It’s time once again for Sunday Link Love… in fact, this is the 50th week that we have covered links from around the blogging universe! Woohoo! 
Last update, we had a quick poll and I said that we would be giving away two free one-month links to the winners. I’ve gone back and checked in on the participants, and the winners are the users named “fas” and “Online Marketing 
BLog” … congratulations! Please comment in the space below or shoot me an email via the contact form, and I’ll get you hooked up.
In honor of our 50th link love, I’m giving away a free one-month 125×125 sidebar banner ad (doesn’t rotate!). What do you have to do? Simply follow this link, and give me feedback on my latest project in the comment area on this post. One of the first five people to respond (randomly) will win! 
In the Giving Mood
Since I am in the giving mood today, let’s go ahead and put in one heaping portion of link love. I’m DOUBLING the standard five links… so more exposure to more blogs today only! Below are ten of the best articles from the past week that you should definitely check out:
- The University Kid – What I Look For When Buying A Website
- Click Consultants – Is Pay Per Click too Difficult to Enter as a Newbie?
- Uber Affiliate – Google Adwords Strategy
- Enkay Blog – 5 Reasons for Blog Success…
- Ian Fernando – Building A List: Why I am Just Starting
Whew, let’s cut it in half, eh? A great post from the new owner of The University Kid on a very unique subject. The post is all about buying someone else’s website, and what you need to do to get a good deal… definitely smart work here (we’ll get more into that blog sale later). Derek from Click Consultants boils down his conception that getting involved in PPC marketing is just too hard for a novice, something I would agree with. Uber Affiliate outlines an awesome strategy for making cash from Google. Enkay blogs about successful blogs, and what they have that you don’t. Finally, Ian Fernando is building a mailing list, and telling us why he took so long to get around to it. Back to the links!
- Smarter Wealth – 7 Ways to Grow Your Income Momentum Online
- Mark Mason - SEO: Number of Competing Pages is the Wrong Measure
- Internet Marketing Tips – 10 Reasons Why You SHOULD Subscribe
- The Melvin Blog – 5 Things I Wish They Had Taught In School
- The Keyword Academy – Introduction to Ethical Affiliate Marketing
Moving on, we have an awesome piece from Ryan at Smarter Wealth about growing your online income with momentum to secure long-term gains. Then, Mark Mason talks to us about how Google ranks websites by analyzing competing websites, dispelling the myth that more is better. Reach Success Online (or IM Tips) brings to the table 10 reasons why you should be subscribing to opt-in lists, mailers and the like. Dean Hunt guest posts on the Melvin Blog and talks about subjects he wished were taught in school. Finally, and last but not least, the Keyword Academy brings up the subject of ethical marketing, something that I am 100% behind and thought was a good read.
Stock Market Update
We are at levels in the Dow Jones that have investors tense and ready for action. After hitting all time lows just a month ago, we are at a 20%+ rebound level across all major market indices. As it happens, the American markets closed on Friday just above the 8,000-points level. This is technically significant, as we have been trying to break above definitively from the Dow Jones being locked below 8,000. Are we getting that chance and has the bear market finally started to show signs of recovery? Or is it just another set up for a massive collapse?
The problem right now is that there is (supposedly) much more bad news to come out. As of now, investors have had reason to be happy with many major companies surprising (positively) on their first quarter corporate earnings reports (e.g. Wells Fargo). This alone has driven the 
market higher, but will it be overshadowed by things to come? While there is clearly some bad news that has yet to escape, perhaps we over-sold the market in the first place and are literally just catching up? There are many theories out their in the balance, making this week of trading fundamentally significant… so turn it over to CNBC at 4:00pm EST every day and see where things are going!
Blogosphere Update
We’ve had a lot of shake-up in the blogging world as of late. It is amusing to me how much this echos the overall economy. Right now, in the physical business world, many companies are either failing or begin acquired and bought out. In the blogging world, many people are stopping the steady flow of blog posts or selling their blogs and jumping ship. Earnings are down, but Jimvesting is going to ride out the storm in style.
Did I mention we have an AWESOME CONTEST coming this week? You could be one of five winners to get a very nice prize valued at $200 a pop… and this isn’t a cheesy marked-up eBook. What is it? Stay tuned to find out! 
Getting back to the point we made earlier, Jason from The University Kid sold his blog to a new owner (actually two!) for $3,000. Wow! That was about the cheapest that I thought the first bid would be. While I believe that Jason got ripped off, the new owners Stanley Tang and Josh 
Lam made out like bandits. I am a bit upset that this wasn’t broadcasted more, as I would have paid $4k myself for that real estate. The way I see it, even if I WANTED to sell Jimvesting, I really shouldn’t because I would more than likely be underpaid. I feel that all of these bloggers jumping ship now are making huge mistakes against the long term value of their websites.
Other than that, we had a disturbing case of blackmailing at Dean Hunt’s popular marketing blog. Check it out and tell me what you think. Personally, I am a bit frightened as to what the world has come to! A good deal of April Fool’s Day pranks went down in the blogging world, just to reiterate the past few weeks. Unfortunately, I feel that people overall weren’t in as much of a joking mood as they were last year… although the folks at Google managed to pull off a stunt, launching CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity)… a program that automatically writes emails for you based on personality!
That’s it for this week, stay tuned for our contest and stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting
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Thanks for this week Link Love! Congrats on the 50th too!
I’ve just came accross TheUniversityKid too, the blog was sold to another 16years old young entrepreneur, so let’s see what he can do with the blog, Excited!
Regards,
Lee
Thanks for the mention Jim. Great links.
Like I said in my blog post, the key to getting good deals is keeping them private
Great links, especially the one about 7 ways to grow an income
If I click that link one more time, I’m gonna lose it.
Twitter: @motorbeam
April 13, 2009 at 9:41 am #
Thanks Jim,
The text link I would like to put up is the same as the site with which I am posting now,
BTW the markets will crash, they are just showing temporary rally.
P.S My comments don’t approve.
Great link love Jim. I loved TUK post. The new owner is as great as Jason
Thanks, very interesting read, you should be commended on your website,
can see that you have put some effort into it, to many dud sites around these days.
Kind Regards
How was your vacation buddy? I mean to say 1 week break!!
Twitter: @melvinblog
April 14, 2009 at 6:38 am #
Hey thanks for the link… of course all credit goes to Dean for doing an awesome post for my blog… thanks again…
As always some very interesting and informative links you have listed.
I look forward to this post every week now.
Hi Jim,
i’m okay with the exchanging links thing. i’ll put you on my blogroll as soon as i get to see my site in your links. thanks. All the best
many new things that I can from this blog and I can learn a lot, thank you
How will you keep track of all these different blog post?
All link are good and useful but i like second one….thanks
Thanks for the coverage. It saves a lot of time!
Thanks for including my link in your post. I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and have always found it very helpful. Thanks again and keep up the great work.