Hope you all had a good week,

This has definitely been an exciting week all around. With a great session of Q&A here at The Net Fool where I gave out two free text links to the best question-askers of the day, the launch of my latest blogging masterpiece Bullish Bankers, and a “surprise” Google Pagerank update… there has certainly been a lot to talk about here.

I managed to rack up a massive 40 comments on the latest post about Pagerank. Proving once again the power of link love. My strategy was essentially to spam the blogosphere by making a huge list and linking each blog individually. Some would say that this is Pagerank suicide, but my PR 4 doesn’t seem to mind. Regardless, you can always get comments, traffic and exposure if you spread the love around! On that note, let’s hit on the best posts for the week ending July 26th 2008.

First and foremost, I promised Garry a link due to me skipping him on my PR post (hey man, your blog was down I swear!). Great article there about viral videos, which are always fun. Also, I was really impressed with Stephan Millar’s massive post about dofollow blogs. Those are those websites that get you a nice backlink every time you leave a comment, so I’d recommend checking that list out! :)

Stock Market
A ho-hum week in the stock market, with things closing out the Dow down 1.1% on a relatively steady week. Sentiment was flip-flopping all day, but some bad reports on housing along with some disappointing earnings misses from the likes of Boeing and Ford had things in a slump. I’m quietly pleased with the way things are coming along, as my core holdings Deere (NYSE: DE) and Apple (NYSE: AAPL) had some pretty good gains to speak of.

Despite all of the negativity, I do believe there are many areas for growth rearing their heads, namely in healthcare, tech and agriculture. Energy is kind of on standby as we wait for a more clear image of how earnings are coming along with oil dropping off to $124/barrel this week. Precious metals like gold and silver were down as well, which really puts me in a position where I feel like opening my arms to the likes of Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY) and Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX). Healthcare is rocking everyone’s socks off right now with one of my favorite growth plays Intuitive Surgical (NYSE: ISRG) absolutely blowing away estimates late into the week.

If you need some investing help or want me to review your portfolio, please leave a comment or email me directly. I’d love to talk stocks and will definitely be more than willing to offer some suggestions.

Blogosphere

Again, most of the mindless rambling this week was centered around Pagerank updates, which definitely wiped away whatever anyone else happened to be talking about. The Top Affiliate Challenge completely died, which is probably why we haven’t heard much more from them. Also, not a lot of talk about the Blogging Idol competition, though people are apparently still duking it out for first place. At least I sucessfully got a cheater disqualified…. rant posts aren’t all that useless after all I suppose? :twisted:

The Net Fool’s July Referral Extravaganza is still in play until the end of the month. There haven’t been a whole lot of entries, so if you want a free Flip Mino Camera… it’s going to be pretty easy to get one if you refer your friends, eh? We’re waiting for someone to step up and get people to subscribe to my blog through the official request form found on the contest page. It’s an easy way to win a $200 camera courtesy of The Net Fool dot com and Market Leverage, so get on it!

The Week In Focus
This week is going to be boring so don’t bother coming by this blog….

Actually, in all seriousness, I’ve got a lot planned in the way of posting for this week. I’m trying to have you guys making money on the internet, so I plan on posting another lesson/technique that can make you hundreds… stay tuned for that. In addition, I’m fed up with the naysayers of the GPT industry, so I plan on releasing a post explaining for the last time why it is indeed a great way to make money on the internet. I’m in the giving mood, so perhaps I’ll give out a prize this week randomly as well too? I’ve hit a growth of over 100 subscribers in July already, so you guys have certainly done your part to make The Net Fool a success… time to return the favor! :)

-The Net Fool

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