Have you ever seen a lightbox or greybox effect with ajax. If don’t, open Reviewme.com and then click login. It will trigger open new small window to login, appear with some light effect most color effect is from default background to gray or white. That called Ajax LightBox or Ajax GreyBox.If you want to learn more how to install on your websites/blogs. Here are resources the list:

Orangoo Labs - GreyBox can be used to display websites, images and other content in a beautiful Showing external pages; AJAX uploading of files; Showing internal pages

YUI Based Lightbox - YUI Based Lightbox in Cool AJAX sites - a YUI based image gallery script.

GreyBox 5 - Actually, GreyBox 5 is almost a framework for creating kick-ass pop-ups …

Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website. We have to use Prototype 1.6.0.2 and Scriptaculous 1.8.1

Multibox - Only use Mootools JS Library. Very cool

LightWindow - Required Prototype + Scriptaculous (165k). Supports EVERY Media type and renders it appropriatly.

Lightview for WordPress - Lightview is similar to Lightbox yet superior to Lightbox. Since version 2.0, Lightview has been able to overlay not only images but also videos

MOOdalBox - A modal box (inline popup), used to display remote content loaded using AJAX, web 2.0 style, written for the mootools framework.

iBox - lightweight script that lets you overlay images and documents in a small dialog without a page reload. It’s built to be easy to install and use

Facebox - a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages. It’s simple to use and easy on the eyes.

I only mention 10 of the list, actually still many others you can googling it. And every single list have their own pros and cons, specially on size of Javascript library. GreyBox and Ajax LightBox very useful when you create small web apps to display images, web form, external page, or video/movie.

After the final day, my site got 4th position that mean the last position from best 4 contestant. But, it not become me to regret on the 4th. Following this competition is to measure how far your SEO skill have been achieved.

So, by this post, I would say many thanks to people who has been help by give me free backlinks. And I cannot give you presents or gifts to you, I just give you permanent free backlink lifetime on my SEO contest page.
To close this post, I just said SEO is skill, SEO is science, SEO is prestige and cannot measure by money.

For detail final result announcement visit Official UK Webmaster Forum.
nb: thanks so much to nDorokakung.com and Virtual.co.id ; Bali Friends, Jogja Friends, and friends cannot be said one by one.

