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Sometimes I am amazed at the great web site ideas out there.  Today I stumbled upon a great web site that provides services for Flickr, a photo sharing community.
This web site that I found is filling a need and providing services for Flickr users, and it is reaping the rewards. In fact, the services this web site provides was [...]

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I just watched the second episode of The Next Internet Millionaire.  The second episode was even better than the first. 
What I found really surprising in the second episode was the number of cast members that didn’t know how to blog when they had the blogging challenge.  Nearly all of the cast had little to zero experience with blogs.
After [...]

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The Next Internet Millionaire is an Internet reality show where 12 people compete for the title of  becoming the “next Internet millionaire.”
The show is hosted by Joel Comm, owner of Infomedia, Inc., his business that creates and manages web sites that pull in massive monthly AdSense revenue.
This show is like Survivor, The Apprentice and every other reality show.  There’s [...]

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I have found that it is much more satisfying and easy for me to make a Squidoo lens about a passion or interest of mine.
Why should you Squidoo about your passions?
1. You’ll make better lenses.
Who do you think would do a better job at making a lens about baseball?  A baseball fanatic or just an [...]

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In the land of the internet, content is king.  You could have a great lens with not much content on it, but without much content, it will be harder for you to get more visitors to it.
Why is content so important? Because it is an important factor in getting more traffic from search engines.  When a search [...]

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I was searching the Internet the other day for a backlink checker and found this one.  It will show you how many backlinks you have in Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, and Alltheweb.
This one gave me part of the information I wanted, but I also wanted to find out where my backlinks were coming from.  I wanted to see [...]

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Squidoo is a site where people create pages called lenses about a topic such as an interest, passion, hobby, etc.  On a lens you can add ebay items, amazon items, and products from other merchants.  You can make money from revenue Squidoo earned from your lens.  Squidoo gives you a nice percentage. 
Squidoo is a great [...]

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When a person preforms a search on a search engine, the search engine will try to find the most relevant website.  The search engine will search the web for sites containing the keywords that the user typed into the search box.
With that concept in mind, it is a good idea to place yourself in the [...]

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Been wanting to create a directory and give managing a web site directory a whirl?  Go ahead and try it out for free at www.01dir.com.  There you can create a directory on their servers, with unlimited memory, for free.
For free?  But with all “free” things there is usually some kind of catch right? 
The directory only costs when [...]

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Biz Bla has a nice selection of buttons you can put on your blog or web site that will display your Google PR, Alexa PR, and the estimated value of your site.  I don’t know how well it does calculating the true sites value, but it’s fun to see what it estimates anyway.

As of now, I don’t [...]

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