Have you ever wanted to get some great press time here on theNetFool.com for FREE!? Now’s your chance! Submit your best article to me in a .doc (or .txt, etc.) file to jim@thenetfool.com. If I like what you have to say, I’ll go ahead and publish the article live on The Net Fool and you can get two free backlinks to your site, targeted and everything.

So why am I doing this? I am absolutely loaded down with work because of final examinations coming up. Basically, all of the lovely teachers here at Penn State have decided to dump homework on me during the last week of classes leading into exam weekend, so naturally I am just bursting at the seams with free time.

My policy is, and will remain, business before blogging. Likewise, there is a lot of material that I need to cover in order to be prepared for classes, tests, end-of-semester papers and the like. Now’s your chance to capitalize on my procrastination!

The Requirements
All articles submitted must be 100% original! Don’t even try to scam me on this one, I will find out where the article is from, delete the post from this blog, and probably ban you permanently. I am striving to maintain a reputation here, so nothing but all original content will work. Also, this needs to be written in good standing English, I don’t want to have to correct for grammatical errors. Please try to make the posts over 500 words. I will format all of the information in the Net Fool style you know and love, including images and the like. Heck, I may even tack on a sentence or two to make it fit with the formatting, but its going to be your stuff.

The Advantages
I see guest blogging as a win-win situation. I get a nice article to put up with just about 30 mins of technical work on my end to beautify things, and you get some awesome publicity that will be permanently registered on our blog. People are going to visit this stuff time and time again, so the amount of publicity you will get should amaze you.

On top of the name recognition, you’ll get some help from the big dog (Google) with a targeted keyword backlink of your choice… make that two! My readers are active, and I’m sure that those of you reading this are going to be clicking back to the guest blogger’s blog if the article is any good. Juice up your traffic!

Okay, so just a recap. I’m in exams so I need quality guest blogging articles to put up in my stead. I’m looking for articles about anything from blogging, to SEO, to interesting plays in the stock market. Get involved, and you’ll get noticed.

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This is a guest post by Emilia from AffiliateTips.com - a resource for anyone interested in getting started with affiliate programs. Head over there to read articles, find reviews and compare affiliate programs.

Viral marketing can be a powerful tool for almost any business, website or affiliate product. It’s also a great way to increase sales, leads, incoming links and targeted traffic. Unfortunately, many marketers are not taking full advantage of the many benefits of viral marketing. If you are interested in dramatically increasing the impact of your marketing efforts at a minimal cost, then consider some of these excellent viral marketing techniques for affiliate marketing.

1. Word Of Mouth
One of the best viral techniques to use today is word of mouth. This marketing strategy utilizes the enthusiasm of current customers to spread the word about your business to an ever-widening audience. This method is one of the best ways to generate a sudden spike in consumer interest and can dramatically increase the online visibility of your affiliate marketing business.

How can you add word of mouth to your website? Start by adding “Tell a Friend” links to key pages of your site. When viewers find something of interest, they can immediately share the news with like-mined friends and social networks via email. Another effective viral marketing technique involves adding a reminder to your email newsletters for readers to forward the email on to friends, family and co-workers.

2. Publish A Free eBook
You are an expert in your industry, so why not put that knowledge to work for your viral marketing efforts. Write and publish a free ebook devoted to a topic that interests your target customers. Ebooks do not have to be very long, but it is important to pack them with useful information and links to your affiliate marketing website. By offering a free ebook on your website, you can attract many new viewers who will then encourage other people to visit and download the ebook as well.

3. Syndicate Your Website To Encourage Viral Links
Another excellent viral marketing technique is to utilize RSS (Real Simple Syndication) to distribute your content. These simple yet highly effective news feeds allow users to subscribe to your syndicated content, which means they will receive updates every time you update your site. Publishing an RSS feed also allows other websites to feature your syndicated content on their websites, which can help generate even more incoming links to your content.

4. Publish A Newsletter
If you have not yet started publishes a newsletter for your affiliate marketing business, now is the time to start. Newsletters are a fast, easy and affordable way to keep customers coming back and to inspire new customers to visit your site.

In addition to being an affordable way to reach a large audience, newsletters have almost unlimited viral marketing potential. Simply include a note at the bottom of every email reminding readers to forward the newsletter to friends.

5. Hold A Contest Or Giveaway
Contests and giveaways are also highly effective viral marketing techniques that can dramatically improve your affiliate marketing. Simply offer some sort of prize, then announce the contest or giveaway on your website, blog and newsletter.

