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When Will New York Introduce A Google Tax?

By Andy Beard | Published: May 15, 2008

Today's news is that Overstock have decided that they are axing 3400 affiliates in the New York area because of the previously reported "Amazon Tax" – which Amazon are fighting.

I think Janet was the first to break the news of the Overstock changes

This is a story that both Linda at 5 Star Affiliate Programs and Shawn's Affiliate Blog have been covering in depth.

The New York Times also has coverage and been giving out some great links.

Techcrunch has a Scribd copy of the original Overstock posted letter (Shawn posted the email)

The New York Times reports that

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Google Adsense Referral Hydra Had To Be Clobbered

By Andy Beard | Published: January 9, 2008

Google Adsense Referral HydraLots of talk today about Google changing the terms of their referral units for Google Adsense. Good coverage by both Darren and Jeremy.

Lets take a little look at why they might have done this.

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Blocking Adverts Might Cost You Money

By Andy Beard | Published: September 11, 2007
  • Do you love browsing the ‘net without adverts?
  • Do you enjoy those faster loading pages?
  • Does you company benefit from lower bandwidth costs without ads?

Blocking adverts could actually cost you money, or damage the web as we know it is today.

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Performancing Metrics vs Clicky vs MyBlogLog

By Andy Beard | Published: March 27, 2007

ClickyHaving previously discussed Performancing Metrics as being a little bit of a “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”, I decided to sign up directly with Clicky. I also removed any Performancing affiliate links from the article.

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Performancing Metrics Could Steal Your Undies

By Andy Beard | Published: March 27, 2007

Performancing metrics has risen like a phoenix from the ashes, but is it a devil in disguise that it not just looking to steal the shirt off your back, but your undies as well?

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Shoemoney Nofollow Plugin

By Andy Beard | Published: February 24, 2007

This plugin retroactively places the rel=”nofollow” tag on all links to Shoemoney.com – you don’t have to modify any links manually, and it is easy to switch off should you feel in the future that the site no longer contains offensive material.

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Wolfpack of Lies – Hack Baiting Web 2.0 Startups For Diggs

By Andy Beard | Published: February 24, 2007
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This seems to be a growing trend, and so many bloggers are falling for the linkbait, poorly researched content, and unethical marketing practices.

Reactionary development of computer products and services can prove to be a disaster both for development cycles and the feature set of a product. An extremely careful balance has to be achieved between supporting the wishes of hardcore supporters of a product, and achieving core goals and maintaining a development schedule.

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MyBlogLog and Exploits – It Is Easy To Pick On Someone Who Doesn’t Have Hold Of Your Testicles Financially

By Andy Beard | Published: February 23, 2007

So Shoe got banned from MyBlogLog and now there is some kind of outcry from people wanting him reinstated. It is actually a great way to grab attention – I think every one of his “exploit” posts has gained more Diggs than the original announcement of the Yahoo MyBlogLog acquisition on the MyBlogLog blog.

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Google Reader News and When Will Google Create a Social Network?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 16, 2007

Google Reader is one of the easiest to use RSS Readers currently available. The code is fairly light, thus allowing you to skim read 100s of RSS articles quickly. One of its many failings however, which I have pointed out previously was the lack of reporting subscriber counts to Feedburner.

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Adsense Blackhat Edition

By Andy Beard | Published: December 12, 2006

I just received an email about Adsense Blackhat Edition.

I haven’t read the ebook fully yet, but it is actually worth signing up for just to see the new twist that has been added on the sales process.

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