It’s been a solid week here at Jimvesting…
and now it’s time for some LINK LOVE! 
I ended up missing the last few days of posting because of a hectic schedule brought about by a day trip to New York City in order to visit Citigroup and Bloomberg. This was a pretty fun trip, and a good networking opportunity (essential in this market). After SWATcash went belly up, I have had my hands quite full in answering questions, talking to the old owners and (of course) writing up a new post on the best gpt websites to capitalize on the opportunity. Nevertheless, lets get back on track with the best posts of the week!
- Caroline Middlebrook – How to Balance Income, Promotion and Value
- Blogging Tips – Do You Need to Protect Your WhoIs Information?
- Cash Tactics – Backlinks are B-E-A-Utiful!
- NetStrife – The Ultimate Search Engine Loophole, Does it Work?
- IM With Joe – Why I Think Building an Email List is Freakin Important
Caroline Middlebrook tells us a great method to balance your income, promotion techniques and blog value to start things off, this is something that I have struggled with and think is very important. Blogging Tips follows suite with a great piece on why you should protect your WhoIs information on all domain name registrations. Cash Tactics pounds through the message of backlinks, and gives us some cool techniques to pick up even more! NetStrife wrote in on an interesting search engine loophole that can really boost your 
MSN rankings, very exciting stuff there. Finally, my arch-rival and look-alike Normal Joe talks about building lists, why you should do it and offers some nice case studies on their effectiveness.
Stock Market Update
Flip a coin. This is more than likely a more accurate indicator of the next day of trading than any technical analysis, fundamentalism or rumor-mongering belief. In a week that we completely consolidated and ended up right back where we started… the massive amount of terrible economic news really couldn’t be beat.
First of all, we are now officially in a recession. This is actually great news… as we have historically hit a market bottom about a month and a half after the official recession announcement. Because of this, I would look to buy into this weakness three months from now. We are down a bit more than 50% from October highs, and I feel that things are bad… but over-sold in general.
The market started things off by dropping almost 9% on Monday, on a worse-than-expected ISM Manufacturing Index reading of 36.2… the worse since 1982. The rest of the week, more bad news here and there (including a poor report from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke). In all, it seems that now we appear to be 
selling into any strength in the market. After a five-day rally the week before, we saw a virtual dive-bomb before we eventually came back and kept even on the week. No reasons to get excited here. 
Blogosphere Update
This week was relatively quite, if not for a late announcement from a good friend of mine that is selling his blog. Yes, Jason from TheUniversityKid.com is surprisingly jumping ship into these rough waters and trying to spin off his main blog TUK to get some extra spending cash. This is pretty disappointing, as that was always a decent blog to check up on.
I actually ended up bidding on the rights to the domain name SWATcash.com, the site of the former GPT empire. Unfortunately, despite out-bidding the “best bidder”… the auction for some reason went to #2. I don’t really understand why this happened, and it really frustrated me as I had put some money (and time) into appraisals.
This Week at Jimvesting
As you already know, I have been working on a top GPT website list and plan on putting this up shortly. I have been doing some last minute verifications and back-checks to ensure that everything I put up is top-notch work. In addition, I have a sponsored post coming up in my queue that needs to go out. Other than that, I think that I’ll get a little creative over the rest of the week to whip up some effective posts.
I am in the process of writing a new eBook. The subject matter I am still in the brainstorming phase… so I want to thank all of you for your help. Once it is out (hopefully by this week), I will start putting up a website for it so that I can really start to market my thoughts and hopefully make some good revenue off of the sales.
That’s it for this week! Stay BULLISH on the net! 
-Jimvesting
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Hmm.. Thanks for some nice reading on sunday night again!
It really gonna suck to see Jason go, but we will still be able to follow him on his new blog.
About SWATcash, that’s pretty weird that the second highest bidder got it, where you bidding with GoDaddy or something?
Awesome posts for this weak. The only thing is I missed to poast about the link love.
Jason is gonna have a awesome blog flip. Even though its sad to hear about it.
Great post Jim
First off, nice roundup for the week.
Wow. This really sucks. Jason is gone, are you going to buy it?
There are some great posts this week but my schedule is busy. Hope I can read them.
Nice post there from Caroline.
It seems like Jason isn’t the only one pulling out. It seems like Sly Guy from Slyvisions and Danny from LinkersBlog are offloading as well.
I`ve seen Jason`s blog on Sitepoint as well.. well maybe he has stronger projects to sustain ..
Good luck
How much did swatcash end up selling for? I am sure that domain has some value.
Too bad about Swat, that would have been a good pick up.
Give me a call when you can, I have a business idea to run by ya.
Best,
TAM
Yes I agree. Three months more and we can start buying.
Sure he will be back with some crazy idea, Jason is not quiting . I guess so.