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**UPDATE: The video has been taken down…I have no idea why. Stupid YouTube.

Awesome video of some excellent drivers…parking.

Introduction
So I decided to do what many other bloggers have been doing in creating a link back opportunity for my readers. This idea originally started with Johnchow.com, but many others have successfully been using this marketing technique. It gives smaller blogs an easy way to get a free link (without the “no-follow” tag, which makes it useless for Google) on a site with a better PageRank.

How to Get a Free LinkBack
The rules are very simple. All you have to do is write a review of my blog, it doesn’t even have to be a good one! The requirements are as follows: 1) the review must be at least 175 words (thats not much)…2) you must link to my homepage using the anchor text “make money online” or “blogging for money” or “seo tips.” Any of these will do. And that’s it, that’s all you have to do to get a free link on internetbusinessdaily.net. I currently have a PR4 site so it is worth it for most people to enter this program. You will also get to choose what anchor text you want me to use, so all you SEO nuts out there need to choose wisely.

I can’t wait to read all the reviews, and have fun with it!

Looks like today has been a record traffic day for Internet Business Daily. With 20 more minutes left in the day, the site has received almost 400 uniques. This is double the number of uniques from last Monday. Here’s a graph (from statcounter.com) that shows my traffic over the past week. Let’s hope this trend continues!

Cause?
So what caused this record traffic day? There are a few things I believe played a part in this. First of all I received a large amount of traffic from Stumble Upon. This is a service that sends people to random websites of a specific genre. It is a way to find new sites one would have never known about.

The Digg Effect Continues
There is also another random event I believe had a part in my record traffic day. Because of all the media that digg.com has received due to the HD-DVD scandle, they have almost doubled their traffic over night. Since a few of my articles have hit the digg homepage (including how to hack a windows xp password and YouTube loses speed) those links have been getting more traffic now.

News today came of Microsoft offering Yahoo! Inc. $50 billion for the purchase. This would mean that Microsoft basically owns Yahoo. This move shows how scared Microsoft really is of Google. Microsoft has a fraction of the online advertising revenue that Google does, and they want some of that action.

Google has also been making a move into the online application market. They are setting up to be direct rivals of software like Microsoft Office, and the many other desktop applications that Microsoft controls. Microsoft is definitely feeling the pressure of Google, which is good because MS has had a strangle hold on software for about 15 years now. Google has already been moving into the application market with online software such as Google documents.

Google’s baby is still adsense/adwords. When Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) was asked to describe Google in a few words, he didn’t say search engine first. The very first thing he said was advertising giant. Something like 80% of Google’s revenue comes from adsense and adwords, and allows them to offer all of the free services that they do today. Microsoft has a fraction of this revenue with their version of adwords, Microsoft Adcenter.

This potential merger is history in the making. Even if the merger went through, Yahoosoft (hehe) is probably still not even as powerful as Google. I do not like one company to have all the power, so I am going to sit back and enjoy the show as Microsoft and Yahoo try to compete with the new giant of IT.