AffSphere is a relatively new article directory, that has made it to the list of top article directories.

But what makes it stand out is that AffSphere allows you to earn 8 different ways for your articles! All you have to do is what you already do, submit your great content to the directory (that’s it).

AffSphere is a service of Affiliate Classroom, Inc., and on August 12th they are going to release a report that reveals exactly how they earn over 6 figures a year just from article marketing.

Learn more and watch videos about this new article directory at the AffSphere blog.

Checkout By Amazon

Checkout By Amazon is a complete checkout solution. It lets web site visitors sign in to web sites using an Amazon Account login and buy items using the familiar Amazon’s 1-Click® button. Checkout By Amazon service provides tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks..

Amazon Simple Pay

Amazon Simple Pay is a service that allows consumers to use their Amazon account information to pay for purchases on other web sites. It is for those merchants who don’t need sophisticated checkout and order management capabilities, but who would like to incorporate Amazon’s customer login system to sell products.

Amazon Simple Pay differs from Checkout by Amazon in that Checkout by Amazon provides additional capabilities to support real-time shipping and tax calculation, promotions, and order management-tasks including order cancellations, order reports and shipment tracking. If you don’t need Amazon’s end-to-end checkout pipeline and order management capabilities, but still want to enable your customers to use their payment information already on file at Amazon.com, use Amazon Simple Pay.

Amazon also offers the Amazon Flexible Payment Service, a developer-oriented money-transfer API, which is currently in limited beta testing mode.

Checkout By Amazon competes with PayPal and Google Checkout. The Amazon service costs 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction for transactions of $10 or more. Transactions less than $10 cost 5% + $0.05 per transaction.

Google Checkout costs 2% + $0.20 per transaction. PayPal charges on a sliding scale, starting at 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction for monthly sales up to $3,000.

The key differences between Checkout by Amazon, Amazon Simple Pay, and Amazon’s Flexible Payment Service are summarized in this comparison chart.

PayPal

They offer a downloadable software utility that is called PayPal Secure Card. The utility automatically detects when a customer visits an e-commerce checkout page, generates a unique MasterCard number, and then helps fill out the payment form. This is done through a partnership with credit card issuer MasterCard Inc.

“From a merchant’s perspective this looks like any other MasterCard transaction,” said Chris George, director of financial products for PayPal. “And it’s just another PayPal purchase to the customer.”

Secure Cards work on Windows computers running either Internet Explorer or Firefox. Users of Apple’s Safari browser have only partial access to the service for now, George said.

Secure Card has been tested by 3 million PayPal customers in the past year. Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, one of them, tells about his experience:

You install and set up the software, and on your taskbar, you have a little PayPal icon. When you want to generate a random credit card number, you double click on it. A little “virtual credit card” pops up on your screen, complete with randomly generated MasterCard numbers, expiration date, and CVV. All payments made with the information are directly and immediately made from your existing PayPal account

The form fill seems to work decently in Internet Explorer, but if you’re a Firefox user, don’t expect it to fill out any forms. It has a Firefox plug-in that seems to do little more than really slow down the browsing experience (and I recommend removing the plug-in as soon as you install the application). It is, however, handy to have, especially for folks like me with a debit card so well worn that the CVV numbers are no longer visible.

The plug-in will be available to U.S. customers on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, with international customers to follow.

But the truth is, after a publisher has placed Adsense ads into the web page, the ads’ formatting and placement is seldom tested and altered to get more clicks. As a result, the ad’s true earning power is never realized.

YieldBuild is a new service that provides automatic yield management for Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) and eBay AdContext. Their software algorithmically changes ads format and place to analyze what can be done to maximize text ad revenue.

They created an optimization system that allows for ongoing testing and improvement with minimal involvement on the part of the publisher. The system automatically determines what should be the best placement and appearance of your ad. A process called behavioral formatting is used to optimize the layout of ads. Behavioral formatting automatically adjusts the ad’s placement and appearance according to the characteristics of the visitor.

The system continually switches layouts, color and networks, looking for the highest performing configuration. According to YieldBuild, it takes about 100,000 impressions to train the system. As users become unresponsive to the ads, the system is supposed to switch in a more profitable combination of layout and networks.

YieldBuild is free to try for 30 days. After that, YieldBuild’s share is 3% of impressions.

The first “piece” of the Income.com puzzle is BlogRush, “a free service that will help any blogger generate more traffic and readers for their blog.”

According to John Reese:

Using RSS technology and some of our own, we’ve built an amazing platform to help bloggers receive “mass distribution” for their content across the Internet. And our system doesn’t spam or abuse the Internet in anyway. And it doesn’t try and ‘game’ Google either.

This ‘process’ provides incredible LEVERAGE. You can have a blog that gets just 1 visitor a week, but if that next visitor happens to be someone with a blog that gets 25,000 visits a day, and they click your widget and sign up, you’ll start having your blog posts promoted over 25,000 TIMES A DAY. And that doesn’t even count all the potential “viral growth” that can then occur from that blog referring other blogs. It’s very, very powerful.

