For those of you who read about the problems I had with CJ taking about three months to pay me the first time, guess who just paid me right on time?
I first reached payout with ShareASale in late October, and barely a month later, I’ve got my first check (for all transactions). From what [...]

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I’ve been cleaning up links in my directories, and I think it’s only fair to mention something I’ve started deleting: sites that have add-on directories with tons of irrelevant links.
There’s been a lot of advice floating around about how it’s good to toss a directory onto your site to boost it in the SERP’s. [...]

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While cleaning up my outbound links on directory sites and article blogs, I realized: I’m not sure I know a scraper site from a plain old crappy site. I’m not sure there is a definite way to tell. But I need to get better at guessing. So I started searching on Google [...]

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I’ve been going through my directories lately, and also my article reprint sites, examining all my outbound links. And I realized something: even if they’re fine when you first post them, that doesn’t mean they will be 6 months from now.
For my articles sites, I’m now putting together a list of every outbound link [...]

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A representative of Pheedo contacted me in email after my post the other day. He apologized and took responsibility for Pheedo’s shortcomings - mainly, that the user interface is confusing enough to cause miscommunications and problems like the ones I experienced. He also made a modest gesture which convinced me of his sincerity.
Now, [...]

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You may have read back in August that Pheedo let me down. In a nutshell, I had a great merchant trying to run an ad. I approved the ad. Nothing happened. I wrote Pheedo, the merchant wrote Pheedo. There was no response until I posted about it here, at which [...]

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Couple of random things to note today. One is that Chitika seems to be performing pretty well, so I added it to another site. Part of my income is coming from a referral (thanks, whoever you are!) and part is coming from straight clicks on my site. I know you’re supposed to [...]

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Yesterday, I got a check from AdBrite for everything I had earned up to about September 20. The payment minimum is set at whatever you want, even $0, so now that I know firsthand they pay, I can be assured of getting every penny I earn with this company.
Two days ago, I took AdSense [...]

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