Bunnykins’ Blog

Project wonderful was mentioned in a topic about google ads on invision power board’s forum. So I thought I would give it a try. I first started with the blog so I could get an idea of how it worked and how well it worked. It was doing better then the google ads I had so I thought I would put it on the anime database as well as otaku Play ground. It seems to work even better on those 2 as they have more traffic then my blog. So I am happy so far and I am hopping it helps pay for the hosting, or at least part of the hosting.

To me project wonderful is like the child of ebay and google ads or some thing like that. My basic understanding is as a publisher you offer ad space on your site and advertiser can bid to use that ad space and you earn money based on how much they bid. If you do not change the minimum bid on your ad space it starts out at 0, which for the blog I left it at that do to not having that much traffic on the blog.  For the database and otaku play ground I did set them to a minimum of 0.01 and I am getting advertisers so looks like I made the right choice. I am not sure if clicks help but would assume that if one of the visitors to the site clicks it helps encourage advertisers to bid higher. At least that is what I would think as if I was an advertiser and had my ads on a site I would want clicks and would pay more if I got clicks. So ya that part is different that google as on google you only get money if the ads are clicked on.

Not sure how my members are handling the ads as no one has said any thing yet about them.  I am thinking not to badly as I do have to approve all ads and I only approve those that are E rated, project wonderful calls it C rated. Which is safe for work and safe for children. I know that if I put google ads on otaku play ground I would have members upset do to the way google ads works. I mean some people do not like them as they see them as spyware. Me personally I do not think of google ads that way but do think of double click ad as spyware as spybot and other spyware removers see it as such. So ya I would never put double click ads on my site. I did have ads before that were paid ads. But worked differently. They were basically affiliate ads that I got from my host. The only way I earned money on those was if some one purchased from them.

So far I do like project wonderful and may even use it to get some free ads out there for my sites. I will just look for the ad spaces that are still at 0 and bid on them. I just need to create some ads and away I go.

I do not know about any one else but I prefer Dr Scholl’s insoles as they are better then any other insole I have tried.

Recently I bought 3 different insoles 2 Dr Scholl’s and one a generic one that said it was the equivalent of the Dr Scholls messaging Gel.  The 2 Dr Scholl’s insoles I bought were the memory foam and the messaging gel. I do like the memory foam the best and has the best comfort although do feel a bit to firm under the heel but other then that they are great. The messaging gel insoles have a heel issue as well as they have a plastic circle just under the heel and I can feel the edges of that on the bottom of my heel so can be a bit annoying. The generic messaging gel insoles did not have the plastic ring and were surprisingly more comfortable then the Dr Scholls ones, the fabric over top of the gel even seemed softer to the touch.

I will probably continue to buy the memory foam ones though as they were the best out of all the ones I tried.

Along with the shoe issue I mentioned in my last post I had issues with the actual stores. Well one store actually, but I did buy from 3 different online shoe stores. The one I had an issue with was onlineshoes.com, very frustrating issue. I first put enough money in paypal to be able to place an order with them as I do not have a credit card so need to actually have the money in paypal before placing an order, unless the store excepts echecks. Needless to say onlineshoes.com does not except echecks. Any way I placed the order and I got the notice from paypal, which I did not really look at but probably should have, more about why latter. A half hour to an hour later I had realized I needed to pay for another order using paypal. That order was from a company that does except echecks so went ahead and paid for that. However that does an issue with the onlineshoes.com order as it took for the paypal balance instead of paying with an echeck.  Which I did not realize right away. I did not realize until about 3 hours later when onlinehoes.com contacted me about not being able to authenticate the paypal transaction. After getting that email I looked into why the order I placed with them did not take the money out of paypal right away.  I did find out from them that the money is put into pending until they know for sure they can ship the order or when it goes to shipping. That is the first time I had seen that so explained to them what happened and they said they would cancel this order and told me to place another order.  So first I had to figure out how to get the balance on paypal back up in order to even place the order. After about 6 hours or so I got a refund from one of my webhosts as I had over paid them.  Very nice of them to do that. So now that it has been over 9 hours or more from the time I placed the first order I placed another one, just like they told me to.

Now the issue above I will admit was my fault how ever this next issue was onlineshoes.com’s fault. First the second order that I placed did go much farther then the first order as the paypal transaction was authenticated this time and the money was removed from paypal.  How ever where is were they made a mistake. They went to cancel the first order, the order it self was canceled how ever they canceled the wrong paypal transaction so the money showed back up in my paypal. I contacted them and I did not get a replay at least not that day but it was late at night so was not expecting any thing until the next day. I was expecting them to tell me to order it again. The next day however I got an email from them that stated the shoes had been shipping. I was like wait you do not even have my money but they shipped it.  I was still expecting them to tell me to place another order and this time let the paypal transaction go through and cancel the order it self so that they have the money for the order that was shipped. That is not what happened though. They contacted me about the payment issue and wanted me to pay using a different payment type.

I was a bit upset at that point and just told them I would place the same order with shoebuy.com and give up on them. after several hours of talking with them they got ups to redirect the shipment back to them. At that point I did place the same order with shoebuy.com. I did not have any issues with shoebuy.com but the shoes did not fit, they were to narrow in the area the last post mentions. So sent them back. Shoebuy handled it very well and did live up to having free shipping both directions. After I got the refund from them I thought about ordering a larger shoe from them but after some of my friends heard about my issue with onlineshoes.com they told me to try zappos.com so placed an order with zappos.com and boy was that a awesome experience.  They did the same athentication thing onlineshoes did but they had it done with in 15 minutes. Which surprised me and it even surprised me more that it was shipped the same day I ordered them. The biggest surprise was they got here 2 days later, not the 5 days shoebuy.com took. So needless to say I might be shopping with zappos.com again.

It is hard to find shoes that fit correctly. Very hard, my feet are not the same size so if I get a pair that fits one foot they may be to tight or to loose on the other foot depending on which foot they fit. Another issue I have found recently while shopping for shoes is most shoes I have tried on or looked at recently are not straight on the out side of the shoe so when I wear them they pinch or cause a lot of pressure on the out side of the foot on the opposite side as the arch.  Basically not wide enough around the arch area.  So I need to buy wide shoes but even then they might be wide enough around the toes but not around the arch. I had to look very close at the pictures specially the bottom pictures to see how much they curved inward around the out side of the arch area. I only ordered the ones with very little to no curve. The less curve the better they fit. It just seems to me that shoe designers think people have an arch on both sides of the foot. I personally only have an arch on the inside not the out side like a lot of these shoes suggest.

Here is a picture of what I am getting at with to much of a curve.

Here is one that does not have much of a curve that would probably work with my foot but not sure with out actually trying it on.

This last image shows where exactly it smashes my foot.