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Payment Firm Seeks Return Of Seized Online Poker Funds

Payment processor Account Services Corporation has filed a motion in federal court for the return of about $14 million seized by the government and owed to online poker players. The move comes from actions taken in June, when the U.S. froze assets totaling around $33 million belonging to Allied Systems and Account Services.

Feds Freeze Online Poker Payments

Federal prosecutors have ordered four U.S. banks to freeze payments of more than $30 million owed to people who play online poker. The frozen payments are owed to 27,000 online poker players at four offshore sites, including PokerStars.com and FullTiltPoker.com, according to John Pappas, the executive director of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), an advocacy group.

Americans Favor Legalizing Online Poker

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a grassroots advocacy group with more than a million members, is praising the release of the White House Citizen's Briefing Book, a compilation of voter led policy proposals that includes as one of its top priorities the licensing and regulation of online poker.

Bill To Legalize Online Gambling Unveiled

Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) has introduced legislation that would allow Americans to bet online and end a 3-year-old ban on Internet gambling. The Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act would create a federal regulatory and enforcement framework allowing Internet gambling operators to obtain licenses to accept wages from people in the United States.

U.S. Regulators Issue Internet Gambling Rule

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have issued the final rule to implement the controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).The Act prohibits gambling businesses from accepting payments from unlawful Internet gambling sites, including payments made with credit cards, electronic funds transfers, and checks.

How to Make Money off of Accidental Rankings

Since Google largely tends to favor ranking informational websites over commercial websites, some authoritative blogs tend to rank for valuable queries based on posts they make in passing. Even if you had no intent to monetize a post, it just became easier to monetize accidental rankings. If you use analytics to track your stats and notice that you start ranking for some good keywords you can use Triggit to embed links to merchant products directly in the text of your blog post.

Google Extending More PPA Invitations

AdWords clients may see an invitation to join the beta test of Google's pay per action (PPA) advertising appear in their accounts.

Google Pay-Per-Action Goes Global

Google has announced that its pay-per-action advertising beta is now open to international advertisers.

Google Whispers More Details About PPA

The pay per action beta test for Google AdWords recently debuted, and spurred plenty of advertiser interest.

Pitfalls of PPA Advertising

I love it when I get a comment that is better than the original post. Last week, I chimed in with some thoughts on Google's experiment with pay-per-action (PPA) advertising, and I got a hugely detailed comment this weekend on that post, so go re-read that entry to see it. (I'll wait.) When you come back, I'd like to talk about it more.