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Since Feedburner rejected me I have been looking for other RSS ad solutions... Yesterday I got an email from Text Link Ads offering me access to their beta of Feedvertiser. Less than 24 hours later they launched the service! Apart from the obvious attraction of being able to make a bit of cash from your feeds you can also use the platform to push your own products, services or … [Read more...] about Feedvertiser Hits RSS

Seems like AIB is offline this morning. Kind of annoying as I needed to check some transactions on my personal account .... … [Read more...] about AIB Offline?

Tom's been having issues with his BlueFace VOIP .... Over the past two years umpteen people have suggested that we switch our office over to it - I'm glad we haven't! Damien's been getting abuse from defendants of spammers.. Charming! Enn have been having serious issues over the last while.. It looks like the 3rd party adserver they're using is too slow and is stopping the rest … [Read more...] about Random Sightings

I've mentioned my dislike of reciprocal link / seo spammers more than once in the past. I still get them... I've now decided to adopt a new approach. I won't submit them to a URIBL or Spamcop. I'll simply send them my link to text link ads offering them the opportunity to advertise on the site(s) in question. I doubt if I'll see any take up though :) … [Read more...] about How to deal with SEO spammers

I like Amazon's emails. They're usually nice and targetted and tell me about new products that I may be interested in buying. If I don't want to get them I can simply optout. So Amazon recently launched their Grocery Store on the .com site (I presume there'll be flavors (sic) for their other shopfronts at some point in the future).. and they've been pushing it hard ever … [Read more...] about When email marketing frustrates you …..