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Adsense Alternatives?
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Well the 5k race went really well yesterday, and I had a great time. It was a Halloween themed race and a lot of people dressed up in all sorts of costumes (you can imagine how serious the race was!). I managed to beat the guy dressed as a banana and the […]
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A Simple Link Trick
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! It’s race day here in Chicago! I’m running my first 5k race. It should be a lot of fun. I jog regularly, so I’m not worried about it from an endurance point of view. And I ran on the cross country team back in high school about 18 years ago, so I’ve […]
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Friday Mailbag
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Friday! The weather really took a turn here last night in Chicago and our nice 80 degree days are now gone. It couldn’t have lasted anyway, but it was nice while it did! I’m running a 5k race tomorrow, my first, and hopefully it will warm up a little bit between now […]
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Adsense vs Other Businesses
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Just a quick note before I get into today’s article…yesterday I had 2 amazon sales worth $288 in total, for a $20 commission. So the Amazon.com affiliate drought is over…even though 2 sales stinks, luckily they were high priced items! I’ll keep monitoring the situation though and let you know how it’s […]
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More Amazon Armageddon
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Yesterday I talked about how my amazon.com affiliate earnings were zero for the day before. Well, I woke up this morning and checked my stats and guess what? They were zero for the next day too! That’s two days in a row where I didn’t make a single penny in amazon affiliate […]
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Zero in Amazon Earnings!
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Well yesterday something weird and unprecedented happened. I earned exactly ZERO dollars in Amazon affiliate income. None, Nada, Zero, Zilch. The big doughnut! It’s really weird because I had 2,800 visitors across my 300 sites, and $60.15 worth of adsense earnings, but no amazon income. Both of those figures are down since […]
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An Important Warning
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Today I want to talk about something that’s just about the most important thing I’ve ever talked about, and it’s a touchy subject, which I hope you can appreciate. It has to do with Google and the evil that can be done in it’s name… The secret to making gobs of money […]
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Recession Ad Spending
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Well, today is the Chicago marathon…the city is flooded with runners and their families. People are walking around with their marathon jerseys and finisher medals. You couldn’t ask for a nicer day for it, especially for a Chicago October day! I jog between three and four miles every day – and have […]
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Adsense and php?
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Welcome to the weekend! It’s a beautiful Saturday here in Chicago and I can’t wait to get out and wander around. But before I do that, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about something that I feel is pretty important. Many people like Adsense because it’s such an easy […]
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To Bot Or Not
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m working on building a bot that will automate a lot of the tasks of building Adsense sites. I’ve gotten a lot of questions about it so I thought I’d talk about it a little bit today. First of all, what is a bot? A bot […]
