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Anyway, where have I been?  Since rediscovering photography earlier this year, I’ve basically been out and doing more with my life and my wife.  When you consider the alternative of slaving away in front of the computer all day it’s not a bad thing!  That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been earning anything from my online endeavours because they were always developed with automation in mind.  So whilst, I’m not earning as much, I am still earning passively.

Okay, so I am still spending a lot of time in front of the computer, but it’s more so to do with post processing photographs I’ve been taking and so doesn’t feel like work at all.  I must admit that I have been thinking about ways to combine photography with making money online and I have been using IM techniques to promote my digital photography blog.

So, how to make money passively with photography?  Obvious methods that spring to mind are to sell the end product i.e. the photographs or to go the advertising route and sell space on ‘niche’ photography sites I could set-up, but I’m looking for other ideas.

Any thoughts on making money passively with photography?

One of my websites offers an information product using the 7 Dollars script and anyone can promote it without needing to sign up to anything.  All they need to do is to append their PayPal email onto a special version of the website URL and then they receive the proceeds of any sales from their referrals.

One particular affiliate decided it would be a good idea to spam a large number of people with his affiliate link. Judging by my website stats, if only a single-digit percentage of people actually followed his affiliate link then at least tens of thousands of people would have received his spam email.

Of course, this kind of action goes hand in hand with being reported to blacklist controllers such as SpamCop and eventually my host came knocking on my door asking me to deactivate the affiliate’s link.  This, I duely did.  Anyone following his link was then greeted with a message informing them of the situation, but also giving them an unaffiliated link to the products sales page just in case they were interested in it.

This resulted in a number of sales of which the proceeds went into my pocket instead of the (spamming) affiliate!

As his emails had been reported, I got to read a copy and was surprised that anyone would actually click through and buy, but they did.

So, there you have it.  Spam pays.  Period.

There were two possibilities, I thought. Either there’s a problem with my viewing i.e. my PDA or Internet connection had been compromised or there’s something not-so-obvious going awry with the blog. Since I couldn’t see any other sites affected in the same way, I decided the latter was actually the case. Looking at the underlying web page source code in Firefox confirmed this. Near the bottom of all of the legitimate source code was this:

The reason why nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary when viewed using a standard web browser was because CSS was being used to prevent the injected links from being displayed. That doesn’t mean that they’re not there or that search engines can see and index them. Using the Firefox Web Developer plugin to disable CSS for the current page showed what was underneath the CSS cloak:

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Ah well, that’s my theory out of the window unless the act of disabling the plugin does resolve the issue whether you go on to reactivate it or not.

Hong Kong was fantastic. I’ve got some family and friends out there and I’ve been before so it wasn’t the usual sunbathing by the pool type of holiday. Quite a large group of us went including my wife’s parents (for the first time) so we visited many of the tourist hot spots as well as heading off the beaten track.

It was with this holiday that I decided it was time to reignite my interest in photography and purchased a Canon EOS 40D along with a trio of lenses (Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, and Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM lenses for the buffs reading). I’ll test out the new WordPress 2.5 gallery feature and post a few pics.

As well as being a great place to visit, HK is also a great place to be a photographer as there are photo opportunities everywhere and you don’t necessarily have to stop once the sun goes down especially when you’ve got something as amazing as the Symphony of Lights – a daily light and music performance by some of the some of the buildings on the Hong Kong island (and Kowloon to some degree) waterfront.

I actually shot over 2,000 photos during our time in HK! Fortunately, I had a laptop computer with me and a portable external hard drive so a single storage card was sufficient. It also meant that I could look over my shots and keep an eye on things relating to my online businesses, but I promise I didn’t do any real work although I was inspired to contemplate starting a photography website.

Whilst HK was great, landing back at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was nothing short of a farce. As well as our Heathrow to Manchester connecting flight being cancelled, our limited options for getting home resulted in us catching a coach to Birmingham and then getting picked up from there all the way back to Liverpool. It’s difficult to understand how such a massive project was so poorly planned and tested with little in the way of real contingency. Very unimpressed.

Now, back home, it’s time to get on with some work, start planning some photography trips and fleshing out my new photography website.

P.S. I tried to upload some photos into a WordPress gallery, but kept getting an error during ‘crunching’ so I’ll post them once it’s sorted.