Archive for May, 2008

Trying to share a sale

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I’ve been using Commission Junction for a while now, and it’s been good to me, but I’m always looking to find new programs to see if there’s something that’ll work better for me. That’s how I found ‘Share-A-Sale’, which operates much like Commission Junction however seems to have a wider range of niche type affiliate [...]

phpBay Pro is really the ducks nuts

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

The ebay affiliate program is currently making the transition from Commission Junction to its own newly launched eBay Partner Network. For anyone using Commission Junction based eBay affiliate links, this means you will have to join up to the eBay Partner Network and then, once approved, go through and update all your links. I only [...]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

So I kept my promise to myself, and two weekends ago went to the book shop and bought, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, and it’s sequel, Dearly Devoted Dexter. Darkly Dreaming Dexter is the first book of the series that follows serial killer, who only kills the bad guys that deserve it, as he deals with some [...]

WidgetBucks report to be back on the up

Monday, May 19th, 2008

If you’ve persisted with WidgetBucks you may have noticed a drop in revenue-per-click (RPC) of late. The good news is that WidgetBucks are reporting an increase in RPC across a number of categories. This is from their blog: Over the last 48 hours, many publishers have been seeing a steady increase in their RPC (revenue-per-click) [...]

A list of 17 lists

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Well here’s my contribution to the world of lists. It is a list of lists! How innovative you gasp!! People seem to love lists, and I’m not exactly sure why. I think that perhaps bloggers like lists because they can create a relatively easy post when they may be snowed under due to work and [...]

Comic book round up volume 2

Monday, May 12th, 2008

It’s time for the second, highly self indulgent, Swollen Pickles comics round up. I should also mention at this stage that I don’t actually by individual issues of comics. I’m a trade paper back man. I prefer to read through a bunch at a time, so I’d rather wait until a few are collected up [...]

PayPerPost offering $20 as an incentive for new bloggers

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

If you haven’t already signed up with PayPerPost then now might be the time to do it, if you’re looking to make a quick buck that is. If you join up now they’ll give you $20 for your first post. The details are all up on the PayPerPost website here: Search through a list of [...]

Le grande cuss-o-meter challenge

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I’ve taken up the Blogpond cuss-o-meter challenge, and the result are in… drum roll… no really… I’m not going to reveal the results until I get my drum roll dammit!… ok… be like that… whatever… It seems I’m not quite an angel, but at the same time, I’m not Gordon F**KING Ramsey either. Here’s the [...]

Iron Man movie review

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I went into Iron Man on the weekend with low expectations. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of Iron Man or the Tony Stark character, and I also have trouble watching Robert Downey Jnr. My one hope with Iron Man, was that I would not walk out of the cinema as disappointed as I had [...]

April 2008 goal update

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

April flew by. Can’t say I’m satisfied with the progress I made in April, with some disappointing results across the board. Here’s the update. 1. Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350 per month. Declining fortunes in April, dollar wise, with total revenue brought in via SwollenPickles.com coming in at $246.56, down [...]