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114 degrees in the desert today with another batch of interesting finds and links
Search Engine News As It Happens - Search Brains
Matt Cutts presentations for Wordcamp 2007 are available for download
Affiliate Summit 2007 East Videos Now Available at Affiliate Summit Blog
All the videos from the recent Affiliate summit east in Miami are available along with [...]

Amazon just launched createspace- A books on demand self publishing service.
The service has been around for a while but Amazon made some changes to the service to make it very attractive to publishers just starting out or that do not want to handle inventory, shipping or other processes required with publishing and distributing books [...]

WebbAlert
Morgan Webb of techtv fame with a daily look at the web. I like the format of the show- quick, short to the point with story links listed below and high quality video to boot
Marketo | B2B Marketing Automation Software
PPC meets Salesforce.com very interesting product to take a closer look at.
iPhone-like Keyboard (freeware) - [...]

The add-in everyone has been waiting for- Having used Office for 10+ years it has been very frustrating getting used to the new ribbon in Office 2007. In fact if your like most people you have both Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed side by side just in case. Many times I’ve jumped over to [...]

Two new wikis launched this week one for affiliate marketers & one for bloggers.
Affiliates4U Wiki
A collaborative effort by the members of affiliates4u to provide an educational resource to the wider internet community about affiliates4u and the Affiliate Marketing industry.
Highlights include:
1. Affiliate Marketing University
2. Advanced Merchant Strategies
3. Strategies & Channels For Affiliates
4. Getting Started At [...]

Inviteshare- a service to trade invites really works!

The premise is there are a lot of Web 2.0 apps and services out there that are in beta and invite only. I’ve seen so many of these services filled out the little box to apply for the beta and usually never hear anything until the service is [...]

Dropshipping is one of those topics everyone has heard of but where do you start?
How do you find a dropshipper that you can trust or handle the products you wish to resell either on your site or on ebay?
A great article was just published at ezinearticles Top 5 tips on finding Drop Ship Suppliers [...]

If you have only 1 website or 100 websites is website monitoring worth the trouble and/or expense?
Website monitoring can be useful for several different reasons….

Running PPC campaigns? If your website goes down you ads still run- you still pay for clicks but cannot get conversions costing your $$$
Running advertisements using your website address? Useful to [...]

Two problems most publishers face are suspicious clicks on their ads and improving the quality of the ads on their sites
Two new tools to help out with these problems- one from Google in the form of Adwords IP blocking and the other a free service adsblacklist.com
Adwords IP blocking
How would you like to block a competitor [...]