It’s been asked why affiliate marketers don’t use their own names all the time. It’s often hinted that the reasons must be nefarious – they’re hiding something.
Well, yeah. But it’s not necessarily black hat stuff or scammy stuff. It could be that you have a crazy ex who’s good at tracking people with computers. It [...]
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Once upon a time, there were employers sharing an office building. Everyone knew they offered the best pay in town for their jobs, so everyone went to all three to see what offers they could get.
Sadly, one of the employers – we’ll call them Fooble – owned all the parking lot surrounding the building. There [...]
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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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I no longer have any domains registered with GoDaddy, but after Breana left a comment to an old post, detailing her woes with their hosting and domain selling, I decided to do a link roundup of all the posts in which I complained about GoDaddy, and so did several commenters. They’re still very popular, especially [...]
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I know a lot of you think you have serious grievances with Google. I have to warn you: the following story details a wrong so heinous, so uncaring, so inhumane… your brain may cower at the prospect of holding this information. Read at your own risk.
This morning I went out to breakfast at a local [...]
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The site exceeded bandwidth and went “off the air” for a couple of hours until I realized it and contacted my host and all that. It’s never gone anywhere near the current limit before, so this is either very, very good or… not so much. I mean, my traffic’s up – but not that much.
Looking [...]
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About a month ago, I finished re-doing a bunch of sites – including this one – with two-column themes that loaded fast and worked well. Then they came out with WordPress 2.1, and some of those didn’t work too well with it.
Then they deprecated the very feature that had convinced me I could squeeze all [...]
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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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I can’t get anything done! I don’t know how much of it’s my ISP, but I’m hearing about a lot of outages and downtime. One rumor I came across is that any domain registered to Network Solutions is going to be having trouble until 6 pm Eastern Standard time.
Great. I finally get a few minutes [...]
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Here are some cool posts I’ve read recently:
Merlin’s top 5 super-obvious, “no-duh” ways to immediately improve your life. Because even though it’s obvious, sometimes you just need to be told.
Making Money Online… How long does it take? Because we have this tendency to think an online business should take off overnight, just because [...]
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