GoDaddy Stops Selling .Info Domains

You probably know and have already benefited from GoDaddy’s promotion for .info domains at the price of $0.99, which has been active for quite a while.

Well, if you had your share of cheap info domain names be happy: as of today, GoDaddy doesn’t sell info domain names anymore. Not only the promotional price is gone, but the .info extension is not available anymore at any price.

As I intended to make another serious info domain names purchase this morning, I tried to find other registrars with promotions. Of course all GoDaddy resellers were affected, none of them offering .info domains anymore.
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How To Build Amazon Affiliate Niche Stores

Affiliate niche stores can be a good source of online income, if set up properly. The concept is simple: pick a niche, get a script to pull the products list from the merchant, make a nice layout, promote your affiliate niche store and enjoy the profits.

In reality, first of all you need to be approved by the merchants or by the affiliate networks where you are going to get the products from. An excellent option is eBay Partners Network, which allows you to sell eBay products from your affiliate store and get paid commissions. The best software for building eBay niche stores is called BANS (Build A Niche Store). It costs $97 and you can build unlimited number of stores. If you want to know more about working eBay affiliate niche stores, check out Vic’s tutorial on how to build a BANS store. You could also browse through his older posts, in order to find out more about keyword research and niche narrowing strategy.

Is eBay Willing To Make Money With Everyone?

At first sight, eBay Partners Network seems to be warmly inviting everyone to join. Aren’t we all equal? Indeed we are, but some of us are more equal than others. Fact is that Romania is set up on automatic rejection in EPN (eBay Partners Network). If you dare to argue that, you’ll end up in infinite passing shots from one client service executive to another, until they make it clear that you are not wanted, regardless your experience, your knowledge or your 20 BANS sites built just to give them an example of what you can do to help them make more money. They simply don’t want you in, it’s their business and they don’t feel like explaining you the reasons.
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What Joel Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense

How much do you want to make money online with AdSense?

As much as to pay $9.95 on a book which promises to reveal “what Google never told you about making money with AdSense”?

Joel Comm AdSense SecretsWritten by Joel Comm, this ebook has been promoted so much during the past few days, that it made me wonder how much is Joel giving to all those affiliates.

Even if we leave aside the fact that the AdSense guru is trying to scam his disciples by forcibly subscribing them to whatever service for as little as $29.95 per month, as very well noticed Mark from 45n5.com, the AdSense Secrets ebook doesn’t share one of the biggest secrets for making money with AdSense: getting the amount of traffic which can really bring you a lot of money from AdSense.
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Free Blog Layouts

Free blog layouts are not hard to find at all. In order to be available for free, blog layouts are released under the Creative Commons License which grants you the right to use and modify the layout, provided that you keep the links included by the author in the footer intact. In case you think that you can delete the links and get away with that, then you should know that most of the times, at least for Wordpress blog layouts, the author receives an email each time somebody installs his theme for the first time. If he checks on your blog to see how you implemented that free layout and the links are not there, you got caught. So you’d better think twice in case you usually get rid of those links in the footer. Besides, leaving them there shows respect and appreciation for the author’s work: after all, you are allowed to use his work for free, so he deserves this small sign of recognition from your side.
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Buy My Blog For Fame Or Money

How many times have you heard that if you’re serious about blogging, you should treat your blog like a business? More than a couple of times, perhaps.

Sometimes, a business can start by buying an already existent business and make it grow further. If you have the money, why not skip those first years when you have to struggle for each client, for each contract, for making your way to the top? That’s the same with blogs.

That’s nothing wrong with buying an already established blog, which already has an audience and which already makes some money. But how do you evaluate a blog before buying it?
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AdGridWork: free advertising

While I was writing Free traffic for your blog I discovered another source of free traffic through free advertising, AdGridWork. Since they promise a lot of traffic, I wanted to give it a shot. Let’s see what it’s all about.

How it works?

The registration is free. You will configure a text banner (which is very easy) and it will be displayed on other sites/blogs from AdGridWork network. All you have to do to configure your ad is to complete a form with your site/blog/product details.
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Private Ads Selling: Myth Or Reality?

We’ve got a couple of questions from people wanting to know how to draw advertisers to their blogs. I suppose this question was born from reading some “advice” on high traffic blogs, that the best revenue stream for a blog is private ads selling.

Let’s put it the other way around: let’s suppose you are an advertiser: you run your own business and you want to advertise it. You agree to reinvest part of your profits back into advertising every month. This could mean that you eat less, you drink less, you don’t go to Maldives on vacation, with the sole purpose of putting that money in advertising your business.

Now think: given what I’ve just told you, would you agree to buy an ad box in my sidebar? Would you pay me $30 a month for it?

Your next question: “what are my benefits of advertising in your sidebar?” (please argue this if you think it’s wrong)

Me: well, you get all my 10000 readers per month looking at your ad, clicking on your ad and buying your product.
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Your March Earnings From Our Blogging

What does a blogger who writes about making money online do in the first day of every month?

Of course, he publishes his earnings from the previous month, so the readers see how much money he made. And most of the time, these are really hilarious. To be proud that you made $20 from AdSense last month, and in the same time to teach people how to make money from AdSense is something beyond common sense and understanding. Being remarkable and being remembered is not about trying to be what you are not, but rather about being yourself and stepping out of the crowd through the things you are and you do.
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How To Make A Sitewide Disclosure Policy

If you decided to make money online with the paid to post model, then you need to know that more and more, the advertisers require a sitewide disclosure policy, rather than an in-post disclosure. That’s because also advertisers are afraid of being caught by Google that they buy links, and get de-indexed. And this is true: if Google catches either you or the advertiser doing these paid reviews, your site will lose the PR and eventually it will end up de-indexed, so it won’t show in the search results not even for it’s own name.

However, if you still want to make some money by writing paid posts, you’ll have to add a disclosure policy page to your blog. This is one way of getting it done quickly:
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All You Need Is Links

Do you remember that song of The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love”?

If we were to re-write a version for the internet, it would sound like this: All you need is links… links is all you need!

Let me tell you this story: before going into internet marketing, I used to have a brick and mortar business. By the time I started it, I thought it’s going to be cool, but pretty soon after it turned profitable I realized I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life doing that kind of business. So, one day I stepped out, with enough money in my account as to secure a decent living for about two years.

Thinking at the future, I started to search for niches, to start something else. Doesn’t it sound very well like finding online niches and building websites to target them?
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