Hey guys,

It’s been a busy few days for me as Penn State knocked off #9 Ohio State on Saturday Night NCAA College Football. We’re in good position to win out the season, going undefeated and earning a spot in the BCS National Championship game assuming that either the #1 Texas or #2 Alabama teams fall. So over here at Penn State… it’s pretty much football madness. Saturday night was one of the most memorable nights I have had, so I’d love to share a video with you guys of the street riots that broke out after the game. College kids do crazy stuff when they are excited, haha. :razz:

Youtube User-Submitted Riot Videos
Penn State Collegian Riot Videos

So as we get past my weekend, let’s hop into this weeks link love, eh? I mean, that’s what you came for after all! I found some cool new blogs that I have subscribed to this week, and one of them here is a first-timer in the Net Fool run-down. Here they are, the top five articles from the week ending October 25th, 2008:

Some pretty cool tips and tricks were posted this week. One of the more interesting (to me) was John Cow’s Google SEO information on how to find profitable niches using their own tools. 45n5.com had a nice press release on how Adsense and Analytics are now paired together. Affiliate Confession wrote a funny editorial on how watching your stats is a waste of time. My buddy Ian wrote a neat trick that uses Twitter to find hot niches in the marketplace. Finally, Cash Tactics had a brilliant trick to get a free Pagerank 6 link back from Apple… a must read. Great stuff this week! :)

Stock Market Update
Things continued their downward spiral last week in the face of more bad news amid earnings season. A lot of companies are reporting earnings in the span of about 3 weeks, so this is going to continue this week. One thing is for sure, fundamentals no longer matter. The entire market is being driven based on feeling, not on actual “worth” as would have previously held true.

This weekend, a lot of countries around the world expressed interest in bailing out their financial systems. One of the bigger names here was Kuwait’s banking troubles, as cross-Gulf regions move to rescue their own financial institutions… no longer able to rely on oil-rich land. Credit is on lock-down and nobody can get a loan, so getting any kind of free cash flow is becoming increasingly difficult.

As of today, the U.S. Fed Reserve has begun what is effectively “phase one” of the bailout plan. Dozens of American companies signed up just last week to be able to sell their short-term commercial paper ot the Fed, who has effectively pledged to buy it up at a cheap cheap cheap interest rate. You can think of commercial paper as an “IOU” of sorts, it doesn’t need to be more confusing than that. The key here is that we will get some more liquidity as the government takes some risky debt off of many company’s books.

Blogosphere Update
Big scandal came into view this week with CPA Empire. Apparently, these guys were “shaving leads” from one of their affiliate clients. This is basically when the manager (CPA Empire) is withholding profit from the customer in an attempt to juice their own numbers… effectively stealing money from their client. This was posted on WickedFire.com and was then deleted from the forum once debate got to a climax. Following this, a proof video was posted to YouTube.com. Note: The video was just removed as well

If CPA Empire was really screwing one of their clients out of his/her hard earned money, this is a huge problem that could severely hurt the internet marketing business. I do NOT have an account with CPA Empire and have never recommended them here. I cannot say fully one way or the other if this is true, but at any rate it will damage their reputation.

I had a string of guest posts go out this week, and might even get another one or two out. Luckily for me, I actually hit with an article on JohnChow.com, which was better than I could have ever asked from random “would you like a guest post?” emails that i sent out with outsourced 500 word articles. Basically, I picked up a bunch of lasting backlinks for about $3 a pop… nice. :) I’ll get you guys a bigger report back on this in the near future.

The Week In Focus
This week is going to be rough as I have an exam and a lot of meetings set up to take place. However, I do have a lot of posts and case studys that are in the mix. Essentially, at this point I am building up draft posts to go out. Of course, I’ll be doing the response post to my Q&A session that was held last week… and announcing the winners to that.

The Net Fool’s October Spectacular is still in full force and anyone can enter! Get a free Nintendo Wii and more just by checking out the original contest thread. It’s one of the easiest contests run so far, so it is definitely within your power to win this thing!

That’s it for this week, stay bullish on the net!
-The Net Fool

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