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Adding Amazon ads for different countries
Some time ago I started looking into ways to add Amazon products to help monetise a WordPress site. My major requirement was to automatically set my affiliate IDs for a range of different Amazon stores, with products appearing depending on a user’s worldwide IP location.
I was working on a site with a potentially global reach (aren’t they all?), and didn’t want to limit the potential by pushing people towards just one Amazon store. Here’s how I did it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Residual earning is far better than fixed-fee work
I have a day job producing websites for a UK broadcaster. It’s decent enough work, and I could be doing far worse things with my life. But lately I’ve been thinking about the traditional job model in the UK (and elsewhere), and whether the convention of working until you retire is particularly effective or healthy. I suspect not. Read the rest of this entry »
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