"What? Why would I want to do that?" I hear you shout. Picture this: you've joined an affiliate program and your sponsor provides you with a hosted free site. You register your domain name, point it to your sponsor's server then set up your free website. A few days later you think about marketing it. You visit lots of directories and send back link requests to hundreds of webmasters but everywhere you turn you see a great massive big bolder blocking your path. You approach it, inspect it and see some words written on it in BIG, BOLD RED LETTERS: Reciprocal Link Required You think, … [Read more...]
No More Amazon Ads, Yippee \Q/
Just a quick comment to let you know I've removed the Amazon ads that once adorned the sidebars. I've been considering their removal for the past month or two because they slow down the site's page load time but I wavered on the side that some visitors might find them useful so I left them up. However, Amazon has twice adjusted its user agreement within the last 30 days. One of those adjustments changed their linking policy and the second one served to combine its Amazon U.K, Amazon FR and Amazon DE user agreements such that one agreement for Amazon EU covers all three programs. That latter … [Read more...]