Here’s a shopping directory a friend of mine just launched:
ShopShootah
It’s shopping related so submit all your aff sites and get them listed!
Directory is brand spanking new, so there’s no Google PR yet - but get in now to be at the top of the results (right now it’s bannerboxes loading - manually submitted sites [...]

Check out this interview with a link spammer - it’s an interesting read.
Link Spammer Interview
“It was around December 2003: Google did what was called the ‘Florida update’. It changed the algorithm that measured how high a site should be ranked to spot ‘nepotistic’ links and devalue them. So if you had a link farm of [...]

Wow if you’ve ever wanted to try adding rss to your site, Carp is the way to go!
Carp - Free Download
I played with it a bit yesterday and couldn’t believe how easy it was to set up. I’ve added it to one content site and will be adding it to another right away.
The instructions are [...]

The Brand Futurist Nick Wreden has listed the
Hottest Branding Trends for 2005 on his blog.
Top 5:
1. Performance-based compensation
2. Enhanced customer connectivity
3. Social branding
4. Universe is the brand
5. Blogs, wikis and RSS
Fast-forward to the future: Keep an eye on podcasting, mososo and immersive communications. These won’t have much of an impact in 2005, but [...]

This is one of my new directories that I’m currently working on:
Fabarooni.com
Still tweaking some things, but feel free to submit your websites. Right now I’m using bannerboxes to provide listings in all the categories, you’ll notice the bannerboxes scripted links.
The manually submitted websites will be posted above the bannerboxes results and will have pure text/html [...]

One of my new aff product sites just rocked with sales/conversions when I first launched it. Then it took a big nosedive. I thought it was just slowing down because of the time of year (beginning of January), but discovered a horrendous mess when I picked through the site.
Somehow the code got all messed up [...]

I can’t believe it, seems the time has finally come (or at least given a timeline now).
I just read this over at Affiliate Tip and seems I missed some big news.
Does anyone know just how long the wait has been for this to happen? And I wonder if they’ll use better glue on their envelopes [...]

Nick over at threadwatch has a great offer on the table for a free high bid keyword database from cashkeywords.
CashKeywords Keyword Databse
Don’t be shy - sign up and nab that freebie!
What a great concept, just love it.
Hmmmm any advertisers out there wishing to give my blog readers a freebie - I’m interested!

Big news flying around the web that I’m sure you’ve all read several times already, the big engines are implementing a new no follow tag.
You can read more about it here:
MSN - Working Together Against Blog Spam
Google - Preventing Comment Spam
Yahoo - A Defense Against Comment Spam
This can be used on any type of website, [...]

Very interesting discussion going on over at affiliateboards here:
CPA vs. CPC
What we do as affs when creating websites that sell products and include our affiliate links is called CPA (Cost Per Action). We’re setting ourselves up to earn a commission from each *sale* made. That’s CPA.
What they’re talking about in this thread is building websites [...]