So you’re feeling creative, huh? Well, you may be able to capitalize on your creativity in a way that you probably thought was only possible in hypothetical situations and childish dares. Ask yourself this, “What would I do for $5?” and give your skill to the world. This is a great way to make money online if you have little-or-no overhead.

Fiverr.com – The $5 Marketplace

A couple weeks ago I signed up for Fiverr to see what all the fuss was about. People on all of the forums I attend were telling me that I should sell some of my automated processes on there and make some extra dough. It sounded like a pretty good idea, so I decided to give it a whirl, and this is what I found.

To be fair, I’m going to list bother “likes” and “dislikes” about fiverr, and you can sign up and make your own decisions.

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I was reading about Google showing more results from a domain in their results. This is good for several reasons, but it is not anything to get too excited over, because the buzz is stupid, just like the update.

Here’s what it will look like:

Here’s what Google said:

Today we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that indicate a strong user interest in a particular domain, like [exhibitions at amnh]

How is this any different than the normal sitelink alorithm (besides the amount of links displayed)? This is making a bunch of people think that Google is changing something about what they think is relevant in their algorithm, but I have a different theory, and I think mine makes more sense.

I think that since the Yahoo! and Bing Collabo announcement came out, Google is losing ground on how “awesome” their search engine can be. This is one of those “one-up” situations like: “Oh yeah, Yahoo is powered by Bing, but now we display more results in sitelinks, so we’re still ahead of the curve…” Most likely, this is one of those situations where Google has nothing cool to throw around, but they still want to be heard, so they’re changing stupid stuff and calling them algorithmic changes to excite the stupid.

 I’m going to put myself out there and say that this will have no impact on your current rankings, and if you blame your ranking failure on one small change in the SERP display algo, you deserve to lose whatever flimsy rankings you had in the first place. This is standard “we are still relevant” behavior.

This post is probably not for everyone, but I wanted to share what I found today because it was a pretty good find.  

So, if you use Bookmarking Demon, you are probably always looking for a solid list of Pligg, Scuttle, and PhpDug sites. I was able to find a recent list that has a fair amount of active bookmarking sites.

Here’s the list: 10000+ Pligg Site List (Unverified)

(Huge List Provided Via: Mark Rushworth) I know that 10,000 pligg sites seems like a lot, but in all reality, only about 2,400 (which is still a great amount) are active websites, and the rest are either dead or no longer active pligg sites. I assume, based on history working with these types of sites, that maybe 25-30% of these will be around in a year, so if you’re needing some quick low quality links, then you probably want to get started.

Here’s Mark’s List

Nick’s List (Coming Soon)

I’m also working on a list of my own. I have BCD running right now harvesting TONS of URLs for Pligg and PHPdug. When I left it was over 1100. I’m probably not going to share all of what I find, but I will definitely post some of the sites on here when I finish scraping.

I’ve been looking for myself lately because I found that I am getting higher quality pligg sites. When I was buying lists, the sites were so heavily spammed that they were useless. My success rates were going from 75-80% to 25-30% because of how many people are spamming the web these days.

If I find some high quality sites that work with BMD, I’ll let you guys know… Thanks for reading..

One of the most difficult pieces of SEO is finding great linking opportunities. This review will take you through the steps of finding great linking opportunities for those quick and easy backlinks. This method may come across spammy, or a bit blackhat, but if used correctly and ethically – you won’t have any problems. Remember, if you are going to take this walkthrough to a whole new level, and spam the web, don’t use this technique for any primary money sites, use it for linking to your support sites as a fortification tool. Getting sandboxed is not a good thing.

I have been using a program called BlogCommentDemon for a little over a year. When I first got it, I used it for the intended purpose of finding “dofollow” blogs, and posting mass amounts of quality comments with rich anchor text and clean backlinks to whichever site I was marketing. Well, since that time, BCD has made several improvements to their software, rendering it one of the best software packages installed on my computer.

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Blog posts like this are a dime a dozen, that’s why I’m not going to pretend that I’m teaching you something new, I’m just going to tell you what works for me when it comes to WordPress SEO.

WordPress SEO Tips

WordPress is the blogging platform of the gods, IMHO. Even at it’s most basic form, search engines gobble up content that sits on WordPress like a fat kid eating donuts. There are ways to make your WP driven site better, at least from an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) standpoint.

I took some time putting together a list of WordPress plugins that I use/have used, that I believe will help you outrank your competitors. Take a look, and if you have any other suggestions, leave them in the comments, and I’ll add them to the list when I get a chance.

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