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Hey guys -- Eppie here. Just wanted to clarify a few points in this discussion. First, the site I audited in this case study dropped in the SERPs around the end of January. My take is that I'd never out an actively ranking site, but once it's dead I have no problem dissecting it. Some of...

Come on now, Blais. We've chatted on the phone a bunch of times now and you've always given me the impression that we were cool. I've implemented a few fixes just for you AND I've fast-tracked some feature requests you've had. Can I get everything done as fast as you'd like? I guess not...

If you have a refund request that hasn't bee processed, send me an email (first name at last name dot com) and I'll make sure it gets pushed through for you. To everyone else in the thread: Admittedly, there have been some issues handling all of the support requests in a timely fashion. If...

If your other sites that got deindexed use brand names in the domain, that's the most likely problem. The only site I've ever had get deindexed from Google was because of a DCMA takedown request (auto approved user-generated content, had someone posting television episodes). Google takes...

I agree with kirkonpolttaja -- AMR and Scrapebox are incredible tools and are two that I rely on very heavily. Best part is they are one-time payments, not recurring. TONS of value in those two.

You need to get a little movement on your own initially before people will start to notice you in the CB marketplace. Once your gravity starts climbing, others will jump on board... in fact, landing a single solid placement can be enough to get the ball rolling, since a lot of IM folks...

I've been using Google's website optimizer tool on my site. Converting cold traffic at around 5% overall with my top performing variation at 15.2% -- since I used a number of variable elements, the test still needs a ton of additional traffic to reach statistical significance. I'm pretty sure...

Great approach. Thanks for sharing!

Clickbank doesn't offer much protection for vendors in refund situations, but they do provide easy access to a ton of potential affiliates... it's a tradeoff. I'm trying to capture contact info for anyone who signs up to be an affiliate for my products at CB so that if I ever leave the system...

Nice work on the blueprint. This is very similar to the strategy I use, but there were definitely some great ideas in here that I haven't been implementing. Looking forward to trying out some of the things you recommended that I haven't been doing.

That's only a 2-3% pageview CTR assuming ~1.5 pageviews per visitor. That's awfully low. What size ad blocks are you using? Are you using text only or text + image ads? 2 column or 3 column layout? Are you using any link units? Are the ads well targeted or not? A lot of these things can...