EBay, which launched its new affiliate program back in April just, released an announcement earlier this week informing its affiliate partners that it had made a big mistake. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you an internet savy person that likes writing website or keeping a journal. If so then blogging for extra income is right up your alley. If you notice most bloggers today have to make extra income just to keep up with the cost of hosting their pages. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been asked recently what exactly is that zoom button showing up on your articles.  BloggingZoom is a community that allows bloggers and readers to rate articles based on the value of their content. If you or another blogger finds an article interesting or informative enough you can click the zoom bottom to vote for that particular article.  When an article receives enough ”Zooms” it will get showcased on the front page of BloggingZoom.com.  As a blogger this is important as it give your site more exposure.  If you have any questions about it feel free to email me or check out the frequent asked questions at BloggingZoom. 

Just in case you havent noticed on Feb 25th Google adsense made an update to their terms of service agreement.  They now require you to have a privacy policy posted on your website:

“We’ve also added some specific requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by a transparent privacy policy that users see. According to this policy, publishers must notify their users of the use of cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process. This change relates to advertisers’ use of innovative products and features like Gadget Ads and other offerings in the future.”

Unfortunately this is a bit vague as to exactly when they need to be on your sites and what specific wording should be in them.  You can see the a sample of the privacy policy I will be using at : Asia’h Epperson American Idol.

There have been many postings on the Google blog asking how users of blogger’s free web blogs should go about getting a Privacy Policy on their page.  As you can see from my example it is very simple to do.

1. Create your privacy policy
2. Create a new post on your blogger blog (note: select post options and change the dated posted so that it doesnt show as you latest post)
3. Create a link list at the bottom of your blog and ad the link to your privacy policy.

This process will also work on your wordpress blogs.  If you dont want to create an extra page,  you can just create your policy and postdate it.

This may be an over reaction on my part but I’d rather be safe than sorry as I dont want to loose access to the revenue generated by Google’s Adsense
 

Just in case you havent noticed on Feb 25th Google adsense made an update to their terms of service agreement.  They now require you to have a privacy policy posted on your website:

“We’ve also added some specific requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by a transparent privacy policy that users see. According to this policy, publishers must notify their users of the use of cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process. This change relates to advertisers’ use of innovative products and features like Gadget Ads and other offerings in the future.”

Unfortunately this is a bit vague as to exactly when they need to be on your sites and what specific wording should be in them.  You can see the a sample of the privacy policy I will be using at : American Idol Concert Tickets.

There have been many postings on the Google blog asking how users of blogger’s free web blogs should go about getting a Privacy Policy on their page.  As you can see from my example it is very simple to do.

1. Create your privacy policy
2. Create a new post on your blogger blog (note: select post options and change the dated posted so that it doesnt show as you latest post)
3. Create a link list at the bottom of your blog and ad the link to your privacy policy.

This may be an over reaction on my part but I’d rather be safe than sorry as I dont want to loose access to the revenue generated by Google’s Adsense