I was on a link train tonight, (that’s what I call when you start at one site, and eventually make your way through a number more, and end up at a different site.) And I came across PureBlogging.com. It looks like a fairly new site. I’m a pessimist and yet I still can’t think of anything negative to say about it. It’s got a nice clean, smooth layout, great colors, and it’s very easy to navigate. All of this is really great, but the thing I like most about it, is how he displays his ads. Their not intrusive or blended into his post for maximum CTR. I feel that doing that is a little dishonest, yes it makes you money, but how many of those clicks are actually meant to be clicked? Pureblogging’s ads are organized very well underneath posts, just enough space away from the actual content. Also he has a great looking ad box to the right of the layout, which makes the site flow and look really great. That’s how ads should be, in my next post, I’ll show you how ads shouldn’t be, and roast a certain “dot com mogul..”

UPDATE: I found something I don’t like! The title description of his site is exactly what problogger‘s is. C’mon David, be original.

If you blog often or run multiple blogs, and run OS X, you should definitely check out MarsEdit. MarsEdit allows you to keep a list of blogs and gives you the ability to post to them directly from your desktop. It works with plenty of blogging services and apps, including Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, and Moveable Type. Right now I have 2 blogs running on WordPress that I post to regularly, and this application makes it painless and easy to update them. I no longer have to go to my WordPress admin page, log in, make a new post, and do all of that. All I have to do is open MarsEdit, choose the blog I want to post to, click the new post icon, and get to it. Everything you would need to do via a web browser is fully controllable from this application. MarsEdit will run you $24.95 after the free 30-day trial is over, but if you ask me, it’s worth every penny. Check out screenshots and download it here.

Like most ‘Internet Marketing’ tools coming down the line these days the new Traffic Geyser is no different. Traffic Geyser is simply put… a way to submit your videos and audios to multiple services at once.

Let’s Recap What You Get With Traffic Geyser:

• Massive Traffic to Build Your List & Sell Your Products
  
• Unprecedented Search Rankings to Raise Your Profile
  
• Hours, Days & Weeks of Extra Time Minus All The Hassle
  
• Your Own Multimedia Video Even if All You Have is Audio
  
• Your Own Audio Even if All You Have Is A Product or Idea

Ignore the junk bonuses, see through them as the basically worthless stuff they are… if you really need a tool to create online videos get a tool that works like Camtasia, audio?… get one of a hundred free tools out there, record telephone calls? all teleconference services offer this!… please…
OK so you’re going to pay $247 up front plus $47/month to be able to submit a limited 25 videos per month to only 15 sites!?… ok probably worth it instead of spending the time to do it yourself, if you need to submit 25 videos per month… Oh wait if you need to submit 100+ videos/month to 30 sites that’ll be $297 + $97/month…

But the point is, this is a simple tool and it’s not ‘worth’ that kind of money IMHO. I can reproduce it for a fraction of the cost.

Let’s see what kind of bandwidth costs we have here… Let’s assume high and say the average video is 5mb… Uploading it and sending it to 30 sites, 155mb. Average user: 25 videos/month (probably extremely high) – 155mb x 25 = 3875mb =~ 4gb per user per month.

Storage? 5mb x 25 = 125mb

So If I sell out and have 1000 users all using the service I have a cost of 4,000gb/month bandwidth and 125gb storage.

Lets go with 3 dedicated dual opteron servers from hostforweb (http://hostforweb.com/dedicated_servers.html) that give me 6,000gb/month of bandwidth and 360gb storage.
Total cost: $900/month

Total Profit at Traffic Geyser’s price: $247×1000 + $47×1000/month = $247,000 + $47,000/MONTH

Profit in the first month? $246,100

Not bad for something that can be replicated in 40 or less hours by a good programmer.

Anyone interested in the same service for $27/month, NO startup costs, and no limits? (more then traffic geyser is charging $297 + 97/month for!) … seriously… JetVideo anyone?

Here at Jetpacked we are REALLY going to be shaking up the Internet Marketing world with better tools at a fraction of the price.

- Todd Dickerson