, do not opt to create new administrator and new database. Just fire up the script and at the end replace the new wp-config.php with the one you backed up, or enter the information needed to connect to your database in wp-config.php file.

On a personal note. I do hope many other web hosting providers will integrate Simple Scripts into their control panels. Feel free to point your own web hosting provider to Simple Scripts. I can’t praise enough Simple Scripts. This new way of installing and upgrading self-hosted platforms like WordPress will come very handy around the times when “crucial security updates” will be implemented. Unlike Fantastico, Simple Scripts will have the latest versions available for installation within hours, not weeks.

And of course as always, since this upgrade took place less than an hour ago I ask you to please report to me any bugs you may encounter.Similar Posts:

103Bees. Did Hittail Finally Found Its Match?

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:22:45 +0000

I have always been a big fan of Hittail. Hittail saved me thousands of dollars, not only by brining my websites to the top 10 position on the search engines for some quiet competitive keywords but also by helping to optimize my PPC campaigns. PPC campings really was a “side effect” for me. I noticed that if I optimized a page to Hittail’s suggestion, I could then maintain very low bids on the same suggestion without compromising the quality score. Not so long ago I signed up for a paid account with Hittail, at $90 a year I believe it is a steal.

When Darren from Problogger mentioned 103bees.com in one of his recent videos, I was immediately reminded of Hittail. I knew that I had to try this site. I have only been testing 103bees.com since yesterday, but I can see some very promising features. It offers a particular report called “top questions”. In essence this report provides you with information on how the keywords used to find your website are also used in the question queries. I have no idea how do they hey do it, but this information can be very useful if you write a lot of “how to” articles. In fact 103bees.com has already provided me with an idea for a “how to” article.

I am not ready to give up Hittail just yet. It has a proven record as far as I am concerned. 103bees.com will have to prove it’s effectiveness. Similar Posts: