I noticed early this morning that Yahoo Search Marketing went down around 4am and about 20 minutes later it came back up. However, later today I logged in and noticed that I only had one click and only a handful of impressions. Now I know that I should have had a ton more impressions by this time of the day, so I logged in Tracking202 and noticed there were clicks coming through. So I shoot an e-mail off to Yahoo because I can’t get a hold of any other affiliates to see how their accounts were doing. To my surprise, I get a phone call from Yahoo to inform me of the outage.
Now I have two takes on what just happened. Either Yahoo is calling each and every person with a problem instead of e-mailing them - which seems highly inefficient. Or they are calling everyone as sort of a customer service move to show that they care.
I did a couple searches, hadn’t checked any forums, but couldn’t find anything about the outage. You’d think that such a large company would send out e-mails or at least post on their own blog about this outage. In the end, it would have been a lot less leg work on my part.
I was moving some feeds to a new plugin in FireFox and had to go out and grab some from blogs I read quite often. I was a little surprised though, when I saw that some of the blogs I read on a daily basis don’t have that great of RSS buttons. In my experience, the RSS button was always a orange button with a little broadcast type symbol in it. However, on some of these blogs, I noticed people using something like a grey button that says “RSS”. I even saw some bloggers with hyperlink instead of a button.
In my opinion, using anything other than the standard button is a bad idea. Yeah, it’s great to think outside the box, but you have to make the button visible and immediately recognizable.
Today I was looking for Adobe Acrobat Reader and found a nice surprise. Adobe automatically check marks Adobe Media Player to be downloaded along with Adobe Acrobat Reader, and truthfully I’m used to unchecking all these extras that go along with the program you are looking for. I figured this time that I would try out the ‘extra’ that Adobe thought I should try. After all, I haven’t had any problem with bad software from the company before.
Program features:
Adobe Media Player offers a wide range of free video and even some in HD. I’ve really only looked around in the “Science & Technology” section, but there are many others to surf through:
Opinion
Lifestyle
News
World
Entertainment
Politics
Education
Music
Arts & Culture
Hobbies
Comedy
Government
Cartoons & Animation
I’m really impressed that these videos are free. Although, I assume that Adobe should of course be one of the first to offer free high quality videos (competition for TV networks).
Well, that’s all for now. I just so happened to find a set of MacGuyver episodes that need watching…
Seeing as how I just got into affiliate marketing a month or two back, I was very excited when i found out about Affiliate Summit. Of course, I wasn’t able to go because short notice. This led me to looking for videos back when the event had ended, but no luck at the time… Today I found out that Affiliate Summit allows you to watch the presentations (for free). All you have to do is register your e-mail and confirm it. Videos for Affiliate Summit
