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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Halloween Easter Egg on Google Maps


Google included a little Halloween Easter Egg on their Google Maps Street View feature – instead of the usual icon person walking around, now there’s a witch icon.

Halloween is a holiday on the night of October 31 celebrated in various parts around the world, with people – including employees of Google – dressing up in scary (and sometimes, Google-related) costumes, lighting up all kinds of decorative lights, or carving pumpkin faces, among other traditions.

Free Birthday Stuff

One of the most common promotions that eating establishments do is offer something free to people who are having a birthday. The following is a list of places where you can get free food of some kind on your birthday, but it is by no means exhaustive. If you have a favorite restaurant that isn’t listed here, it still may very well give a birthday special. The best approach is to call and ask what, if any, special they give people on their birthday. If you see a birthday freebie from the list below, be sure to call and confirm that the restaurant near you offers that particular birthday special. Not all restaurants participate in these birthday promotions or they may give something else for birthdays.

Abbotts Frozen Custard: free treat (must register for birthday club first)
Alfy’s Pizza: free mini pizza
All-American Cafe: free dessert
Amato’s Sandwich Shop: free sandwich (must register for Tamatos Club first)
Applebees: free dessert
Austiin Grill: free meal (must register first)

Bakers Square: free pie
Bandido’s: free entree
Banjara Indian Cuisine: free meal
Baskin Robbins: free ice-cream treat
Beaches Restaurant: free meal
Benihana’s Japanese Restaurant: free dinner (with 3 other paid customers)
Bennigans: free dessert
Bern’s: free meal
Bill Knapp’s: percentage discount equal to age on meal plus a free cake (with purchase of a meal)
Black Briskee: free meal
Bob’s Big Boy: free hot fudge ice-cream
Buffalo Wild Wings: dozen free hot wings
Burger King: free kids meal (must register kids club member first)

California Pizza Kitchen: free kids meal (must register first)
Carrows: free cake
Cattlemen’s: free dessert, free cowboy hat
Charlie Brown Restaurant: free meal (must register “Handshake Club” member first)
Charlie’s Seafood: free meal
Chevy’s: free dessert, free sombrero
Chips N Giggles: free meal
Claim Jumper: free dessert
Crazy Buffet: free meal

Denny’s: free meal (kids under 10)
Desparados Mexican Restaurant: free meal
Dockside Restaurant: free meal
Duke’s Chowder house: free meal, buy one get one free coupons (must register first)

Einstein’s: free meal
El Chicos: free dessert
Ernie’s Steakhouse: free meal

Famous Dave’s Barbeque: free meal (must register first)
Fuddruckers: free burger

Golden Corral: free meal (must register birthday Club member first)
Grillfish: free meal

Hana Japan: free meal
Hard Rock Cafe: free dessert
Hometown Buffet: free birthday cake
Houlihan’s Restaurant: free entree
Hooters: free t-shirt
Hoss’s Steak house: free cake

IHOP: free meal

Joe’s crab Shack: free cake

King Buffet: free meal

Ladonna: free meal
Lombardi’s: free meal (must register first)
Lotus; free meal
Luthers Barbeque: free stuff (must register as “Great Rewards” member first)

Macaroni Grill: free dessert
Marie Calendars: free dessert
Max and Erma: free dessert
Mexican Village: free meal
Moonies Diner: free meal

Newicks Seafood Restaurant: free entree
Nitty Gritty: free drink, souvenir glass

Okayama Restaurant: free meal
Old Spaghetti Warehouse: free meal
Onami: free dinner (with 3 other paid customers)
Outback Steakhouse: free dessert

Pancake house: free entree
Pappa’s Restaurant: free dessert
Paradiso’s: free meal
Perkin’s: free stack of pancakes
PF Changs: free cake
Pizza Express: free meal
Poncho’s - free meal, free dessert, free photo
Provino’s Italian Restaurant: free meal, free ice-cream

Real Seafood Company: free meal, free dessert
Red Lobster: free cake
Red Robins - free burger (must register first)
Rice & Company - free meal (must register as “Robinson Rewards Club” member first)
Rock Bottom: free appetizer (must register as “Mug Club” member first)
Round Table: free personal pizza

Shepard’s Buffet: free dinner buffet (with 3 other paid customers)
Steak and Ale: free mini chocolate cake
Steak-n-Shake: free dinner for kids (must register as “birthday club” member first)
Taco Bell: free combo meal
TGI Fridays: free dessert
The Barnsider’s Depot Restaurant: 50% off meal, free cake

Feedburner Ad Network Syncs with AdSense for On Page Ads

Breaking news just to hand:

Feedburner seem to have quietly added a feature to publishers in their Feedburner Ad Network that allows them to sync their Feedburner account and AdSense account - at least for their on website content (ie not in your RSS feeds).

My sources tell me it is still in a beta phase but it would soon be publicly available.

I got an error message on Feedburner while Activating FeedBurner Ad Network and Google AdSense for Content.

"This service is not currently available."

Blogger and Halloween

Blogger and HalloweenIt is Halloween and the Blogger guys have a little nice surprise for all the Blogspot user out there.

I’m not sure if that little vampire thing is still out there.

Take a look at the alphabet B at Blogger.com's Logo.

Vampire/Dracula Blogger.

Avoid Click Fraud using Adlogger

Adlogger helps you protect against accidental clicking on your adsense ads or the evil minded visitors who try to ban you by intentionally clicking on your ads multiple times.


Here is how to setup Adlogger for your blog

1. Track and log when a visitor clicks on one of the AdSense ads on your site.
2. Receive an email after every reported clicks (Optional).
3. Receive an email when reported multiple clicks.
4. Secure administrative backend
5. Know the total clicks and the total unique visitors that click on the AdSense Ads on your site.
6. Know the IP address, hostname, user agent, browser information, operating system of the visitor who clicked on the AdSense Ads.
7. Determine which advertisement was clicked by visitors.
8. Get past click performance for a specific date or range of dates.
9. Find your best performing pages.
10. Custom channels that help you to monitor which pages are receiving clicks.
11. Block ads for a specific IP address or range of IPs. (This is a great feature of Adlogger to help you protect your AdSense Account).
12. Automatically block ads for visitors who are clicking too many times within a certain period of time.(This is another great feature of Adlogger)
13. Know exactly when, why, and for whom ads were blocked successfully.
14. You can display alternative advertisements if your AdSense Ads are blocked.

Is blogger sharing your Adsense revenue ?

There are a lot of people like me using Blogger.com to create their blog. Indeed, Blogger.com is a good site offering Free service for blog.

Recently, I read a post on the internet about Blogger.com is sharing our AdSense revenue.

Some of you maybe using the "Add a page element" in Blogger.com to add AdSense Ads in your blog.

This is a bad move because this function is editting your AdSense ID and thus Blogger.com can share the revenue you generate from your blog. You might get lower earnings.

Avoid using the "Add a page element" to add AdSense Ads to your blog. Go to your AdSense Account and generate the code there. Copy and paste the code into "Add a page element" in the "HTML/Javascript". This will avoid Blogger.com revenue sharing

Showing off recent readers gives a human feeling to your blog

mybloglog lets you display the recent readers to your blog. It is a cool feature and you can easily make more friends and share bloglinks and make more money through blog networking.

Its very easy to setup and you can get the code immediately after you signup on mybloglog.com

I am now going to share a tip on making money using the recent readers feature.

Run a campaign with the peer readers and have them click on the links on your site and return them this favor. This is a perfectly legal way to make money through adsense without cheating on any google TOC.

Set high goals for your Blog

If you own a money making blog you outta set high goals for yourself on monthly basis. Then review how your blog performs versus the expected targets and that gives a great deal of satisfaction and helps you measure your success. Success is not just measured by the sales from your site but moreover on how your blog performed over various key performance indicators.

