Have you heard success stories of affiliate marketers earning a lot of money without ever setting up a single website? If you have and you’re wondering how they do it, it’s probably Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising. These affiliate marketers buy advertising from PPC providers, such as Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing, to promote affiliate products.

That sounds easy, doesn’t it? It’s probably not that easy. But I’m gonna give it a try and I won’t be spending dime. How? By using a FREE Google AdWords voucher.

To get the free voucher, just click the link or image above, and then sign up for a Google AdWords account. Google will email you the coupon code within two business days.

Give it a try. It’s free anyway. And who knows, this might be this be the beginning of your million-dollar affiliate marketing business. Good luck!

Note: If you tried it and it didn’t work or if the offer has expired, please me know so I can update this post.

If you’re making money online, you’re probably using PayPal to receive payments, whether you’re selling directly to your buyers or receiving payments from affiliate networks. Did you know that PayPal charges the transaction fee to the recipient — you.

For every transaction that you process through PayPal, it charges you 1.9% to 2.9% of the transaction amount. That might not be a lot at first glance, but if you look closely and add up all those small service fees that you’ve paid throughout the years, you might realize that PayPal has already made a fortune off of you. It’s not that they does not deserve the service fees that we pay them. It’s that we, as online entrepreneurs, should try to save every cent that we could, especially in these financially trying times.

If you feel the same, then you’ll be happy to know that there is a way to receive money via PayPal for free. It’s called Mass Payment.

What is Mass Payment?
It allows a PayPal Premier or Business account holder to send payments to multiple recipients payments instantly. It’s primarily designed for ‘non-sales’ related payments, such as affiliate commissions, rebates, prizes, and incentives.

What’s so good about it?
If you’re the recipient, you pay no fees. That’s right, it’s free. Compare that with the regular payment method where you — the recipient — has to shoulder the transaction fee.

If the recipient doesn’t pay the transaction fee, who does?
The sender does. The transaction fee is very low for this payment method. It’s 2.0% of the payment amount, with a cap (maximum fee) of $1.00.

I bought a domain name for $335 and used Mass Payment to send my payment. Yes, I had to pay $1.00 for the transaction fee, but it saved my seller around $13.00, which made him quite happy.

What do I need to use Mass Payment?
If you’re the sender, you need a Premier or Business PayPal account. You also need an ounce of patience as sending payment using this method requires some work.

Is there anything else that I need to know?
There’s just one downside to using this payment method — no buyer (sender) protection. Unlike the regular payment method in which the buyer can reverse the payment or do a chargeback (after, for example, receiving a faulty product), Mass Payment offers no protection for the sending party. No worries though if you are sending the payment to a trustworthy recipient.

To learn more about the steps for sending Mass Payment, visit the PayPal Web site.

Note: Mass Pay can only be used by PayPal Premier or Business account holders.

In my quest to make money online, I have fallen victim to a few Internet marketing and ebook schemes that were completely worthless. I already knew the marketing methods, tricks, or techniques that these guys were talking about, but they made it sound like they were referring to something nobody had ever done before.

Back then, I really wanted to be able to make money online and I was naive, so I took the bait (like most newbies do) and found out for myself what a complete idiot I was to fall for those scams. After a while, I came to accept that these “mistakes” are part of the learning process and the money I wasted buying those worthless ebooks is the “tuition fee” that I have to pay to  learn the tips and tricks in Internet marketing and making money online.

George Brown Who?
So over the past week, I’ve been hearing about George Brown’s Traffic Ultimatum. I didn’t know who George Brown was and, when I first visited his website (www.trafficultimatum.com) and saw his video, I was laughing my ass off because it looked so fake — he’s a kid but his voice sounds like James Earl Jones’s. I thought it was voice dubbing gone wrong. Hilarious!

Why I Decided to Try Traffic Ultimatum
Like I said earlier, I’ve become wary of Internet Marketing schemes like this one because of the negative experiences I had before. But I kept hearing about Traffic Ultimatum all week long. So I decided to take a closer look at George Brown’s website.

