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Just saw on Shoemoney that if you sign up to Yahoo Search Marketing , you get a $50 credit. You may want to get your hands on that deal incase they pull it.

Google have also done them in the past but they are quite rare to find now, the last one I saw was in .Net magazine last year. Speaking of Google, I assume you have heard about Google buying YouTube for $1.65bn in shares. YouTube is a very popular site and I’m sure they will find someway to make some money from it. They’ve already said that they want to allow directors to make money from uploading videos. We’ll see where this goes…

All these sites provide good information regarding; Contextual Advertising, SEO and Affiliate marketing and other related info. I read most of them and have probably missed a lot out. Here we go;

Blogs

• Shoemoney (Also check our his radio show, Net Revenue
• ProBlogger (Some of his posts also apply to websites as well as blogs)
• Google Adsense Blog (Makes sense really)
• Yahoo Publisher Network Blog
• David Naylor
• Matt Cutts
• Jensense
• Stuntdubl

Forums

• DigitalPoint
• WebmasterWorld
• Sitepoint (Some good books are published by them)

News Sites

• ThreadWatch
• SearchEngineWatch

Other

• SEOmoz
• SEOBook (I’ve read good reviews about the book, it has a good blog too)

If there are anyones you think that you use and I’ve missed out, suggest them in the

Update: Fixed a few urls that linked to the wrong place.
comments.

They subject of Net Neutrality has intensified in the last few months. I found this post a few weeks ago and found it interesting. The post explains what Net Neutrality is and how it affects a wide range of people who use the internet daily.
Basically, if the phone companies get their way, ISPs will be able to choose which Search Engine you use.

For example, let’s say that Comcast creates a search engine (intending to set up a system like Adwords), if Net Neutrality is not protected, it could (in theroy) slow down (or remove access) to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! or MSN. SEO’ers would now have the job optimizing sites for the Comcast search engine which would gain a significant market share due to Comcast customers experienceing slow loading times to other engines. This could happen to ISPs all over the net.

Other examples of how ISPs could intervene is on wikipedia;
In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.
In 2005, Canada’s telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.

Net Neutrality is a great thing and should be protected, I hope that readers in the US will call their senator asking them to vote in favour of Net Neutrality.

• Save the Internet (Find out which senators are against Net Neutrality and also a detailed explanation to what it is).
• Digg (Search for Net Neutrality to see many news items with discussion)