Here are some examples on how I do monthly goal setting for my blog:

1. Target 1000 visitors by 11/30 (Achieved 11/29)
2. Target 1000 incoming hits from Google searches by 11/30 (Achieved 11/29)
3. Target 500 feedburner subscribers by 11/30 (Achieved 11/06)
4. Target 100 blog posts by 11/30 (Achieved 11/04)
5. Target top 25 links to be Digged by 11/30 (Achieved 11/06)
6. Target top 10 blog position in blogpicks.net by 11/30 (Achieved 11/04)

Create your own ebook and sell it online

Ever thought of earning money from your blog by participating in e-Commerce selling digital products? The product may be an e-Book (a PDF version of your blog for example) or digital versions of your songs or music, a movie (video), digital art, software, manuals or anything that you can download.

First step is to convert your blog into an ebook. I recommend blogcollector that does a quick transformation of your site into an ebook.

Nextly sign up for an account to sell your digital products with PayLoadz which is free and easy and you will only need to upgrade to a paid account if your sales exceed $100 a month.

Another alternative is use ebay.com to sell your ebook

If you want to take this further then you can setup a referral system for selling your ebook online. I will post another blog on how to setup your own referral site. Keep reading.

Blog Income Report for Oct 2007

Blog Income Report for Oct 2007I’m so excited to be reporting my very first Blog Income Report. Every month on the first of the month I typically go check out the income reports posted by other Bloggers out there and get inspired. However, this month before I go and check out what the other Bloggers did, I get to publish my own.

I launched this Blog on October 7th 2007 and now after a month it is time to report my earnings.

So lets get down to the figures of this month!

Here is my blog income report for Oct 2007:

1. SponsoredReviews.com Earnings: $11.50
2. Google AdSense Earnings: $7.32
3. A.W.Surveys Earnings: $14.00
4. AuctionAds / ShoppingAds Earnings: $25
5. WidgetBucks Earnings: $25
6. Smorty Blog Advertising Earnings: $0
7. Buxr Earnings: $10
8. Kontera ContentLink(TM) Earnings: $1.81
9. Helium Earnings: $0.79
10. Blogsvertise Earnings: $4
11. PayPerPost Earnings: $5.10
12. Fusion Cash Earnings: $5
13. BidVertiser Earnings: $0.25
14. AdBrite Earnings: $0.08
15. Pheedo Feed Advertising Earnings: $0.01
16. Voxant Newsroom Earnings: $0.01
17. Shareapic.net Earnings: $0.01
18. Hubpages Earnings: $0.01
19. Valued Opinions Earnings: $1.50

Total Blog Income Report for Oct 2007: $111.75

As mentioned earlier I want to concentrate on direct ad sales as well because this is something that I have been neglecting for a very long time. The stats from last month showed for instance that both Evertons and John Chows direct ad sales made up 9.11% and 11.45% of their total earnings while mine remained at 0.33%.

To sum up my plans for Nov 2007:

+ Focus on direct ad sales
+ Remove AdSense Search and install a better search
+ Get rid of Feedburner Ads in Feeds
+ Try out some selected affiliate programs to diversify my income

Click here to signup these 19 money making programs for your Blog and earn upto $5,000 from referrals and advertising.

How was Oct 2007 for you ? May the next month be more profitable for everyone of you out there as well!

Monday, October 29, 2007

CardBenefit.com: New Credit Card Deals

CardBenefit.com: New Credit Card Deals
CardBenefit.com now has higher cash bonuses for you for certain credit cards I list. Just follow the directions on the listing.

A 20,000 mile American Airlines Visa card offer. Most American Airlines card offers are for Mastercards or American Express cards.

Possible 15% bonus for transferring American Express Rewards points to Delta Airlines miles.

A 30,000 points + $20 offer for the Priority Club Visa.

The Priority Club business card now has a 0% APR offer.

The American Express Blue Cash for Business credit card, which looks good for businesses expecting charges of over $13,000 per year, and especially if those businesses run a fleet of vehicles purchasing gasoline at gasoline stations.

Two expensive Air Canada - American Express cards for Canadians.

$100 for the American Express Gold Business card. This card may still offer 25,000 Membership Rewards points tranferrable 1:1 to airline miles on several airlines, including Delta.

$60 for any other American Express business card listed on CardBenefit.com, including
The Starwood Business card.
The Delta Airlines Business card.
The American Express SimplyCash Business Card.
American Express Blue Cash for Business card. The Jet Blue busines card.


$30 for any American Express personal card listed on CardBenefit.com, including
The Starwood card.
The Delta Airlines card.
The Hilton card.
The Jet Blue card.
American Express Blue Sky Credit Card.

$30 for any Chase Business card listed on CardBenefit.com, including
The 17,500 mile bonus United Airlines Business Visa card.

$40 for any Discover consumer or business credit cards listed on CardBenefit.com, including
TheDiscover Open Road Card, both the regular and student versions.

The bonus remains at $25 for all of the other cards they list.

8 Hot Stocks Under $8

Here are eight intriguing stocks that happen to be trading for less than $8 apiece. It goes without saying that you should do a little homework on your end before considering any of these risky critters for your own portfolio.

Hastings Entertainment (Nasdaq: HAST): $7.28
Consumer Portfolio Services (Nasdaq: CPSS): $5.10
CNET Networks (Nasdaq: CNET): $7.44
Jamba (Nasdaq: JMBA): $6.67
InsWeb (Nasdaq: INSW): $7.00
TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO): $6.32
IMAX (Nasdaq: IMAX): $3.99
Sharper Image (Nasdaq: SHRP): $4.72


Yes, a lot of these stocks aren't for the squeamish. Some aren't currently profitable. Some aren't currently growing. All are currently unloved. However, that's usually what you get when you pan for gold in these shallow waters.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Adsense Arbitrage: How to make money from AdSense thru Adwords?

Now great news for you: Google promotes this money cycle. No it’s not a fraud! And I have a solid proof for that - https://www.google.com/adsense/medicalcoding
The above case study will prove that. Google itself has published a case study of a publisher who bought Adwords traffic and is earning through AdSense.

I am going to tell you exactly how webmasters do it and make thousands out of it. And if you do it properly, sky is the limit to your earnings. Turn your mobiles off now, get some glue, and apply to your seats. I am whispering this only to you, don’t tell it to anybody else. It’s a great idea - how to make AdSense money through AdWords. First you will need to visualize AdWords as a traffic source (which is paid). For creating a cycle of making money from Adwords through AdSense, you will need the following ingredients.


1 – High CTR
2 – Traffic from AdWords
3 – High paying keywords
4 – Targeted Content
5 – Learn SmartPricing : Never violate almighty Google

Make money by getting traffic from orkut.com communities

1. Create a community related to the niche of your blog.

2. Put a link to your blog in the description of the community. Make the description interesting, so that the visitors will visit your blog.

3. Post a link to your community in other communities related to your blog. You can also scrap the link personally to all in those communities. This will bring members to your community.

3. Provide links to your blog’s posts in the community’s bulletin. Invite others in your community to take part in discussions. Make the community members trust you.

4. Send mail to your community members about new posts.

5. Ban users who use your community only for advertisements. Remove the advertisements which look like spam, from the bulletin. This will give your community a professional look, so that new members will join in your community.

6. Try to attract more members to your community. The more the members in your community, the more the visitors to your blog.

7. Don’t post only links to your posts in the community bulletin. Also discuss seriously about your niche.

FREE Practice Play Backgammon game without opening an account

FREE Practice Play Backgammon game without opening an account
How fortunate are the Internet Backgammon players who come across the Gammon-Fortune site! Here, in the space of just a few web pages, are the pearls of web wisdom about the Backgammon game. Everything that you could possibly think of or dream about in playing a better Backgammon game is here. For a start there are some amazing playing rules ? such brilliant work in reducing these complex playing rules to a few simple and easily understood sentences. Why don?t other backgammon online sites follow the example of this amazing little portal?


