As I mentioned on the main site, ShowYourAdHere is now live. I’m testing it on a couple of sites right now, including this one (actually, I’m about to go set that up right now, so if you click this 5 seconds after I’ve posted, just refresh in, like, thirty seconds). I’ll report on results as [...]

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TanTan’s Simple Spam Filter plugin for Wordpress works with Akismet to stop comment spam before it gets into your Akismet moderation queue. I’ve been getting hit with tons of comment spams a day on a couple of sites, so I installed this to try it. It reported that it had caught 191 spam comments on [...]

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I’ve decided to build a monster.
Sorry - monster site. A huge sprawling domain full of subfolders full of subtopics relating to the main topic, with lots of content for people to read or subscribe to - and lots of sales pages. My theory is that if I drown the sales pages in content pages, it [...]

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I wonder exactly how much bandwidth will be taken up by the gazillion trillion “rel=no-follow” code bits Google’s recent link crap has spawned? Talk about the mountain coming to Mohammed.
Now back to our regularly scheduled ban on Google chatter.

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This month, I got rid of a lot of text link ads, so I expected a drop in income. It wasn’t as bad as I’d feared: $285.
BlogHer earnings dropped sharply this month, so most of my income actually still came from text link ads, which is scary. I definitely need to diversify fast. Which I’ve [...]

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Because Empress was unhappy that I’m going to discontinue journaling on this site, I’ve set up a secondary blog called Sapphire’s Affiliate Marketing Journal. This will have my monthly earning stats posts and posts about stuff I’m trying out and so on. It has a separate feed, so be sure to sign up for it [...]

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