As of August 2nd, 2005, you can now pay for ClickBank purchases with PayPal. ClickBank has been beta-testing this for awhile and has just recently made it a permanent feature.

Besides PayPal, ClickBank also accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Eurocard, Bravo, Diners Club, Carte Blanche, JCB and online checks.

If you’ve been waiting to list your product on ClickBank until they offer support for PayPal, wait no longer! Do it today!

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Yesterday I told you about Yahoo’s launch of a new ad network, destined to compete with Google’s AdSense program.

Here’s an exciting inside report from a Yahoo beta tester. It’s looking good!

Stay tuned here for more details as they develop! Any competition for AdSense is a good thing…

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According to CNET, “Yahoo is planning to launch on Wednesday an ad network for small Web publishers intended to strengthen its hand against rival Google, a source familiar with the plan told CNET News.com.”

This was confirmed in an email today from Yahoo, stating “Today, Yahoo! Publisher Network launched a new self-serve platform that will provide small- and medium-sized web publishers with easy access to Yahoo! advertising and content. We’re very excited about our new offering, not only because it will enable a broader set of publishers to generate revenue from their sites, but also because it can offer publishers access to many of Yahoo!’s other products and properties.”

It’s in beta-test right now, but they plan to have it operational for everyone before the end of 2005.

Stay tuned here for more details as they develop! Any competition for AdSense is a good thing…

Read the whole CNET story here (caution: sometimes this link is very slow, you might have to re-try).

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If you want to mine every ounce of performance from your pay-per-click ads, review your work to be sure you’re not making any of these frequent mistakes. If you are, you’re not alone, many internet entrepreneurs make them. Avoid them and your business will take off for sure:

• Bidding on keywords/phrases which are too general. You have to be specific to get meaningful results, otherwise you’ll just get lots of unrelated traffic. Don’t bid on “dogs”. Bid on “border collie nutrition” or “border collie senior nutrition” instead.
• Not bidding on enough keywords/phrases. Some people only bid on 5 or 10 keywords. Others bid on 50 or 60. The folks with the most successful websites bid on 1000, 2000, even 4000 keywords at once. You have to use WordTracker to find all of the relevant phrases that real people use to search for your niche every day!
• Bidding on keywords/phrases which are too expensive. Don’t bid on the ones which cost a dollar a click or more (don’t even think of bidding on “mortgage” or “insurance” for example)! Instead, bid on lots of more-specific keywords/phrases which only cost 5 or 10 cents a click. You’ll get more relevant traffic for a much lower cost.
• Not using WordTracker to see which keywords/phrases people really use when they search. You can guess what people might use all day long, and you’ll get lucky here and there. But you’ll never come up with all of the phrases which people use all over the world to search for your niche. You just won’t. Why leave money on the table? Use WordTracker to be sure you capture what people are really using when they search.

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