Where would an exciting online backgammon game be without the excitement and challenge of a Backgammon tournament? To all those players frustrated at having the last important event, your troubles are over. Now you can visit the Gammon-Fortune.com site and know that all the most important tournaments - the Sit & Gos and the Freerolls, are listed here, daily, weekly and monthly. You can join tournaments and have a chance to win big prizes.


In a world where you are swamped with far too much information, how refreshing to find Gammon-Fortune with its economy of information! Not for them the vacant blah-blah of irrelevant information. Every word on Gammon-Fortune is a precious jewel, worth its weight in gold. It is short and to the point, just as people want. What?s more, there are many language versions, for speakers of French, German, Greek, Turkish and Hebrew.


Gammon-Fortune prides itself on its high standards of customer care. That is why they provide excellent support services by e-mail and are even available around the clock. So if you desire to play backgammon, Gammon-Fortune should be your Backgammon portal.

An Evil way to bump up your Feedburner Stats

Alright everyone wants higher feedburner stats right? The main reason is that the higher your RSS count, then more likely that more visitors will subscribe to your blog. It's called social proof.

Another reason you might want a slightly higher RSS bump is to make your blog look more attractive to advertisers. there's a huge difference between 979 subscribers and 1001.

What you can do to increase your feedburner stats is to create fake e-mails and subscribe to your own blog. Sound like a lot of work? Download Roboform so you've pre-filled all the information. I can create 50 e-mails and increase my feedburner stats by 50 in 1 hour. Remember after creating the e-mail and subscribing you have to click the confirmation e-mail.

Don't want to do that? Another method is to go to the freebies section of DP where everyone's trading stuff for diggs, stumbleupons, technorati bumps, etc. Make a thread where if someone subscribes to your RSS feed, you'll stumbleupon 5 of their websites or digg two of their articles.

Enjoy and don't overabuse. People will get suspicious if they see you have 500 subscribers but 1 million Alexa rank.

Also read on another evil tactic to increase your RSS stats.

10 Amazing Ways To Jump Start Your Sales

1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones that have the same objective. You can trade leads, share marketing info, sell package deals, etc.

2. Brand your name and business. You can easily do this by just writing articles and submitting them to e-zines or web sites for republishing.

3. Start an auction on your web site. The type of auction could be related to the theme of your site. You’ll draw traffic from auctioneers and bidders.

4. Remember to take a little time out of your day or week to brainstorm. New ideas are usually the difference between success and failure.

5. Model other successful business or people. I’m not saying out right copy them, but practice some of the same habits that have made them succeed.

6. Take risks to improve your business. Sometimes businesses don’t want to advertise unless it’s free, sometimes you have to spend money to get results.

7. Include emotional words in your advertisements. Use ones like love, security, relief, freedom, happy, satisfaction, fun, etc.

8. Ask people online to review your web site. You can use the comments you get to improve your web site or you may turn the reviewer into a customer.

9. Out source part of your workload. You’ll save on most employee costs. You could out source your secretarial work, accounting, marketing, etc.

10. Combine a product and service together in a package deal. It could increase your sales. If you’re selling a book, offer an hour of consulting with it.

How to Increase your Amex Blue Credit Card Credit Limit to 25K or 50K

A few people asked me how you can get a Amex blue card with a high $50,000 credit limit. It is very simple and I know some people who did this successfully. Amex doesn’t need any sort of a income verification process for any credit line increase of 25k and under. You can either call them during business hours or do it online anytime at http://www.americanexpress.com/cards/loc.shtml

I will guarantee that if you put in a 6 digit income(which they dont verify for requests under 25k) they will auto approve you to a 25k credit limit. Now if you are still wondering how to get a 50k limit on the card, it is just 1 step longer. If you have two cards say an American Express Blue rewards card, and a Blue cash card then call in to close the rewards card, but tell them you'd rather just consolidate the limits first of both cards (25k each at the time) and then just close the other card. They should be happy to do it, and dont require any verification at all.

Note that part of your credit score is your utilization rate on a card. If your credit limit is 5K and you owe $2,500 then your utilization rate is 50% and that looks pretty bad on your credit score till you pay it off. If you have a 50k limit and have a $2,500 balance, then a 5% utilization rate would look very favorably on your credit score.

Gas - Saving Money Tips

1. Shop around for a lower price, but don't go miles out of your way to get the best price. When traveling a long distance to save a few pennies, you end up spending more on car driving expenses (AAA estimates that it costs 56.1 cents a mile to drive a car in 2005 while the IRS allows a deduction of 40.5 cents a mile) than you end up saving with the lower gas price.

2. To find the least expensive gas in your local area, don't drive around looking. Hit the Internet. Sites like gasbuddy.com will let you find the lowest gas price without leaving your driveway.

3. It's best to purchase gas from a station that is busy. Gas that sits in tanks for long periods can get contaminated and lower its effectiveness. Fresh gas is less likely to be contaminated ensuring you get the most power for your dollar.

4. Avoid purchasing gas from a station that has just had a truck fill the station's underground tanks. Filling up the station tanks will stir up particles from the bottom of the tank which can clog your fuel filter and make your car run less efficiently.

5. Purchase your gasoline in the early morning or at night when it is cold outside. Gas becomes denser in cooler temperatures. Since gas pumps only measure the volume of fuel - not the density - you'll get better overall gas mileage for your money by purchasing fuel when it's cool outside rather than in the heat of the day.

6. Take the time to check your car's tire pressure each month (purchase a good-quality dial-type gauge for yourself -- pencil-style gauges and the ones mounted on the air hose are unreliable according to federal surveys). Under inflated tires reduce fuel efficiency by 2% for every pound they are under inflated. Under inflation also causes premature tire wear giving your tires a shorter use life.

7. Be sure to use your owner's manual for the correct tire pressure. The pressure printed on the sidewall of the tire indicates how much the tire will safely hold and should not be used since it has no connection to how much air should be in the tire for routine use.

8. Check your tire pressure when it is cool outside. A good time is in the morning after the car has rested overnight. Driving only a few miles to a gas station will build heat in the tire and can increase the pressure enough to give a false reading.

9. Drive at the speed limit. Cars use about 20% more fuel driving at 70 miles per hour than they do at 55 miles per hour.

10. Avoid driving fast in low gears. Driving at high speeds in the improper gear can reduce fuel efficiency by up to 40%.

11. Avoid using air conditioning whenever possible. Air conditioning reduces fuel economy by 10% to 20%.

12. Don't open windows when traveling at high speeds. Open windows on the highway can reduce fuel efficiency by 10%. It is much better to use the ventilation system.

13. Remove car racks and other items which make your car less aerodynamic when they're not being used. Leaving them on only makes your car less fuel efficient.

14. Use cruise control to maintain a steady pace on the highway to increase fuel economy.

15. Avoid rough roads. Driving on roads made of dirt or gravel can reduce fuel economy by up to 30%.

16 Don't let your car idle. Even on cold mornings, there's no need to let your car idle for more than 30 seconds. Newer cars are designed to be driven almost immediately and letting your car idle longer is a waste of gas.

17. It's more efficient to turn off your car and turn it on again than to let it idle for more than 45 seconds while waiting.

18. Remove all excess weight from your car. Many people use their car trunk as a storage space adding unneeded pounds to the car's weight. This unnecessary weight reduces the car's fuel efficiency.

19. Try to accelerate gently, brake gradually and avoid stops when driving. Gunning engines, quickly accelerating, and abrupt stops all waste fuel.

20. Try to avoid driving during rush hour periods when you know traffic will be stop and go. If you do find yourself in stop and go traffic, try to maintain a crawl.

21. When approaching hills or steep slopes, accelerate before the hill. Accelerating once on the slope will consume much more gas.

22. Service your car regularly while paying special attention to oil and filters. Blocked air flow from clogged air filters will increase fuel waste.

