Hi.

As we’re testing GoTryTHIS 2 and working out how much resources it consumes, I thought it might be a really good idea to find out what typical and extreme usage is, and what percentage of users fit into each.

Please respond to this blog post and tell me on average how many clicks per month you get on all your GoTryTHIS links combined. Also, what was your largest spike ever? Guestimates are quite alright!

Thank you,
John.

UPDATE:

Please hold off on any more additional testers, and shut down existing tests while we analyze the data collected so far. While it is loading fast, we’re hitting a bottleneck somewhere with the data getting to the new dashboard as fast as we would like. There are stupid number of clicks coming in right now, and I’d like to give it a chance to catch up.

(I’m not sure yet at what point the bottleneck started until we’ve done some serious analysis, but we currently have over 65,000 clicks coming in per minute, so I suspect that under more normal use things will be fine. We’ll try to calculate what that limit is from the data we have now.)

Thank you!

Well, it’s been a long haul.

GoTryTHIS 2 appears to be an upgrade to GoTryTHIS, and of course it is. It is also a testing platform for hundreds of thousands of dollars in other new technology we’ve developed, which means it is really big, complex, and hard to test.

These technologies include a lot of code to make installing and upgrading GoTryTHIS relatively easy, despite all the hard stuff going on in the background. There is also technology around moving data around so you can have GoTryTHIS 2 installed on several sites at once, and manage them from one central location of your choosing.

Imagine all the different types of servers out there, and you may have an idea of the challenges we have had making it all work. But, it’s fun to push the limits of the web!

Here’s the schedule for what is going to happen next:

Crowd-sourced Testing:
Next week, we’re taking the “final” version of GoTryTHIS 2 and putting it out for a mass test through a service called uTest.com. It uses crowd-sourcing to test web applications using many professional software testers.

We’ve got a testing plan put together that involves installing version 1, adding thousands of fake links and millions of fake clicks, upgrading to version 2 and importing those clicks, testing version 2, and then upgrading to a fake version 2.1 to test the new upgrading procedure.

The beauty of the utest service, is that we’ll have the results of that testing in a few days, with feedback from dozens of testers. If we were doing it internally, it would take a month or more and only contain feedback from a few people.

Fixing any problems found
Once that is done, I suspect we’ll have a number of small bugs to fix due to different platform issues. I doubt that we’ll have any major show-stopper bugs at this point that require rethinking anything. (That has happened a few times before, and we’ve designed ways around the problems, so what are the chances of something new coming up this late in the game, right?)

Crowd-sourced testing again
Then we’ll take the updated release and run it through another set of tests at utest to make sure that the final release version is stable. We may have to repeat this process a few times, each time with fewer issues cropping up as they are found and fixed.

User Beta testing
Once this is done, we’ll let in a limited number of real users for beta testing. To give us some cash flow, we’ll also sell some copies of GoTryTHIS 2 at a fixed price.

Recurring Billing Setup
In the background we’ll be finishing off adding recurring billing and new licenses to our billing system to allow for sales of version 2, and upgrading. All sales will be billed at a low monthly fee once we release.

Release
And then at some point, we’ll actually release version 2 for free to all existing users and it will be available for purchase to new customers. I won’t even pretend to estimate when that will happen, but we are making progress!

Version 2.1
As soon as coding is frozen on version 2, and the billing system is ready, we’re starting to add new features to GoTryTHIS 2.1. All the hard stuff will be done for the infrastructure of the program, and new features can be added frequently. Everyone who is paying monthly fees will automatically get new releases with new features, as requested by users. Existing users will get a discount on the monthly membership, if they choose to continue to receive updates.

Thank you,
John.

For those of you who have Wordpress, Joomla or other systems that use mod_redirect in your home folder, it has been said that GoTryTHIS doesn’t work.

There are various work-around’s listed here.

As well, there is a simple fix for Wordpress. Similar fixes might work for other systems as well.

WORDPRESS FIX:

In your templates folder for Wordpress, there is a file called 404.php that displays when a page isn’t found.

