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Entries from January 2007

PayPerPost sending out 1099s

Date January 12, 2007

When I logged into PayPerPost today, it made me give my social security number and informed me that I would receive a 1099 and my earnings would be reported to the IRS. This is unusual to me, in that most of the companies I deal with only bother to report if you earn over [...]

What’s Google Smoking?

Date January 11, 2007

All of a sudden, Project Mai Tai has a pagerank of 4… and it’s still not indexed in Google.  I didn’t even know that was possible.  :D  But whatever: I’ll take it.  I’m still hoping someday Google will index the damn site and BOOM traffic will multiply overnight and it will all have been worthwhile.
I [...]

Ad Network Update: Burstmedia, TextLinkAds, AdBrite, PayPerPost

Date January 10, 2007

I’ve been using BurstMedia’s Direct ads for several months now on a couple of sites.  They got off to a slow start on earnings, and didn’t really get all that much better for me.  Maybe on a website with more traffic than mine get, they would perform just fine.
The other problem for me, however, was [...]

FloristOne independent affiliate marketing program

Date January 5, 2007

I was recently offered the opportunity to review FloristOne’s independent affiliate marketing program through ReviewMe.com. The florist/gift basket niche is one I’ve dabbled in before with little luck: the affiliate programs available via ShareASale and CommissionJunction all seemed to offer the same products and didn’t ultimately yield the results I’d hoped for. [...]