It's a new year (all the best to all of you - I hope 2007 will be even better for you than 2006!) and I have a couple of announcements to make:

• We are introducing some tweaks to the general layout and navigation. For example, you can now use the Google-powered search (in the top-right corner), which is quite spiffy thanks to some Ajax magic. I've also removed Adsense from the main page.
• We have an alpha version of a new tool, which may be very helpful to people, who need to find a lot of high-quality affiliate programs fast. A separate announcement will be made in a few days, when we tackle some remaining bugs and add the last few features still missing.

I am also going to start a new series on Arbitrage - I know it is rather late, many people gained really lot of insight into this area in 2006, but I somehow always delayed my personal forays into this venture. Anyway, I will write several posts, documenting my attempts to break even or - preferably :-) - make some decent profits. The series will cover things I can handle pretty well - like keyword research, niche discovery etc., but also some things, which I intend to subject to some heavy testing, like page layout, Adsense and Adwords strategies etc.

I expect at least one post per day for the next several days, documenting my successes and failures with arbitrate. Hopefully, it will prove useful to some of you as well.

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