I still maintain a couple of directories.  One of them has recently gotten some purchases of “Featured Links”.  The way it’s set up, people submit the link as a Featured Link, then they’re directed to pay through PayPal.  Some of them never bother to pay, so the link just sits there in my database “pending”.
Of [...]

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As you can see in the righthand sidebar, I’m trying out Chitika’s ShopCloud.  I certainly didn’t have much luck with their e-minimalls - not that I tried all that hard - so we’ll see how these do.
I’ve removed the BurstMedia graphics ads from this site, too - at least for now.  They’re performing pretty decently [...]

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Project Mai Tai is still being ignored completely by Google.  But it just got a new sidebar link from a Blogger blog that’s not run by anyone I know.  So is it sticky?  Well, a handful of people seem to think so, which means maybe if enough people saw it, it would start to build [...]

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So you know that last post, the one right below this one, where I talked about getting my first PayPerPost payment? That was supposed to be a PPP post - one I was getting paid for - but so far I can’t get the submission system to accept the post: it thinks the exact [...]

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45n5 seems to have been banned from some centralized list Akismet uses for identifying spam. How did he get on the list? Well, it seems someone reported him for spamming. Why? None of the bloggers whose sites have recently blocked his comments seem to feel there was a good reason. [...]

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I found a new affiliate marketing/SEO forum this morning that looks promising. There’s discussion about everything from how to design your sites to how people choose what affiliate programs they’ll be joining. It’s also got sections on Commission Junction, ShareASale and other affiliate marketing programs. While there are a lot of older sites [...]

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My total earnings for October were $264.81 - a combination of ad sales, affiliate sales and PayPerPost.  Which means my average earnings over the last three months were about $245 per month.  In the three months before that, it was about $110.
I’ve got $77 in ad sales to start the month, which is a little [...]

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