As more and more readers hear about your offer, they will then pass the news on to friends in their social networks. Since there is a high incentive for readers to participate and share, the potential for exposure is huge.

Viral marketing techniques are a great way to boost your affiliate marketing business without spending a fortune on promotional campaigns. With a little creativity, you can inspire viewers to spread word of mouth marketing, generate incoming links, increase traffic and dramatically improve affiliate sales. Start implementing a few of these excellent viral marketing techniques today and give your affiliate marketing efforts the competitive edge they need.

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That’s right. Huge profits are out there to be made in affiliate marketing, and this new method that I have already profited off of in a big way has me excited about the possibilities out there. You all know the standard referral programs that give you, let’s say, 15% back on whatever anyone who signs up under you makes. Pretty good… but you need to rely on people signing up and actually putting money down, which doesn’t always play out in our favor.

But what if your referrals just had to sign up, and got you credit regardless of whether or not they actually start actively using the service? Well heck, that sounds right up our alley!

Enter in referral programs that pay for everyone who signs up, not a percentage, a flat rate. I picked up on this method courtesy of Jason from The University Kid, who revealed an amazing secret that gives you $25 per referral, even if they do nothing after signing up, using the Text-Link-Ad advertising network. Righteous. All of Jason’s secrets have been offered up in a free eBook on his blog… so you should drop by and thank him for his efforts. But hey, let’s summarize the move here that can basically load up $25 after $25 after $25 and make you rich!

Let’s begin

So this is a trick involving one of the web’s premier text link advertising networks named Text-Link-Ads. We’re going to exploit their generous $25/referral offer to rack up some insane cash. Just as a disclaimer, I am not at all promoting pump-and-dump schemes in signing up useless referrals, you should always have the intention of referring useful members to the service. But with that out of the way, this is by far the best deal I have seen in terms of minimal work / high return.

1. Sign up for a Text-Link-Ads “Publisher Account” to get started

In the sign up process, you will need to supply the blog/website you plan on advertising. If you are actually interested, then by all means do this. If you just want at the referral program, there’s nothing making you pay so don’t hesitate to sign up. Just a note: make sure you do not sign up for the “special offer” they propose at the end of the process. This program, called InLinks, completely disqualifies you from using the referral program so avoid it unless you really want to participate.

1. Install the Text-Link-Ads advertising script on your website

The next step is to set up ads on your blog. Don’t worry, you really only need to do this 2-3 days to make sure it takes. You need to put ads out at first for the $25 to count per referral. So navigate to the “Install Ad Code” section and grab the WordPress plugin to install or just the script if you aren’t a blogger. Place it on your website and you should receive a message 1-3 days later informing you that they have seen the script installed and are setting your ad price to $X per link. On theNetFool.com, this happened the next day and was for $15-per-slot. I would leave this up for a while just in case they check back, regardless if you actually want to sell links or not.

1. Sign up for the Text-Link-Ads referral program

I really don’t know why they make this semi-hard to find, but it’s there. Sign up for the referral program to earn “a flat $25.00 for any referred visitor that results in a sale or gets accepted into our publisher program“… nice . So now, anyone that follows your link and signs up as a publisher will be effectively handing you $25. There are a lot of banners and different ways to get referrals, but all you need to do is copy the link that appears like this “http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=######” and get people to use it.

As always, don’t forget my previous post that demonstrates how to mask this ugly link to better encourage folks to come down and sign up for you. Those numbers are ugly, so we can clean it up with The Net Fool’s affiliate/referral link cloaking method.

How does that sound, easy? Yeah. It is. There’s a reason I have been able to capitalize on this method. All you need to do is have some awesome readers to sign up under you (do it!), so you could make a post like this promoting the network as a way to advertise or a way to get referral cash in the blink of an eye.

The internet is your friend, and programs like this make it all the more better. This is just one of the many reasons that you should stay bullish on the net!

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Its that time of the week again,

Time for a little link love! It’s Sunday morning and I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend. This week I have a lot planned and would like to start things out by sharing some of my favorite blog posts from last week. So without any further ado, here are five of my favorite posts from the week ending April 26th.

• Caroline Middlebrook - Is Social Media Destroying RSS? And Does It Matter?
• Ian Fernando - Sale Pages and Gurus and Marketing Morals
• Zac Johnson - Must Attend Affiliate Marketing Events
• Mixed Martial Arts - 8 SMO Tips To Nitro Boost Your Traffic
• Winning The Web - Roundup Link Posts Aren’t So Useless After All

Some great reading this week, so if you missed any of it, I suggest that you step back and visit at least the five that the doctor just prescribed. I know that I picked up quite a few tips and tricks just roaming my way around, and I think that it really helps to stay updated. Now lets turn to the future!

