This week, we talk about my biggest nightmare:
My Google AdSense Account Disabled.
OK, it's not my biggest nightmare, but having your AdSense account disabled is not the most fun thing you can imagine. We also discuss Fiverr.com as a micro-outsourcing platform, progress on my 2012 goals and some cool Superbowl related stuff.
I also ask for feedback about the “stinger” between show segments. Would love to hear your thoughts in
Special thanks to “The Terminator” for kicking off the show.
The Corn Sheller Site
In this episode, I again talk about my experiment with Keyword Canine. This week, we talk about how traffic continues to grow and I reveal the site is CornSheller.net. I also talk about traffic patterns. Here is the traffic screen shot.
I walk through everything that I did in to create the site in the last episode. As of today, the site has made about $12.00
I mentioned ArticleBuilder.net, phpBay and 1WayLinks.net in the episode.
Motivational Segment
In the motivational segment, I talk about my 2012 internet marketing goals and give myself a grade of B+.
My Reader: Cool Article About Flurry
I review a great article about how the guys at Flurry used smartphone applications to track engagement of Super Bowl viewers. Very cool.
AdSense Account Disabled And Suspended
Sigh. My AdSense account has been suspended. Sometimes bad stuff happens to good people. I talk about it in detail in this episode. Basically, from what I can tell, there was “fraudulent activity” in my
Using Fiverr for Outsourcing
Finally, in the new Tool Tips section I talk about how you can use Fiverr.com as a baby step for outsourcing.
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(Still) Going Weekly — four weeks in a row!
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Episode 019 Transcript
Hey, it’s really great to be back here, as always. I’m loving this weekly podcast action. We’ve got another week down in the books, episode 19 is here, it’s on your iPod one week after episode 18. I’m totally stoked about that.
To Stinger or Not to Stinger
We’re looking at introducing a new version of the theme song. I went and talked to Geoff Smith about an unplugged version of the theme song and I’m kind of playing around with that. It’s just kind of a fun thing to mix things up a bit.
I’ve been getting a lot of feedback about the theme song recently. The feedback that I usually get is, “Wow, that theme song is so awesome,” because it was composed by Geoff Smith and he is totally amazing and most people seem to like it – at least the people that talk to me about it seem to really like the theme song.
I got one piece of feedback regarding how I was using the stinger. Usually between each segment of the episode I play this stinger to separate the topics. And I do that as a break between topics. I got some feedback from one guy who said, “I don’t know what you think you’re doing, but you play that thing way too much and I’m tired of hearing that. Don’t take it the wrong way, but I don’t like it.”
I love that kind of feedback, I think it was great. You can see that feedback on the show notes for show 18 at MasonWorld.com/episode18. It’s really positive constructive feedback, no big deal at all.
But, I feel like I need something between segments inside the show to kind of give the listeners a clue that we’re changing topics. You kind of need that audio clue in an audio podcast. A lot of people use sounds like a whoosh or something like that between each segment. I thought maybe I might give something like this a try, kind of short instrumental stinger. [plays] So we’ll give that a try for this part of the show and see what everybody thinks.
I’d love your feedback on this. Do you like hearing this kind of over the top thing that reminds you what the show is all about? Or do you like the little short stinger? Let me know and give me some feedback, I’d really like that. I appreciate the feedback, it’s very helpful.
The other thing that I promised in the last episode was that we’d talk a little bit more about this niche site that I built. I got some great feedback also on episode 18 from a guy who just felt like it really turned on some light switches for him as he was listening to that episode. I’m going to try and get him on the podcast, but that was really great.
I love that kind of feedback where the guy says, “I had so many ideas and so many questions while I was driving, I couldn’t even remember them all because I couldn’t write them down.” I just love that, that’s what the podcast is all about, that’s what’s get me excited about it is getting people’s light bulbs turned on about internet marketing.
Mark, Good podcast. Since you’re now on schedule, I refreshed BeyondPod on my phone before leaving leaving work for the drive home and there you were ready to rock.
Sorry to hear about the adsense ban. I’ve read of other people who got back in through setting up new accounts (but you need a new Tax ID).
Regarding the stinger, it does kind of annoy me from a volume perspective. It may just be my ears. I listen in my car and turn up the volume so I don’t miss a thing. Then the stinger comes in and blasts my speakers/ears. I find myself anticipating it so I can turn down the volume before hand.
The only other show I can think of that uses it is IBM or maybe PodcastAnswerMan (hope I’m right on this). I believe they usually only have a couple breaks in 45 minute episode.
I don’t think it adds to the production value of the podcast. But if you keep it, my suggestion is to cut its peak level below your voice. If you’re running at -6db, try the stinger at -10 or -12. Just my suggestion. Definitely not a deal breaker, I’ll be back for every episode. Keep up the good info/motivation.