23. Check your car's alignment since this can cause engine drag which will also increase gas waste.

24. Periodically calculate your car's fuel efficiency. A loss in fuel efficiency is an indication of possible mechanical problems.

25. For most cars, higher octane gas is a waste of money. Regular unleaded(approx. 87 octane or so) is the least expensive and what you should purchase. It's important to remember that octane is a measurement of how hard it is to ignite the gas, not the quality of the gas. Purchase mid or high octane gas only if your engine pings, knocks or rattles when using regular unleaded fuel.

26. Don't purchase gasohol if possible. Some areas require gasahol (a mixture of gas and ethanol for your car. Ethonal is alcohol made from grain) because using it for fuel is considered a way to help farmers as well as help cut pollution. The problem is that ethanol contains only about two-thirds the energy of gasoline which means gasahol forces you to use more to go the same distance.

27. For short trips close to home, try walking or riding your bicycle. Not only will you save money on gas, you'll also get some healthy exercise.

28. When you go shopping or run errands, take a little time to plan and combine them all into one outing instead of several. In addition to saving gas, you will also save yourself time.

29. Car pooling or using mass transportation systems when possible is an excellent way to reduce your gas consumption. There is an added benefit that utilizing these methods to commute will likely result in a discount in your car insurance.

30. Refrain from "topping off" at the gas station. Gas pumps don't contain enough pressure to deliver gas well in short bursts meaning that you get short changed when you top your tank off.

31. After you have finished filling up, turn the gas pump nozzle around 180 degrees. This will drain about a half cup of gasoline into your tank which you would otherwise spill or give to the next customer.

32. Rotate your tires and periodically check them for uneven wear. Proper alignment saves both gas and tires.

33. Keep the outside of your car clean and waxed. Doing so will reduce drag and save gas mileage.

34. Keep your foot off the brake. Some people have a habit of resting their left foot lightly on the brake while driving. Not only will this will cause drag that will require you to use more gas than needed, you'll also wear out your brakes sooner.

35. The next time you are in the market for tires, consider purchasing radial tires instead of standard. They can cut your fuel bill (if kept properly inflated) by 2 - 3%.

A Tip to Increase your Adsense Earnings by 10%

Here is a tip for all adsense lovers, there have been many case studies about this tip and it seems that works very well. Some people stated that they doubled their adsense earnings but in my case there was 10% of the increase.

1) Go to your channels
2) Turn off all the page targeting channels so that the ad buyers could not target specific pages on a site.


This seems to have shocked AdSense into giving a better Cost Per Click rating.
This tip depends on the how many visitors you got in your site/blog. If you site gets from 0-10,000 pageviews per month it will work perfect.
P.S: Test this tip and let me know if it worked with you, let it run for one month and check if you see any change.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Adding StumbleUpon, DiggIt and del.icio.us to all your posts

Several days ago, a reader ask about StumbleUpon and telling me that my StumbleUpon button is broken. I'm very glad and thanks a lot.

In this post, I will tell you how to place 3 things which are StumbleUpon, DiggIt and del.icio.us button to all your posts easily. The steps discuss here is only useful for new blogger.

As usual, before we edit anything in our blog, we need to login to our Blogger account. Then, go to the "Template" tab and go to "Edit HTML". Remember to click the "Expand Widget Template".

Now, you need to find the line in the HTML code as below:

The number "3" above is different numbering for different blogs. So, when you see the code "post-footer-line...", paste the codes as stated below.

Then, add the code below. Copy and paste the code below.

Here is the code:

< p>
< a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?" + "url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'> Stumble it!< /a>|

< a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>DiggIt!< /a>|

< a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?" + "url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" +data:post.title' target='_blank'>Add to Del.icio.us< /a>< /p>

After adding the codes above, save your template and done. That will add the 3 most popular social bookmarking site to all posts of your blog. Enjoy!

Adding Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tool

Google Webmaster Tool is a great tool to analyze your visitor patterns and helps you determine what drives the most visitors to your site. This can be a guide to help you write targeted content on your blog and make money money by attracting genuine traffic.

A lot of people are wondering how to add sitemap to Google Webmaster tools. It is quite simple.
1. Login Goolge Webmaster Tools at https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps?
2. Add Site. Type in your site's address.
3. Adding a sitemap.

How to add the sitemap?
You might be wondering, Do I need another site to use as a sitemap? What is a sitemap? and so on. The answer is that, you do not need another site as your sitemap.

Your sitemap is the atom feed. In the sitemap tab, you can see
1. "Add a sitemap".
2. Click it.
3. Type your address and place http://ghostrider30.blogspot.com/atom.xml
4. Done!

*These steps are workable for blogspot.com

Google Adsense Hack: Automated Section Targeting for Bloggers


If you are a blogger showing Google Adsense ads, then this is an awesome trick that helps to increase your adsense earning by leveraging a feature called section targeting.

Go to Settings >> Formatting >> Post Template

In text box add following code :

< !– google_ad_section_start –>< br/>
< !– google_ad_section_end –>

Now whenever you create a new post, these tags will automatically appear and all you need to do is to write between these two lines. Enjoy!

Friday, October 26, 2007

MySpace Friends Worth About a Penny Each on Ebay

If it is taking you too long to accumulate friends on MySpace you can always buy them. TradersTrade.com (also a Writers Write, Inc. blog) reports that a MySpace account is for sale on eBay with 100,000 friends. There has only been one bid for this MySpace account at $1,800. If you do the math that translates to 1.8 cents a friend.

If you run a search for MySpace accounts you will find a couple dozen MySpace accounts for sale with various levels of friends. These auctions listed below are ones that actually have bids.


An auction of over 30,000 friends is going for $175 (.6 cents a friend)
An auction of 25,000+ friends is going for $101 (.4 cents a friend)
An auction for over 10,000 friends is going for $31 (.3 cents a friend)

It's silly stuff but looking at these eBay auctions you come away with a vague notion that MySpace friends are worth about 1 cent each or less. The auctions with more MySpace friends appear to be getting a little more value per friend than the smaller auctions.

Once you supercharge your myspace account, learn how to profit from it by reading my previous post on making money using large sized myspace accounts

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Free credit card processing - Google Checkout

Free credit card processing - Google CheckoutIncrease your sales with Google Checkout™.

Google Checkout is currently running a promotional offer to process all of your Checkout sales for free until 2008. And there are no monthly, setup or gateway fees.

Google Checkout also helps you more effectively turn your traffic into paying customers. Lengthy checkout processes frustrate online shoppers who then frequently abandon their shopping carts. With Google Checkout, the purchasing information of each Checkout user is stored in a single account, so they can buy from you by simply providing their username and password.

Tip:
1) You can use arbitrage techniques along with Google Checkout to make more money.
2) Simply use a 0% APR credit card with a high credit line along with google checkout and deposit the money in a high yield savings account.
3) Note that you cant sell something to yourself, so you will need a seller to setup a Google Checkout account for legally processing your transaction.

Google checkout is at-par with other services like Merchantaccounts Company that offer Offshore services that also offer lower transaction rates.

Google Checkout's free transaction processing offer has now been extended to February 1, 2008. Click here to learn more about this offer.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Add donate buttons to your blog 'Making A Millionaire’

There are 6.446.131.400 people in the world. And they give and waste their money on random crap all the time. So why not waste some of that money on your blog!

There are millions of people with internet access and my goal is to collect a minimum of 1,000,000 $1.00 donations. Essentially ‘Making A Millionaire’!

So you can make a lot of traffic for only $1,- to your website! In addition to the names of every person that makes a donation you can post a running tally of the total amount of money that has been collected.
_______________________________
If you have made money reading my blog and wish to support my blog, please donate a minimum $1.00 and this donation with your name and amount and website will be posted under this blog under DONATIONS LIST (with your permission). The million dollar fund generated from my site will be donated to charity.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Rapidshare Hack: Most Searched Keyword on Internet


RapidShare is a German One-click hosting site that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users.

