Many websites have Adsense advertising on them. Its very popular, and for good reason.

The ads are relevant and when fed with the right traffic and the right ad placement, will produce a steady income.

When using Adsense it’s important to to keep up with changes to the program, techniques to maximise your revenue and general chatter about the future of the program. Read the rest of this entry

Amazon recently announced a product called Amazon aStore Beta. Put simply, it provides the ability to build an “Amazon Store” without any prior knowledge of HTML etc.

Needing some Christmas related products for our Christmas Songs site I decided to give aStore a try.

Here’s what I found

• The store is very simple to setup. I had something in place in about 5 minutes. This included a main and supporting pages with navigation and shopping cart.
• You can select pretty much any product from the Amazon range to go on the front page – then product groups by keyword on the inner pages
• There are a number of options to customise your site, these include changing colour schemes, displaying your logo at the top of each page, adding text to the top of each page and under each displayed item.

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