As if Google didn’t do enough crazy things this weekend, somebody stole the top SERP position for AdSense from them. I can’t explain it nearly as well as JenSense’s Google hijack article, and the follow-up has a response from the All-In-One-Business.com guy who hijacked it.
If this goes the way Google snafu’s usually do, there [...]

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In light of recent paranoia regarding Google’s ability to track nearly everything you do on the web, if you go near any of their services, I thought I’d look for some alternatives. Whether you’re worried about identity theft, or Google figuring out what sites you run, or just don’t like the idea of anybody [...]

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I just added a tool to the BlogTools page that I meant to include all along: FeedValidator.org. It only takes a few seconds to check your blog’s feed and make sure it’s valid. Just one error can prevent a feed from running in aggregators, so this is important if you want anyone to [...]

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The AdBrite links I’ve put up on both sites are starting to get clicks.
Interestingly, most of the clicks are coming from my “B-2″ site rather than this one. It has less traffic than this one, but it’s much more targetted traffic. I would have assumed that the CTR relates to how targeted the [...]

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Like a lot of newbie affiliate marketers, I started out using Commission Junction and ShareASale and Linkshare. I never expected thrilling results from those, because I’d heard about parasite problems (on CJ and Linkshare), tracking issues, Norton cloaking issues, etc. I do know one person who actually gets a check from CJ and [...]

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Google updated their PR two nights ago. It was totally unexpected for me - I was looking at one of my sites to see if a specific page’s PR had changed, and realized the whole site had changed. This site is now a PR 4 (it was 3 in April). This is [...]

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If you’re a self-respecting Mac user, and you’re running IE for Mac, you may have noticed the font on this blog is hard to read. Well, that’s your punishment for using a discontinued browser that was never much good to start with! Just kidding… but I have tried everything I can think of to get [...]

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CrispAds is paying me 25 cents per click through, and I’m starting to get clicks. Their monthly payout minimum is $5 with PayPal, so that’s encouraging (compared to AdSense’s $100, AdHearus’ $20, etc.).
You have to let the ads stay on your site for a while. At first, you get some fairly irrelevant ones, but their [...]

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I’ve got a brilliant new promotion method for my “B-2 Bomber” site - the highly targeted niche content blog site that started as a hobby but quickly surpassed all my “real” sites in traffic. This comes after much experimentation with directory listings, search engines, links in signatures at forums, etc. It will astound you with [...]

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A couple of days ago, I made a really big booboo, but I think I learned something very interesting from it. I meant to set my maximum click amount on one of my AdWords campaigns to 17 cents. I was pretty sure it was doing better the lower and lower I set the amount, so [...]

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