Offto.net is a free offering from Jonathan Leger which rolls a few free tools into one simple package.

For quite a while I’ve used tinyurl when shortening links or just plain hiding an affiliate url in forums, Mylot and Yahoo Answers etc.

Jonathan’s tool takes it a step further, by adding some extra features. Here’s a summary of what Offto.net does: Read the rest of this entry

It’s well known that a site which gathers links too quickly can be penalised by search engines – but what about sitewide links ?

Are they just discounted to count as one link by search engines or is the effect more significant ?

Well over the last month we conducted a small experiment with a couple of sites.

Firstly we have a site which has not been highly promoted, but has been getting a trickle of natural search traffic. We added a link to it from an article directory with over 50,000 pages. Almost immediately the natural search traffic dried up. Read the rest of this entry

BlogRush is a new blog “widget” you can use to generate additional traffic to your blog.

The concept is pretty simple:

• First place the BlogRush widget on your Blog.
• For every time your blog page is viewed you get one credit.
• For each credit, you get your link appearing on someone else’s blog.

but wait….there’s more  ! Read the rest of this entry

Cashcrate is a site where you get paid to complete offers and free surveys.

I wrote a post about paid surveys online a while back and CashCrate was one of the listed sites.

Anyone looking for easy extra money or an additional residual income is recommended to look a bit closer at this site.

Heres why: Read the rest of this entry

CollegeScholarships.org are offering a $10,000 Blogging Scholarship this year.

Its available to those in the US who attend college and maintain a weblog.

Here’s the heads-up I received today : Read the rest of this entry