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It’s Like Money From Heaven!

Foreign Exchange Calculator.

You notice the LinkMoney Converter in the right hand column?

You may use this converter to check your millions in almost any currency of the world. It quickly shows just how much one country’s currency rate is, in comparison to any other country that you select. The default is for converting US. Dollars (USD) into Euros (EUR) but you may easily change that with the little drop down arrows. It just sits there saying Use Me.

The next item that we want you to use is the excellent selection of Amazon Books that you may purchase right from the LinkMoney dot org website.

In the lower right hand column are several Make-Money-Online books, books about the Internet, books on WordPress, books on Blogging, and books on Finance.
You will build wealth with any of them!

Order your book choices now.

You WILL Make-Money-Online!

Do you people know about Searchme dot com yet?

This is a way cool tool to look for webpages by keyword search and have a series of screenshot images of websites to choose from.

It is an excellent way to observe your own website for First Impression impulses in comparison with your competition.

It is still in Beta but it is free and very easy to use.

Check it out, it’s free! Searchme .

The above view is a screenshot of the search term Money Online.

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Learn how to build a website at the Random Forest dot com.

Our friend, Ian, over at The Random Forest shows step by step how he builds a website for Pay-Per-Click, AdSense, and Affiliate Advertising.

Follow his easy to understand instructions and you too can get involved in the make-money-online business.

Ian is a sincere and helpful guy, and he will not try to sell you a bunch of junk.

Check this website out: The Random Forest.

This article might as well be called “Webhosting For Dummies“. It really is easy to get on the web with your own website.

My Internet publishing experience started about 1990. I had no idea what I was doing, but came from a technical and industrial business background, so the web was understandable with a little study. I published mostly hobby related interests at first.

A few years ago I wanted to put up a business related website that would look professional, which I knew would be way beyond my expertise. So I shopped around and was very fortunate to find a small company near Ithaca, NY., “S-GO Consulting,” operated by Steve Gorney and several other geniuses. I can’t say enough about this team. They have been with me through all of the various website design changes that I kept making before I finally arrived at just exactly what I wanted.

They built one of our main websites with Joomla!, which is an open source programming language that I am required to know absolutely nothing about! S-GO does it all. Tell them what you want and it’s done, exactly the way you want.

They also afforded me enough hand holding training so that I am now able to make minor modifications and it is very easy to add new data. However, if I have any questions they are right there.

It costs a couple of thousand or so, to build a great site to a custom design, but worth every penny. They give you a very generous bandwidth allotment and they are instantly responsive to any problems. Don’t let the price scare you. If you have some firm ideas, ask them for a quote and I am positive that they will be very competitive. S-GO is not “just” a hosting company. They are Marketing Experts, and will help you with your overall marketing plan in all media and even have the expertise to assist you with writing your Business Plan.

This commercial will not benefit me in any way, but it sure will benefit you if you decide to go with www.s-go.net .

Now if you are an old hand at website building and management, or if you are a consummate Blogger, Podcaster, or Internet publisher in any manner, then you might just want some recommendations for web hosting packages that we use for our many sites.

As you no doubt have heard about the recent fire at “The Planet,” a web hosting company in Houston, Texas, that calamity brought down thousands of websites for a week end and some of them are still trying to recover.

That’s why we don’t put all of our eggs in one basket. We use three other web hosting companies along with S-GO, and they are; GoDaddy, BlueHost and HostIcan Website hosting is very competitive now and where it formerly took commitments of thousands of dollars per year, you can now have very professional hosting services for a little over $100 per year.

We recommend all three of these fine companies and you can trust them all to be very eager to assist you in answering any questions or immediately fixing any problems.

GoDaddy is very well known and popular. The only problem I have when signing on to their website is to keep my mind off Danica Patrick in leather! Their signup procedure is easy to do once you have learned the procedure. Their design is extremely busy and they want you to keep clicking more and more to buy, which I find annoying, but there is always a link somewhere on each page to just keep skipping by and going to the checkout page.

BlueHost was recommended to us by Caroline Middlebrook, one of our favorite Internet Marketing Blogging friends. BlueHost is solid, and their website is clean and very easy to navigate. Prices are very fair and they will help you all the way with your installation.

Our other Best hosting company is HostIcan. This company also has a website that is very easy to use and you can be set up in minutes with a brand new website. Their rates are as low as $6.95 per month with a free domain name FOR LIFE!

