ShareASale is offering a bonus to affiliates who sign up for Direct Deposit payments:
Free Bonus - Sign up for Direct Deposit
So for April 21st and April 22nd 2005 - that’s Thursday and Friday, if you sign up to be paid via Direct Deposit to your bank account instead of by “Check” - we will put [...]

Todd over at stuntdubl.com writes about his day with Seth Godin:
Calling Cards, and Condos, and Cows… Oh My!
The Stuntdubl blog is a newer find for me and really - that blog has teeth. Todd if you’re reading this - I ordered Seth’s book The Big Red Fez since you recommended it here so strongly, just [...]

Steve Rubel over at Micropersuasion points out a blog to watch:
Tiger Woods’ 16th Hole Heroics
Read Steve’s blog entry here to read what we’re watching for: The “How Did It Go In?” Meme
Watch Bloglines For HowDidItGoIn
As of now - 6 links
If this meme does take off, it will be the first time for me to watch [...]

MarketingVox.com comments on a report by AdAge.com:
Papers Might Lose Billions in Classifieds to Online
Newspapers will likely be losing billions of dollars in classified ad revenue to non-newspaper online classified ad sites by 2007, according to McKinsey & Co. execs who addressed the Newspaper Association of America’s annual conference
Another indication that there will be a huge [...]

Are you linking out to your merchants in a framed window? Might want to reconsider that:
Emarketer.com - Worried About Buying Online
The challenge for online merchants is to ensure that their online payments systems are secure, and to then convince women, a key shopping demographic, that it is safe to use a credit card online. Alternate [...]

Yes the day has finally arrived - the Google PR update. Look up at your Google Toolbar and see what I see for this page? A whopping PR of 4! First new site ever to start out with a bang like this, I usually struggle with 1 and 2 for new sites. Told ya [...]

Sometimes we can get too caught up in driving and chasing traffic to our websites that we lose track of where our focus needs to be - website conversion rates. I just caught a good read over at Results-Squared:
Increase Adwords CTR (or Not)
An increase in Adword CTR does not mean that you will make more [...]

Bad news today as it was announced that Affiliate Manager Forum was hacked and the forum wiped out:
The Hacker that Knocked Out My Affiliate Manager Forum and the Bounty I Have on Them
Shawn Collins is not going down though and will rebuild. He also offered a reward:
I really appreciate the outpouring of support. But please, [...]

Blaming Google - South Park Style
Blame Canada Lyrics
Blame Google!
Online Webmasters
Times have changed,
Google’s SERPs are getting worse
They won’t obey the inbounds,
They just want to fart and curse.
Should we blame the link spam, or blame the white hats, or should we blame the black hats…No!
Blame Google! Blame Google!
With all their cloaked little spies,
Their autolink so full of [...]

Well here’s one way to eliminate the competition I guess:
The Case Of The Hired Hacker
Our “Entrepreneur” was still living at home with his parents when he launched two online sports apparel businesses specializing in “retroâ€? or “throwbackâ€? sports jerseys. These jerseys are a booming, multi-billion dollar industry, crowded with competitors, and in the early going [...]

Adsense Notifier - Firefox Extension
Displays your adsense earnings on the statusbar
Freebie tool to install in your Firefox browser that displays your adsense earnings on your statusbar.
Thanks to Fontomaster for the heads up.

Ok when will I learn to save my most amazing, brilliant brain flashes for my own blog!
Current Thinkng on Linking for Google
hmmm we should play with Google now. Pick the whitehouse or something big and knock em out of the serps. We could call it Google Bowling. lol
But ego aside GoogleBowling is serious [...]

Here’s the typical mindset of a person getting started:
“I’m starting out, so where do I get my domain name, hosting, autoresponders, how do I design a webpage and get it live on the Internet, how do I process credit cards…�
Then this misguided individual will go all out to find out how to do all these [...]

What can you learn from Marth Stewart and a poncho?

MSNBC: Martha’s Poncho: An Amazing Yarn
You might call it the Martha Effect. In the 127 years since Ruben Blumenthal founded Lion Brand Yarn, the New York-based company has never quite experienced a frenzy like the one set off by Martha Stewart’s post-prison wardrobe selection. On March [...]

Caught a thread over at Threadwatch: Google’s 302 Problem Solved? so I snuck a peek at the sites I’ve been monitoring.
I do see a big change, the site:domain.com query does show clean results. No hijacked urls and no scripted links included in the results. You may want to check your sites that were affected by [...]

I missed the news on this, but ZabaSearch is one freaky people finder engine. Pulls up satellite pictures of your house, your birthdate, your address, your phone number. More detailed background checks can be purchased.
Here’s an article discussing more weird stuff about ZabaSearch (including a reference to the Heaven’s Gate cult):
It’s impressive, scary to see [...]

For some time now I’ve noticed something ‘different’ about various forums that I’ve followed for quite some time. I’m talking affiliate boards, webmaster and seo boards, the biz stuff. I could never quite put my finger on ‘what was wrong’, but I realized something last night.
Many of the forums I have been visiting the past [...]

So how many of these ‘traffic exchanges’ are in the wild do you think? And how many of them know *just the right keywords* to use on their pages to grab those high bids?
One more reason to *uncheck* content on your adwords - thank you. What I’ve done too is really *lower* my cost [...]

ZDnet Australia has an article about the Firefox/IE battle:
Is Firefox Incinerating IE?
The open source browser continues to make strong headway against the dominant player, taking about 5 percent of the browser market.
Looking at my stats, those numbers are pretty much in line with what I show. But it does vary with the ‘type’ of site.
Shopping/affiliate [...]

I use Firefox mainly as my feed reader, but every now and again I like to check out the extensions available. This one’s kinda neat and can be useful for web dev stuff (or eyeballing a competitor’s site! :wink:)
Firefox Link Checker
Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of [...]

Well thanks to rustybrick over at Search Engine Roundtable I finally got my hands on a Yahoo! 360 account. And guess what? I already have 100 invites to give away.
If you’d like one, just post here or use the Contact Form and I’ll zap an invite over to you as soon as I can.
Thanks again [...]

What are your plans for the growing ad blocking trend? More and more surfers are installing popup blockers (heck I hate those popups too) and activating ad blocking options in Norton’s and other software. Then we have Firefox and the tweaks and addons to block ads (including RSS ads and Adsense btw):
The Ad Block Project
Adblock [...]

So the latest ‘oldie but goodie’ I’m reading is Dan Kennedy’s 63 “Killer” Marketing Strategies (see free download link below). Somehow I found it in my mile high ebook pile.
Although the focus is on direct mail, surely there are some nuggets for us affs to grab hold of?
Some notes:
Every element of an ad, printed [...]

I’m not in the ‘building’ mode at all since I took my online break. I’m maintaining what I currently have up and still trying to build those, but as far as new things go - I’ve decided to put a hold on that.
Why? I seem to have developed the ‘Taz Disease’!

That’s where you spin round [...]

Threadwatch was discussing an old thread from 2002 that was brought up over on WMW:
Finding Good Affiliate Niches
I started reading…stopped…made some coffee…came back and settled into reading this gem. And then printed it off in a .pdf
Great read and it’s surprising how valid the info is today, three years later.
Enjoy the read.
ETA:
Found another [...]