by admin on July 22, 2010
If you’ve got a blog, you’ll appreciate this post. Sometimes it’s entertaining, but mostly obnoxious to have go through the dozens of comments that build up in your blog comment moderation queue.
Unfortunately, SEO and link building have lead to the pollution of countless blog comment queues.
Here’s a few I’ve come across in the last few days.
“Hi, there. I would suggest you continue writing more posts, this would make your blog even more interesting, plus I guess you will get more visitors. ”
“Thanks for an idea, you sparked at idea from a angle I hadn’t considerd before . Now lets see if I can do something productive with it.”
“Valuable info. Even I accidentally found your site, I bookmarked it.”
“Good day!”
“The name’s John, though most people call me ‘Freaky’. 
I’m in my “teens” and kinda lost in the world at the moment…however, I’ve found the hippie “culture” and discovered that it fits me very well…I’m not trying to fit into it, it just kind of fitted onto me. I have lots of questions, which hopefully some of the older and wiser people on this board will be able to help answer. Here’s to hoping this board will be able to help me discover more of myself and fuel my beliefs. so how is everyone doing??”
“Good site, where did you come up with the knowledge in this article? I’m pleased I found it though, ill be checking back soon to see what other articles you have.”
‘Interesting , how do I apply this?”
“I like the first point you made there, but I am not sure I could pratcially apply that in a postive way.”
“Yo Yo Yo! wazzap!”
“I’m new to this , but I guess I shall be spending quite a bit of time here as there seems to be so much going on! I’m hoping to make some new friends.”
These are just from the last few days. But I’ve had better.
If you’ve got any comments worth sharing, please leave a comment.
by admin on July 22, 2010
What would you pay for 1 click-through to your online store or company website? If you’ve done any Pay-Per-Click advertising, this could range from $1 – $20 or more.
I’ve got a deal for you… $1000 for 1 visitor to your site that will spend a whole 30 seconds browsing and then leave. What do you think? Sweet deal eh???
This is exactly what one of my clients paid to Leapfish for placement in their search engine.
Leapfish is another wannabe search engine with a hokey version of a pay-per-click system. Their program allows advertisers to buy a certain keyword phrase not for just one click, but forever. i.e. for $5000, you can own the first ad position for the phrase “dog training” PERMANENTLY.
Sounds like a sweet deal right??? Well, lets look at some statistics…
Google – 86.03%
Bing – 6.13%
Yahoo – 4.67%
AOL – 2.02%
Ask – 1.14%
other – .01%
These numbers reflect market share for the major search engines on the web.
As you probably noticed, the Leapfish search engine is nowhere to be found on this list. Leapfish probably fits in with the countless other search engines in the .01% or other category.
I’ve personally been pitched by several Leapfish employees on their services. They would not / could not provide me with any analytics or statistics on their traffic or online exposure. Their main selling point was that they rank well on Alexa. Really?
In December of 2009, one of my clients purchased a keyword phrase for $1000 from Leapfish. Guess how many visitors that investment delivered… just 1. So for 8 months, my client has paid $1000 for 1 click. At that rate, my client will be paying just $100 a click after 10 years. 10 clicks in 10 years for $1000, that’s what I call a killer investment.
Bottom line… STAY AWAY FROM LEAPFISH. They will never have the kind of exposure worth your investment. Some businesses have even been scammed into spending 10 to 20 thousand dollars on a set of keyword phrases with Leapfish. OUCH.
Invest your money in some SEO consulting or in reputable pay-per-click programs like Adwords or Yahoo’s search marketing
. But stay away from low exposure search engines that use an Alexa ranking as their claim to legitimacy. i.e. Leapfish