Mark Eternally
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- Dec 13, 2017
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@MMM Welding I see a little bit of traffic in analytics, but I did some testing with various anti-script applications and plugins and it seems blocking Google Analytics is not as difficult as it may seem. The oddity is that so many people were doing this, which really is not normal for this target audience. This led me to look further, and the web hosting company has logs. 
The web hosting logs showed some unique patterns, some to VPN services, and others to what I imagine are some weird ISP setups where the ISP caches the site or something. I eventually decided the time I was investing trying to figure this out, though it holds a potentially very high ROI, was not worthwhile, so I just make sure to thank the Big Man up in the sky when I lay myself down to sleep, and move on with life.
@TechEinstien I went ahead and contacted several of these people, when I was still trying to figure this all out. Because I did not want to waste any opportunity, I included a few questions, and sprinkled some Affiliate links in there. Lo' and behold, I did make a few hundred off one of the "affiliate" links (actually just a buddy of mine who told me he would give me a commission for sales directed his way), and I was able to learn from responses that one, these people read my e-mails, two they responded to my e-mails, and these two items alone translate to me that should I ever decide to do so, I can work this growing audience. So, yes, but I probably have not broken even with the amount of time I have thrown into it, so no.
The web hosting logs showed some unique patterns, some to VPN services, and others to what I imagine are some weird ISP setups where the ISP caches the site or something. I eventually decided the time I was investing trying to figure this out, though it holds a potentially very high ROI, was not worthwhile, so I just make sure to thank the Big Man up in the sky when I lay myself down to sleep, and move on with life.@TechEinstien I went ahead and contacted several of these people, when I was still trying to figure this all out. Because I did not want to waste any opportunity, I included a few questions, and sprinkled some Affiliate links in there. Lo' and behold, I did make a few hundred off one of the "affiliate" links (actually just a buddy of mine who told me he would give me a commission for sales directed his way), and I was able to learn from responses that one, these people read my e-mails, two they responded to my e-mails, and these two items alone translate to me that should I ever decide to do so, I can work this growing audience. So, yes, but I probably have not broken even with the amount of time I have thrown into it, so no.