At $197, Traffic Ultimatum is expensive. This was one of the factors that was holding me back. What if this is another scam? What if I’m not able to make money after I duplicate the methods that George Brown describes in the ebook?

Then I saw something else on the website — 60-day money back guarantee. That means that if I am not happy with Traffic Ultimatum, I can get my money back within 60 days after my purchase.

With that 60-day money back guarantee, plus all the hype I’ve been hearing on the Internet, I decided to take the bait. This better be good, Georgie boy!

My Initial Review
At this point, things are looking great. I’ve gone over the Table of Contents of the three ebooks that are included, and they look pretty comprehensive. There are around 20 videos that I’m hoping to be full of new stuff I could use for niche marketing.

I have to admit that there are quite a few methods in Traffic Ultimatum that I have not heard before.  For example, I didn’t know that you could buy links on YouTube videos that are getting lots of hits. I didn’t think about that.

I’ve only gotten halfway through the first ebook called “The Foundation” and I’m already learning lots of new stuff (at least new to me). Stuff like finding a niche using Google Trends, Yahoo! Buzz, Amazon Bestsellers, to name a few. These are all new to me. Up until now, I’ve only been using Google AdWords Keyword Tool and Market Samurai (another great keyword research tool).

So far so good. I’m actually learning new stuff that can help me make more money online.

They say the only people who actually make money online are the people who tell other people how to make money online. I used to believe this, but things are looking up with a few new tricks I’ve learned from Traffic Ultimatum.

I’ll continue reading Traffic Ultimatum and I’ll keep you posted on what I think about it as a traffic generation system.

I was writing an email on Gmail a few minutes ago and I intended to send a file to the recipient. When I clicked Send, Gmail displayed the message below, asking me if I meant to attach files to my email message. It was able to detect that I wanted to send an attachment because it detected the phrase is attached in my email message. See the screen shot below.

Update: I removed is in the phrase is attached, and Gmail didn’t ask me anymore. So I guess, the confirmation is only triggered when it detected the phrase is attached in the email message. It’s also triggered when it detects the phrase see attached.

I was very surprised because I had forgotten to attach files I meant to send via Gmail a hundred times before but it has never asked me this before. I think it’s an excellent new feature that they’re implementing. It’s surely a great enhancement to Gmail user experience.

On the other hand, it’s a reminder that Google can and does read your email messages. And that I think is the scary thing about this. What do you think?

Earlier today, I tried to write a new post but I couldn’t see the text that I was typing into the post box on the WordPress (WP) admin panel. I tried using HTML view, but the text was also invisible. However, when I highlighted the post box, I could see the text. I wasn’t sure what was causing it.

Example of invisible text in WordPress post box

I did a search and found a thread on WordPress.org discussing the same issue. It sounded like the issue is caused by a WP plugin, but I wasn’t using the plugin that they mentioned in the thread.

Anyway, I thought I’d try to disable all my WP plugins to check if the issue will go away. If you want to disable all your plugins, just do the following:

1. Go to the Plugins page.
2. Click the All link under Manage Plugins.
3. Select the check box before the Plugins heading.
4. In the Bulk Actions drop-down menu, select Deactivate.
5. Click Apply.

I did that and the problem indeed was resolved. The next step was to identify which specific plugin was causing it. This was a trial-and-error process — I had to enable the plugins one by one on one tab, and then check on another tab if the text in my WordPress draft post was still visible. Of course, I had to refresh the tab with the draft post every time I disable a plugin.

I’m using 16 WP plugins on Metahead.com. After disabling about half of them, my draft post became invisible. And that’s how I caught the culprit. I disabled the offending plugin, and my WordPress world returned to normal.

It appears that this issue could occur with a number of plugins. In the WordPress that I mentioned, the thread starter mentioned that it was the ‘Default Post Content’ plugin that was causing the issue. It was a different plugin in my case, so the only way to catch the plugin that is causing the issue is to perform the trial-and-error process I described above.

Did this post help you? If it did and you’re able to figure out which plugin caused the issue on your blog, please leave a message below with the name of the offending plugin to help other bloggers who are experiencing the same issue.