Did you know that "rapidshare" is the most searched keyword on the internet. I researched on this topic by monitoring my blog performance on a daily basis. I use following tools listed in the order of my preference to analyze what my vistors came searching to my blog:

1) Google Webmaster Tools
2) Google Analytics
3) Google Adsense Reports
4) Blogcounter Stats
5) Feedburner Stats

My visitor analysis shows that most of the hits I get are from Google searches performed on "rapidshare" content that appeared in my blogs.

Take a look at my top 10 seach engine ranking statistics.

Based on these visitor patterns you can customize your blog to a great extent and even make more money. I hope this tip helps you to add more popularity to your blogs and drive more visitors.

Monday, October 22, 2007

How to get FREE Wii Points



Step 1 - Sign up
This is the website that I have gotten all of my free stuff from. Unlike 90% of the other sites out there that do this same thing, this company actually follows through and sends you what you have earned. They do NOT have a cash payout option, but do exchange 'points' for 'prizes'. Prizes range from domain names(1 year), amazon vouchers, wii points card, psp, ipods, and a few others.

Click HERE to sign up and get started now. Please use my referral link for signups. I intend to give every 10th referral all their points for the offers they signed for. So you could be the luck one doubling your points easily.

Step 2 - Confirm your account via email
When you sign up with your account it asks for your home address. This is so they can send your prizes to you. It also asks for your email address. If you do not want to use your own email either sign up with a yahoo, hotmail, or gmail email account.

Step 3 - Login and start doing surveys
Login and look to the left of the site and click the 'offers' link. This will show you a list of surveys that you can complete. Most take less than 2 minutes to complete. After you complete these surveys you receive X amount of points. Once you save 3400 points you can redeem them for a 25 USD Amazon voucher. You can use this to purchase a Wii Points card(2000 points) or purchase a Wii Game (Read my latest Wii post on how to copy a Wii game).

Step 4 - Get your Free Wii Points
Do not forget to complete the two simple surveys in Offers section that give you easy 200 points right away:
a) FusionCash.net: Paid Surveys and More!
b) Valued Opinions

An Evil Way to Increase RSS Stats

The Secret Evil Change

So what’s the secret? This is directly related to my theory from the previous post. By default, Firefox has the “network.prefetch-next” variable set to true. When set to true, this tells Firefox to prefetch any links that a web page tells it to. So by adding a little HTML tag to my blog, I was able to tell all these Firefox browsers to prefetch my Feedburner feed. Essentially, this gets the visitor’s browser to click on and load my feed in the background without their knowledge. Here’s the code to place in the < head >< /head > section of your site:

< link rel="prefetch" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/PersonalFinanceManagementAndPlanning" / >

Disclaimer
This was just an experiment and I am not encouraging the use of this “evil” method to boost your RSS stats. This would not provide a true statistic of your readership and these “false subscribers” drop off the list after a few days anyway so it’s not a permanent solution. The best way to increase your RSS stats is still to write interesting content!

Promote Your RSS Feed - RSS Directories

Subscribe my RSS feed in a reader

Before you read any further, please do subscribe to my RSS by clicking the picture of above.

I am posting some additional tips for you to get your RSS readership and subscriber increase. Below is the listing of every RSS directories which I tested to be alive. I guarantee that your RSS will be improved in term of the RSS subscribers count as soon as you register your feed with these sites.

RSScuisine.com
Feedest.com
Postami.com
2RSS.com
Moreover.com
FeedsFarm.com
RssFeeds.com
Feeds4all.com
Plazoo.com
FeedBomb.com
Page2go2.com
Feedooyoo.com
RSSmicro.com

FeedFury.com
Octora.com
FindRSS.net
FeedBase.net
RSSmotron.com
MoreNews.be
DayTimeNews.com
Rss-Feeds-Submission.com
MillionRSS.com
Yahoo RSS Guide
MySpace.com News
ReadABlog.com
GoldenFeed.com
BlogDigger.com
RSSFeeds.com
feed24.com
Findory.com
WeBlogAlot.com
FeedBoy.com
Chordata.info
BlogPulse.com
DayPop.com
IceRocket.com
Memigo.com
Syndic8.com
RSS-Network.com
Feed-Directory.com
Jordomedia.com
Newgie.com
Feeds2read.net
NewzAlert.com
Feedcycle.com
Bloogz.com
FeedShark.BrainBliss.com
FeedPlex.com
RocketInfo.com

These last few require free username registration to submit your feed. There is nothing to loose. Go ahead and join the RSS directory club and see the difference for yourself.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Not-So-Often-Used Trick To Increase RSS Subscriptions

Each RSS feed subscription is equivalent to 1000 clicks.

I am planning to create a really large post that will contain all of my ideas for increasing RSS subscribers for your site. Today I just want to share a little trick that many major players aren’t using yet.

If you’re not using email RSS, you’re probably missing out on quite a few subscriptions. Feedburner makes email RSS fairly easy to set up. You basically will log in to your Feedburner account, and will then go to ‘Publicize’. You will then find a link on the left side - ‘Email Subscriptions’. Go there and Feedburner will give you a piece of code you can paste into your site.

Most of the visitors probably dont sign up for regular RSS because people who choose the email option often aren’t comfortable with a feed reader yet. This really helps your site because people get a daily reminder that its still there.

It’s most definitely worthwhile option to try out for improving your site or blog popularity!

If you would like to learn more about blogging and making money online, subscribe to my full feed RSS in a RSS reader or signup for my email RSS below. My RSS feed is updated daily.

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Achieve Top 10 Search Engine Ranking Positons

To making money online, you require the top keyword position for your blog in Google. This blog explains how to find out the SERP (Serach engine ranking Position) fo your site or blog.

1) Keep your Google API key handy

2) Seach for ( Google Keyword Ranking Tool ) for any SERP tool

3) Fill in the the details such as your keywords, your domain name, Google API key

4) Finally the SERP tool will find the position in Google for your domain site.

The top 10 Google search queries in which my blog appeared :

44% how to improve personal finance ratio 9

44% financed management 4

44% rapidshare personal finance 6

33% free money when opening credit card 4

33% "americanbank com" my account 4

33% how do i make money online and send it to paypal 7

33% rapidshare paypal fraud 7

33% how to make money in stocks rapidshare 9

33% blogcatalog 16

33% tokbox 20

22% apple numbers template manage credit cards apr 8

22% can i use tax id to get car financed 15

22% facebook 29

33% russian ebook rapidshare 53

33% "bank of america" "online bill pay" 102

33% "bank of america" "savings account" 105

Free 25$ offer from AuctionAds

AuctionAds: Increase the bid on your site's income! AuctionAds now offers 25$ for new sign ups as a publisher. On top of that you earn a bonus 5% of all revenue generated by referrals for the 6 months. You will get paid the first of every month via Paypal.

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Drive quality traffic to your Blog

Google Base Listing is a cool way to drive more traffic to your blog. Simply create a listing of your blog on Google Base e.g. in format below and in no time you can even monitor all traffic coming to your blog.

http://base.google.com/base/a/2776557/D12342149049890231920

Next step is to track your Google Base Listings with Free Google Analytics tool.

At first glance, it would seem tracking listings from Google Base would be simple. However, since Base listings often appear within the regular search results on Google, it can be tricky to differentiate traffic from the two sources. One way to differentiate traffic is to create unique landing pages on your website specifically for Base listings. You can do this by simply creating two versions of the same page on your website, but giving one a slightly different name. Here's an example:

Regular landing page: http://ghostrider30.blogspot.com/
Unique Base landing page: http://ghostrider30.blogspot.com/2007/10/top-financial-niche-keywords.html

By creating two versions of the same page on your website and submitting the unique landing page URLs to Base, Google Analytics can show you exactly how much traffic is being sent to your website from Base. Just make sure to include the unique landing page URL in the link attribute of your bulk upload file.

