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As many of you have probably noticed by now, there is a “listen now” button under the titles of each of my posts (unless you are reading this from your RSS reader or your inbox). This is a free service by Odiogo.com that grabs the text from your RSS feed and turns every post of yours into a robot-generated podcast so that you can listen to your favorite blogs (this one?) at work or whenever you bring your iPod/music player. While I have no objections to people listening to my blog posts on their iPods, this little widget was installed on my blog to do a little bit more than just turn my blog into a podcast.

Today is officially the moving-in day for my university, which starts tomorrow.  I have to move all of my stuff into my dorm room and get prepared for the ‘college life.’

I have a few blog posts scheduled to be posted in the next few days, but my email replies will be a bit delayed.

This is the perfect opportunity to write a guest post for my blog. If you have any link building strategies or website marketing tips that have not been discussed on my blog, feel free to contact me.

The mammoth shopping site eBay.com needs no introduction. Being one of the top 20 most popular websites of all time, millions of dollars worth of auctions go through it every year. Today’s post is not about how you can earn a part of that money through software like BANS, which I will leave for another day, but rather how you can utilize this massive authority site to bring your measly little website more search engine traffic.

Sure, you could create an ebay auction trying to sell something, and secretly put a link to your website in the thread, but a few months after the auction ends, when your thread finally receives some decent pagerank, the thread would expire.

The news just broke…. Link Building Bible is no more.

R.J. Adams, the blogger over at the Link Building Bible, has just sold his blog.  The Link Building Bible was one of the few other do-it-yourself niche blogs, so it is a shame to see him go.

The new owner who has acquired his blog is going to be transferring R.J.’s posts over to her blog and redirecting it, so the link building bible brand is officially over.

It has been a little over a week since my introductory post letting you know that I was setting up my first niche store. Well, the site is now around two weeks old and has hit a major milestone.

I have sold three Super Nintendo Console’s (some including games), and with the 7 day cookie that the Ebay affiliate network provides, I have made three totally unrelated sales (cell phone battery, A Disney movie, and some skin care cream).

Long story short, the big news that I wanted to share with you is that I have earned $6.85 in commission from the Pepperjam ebay program on my Super Nintendo Console website.

This is just a quick followup to my Weekend Updates post. My blog is nearly fully functional after last weeks “mishap” where all of my files got deleted. At any rate, that is all water under the bridge now.

My blog is back, my posting will continue, and all is good. Aside from a few OIOPublisher fixes that I need to make, if anyone notices anything still acting funky, please let me know. Thanks everyone.

I just wanted to send off a quick message to let everyone know what is happening around here lately.

The most obvious change is that I moved my domain from MixedMarketArts.com to CollinLaHay.com.  I had a friend of mine redirect the domains. I was going to have him add a few plug ins at the same time, however, he accidentally deleted my entire site…. (Whoops?).  At any rate, I have the most recent backup in place, but all of my plug ins were disabled since I am using an older backup of my theme.

So it has finally been one month, and my MarketLeverage Contest has finally come to a close. Today I am happy to announce the winners of all the great prizes that MarketLeverage has sponsored.

The ten 2GB USB flash drive pens go to the following entries:

1. Melvin for his MarketLeverage guest review
2. http://contestaffiliate.blogspot.com
3. http://www.contesthub.net/
4. MarketLeverage Affiliate CD10040
5. http://www.biblemoneymatters.com/
6. http://www.weswyatt.com/blog/
7. http://blog.makemoneyonline-x.com/
8. http://www.dailydollarreport.com/
9. MarketLeverage affiliate CD9123
10. http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/

The four $25 visa giftcards are awarded to the following entries:

1. Andy Crofford for his marketleverage guest review.
2. http://www.anothermmoblog.com/
3. http://aceblogging.wordpress.com/