1. You don’t get enough traffic.
2. You get the wrong traffic.
3. You promote the wrong product to the wrong people.
4. You give up too soon.
5. You don’t understand your product.
6. You don’t rely on your affiliate manager.
7. You can’t build a proper website.
8. You don’t research your niche.
9. You don’t have a niche.
10. You only promote one product.
11. You don’t know how to build a landing page
12. Your copywriting sucks
13. Your design isn’t appealing
14. You overloaded with banner ads and drove prospects away
15. You built your site in flash loser
16. You didn’t insert your aff code properly (ha ha!)
17. Your testimonials are teh gay
18. adsense overload
19. You lose your customer with expired Aff product links
20. Your page loads far too slowly.
21. Your images don’t load.
22. Your merchant is offline.
23. Your merchant doesn’t pay his affiliates.
24. You don’t have a variety of merchants.
25. Your merchants don’t have what the shopper wants.
26. You expect instant results and give up before you have really tried
27. You never finish getting the site built fully
28. You dont give the visitor enough information to make a decision
29. You give the visitor too much information and never close
30. You try to promote too many products at once
31. Not Knowing the difference between sell and pre-sell
32. Trying to follow every self-proclaimed guru <<<<<<<<<<<<
33. Failing to maintain focus and having too many offers
34. Thinking MFA means Marketing For Affiliates
35. You think affiliate marketing will get you rich quick
36. You don’t use your affiliate stats to improve your conversion
37. You don’t use your site stats to improve your traffic quality
38. The keywords you go for are too generic
39. The nature of the offer is not very clearly presented on your landing page
40. You waste money on buying shit unrelated traffic
41. You never spend any time to promote your landing page
42. Your host is unreliable and your landing page is down half the time
43. You target the wrong audience
44. You target the wrong geo locations
45. Your account details are wrong or fake at the affiliate program (doh!)
46. You have too much text on your landing page
47. You have too little text on your landing page
48. You spend too much time looking at your stats and don’t get much work done on your site(s)
49. You don’t spend enough time reading on WickedFire.com or you read to much and dont DO
50. You have too many images on your page
51. You don’t have enough images on your page
52. Your images (from the merchant) are broken
53. Your links (from the merchant) are broken
54. Your merchant network isn’t crediting your account
55. Your network has deactivated your merchant
56. You never update your datafeed
57. Your merchant doesn’t update his datafeed
58. Your network doesn’t update the datafeed
59. You don’t update your landing pages frequently
60. You don’t know your competition
61. You don’t understand the SEO for marketing
62. You over-SEO your pages
63. You under-SEO your pages
64. You don’t have a business plan
65. You don’t follow your business plan
66. You don’t adjust your business plan
67. You’re afraid of making mistakes
68. You don’t want to take risks
69. You take too many risks
70. You don’t build relationships with like minded marketers
71. You spend too much time building relationships
72. You advertise in the wrong places
73. You only optimize for one search engine
74. You don’t use ppc advertising
75. You use too much ppc advertising
76. You spend too much on ppc advertising
77. You don’t spend enough on ppc advertising
78. You don’t learn from your mistakes
79. You don’t learn from mistakes made by others
80. your landing page has no call to action!
81. You’ve over-designed and conversion isn’t happening
82. You’re losing affiliate sales to Adsense (nickels for dollars)
83. Your affiliate offer expired and lose your customer before checkout
84. You have mucho duplicate content on your site.
85. You don’t change the merchant categories.
86. You don’t modify the description supplied by the merchant.
87. Your images aren’t linked to the product.
88. Your merchant banners are promoting Easter products in December.
89. You use javascript links from your merchant.
90. You use an I frame for your links.
91. You are classed as a ‘thin affiliate’
92. You put up an xml sitemap on a dynamic site.
93. You don’t have an html sitemap for your site.
94. You don’t have good visitor tracking.
95. You don’t know which link your visitor clicked.
96. You don’t know what your conversion rate is.
97. You don’t know what the ratio of page views to clicks is.
98. Your site is not sticky.
99. You don’t spend enough time reading on WickedFire.com or you spend to much time <<

Why CPX, there no specific reason for this, I ever seen CPX Interactive print Ad on Revenue Magazine other reason want to test how profitable if I join and how much dollar I can get. Lets first see the graphs below this

This graph represent my last 30 days report start from Feb 13th 2008 to March 11th 2008. Start from zero dollar to some point of dollar, sorry I blurred it. In here I’m not going to show you the number but just the report progress.

This second graph show you how many impression of my site. Rate from Sunday to Saturday is closed to 50K impression from banner/pop up banner.

And the third graph show represent yesterday Impression based on country regional. The top level paying country is Australia, its look unusually. My daily best eCPM (Earn Cost Per Thousand Impression) should be the United State, see the green level bar US still the leader. And the lowest eCPM is country from Africa or Eastern Europe.

How do I get the money by following this program, simple just placing the banner ads or displaying pop up ads on your site. The Banner/Pop up program still exist even though the modern ads program like Text Ads is best generate high CTR (Click-Through Ratio). Why I displaying Pop Up Ads when most visitor hate with this ? On CPX or could be on another program, they has rate display ratio to set how frequency time the Pop-up appear. On CPX Interactive, I’ve set this pop-up show 1 time every 1 day on each IP Address/User. This will not disturb the visitor while browsing our site.