@LazyBastardLife Really appreciate the feedback. I plan to change up the audio in episode 20. I think it will make the show better. Still working through the best way to do post-production. Right now, my post production process does leave the audio too hot, but I know how to fix that. Thanks again.
Mark! I heard the podcast today. I think the stinger without the vocals was much better than the previous version with the vocals. I just think the vocal versions, which are great by the way, are suited best for the beginning and end of the podcast. That stinger w/o vocals seems to fit nicely between segments. Sorry to hear about your Adsense account. It would be nice if the was a more understanding policy regarding appeals on banned accounts. Glad to hear you didn’t have all your eggs in the Big “G” basket.
@iphoneapprevguy Thanks for the feedback on the audio. I’ve got an idea about how to do the next episode based on some other feedback (including yours) that answers many objections. I also spent the day futzing with my mixer and compressor to get the levels and sound quality right to that things are more polished.
One good thing about a weekly show is that I can do lots of tweeks and try them out quickly. A month or so from now we should be in a nice stable configuration…
Thanks!Mark
@masonworld Ouch, sorry to hear about the AdSense ban! And yeah, Google’s lack of a “human element” is frustrating in instances like that. It’s a great example, though, of diversifying income and not relying too heavily on one source of revenue. I guess that’s why I still keep my day-job. haha
Congrats on the four weeks in a row! You’re doing great!
@ShaneEubanks Thanks man, appreciate that. It’s just poor business on their part. Really frustrating.
@masonworld I’ve seen a LOT of Adsense users get their accounts disabled in the past month…almost like a Google dragnet going on.
This is my completely unscientific observation, but I AM seeing a theme. It looks like a lot of the publishers that have gotten banned have websites where a large chunk of their links come from blog networks an spun articles. Google has deindexed a TON of blog network sites in the past month and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Adsense publishers are getting the boot at the same time.
Just my observation…take it for what it’s worth, but I think 2012 will be a wake up call for link builders.
@ShaneEubanks @masonworld Perhaps you are right. I have certainly done more than my fare share of experiments and other weird stuff with that AdSense ID. But the thing that bugs me is that the reason that they sited was fraudulent click activity. I have never ever done anything like that.
In any case it is true that link networks are getting hammered. Great article here on that http://www.linkbuildr.com/private-blog-networks-getting-deindexed/ — BMR was deindexed yesterday.
Thanks for the comment!
@masonworld , I agree with some of the other readers/listeners: I like the brief instrumental version better. Congratulations on all the hard work you’re doing to achieve your goals. You’ve become a regular on my pocket cast app. Just a quick question: I noticed you use Libsyn for your podcast. I have a plugin for my blog to get it ready for podcasting (I think it’s BuddyPress), but I’m concerned it may slow my blog down too much. Any words of wisdom?
@SteveBorgman Thanks Steve. I appreciate the feedback, and thanks for putting me in your regular rotation.
I do strongly recommend Libsyn.
I don’t use BuddyPress — I actually use PowerPress from Blubrry. I have not noticed any performance impact to using any of these podcast plugins (I used to use PodPress before I switched to PowerPress). Since all the plugin is doing is creating a media enclosure for your mp3 file, I would not expect a performance impact — but I have never tested it.
Thanks!Mark
I like the brief stinger better. I sent Mark an email basically saying what LazyBastardLife said below. In the car I have the volume up real high to hear the podcast well and then the stinger is super loud and I have to turn it way down and then back up after.
I just listened to this episode on my phone with headphones and it wasn’t as noticeable. I also wanted to share one quick funny story, I was walking around the house this morning and my wife asked me what I was singing. I was apparently singing the stinger without knowing it “building your business, one night…at a time”, so it is definitely catchy and gets your point across, but not I can’t get it out of my head! 😉
And Mark, definitely put me on your beta test list and I’d be glad to help you out in any way I can with your project as well. You have my email, feel free to contact me any time.
@Chris S. Thanks Chris. Got some things planned for episode 20 that should help get all of this sorted out. Thanks for the feedback — it’s very helpful.
Thanks for the offer to beta test. More info on that in April.
Regards,Mark
Your terms of use page is quite the entertainment piece :-p (Yes, I’m the dork that actually sat there and read the whole thing)
So I do have a question about the niche site and the terms and policies pages you used. I know you had mentioned last episode that you have a set of standard boiler plates you customize to each site when you’re getting new sites put together. Is there a set of these that we can download someplace and tweak to our own needs?
@LorettaOliver SO, it turns out that privacy policy came from some PLR. It is use thousands and thousands of times on the web. I need to rewrite it to make it unique, but I have never spent the time to do it. I am not sure about resources for this, but I will take an action to cover this in a future post.
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