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Welcome to edition #1 of the Carnival of Making Money Online - a recap of the best from the past week. This edition is available at our website here

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Google Filters, Do You Know What They Are?
5 Votes, submitted in General
Google search has certain commands that you can include with your search query, which allow you to “filter” their search engine results, which can help you get somewhat of a better idea of areas you might want to improve upon to help your blog rank better.
These of course are not 100% perfect but the information [...]

Social Media - Should You Use it Or Focus Upon Building Your Own Properties?
5 Votes, submitted in Blogging
Steve Rubel has a thought provoking post today asking the question - should you rent or buy social real estate?
In it he explores the idea of using a service like Twitter (where you ‘rent’ and build up a community on someone else’s property) versus having your own blog on your own domain (buying).

Achieving “The Package Deal”
5 Votes, submitted in Blogging
Today Chrissy Scivicque from OfficeArrow continues her two part series of posts on Blogging Your Way to a New Career.

Great Money Making Program Recommendation
5 Votes, submitted in Affiliate-Programs
I have to tell you that the sexual enhancement business is alive and well at a company called Everest Nutrition. They basically sell 3 products, with most of the emphasis on Zenerx and Venerx, sexual enhancement products for men and women respectively. I am doing quite well with the program, and they never charge affiliates for any returns.

Friday, July 4, 2008

James D. Brausch, Glyphius and Shilling
5 Votes, submitted in
Blog comments are a great way to promote yourself, but only so long as you are adding real value and not just shilling some product.

The First Official JohnCow eBook and It is FREE
5 Votes, submitted in General
It is FINALLY Complete… the first ever JohnCow.com eBook…
Building a Business NOT a Blog!
We want to thank all our loyal readers for helping us in creating this.
We also want to thank Garry Conn for providing the spark that initiated the original COWpetition.
We would also like to give a special thank you to LucyWeber.com for offering [...]

Top Affiliate Challenge Update - Epic Fail Edition
6 Votes, submitted in General
The first episode of the Top Affiliate Challenge went live yesterday but no one was able to watch it. The producers said they were on a high bandwidth Amazon.com line that was sure to handle the traffic. Well, it doesn’t matter how big your bandwidth is. Unless you’re Google or Microsoft, you’re not going to [...]

John Chow On The Oprah Show
5 Votes, submitted in General
Alright kids, you’ve asked for it. Your Uncle Bob has been paying close attention to the 69 comments that were donated by you in his previous post, and has picked his choice of topic - how to get your name or blog mentioned on the national airwaves, a suggestion by That Sneaker Wearing Entrepreneurial Cartoonist [...]

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Taking your Blog to a Community
5 Votes, submitted in Blogging
Today Community Strategist Connie Bensen shares some tips on taking your blog to a community.
Every blogger wants more readers. I’ve always appreciated how Problogger regularly features ideas for improving your blog & writing techniques. As people happen upon your blog they may decide to join your community of readers. But what if you could take [...]

Sunday, July 6, 2008

How to Monitor the Quality of StumbleUpon Advertising Campaigns
6 Votes, submitted in Blogging
In a guest post Neil Matthews of ClickQualityConsultant.com writes about how we can monitor the quality of paid visits from a StumbleUpon advertising campaigns.
Darren advocates using paid advertising from StumbleUpon in his post Run a StumbleUpon Advertising campaign for your blog, as a way to build your blog’s audience. In this post I would like [...]

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The 2008 Election And The Stock Market raquo; Free Stock Market Investing Tips
5 Votes, submitted in
Your investment decisions right now may largely depend on who you think will win the 2008 election.

6 Free Advertising Server Plugins for WordPress Setup, Manage and Track Banner Ads
5 Votes, submitted in
Selling ad space is one low hanging fruit for bloggers. Here are a few WordPress plugins that can help you setup, manage, and track ads on your blog.

Centralize, Systemetize then Monetize
5 Votes, submitted in
Brian Terry has submitted Centralize, Systemetize then Monetize