I have on of tip to get high eCPM, on the last graph watch the visitor come from US, UK, Canada or Australia get high eCPM than other. So I filtering the banner/pop-up based on unique IP address of my visitor. For simple logic see this:

If Visitor USA or UK or Aussie or Canada
display the banner/pop-up
Else
display other ads or Google adsense

For full of PHP code, I wrote like this

// Get IP ID Address
$ip=$_SERVER[’REMOTE_ADDR’];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=”.$ip );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$postResult = curl_exec($ch);if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
$arry1 = explode (”(”,$postResult);
$arry2 = explode (”)”,$arry1[1]);
$myip = $arry2[0];

Put those code on header of your PHP page, then display ads code

if($myip ==’US’ || $myip ==’UK’ || $myip ==’CA’ || $myip ==’AU’)
{
// Display your banner/pop-up code here
} else{
// Display your Adsense code here
}

Make sure your hosting support CURL to run these code, for guide and help visit Geotargeting API

Any Commnent..?

Using CJ Webservices, you may also can create like mine. Actually it simple to develop if you have some good programming language like PHP, ASP.NET, JSP(Java Server Page). CJ provide their webservices for publisher in any multi programming language like I’ve said before, they also gave the sample code and API Reference for developer.

On the main panel I put statistic chart, to show what are the most popular sub category or items. I make the chart use Google Chart API the easy way generate any chart types. Some feature deploy on it, I can manage my category list, sub category list, add remove partner links, add and delete some featured CJ merchants link. And the most important on this CJ Management System is generate products catalog. I set it manually, you have search the related keywords to find your niche products. It will search set by all merchants joined with you or search base on specific merchant.

In the last post about my 7 years experience with Commission Junction, I’ve make short story my journey with CJ and in 2008 become my 8 years with CJ. By this year, would be my best year for me, I can setup many niche affiliate sites use my own Simple CJ Management System just less than one hour.

Sample of my affiliate site that was use this management system is HDMI101. This site not 100% perfect, I’m still looking for any error/bugs. The HDMI101 using template that I was ordered from my friend Doneeh from Trimedia. He very talented and professional web designer. The last, my Simple Commission Junction Management System will not sell as commercial product just for personal use, use by me.

4 Days ago, Google send me a Greeting Card for their Adsense Pusblisher. Its translated in more than 40 foreign languages, including Indonesia. With simple greeting: Best Wish for 2008 or in Indonesia: Semoga Sukses di Tahun 2008.

but why it sent from Belgium, not from United State…?

There are two column on the Labs page. Right and left, on the right column is part of graduated prototypes while on the left is still on improving.

Now I test by playing with some terms on Google Lab Sets. The interface of front page is simple, with 5 form input with 2 submit button. One button will give you short result and other more result. Here, I test input with term of “Red”, the results are terms of colors such as Black, Blue, Green, etc.

Then I try with other term, I typed “Honda”, the results are popular automotive brands, like Ford, Toyota, BMW, Nissan, etc.

Still playing, on next I try use insert the form with local name, I typed “Soekarno”, and the results are list of ex-Indonesian President, Current President and names of political leader in Indonesia. Soekarno is Indonesian first President, follow by Soeharto, the 3rd is Susilo Bambang Yudoyono the active Indonesian President.

For final test, I decided input the form with my own nickname Pogung177. See the result below, Google described me as part of SEO, Webmaster, SEM, Marketing and etc.

Until I published this post, I got no conclusion for this. However, I’ll try to break behind this algorithm, the closed theory for this is Bayes Theory or Bayesian probability. If you ever take a college on Statistics, Computer Science or Engineering, your lecture must be ever teach this.

Commission Junction (CJ) actually has been announced their CJ API on September 2006. Its make Publisher can access easily for merchant product catalogs without any subscribe to their Advertiser. On the old rule (I don’t know today), publisher who want to subscribe on CJ merchant must have at least $10.000 on sales to get permission subscribe data feed for free. Or they (Publisher) must pay for $200 to get access the feed.

In the social sites age, Programmable Web created to united alot of API application as part of online webservices. On this site you can found many of API’s (Application Programming Interface), How to and comprehensive database of API resources. And for CJ API on Programmable Web can be found here.

The protocol use SOAP and data format is XML. One of site which completed use CJ API is Agumbo. Visit the site, learn the system and lets make one for your affiliate site. Of course you should use CJ API and have programming skills.