Get Cash using Cash-out Refinance

Do you know that you can take cash out from the equity that you have built up on your home loan? Yes, you can. This can be explained easily with a scenario.


Consider that you have a home loan for $200000. If your home is worth $250000 then you can use that to draw cash by refinancing your home loan. You can refinance for, say $220000 and get a cash of $20000 from the lender upon closing your existing home loan.


You can refinance to any value between $200K and $250K and take the amount that is excess of $200K. People who need money immediately for some other purpose can use this method to get the cash needed.


In the case of home equity you can take a refinance loan for the amount that you need without changing the original mortgage.


There are many websites in the internet that help you compare the home equity loans and the cash-out refinancing option. A simple search on the Internet would give you access to these tools that might be very useful to you. Alternatively you can discuss with an expert to get the right picture about these options.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Free $2,500 in BlogCatalog Contest


Social bookmarking site BlogCatalog is offering a huge top prize of $2,500 to the best idea on how to make BlogCatalog an extraordinary social community.

Interested persons are to develop, create and submit ideas which when implemented, will make BlogCatalog “the most extraordinary blogger social community” on the internet.

A panel of judges from BlogCatalog will judge ideas based on creativity, value for bloggers and impact on accomplishing their goal of making BlogCatalog the most extraordinary blogging community.

BlogCatalog reserves the right to implement ideas from entries received, whether or not they win. There is a second prize of $500. Ideas can be submitted by email or snail mail.

If you have some great ideas and would like to enter the BlogCatalog Big Idea Challenge, you better hurry as the closing date is October 31, 2007. Winners will be announced on November 30, 2007.

Get paid up to $500 per month to drive your own car

Get paid up to $500 per month to drive your own car with an advertisement on it.
Or, drive a brand new, free car, truck, or SUV with an advertisement already on it.

People all over the world are being given brand new, free cars to drive, all without having to worry about making a car payment or paying for maintenance.

Others are earning a great deal of money for simply having a magnetic/vinyl advertisement placed on their own car, while continuing to drive their normal everyday routes.

For more information search my blogs on "thefreecar"

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Free Money For Opening Bank Accounts


American Bank offers $20 to new customers who open any interest-bearing checking, savings or money market account with a minimum deposit of $100 and maintain at least $500 in it for 90 days, if are referred by a current account holder. That $20 represents an annualized rate of over 16% for that $500. Try to beat that with any 90 day C.D. I would be happy to refer you, as I get some credit for it at no cost to you. Just ask post comment on this blog and I can provide you the referral.

Note that there are several American Banks. This one is not the bank at americanbank.com, which is in Texas. The American Bank described here is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and does online business nationwide. Its website is at http://www.pcbanker.com (because AmericanBank.com was already taken).

PR0 to PR4 in 4 easy weeks

I know lots of webmasters and SEO gurus that say that PR (google pageRank - the little green bar on the google toolbar) is not worth that much but everyone is using it as a measure.

Webmasters refuse to exchange links with you if they think your PR is inferior to their website's PR. Lots of programs (reviewme.com ...) could reject your site because of low PR, some directory owners display the list of sites ordered with PR.

So ... here is some simple steps you can follow to get your sites PR higher than it is and maybe get some extra traffic while you are at it.

1. Post your link in forums using signatures and/or places that allow website reviews, put the site url in the signature with your target keywords for titles

2. Submit to free and/or paid directories (in general the younger the directory the easier would be to get accept it in it)

3. If you have other sites put sitewide links pointing to your new website. If sites are totally unrelated subject, put the links in the footer with small letter (the link still counts).

4. Put your link anywhere you can, without becoming a spammer (everyone hates spammers)

5. Find some high PR sites and pay for a link if you have to. There is lots of projects on the internet that accept donations as low as $50 and they put your link in a high PR page. For example text link ad page has a PR of 6.

6. Using your link in comment posts. This won't necessarily increase your PR but it could give you a few visitors if nothing else.

I established my tag cloud Google Income System network in December of 2006 and in less than a month following these rules I succeeded getting its PR from 0 to 4 and that is the reason I am writing this post.

For the record world experts net has been almost abandoned, unfortunatelly due to lots of things in my head and currently looking for ways to rebuild it into something new.

So no matter what some say, PR is in our lives and its worth something. I can describe it better with a metaphor, you don't need an Armani Suit but if you wear one people look at you differently. But, PR by itself is not going to get any money for your site, but having it will help get some extra attention, or better deals.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Make money paypal ?

Lately there has been lots of searches for make money paypal that end up here on this blog. Google send me this traffic probably due to an earlier post warning to paypal users.

Those visits got me thinking nevertheless ... how can you make money with paypal ? (assuming that is what people where searching for).

You can't!!! Paypal is just a way to send or receive money. Paypal of course makes money with every transaction but we can't unless of course its a scam.

Search the internet for paypal scam and related phrases and quickly found this post and this having people claim to be making thousands of dollars in a very simple way.

The scam goes like this:
The scummer gives you a few paypal emails that you send a few bucks to.
You put your paypal email at the end of the list and you drop the first .
You post that message to as many places as you can and try to convince others to send money to that list ...

So not only this is a SCAM, and the initiators would get some $$ in their paypal accounts, people believing in it would start spamming forums and bulletin boards in order to get their message across ...

Make money using Facebook apps


Facebook is now the rage among many of my friends (both hearing and deaf). One very neat feature of Facebook that puts it heads and shoulders over other similar networking websites is the ability to add widgets and features to your Facebook pages.

Now you can add TokBox widget that adds even more functionality to your Facebook profile. With TokBox’s widget, you can chat with others via video directly from your (or your friend’s) Facebook profile.

You can leverage my post on video units to even earn some good amount of money by adding this application to your Facebook profile.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Drive traffic with MySpace large-sized accounts

Drive traffic with MySpace large-sized accountsNowadays, it’s very easy to come across a MySpace account that has 10,000+ friends.

Most people don’t realize the potential that having 10,000 friends brings.

If you can, place movies on your profile, people watch them.

Place links underneath and around the movie so that visitors can follow through and watch similar things.

Usually a very funny video well-placed on a profile can drive some great traffic to video related sites.

Titles like “Check out this video” may bring results but why not something sounding more immediate like “this video changed my life” or something clever that people would want to read into.

If you run a blog, utilize MySpace’s blog to post the same blog.

Note that its advisable to link to a Read More.. kind-of-thing at the bottom.

Lots of people click on those MySpace blogs and if you get an interested reader, they may become readers of your blog.

Click here for an example on embedding google video unit in myspace blog.

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Forum Posting- Perfect Way to Make Money Online…

Do you know most of the new forum starters are paying few bucks for posting in their forums? You can get many forum posting job in many webmaster forums including Digital point, V7N forums, webmaster tool talk , warrior forum etc.


You can easily generate decent income by posting in their forums. Not only seeking the ads for forum posting, even you can post an ad that you are willing to post in any forums that required posters. The normal price per posting is 10 cents per posting.


