What the hell is a blogroll anyway?

A blogroll is a list of links. Generally blogrolls are part of a wordpress installation. A default installation will have a Blogrolls section.

This is where WordPress site-admins can place link to sites that they want to promote. Sometimes they want to promote their friends and relatives.

And somethimes they have several thousands pages indexed by google which you would do well to link from.

Someone with enough nouse to be using WordPress in this way would probably have experimented with various ways of making money from their website.

This is a good thing. These people have blog which they know the value of.

And know. Without question. That a coupla hunnert is a damn good price for dropping a site-WIDE link to ALL your domains. Innit.

The start of video content to the blog. I have always enjoyed the extra impact a video can have as a blog post, and like the fact that google open up the API to their youtube offering.

Here’s the new Listings Lab YouTube Channel. Blog digest version 1.0

My dad doesn’t have much luck with computers. He’s always breaking them and loosing all his software and photos etc. He asked me what to do about it, so I did a little research and decided on the PC Magazine editors choice award winning Ibackup. It does everything he needs to back up his home PC, even though it’s really aimed at small businesses.

It’s an Online Backup service which supports open file backups, which is perfect for backing up things like Microsoft outlook and other ‘in use’ data. It’s the best of it’s kind I found, and at only $10 per month for 5GB of backup it’s a great solution for my own small business too.

I have seen some great developments in the credit card industry recently which I would lie to share. Firstly pre-paid credit cards. Often times you can’t use cash anymore, but not everyone can have a credit card. Especially useful for your kids as an emergency measure, these pre-paid credit cards are going to open up a whole new market.

Here are some useful links for you if you’d like to read about the subject further

credit cards - http://www.cardguide.co.uk/
compare credit cards - http://www.cardguide.co.uk/best_buys.html

low interest credit card

Of course, the traditional credit card market is still incredibly strong. It’s an easy way to borrow. It can be expensive in terms of paying back interest, but that’s not how credit cards should really be used. The best thing to do is to use the credit and clear your balance every month.

I’m starting to feel more and more exposed on the internet. It’s not the technology that’s changing, just that there are more and more people out there who are one step ahead of us regular folks. One of the main things to worry about is broadcasting your IP address. ANYONE can send an official request for your private details straight to your Internet service provider, and your identity is wide open.

This problem can be addressed by using an IP hiding service. I had a look around for some software to help me out, and found there are many options. One of the best sites I found however, was “www.hide-my-ip-address.com”. With good advice, and sound, solid, well priced software you can surf the internet safely, and more importantly, anonymously.

Weblink: hide IP address

Sometimes I wish I were American. When I started smoking pot, drinking and generally displaying self-destructive behaviour when I was in my teens it seemed fairly normal to me. Part of growing up. Part of growing up in the states appears to be rehab. We don’t really go in for that as much over here in Europe. It’s a shame because I think it would have really helped me avoid the problems I still have in my 30’s.

So if I were a teenager, I’d want to be in rehab here ‘<a href=”http://www.echomalibu.com”>Teen Rehab ECHO MALIBU</a>’. It’s just beautiful, and it sounds like heaven. The list of activities – surfing lessons, sports, hiking, theatre outings, horse riding – all that sounds amazing, but also the Malibu teen drug treatment facility has expert staff on hand and classroom and certified teachers to make sure you don’t fall behind at school.
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Well, it IS certainly easy to get a loan, but I don’t think it’s too easy, no. The fact that there are companies out there who are ready to lend money to people allows us to develop our lives in ways that weren’t possible back in the olden days.

http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/money/compare-loans.html - loans
http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/money/secured.html - secured loans

Of course people often get into trouble with debt, but that’s to be expected. To get a loan you have to be a grown up, and as a grown up you have to take responsibility for your actions. I’ve been in debt with plenty of personal loans, and I’m still in it. Debt is good. It puts you on the radar and makes you a proper person. It gives you gravitas.

I really love my new camera, but if I had the choice, the camera I’d go for would be the Nikon D3. It’s really been designed for sports photographers, which is what I’d want to use it for. Those incredible powder day skiing shots. It’s also the fastest camera in it’s class, with a shutter release time lag of only 37 ms with the capability of shooting up to 9 frames per second. It even starts up quickly – only 0.12 seconds. If I were to start to take my photography further, then this is the camera I’d aim to acquire. Of course, with a $5000 price tag, it’s not a cheap piece of equipment, but the results would be worth it professionally speaking.

Over the past year I’ve been trying to work out how to make money from my blog. It gets a certain amount of traffic, and I have a readership, but was there a way to make some money from it?

Having studied and learned a large amount about internet marketing over the past year from a talented internet marketer friend of mine, it seemed to me that a solid, well placed link on a blog, within a piece of text which contains the right keywords is very valuable to someone wishing to promote their website.

But how do I reach this market, and how do I, once I’ve done that convince them to buy post for $10? The solution came when I discovered Pay Per Post. Pay per post offers bloggers hundreds of opportunities to create a post to advertise for paying clients. Signing up for the service is easy, and the criteria to meet are strict enough to make the whole process ethically sound.

Find out more here: (get paid to blog)

Once you’ve signed up and your blog has been accepted, it’s very easy to start making money from your blog. Simply pick an opportunity, reserve it, create your blog post, being very careful to meet all criteria laid down for the opportunity and submit your post for review. To begin with you might have a few posts rejected, but soon you’ll be up and running and with a short amount of work each day you can create a regular income from your blog.