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ClickBank Recurring Billing

White Shadow — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:11:25 +0000

ClickBank has finally implemented recurring billing! It can be used to receive recurring payments for products and services like membership sites and subscriptions, offering lots of new possibilities for vendors.

Note On NinjaLinkCloaker

White Shadow — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:05:05 +0000

Don’t buy it. If you already did – tough. All it has are two simple link cloaking methods based on HTML, similar to what one of my free cloaking scripts does + some cookie stuffing. I wasn’t impressed – well, actually I was impressed they managed to sell this stuff.

On a completely unrelated note, ClickBank seems to have skipped an update today, so CBTool hasn’t been updated either.

Narrow Layout Added to CBTool Search

White Shadow — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:06:34 +0000

Initially I designed the Search page so that it would look good on my screen (yeah, I’m a bit selfish ). The table displaying the results is optimized for large display resolutions (over 1024×768) and looks really messed up in a smaller window.

I tried to redesign it so that it would display equally well on any resolution, but without much success. So I went and created a “narrow” layout option to the search page. It doesn’t look as good, but should be readable even on a 800×600 display.

That’s it Just a short update today.

CBTool Updates

White Shadow — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:14:39 +0000

Here’s a summary of recent changes on the CBTool site -

Watchlists can now be searched just like categories. Simply choose “My Watchlist” from the category list.
You can quickly sort the result list by clicking on some of the column headers.
Adding/removing sites to your watchlist is now faster, as it doesn’t cause the whole page to reload any more.
There’s a “nice links” feature that is intended to allow you to produce good-looking links like domain.com/recommends/product. I’ll write more about this topic later.
Searching by title/description has been improved a tiny bit, but still needs work.
I’ve moved the database stats to another page, leaving only the date of last update on the main page.
…other minor changes.

About This Blog

White Shadow — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:08:00 +0000

Here are some of my reasons for starting this blog –

Once in a while, I add a new feature to CBTool, fix a bug or perform some other update. I can tell you about these updates here and avoid clogging the front page.
I read some affiliate-marketing related forums, and I see the same questions asked repeatedly by different people. Well, I’m just too lazy to answer them most of the time Instead, I’m going to post some related articles here, mainly focusing on technical topics, like link cloaking, click tracking and so on.
Product reviews. Yeah, everyone does them.
…anything else I find interesting that’s related to internet marketing and affiliate programs.