Posts in December 2007

Local Business Directory Experiment Part 1

A thread was posted a while back on Wickedfire forums about building a local niche business directory. For those who don’t know, wickedfire is probably the best source of helpful internet marketing information available. The people there generally have a great sense of humor and are quick to flame idiots from digital point. [...]

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Working Alone is for Idiots

When newbies get into any sort of online moneymaking venture, the biggest mistake they make is trying to do everything alone. Admittedly, building your own personal online business from the ground up with no help sounds really cool. Many people stumble on a crappy forum or blog (digital point or john chow) and [...]

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Easy Link Cloaking Without Redirects Tool

One thing about google that you most likely know already, but may not, is that they penalize you for having affiliate links on your page. If you use adwords, this equates to a lower quality score which in turn makes your cost per click more expensive. For normal ranking in google search, this [...]

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Scraping Websites for Fun and Profit

Last week Nickycakes wrote an auto scraper, auto friend adder, auto message sender, and auto comment poster for a major social networking site in under a day.  The software works flawlessly and could potentially bring in thousands of dollars from spam comment posts with affiliate links if the user were so inclined.  But that’s not [...]

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Facebook Ads Overbill Thousands of Dollars

There have been numerous reports of Facebook ads overbilling advertisers to the tune of thousands of dollars. It seems that they have been mistakenly charging credit cards multiple times for the same day’s advertising fees. Make sure you keep detailed logs of how much your daily totals are for facebook ads, and then [...]

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