Welp, the hard work as finally paid off! Our Ebook Niches membership PLR site has finally launched.

We’ve also created a special discount coupon code. On the first order page, simply enter “special” as your coupon code and you’ll receive 10% off each and every month! However, this coupon will only work for the next 2 days.

Check it out if you’re interested in 4 PLR ebooks created for you each month:

http://www.ebookniches.com

Hope to see you on the inside!

I’m not a big fan of “Sorry for not posting lately” posts, but I’ll make this the one exception!

I’ve been hard at work with Adam Maywald (VOASI) to create a new membership site called Ebook Niches at, you guessed it, http://www.ebookniches.com/

For the full details, check out the site. In a nutshell, members will get 4 Ebook packages each month valued at over $4,400. These will be private label rights packages on hot niches where members can sell the ebooks as-is, generate content sites around them, create mini reports, etc. The packages will be top-shelf stuff.

The site is set to launch on April 3rd with only 300 members, much less than similiar private label ebook sites that offer far less and have upwards of 750 to 1500 members.

Again, the site is http://www.ebookniches.com/ and I highly recommend you sign up on the pre-release email list.

Update: Sorry for the confusion on this issue, but this is not the issue of the planned Adwords outage. This occured much earlier in the day on Friday and only affected the displaying of ads, not the user interface.

Today across my sites I noticed most of my Adsense windows were serving PSAs, which is highly unusual. I checked out some of my friend’s sites and noticed the same.

So, I figured the least I could do was send Google a message about it to see what was cooking. I received an interesting reply to the message I sent Google’s Adsense support team today:

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. This afternoon we encountered technical difficulties with our ad servers, and were unable to serve targeted ads to your web pages for a brief period.

Our engineers quickly resolved the issue, and ad serving has returned to normal.

For me, “quickly” involved a couple hours of no ads showing; from at least 3 to 7 PM EST. (I wasn’t home after 7, so I’m not sure how long it lasted for me after that.). It’s the best hypothesis I can come up with why my earnings were down about 30% for Friday.

Of course it’s expected that no operation can maintain 100% uptime. But what bothers me is Google didn’t notify me via email or by a post on their blog. Or perhaps the issue was too isolated to warrant a mass notification?

Any one else notice excessive PSAs on Friday?

While I don’t believe that restitution is in order, the situation does give me a kick in the pants to take advantage of the Alternate Ads URL that I’ve neglected.

More and more searchers are jumping Google and heading over to MSN and Yahoo for their Internet searches.

“Why” this is happening varies on whom you ask. Some will say that Google is populated with spam results for competitive terms, while others say their static results never serve up anything new.

But let’s not forget that both Yahoo and MSN have been improving their search and spidering capabilities considerably.

Another tidbit: with Windows Vista launching sometime in 2006, Microsoft will certainly attempt to integrate Internet search more thoroughly into the operating system. That should shake the snow globe up for everyone.

And that’s only in the U.S.

Talk about a great time to be in business online! If you’re not, start preparing for next years Christmas season today! There’s more and more money changing hands online every Christmas season; with no sign of a slow down anytime soon.

It’s the perfect inspiration for planning out your business goals next year. Speaking of goals, stay tuned for my next “project” for next year. It’s a biggie, I promise!

“A report from Goldman Sachs, Nielsen/NetRatings and Harris Interactive found that between Oct. 29 and Dec. 23 retail shoppers in the U.S. spent $30.1 billion online, up 30 percent from the same period a year ago.” Via News.com

From my own Adsense account and personal shopping habits, I knew online shopping would be up this year over last. An article over at ProBlogger confirmed my hunch.

I find Adsense very representative of the market as its payouts are largely driven by market factors caused by bidding from Advertisers. I decided to have a look at my own Adsense account to see where I stand this year compared to last.

• 35.2% increase in earnings per click
• 85.7% increase in EPM

If you don’t have much content online during this shopping season, I challenge you to start planning for next years Christmas NOW. Try to have any new sites online with some content by the end of July ‘06 as it takes some time to rise in the search engine results.