We’re going to replace that file with one that redirects to GoTryTHIS.

Copy the code below, and then load up the admin side of your Wordpress blog and go to “Presentation” and then the “Theme Editor” sub-menu. Then select 404 Template on the right hand side.

First, copy all the text there from 404.php into a text file on your desktop and save that as a backup in case something goes wrong.

Then replace all the content of 404.php in Wordpress with the following code, and edit the variable $gtt_path with the correct domain name and path to where you installed GoTryTHIS on that web site.

Then save the file, and test your blog and test a GoTryTHIS link.


<?php
// Set the following line ($gtt_path) to the location you installed GoTryTHIS into
$gtt_path = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/gotrythis';

// Do not edit past this point
header( 'Location: ' . $gtt_path . '/gotrythis.php?id=' . urlencode( substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],1) ) );
exit();
?>


Tomorrow we’ll release an update to version 1 for those who want it. This is not a critical upgrade, so if you don’t need this feature, you might just want to wait for version 2 before upgrading again.

The new feature, by very popular request, makes it so that variables are passed to cloaked links, which is rather useful if you’re using products like xconversions.com or covertconversionpro.com.

For example, in the previous version if I cloaked this link, you would end up on Google’s home page, where with version 1.4 (and 2.0) you will end up on the correct link.

http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-35,GGLG:en&q=gotrythis

We are also adding the same feature to the encrypted javascript links.

John.

Hi.

Yesterday the last remaining copies from our Black-Hat sale were sold and we are starting to stress test version 2 and will be testing on on live accounts next week.

There were some refunds due to a missing feature, which was in version 2 but not in version 1. We’ve now added that feature into an update to version 1 and we’ll see if they want to get their copy back. If not, we may release those copies again to new customers.

Thank you everyone!
John.

We recently arranged with Mr. X. to sell his Black-Book DVD’s for half price, getting all the remaining 87 DVD sets from him. People paid $2,400 to attend the workshop and he was selling the DVD’s up until last week for $1,197.

We’re selling them at $597 and we’re paying the shipping. These are 13 DVD’s of the best content on PPC domination you’ll find anywhere.

You can find out more and get your copy here, until we run out of copies:

–> http://www.gotrythis.com/bbDVD.php

Hi.

Starting on Tuesday, October 23, we are going to have the first ever “sale” of GoTryTHIS Black-Hat to help us prepare for the launch of version 2. We want to make sure we have enough funds on hand to make it go very smoothly.

We’re selling only 300 copies discounted to $197. We have a waiting list of thousands of people and have most of our top 10 affiliates on board to promote it to make sure they go quickly. So please keep an eye out for the notice when we mail it out.

If you get one of those copies, you’ll also get a free upgrade to GoTryTHIS Black-Hat version 2, just like the other owners before you.

Once we start the sale, there will be no more copies available of GoTryTHIS White-Hat. Once the sale is over, anyone visiting the site can join the waiting list for version 2. No more copies will be sold until version 2 is released.

If you already have GoTryTHIS White-Hat, we’re giving you an opportunity to upgrade at a discount as well. We’ll email you a separate link to go to in order to upgrade.

After the sale, we’ll start getting everything in place for GoTryTHIS 2 to be launched. Things were on hold for a while and we are eager to get it out there. We’ll be posting some videos of it in action shortly.

Enjoy,
John.

To upgrade from White-Hat to Black-Hat please visit: http://www.gotrythis.com/upgrade.php

Thanks to everyone who voted for GoTryTHIS to be the Internet Marketing Product of 2006. Your votes counted, and we won in a landslide!

Nearly 1 in 4 marketers voted for GoTryTHIS, surprising the creaters of the survey who “really thought Stompernet had it in the bag.”

“It’s a great product, no doubt about it. We hope there are more products out like (GoTryThis) that can really help a lot of people”.

Here is the press release:
GoTryTHIS wins top Internet marketing product of 2006