How I Quit Smoking Cigarettes and You Can Quit, Too.

Quitting smoking can be the hardest thing a person can do, but it can be done. I am living proof. I was a smoker for over twenty years, including at least sixteen years as a heavy smoker; which I consider one and a half to two packs a day. After many unsuccessful attempts, I was eventually able to quit by using motivational techniques incombination with nicotine replacement therapy. Read the rest of this entry »

StumbleUpon.com (SU) is a social bookmarking network consisting of over 3 million users or “stumblers” each of whom use the StumbleUpon toolbar to find and review web pages, viral videos, online photographs and more. The StumbleUpon algorithm then learns what the user likes and then let’s you channel surf the Internet to recommend and display to the stumbler similar sites. Read the rest of this entry »

These days, one surefire way to get your indexed by Yahoo is to sign your website up with Yahoo’s site search.

MY STUMBLE FRIENDS

Programmableweb a pretty comprehensive list of Web 2.0 APIs for Mashups, etc. This is one of those pages that make you say “wow!”

http://www.programmableweb.com/apilist

Google’s love affair with Squidoo seems to be over. Many SEOs are claiming that Google has dropped Squidoo pages in ranking or are being completely removed from the index for being too ’spammy.’ It reflects a lot on Google that it can take a website that is getting a ton of traffic, boosts its online exposure, then unceremoniously dumps the site.

Google is still having a fling hubpages.com, stay tuned.

When some organization calls you on the phone or someone whats to do SEO for you, ask them what results have they brought in to current clients using:

Affiliate Management
Social Bookmarking & Tagging
Analytics, Conversions and Increasing Profits
Copywriter
Creating Affiliate Programs
Ebay
List Building Strategies
Integration Strategies
Keyword Research
Market Research
Marketing
Online Video
Social Networking
Web 2.0

July 6, 2007: Payday, Payday!

Here’s your Squidcash, earned from 05/01/2007 to 05/31/2007.

Congrats, and keep up the great lenses.

YOUR ROYALTIES (05/01/2007 to 05/31/2007) Your previous balance + previous Refer-A-Friend bonuses = $0.00

Your new lens earnings this period = $0.01

Total earnings = $0.01!

So, here’s how you’re spending your $0.01… $0.01 will be held in your Reserve Hopper (you haven’t quite reached your Cash Payout Threshold, so this amount will roll over until you do).

Looking to save gas? One way to save gas and money is to never by gas on extremely hot days.

When you are pumping gas, the hotter the outside air, the more gas expands.  When gas expands, that gallon of gas does not have as much energy as a gallon of gas that is not expanded by heat.

Another way to conserve gas is to insure your car’s tires are inflated to the recommended psi (pound per square inch).

Popular in many countries outside the US, Ebay owned Kijiji.com launched recently as a direct competitor to Craigslist. Interestingly, Ebay also owns 25% of craigslist.com. Did Ebay just pull a Bill Gates?