…and we’re back!
Time for some LINK LOVE!

It was definitely a rough week for me because of final exams… but now that those pesky things are out of the way, it’s going to be an action-packed next 30 days here at theNetFool.com! Excited? I thought so. We’re going to get into the winner of the free “The Ground” professional golf club holder that was given away here from Friday to Friday… but first on to the best articles of the week:

• Suite J – Getting Your Niche Site Listed
  
• Nicky Cakes – 2008 Top 10 Worst “Make Money Online” Sites
• Cash Tactics – Irresistible Offers to BOOST Response Rate
• The Keyword Academy – How Many Links Does it Take to Rank #1
• Franklin Bishop – How I got 700 Followers on Twitter

This week was pretty fun in terms of the blogging crowd. Nothing outrageous happened, but there has been plenty to talk about. Suite J had a great article that outlines how he gets his blog flips indexed as fast as possible. Nicky Cakes wrote up an extremely controversial post that named the 10 WORST “make money online” blogs on the internet. Thankfully, I wasn’t on the list… but a few people I knew were (Tyler Cruz, Mr. Javo, Zac Johnson) and I actually completely agree with Nicky’s assesment. Cash Tactics provided a neat way to angle your sales pages to get more conversions. The Keyword Academy runs us through Google’s search engine ranking algorithm and how to get that coveted #1 spot for your favorite term. Finally, Franklin Bishop recounts how he got over 700 followers on his Twitter account.

Stock Market Recap
The Federal Reserve cut rates! Whenever some monumental event like this happens, you know you are in for a good trading environment… or at least an exciting one, eh? Ladies and gentlemen, the Fed’s target rate is now at 0.00% to 0.25% down from 1.00%. For those of you that don’t already know, this is the rate at which banks borrow money… and it is a major stimulus anytime the rates are cut. Has the Fed used up all of it’s ammunition by cutting to 0%? They COULD go negative, but that won’t happen. At the very least, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) came out and said that they would be doing anything and everything to help foster liquidity.

The markets took the news well, and posted a positive gain on the week (that’s a change, eh?). Unfortunately, the U.S. Dollar was giving up a considerable amount of ground to foreign exchange currencies on the week (before a late-Friday rebound) and the yield on U.S. Treasuries fell drastically. The stock market saw an early boost on Friday, on an announcement that the automotive industry WOULD BE GETTING A BAILOUT! That’s right, there is now a $17.4 billion dollar bailout in action that will definitely help the major U.S. autos that were supposedly “too big to fail.” We’ll have to wait and see how that turns out!

Blogosphere Update
On the site flipping side of things… TheUniversityKid.com is still trying (unsuccessfully) to sell on an open market. This is concerning, because Jason had a great blog and I would have thought it’d have no problem getting over $10k in bidding. One the better side of things, Sly Blanco sold SlyVisions.com for $9.5k… despite the fact that there were only around 400 readers. This is definitely good work… but hear me out, because I think that Sly made a very unethical blunder!

SlyVisions.com was sold to a new owner for $9,500, which I believe in the first place is a high bid. There is nothing wrong with this if somebone saw potential… and more power to Sly for getting it done for such a premium! HOWEVER, the actions after have me furious. After selling the rights to SlyVisions.com, he creates a new blog SlyBlanco.com and uses the exact same logo and everything. The site mine as well be SlyVisions 2.0. Now, Sly Blanco is announcing to the world that they should subscribe to his new blog… effectively moving interest away from his old blog that some poor sap is left with… on to the new domain name. Is this really fair? Is this ethical? I know that if I sold a blog… I’d think long and hard before turning around and making a new one in the same niche.

Sorry for the rant, but if nobody is going to bring down the hammer of justice on this one… then I’m going to have to step in, eh? Sly is still a great guy and a friend of mine… he’s just out of line on this one in my opinion, and it is ONLY an opinion. I’ve been out of the loop this week, and haven’t had a chance to catch up on a lot of the juice that is going around… so this week, I’m going to get all caught up and back into the blogging groove!

“The Ground” Contest – RESULTS!
We had a decent amount of interest for the contest hosted here that gave away a free golf club holder, so it’s time to announce the winner! “The Ground” is a really neat golf tool that looks just like an ordinary golf club. When you really examine it, turns out the thing is a full-fledged stand that you can stick in the ground by the green so you never lose or misplace a golf club again.

And the winner is…. Shanker Bakshi from ShankerBakshi.com, congratulations!
I will email you, and you’ll get your free golf club holder!

Jimvesting’s Christmas Giveaway! Get Your Entries In!
That’s right… get your head out of the sand! We’ve got a KILLER contest running here at Jimvesting where you can win a HUGE prize pack with things like an Amazon Kindle, an Apple iPod and a Flip Mino HD! You gotta check this one out… entering is as easy as leaving a comment on the official comment area on the original contest post. You can record a video, blog about it, or whatever you want as long as there is a link back in the comment space. Better yet… as of now there are only 11 entries, and if you are the best entry on my blog you are going to get a Flip Mino or an Apple iPod, so get your entries in today so that you have a shot at one of the prizes!

The Week Ahead…
I’m releasing a new eBook sometime this week that focuses on gaming the industry to turn out big profits. It has to deal with exploitation, which is always controversial, so definitely stay tuned for that post! I am going to make it affordable for all of you readers (special deal ) so keep your eyes open and your clicker fingers at the ready. I’m also in the works of launching a new website company, but that is going to stay under wraps for the next week or so while I get it ready to go.

That’s it for this week… oh, and the first person to comment with the text “Jimvesting is my homeboy” somewhere in their comment will win a free one-month 125×125 banner on theNetFool.com. Sneaky that I’d slide that in here like that… isn’t it?

Stay Bullish on the Net!
- Jimvesting

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