BlackHatBootCamp.com Busted Referrer Spamming DP Members
July 23rd, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
I’ll never understand why these stupid Syndik8 forum kids think they’re mastermind internet marketing wizards because they can do something so stupid as referrer spamming but apparently the little acne ridden troglodytes think they are God’s gift to making money online.
A thread was posted at DigitalPoint a few days ago that brought up an issue [...]
“Mad as Hell” Bloggers Urged to Boycott the Associated Press
June 18th, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
In reaction to the recent events surrounding the heavy handed move by the Associated Press to impose guidelines (and ridiculous fees) on the exerpted copy in the blogosphere, a new website billing itself as the Unassociated Press is urging bloggers to create a multipartisan buzz and let AP hear all political bloggers loud [...]
EPN Ebay Partner Network Wants Quality While They Fail to Deliver
June 4th, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
Publishers and affiliates worldwide who were less than enthusiastic about eBay’s decision to take their affiliate program “in-house” as opposed to operating it through Commission Junction have now been expressing distress about EPN’s shoddy tracking and reporting. Many publishers have been reporting a significant decrease in earnings since the switch from CJ to EPN and [...]
Scammed By PayPerPost aka Izea
May 28th, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
I’m always on the lookout for new ways monetize my blogs and websites but I’ve never been a big fan of “paid blogging” programs such as PayPerPost (Izea), ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews, etc. The fundamental concept of these program has been extremely controversial in the blogging community with many debates over ethical issues, search engine ranking [...]
Does ScratchBack Help Bloggers Make Money?
March 23rd, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
I was intending to ask this question earlier in the week when I added the ScratchBack Widget to the blog here. I personally think the widget is a good thing. From the White Hat SEO perspective, it’s not like anybody is buying a permanent text link to stimulate Google’s precocious search engine spider (that is [...]
Break out the Cigars - First PepperJam Network Commission Today !!
March 21st, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
I just joined PepperJam Network (PJN) a week ago and wrote a review of the program and started exploring the different programs and overall potential for maximizing my earnings threshold. Whenever I’m working with a CPA program that requires conversions (sales or leads) for a commission, I have a practical working number of how much [...]
Goodbye AdBrite and Goodbye ADSDAQ (Malware, Spyware) Affiliates Use Caution
March 21st, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
Following up on my last post about choosing affiliate programs wisely, today I wanted to warn any of my fellow promoters out there about a few programs that are to be avoided. If you read my previous article about Google sending me an email that one of my blog categories here was suspected of delivering [...]
Targeting Relevant Adsense Ads for Forum Owners
February 6th, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
Here’s a follow-up on my post yesterday about Google Adsense Section Targeting. I’ve been testing it out on one of my most active forums where I’ve been experiencing dificulty getting relevant targeted Adsense ads related to the thread or folder content. It seemed the majority of the Adsense ads showing inside threads and folders were [...]
Why Captchas on Blog Comment Stink
January 29th, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
It’s a never ending battle that all honest people face due to unscrupulous people who seek to drive their business through unethical practices. Given the chance to work around the system, spammers will find any way they can to position their unsolicited information in your face no matter how many preventive measures taken to thwart [...]
Bidvertiser Dishonest - Hiding Cloaked Links and Cheating Publishers
January 21st, 2008 by Dave in Ramblings and Rants
Internet publishers are warned to be careful with the program Bidvertiser. We’ve been experimenting with them over the last 6 months and so far the earnings have been very poor, but more about that subject a bit further in the article. The one thing that has been discovered is that Bidvertiser is hiding cloaked links [...]



