A week after I decided to start selling digital items on eBay, they decide to ban them; how convenient, right? The new policy basically says digital products must use the Classified Ads Format, which prevents transactions from going through eBay. In other words, no digital product auction listings, and no feedback. According to the official […]

Yesterday, while developing advertising campaigns , I suddenly noticed my operating system was gradually performing slower and slower. After snapping out of the zone, the reason for the drop in performance became obvious. Three instances of Firefox, each with a minimum of ten open tabs, four Notepad sessions, three instances of Internet Explorer (have to […]

$62.08 in advertising and 0 conversions later, I’ve yet to give up on affiliate marketing. Revenue from Adsense and eBay commissions aren’t bad, but successful Internet marketing involves diversifying your income in as many ways possible. Over the past few weeks I’ve really started applying myself to the game of affiliate marketing and pay per […]

Alright, so I’m a little late writing about this, but since releasing the poor mans bans (a free BANS alternative), I felt compelled to tell my readers. Yesterday morning I logged in to check my email. Once of the unread messages had the subject: eBay Advances Affiliate Offering with eBay Partner Network. In short, eBay […]

Previous posts explained why I believe BitTorrent is a problem, but like most technology, BitTorrent does have a worth while purpose. BitTorrent for enterprise network usage isn’t anything new, but according to TorrentFreak, a Dutch University finally decided to use the peer to peer protocol for software patch distribution. Naturally, the decision makers at […]

In an effort to increase my on-line earnings, I began researching Ecommerce store front solutions. After reviewing several options, my search came to an end as soon as I found Ashop’s shopping cart software. The administration panel is powerful and feature rich; updates and support are provided for life at no additional charge. What more […]

There are plenty of sites that suggest using hundreds and even thousands of keywords when setting up an Adwords campaign, but is that really an effective technique when trying to convert visitors into leads? Here’s an approach that’s not necessarily new, but probably over looked by many of the PPC related articles you might have […]

Hopefully you took the time to actually read the new Adsense Terms and Conditions. The new terms require all Adsense publishers to display a privacy policy on any web-site displaying Adsense ads. Here’s an excerpt from this page: We’ve also added some specific privacy policy requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by […]

I’m not one to brag about achievements (mainly because I don’t have much to brag about), but the recent trend among bloggers in the blogosphere seem to involve publishing a post displaying various statistics. This probably won’t become a reoccurring or regular thing, but at the moment, it does seem like a great way to […]

A security conscious buddy of mine is an advocate of the Sysinternals freeware utilities. For those of you who don’t know, Mark Russinovich, one of the Sysinternals co founders, was the guy that discovered and exposed the Sony BMG root kit back in 2005. In other words, the crew at Sysinternals knew their $h*t. Microsoft […]