Here are some good articles regarding affiliate programs
Here is a direct link to really good advices on affiliate programs:
http://www.markwelch.com/web-marketing-advice/affiliate-index.php
How to benchmark yourself?
Here is a quick and easy way to perform a simple benchmark of your site.
Enter “Pingdom Tools“
With this nifty little app, you can find out a page loading time as well as finding exactly where the bottleneck in your site is.
This is a great way to find out if a site you are hosting on is performing as well as it should be.
Top 10 Web Host Lists are Scams
I knew it was coming sooner or later and looks like some one have already beat me to the punch!
Entertaining video nevertheless.
SEO program reviews!
While I was browsing the web, I came across one of the ad which intrigued me.
The company name is ServiceWrap.net and here is the banner that intrigued me.
It’s not the first time I seen such ads but for some reason, I was very interested in trying it out. I guess it was the price which was the most attractive.
I was never a believer of these SEO programs. These are something I feel it can be done and should be done by yourself.
But knowing how many SEO attempts never really got my site to achieve a huge traffic I tried to aim for, I am giving this a shot.
This program also comes with a 30 day money back guarantee so I will have nothing to lose.
Regards to those who say I run tests from a single server? No, ofcourse not.
Am I running test from a single server? And aren’t benchmarks inaccurate because of different latencies regions?
First of all, am I running testing from a single server? The answer is no. I am running from 3 different datacenters in Los Angeles, 1 in Dallas, and 1 in Seattle. With East coast server coming soon.
As for latency, yes, I understand that latency also plays a role in accuracy of the benchmarks.
And I do understand that no benchmark can be accurate, since it varies time to time.
But you see, I am just looking at things as a client’s perspective here.
I just run tests just as if a random client were to access a web page at any given moment.
Whether I am in LA, Dallas, or Seattle, and if the latency to your server is not great, then be it. I do speak for in behalf of all the West coast and Central users a like. Once I get a test machine up in East Coast I may be able to perform a more accurate test. Perhaps we can then map out latencies through several different regions in the country.
But you see, when I ran tests from Dallas, the results were pretty much in line with other tests I did from LA and Seattle. So this lead me to believe, the latency is not the problem here. I am performing tests from 5 different locations. I will test from more locations if I find people donating me an account to test it on.
Here are the results coming from Dallas’s soft layer server:
simple helix
ab -n100 -c10 http://www.hostcritiq.com/magento/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.41-dev <$Revision: 1.141 $> apache-2.0
Copyright © 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright © 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking www.hostcritiq.com (be patient)…..done
Server Software: Apache/2
Server Hostname: www.hostcritiq.com
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /magento/
Document Length: 0 bytes
Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 2.452810 seconds
Complete requests: 100
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Non-2xx responses: 100
Total transferred: 25300 bytes
HTML transferred: 0 bytes
Requests per second: 40.77 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 245.281 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 24.528 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 9.78 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 31 31 0.6 31 32
Processing: 121 202 94.7 167 779
Waiting: 121 202 94.6 167 778
Total: 153 233 94.7 198 811
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 198
66% 248
75% 283
80% 306
90% 351
95% 396
98% 429
99% 811
100% 811 (longest request)
I’d be biased if I was performing my test from a single location and a single server, but that is not the case here.Like I said, I’d like to keep all tests genuine and if anyone have a suggestion to make it better, let me know.
