Justin has put a lot of hard work into this site but because of his other plans he has now handed all of his hard work down to me.

My name is Ivan and I am young semi successful internet marketer who lives in Miramar Florida. I have been making money online for quite some time now and I love what I do. I don’t know of any other job with as much flexibility as internet marketing. I work when I want and how I want and I answer to know one. I am very passionate about trying to help other people achieve the same freedom and money working online can give you.

I have a goal of reaching a six figure income by the year 2010. I will be using a lot of different programs and strategies on my way to a six figure income and through my trials and errors you will learn what works and what doesn’t.

I hope to gain the trust of all visitors to my site by being brutally honest in every review and by providing helpful info whenever possible.

I will be making a lot of improvements to this site including design, interaction, navigation, etc. Since I am focusing on improving the site please let me know what you would like to see on the site and what you dislike about the site as it is now.

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-Ivan

Google announced today that it will hold its third webmaster chat session this Wednesday, the 22nd, at 12 noon, Eastern Time. If you are available then, I highly recommend registering to join the session. It will be very informational and you’ll get access to some of the biggest names at Google like Matt Cutts.

Google is currently testing  a new feature that will alert webmasters if their website’s content management system or publishing platform may have a security hole or be hackable. Webmasters would receive a notice in the message center of Google’s Webmaster Tools. The service will be offered free of charge through Webmaster Tools, but Google is currently testing the service on only five to six thousand webmasters. Keep an on your message center to see if Google finds any exploits in your website.

Facebook finally rolled out is long-awaited web search integration feature. It amazes me that it took so long for Microsoft and Facebook to add web search integration to the extremely popular site. Facebook yields an estimated 186 million searches per month according to comScore. This number is expected to increase dramatically once the Live search integration is in full effect.

There is a rumor being circulated by VentureBeat that claims Facebook is tweaking the Live Search results pages based on social data it knows about you. While this is going to be a privacy concern for some, it could provide a signficant differentiation from Google. Facebook has already taken down the Live Search feature once, so it isn’t clear if it will remain up this time. Things are looking positive though.

Yahoo announced this week that it had finished the integration of IndexTools into the Yahoo network and is re-branding the service as Yahoo Web Analytics. The new analytics tool will support Yahoo Stores, Yahoo Developers, and Yahoo Head Advertisers programs.

If you are a Yahoo Store owner, you will now have free access to enterprise-grade web analytics as part of your service. All you will have to do is click a button and Yahoo will take care of the integration with your store. Currently, Yahoo is limiting access to just a few groups of customers, but plans to expand access in the future. Yahoo is not saying exactly who will get access next or when the tools will be expanded, so those of us not in one of the chosen groups will have to wait for our turn to try the new Web Analytics out.

This isn’t exactly an affiliate marketing related issue, but a very important issue nonetheless. This past week, Comcast became the first major US broadband provider to limit usage to its customers. Comcast broadband subscribers will now be limited to 250 gigabytes of data transfer each month. While the 250 gb limit that Comcast has chosen will affect a very small number of users, it is a very big step towards a more monitored and regulated internet. Whether or not you agree with Comcast’s decision, this will be an interesting topic to watch over the next year or two.

In an effort to boost its advertising revenues, Microsoft has just launched a learning center for users of its adCenter advertising site. Microsoft has designed the learning center area to be educational and useful for advertisers of all experience levels. Users will now have access to videos, interactive tools, and Q&A areas to  learn how to maximize their advertising dollars with Microsoft. I’m not sure if this will provide much improvement for Microsoft’s advertising market share, but it certainly won’t hurt.

You can visit the new Learning Center here

One of the major improvements boasted by both the new Internet Explorer 8 and Google’s Chrome browser is the new privacy protections put in place. Both browsers have increased cookie blocking abilities and even include a mode that allows you to surf the web in a near anonymous manner.

The problem this presents to affiliate marketers is clear, most of these programs track referrals through the use of cookies. If browsers start to block these cookies on a regular basis, it could really shake things up for marketers. Linkshare has some technologies that do not require cookies, but the vast majority of programs still track referrals in this manner.

Given the incredible amount of identity theft and fraud going on today, increased privacy is generally thought to be a good thing. We should only expect this to become a bigger and bigger issue with more safeguards put in place in the future. Anyone running an affiliate program should be looking for the next technology now so that they are not stranded in the future as more and more users block the tracking cookies.

Over the course of the next several days, we will be adding a user reviews section to each review page. If you have had any experience with any of the products or services that we have reviewed previously, please submit your own user review and share your experiences.

Thanks!

If you spend much time surfing the web, you probably come across them all the time. The present themselves on websites of all topics and sizes, but tend to be more common with small businesses. What am I referring to? Website glitches.

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