For an update to this post on 4/22/08 please see How I Turned This Blog Around. It seems like I can make money with this blog afterall!
I am not sure what I am going to do with this blog/website. I have asked several people and I have had mixed answers including stick with it, trash it, and try [...]

On 2/14/08 I was contacted by a person named Martin about purchasing permanent text links on my blog. Of course we know by now that if these links would be “no-follow” they would be fine with Google and if he wanted links that did pass page rank they would be against Google’s terms. Here is [...]

About 3 weeks ago I took all Google Adsense off this blog.  I decided I had to in order to make sure I wasn’t getting smart priced. If you want to read more about smart pricing you can at Court’s Internet Marketing School. It is not as though I was making very much anyway and [...]

It was my understanding that Google penalized some of the blogs that were taking paid links and paid posts because they wanted to provide the “most accurate” search engine results. Passing off page rank and getting paid for links that were unrelated to your blog was seen as a no-no and against Google’s terms. OK, [...]

Have you ever wondered how often Google crawls your site? If you post a new article about breaking news it would be great to have Google there right away to read your new post, index it, and then have it show up in Google’s search results.
SEO Meter.com is a new site that is free to [...]

Important: This post is no longer valid as Ebay’s affiliate program is now run by Ebay itself instead of Commission Junction and this flexible destination tool no longer exists. You can do the same linking to specific auctions and auction search terms as you could before but now it is done a little differently on a different page. 
 
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