I just re-read this post, and I saw it could be read in an angry tone. I assure you I’m not angry… just sort of musing aloud and wondering why I don’t want to use tactics I know work.
How many people are making money by talking about The Rich Jerk? I don’t mean [...]

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Spam Huntress was kind enough to track down the third-party who’s putting Disney in the referrer logs of a number of blogs, including one of mine. Thank SpectorBrain for the tip.
I’ve started banning the IP addresses of some of the spammers I get on this site. I realize this could deny a few [...]

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I noticed today that Google is counting fewer backlinks to a couple of my sites than they have been, so I checked to make sure the PR was still the same. It was. Then I went around to forums, trying to discover if there’d been a PR update. Some said there was [...]

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I decided I needed to write some kind of an update here, but when I thought about what to say, I got stuck: there’s stuff going on, but nothing’s finished enough, or established enough, to be worth reporting.
So I’m going to report that I’m getting a new laptop soon. It’s a Dell, with a [...]

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I’m sorry to report I’ve had no response from CrispAds regarding their new payment system which is not reflected in their FAQ, and their continued failure to pay me according to terms. It’s entirely possible I’m misunderstanding the payment system, which is why I wrote to them for clarification, and mentioned that they should [...]

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When I checked my AwStats on one of my sites, I found 39 hits from “www.disney.com”. I knew better than to think Disney had stuck a link to my site on their front page. My next thought was that they’d circulated an internal email with a link, but I doubted it would show [...]

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I recently had two sites accepted into BurstMedia’s new ad program, Burst Direct. To be honest, I’m really not sure I’ve figured it out yet - you get paid for impressions as well as clicks. It’s just started, so I probably need to give it some time before I can report anything very [...]

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It’s July 14, and I’ve earned about $175 so far this month. My monthly earnings are usually under $100, so this is a record. Even better: some of this cash is already in hand, and most of the rest of it will be in hand shortly after the end of the month. [...]

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If you use Firefox, I’ve found a really handy extension for making quick and easy screenshots from your browser in the .png format. It’s called Snapper, and it works on Windows and Mac. A little red shark sits at the bottom right corner of your browser window. Click him, and his mouth [...]

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I haven’t looked at the new CJ javascript links, and I’m not sure I’ll bother. I’m hearing unpleasant things about them not working so well, but I’ve got a better reason to be sick and tired of CJ: the length of time it takes them to lock in a commission.
I get a commission on [...]

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