Shawn Hogan of DigitalPoint Caught With Hand in the eBay Cookie Jar
September 5th, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
eBay is once again making waves in the affiliate community with the most recent tidal wave of deciet crashing on the shores of Shawn Hogan. You may know Shawn Hogan as the owner and operator of the shadowy webmaster forum DigitalPoint which boasts a dazzling array of con-artists, schemers and scammers from all over [...]
Latest eBay Partner (EPN) Expirations Causing Controversy
August 22nd, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
The eBay Partner Network forums are buzzing with angry affiliates following the latest wave of expiration notices that were sent to members last night. It seems eBay has terminated a large number of affiliates from their program and this has caused a great deal of controversy amongst some of the upper echelon who [...]
Make Money Using Scour Search Engine
August 15th, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
I was browsing around some blogs that had dropped Entrecards on me this morning and I can across this interesting article about a search engine that pays you to search at Online Presence blog and I decided to check out this new search engine that claims to pay you for searching.
On first impression, the [...]
Inexpensive Online Website Advertising Companies for Bloggers
August 14th, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
So you’ve started a blog and you’re starting to get some decent traffic from the original content you’ve been creating. You organic SEO campaign is paying off and driving a reasonable amount of traffic to your blog every day. You’ve been submitting your blog to high quality blog directories and social bookmarking sites [...]
Using Chitika Premium and Adsense to Create Multiple Revenue Streams
August 11th, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
Like many other Adsense publishers, I’ve been seeing a serious drop in Adsense earnings over the last few months so I decided to give Chitika another shot using their Chitika Premium ads to alternate ad space with Google Adsense. If you are unfamiliar with Chitika Premium ads and you get a significant amount of US [...]
OIOpublisher 2.0 Beta Released
August 8th, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
When I logged into my Wordpress dashboard today I was greeted by the following message :
New Message from OIOpublisher!
All registered users are now invited to the OIOpublisher 2.0 beta program!
You can download the beta version by clicking here, pressing the “download” button and then choosing the beta option. Note that you’ll be required to login.
This [...]
Class Action Against ValueClick, Inc., Commission Junction, Inc.
August 2nd, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
I received the following email early this morning…
RE: Important Legal Notice Regarding Commission Junction’s Affiliate Network
If you joined or were a member of the affiliate marketing networks operated by ValueClick, Inc., Commission Junction, Inc. and/or Be Free (collectively, “Defendants”), between April 20, 2003 and the present, you may be a class member in Settlement Recovery [...]
How to Prevent Adsense Click-Bombing and Invalid Clicks
July 21st, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
I‘ve been using Adsense for over three years to monetize my sites but even though I’ve followed the Adsense TOS and never clicked on my own ads, I was actually banned from Adsense for supposed invalid clicks last November. It turns out I was the victim of a click-bombing by some disgruntled ex-Adsense publisher who [...]
.me Domain Registrations Open Today
July 17th, 2008 by Dave in Affiliate News
The newest Top Level Domain extension, .me has opened for registration at 8am this morning. The new extension was intended to be for personal websites and has incredible potential for Internet users world-wide.
The first batches of domains went flying out of the registrars this morning and most of the obvious domains have already been [...]
Lawyer Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against Google Adwords
If you’re not familiar with Google’s Adsense for Domains, let’s just say, it’s one of the “Do no Evil” company’s dirty little secrets they like to keep locked in the closet like a six fingered baby. However, Adsense for Domains has landed Google in hot water with one Adwords user who has taken it upon [...]



