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A large part of my online income is generated through affiliate marketing. These days many affiliate programs (like my own) pay through PayPal - which I think is great because it’s instant and I don’t have to go to the bank to cash the check. But some affiliate programs still use checks so I do [...]

After ignoring Text Link Ads for quite some time I finally decided to give them a try a few months ago. One of the reasons I hadn’t tried them before was because of the controversy about buying/selling links on websites. For example, Google doesn’t particularly like when people buy links on high PageRank webpages to [...]

One of the things bloggers strife for is to increase the number of people that are subscribed to their RSS feed. When people subscribe to your RSS feed it’s almost guaranteed that the person will come back to your blog to read new posts - then you’ve turned a one-time visitor into a loyal reader [...]

Soon after launching this blog I applied to ReviewMe. But it looks like they mainly look at the PageRank when deciding what blogs get accepted - so blogs that don’t have any public PageRank yet don’t get in. With the recent PageRank update that shows this blog having PR4 I was sure I would get [...]

One of the tricks you can use when you’re trying to sell something is create urgency. For example: “there are only limited copies available”, “buy within the next 5 minutes and you’ll get this extra bonus”, etc. People that are “on the fence” might decide to buy because they don’t want to lose out - [...]

I was just checking my AdSense stats and on the Overview page under “Recent messages” I saw a new message from “Optimization Team” with the subject “April 2007 Optimization Report”. Interesting… I hadn’t seen anything like that before. This is what the message said:
April 2007 Optimization Report
Dear Publisher,
Here is your optimization report for the month [...]

Having a part time online business is great if you don’t have a lot of free time or if you can’t set aside specific hours to work on your business.
For example, right now school is keeping me quite busy and I can only work on my business a few hours per week. But I have [...]

I mentioned John Chow in an earlier post. Well, John is a real up-and-comer in the blogosphere and is on his way to become an internet celebrity ;) His blog is already in the Technorati Top 1000 and he’s set on reaching the Top 100 before the end of this year. You might say that [...]