Sunday Link Love & Announcements

20 Jul 2008

Sunday Link Love & Announcements

Author: Jim | Filed under: Announcements

Wrapping up the week ending July 19th… it’s time once again for some Sunday announcements and link love! A bit surprising this week as a lower than anticipated traffic showing. I think a lot of this was a shock wave from outages as I switched hosting. This was a pretty productive week overall, as I basically reloaded and am now ready to kick things back into high gear.

I’ve been really busy at work on my stock market blogging collaboration, and expect to release it to the public sometime early this week. I’ll be sure to let you guys know when that happens so you can artificially inflate my numbers subscribe and get the goods before anyone else. Before I get into that, let’s check out some of the best articles for the week.

I really liked the article on Enkay Blog, which was a response to my post about switching hosting providers. Really good stuff where he compares the speed of tons of blogs. Garry Conn also had a cool post where he compares and contrasts a lot of the top internet gurus. Cool advice from Nicky Cakes about getting more traffic from Google Images as well… so check that out!

Stock Market
Big week this time around. Things were shaky Monday and Tuesday so it looked like the fates of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were pretty much sealed. But then, we had some of the biggest gains of the year Wednesday and Thursday before ending Friday on another upbeat note. Apparently, a lot of the banks were not hit as badly as was projected by Wall Street. Big names like J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup reported losses that were less than expected, and the entire financial sector was absolutely soaring.

Does this mean that a turnaround is finally imminent? I doubt it. However, it’s nice to see a long overdue bear market rally. There really wasn’t much driving this move upward other than a dramatic dive in commodities. The price of crude oil shot underneath $129 per barrel after extending well over $140 just a week ago. I see this collapse continuing down to $115 before continuing a climb upwards. We could be in for some more quick gains, but things are much too dicey to jump back in the game so soon.

Blogosphere
One of the biggest evens of the week (or month) was the release of the new “.ME” domain name extension TLD. With this, a lot of bloggers (including myself) tried to capture those elite blog names (love.me, kill.me, etc.) that would exist with the release of the new extension. Many people have called this launch an utter failure, as registrars like GoDaddy had trouble coping with the demand for the new names. I personally know a lot of people that thought they had successfully purchased names, only to receive messages from GoDaddy the next day saying that this wasn’t the case.

As I mentioned before, on of my bigger projects that has taken a lot of time away from this blog has been the building/updating of my most recent stock market blog. This is going to be a collaboration with me and 8 other Penn State University students… all interested and educated in the workings of the stock market… all posting constantly to turn this website into a resource for stock market information. With any luck, the launch will promise some good results and we’ll hit it big right off the bat. I’ll let you know more once it is released, as I don’t want to reveal things quite yet.

In addition to my latest blog project, I put out a great money making idea this week as promised. Basically, it is a really profitable method of turning affiliates into massive amounts of money. I received less of a reaction than expected, but I think that a lot of people are really overlooking the true power behind my method. If you use the technique I have prescribed, I can guarantee at least $300 profit with no downside possible as there is no investment needed.

The Week In Focus
Things have been rolling along quite well here at Jimvesting dot com. I am going to be spending a fair amount of time tweaking my latest web project, so I am going to have to be a bit more proactive in making sure that you guys get all the daily posts you are used to over here. But even with this in mind, I fully intend to put out yet another money making plan to get you guys making some extra cash on the internet.

There are a lot of techniques out there that are tucked away secretly, so I am open to posting something basic that is guaranteed to score some extra cash, or even something more advanced. In addition, I am considering running a second round of questions and answers here so that you guys can get some more information out in the open. Keep checking back for more!