Here is a video Pankaj sent me of Andy dancing at the SEO Meet in Delhi, India. It’s a little choppy but you get the idea.

UPDATE: Also make sure you notice Rich McIver dancing as well. His dancing skills may, in fact, be more hilarious than Andy’s.

UPDATE 2: Apparently, this is the original source.

Apparently Google thinks I’ve been clicking my own ads. They not only banned the account in question but also banned a second one in my name that actually belongs to a company I work for.

I checked my account last week an noticed I was earning way more than usual. Upon cross-referencing my analytics I saw that I was getting 4 day spikes of 800 visitors a day directly navigating to my site for the last couple weeks. On a crummy domain and a site that doesn’t rank, something was up. Clearly this was some kind of click attack. I have no idea why anyone would want to click attack one of my crappy MFA (made-for-adsense) sites though - thats the baffling part of the whole equation.

I used my appeal and declared that I can’t know someone’s motives for a click attack, I have no idea why this happened to me, and that Google should know better than I would because they are the “CLICK FRAUD DETECTIVES”. That appeal was summarily denied.

Anyway, what a joke! I guess I can never have another Adsense account in my name. So I’d like to say, “Thanks for the screw job, Google!”

I’m going to do a series of posts where I select a site from users submissions for a ‘usability makeover’. It can be an e-commerce site, a blog, or an affiliate site. My only requirement is that if you submit a site you must either own it or have permission from the site owner. I would also like to select a site that has some kind of goal tracking set up so we can see the results if you make the changes I suggest. After I select one lucky winner I’ll do write up about their site on this blog and use screen shots to highlight things that I would change to make the site more usable.

What’s in it for you if I select your site:

1. Possibly higher conversion rates - If you choose to make the changes I suggest you may see an increase in conversions, or I could totally f-up your site. Either way its a win-win.
2. Exposure for your site - By posting about it here, you’ll get a link out of it and some traffic.

If you would like to participate shoot an email to brian@convertup.com or use my contact form. Give me a few sentence description of the site, the URL and whether or not you use an analytics package or goal tracking. I’ll let you know by email if I select your site. I’ll do a few more of these as time goes on so if you don’t get selected you can just resubmit at a later date.

If you would like to submit a site please have it to me by Friday, February 23, 3:00pm EST.

After months of anticipation from all my readers (consisting of myself), I have finally decided to start blogging. I’m still working on some design changes and some page copy, but I think it’s far enough along to at least make some spider-food. Add me to your Google Reader or Bloglines so you can keep up on all my witty banter. Sometimes I’ll give advice on what I would do in certain situations, but use it at your own risk. If you end up crashing your web server don’t sue me; I’ll just move and change my name again.

My posts are going to cover a broad spectrum of topics including: Search Engine Optimization, technology problems and solutions that I constantly face with Wordpress, web servers, database servers, PHP and the like, affiliate techniques, social networks, analytics, and whatever else I feel like. There are plenty of other blogs out there that cover this information, and cover it much better than I will, so my main focus will be on usability.

This blog is really about helping you make your site(s) more user-friendly in order to do more business. Some posts will be targeted for mom and pops running their own web business and some will targeted for advanced technophiles. I’m sure I’ll be hitting many topics that the old-school Internet Marketers know inside and out, but maybe they can pick up a few gems here and there as well. So, without further adieu, let the blogging begin!