If you’re able to post at least 10 postings in 10 minutes, you can earn $1 in a minute. This is a real online income for the students and also online money seekers. Some of the present threads offering forum postings are given below:-

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http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=450815 - Sports forum

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=448010

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=443259 - Webmaster forum

Top Financial Niche Keywords

Wanna make money online through adsense? I am offering you the top financial niche keywords that is optimized for a financial site.

auto insurance quote $57.18
mesothelioma lawyers $54.33
college loan consolidation $53.52
what is mesothelioma $47.79
peritoneal mesothelioma $47.72
consolidate loans $47.25
car insurance quote $46.89
federal loan consolidation $46.62
online car insurance $41.92
term life insurance quote $40.43
cheap car insurance $39.79
student loan consolidation $39.45
auto insurance quotes $39.24
online insurance quotes $37.63
student loan information $37.32
equity loan rates $36.53
nj auto insurance $36.31
student loan consolidation center $35.89
debt consildation $35.83
chase credit cards $35.02
student loan refinancing $34.89
discount car insurance $34.34
life insurance quote $34.26
homeowners insurance quotes $33.61
mortgage loans $33.17
mortgage loans $33.17
mortgage refinancing $33.08
equity line of credit $33.05
college loans $32.91
best mortgage rates $32.65
student loans $32.54
loan refinancing $32.44
us mortgage rates $32.38
instant insurance quote $32.37
term life insurance quotes $32.11
consolidation loan $32.03
loan refinance $31.95
car insurances $31.92
safe auto insurance $31.82
insurance auto florida $31.38
auto insurance $31.38
equity line of credit $30.71
gmac mortgages $30.46
mortgages for self employed $30.45
car insurance california $30.17
in car insurance $29.84
best mortgage $29.53
refinancing mortgages $29.43
line of credit $29.27
prequalify loan $28.98
loans com $28.75
business credit report $28.40
whole life insurance quotes $28.17
new york auto insurance $27.72
online mortgages $27.71
student loan $27.61
cheap house insurance $27.45
low cost life insurance $27.25
school loan consolidation $26.99
citi credit $26.80
manhattan mortgages $26.70
school loans $26.61
term insurance $26.58
second mortgage $26.56
credit report com $26.48
auto ins $26.21
consolidation $25.90
line of credit $25.57
landlords insurance $25.46
low mortgage $25.45
commercial vehicle insurance $25.37
credit consolidation $25.32
bad credit mortgages $25.22
bad credit mortgages $25.22
discount life insurance $25.22

This means that with just 5 clicks from these ads you can make more than $200 per day very easily.

ALL THE BEST!!!

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As I have promised in my profile, today's blogpost offers you a free e-book on "How to Make Money Online?"
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How to get Quick Money from Adsense?

So, you have signed up with adsense... Now you're seeing your account daily for your earnings. Most of the newbies will end up with few cents ONLY in the beginning. DON'T GET FRUSTRATED! Don't worry!!!

To get more earnings, you should adopt the following ways-

1. Better Ad placement.
2. Signing up with referral ads of Google.
3. Avoid self-clicking.
4. Don't ask your friends to click the ads of your SITE/BLOG. (Google is smart enough than you...)
5. Try to sign up with Google Adwords also...

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Make Money by Channeling Stocks on Margin

I am going to share the ideas on how you can channel stocks and be your own hedge manager.

1) Start with a capital of $10,000 in your trading account

2) Read my other posts and select a stock that swings +/- $1 in a week

3) Say if (SIRI) is trading at $10, then buy 1000 shares of (SIRI)

4) Use margin, short 1,000 shares of this (SIRI) at $10

5) Assuming that (SIRI) stock moves +/- $1 in week, you will be able to earn around $2,000 per week by covering and selling your position

If the market is favourable, your annual earnings will be $100,000.

The $1,000 investment for an year can earn you a phenomenal rate of return of 1000%

I would love get blogged from fellow readers if they are using my trading strategy and find it a key to their financial success. I also encourage to post any alteration of this trading technique.

Note: This stragegy may not be suited for all traders. Please consider market risks carefully before investing.

7 signals of a rising stock price

The Seventh Sign

Let's take a look at the seven horsemen that ride along the horizon before "Anystock USA" starts to pull in profits hand over fist.

7) News and rumors: Takeovers, acquisitions, mergers, new CEO's, accounting irregularities, new product announcements, and world events are just a few situations that tend to effect the price of the underlying and one sign to look for when your fishing for winners.

6) Options: As you sift through the option chain it is fairly easy to see where the speculation lies. Ultimately, high open interest on any strike price means that someone is most probably hedging their positions but it could also be used as a clue to future events, or at least anticipated ones. The higher the open interest, the more it catches mine.

5) Analyst Upgrades: When Goldman Sachs, UBS, Lehman Brothers or any of the other top financial firms upgrade a stock or initiate coverage, there is a good chance that price movement will be on the up-and-up.

4) Stochastic: This handy formula identifies overbought and oversold points at which you should watch for price reversal. Investopedia will break down the math for all you engineers out there.

3) MAC-D: Moving Average Convergence / Divergence can be a very powerful indicator, especially when combined with Stochastics. Using one to confirm the other is a great way to super-charge your screening process. As with number 4, see the online investing encyclopedia for details on how this works.

2) Volume: Almost always precedes price. When you look at a chart of a stock that has already made a large move, usually a few days before, the volume moved slightly above average and the price did little or nothing. This is one of the more powerful clues for those who know how to read into it.

Last and perhaps the most valuable and accurate indicator of a raising stock is price movement. When you stop moving forward, you automatically move backward. If you throw an apple up in the air it will lift, lift, lift and then slow to almost a stall before it starts to drop back down. (It just happens so fast you may not be able to see the stall). Looking at charts and numbers is much easier to see when something has slowed or stalled from its current momentum.

If you wait for all 7 horsemen to appear before making an investment, you may find your time better spent watching paint dry. These are however, seven ironclad keys that you may use to boost your bottom line.

Tips for improving your credit score and keeping credit cards open

CardData.com recently announced that the average US household has over $10,000 in credit card debt alone, and that debt ceiling is rising every year. With concerns about a lagging economy, oil prices, and political turmoil abroad, worrying about your credit score is probably not another worry you need compounded to your list of concerns. Here are a few ways you can improve your credit score and keep those credit cards open.

1) Pay your bills on time. This one may seem obvious, but it's on that a lot of people miss out on. Paying your bills on time means that you must make at least the minimum monthly payment every month, without missing a single time. Each time you miss a payment, the folks at the credit card companies get nervous, and, like startled wildebeest, it doesn't take much for them all to start stampeding towards high credit fees of 20% or more. The best way to avoid this unsightly event is to only have as many cards as you can pay off reliable. That will also help show that you don't take on more credit than you can handle.

2) Don't use more than 50% of your credit limit. If you need to use more than that, consider calling your credit company and asking them for a "credit line increase." This will help keep you out of the FICO gallows and will also improve your score because a higher limit means that the normal balances you ran up before will now take up less of your credit limit, which is a good thing (but obviously only if your spending does not increase with your credit line - be wary of this). This is what credit card companies call your credit ratio, and it can account for as much as 30% when they determine your FICO score.

3) Get - and keep - your cards for as long as you can. This shows the credit companies that you have the financial stability to stick with it and it gives them more of a history to draw on when considering you for important loans like financing a new car or taking out a home loan. Avoid cards with annual fees or high APR's, and make sure you keep them open, either by using them occasionally (if they are for emergencies only, which they should be) or by calling your credit card company to make sure they know you still wish to keep your card open.

4) Be aware of your score. If you've gotten this far, you could probably already tell me what your FICO score is, which is a good thing. If you can't, you should head over to www.annualcreditreport.com, which will provide you with a free report of your credit standing (up to once every year under a new federal law). Another important thing to do when you get your credit report is to scan it for inaccuracies. They do happen, and can bring your score down by as many as a hundred points or more if you are not careful. If you see a discrepancy, call your credit card company to work something out. They will be forced to start an investigation into your claim.

5) Don't accept too many credit cards - or ask for too many credit line increases - in a short amount of time. When someone starts grabbing for credit like a chicken trying to keep it's eggs from being taken away, it makes the credit companies nervous. All sorts of scenarios start running through their heads (is he about to fake his death and buy an island somewhere?), and while they may be way off the mark, it'll end up hurting you financially. A six month cushion between any net credit increase is usually a good rule of thumb.

The main thing is to remain reliable and avoid giving credit card companies any reason to worry. Your FICO score will haunt you for the rest of your life, and while you can improve bad credit, it is much easier to start - and stick - with good credit.

