Sunday Link Love & Announcements

15 Mar 2009

Sunday Link Love & Announcements

Author: Jim | Filed under: Announcements

Wow, actually posting on a Sunday, eh?
Haha, you know what that means…

TIME FOR SOME LINK LOVE!

Things were a bit slow this week, as I used my week to get caught up on everything else. Because I didn’t want to start in with my traffic week mid-week… we are going to use THIS week to go over traffic secrets, straight from the Net Fool! Every day I’ll be giving you a new tip or trick to get more traffic to your blog, which is something that I get asked quite a bit how to do. Before we get into that, let’s have a glance at the best posts of the week:

We start it off with Derek from CC talking about what to do after a slap, instead of having a panic attack or crying, of course. Next, Ian Fernando brings us an awesome lesson on cross-testing different web browsers to make sure your marketing campaigns work properly. Desmond Blog got out an awesome post on a recent flip for about $3k, great work Des! The Search Engine Marketing fellas bring in a nice list on the top five reasons why Twitter is poised to grow this year and take market share from some other big online destinations. Finally, my buddy Michael started up a new blog, Income Diary, and put together an awesome list of the top earning websites of 2008… check it out!

Stock Market Update

Woo Hoo! It’s rally time for the stock market! All of last week, the major indices held impressive gains with the Dow Jones up 9% and the Nasdaq up 10.6% for the week ending Friday. We had two big days of gains, and a few steady trips upward, to end the week on an up-note. With some recently downed companies coming back to life, such as GE up 70% off its lows and the financial sector up 34% as a whole, we had a reason to believe this week that everything would eventually improve.

The question now: was this rally real or fake? In fact, the other question would be whether we continue our gains this week… as many investors might use this pop as an opportunity to exit their holdings on a positive note. This next week might just hold the key to seeing if the rally was legitimate or simply another “bear market bounce.” Right now, we look overbought across the board… so it will be interesting to see what happens. While we saw some serious mean reversion, with the worst stocks on the year behaving as the best, it might be asking too much to have these names continue.

The bottom line here: we aren’t done yet, and I wouldn’t recommend getting in the markets this week if you aren’t invested because of the extreme uncertainty. In fact, the way CNBC hypes everything, you would have to expect a huge rally to continue. Sure, it MIGHT go up again, but the markets could also very well collapse… so invest with caution in the short term!

Blogosphere Update

I’m having a ball with my subscription to PPC Classroom, one of the best free resources for learning internet marketing out there. If you aren’t in, seriously consider signing up to the mailing list so that you can participate when they start up the next session… it’s been a fantastic learning experience that was (almost) completely free! Other than that, a lot of external work was completed on my end this week… as I got a huge authors portal up and running at Bullish Bankers, as well as some work done on a GPT website that’s in the mix and a clients corporate website that I have almost completed.

Some friends brought a couple of events to my attention this week. First, one of my good friends that blogs at The Weblog Zone is giving away a free WordPress blog… even the web hosting for it! Best of all… he is going to custom code it for you so that it is not just your average run-of-the-mill website. This is a great offer, and a great contest. Also, as I usually give people a shout out if they ask for it (hint!), the guys at eBusinessCorporate are having a launch party! What does this mean? Well if you own a decent blog (Pagerank 2 and up), then you will have the opportunity to win some cash and some advertising vouchers for writing about the new site.

That’s it from me, stay classy and stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting