Blogger T-Shirt
The image above may appear to be some sort of vulgar hand sign but it isn’t, if you observe carefully, the hand sign spells out the word ‘blog’, which is rather creative. It is a T-Shirt by Ilias Karim and can be purchase at Threadless T-Shirt for less than 20 dollars.
Joel Comm AdSense Secrets 4.0 Review
According to his website, it cost only $9.95 for the latest edition of Adsense Secrets, well, what is the catch? In his video, it says nothing about the trojan horse awaits you. Here is what Darren Rowse from Problogger has to say:
Please do read the sales copy and understand that there’s a membership program/monthly report with this that costs $29.95 a month which you are subscribed to when you sign up for this. You can unsubscribe at any time if you don’t want to be in it. I’m a little surprised and disappointed to see Joel doing this to be honest but it is mentioned in the sales page (see the ‘free’ bonuses).
I have to say, I almost fall for it until I read the review in Problogger.com and glad that I did, isn’t this unethical? On top of that, Darren says the book is good for new comers, and some of the technique mentions in the book are somewhat against Google TOC.
From the comments I read in various blogs, generally the reviews are good, I’ll get one copy soon and I heard Joel has made a public apology for the ‘hidden fees’, he goes to the extend of amending the options, guess I’ll my copy of the book without the monthly $30 newsletter subscription.
