||||The Quiet Affiliate

Here’s a useful free service that will email you if your website ever lands on page one of Google, Yahoo or MSN Live. It’s called Exactfactor and for now it’s completely free of charge. All you have to do is setup a basic user account and you’re all set!

You can even set it to where you’ll get an email if another website (i.e. competition) passes you or your rank changes significantly. If you want it to this site can even send you a weekly SERP update via email. It’s limited to only three keywords/phrases per site, but even that should be useful enough when spanned out across a large collection of websites that you’re trying to monitor.

Go check it out while it’s still in beta (i.e still free).. no code or invitation required.

What can you do when you’re banned from Google AdSense? Find a new network! Here’s a list of current advertising networks that you can use to place CPC (cost per click) and CPM (cost per thousand impressions) ads on your website or blog. I list Google as the first one but by using a combination of the advertising networks below, you should be able to find a profitable alternative to AdSense. Next I’ll publish a comprehensive list of Affiliate Networks, Shopping/E-Commerce Affiliate Programs and then one with all the remaining online services (including Pay-Per-Post networks) that offer unique ways to help you make money from your blog.

CPA/CPM Publisher Programs (AdSense Alternatives)

• Google AdSense
• Yahoo Publisher Network (Beta)

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Here’s a pretty massive list of email gateways that will let you send SMS messages to cell-phones through email. All you need to do is replace the ‘phonenumber’ or ‘10digitphonenumber’ with the recipients cell # and send away! Works great with any number of promotions although you should always keep in mind that some cell phone customers have to pay an additional charge for every SMS message that they receive, so sending an un-announced message, especially if considered ‘SPAM,’ could result in an unpleasant outcome. Here’s the list, feel free to contact me if I’ve left a carrier out, as I’m sure that there are a few missing:
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