Great Traffic Building Tips

I've been a member of this site for a while now and use some of the tips regularly.

This guy (Keith Baxter) is a real master at getting traffic to your website with both "legit / white hat" and "stealth / black hat" techniques.

Most of these guru types cost you $47 / $97 / $197.... for their "master courses" or other ebooks.

This guy gives it to you for only $15 PER quarter...(act fast, it's going up to $10 per month - still a deal)believe me the tips that you get in there are well worth the money, really 1 tip in there can make you far more than the price of admission.

I don't often recommend these programs, but this one is different, I really get a ton of value out of this program and think everyone with a website should listen to what Keith has to say.

You can sign up here:
GetYouTraffic.com

Computer routers face hijack risk: study

Computer routers face hijack risk: study: "Researchers at the University of Indiana and Symantec Corp. are warning that about half of internet users with a home router are vulnerable to having the hardware hijacked."

This is pretty scary, I have to say that I've always had a "let the network be free" attitude towards my wireless routers. I certainly use people's open connections when I find them and need a hot spot to pick up email, do a quote or find something on Google Maps

I guess it's just another reason to promote closed networks, it's a shame really. There needs to be an open source ID that would let you log into secured networks. I guess it could be a firmware upgrade to your router.

You could use the same "phishing" technique to install your "OSID friendly" firmware on the routers, just go to this site and click here to install the new firmware on your router.

Cool... Someone start an association would ya?

Pay Per Post Opportunity

Have you hear of PayPerPost yet?

get paid to blog

This is a cool service that let's you get paid to blog about things that interest you. In my case, I'm mostly telling people about the service, as well as any tech stuff that grabs me.

Basically it is worth the advertisers money to get a link on your site, since more link backs equal better search engine ranking, they are willing to pay you to post something about their product or service.

It's a neat idea that I would like to support, depending on the quality of your blog, you can get access to higher paying opportunities, there's one on there now if you have a PR8 website, you can make $1000 to post about a show called rockstartup (google it, I'm not getting paid to post about that ;)

Anytime advertisers want to put money in my pocket, I'm happy to help so here it is, my first paid to post post :)

Some of the other services that are using this for advertising include things like hotels (write about your latest visit) community sites, dating sites, physical products... it's really a great way for any company to increase the word of mouth that is out there about their product for a relatively low cost.

Everyone knows that bloggers are the second wave of publicity and far more effective than traditional means. A personal recommendation from someone you trust is far more effective at converting people to users than a glossy ad in a magazine is. Just think how many of us bloggers could be making $10, $20, $100 per post for the cost of a center spread in wired mag.

Great idea on the part of the creators of this site, I think it'll be a huge success for them and launch a fleet of copy cats no less. Congrats guys.



if you want to make some money:

Spam Daily News | Update: Mozilla making tens of millions from Firefox

Spam Daily News | Update: Mozilla making tens of millions from Firefox: "In March 2006, Weblogs, Inc. founder Jason Calacanis reported a rumor on his blog that Mozilla Corporation gained $72M during the previous year, mainly thanks to the Google search box in the Firefox browser."


I don't understand what the big deal is about this, first of all it's hardly news... from the first day that I saw the built in search with ebay and google included I knew they were getting affiliate royalties, it's just common sense, I hardly need confirmation.

It's also part of why I use that search and not the box in my google toolbar to do my searches, I WANT to support the firefox initiative and if they get a few cents every time I click on a search result... well... good for them.

I don't see anything wrong with them making HEAP LOADS of money off their free product, I think it's a great testament to the whole opensource software movement if they can establish a new revenue model that supports quality free software development.

Let's hope they get to be as big as google, I'm sure the dollars will be well spent on developing more solutions that use free tools for the end user that are supported by business... I think they should be flaunting the model, not back peddling and trying to remain "undisclosed amount" about it.

Mac vs. Vista = Linux Wins

It's interesting to see that Apple is taking a direct shot at Microsoft customers in their latest advertising. They've always positioned themselves as better, but this email really made me laugh since its something that I've been giving a lot of thought to.

Here is the copy that they sent out:
It's time to get a Mac. If you're thinking of upgrading to Vista, you'll probably need a new computer. Why not get a Mac? It's simpler, more secure, and way more fun. And it works with the stuff you already have, like printers and cameras. So before you upgrade anything, you owe it to yourself to check out a Mac.

Microsoft's latest upgrade and the level to which the hardware industry and their license holders and OEM partners are going to be holding the average consumer hostage and lead them down the expensive path of entirely new hardware upgrades when most users still will not be using multitouch geomapping 3 dimentional free form graphic displays or anything much more powerful than editing together a video of the kids for grandma or taking out a lurker in ultima online.

In the case of XLsuite and our development plans, I've been thinking about the fact that as a browser based application, it's no longer dependent on that whole MS upgrade path as in reality, a Linux configuration would probably be more stable and reliable and have a lower TCO and less administration needed to run. You could use firefox and maybe open office instaled at most, no more spy ware attacks from the girl in accounting opening smiley.exe that she found on the internet site freetrojans.com

Nice to see that I'm thinking the same way apple is

Wicked cool multi touch interface design

This has to be one of the most exciting user interfaces that I've ever seen. Of course geomaping would be an excellent use of the interface, but imagine shopping for houses on the MLS site like this... or manipulating your MP3 collection and sorting and grouping them, not to mention the bending of pitch and stuff... you could be the first full body "media jockey" (MJ would replace DJ) and literally "get into the music".

Congrats to the wollzelle guys for once again being so far ahead of the pack that it makes the rest of us look like blundering amateurs.