1. Xtown.ca

Xtown is an extreme sports facility located in Quebec, and they have an excellent indoor track for motocross, ATVs and more. For Xtown we’ve provided web design work, as well as PHP/MySQL programming work in order to allow them to manage members, bookings and payments on the website through the front end and back end. It is an intricate system which is fully custom developed just for this business!

Visit Xtown.ca for Extreme Sports, Motocross, ATV, SNOX and more in Quebec!

2. BrockSmeaton.com

Brock’s website needed a re-design, so we got to it to simplify and clean up the site. The menus were re-designed, and we switched to a side navigation with fixed layers on top and side for a frame-like look, but without the frames. We all know that frames are not good for SEO, right? Also we nixed the landing page, which has been a long tradition among realtor websites (and other industries) to make a grand first impression. Instead we have an index page that is part of the regular design template, with a cool javascript slideshow going through it.

Visit Brocksmeaton.com for West Vancouver Real Estate listings!

3. Alta Pacific Logo and Branding

Alta Pacific - Investing in Canadian Mortgages

Our newest clients, Alta Pacific Mortgage Investment Corporation, wanted a brand new logo as well as business cards designed for their new business. They provide impeccable services in investing your money into mortgage securities, which is a much more profitable, safe, and viable investment in these volatile markets we’ve seen recently. We also did a brochure for the company as well.

Alta Pacific Brochure - Investing in Canadian Mortgages

Visit Alta Pacific’s website for more information on Investing in Canadian Mortgages. We have not designed their website yet, but we hope to do that soon as the company grows!

It’s been quite a challenging journey to come to this point, and has been very time consuming but also very rewarding as well. It’s been a pleasure working with John Chow, and I am sure it will continue to be so!

Please sign up for the TTZMedia Affiliate system, and you can start earning CPC earnings from your website as well as referral commission as well!

Also part of the enticement is the two 22″ LCD monitors being given out as a prize if you sign up with the TTZ Media Affiliate program! This contest is hosted by John Chow(Teaching you how to make money online) and Bluefur Web Hosting (Providing Quality Web Hosting Services in Canada). There are many other ways to win, so please check out John Chow’s original contest page!

To be able to sign up for the TTZMedia Affiliate system, you must meet the following requirements :

• You must have your own self-hosted site. No blogspot, myspace, wordpress.com hosted websites will be allowed. Self-hosted wordpress blogs are OK.
• Your website, obviously, must not contain any pornography, discriminative content, or any other content that is commonly perceived as not-universally-acceptable.
• It must be a good site. If it’s a crap website with nothing on it we won’t even bother.

And don’t even think about click frauding us – we’re not stupid, so please don’t even try!

One of the things that came up as we started accepting more affiliates who are not friends with John Chow was this : CLICK FRAUD.

So many affiliates are starting to take advantage of it, logging more clicks than they should, that are not deserved.

Here are some of the more obvious signs that I can disclose :

• One ip address has dozens, or in one case, 119 clicks over a 2 month period.
• You see a CTR of over 20%, while the views are logging quite a bit. If you had 5 view and 1 person clicked it, that’s 20% CTR. But If you have hundreds of views, or thousands, with a double digit CTR, there’s something wrong.
• We see multiple clicks from the same ip address that logged into the affiliate admin section.

There are more that I won’t disclose as that’s my algorithm secrets. BUT.

All of the above can be scanned and noted with very simple database management queries, and are easy to detect. Right now I’ve ran some scripts that I wrote this evening to zap these extra clicks, and there have been thousands of clicks removed already over the last hour or so, with more to come.

We’re not stupid. Those signs are easy to find. It’s very easy for us to determine whether an affiliate is messing with us or not. Proxy servers, automatic page refreshers are all gimmicks. We know. So does our affiliate provider, shopping.com. If the logs don’t match, you’ll be booted. Simple as that.

I’ll note roughly how many clicks are removed by the end of the evening.