Is anyone else getting weekly emails from /* saying their spider can’t detect your ads? I am, and every day I can confirm that I’ve had the same three ads running for quite some time on this site. Obviously their spider is screwy.
What annoys me about this is that:

They deduct the value of the [...]

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I’ve never before felt the summer drop in visitors. All my sites were still growing, I guess, so they would continue to slowly improve or remain steady during those months.
This year, Project B-3 Bomber, which got around 13,500 visitors in May, then about 13,800 in June, may drop to under 12k this month. It’s taken [...]

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I got a friendly letter from Bidvertiser making some recommendations about why I haven’t gotten any clicks. They suggested I add more sites and raise the amount of my bids.
Some of the bids were over $1, so I needed to raise my daily budget, too - I picked $2.50, because I do not want to [...]

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I just spent a couple of days putting ads on my sites. I paid $10 for the Phplinkdirectory mods at Linkforever and installed the banner rotation one on the directory here and at ChillyCool - they were well worth the price. If you install them, be very careful following the instructions, especially for modifying the [...]

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Got this email today and thought I’d post it in case anyone else got one like it, particularly someone new to the game who might not know some of the total stupidity that goes on:

Hi cvbxvcbxc,
We have received your order to buy a text link at this blog.
Your order will be processed shortly for approval.
You [...]

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Last month was less than thrilling. I think it’s mostly because I’m trying to get away from ads and branch out into CPA and affiliate stuff more. I’m crippling what had been working for me to try new things.
But the things that were working for me were at a plateau, so I don’t regret my [...]

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