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The economy is bad and if there are opportunities to make extra money, I am always game to give it a try. Right now, there is a very big idea getting around the vine. Turn energy into income by joining the Ignite opportunity.

Energy deregulation has provided consumers with greater choices in their energy providers. Now, they can decide on greater savings, better customer service, and the use of renewable energy. Some entrepreneurs have taken advantage of this situation to benefit customers by creating a unique company, Ignite.

Ignite customers are provided electricity and gas by a parent company, Stream Energy, who delivers more than just low rates. There is a community of Ignite Independent Associates who serve as personal energy points of contact.

If you want to join as an Ignite Independent Associate, you will get a easy-to-understand and heavily incentivised compensation plan. There are many attractive features for the discerning entrepreneur and the first-time business owner.

Isn’t it great that you can earn income while helping your customers save money on their energy bills? Leadership bonuses are awarded when you helping other Associates follow your example – namely, assisting their customers by providing lower energy rates.

The Ignite Compensation Plan is devised in such a way that amateur network marketer has as good a chance as the pros. Last year, the average annual income for all qualified Associates was $615.68. Of course, the higher your rank, the more income you receive.

Whether you are an energy customer looking for better rates and service, or an aspiring entrepreneur looking to create a better way of life, you can depend on Ignite to help you electrify your possibilities.

Responsibility and honesty are core values at Ignite so don’t worry about unprofessional or non-ethical conduct. When you choose Ignite as your financial vehicle, you can be sure that you are teaming up with an organization rooted in a firm foundation of entrepreneurship and integrity.

If you want to join Ignite, visit the site to find out more about getting paid on your energy bill today.

Just because you have a poor credit report doesn’t mean you won’t be able to get credit. Most creditors set their own lending standards and your credit history is evaluated differently.

Some may only consider your recent history and grant credit if your bill-paying history has improved. It may be worthwhile to contact creditors informally to discuss their credit standards.

If you’re not disciplined enough to create a workable budget and stick to it, work out a repayment plan with your creditors, or keep track of mounting bills, consider contacting a credit counseling organization. Many credit counseling organizations are nonprofit and work with you to solve your financial problems.

But you have to be careful that some bad credit fix are actually scams. An organization claiming to be “nonprofit,” does not mean that its services are free, affordable, or even legitimate. Some charge high fees, or pressure consumers to make “voluntary” contributions that only cause more debt.

If you are considering filing for bankruptcy, you should know about one major change to the bankruptcy laws: As of October 17, 2005, you must get credit counseling from a government-approved organization within six months before you file for bankruptcy relief.

Reputable credit counseling organizations can advise you on managing your money and debts,  fix bad credit, help you develop a budget, and offer free educational materials and workshops. Their counselors are certified and trained in the areas of consumer credit, money and debt management, and budgeting.

Counselors discuss your entire financial situation with you, and help you develop a personalized plan to solve your money problems. An initial counseling session typically lasts an hour, with an offer of follow-up sessions.

Fixing bad credit is important but conduct some research first.

Identity theft is a serious problem on the net and clearing up the mess requires lots of money and time. You have to extra careful with your passwords and personal information. Here are ten tips to help those who are negligent about password management.

1. Do not write down your passwords.
2. When the password is “password or a default that is assigned”, change it immediately.
3. Create secret questions and answers (whenever possible). Make sure the answer cannot be searched on the net.
4. Change your password at least every 2-3 months.
5. For new passwords, ensure they are totally different from the old one.
6. Avoid obvious words. Passwords must be more complex than a single word which can be hacked with a dictionary attack.
7. Short passwords are very dangerous. A strong password which consists of at least eight characters with a mix of upper case, lower case and numbers.
8. Don’t use password programs that store your information or provide auto password injection.
9. Never have your browser save or remember your passwords.
10. Always clear your cookies when you’re done for the day.

These 10 tips will help you properly manage your passwords and prevent anyone from invading your privacy. It’s important that we all practice proper security when it comes to our privacy.

earch Engine Optimization (SEO) is the art of optimizing your site blog to rank higher in SERP or Search Engine Result Position.

Being on #1 or page one of Google is the ultimate goal of any blogmaster. It’s the key that separates the average site from the extraordinaire. Simply put, the higher you are on the search results, the more organic traffic you will get.

Study has shown that most searchers don’t go beyond page three so if your site is found no where in the first 3 pages on your keywords, you have probably not done enough SEO, so to speak.

Now the question is how do you know if you are doing the right thing?

That’s where online SEO tools are available at your disposal to check and diagnose the SEO status of your site so you can take all the necessary steps to improve your overall search engine ranking.

The Best 15 SEO Tools for Beginners

PageRank Checker is a free tool to check Google Page Ranking of any site and its pages easily and instantly. Google PageRank or PR is a measure of any sites popularity based on Google kept-secret algorithm. The PR is an indication of certain authority to your site and how important it is in the eyes of Google. For the uninformed, here’s how Google calculates your PR.