Read more: BlogRush

Niche selection can be very tricky. A lot of people will pick a niche, promote it for a while, make no sales and just give up. They will claim that niche marketing just doesn’t work and that anyone that says it’s profitable is lying. Well, the truth of the matter is, a lot of people, even top Internet marketers will pick a bad niche from time to time. But the key is not to give up. If you pick a niche that isn’t profitable throw it out and move on to the next one.

You may have to research a lot of niches before you find the one that is right for you. Not everyone is meant to promote every niche. But when you find that perfect niche you will know it. It could be a niche that you have a particular interest in and want to learn more about or it could be niche that deals with a problem that you have already had and managed to solve. It is important that you don’t stop with just one niche. Pick a handful of niches that interest you. Promote more than one. When one or two of these niches start pulling in the profits, then start promoting them like crazy. Squeeze every bit of cash that you can out of them.

The best way to test a niche is to become an affiliate first. Chances are, if there are several products in the niche you choose, then there is a market for it. Don’t be afraid of a little competition.

Becoming an affiliate is the best way to learn the ins and outs of the niche marketing game before you dive in to product creation on your own. This can save you a ton of time and money. When the time comes to develop your own product and start marketing it, you won’t go in blind.

All of this may seem very complicated to someone just starting out in Internet marketing. The potential for information overload is great. You need to have a simple step by step blueprint that will tell you what to do.

And here’s the good news…

You can find everything that you need to know about niche selection and how to master that niche for maximum profits in an informative eBook called “Cracking the Niche Code”. Everything in the ebook is laid out in a simple fashion. It will take you from niche selection to totally annihilating your competition.

So if you are tired of trying and failing, get your hands on a copy of this ebook today:

Author: Lisa Ginger

Someone wrote that “your AdSense business will not be the same after you have visited Dr. Hillenbrand’s website that is currently attracting AdSense publishers worldwide”.

In fact, Patrick Hillenbrand made $10,852 in just the first month using No search engine traffic at all. His AdSense Decoded videos deliver useful comprehensive answers how to instantly achieve sustainable profits from AdSense even without having access to any initial organic traffic.

And as if that is not enough AdSense Decoded reveals additional AdSense driven revenue streams that easily plug in to any AdSense business to monetize AdSense publishers’ pages much further.

This is a brand new concept. It’s called “AdSense Brokerage” (NOT arbitrage), and it is currently creating a whole new chapter in how to make money with AdSense. “AdSense Decoded” shows publishers how easy it is to monetize on every single visitor, not just once but multiple times.

Dr. Patrick Hillenbrand also validly argues that there is a paradigm shift in AdSense marketing. He says:

Niche Targeting is out! Lost are those guided in that direction.

Tomorrow’s top AdSense earners know that it is far better to target well paying advertisers than high paying ads, as street smart AdSense publishers and advertisers know that supply and demand is everything.

AdSense Decoded is advocating a smart strategy: As internet visitors are becoming ever more demanding to be informed and not sold to, gone are the days where an AdSense Publisher could just feed people ads to be clicked on. AdSense Decoded addresses and teaches exactly how these new marketing conditions are best met.

Whether you are new to AdSense or a seasoned publisher AdSense Decoded delivers an invaluable step-by-step video roadmap how to instantly improve your current AdSense earnings by using techniques previously only known to only a handful of top earners, Patrick Hillenbrand included.

If you are in any way working with AdSense, check the AdSense Decoded project out today!

I just donated to Stephen Pierce’s Feed One Million Children charity drive by downloading a free report.

Stephen is giving away a free report that will teach you about building wealth. (Stephen has gone from having 2 cents to his name to making millions of dollars online.)

This report is yours free.

Now it’s your turn. Visit www.foragreatercause.org, and Stephen will donate a plate of food for a starving child on your behalf.

Pick up your free report and help a starving child.

Go to www.foragreatercause.org

Take care,

Andrei

John Reese published a special report called The Rebirth Of Internet Marketing.

It’s a 53-page free PDF report packed with extremely valuable information about the present and future of Internet Marketing.

There’s a massive revolution about to occur all across the world and those that truly understand it can get rich. In fact, this revolution has already begun, but in the next several years it’s going to change everything online.

Here are some topics covered in the report:

• Traffic
• Web 2.0
• Website profitability
• “The Long Tail”
• Competition online
• Google Adsense and AdWords
• Website content
• Squeeze pages
• Sales letters
• Video
• SEO
• King Kong (that’s right, King Kong, no kidding here…)

This report will definitely change your approach to marketing your business online. A must-read. Worth more than the average $97 e-book.

Download now from John Reese’s new blog: The Rebirth Of Internet Marketing

The most interesting part: you can follow along, step by step, as he takes this new project from idea, to implementation, to profitable online business.

I’ll share with you the techniques I use to…

• Select the niche market we’ll attack;
• The techniques used to generate targeted traffic to the website (both no cost, paid, conventional and unconventional);
• The methods used to convert that traffic into leads;
• The all important product development and creation process;
• Setting up a profitable affiliate program;
• And much more…

The market he’s selected for this project is “worm farming”. He explains the entire market selection process and tools he used to select this market.

Duncan plans in the next six to eight weeks to take this project from idea to a monthly income of approximately $2,000 per month.

Want to follow along, step by step? He’s setup a blog to record the entire history of this project — Worm Farming Project blog.