Ebay affiliates can no longer use paid advertising

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I guess Ebay got tired of their affiliates trying to get a jump on new Ebay niches like Dead Steve Irwin. Just trying to step on a few innovative spammers toes. After all, everyone I know needs another dead body in their house.

Or maybe this has something to do with the new StumbleUpon acquisition. Who knows? But I am pretty sure there is a lot of affiliates scrambling for ideas right now similar to the time the government cracked down on internet gambling and the affiliates of those programs.

Contextual Links @ V7N

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Contextual Links @ V7N

Another bookmark for me to go back and check out when I have more time to investigate. But now just noting it. It seems you can purchase permanent text links here from blogs for $20 a link. I am not sure of the value of this yet. A lot of blogs seem to suffer from link rot. You can also sign up on the publisher side and get paid $10 to post a link in one of your blog entries.

ROI in Adwords

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I had slacked off on using Adwords lately until this week. I got tired of it. It seemed so much of a hassle coming up with keywords. Not so much that but before as I started running more and more campaigns to make more, I had less patience tweaking them and streamlining them to product the profit I wanted. Instead I settled with spending a buck to make two. And instead built more and more campaigns.

And then I left them totally alone until they trickled off to nothing.