How to save a Ton of money

Yahoo Finance has a list of ten money drains along with the annual costs of each of them. I view this as a list of where we all can save a bundle of money. Here's their list as well as the annual amounts spent on each of them (in other words, what you could save if you eliminated them):

1. Coffee -- $360 per year.
2. Cigarettes -- $1,660 a year.
3. Alcohol -- $3,650 per year.
4. Bottled water from convenience stores -- $365 per year.
5. Manicures -- $1,068 per year.
6. Car washes -- $348 per year.
7. Weekday lunches out -- $2,350 a year.
8. Vending machines snacks -- $260 per year.
9. Interest charges on credit card bills -- $4,868 in interest (over time).
10. Unused memberships -- $480 per year.


If you have a lot of bad credit loans probably you should consider the above tips to save a ton of money and improve your credit worthiness. Now of course I wouldn't suggest that someone cut out everything and eliminate all of life's pleasures. After all, we should use part of our money to enjoy ourselves. But for those people out there looking for a way to save a bit extra, for those who simply "can't make it on what I earn", and for those who would simply like to pay down their debt, this is a pretty good list to consider cutting down on -- even if it's for a short period of time. And you don't have to eliminate each of the items above, simply consider cutting back on them. There's still tons of savings available by cutting your car washes, manicures, or alcohol consumption in half.

$250 AmEx Gold Rewards Account Opening Bonus

In case you haven’t heard, the American Express Business Gold Rewards card is offering 25,000 bonus points, redeemable for a $250 store gift certificate or a free plane ticket. Alternatively, you can trade the points in for a statement credit.


Simply apply for the card, get approved, and use it before 12/31/2007. The points should appear in in your account within 6-8 weeks.


A couple of things…


No, you don’t have to have an actual business to get this card. Simply use your name as the business name and use your SSN instead of entering a Federal Tax ID Number.


Yes, there is an annual fee, but it’s waived for the first year, so you can simply sign up, grab the reward, and then cancel before you incur the fee.


Click here to apply now.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Improve your finances

The American Bank Gold checking account for people over 50 years old offers a 5% APY for balances $10,000 - $99,999.99, guaranteed though March 31, 2008, plus a $20 bonus if I refer you. This is a nice account for foreign travel, as the bank does not charge for use of its ATM card worldwide. This is a checking account. The usual 6 withdrawals per month rule for money market accounts does not apply.


Comerica Bank is offering 1,000 Northwest Airlines miles to open a checking account, plus $25, $50, or $100 if you add some or all of Visa Check Card, Direct Deposit, Overdraft Protection, and/or Comerica Web Bill Pay.


US Bank offers 3 check (debit) cards.

The WorldPerks Visa Check Card costs $20/year and gets you 4,000 Northwest Airlines miles up front, plus 1 mile per $2 spent if you don't use a P.I.N. The 4,000 miles for $20 is a cheap half cent a mile, but of course, you would use a mileage producing credit card for non pin transactions, since it would probably produce more miles than would the debit card. Click, or call (800) 890-2265 Ext. 7028, or visit any U.S. Bank location.
The WorldPerks Visa Gold Check Card and the WorldPerks Visa Business Check Card cost $55/year and get you 5,000 Northwest Airlines miles up front for a cost of 1.1 cents per mile. But these cards offer 1 mile / $1 spent if you don't use a P.I.N. This could be useful for those who don't want or can't get a credit card


Bank of America does not offer miles for opening an account, but it does offer up front miles for buying a Visa check/debit card for one of their accounts. The annual fee is $30. Each card gives only 1 mile per $2 spent, so using a mileage producing credit card when possible would probably always be better mileagewise. But the up front miles might be worthwhile, depending on how you value your miles. Each card has its own cap on the number of miles you can earn each year

Sunday, October 7, 2007

How to make easy money using Internet

1. Get a credit card with 12-month 0% APR balance transfer promotion

If the only purpose of getting a new card is to use the interest free period to make money, then length of the promotion period is the key. There are many cards offer a 12-month period with 0% introductory rate. Any period that’s shorter than 12 months is less desirable, unless you can use the card even without the 0% rate. For existing cards, however, a shorter term such as 9 months or 6 months is acceptable, but you need even larger amount to make up the fees. The shortest term I had was 4 months.

2. Request a convenient check to transfer balance

Not all issuers send out convenient checks right after the card is issued. If the promotion period starts from the time a balance is transferred, you can wait till the condition is right (such as the interest rate of your savings account if you expect it to go up in the coming months). I know Discover Card’s promotion starts when the card is issued. If that’s the case, do the transfer immediately after receiving the card.

To expedite the process, call the issuer when the card arrives and request a convenient check. It’s better to get a blank check, but there are credit card company requires your name and the amount you want to transfer be printed on the check before they can send it to you. Once the check is in, just deposit the money into your bank account.

3. Or make the transfer over the phone

If you feel comfortable, you also initiate the transfer on the phone and have the money sent to your bank account directly (you have to provide your bank’s routing number and your account number). I did that a couple of time with Bank of America and Chase which already have my bank information from the online bill pay.

Things will a lot easier if you transfer the money right to your bank account, but that’s not always the case. For instance, last year Discover insisted I can only use the money to pay balance on another credit card. If this is what’s happening, it’s less desirable but still doable if you have cards that can issue refund for over payment. Check out my previous post on how to use Citi card to transfer balance.

4. Consolidate credit limits to get the most out of the deal

It would be impossible for me to have $100K in balance transfer without some consolidations. If you have multiple accounts with the same issuer, you can get the most out of the deal by consolidating your existing credit limits. All you need to is call the credit card company and tell them to move credit lines from this and that card to the card with 0% offer. Just move the credit lines, but don’t close the accounts as they are likely to be older than the card you just got. When the game is over, you can always move the lines back to those cards if you wish. I have done credit consolidations before and it’s quite easy to do.

5. Don’t spend the money and don’t buy stocks with the money as well

Nobody can predict where the market will be one year from now. If you don’t have other funds to cover the balance when the transfer expires, you will have to sell your stocks which could be losing money at that time. Just save the money in a high yield savings account. There are plenty of online savings accounts offer 5+% interest rate. Keep the money in liquid accounts so you can have an easy access. In case something unexpected happens (like late in making payment), you can pay the money back right away.

6. Pay more than the minimum on time every month

If you are late in making minimum payment, even once, you are screwed. So make sure you give enough time to let your payment hit the card ahead of the deadline. And paying the bill online instead of mailing a check can reduce the risk of late payment. In addition, adding $10 more to the minimum payment is always a good practice.

7. Confirm the payoff date

Call the issuer one month early to confirm the last day the balance has to be paid off to avoid any financial charge. Don’t just assume the date on the offer letter is the deadline. Also, since transferring money via ACH usually requires at least three business days before the fund settles, give yourself enough time to arrange the money and pay off the entire balance without any delay.

Finally, there are a couple of items that you should be careful when playing the credit card arbitrage:

Think twice before getting a new card for balance transfer if the fee depends on the amount transferred (such as the 3% fee that Citi charges). The profit will be eroded even if you can get 5+% return from a savings account.
Make sure there’s no balance from purchases on the card before making the transfer. Since any payment you make will be automatically used to pay balance with the lowest interest rate, the charge from your regular purchase will started to accumulate interests until you pay off the entire balance, including that from 0% transfer. Edit: And don’t use the credit card until the balance transfer money is paid off either for the same reason (Thanks Tim ).
Read carefully the deadline on your offer letter. If it says something like “the billing cycle includes August 31, 2008,” then August 31, 2008 is NOT the deadline to pay off the balance and avoid financial charges. Depending on the date of your billing cycle, you may have to give the money back well ahead of August 31, 2008. Call the issuer to confirm the deadline.

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