All of these hosting companies offer high end packages for large companies or organizations that need huge amounts of data, bandwith, and redundancy. By clicking any of the links on this website to take you to any of the companies we recommend, you will be able to pick just the perfect plan that fits your needs and budget.

Click on all three of these recommended web hosting companies and compare their services for yourself.

We recommend using WordPress and select a theme that you like, install the plugins you need and make your presence known on the web. In a previous article that we wrote there is a LINK to Caroline Middlebrook’s free eBook on how to install WordPress.

Social Networking and Web 2.0, is where all the buzz is these days. StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and many others can help to make you famous beyond imagination. Getting posted on any of these sites is very helpful when tring to make one of your favorite websites famous.

By getting posted on some of these social sites you will gain permanent inbound links that should help towards increasing your own GPR. You will read differing opinions on Google’s value regarding this type of website promotion. Some mmo Blogs will tell you that it is not good to get this type of promotion, and that the Big G will spank you for gaining these type of links. Other seemingly just as sincere writers will tell you to go for all that you can get.

If you have a site that Get’s Hot, Goes Viral, Hits the First Page, or just gets the buzz going, you will gain recognition world wide. Traffic equals fame and fortune.

Any way, a link is a link, and I’ll take them any way I can get them.

Here are some of the more popular, or better known social sites. A higher GPR number ranking is better for link juice.

Del.icio.us – GPR-9
Technorati – GPR-8
Digg – GPR-8
StumbleUpon – GPR-8
Diigo – GPR-4
Reddit – GPR-8
Co.mments – GPR-7
Sphinn – GPR-6
Mixx – GPR-7
Facebook – GPR-7
YouTube – GPR-9
Propeller – GPR-7
Twitter – GPR-8

There are probably more than a hundred more.

One place that you can get a lot of notariety all at one time is by having an account with Onlywire. This social site has a GPR-5 on it’s own, but you can sign up for 22 different social accounts and promote your website of interest on all 22 with just one hit.

On each of the bookmarking sites you will be able to share your links with your friends and see their links also. Keep track of those that you follow or that follow you, and see where they are surfing. You will have to sign up for an account and get a user name and password for each of the 22 sites, but once you have done that you can do a whole lot of promotion with just one click of the mouse.

Here is a list of the 22 social bookmarks available at this time through Onlywire, “The only bookmarklet you will ever need.”
Backflip – GPR-6 – Gets you back to the good stuff.
BibSonomy – GPR-7 – For books, literature and sites of biblio interest.
Blinklist – GPR-7 – Never lose your way again.
Blogmemes – (Haven’t figured this one out yet. Seems you have to get an Addon for your browser, and then give it access to your Blog username and password. Oh well, the Hell with it.)
Faves (formerly Blue Dot?) – GPR-6 – Sites you’ll love, from people like you.
De.lirio.us – GPR-6 – Shrinking the web. Target your search to geographical areas.
Del.icio.us – GPR-9 - All your bookmarks in one place.
Diigo – GPR-4 – Highlight and add sticky notes.
Excites – GPR-(Didn’t seem to load when I checked it out.)
Furl – GPR-8 – A social bookmarking site that makes it easy to save, share and explore favorite websites.
Linkatopia – GPR-5 – You can designate links as public, friends only, or private.
Linkroll – GPR-4 – Linkroll is not a place to store private bookmarks, everything is public.
Looklater – (Listed in Onlywire, but not found by my browser.)
Ma.gnolia – GPR-4 – Discover, share and discuss the best of the web.
Markaboo – GPR-5 – Better bookmarks for everyone.
Rawsugar – GPR-6 – Sweeten your content.
Shadows – (Listed in Onlywire, but looks like a parked site.)
Simpy – GPR-6 – Simpy is a social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, notes and groups, and more.
Spurl – GPR-6 – Has temporary limited service due to spam attacks.
Unalog – GPR-6 – You can look at what various people and groups of people are reading on the web here.
Wink – GPR-6 – Free People Search Engine: Search over 400 million profiles to find people you are looking for.
Xilinus – GPR-(Not shown) – Looks like a simple bookmark site. Has low alexa numbers so it must get quite a bit of activity.

Additional Note: Here is a little link love for our friend Aaron:Make Money Blogging

Another site that is friendly to Bloggers is Enhanced Contact (dot com) it is for “Friends Helping Friends”.