My friends and family have been asking me: "Art, how come you sit in your underwear all day long staring at an empty word document? Why don't you shave anymore? What is the secret to your affiliate marketing failure?!" I don't know why affiliate marketing needs to get complicated. I don't like having to make any effort. I want to stick a website out there with a couple pages of information on it, a privacy policy and I want to forget it. I also want to collect huge earnings from m

 One of the things that I do well with is reading every headline that appears on my home page and chasing after one article after the other. That headline is a hook and I'm one big fat cat fish who just can't resist. I swish the title around in my head like a wine taster, a connoisseur who recognizes the subtle nuances of excellent grape captured in the heady brew I am sampling. Overcome, I find I'm just a lush after all and drown myself in the article attached to it. Then it's back to the

 Today I pulled the tank heaters out of the watering troughs daring winter to snarl back out of the high north country and freeze everything into a solid mass of ice. Foolish. I know. Human nature bids me do the things I do and the horses, goats, chickens, dogs, cats and all the creatures who have found a home here will neigh, honk, bark, moo, squeek, and meow in delight as I man a concrete chipper to break the ice that is sure to arrive in the night so they are provided the five star water

 In the 1950s the US government were concerned with communicating in the event of a nuclear war. Paul Baron proposed a decentralized network of machines that if compromised along with, say, New York, the business of waging a war could be rerouted without interference. In 1969 the first packet switching network was funded by the Pentagon's advanced research projects agency. With just four original nodes linked to research facilities at four universities in the US, the internet was born. At i

  Why Keep Trying? Once in a while I ask myself this question and the answer to it gets a bit crazier all of the time and justifying the time, aggravation and little bit of expense is a little ridiculous. I forget about this adventure for thirty to forty minutes at a time, but then I find myself wondering if fluorescent, backlit toilet seats might be just the niche that everyone else has overlooked and find myself with an open tab for Google insights for search, the Google keyword tool an

  Internet marketing has forced me to make lots of changes in how I think and bending my hardened thinking process takes a lot of energy. Age teaches some difficult lessons and caution and reason override most everything that I do. I've been run over a lot and quite honestly I recognize that I have built a safety net around me that gets me through the world pretty smoothly. My rat like activity has suddenly become a hindrance. The maze that I have memorized effectively gets me to the piece

I think people underestimate the value of letting the internet run wild. The internet is the cause of a huge revolution of sorts on a global scale. It has challenged our ability to interpret what we read. For the first time in history people are reading into what is printed on the pages of books, magazines and web results. The newspapers and governments all over the world realize the risk of poor reporting because any third party anywhere in the world with a computer can challenge a false report

  I get real tired of people taking my ezine articles and either spinning them into garble or just flat word for word posting them on their website as their 1050th original article. A few days back I found one ranking near the no.1 spot in google and of course had to peer. There is some justice in the great scheme of things. This criminal mastermind neglected to strip all of the links to my landing page. Right on. I just wish they were all that careless and maybe I could sell a little somet

I enjoy reading through the blogs and forum. Granted I don't contribute a lot, but my information is a bit sketchy, so better to read and learn than confuse the issues. I love reading success stories for obvious reasons and they do lend some reasonability to this mad experiment I stubbornly keep exploring. It's funny how even though the system is so "simple" it can offer so many twists. Each person's character employs a slightly different approach, I assume that's why duplicating a sys

This is a bit of scrap that was headed for the trash since it had no real destination, but it has some merit, so here you go.   I'm a bit grumpy. I'm intitled because I have lots of grey in my hair. I am older than bedrock and have made some money and lost some money but it never has been a chain. When the poke is empty you do something to fill it, even if it's not what you want. You keep working to find the easy gold. Maybe you will, maybe not, but it is the way that presents itself each b