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One of the latest additions to our List of Top 50 Article Directories is Article Pool article directory.

Our list of Top 50 Article Directories now marks those article directories which use nofollow tag in author’s resource box. These sites are marked with the NF! sign.

Anik Singal of Affiliate Classroom posted a video on it’s new AffSphere blog about finding profitable niches for article marketing with some information on their much awaited Niche Calculator.

They discuss why a good niche in PPC is not necessarily a good niche for article marketing (and vice versa).

After today’s video, you’ll never have to guess whether a niche is any good for article marketing.

The video is absolutely free and there is no registration to watch it.

AffSphere is an article directory that pays you for submitting articles.

You may have noticed that Google has updated it’s Pagerank values. This affected the positions of article directories in our list of the Top 50 Article Directories by Traffic, Pagerank.

Most Interesting Gainers

• One of the most popular article directories, goarticles.com is back from pagerank 3 to well-deserved pagerank 6.
• Several directories reached pagerank 5:
  • ArticlesFactory.com
  • FreeSticky.com
  • ArticleInsider.com
  • TheAllINeed.com
  • ArticlesBase.com

Amazon announced the availability of new online-payment services it will offer to online merchants, Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay.

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.

Sylvie Fortin has announced Marketers Pledge teleseminar with highly successful online marketers to answer some of the most burning questions on the minds of aspiring business owners.

Questions like:

• how to find profitable niches in the market
• how to make money with a blog
• how to select a price for your product
• when starting, what would be the most effective way to drive traffic
• how to select a mentor to learn from
• how to keep track of business’ progress?
• and many more…

The list participating marketers includes:

Do you often fail to write a new article because the pain of producing it exceeds the future pleasure of your gain from the article?

Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com published the Pain Avoidance article template that can help you speed up the creation of your next set of quality original articles by addressing this time-proven principle:

Pain problem solving can become a new angle in your article marketing, or you could “re-package” your old articles with this new template.

In his blog post, Chris provides The Pain Avoidance Template simple four-step layout and tells why this article template idea works.

The Pain Avoidance article template

What would you do if you suddenly lost your data? How much would it cost to recover? Would your business survive?

We now provide the most cost effective, reliable, secure and convenient way to automatically back up your mission critical data offsite every night.

Enjoy peace of mind knowing that if the unexpected happens (systems crash, virus, data corruption, fire, flood, theft, sabotage, human error, etc.) your data is safe and secure offsite at our two mirrored data centers and easily accessible to you with just a few clicks, 24/7.

Advantages over Obsolete Backup Solutions

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PayPal has announced they are launching a way for its customers to make payments on web sites that do not accept 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.

If you are an Adsense publisher, you’ve certainly read a lot about the importance of testing your Adsense blocks placement, colors and size to improve the ad’s CTR.

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.