I tied together all the various data for Bing Ads and Prosper202, and launched my first PPC ad; presumably it should go live soon ( Read more... )

OK, up to p. 195 (of 252) of Nick's book. I set up a test ad campaign. Please select one of the "ads" on http://learn-the-secret.info/Test-P202/ . Right now, I'm particularly interested in whether you can use your browser's back button. Please let me know. Thanks!

I'm trying to grant access to anyone for certain subdirectories of an otherwise protected site.

The top-level has an .htaccess of:
AuthName "For Prosper202 Admin only"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/web/data/.htpasswd
require user (username)

That does what it's supposed to. The subdirectories in question have an .htaccess of:
AuthName " ( Read more... )

Finally got caught up on sleep, after very minimal sleep earlier this week. Back to Nick's course. I'm now on page 167 (of 252). I installed the PPC tracking program, Prosper202. After several days of phone tag, I got vetted by MaxBounty. While I was creating a brand new account, for which they require phone verification, it also didn't hurt ( Read more... )

Dear David,

Right now, potential customers on the Yahoo! Bing Network aren't seeing your ads because your ads aren't generating any impressions....

Hi, Willie, great to hear from you! Thanks for asking!

My day-job employer certainly did their very best in trying to keep me full time, showering me with gifts like free food, clothing, an iPad Mini, and an all-expense-paid trip for two to St. Thomas for being a top performer, with a highlight of swimming with a very large sea lion. Still, I ( Read more... )

Spending time reading through a ton of legalese, some of it more readable than others.Advertising is not allowed that advocates, glorifies, or promotes... human cannibalism....
Source: Bing Ads Editorial Guidelines: Disallowed and Restricted Content

You also can't advertise baby food in Brazil and India.

I'm staring at this, and I'm still not sure if it's a Windows 7 bug, or an intended feature. In any case, it's reproducible ( Read more... )

One of my prior minor grumbles was that, even though I'm able to write well, I'd never been able to produce a website that was "pretty". I know how good design should look; I could just never publish it. So, for this project, I decided to use a CSS template to give me the "pretty", and try adapting that to what I need. I think it worked out ( Read more... )

As usual, this was not completely intuitive, but it's still a pinch easier than it was in Windows XP. Oddly, I couldn't find any tutorial on this, but I was able to figure it out. (On XP, it was so hidden, I couldn't do this without outside help; it turned out that you have to explicitly turn on the ability to add network locations, and later ( Read more... )