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We welcome comments from all of our readers and definitely want your feedback.  Rather than just totally turn off the comments, I have implemented this policy.

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So you have a friend or relative who’s into affiliate marketing and you’re just dieing to make some money on the internet. Well before you just leap into affiliate marketing, you need to know a few things.

This kind of sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy post. Read the rest

I’ve been using Twitter for a couple of months  and in fact I  have a couple of Twitter accounts for other web sites. At first I wasn’t too sure about Twitter…what was all the hype about? Twitter what? Now I love it!

Finally I decided I just needed to develop some sort of  Twitter policy or philosophy and take some actions on my accounts. Read the rest

No, I’m not there yet, but I’m on my way….just be quiet and let me drive!

Today I stumbled across a blog by Andy Hagans, Tropical SEO, and I loved his post on The Dream.

I don’t personally know Andy Hagans, so I did what any internet savvy person would do I Googled him…’cause I was curious if we were near the same age. Well long story short he’s probably a few years younger than I am. Read the rest

Signing up for an affiliate program step by step process:

1. You join an affiliate program by signing up with a user name and password and URL (if you have a web site). On the sign up form you will provide your contact information, such as: your name, address, and phone number.
2. Normally you will need to furnish your Tax ID or social security number, if you are a sole proprietor. If you live in the US, you will have to fill out and submit a W9 form( taxpayer identification and certification form).

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Affiliate marketing is an internet-based marketing practice in which a business (Affiliate or Associates Program) rewards affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.

Simple explanation – Affiliate Marketing is commission based selling on the internet. Read the rest

A couple of weeks ago I added this new Word Press plug-in, WP-Ban to my site. This plug is by Lester Chan and I might also add he has a number of other awesome Word Press plug-ins.

WP-Ban gives you the ability to ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer URL from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent or referrer URL tries to visit your blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. It also gives you statistics on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wild card matching too. Read the rest

Michelle MacPhearson has updated her free eBook, Social Media Daily.

Social Media Daily is an eBook and is available in PDF format. All you have to do to download your copy is sign up with your name and email address.

Basically the eBook is a blueprint for marketing your web site with social media, social bookmarking, social networking and other Web 2.0 fun. Read the rest

If you will glance at the top of my blog, near the URL, you will notice I have a picture. Yes, it is me and I am now an icon. Cool!

Sometime back I tried to use another online tool to create a favicon and it just distorted it and made it really really tiny, so I abandoned the idea….then I stumbled across FavIcon from Pics. Read the rest

First of all I am well aware of the “paid review” thing and I won’t be doing them, at least not now. Just so you know. I really don’t want to get into the paid vs not paid review topic. Since I am new to blogging I just don’t feel it’s best for me. If I ever do decide to engage in paid reviews, I will post some information on my review status. Read the rest