Here's a question from Tony P. about selling ebooks on eBay as an affiliate... Hi Rosalind, I am interested in becoming an affiliate for several online companies. A number of them offer an e-book and I intend to sell these e-books … [Continue reading]
Akismet: Catching 1500 Spam Comments per Day
This hat is the best blog comment spam filter ever... not. :-) Actually, the best blog comment spam filter is the one that comes with WordPress. It was developed by Matt Mullenweg and is called Akismet. Akismet checks comments posted to your blog … [Continue reading]
10 Things to Do During a 504 Gateway Timeout
I knew something was seriously amiss with one of my blogs when only a paltry 17 messages showed up during the morning email check. So, I checked my sites and sure enough, the sites hosted on one of my servers were showing a 504 Gateway Timeout … [Continue reading]
An Incantation for Fixing WordPress Database Errors
Have you ever seen an error like this show up on your Wordpress blog? "WordPress database error: [Can’t open file: ‘wp_comments.MYI’. (errno: 145)] SELECT COUNT FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘0’" Well Steve Hetrick, the … [Continue reading]
IMC to Release Turnkey Solution for 2008
Anyone and everyone who participated in the "What's Your Biggest Marketing Challenge?" poll and indicated that they either haven't yet started a website / blog yet or that they are not making money online should read this. On January 24th at 10am, … [Continue reading]
How NOT to Ask an Affiliate to Participate in Your Program
Here's a tip for affiliate program managers. Every couple of months, I receive the following email from a program manager in the dating niche with the subject line "Affiliated with ProgramName.com". I've changed the real name to … [Continue reading]
Reconsidering the Value of Social Marketing
Over the last few months, I've been very tempted to kill both my MySpace and Facebook accounts. I was sick of responding to the seemingly endless 'friend requests', mostly from internet marketers whose idea of friendship was to spam the heck out … [Continue reading]