A little bit of history on the Firefox / Yahoo! Search Marketing challenge So, as many of you may remember, I ran an experiment way back a year or two ago, seeing how much money I could make through Google’s Firefox browser referral program. I started with essentially a $50 credit with Yahoo! Search Marketing, and then expanded [...]

/* So, as of this moment, paid text links via Text-Link-Ads.com account for over $70 of the monthly revenue my websites bring in. Not bad, considering I have no involvement in the sale of those links, nor does it require any effort on my part to maintain those links each month. Here’s a brief [...]

Back in September, I signed up for DealDotCom, mostly on a whim to see if I could make any money selling their products.  Well, I’m now making ~$30/month from DealDotCom and I haven’t even sold one product! How? Easy, their affiliate program which pays out at a whopping 35%! (Read more about their affiliate program in [...]

While my monthly website income isn’t nearly as high as it used to be when I was making over $1000/month on Firefox referrals, the income has become pretty steady, and I’m no longer completely dependent on Google AdSense.  AdSense still makes up a large percentage of my month income (at about 71% for AdSense vs. [...]

Introduction to Amazon aStore  As you’ve seen with DealDotCom, when new affiliate services come out, I generally give each of them an honest shot, to see how they work, as well as to gauge the return one might expect with minimal time investment into the service. That was exactly the case when I set up a niche Amazon aStore a [...]

The other day, I mentioned BlogRush, which is a new service that hopes to drive more traffic to your page through a multi-level blog advertising widget. Another new service that is gaining a lot of publicity as of late is DealDotCom. Unlike BlogRush, whose goal is to increase your website traffic, DealDotCom is a pretty typical [...]

Have you heard of BlogRush? It’s a new service that’s designed to promote your blog posts on other blogs, and vice versa. They do this via a widget that some prominent probloggers like JohnChowdotCom are pimping on their websites.  Essentially, this is how it works: You earn credits each time the widget is viewed on your blog. You [...]

I’ve spent the last couple hours debugging an authentication issue with LinkShare’s Link Locator Direct web service. My console app was throwing the following exception: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: org.apache.axis.AxisFault:Pass in username/password The error message seems straight-forward enough– “Pass in username/password.” But what do you do if you know you are passing in the username and password? This was the code I was [...]

Back in April, I wrote on this blog how, after just a couple months, I was making over $20/month using Text-Link-Ads.com. Even back then, I was happy with $20/month, as it required no work on my part at all. Text-Link-Ads.com customers would search the Text-Link-Ads.com directory, find my site, and then choose to advertise. To borrow [...]

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve done any web development in my free time– at least, any non-work related web development. Well, after batting around a few business ideas with buddies these past couple weeks, I’ve enough motivation to actually go ahead and see what happens with one (or two or three) of them.  [...]