PageRank Search allows you to search Google using any keyword(s) you wish. It will then return, in order of Google relevance, the sites associated with those keywords. Each result displays a graphical bar with the PageRank of that particular site.

Internal Pages PR Checker will check the page rank of all of your site’s inner pages index by Google and it’s useful to use right after the PR update.

Link Popularity Checker is a tool that checks total number of pages in each search engines index that contains a link to your site, including your own website. It is used to measure your site’s online visibility. The popularity of your site is an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.

Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer help you determine the backlinks of your site and anchor text (link text) used to link to your site. Link building is all about getting the quality backlinks along with the quantity. The truth is getting a few of the right links, from the right places can be more valuable than getting 100 links from the wrong places.

It’s all about using the right keywords you are trying to optimize as your anchor text (link text) from the right neighborhood.

Reciprocal Link Checker helps you ensure that your link partners are linking back to your site and determines what anchor text is used. Gone are the days when reciprocal links are considered important, the big G is now putting more weight on one-way (the best option) or three-way links (site A ↔ site C, site C ↔ site B and site B ↔ site A)

Keyword Density refers to the measurement in percentage, the number of times a keyword or phrase appears compared to the total number of words in a page which needs to balance correctly. Too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, Too high and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”.

This tool parses the most frequently keyword of a website and calculates its percentage share.

Keyword Suggestion Tool will help you with choosing of the right keywords for your website and analyze which keyword combinations are more popular. Choosing the right keywords is critical for a success of your site. Target the wrong keywords and you have lost.

There is pure gold hidden in less competitive keyword combinations and variations.

Link Analysis of External and Internal Links - The link analysis display all internal and external links of a website with the corresponding anchor texts in a summary table. It’s one of the best I have ever used.

SERP Position Checker is the keyword position analysis used to check on which position your domain is ranked for a given keyword and compare the first 100 results by Google, MSN and Yahoo.

Robots.txt Syntax Checker is the simplest tool to check the contents of your site’s robots.txt against the search engines standard, along with providing warnings on the wrong use of syntax.

In case you aren’t in the know, robots.txt file is the key to stopping search engines robots from indexing certain pages of your site which are deemed unnecessary to be included in the search results, yet many people still fail to get the syntax correct.

Copyscape scours the net and finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you. It is designed to protect you against online plagiarism and article theft.

Search Engine Placement Check is a verification tool that checks if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword. It’s important to be in the top 3 pages of a search result because most people using search engines don’t go past the 3rd page.

Bad Neighborhood Checker checks link pages and reports if there are links to bad neighborhoods. This tool will scan the links on your site, and on the pages that your site is linking to, and flag possible problem areas. This can greatly ease your SEO efforts.

Website Grader is a free SEO report that measures the marketing effectiveness of your site. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how your site can be improved from a marketing perspective. Check out the SEO report for thoushallblog.com.

Last But Not Least

SEO is never intended to be seen as touch-and-go effort in much the same way no success can be achieved overnight. It really takes a lot of patience, commitment and the know-hows to succeed. All the above tools will not bring you to #1 in search results but it helps you to be aware of ‘where you are now’ and ‘where you should aim to be in future’.

Knowledge is the key to SEO success

Indeed there are no hard and fast rules to SEO, it all boils down to the right mixture of quality content and quality inbound and outbound links with proper keywords optimization and all these tools will tell you if you are getting the right combination to move you closer to #1.

If you are in the mood for more SEO tips, here’s 15 SEO Tips for Beginners.

Good luck with your SEO. Any opinions or feedback are welcomed. I’m all ears.

On Another Side Note

Congrats to those of you who have just gained your PR status on the recent update. It’s another milestone for you and I’m sure you are pretty excited about it. Well, getting the PR is the easy part, maintaining it is a different ball game altogether.

I have just updated my PR list and if your blog (with Top Commentator) is not included in the list, drop me a line and I’ll put you in the list.

Did I say that’s one-way backlink?

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The possibility to save on tax or additional lifetime health cover charges is often a compelling enough reason to purchase health insurance. I stay in California and am particularly interested in California health insurance plans.

For those with taxable income over $50,000, the government will charge an extra 1% in tax. This is called the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) and occurs if you don’t have qualifying private hospital insurance.

People can buy hospital cover that may be cheaper than the 1% surcharge that has to be paid in additional tax. The government will then waive the MLS fee and you could walk away with a great health insurance policy!

Without California health insurance, you may not be able to afford expensive medical services when you need them. Do you really want to be significantly out of pocket when you are sick?

Studies have show that we cannot afford to self insure. Having health insurance can be a much cheaper option in the long run for some people. For example - Self funded knee surgery could set you back up to $13,000 - to save this money before the surgery may be impossible for some.

