The Norwegian Government proposes to impose VAT on the purchase of electronic services abroad. That means sales tax on e-books, e-magazines, games and other software.

This also applies to music services like Spotify. This is due to be effective from 1 July 2011.

It was the Norwegian Minister of Finance, Sigbjørn Johnson who announced this in the bugdet for 2011.

The current VAT in Norway is 25%, printed books has been excepted from the VAT, but this new suggestion will apply to E-books.

It has been said that enforcing the tax will be hard. As there are thousands of online retailers who will be reqired to collect the tax from the Norwegian customer, and then send the collected tax to Norway.

Those retailers applying the tax will have weakened competition ability, opposed to those not collecting the VAT. Will you collect the VAT when you sell to a Norwegian customer?

Shortly after I released WordPress Goldmine I got an email from a guy called David Turnbull. It was very polite and professional and asked me if I’d like to try out his new wordpress plugin called WordPress Link Cloaker. It’s not everyday that I get asked to do something like this so I was more than happy to oblige.

Up to the point that David contacted me I was using a copy of WordPress Affiliate Pro. I used this in Tandem with Powerlink generator which produces Cloaked Links. I was very happy with the way these 2 products worked together even though i wasn’t too happy with the WPaffiliate pro price tag of $197..Ouch! I wasn’t too sure what to expect with WordPress link Cloaker but I have to say now that i was blown away with it.

UPDATE: WordPress Affiliate Pro is no longer available

It is just so simple to use, add a keyword, add the link, add any aliases you want to use  and you are done. Thats it..nothing else to do. The Alias function allows you to add a number of words for each link so for example If I wanted to link to WordPress Goldmine or WPGoldmine it would do it for me with the 1 entry rather than multiple entrys.

One important function that WLC does is to cloak your links. If you are new to affiliate marketing you probably don’t appreciate that stealing links can be quite a big problem. If your links are uncloaked it doesn’t take much for someone to add their own affiliate code into the link and purchase whilst getting earning the commission you should have earned.

I really do strongly recommend WordPress Link cloaker It has allowed me to develop a number of income streams I wouldn’t normally have had check out my blog post at http://www.income-academy.com/blog/the-jigsaw-videos and you’ll see how I use WordPress Link Cloaker in combination with a free tool that posts content to your blog .

If you are Intending to do affilaite marketing with blogs i really do recommend using WLC as it will save you time and stop people stealing your commissions.

Blogs are becoming increasingly popular on the internet today and although you may not realize it yet, but you could actually make money with them. Yet very little has been written on this subject, that is until now and the publication of The WordPress Goldmine guide. Below we provide a review of just how WordPress Goldmine may help you with making money online.

First however let us explain a little about what a blog is. A blog is also referred to some internet users as a weblog and is a way in which people are able to express their own thoughts regarding a certain topic, or it could in fact, be about themselves. Each one consists of just one web page and on this will be posted entries regularly and as you look at it you will see the most recent postings appear at the top of each page and earlier ones towards the bottom.

Yet even though many people do have their own blogs very few of these realize that they can also make money from them. In fact, there are numerous ways in which one can make money from them but in order to do this you need to decide just what you want your blog to relate to.

When you are building a blog you need to be able to gain the trust of those people who visit and then stay to read what it is you are saying. The more trust and rapport that you are able to build with the visitors to your blog then the more chance you have of them actually making a purchase on any product that you recommend to them.

This is where WordPress comes in. It is probably the easiest of all the different types of blogging platforms that one is able to use. However, it is very closely followed by Blogger, although with WordPress Goldmine as the name suggests it uses the first blogging platform.

When it comes to setting up a blog using WordPress you will find that whole process very simple and easy to complete. But first you must register with the site and once this is done then you can start building your first ever blog with them. Actually building the blogs will cost you nothing and will only take a few minutes for you to complete and then all you need to do is start adding more information to it once it is up and running.

It is crucial that you post information to your blog which your readers will not only find useful but relevant. Through WordPress Goldmine you will learn exactly what you need to do in order to find the right kinds of posts for your blog. As you will soon learn through reading this guide you do not even need to have in depth knowledge in relation to the subject that your blog is related to.

In the WordPress Goldmine e-book you will find that the author has been able to clearly explain the steps that one needs to take in order to help you with making a profit from your blog. Through this e-book you will be able to learn about the mistakes other blog beginners have made and so that you can avoid them for yourself. Making such mistakes can not only waste considerable amounts of your time but could also end up in you losing money as well. Through this e-book you will learn just what you need to do to set a blog up properly, along with how to choose the right topic and products as well.