Good morning foolish readers,
Are you ready for some Link Love?!
It’s been a busy few weeks around here, and as we got traffic week kicked off with an article all about building website traffic through the power of video, we had a lot of solid feedback. Also, we announced a fresh contest from the folks at Direct Agents where you can win a trip to one of five great beaches! I’ve got a few posts planned on traffic for this week, so stay tuned… but let’s get into the best articles of the week before I get side-tracked:
- Blogging United – Tagging Your Blog
- Franklin Bishop – Twitter: The Lifeline of Blogs
- Smart Bloggerz – The Content Distribution Traffic Method
- The Blogtrepreneur – WTF Is It With Site Flipping
- Winning The Web – Building Wealth Online Amidst Financial Chaos
Starting us off, Blogging United put out a fantastic article on tagging your articles for different social media networks, and how this method can really boost your traffic and search engine rankings. My buddy Franklin Bishop talked about Twitter, and how your following can really trace the performance of your website or blog long-term… definitely a good lesson on how to effectively use the system. Smart Bloggerz makes a Net Fool debut with an awesome article on getting 10x the traffic on each article that you put out, great stuff there. The Blogtrepreneur is back at it again, this time ranting about site flipping in an argument that I definitely agree with. Finally, Winning The Web talks on a more serious note on how you can amass wealth online, even in tough times.
Stock Market Update
We are having a heck of a time in the markets, with the Dow Jones rallying yesterday about 7%… the biggest rally for quite some time. We are solidly off of the bottom, and have continued to rally past 7700 on the Dow. Remember two weeks ago when I mentioned why this rally would happen? I feel that we may have gotten everything that we can out 
of this recent burst of trading activity… so I would have to be a bit humble and sell part of my position (across the board) at this point in time.
The United States released the official asset-bailout plan yesterday, which led the markets higher. Essentially, we are planning on using the private sector to buy troubled assets off of select banks’ balance sheets for pennies on the dollar. These assets are hard to value, so they could potentially turn profitable for the investors willing to take a risk on them. In other news, the Chinese government announced to the world that they would like to create a new currency to compete with the US Dollar. They are essentially fed up with over-reliance on the United States economy, and wish to establish a better way. We’ll have to track what happens here, as global tension seems to be escalating.
Blogosphere Update
One of the more interesting events this week, in my opinion, was Pot Pie Girl’s new book on keywork research finally being released. This big book isn’t just a typical eBook, and it is actually being published online. She talks about how odd it is to have a book in your hands that you wrote, and I’d have to feel the same! 
In addition to this new publication, we had a great affiliate product come out called the Affiliate Theme. This a an awesome new product by Unique Blog Designs that is absolutely essential if you are trying to build up blogs about various niche topics. Great concept behind this product, and I have absolutely LOVED what I have seen thus far. I will let you all know if I finally decide to buy the darn thing, and will post about my experience here.
Going with the internet marketing theme, I am still working through PPC Classroom’s course on internet marketing… and plan on entering into the arena sometime in the future. A popular tool for managing affiliate campaigns has been a program called Prosper202. Now, a brand new product called Tracking202 Pro has been released by the same guys, and it looks like a great piece of work.
That’s it for this week, stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting
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l. thanks for including my site..My Debut 
Its really an awesome post. I had been looking for the ways to increase my web traffic. This exclusive article really served the purpose. Thumbs up buddy
Thanks for the compliment
Twitter: @melvinblog
March 25, 2009 at 3:40 am #
its kinda weird a lot of people don’t know/use prosper202… Its one of the best tools in aff.marketing
I love the new affiliate template from UBD. Their templates are great, and easy to work with. Good post
I love these updates, link loving posts! Keep it up
I always find a cool blog or two when you do this. Thank you.
Good Link Love Jim. I loved franklin Bishops post.
Great Article, good job!
I really liked the “WTF Is it with site flipping” post.
Although all of them were really nice
You are releasing your position on your shares. Did you buy or short the stock and when was this.
I am asking because most people are saying sideline.
Is it just me or did you publish “Sunday Link Love” on a Tuesday?
Jay
That’s really great article !
Hi Jim,
Gr8 post and thanks very much for the link love. I’m working on my first eBook/online training programme as I type.
Nice article. Really usefull infor. Thanks
I can’t get rid of it
I am asking because most people are saying sideline.
These assets are hard to value, so they could potentially turn profitable for the investors willing to take a risk on them.