Blind Ape Seo

In the field of computer science, I often try to help newbies or people without programming experience.
Even a lot of affiliate marketing can be done without “real” programming experience.

Yes, you will fare better once you get your head around a programming language or two, but one can do a lot with the clever use of available tools.

 One such tool is iMacros, which allows you to automate any task done in a browser.

Go read a good article about iMacros over at Earner$blog.

Get iMacros here.

(To be true, using tools like this is often just programming in disguise, and I do hope it will raise some interest and ease the transition for some people.)

I got a question from one of my readers on my post Optimizing image search traffic :

Yes, helpful post indeed. A question - once you are getting traffic from images, can you tell what keywords are driving the traffic using Google Analytics? Using GA, images.google.com is treated as a referring site, without any information about the keywords that found the image. I’d like to know what keywords the image is being found on.

My answer:
As far as I can see, keywords gotten via image search are shown / counted as normal keywords.

The real world example I am basing this on:
One of my sites is getting a lot of hits via the keyword “Schnörkel”, which means something like flourish or embellishment.

This word does NOT appear anywhere on the page except for being the name of a small divider gif.

PS:
In that case, I renamed the image to div1.gif, as the traffic for that was no traffic I particularly cared about.

So… this is a project that has been simmering for a long time now and still has not come to fruition. Partly because I do not have time for this, partly because the problem space seems to be very confusing. In the spirit of the lazy web, I am offering my description of the problem space in the hopes someone wants to code this beast and share.

Goal
An application (web based or desktop) that allows for easy to use affiliate statistics.

Description of problem space
Affiliate commisions are very varied in their form and habitus. The application needas to keep track of both realized (payments received) and unrealized profits (payments pending)

Payouts
Payouts vary in time, payment methods and qualification for payment. 

Qualification for payment A threshold is imposed upon which payments will be made. Threshold vary from $10 to $100. A problem more of the smaller publishers, profits below the threshold also need to be tracked.

Payment method Paypal, wire transfer, check 

Time Net 30, 60, 90.

Investments and costs

These also vary in size and shape, from one-time investments to recurring payments.

Recurring payments
Hosting, domains, etc.. Interstitial and one-time payments PPC,new hardware, programming assignments… Amongst all those, time can also vary.

Hosting and domains can be paid for (or demanded) monthly, bi-monthly, yearly, 2 year contract…

So far for now.. if you want to add to this or offer a solution that goes further than the simian’s Affiliate tracking Excel sheet, please comment. ::emp::

Some of these are beautiful.

Colorlovers seems to be a site to watch.

Butterfly colors

Enjoy.

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