If in the future, you find out that you need knee surgery (or some other elective treatment), you will need to have the right cover in place, and to have served any relevant waiting periods, or else you may have no option but to save for the surgery.

If you are interested in health insurance in california, visit the site to find out more.

Does this spell the end of a great community? Entrecard is up for sale as indicated on the Entrecard blog and sitepoint.com. Graham has previously indicated that Entrecard is not for sale, even to Google.

His vision for Entrecard is “so massive that it will take perhaps my entire professional life to achieve what I have set out to achieve with Entrecard.”

The reasons for giving up on Entrecard is that Graham has suffered immense losses, maxed out his credit cards and losing a multi-million dollar deal in the 11th hour. If this community is demoralized and on the decline, I guess it is hard to find any buyers.

Who want to spend a six-figure buying this site which burns up cash fast and the best members have deserted, leaving an empty shell or rather spammers? Graham owes all those who stick by Entrecard through all the broken promises, lack of support, downtime, a better explanation.

As one of the moderators Ben Barden said: “In all honesty I feel pretty let down by this. None of the mods knew anything about this before everyone else did, nor were we asked for views. We don’t know if a new owner would keep the current mods on board or not. The timing of this couldn’t be worse - we just signed up three new moderators. What message does it send to them?”

This was a surprise for the moderators as much as members. Bad timing and communication, Graham. With such a strong support team, Graham should persist and not throw in the towel so easily.

Graham’s response to Ben: “Ben, it’s not about the team. It’s about my credit card being maxed out and me about to be homeless with very very few options.”

Graham went on to say that he is only “exploring the possibility” -its still a long shot it will actually happen.”

A lot of bloggers depend on Entrecard as their main source of traffic, so if Entrecard collapses and all the Entrecard credits which are accumulated after months of hard work go to waste, it is really terrrible indeed.

This is a must-try plugin if your blog experiences heavy spamming.  WP-SpamFree is among the best plugin I have installed. It eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam and uses very low bandwidth.

It is better than Akismet which still gives me an average of 15 spam comments per day. The best features include:

* Virtually eliminates automated comment spam from bots.
* No CAPTCHA’s, challenge questions or other inconvenience to site visitors - it works silently in the background.
* Easy to install - truly plug and play. Just upload and activate. There’s an installation status on the plugin admin page to let you know if the plugin was installed correctly.

There are so many nice features that come with this plugin. You have saved me a lot of time and now I can put that spare time to blogging.

Social news site Digg has raised $28.7 million in a Series C venture round led by Highland Capital Partners, and has in turn announced a major site expansion.

Digg had long been rumored to be up for sale, with buyers from both the media and Silicon Valley sides of the aisle reportedly interested. The company walked away from a $100 million offer from the Al Gore-founded Current Media, which eventually launched an in-house social news service called Current News. News Corp., which acquired MySpace in 2005, has also been mentioned as a potential suitor, and there always seems to be a rumor that Google has wanted to buy Digg.

“Today is a big day for Digg,” CEO Jay Adelson wrote on the company blog. “We’re announcing a major expansion effort–the largest we’ve undergone in our history. With a new round of funding, we’re accelerating many of the programs that we’ve been working on over the past several months, including investments in infrastructure, new feature development, international expansion and hiring all the people we need to get there.”

The site plans to explore geographic expansion options, including translating Digg into languages other than English, and “significantly” expanding the size of its San Francisco work force.

Kids love cookies but on the internet, cookies have a different meaning. There’s a CookieMonster on the street, and he’s real wicked.

This CookieMonster is a vicious tool that tricks your browser into handing over sensitive information. It can be used to steal your data and, potentially, hijack your accounts.

WordPress has always taken steps to ensure that your data is safe while blogging. Now it is easier than ever for you to avoid evil blogjackers that prey on security vulnerabilities.

Click on Edit Profile in the My Account menu of your dashboard and you’ll see a new field called Browser Connection. There, you can opt to “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages.”

Click Update Profile to save the change, and you’ll be logged out. Sign back in, and you’re rolling with SSL, which encrypts your connection and helps prevent data scavengers from stealing your password and other info.

HTTPS has always been supported on WordPress.com, but it’s now even easier to remember. HTTPS is highly recommended when you’re accessing your account on a public network.

Occasionally, I indulged in online casino games and on good days, I can make hundreds of dollars. The money is secondary to the relaxation and entertainment. And I get to play the games from the comfort of my home.

All you need to do is to convert your personal computer and log on to a casino site. You will get the experience and excitement of a real casino at any time, 24/7.

Indeed, casino games are very fun and excited, especially if you are playing with spare money. This is something I have to stress as gambling can be very addictive, be it winning or losing. If you win, you want more money and if you lose, you bet even more to recover your losses. So always remember to play online games in a responsible manner.

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