This week was pretty standard in the blogging world… nothing major to report. From the stock market environment, stuff got a bit hectic. There were some up days, and there were some down days… there is now a lot of speculation that we might FINALLY break upward out of this recessionary slump. Essentially, from a technical standpoint, we are now at the level that we have reached twice since the market began to fail late last year. Both times before, the market sold off and we turned back to losses. Could this finally be the time that we see an upward move and break away from this ugly investing environment?!

Also, people have begun to increasingly hate on gold. As far as commodities go, people are now turning to oil, natural gas, steel and other things like this that can be physically used for something. So basically, gold is being called the doorstop of commodities. Have I given up on the trade? Absolutely not. Warren Buffet once said “be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful”… and I think this could be a classic play in buying gold while it’s down for the count.

But please don’t believe me . I have taken a lot of heat for continuing to back the gold play in this rough environment, so this is an opportunity where I could look like a complete genius if things turn back positive for the gold market. Otherwise, I’ll just be the fool… but maybe I’m willing to take that risk.

This week I have a brilliant money-making scheme in the works that is bound to make you rich if you do things correctly. Seriously. It’s so easy and obvious it will make your head spin, so stay tuned! Other than that, I am planning on releasing another helpful blogging article to kick-start your websites. In the stock market, I am mapping out a sub-industry look to make you rich by focusing on particular areas of the market.

The Net Fool’s Outrageous Blog Contest is firing on all cylinders right now, and I am planning on investing about $200 in sponsored plugs on some of the web’s more popular blogs in order to propel performance even further than before. Stay tuned to the contest and keep racking up entries to maximize your odds of winning a better prize .

As always, stay bullish on the net!
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Making money online can be as simple as getting a competitive return on your investment, instead of just leaving it in a safe letting it decrease in value over time as inflation kicks in. While the current rate of inflation around 4% won’t be completely overridden by PayPal’s new Money Market Fund, the number of people NOT taking advantage of the clear-cut 2.5%-3.0% return amazes me. Get in on this one today!

I came across this feature of PayPal a month or two ago, and I am very happy with the results. Essentially, PayPal has set up their own Mutual Fund that promises a safe, but competitive, return on the money that would ordinarily be sitting around in your account. I have a few hundred dollars in my account, so it is a huge advantage to subscribe to this service,as they are currently projecting a 2.64% yield.

I know, I know, its scary to give PayPal control of your money. They do say outright that you could lose money on the deal, but this is mostly a disclaimer than anything else. I would go ahead and say put all of your PayPal account money into the new “Money Market Fund,” as you will get better returns and you are safe. This isn’t your typical mutual fund, and I suspect they are investing in the safest things around (things like U.S. treasury bonds) that promise good returns regardless of economic headwinds.

Truth be told, the current yield at juts 2.64% is on the lower end of what they have done historically. Heck, they’ve even hit over 5.56% returns just a few years ago. Have they EVER lost money? No. Will they lose you money? Probably not. I give them the green light on getting you a positive return on money that would ordinarily do nothing in your PayPal account.

This sounds too good to be true right? Well, it really is this easy and good. There are no fees or anything to invest, and you can even put as little as one dollar into the fund… though that would be a bit pointless wouldn’t  it? They’ve drawn out a particular scenario where you invest $10,000 in the fund, which achieves 5% returns a year for ten years going. You would gain $1,349 on your investment! Sure, this is a hypothetical, but it is a great example of how having your money in the program can benefit you.

What about taking money out? PayPal makes this really easy, as you can literally take money out or put more in at any time. They kick back a dividend to your account every quarter, so you will see your investment start to come back in pieces. I love seeing my money actually doing something. Because they don’t tax your account money at all in the first place, you are making money with ease!

Bottom Line: PayPal’s Money Market Fund is a cool new way to get a return on the money ordinarily just sitting around in your PayPal account. Don’t be hesitant to join, its so easy and it is almost risk free. Don’t be too concerned with the disclaimers saying you could lose money, it’s not going to happen… it’s just required by law. I’m not sure if this is available overseas or not, so if you can’t access the feature… you are probably out of luck. Check out their prospectus for more details, but otherwise trust me and enroll today to start making money online in a whole new way… no business scheming necessary, start earning a competitive return today!

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