by Mark Mason | Mar 1, 2012 | Podcast
Having your Google AdSense account disabled is not something you want to experience. It happened to me, and I talked about it in Episode 19 of the podcast. Here is what went down and what you can learn from it. What Happened Google suspended my AdSense account for...
by Mark Mason | Feb 23, 2012 | Podcast
In Episode 18 of the Late Night Internet Marketing podcast, I revealed one of my more unusual affiliate experiments: I built a niche website about a farm tool based on a random keyword suggestion from my friend Josh Spaulding. The site was already generating organic...
by Mark Mason | Feb 22, 2012 | Internet Marketing Product Reviews
Back in early 2012, Josh Spaulding and I announced plans to build a product review site for internet marketing tools. The idea was born out of a real frustration: most product reviews in the internet marketing space were thinly disguised sales pages. People would...
by Mark Mason | Feb 18, 2012 | Podcast
Episode 17 of the Late Night Internet Marketing podcast was recorded on the road, partly from a car heading to the airport and partly from hotel rooms during business travel. The audio quality suffered, but the topic, how to deal with your employer when you are...
by Mark Mason | Feb 9, 2012 | Podcast
Episode 16 of the Late Night Internet Marketing podcast was a milestone: it was only the second weekly episode, and I was determined to prove the commitment to a weekly schedule was real. The episode covered a backup disaster, the Google Panda algorithm update,...
by Mark Mason | Feb 3, 2012 | Podcast
Episode 15 was where I drew a line. After publishing only three podcast episodes in all of 2011, I committed to a weekly schedule. The episode was about getting serious, going weekly, and declaring what the Late Night Internet Marketing brand was really about: talking...
by Mark Mason | Jan 20, 2012 | Internet Marketing
Transparency is a core value of Late Night Internet Marketing, and sometimes that means telling you about the dumb things I have done. Getting my Google AdWords account permanently suspended is one of those things. How It Happened I started internet marketing in late...
by Mark Mason | Jan 17, 2012 | Internet Marketing Product Reviews, Reviews
In January 2012, I reviewed Jimmy Brown's iBusinessOwner membership product. At $10 per month, it offered monthly training manuals, marketing toolkits, and member perks including a $10 credit toward Jimmy's other products. I bought it with my own money and was...
by Mark Mason | Jan 16, 2012 | Internet Marketing, Video
Sometimes the best internet marketing lessons come from unexpected places. Mine came from ordering wine from a small winery called Moonstone Cellars after hearing the owner, Todd Clift, interviewed on the Podcast Answer Man show. Todd was not an internet marketer. He...
by Mark Mason | Jan 13, 2012 | Experiments
In early 2012, I spent nearly $600 testing Nuke4Me, a service that promised to build massive backlinks to your websites using SENuke automation. You provided the URLs and keywords, they ran the software, and links appeared across the internet pointing back to your...