Dear Publisher,

Yahoo! continuously evaluates and prioritizes our products and services, in alignment with business goals and our continued commitment to deliver the best consumer and advertiser experiences. After conducting an extensive review of the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program, we have decided to close the program effective April 30, 2010. We expect to deliver final publisher payments for the month ending April 30, 2010 to publishers no later than May 31, 2010. All publishers eligible for 1099s for the 2010 tax year will have those mailed by January 31, 2011.

Because our content will no longer be delivered to your ad unit spaces after April 30, 2010, we recommend removing all YPN ad code from your pages by that date.

For the opportunity to continue earning revenue, we suggest using Chitika, a leading advertising network that syndicates Yahoo! Content Match and Sponsored Search ads. Chitika has set up a special process for YPNO beta publishers to participate in its platform. Click here for more information.

We thank you for your participation in the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please contact our Support Team at (866) 785-2636, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PDT.
Sincerely,

Your Partners at Yahoo!

Below is their standard letter sent to current affiliates:

Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate:

We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules. The new regulations do not require online retailers to collect sales tax. Instead, they are clearly intended to increase the compliance burden to a point where online retailers will be induced to “voluntarily” collect Colorado sales tax — a course we won’t take.

We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado. We plan to continue to sell to Colorado residents, however, and will advertise through other channels, including through Associates based in other states.

There is a right way for Colorado to pursue its revenue goals, but this new law is a wrong way. As we repeatedly communicated to Colorado legislators, including those who sponsored and supported the new law, we are not opposed to collecting sales tax within a constitutionally-permissible system applied even-handedly. The US Supreme Court has defined what would be constitutional, and if Colorado would repeal the current law or follow the constitutional approach to collection, we would welcome the opportunity to reinstate Colorado-based Associates.

You may express your views of Colorado’s new law to members of the General Assembly and to Governor Ritter, who signed the bill.

Your Associates account has been closed as of March 8, 2010, and we will no longer pay advertising fees for customers you refer to Amazon.com after that date. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned prior to March 8, 2010, will be processed and paid in accordance with our regular payment schedule. Based on your account closure date of March 8, any final payments will be paid by May 31, 2010.

We have enjoyed working with you and other Colorado-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program, and wish you all the best in your future.

Best Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team

True retail success on the web starts with an appealing and functional shopping cart website.
These shopping cart sites are programmed with the innovative software of osCommerce and advanced by osMax.

osCMax v2.0 is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart web application. There are many advantages to using osCMax as your e-commerce/shopping cart for your web site. It has all the features needed to run a successful internet store and can be customized to whatever configuration you need.

Whether you retail your own inventory or resell via a dropshipper…if you sell on eBay or Amazon or through a brick and mortar store this is the set up you need for a professional online image.

***NOTE***Products on Demo are for display only as samples.

Key Features:

• Unlimited Products and Categories
• Gift Vouchers/Coupons
• Download/Virtual Product support
• Secure/Stable code base
• Web Based admin Panel
• Supports PayPal, AuthorizeNet, Real time credit card processing
• Supports UPS, USPS and Fed X shipping
• Unlimited product Specials
• Separate customer groups (Retail, Wholesale, or add your own groups)
• Compatible with most other mods available for osCommerce.
• Credit/Gift Voucher/Coupons 5.13 + all patches
• Admin With Access Levels 2.1
• Download Controller v5.3
• New Attribute Manager v4b
• Printable Catalog v3.0
• Down For Maintenance 1.1b + bugfixes
• Shipping Per Product
• Separate Pricing Per Customer v4.1.1
• Category Box Enhancement
• Specials On Main Page by Default
• Column Product Listing + admin toggle and controls
• Dynamic Meta Tag Generator
• X-Sell 1.2 + SPPC mod
• Edit Orders 1.59
• Categories Descriptions
• Easy Populate 2.76b
• OSC-Affiliate 2.02
• Define Mainpage Max + admin controls
• Define Static Content Pages + admin controls(Conditions, Privacy, Shipping)
• WYSIWYG FCKeditor 2.0fc osCMax (supports IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape)
• Category Box Bullet Graphics
• Dynamic Mo Pics 3.0
• All Products Page 2.3
• Coolmenu/DHTML menu
• Admin Categories Search by model number v1.0
• Article Manager 1.2b
• Purchase Without Account .82 + fixes
• Country/State dropdown 1.10 (all customer info pages)
• Recover Cart Sales 1.4f
• Wishlist v2.4b
• Customer Loyalty Discount v1.3
• Batch Print Center v3
• Sales/Tax Reportig v2.1.1
• Quantity Tracking Pro v4.2
• Infobox Admin v2.2.1
• Step By Step Manual Order entry v1.4
• Page Performance Parse time v1.6
• MS3 Tax Class
• Site Map 2.2
• LoginBox 5.5
• MS2 Cache Class v1.1
• Page Cache v1.5
• Ultimate SEO Urls v2.0
• Friendly Admin Panel v2

Payment Modules Included:

• Authorize.Net Consolidated Credit Card v1.7
• osCommerce core Paypal IPN v1.1
• Linkpoint
• Cash on Delivery
• Standard osC Credit Card
• EFS Net
• GeoTrust QuickPayments
• iPayment
• Check/Money order
• NOCHEX
• PayBox Credit Card
• 2CheckOut
• PSIGate
• SECPay

Shipping Modules Included:

• FedX Direct Real Time Quotes v2.04
• UPS XML v1.1.5
• USPS Methods v2.7d + insurance
• Flat Rate
• Per Item Shipping
• Table Rate
• Zone Rates

VIEW DEMOS

What a better way to operate a website with current popular search terms than an auto updating news portal. This site is huge with content covering subjects from world news to technology news to hollywood news. Also included for content is a huge jobs section and a shopping section featuring thousands of products from Amazon.

