As with any type of marketing, you should always be testing new ideas + strategies in every facet of your work. The most important and most typically overlooked form of testing that is essential to getting a profitable conversion rate is in testing your squeeze or landing pages. Switch everything up! The images, the copy, heck even the entire layout + domain. You’ll never know what will make you money/convert until you actually find it and the best way to setup your site to systematically rotate through different landing page variations is by A/B testing (or in this case you could actually take it from A-Z as far as different destinations for your users). It’s just a small little php script that you put at the top of any page you’re sending traffic to. After each new referral comes through it just goes down the list of pages (you can also use domains if you wanted to try out different URIs). It’s that simple + there’s very little chance anyone will even realize they’re being redirected. Enjoy!

<?php
   if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
      $currentPage = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
      echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url='. $currentPage .'">';
      return;
   }

   // HERE IS WHERE YOU PUT IN YOUR PAGES/DOMAINS TO TEST. FEEL FREE TO COPY AND PASTE MORE!
   $domains   = array();
   $domains[] = 'quietaffiliate.com';
   $domains[] = 'twitter.com/quietaffiliate';
   $domains[] = 'wickedfire.com';

   $ct = count($domains)-1;
   $currentDomain = $domains[rand(0, $ct)];

   header("Location: http://www.$currentDomain/", TRUE, 301);
?>

Let’s face it, the UI for the Ad Manager in Facebook is horrible, especially if you’ve got a large set of campaigns & are having to deal w/ the ebb and flow of interns rejecting + accepting ads (not to mention deleting/re-submitting them after they’ve been rejected).

Apparently there are other scripts/add-ons available that make this process a whole lot easier, but as was recently pointed out over on the WickedFire Forums, there’s a guy out there who’s actually trying to sell this script for $99.95 (or if you’re dumb enough to send him $25 now to secure your spot in the ‘pre-order’ the script would only be $85 after his discount). He’s since updated his blog to announce that his program would not be released on time after-all, adding that:

…Some rookie on WF totally stole my steam and posted some FireFox plug-in that works pretty sweet with FB to do lots of stuff I had planned.

Well, that rookie just knocked out a working script in one night (while allegedly drunk) meanwhile you’ve only been talking about the project since November 20th….hope you learned a lesson in being quiet.

Nathan from WF from just released what he claims was a drunken coding effort, but regardless is a great Greasemonkey script that streamlines managing Facebook ads. He even was so kind enough to add in a ‘dickroll’ option allowing you to partake in the kind of entertainment that only makemonies.com can provide.

You’ll need the Greasemonkey Firefox add-on in order to use this, install that first from the mozilla add-on site then, after installing & restarting Firefox, download and open (with Firefox) Nathan’s fbo.user.js script (which should then add it to Greasemonkey). Just head on over to the Facebook Ad Manager and partake in your newly acquired abilities of awesomeness.

Some brief features:
Here’s the old campaign screen, forcing you to click through far too many screens just to perform basic ad management functions:

Here’s the improved campaign screen, now with added shortcuts:

Now this wouldn’t be complete without the MakeMonies shout-out…
The Old Menu Bar:

The *New* Menu Bar:

What can you do when you’re banned from Google AdSense? Find a new network! Here’s a list of current advertising networks that you can use to place CPC (cost per click) and CPM (cost per thousand impressions) ads on your website or blog. I list Google as the first one but by using a combination of the advertising networks below, you should be able to find a profitable alternative to AdSense. Next I’ll publish a comprehensive list of Affiliate Networks, Shopping/E-Commerce Affiliate Programs and then one with all the remaining online services (including Pay-Per-Post networks) that offer unique ways to help you make money from your blog.

CPA/CPM Publisher Programs (AdSense Alternatives)

• Google AdSense
• Yahoo Publisher Network (Beta)