If your based in the US or Canada then Pre-Paid Legal Services is a program which may be of interest.

Pre-Paid legal services is a company which provides a type of legal insurance. Put simply you put a little away every month and if you need to use legal services then its already paid for.
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Dominiche is a service from Ed Dale which teaches you how to buy a website.

Now you don’t need to buy the product and you don’t need to spend a lot of time there, but the videos at this location are well worth viewing.

They cover the very basics of pricing a website for purchase, including both the earnings multiplier and pay per click pricing.

They also show you a good website to find prospective purchases. Read the rest of this entry

A little while ago WordPress 2.3 came out, so I decided to attempt the Wordpress 2.3 upgrade on a few of my blogs.

There are a number of features I wanted to try out and we have a policy of always keeping to the latest version.

With this release there are also a number of new features that looked interesting including:

• Tagging support which allows tags as well as categories to be allocated to posts.
• Upgrade notification of plugin and Wordpress upgrades. Not so worried about WordPress as this is well publicised but getting notified about plugin upgrades is really useful
• URLs have been tweaked to make them cleaner for search engines
• WYSIWYG editor has more features.

The team at WordPress make a few suggestions about preparing for an upgrade. They are: Read the rest of this entry

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