Features:

• Professionally designed and programmed website
• Auto updating maintenance free website…just market it.
  
• Great tracking of transactions through the affiliates
• Strategically placed affiliate banners for additional revenue
• Huge Amazon affiliate section
  
• Strategically placed Google Ads for higher earnings.
  
• Translate icons enabled for larger audience
  
• Social Bookmark enabled (add to Digg, Furl, del.ici.ous, etc.)
• SEO competed with title tags, meta tags, etc.
  

This website has a lot of potential!

mailto: html code

to create an email link the mailto: attribute of the <a> tag is used <a href=“mailto:someone@their-email.comtheir-email.com“>email</a> a subject can also be included using the ?subject attribute <a href=“mailto:someone@their-email.com?subject=free chocolate“>email</a><

simple mailto form

Add this simple mailto form to your webpage and allow user’s to send their comments, just cut and paste the example html code below into your html document

cut and paste this mailto form code to your own webpage. Of course change the email address to your own as well as the URL in the hidden input

<CENTER> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=”mailto:someone@their-email.com” ENCTYPE=”text/plain”> <INPUT TYPE=”text” NAME=”username”> : name <BR> <INPUT TYPE=”text” NAME=”email”> : email <BR> comments <BR> <TEXTAREA NAME=”COMMENTS” ROWS=”10″ WRAP=”hard”> </TEXTAREA> <INPUT NAME=”redirect” TYPE=”hidden” VALUE=”index.html“> <INPUT NAME=”NEXT_URL” TYPE=”hidden” VALUE=”index.html“> <BR> <INPUT TYPE=”submit” VALUE=”Send”> <INPUT TYPE=”reset” VALUE=”Clear”> </FORM> </CENTER> <!– END OF FORM –>

Here are a few well documented methods to redirect:

Important notes about htaccess redirection

1. Always be sure to upload .htaccess files in ascii mode, loading it in binary will cause it to not function.
2. .htaccess only works on a Linux server.
3. Make sure you triple check your changes. Clear your cache and look, test the server headers to make sure you see a 301 (that means its permanent) not a 302 (temporary) unless you are absolutely sure you really mean temporary.
4. Since some operating systems don’t allow you to make a file without something before the “.” you may need to save it as something.htaccess, some may even have to save it as htaccess.txt and change it once you’ve uploaded it.
5. Make sure your ftp program will show .htaccess files (FileZilla does and is free).
6. Double check that you’re not overwriting an old htaccess (some servers already place one there for your custom 404 pages etc.)
7. Make sure you replace sample.com with your own sites URL

301 Redirect Examples

To Move a single page

To Move an entire site

Changed file extension?

This example is perfect if you’ve decided to switch to .php from .html pages. It will look for any .html page and redirect it to .php (ie http://www.example.com/yourpage.html and redirect it to http://www.example.com/yourpage.php). Be careful with this, it does mean any html page.

Redirect www to non www version of site

It’s best to stick with either always using www.example.com or just example.com. Allowing both can confuse the search engines. So here’s how to force your site to always show the non-www version. (Search for “canonical url errors” in your favorite search engine for more info.)

Note: If you do use either of the next 2 codes below, and use a secure server (ie. https:) be sure to check that it doesn’t redirect the secure to the insecure version.

Redirect non-www to www

Same as above except in the reverse, this one forces the www. into your url.

Redirect example.com/index.php to example.com/

Another snippet that is a good idea to make sure search engines don’t give you a duplicate content penalty, this will also redirect example.com/folder/index.php to example.com/folder/.

1. Open notepad and paste the following line of code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

2. Save the file as phpinfo.php

3. Upload the file to the root of your website

4. Go to www . yourdomain.com/phpinfo.php

Sample:

www.siteshrine.com/phpinfo.php

With todays economies worldwide in such disarray more and more are seeking new jobs. This search engine pulls job listings from around the web for thousands of companies worldwide. The site will be bookmarked over and over for repeat use.

Search Jobs From:

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
France
Germany
India
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

Sites are well integrated with Google Adsense for quick profits.

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Features:

• Gorgeous professionally designed website template
• Google Adsense integrated
• Several relevant categories to browse
• Search Box with your embedded Affiliate ID

The Shopzilla Publisher Program is a CPC affiliate program connecting Shopzilla, Inc.s world-class where to buy shopping solution to website publishers interested in monetizing by integrating sponsored shopping content.

Publishers monetize by driving quality traffic through BizRate, a Shopzilla, Inc. company. With access to BizRates rich inventory of cataloged products and offers from over 5,000 merchants, participants in the Shopzilla Publisher Program, or “Publishers”, are able to create a unique shopping experience contextually relevant to their website.

Make money with your compare and shop site today!

Check out the amazing features:

• Content from Google.com, YouTube.com, Flickr.com and others – all updates automatically.
• News page
• Photos page
• Blogs page
• Videos page
• Twitter page
• Yahoo Answers page
• Auction Pages include your Ebay affiliate ID on every item!
• Shop Pages include your Amazon affiliate ID on every item!
• Google Adsense integrated