I’ve been using the BayRSS plugin from Azlan Kasim for several months now, both here on IMMania.com as well as on several niche affiliate blogs. This is a fantastic WP plugin and has worked for me without a hitch. My approach to using the eBay affiliate program, now called ePN since the migration in-house by eBay, is to rapidly blast-test products from eBay using Adwords and then breakout the winners into WP blogs to leverage longer term free traffic.
Gotta love that free traffic!
Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Blogging · Products I Like · eBay
I posted recently about how I was attempting to get my brother interested in trying his hand at making some part time money online. The first hurdle in this effort was to persuade him to take the laptop I had purchased on eBay back home with him. That actually turned out to be the easy part.
The harder part was seeing if he would actually find a way to connect the thing to the Net.
Tags: Blogging
In my last post about using a free WordPress blog for Bum Marketing, I listed not being able to display Adsense on these blogs as a limitation of the free version. Then I was reading some of the posts over at Amit Mehta’s excellent blog and ran across one about “Stuff White People Like“. In case you don’t know what this is about, it’s a blog dedicated to musings about the habits and predilections of well…white people in America. I found it interesting in the comments for this post on Amit’s blog that the blogger is actually Canadian, though I haven’t independently verified this myself.
Like many Americans, I’ve been following the progress of the 2008 US Presidential campaigns. I’m probably spending way too much time with the likes of CNBC’s Chris Matthews (”Hardball”) and Keith Olbermann (”Countdown With Keith Olbermann) on the TV most week nights. But it’s all just too enthralling for me to tear myself away.
I can’t really say why, since none of the candidates on either side of the great political divide interests me much at all.
Tags: Blogging · Observations · Web 2.0
I received an email from Anita Chaperon yesterday that she was closing down her blog of 8 months and directed subscribers to the blog’s home page for more details.
I couldn’t help but feel a profound sadness at the news.
It’s hard to explain, but I would liken it to pulling up to your favorite bar or restaurant and finding that it’s gone out of business.
Her blog was Reviewlicious.com and was the first blog I entered into my BlogRoll. As I recall, I think I received a notice from her husband Andre, that Anita was launching Reviewlicious.com and eagerly signed up for the announcement list.
Tags: Blogging · Observations
