There really needs to be an internet marketing analog to accountancy's GAAP, Generally Accepted Internet Marketing Principles, with some good, clear definitions. Communication's impossible without good definitions. A "safelist" can't be any ol' double opt-in email list, "article marketing" isn't doing whatever the hell you want with 500 words, PPV is not any ad platform that isn't Google, a "Google slap" has nothing to do with sandboxes, deindexing, or keyword density,...

Making good money with EPN isn't as easy as it was several years ago, but it's still a goldmine. When I first got into it, I built a bunch of BANS sites which would do pretty well then get deindexed or buried. I tried phpBay as I thought maybe the problem was BANS. Same thing happened.

The problem was me. Google got sick of "thin affiliate sites" and changed their algorithms and review procedures to eliminate sites that were devoid of content and filled with affiliate links....