Here’s an interesting report on which affiliate and ad networks are most likely to have their cookies detected and purged by your visitor’s anti-spyware software. (Thanks to 5StarAffiliatePrograms for the tip.) It also contains some very informative links to studies such as this one by BurstMedia, which finds that 30 - 60% of [...]

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My big commission at CJ has locked, which means I should receive it later this month. This is pretty thrilling, of course, but I know I can’t rely on sales like this to make my goal of earning enough to make a living at this stuff. Or at least, I can’t rely on [...]

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I came across an interesting article at SEORoundtable about Google devaluing paid links.  It sounds like Adam Laznik is saying Google only devalues paid links if they’re bought for the purpose of gaining pagerank.  Which would be fair and reasonable, if Google had a way of knowing whether it was the pagerank or the traffic [...]

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I took some time today to beef up my Bloglines subscription. I don’t keep up with some of the good reading that’s out there nearly as well as I should, and it suddenly occurred to me, why don’t I just consolidate everything on Bloglines? Gives me one site to check instead of dozens, [...]

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As some of you will recall, I started a blog just for fun over a year ago (which I nicknamed the “B-2 Bomber” for the purposes of discussing anonymously on here), on a topic that interested me, and to my surprise it took off. During that time, the vast majority of my search engine [...]

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Today I hope to finish the last of my monthly maintenance tasks, so I can get on to creating some new pages.  I swear, those maintenance tasks are the first things I’m farming out to an employee, once I get to the point where hiring help is viable.  As much as I’ve pared down the [...]

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Assuming my big commish from CJ sticks, I earned a record-shattering $379.57 last month. That’s from a combination of affiliate sales and adspace. The only PPC in there is what slots I have open with AdBrite - and really, I’m selling more and more of my AdBrite slots every month.
For September, I’ve already [...]

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