The change to the Adsense privacy policy in latest Google TOS is the item which requires action from the largest number of Adsense publishers.

If you are an Adsense publisher, you would have recently been advised of Google’s updates terms of service for Adsense. There is an excellent description of the wider changes on Jim Karter’s site.

While most of the changes are more ‘for your information’ there is one which has required some action from us and I’m guessing a lot of other publishers.

The Adsense team have re-enforced the requirement for sites displaying Adsense to display a privacy policy. They have also been quite specific requirements that make it necessary for publishers to: Read the rest of this entry

CollegeScholarships.org are offering a $10,000 Blogging Scholarship this year.

Its available to those in the US who attend college and maintain a weblog.

Here’s the heads-up I received today : Read the rest of this entry

With new inventory to be sold, the Text Link Ads Discount Coupon offer is on again.

For the month of August you can save 15% on all new orders. Coupon code is august.

If this is your first purchase the starter kit offer is available which gets you $100 in free Text Link Ads. Just enter “starter kit” in the coupon field at checkout. The minimum order total to take advantage of the starter kit offer is $125.00.

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If your under 18, then OnlineMarketingKnowledge are offering places on their free internet marketing course.

The course runs for 45 days and is described by the OnlineMarketingKnowledge team as follows:

At the end of 45 Days you will have a website that makes $5 a day( $150 a month ) or more from adsense, and other media affiliates. You will have marketing and webmaster knowledge to continue and make more sites that are profitable. Read the rest of this entry

Team Link Network is a new entrant to the text link market. Apart from the usual income opportunities for publishers and advertisers, what is interesting is its unique and potentially very profitable affiliate program.

This offering allows you to make money from Text Link promotion, placement and revenue share. Here is a summary of the service:

How To Make Money As An Affiliate

• Place a banner on your website which advertises the service – Paying 25% of the sale value (Sales range from $50 upwards)
• Optionally join a Text Link Network Board. The full details are here. In summary there are a number of boards and you can elect to be allocated to one. Maximum fifteen people in the board. When the board is full the person at the top gets paid $1360. The balance of the board is split into two and the whole process starts again.

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